Pina Parie 52+Kleancolor Red Hot

I am too excited to wait any more to show this.
I started with Pina Parie 51 which was a bit difficult on the application because of the brush that was curved. My guess is that they put normal bottle brushes in small bottles and it touched the bottom of the bottle and it tilted. So that made the application super complicated and that's why my mani is a bit messed up. But the polish on the other hand is excellent, I love the color and was totally surprised to see how great it looked on my skin, and wondered why I had waited almost 6 months to swatch this.
The base is a burdgundy jelly with blue shimmer which gives it an overall look of purple. It is not completly opaque in two coats but it was good enough for me so I left it that way.
And since I am now trying out all my new Kleancolor I thought it would look good with Red hot on top. Red hot is a red transparent base with large red hex glitter and small round glitter.
The result is this and I think it looks great! Picture spam warning!!

The reason of my sloppy application

Artificial light

Natural light

Pina Parie no 29

This one has been waiting to be tried since march. I bought it at the nail expo.
It's a baby blue jelly base with blue shimmer. It took three coats to get it looking like this. I like the formula and the application is good too, but the brush is not top notch, and it is hard to maneuver because of the square handle.
I found it a bit boring once on my nails, it's too .... I don't know what but I don't really like it.
So I decided to spice it up with some design from my new Bundle Munster plates, which I am now trying and really loving. The design is from plate no BM 214, and the polish I used for it is China Glaze High Tech.
And on top I added a diagonal tip with China Glaze First Mate.
Here are the photos:

Pina Parie - no 45

This is a brand that I discovered at the Nail expo, it's a German brand that produces all kinds of nail stuff and they also have a nail polish line with lots of shades. Their site is over here .
I bought some nail polish from their stand, for a moderate price the big bottles were at 4€, and the small one at 3€.
The first one I am going to show you is a beautiful cream beige with lots of gold shimmer.
The formula is pretty good, it goes on smoothly, and it was almost a one coatter. Drying time is normal, and the wear is ok too.
This was two coats, and a top coat of seche vite.
I bought two pairs of shoes the last two weeks:
The first one I fell in love with at Zara- they are dark blue.
And the second one are actually booties and they are brown- I saw some booties like these on a fashion blog here , off course those where Chloé and cost a lot of money, and I think that it's an older collection anyway. But ever since I saw them on her blog, I became obsessed and had to have them, so yesterday I got up and got dressed and went to the mall. After searching all the shoe stores, I finally found at the Bata store these babies. They are very comfortable too!!

Mondial de beauté et spa de Paris

So, as I told you yesterday, Saturday I went to the beauty and spa expo in Paris, at the Palais de Congres. It's apparently an annual thing, and it addresses mostly professionals, but I had fun too.
I went there around 2 o'clock and first did a tour of the spa part, there where a lot of massages salons and laser treatment salons - I don't know much about that so I'll just skip to something more interesting. Me and my friend Mariana had some fun over at the Dermalogica stand - it's a brand of skin care products, that seem to be very good products, we determined our skin type and then tried different products.
Here's a photo of their stand with the skin bar- loved the idea.
This was my skin type chart.
Here is my friend who tried the products on her face, I couldn't as I was already wearing make-up.
So for you to have an idea of the prices the small bottle on the left is precleanser that costs 45€.
We then bought some abrasive hand treatment that's called One Minute Manicure, it's got lots of small abrasive pieces, and on top a scented oil, you mix them up, then pour a bit in your hand, you rub your hands together, and makes for an awesome hand massage and leaves your hands silky smooth.
Here's a photo of all the scents they sell. I bought green apple and lime.
On to the nail stuff:
We stopped at the Artdeco stand and found that they also sold BeYu nailpolish. The bottles looked a lot like Zoya bottles - they were having an offer 3 bottles for 10€ (I think all the prices were without VAT).

The trend this year, as I've seen are natural make up - like this line of mineral eyeshadow - 100% made from different minerals
and this one:

Over at the Fashion Beauté stand they introduces a machine that imprints any kind of design on your nail, they had lots of those. You can see the machine on the right part of the photo:
and some of the designs it can do:
We were then off to the Akyado stand, they mostly sold gels, acrylic paint for nail art and lots of deco stuff:

Our next stop was over at the Trendy nail wraps stand - they are from the UK, and they are basically the same thing as Minx
Another fun stop was at the Pina Parie stand - they have a line of nail polishes, that looked pretty good so I decided to try them out and bought a few. Here is their display:
we made a small pit stop at the Alessandro stand - they had a whole shop organized, but you could only buy in bulk so I couldn't pick anything up, but I did take a picture of their display - impressive:

There was also a Konad stand where I picked up some of the longed for konad nail polishes that I didn't have:
I also got to talk to the president of Minx France and he showed me some designs:
And to finish off, there were lots of girls doing nail prosthesis (don't know if this is how they are called):