Orly - Pure Porcelain & Essence - Circus Confetti

I know I already swatched this one, but I really like it and I am now in the middle of revisiting some of my favourite nailpolishes.

This is an ivory cream polish, that looks good on everyone I think. It is a great nude, very warm color, applies like a dream, in two coats it is opaque. I had some wear on it after 3 days, but I did not wrap the tips, because I'm lazy like that.

On top I applied a coat of my Essence - Circus Confetti which is like a really glitter packed clear base with lots of different sized and colored glitter.

 Here are the photos hope you enjoy.

 

Dior - Marilyn & Essence - Make it Golden

Hey everyone!
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas, and lots of presents, cause I did!! I got a Kindle and a GHD hair straightner. I was a very lucky girl!! A happy new year to you guys too!!

This polish, was my duty free purchase, and I had been lusting over it for a long time. It is a pretty, classic red cream polish. I really love it, and the packaging is so cute, looks like a Christmas tree decoration.

It is opaque in almost one coat, for you guys who don't like to apply lots of coats, this is just perfect. For me it was two coats, because I like the texture the polish gets with the second coat.

I am also trying out a new topcoat, Sally Hansen's Insta dry at Emilie's  recommendation - Thank you Emilie it is everything that I like in Seche Vite and it doesn't shrink the polish.

I am still a big fan of Seche Vite, but we can't really get it here in France, and I used to order it along with my 8 polishes from Transdesign, but since I have decided to calm down on the polish buying, I have to change top coats, so I think I may have found the solution. For those of you who live in France - you can find this at Sephora, for 9€.

On to the photos:

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Orly Fowl Play & Gradient

This one is another polish I didn't take pictures of when I swatched it, and had to redo the swatch and this time remember to take pictures.

I have heard that this polish is a dupe for OPI Merry Midnight, but since I don't own that one I can't do a comp. But here is one that Jessica from Polish Insomniac did. I think they are one and the same polish.

I love them both and when I saw this coming out I knew I had to have it, since Merry Midnight is no longer produced.

It is a jelly dark purple polish, with lots of duochrome flakies of different sizes, and I see some blue glitter in there too. I really like it, I did 3 coats of it to get it opaque, but I could have stoped at two. The formula is great, easy to apply easy enough to remove. It does shrink a bit with Seche, but what polish doesn't.

I did a gradient too, I started with KIKO n° 303, and after that Essence Time for romance. I love the way it turned out:

Misa - Got it made in the shade & Essence Edward

This is a cream shade, mutted mint greysh color. This is part of the Hip to Jive collection.
I already have an Essie that is very much alike this Misa.

I applied two coats and it was opaque.
The color lasted pretty much about 3 days on my nails, it wore a bit on the tips, and I had a few chips in the same places as always, were my nails exfoliate.

As I thought that it was a bit boring as color, I added a coat of Essence Edward.

And the last picture is a comparison between Essie - Da bush, and Misa- Got it made in the shade. I think they are pretty similar even in the bottle, and so if you already have one, don't bother to buy the other one.

Essie Cocktail Bling Swatch

Hi hello!!
How've you been? What'cha been up to?

Today's nail polish is part of the Cocktail Bling collection, and it is a lavender blue cream.
This was opaque in two coats, and in the bottle it looks a lot more mellow than on the nail, but I like it.

We have been having the worst weather here, and I've heard it is like this in all of Europe. I frose my a** off yesterday waiting for the train.

Anyways here are the photos:

Essie - Brooch the Subject

I barely have the time to write this so I'm gonna make it quick. This is a polish from the Winter collection 2011, and it is a nude.

Two coats, could have used another one, but works this way too.

It is a nude beige cream polish. I think this is actually a huge trend right now in nail polish, I've seen this is so many fashion presentations, but I am not really a fan.

Here are the photos, they suck I know but I still have no sunlight and no light bulb.

Revlon - Cherries in the snow

This is another great polish I got in my swap with Carolina . It's a red cream with a bit of a blue reflexion, you can't see that in my pictures, but I assure you it is there.

This was an easy two coats, the formula was perfect on this. I don't know if they've changed the brush, or it is so only on the minis but the the one on this bottle was great!!
I don't usually buy Revlon polishes because here they are super expensive 12€ each. So the Revlons that I have are from swaps with Carolina.

Anyway this is really an awesome polish, and I definitely recommend buying it.

I wanted to make a glitter sandwich, that is you start with a jelly, then apply a coat of glitter, and finish off with the jelly.
So I applied a coat of Essence Blair and to top it off  OPI Guy meets gal-veston. The result was not so good:

Essie - Absolutely Shore

I was reluctant to this color from the Braziliant collection, I think it was the only one I wasn't going to buy, but on a wim I bought the whole collection. And now I am not sorry at all!! This is one of those nailpolishes that is sneaks up on you. It is a pleasant surprise. I thought it would be a boring work appropiate shade, but this is so much more than that. I can't believe I am raving about an almost nude polish!!

It's a light mint cream actually, at the begining I thought it was a bit of an off white but it is more on the green side. I noticed the green come out while wearing it I had on a green blouse and suddenlly it popped out at me.

Anyways this is 3 coats, but it is a 2 coater, I just thought I'd give it a more plastic look by adding the 3 coat.

On top I put on a coat of Essence Glisten up!. Here are the photos click to enlarge:

Orly OLA + Essence Edward

We went to Marseille this weekend, to attend the wedding of a friend of my husbands.
And this polish is what I wore for 3 days.
It's a coral cream polish, very lovely color, corals are one of my favourites. Application was effortless, and the formula is excellent as on all the Orlys I've tried.
Two coats was enough for complete opacity, and today I thought about adding a coat of glitter to it and this Essence seemed perfect.
One coat of the glitter did the trick, I think it came out pretty good. What do you think?
Are you like me? Do you like to top off a polish with something else?

I leave you with the beautiful view we had from the wedding location - the famous Calanques de Marseille

China Glaze - Urban night

The second polish I tried from my swap with Carolina is this one, and it is also part of the latest China Glaze collection Metro. So I was pretty excited to have one of these new polishes since I failed to order any on the internet.
This one is a beautiful dark purple cream, looks a lot like Honk if you love OPI from the touring America collection whose swatch you can find here
I loved the way it looked all by itself, but you know me I had to add something so I added Kleancolor - Chuncky Holo Fuchsia which is a fuchsia transparent base, with duochrome small round glitter.
And on top I added a matte top coat from Essence.

Revlon - Ocean

I got this in a swap with Carolina a few months ago, and just to show you how everything moves in slow motion in Europe, it is just now that this nail polish showed up at stores here.
This is a blue green shimmer - the name kinda says it all, it's like looking in the water, sometimes it looks blue sometimes it looks green. I had a hard time capturing the blue in it though.
The application was very good, the brush glides on smoothly and the polish took only 2 coats to get opaque.
The formula is ok too, I didn't have any problems with it.
It dries pretty quickly too.
I applied a coat of Essence Circus Confetti which is like China Glaze Party hardy I think or Deborah Lippmann Happy birthday. I don't own any of those so I can't do a comparison.
Here are the photos:

You can see a bit the blue in this photo