Sally Hansen - Very Cherry

This one was in a swap I did with Carolina - who by the way posted a message on Facebook yesterday saying that they are preparing for hurricane Sandy, so I am thinking about her and her family!! Be safe!!

The polish is a small red to pink flakie polish in a kind of a jelly base. I applied two coats of this polish, and it wasn't quite opaque, but it was very close to it. I couldn't be bothered to do a third coat anyway.

This was very pretty, and the application was ok, formula generally ok. Couldn't tell you about how long it lasted because I only kept it for like 2 days on my finger nails.

So these are the photos:

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:

China Glaze - Smoke&Ashes

I just can't take my naked nails anymore. I don't care that they're ugly and small, I am doing them!

So here they are. I chose China Glaze Smoke and Ashes from the Hunger Games collection.
This is a black cream base, with small green glakes, that pass from yellow to green depending on the light.

It's an unique polish, and I am very glad I bought it. There are a few gems in this collection.
This one was opaque in 2 coats. The only thing about it is that even with top coat, it's not super shinny, it has kind of a gritty finish, but maybe it's just my stupid nails.

Pink Wednesday - Essie - Olé Caliente

Sooooo, I guess this was my second pick from the Navigate her collection, and I must say I am not sorry, even though I already have like two thousand other colors like this.

Oky doky. I am a polish nerd. This is a cream bright, orangy coral, almost neon, but it does not have that neon finish. Although my camera kind of acted like it was photographing a neon, because you can see how tan my fingers look, even though I am white like flour.

The formula on this one was much better than on Navigate her- remember I said that that one was a bit runny- well this one was just thick enough. Two coats was perfect.

On top I applied the flaky wonder that is Essie Shine of times from the Luxe Effects collection.
I am going to say just this about this polish: Buy it!!!! Buy it now!!

It is packed with flakies, one coat is enough to get all the flakies that you want, the consistancy is just right, and very easy to work with. It's perfection in a bottle.

Mumu made himself a little nest out of the cushions

Barry M - Indigo

My first Barry M polish!! You remember this one I bought it in London.
This is nothing like the polishes I already have, it's a royal blue cream.
The formula is excellent and the application too, it was almost a one coatter.
It's super shinny and the brush glides on smoothly!
It dried in normal time, and I applied 2 coats
On top I put on a coat of Nfu-Oh n°51.
Here are the photos:

Natural light

Natural light

Cult nails - Iconic

Although these are a bit more than what I usually spend on nail polish, I thought I'd try one because they all seem so pretty, and because the owner of the brand - Maria is a fellow blogger. Check out her blog by the way here
This is a dark red- wine like- shimmer polish, with red flakies in it. I loved it, and since I am a flakie fan, I thought this was my favourite of the four polishes she sells for now. Her line is expanding day by day, and she is putting out a new glitter polish soon.
The delivery to France was only 3$, so in total this came up to 13$, so like 10€ the price that a Revlon polish costs over here.
I put on 2 coats for opacity, and found that it was a very good quality nail polish.
The bottle is round and easy to hold, the cap is easy to grab, and the brush is also quite good. I will defenitly be buying more polishes from her.
As I was unable to capture it's beauty with my camera since we had no sun shine that day, I will post a lot of pictures and the actual colour is somewhere between all of these.