Dance Legend Robots vs Humans

I can't believe I've been away from my blog for 2 months. I missed it, and I missed my blogging anniversary :)
In the meantime I wore a lot of holographics whenever there was some sun. Robots vs Humans is probably my favourite - it is an unusual colour, it covers brilliantly in one coat and it is very prismatic. In short, everything I like in a nail polish, this has!

L'Oreal Mysterious Icon

L'Oreal Mysterious Icon (#805) is a bronze brown shade with golden shimmer, but it also has some purple and grey mixed in the base. I don't have anything remotely close to this polish in my stash. The formula is nice too, I used 2 thin coats. The best thing about these L'Oreal polishes is the brush, it is one of the nicest rounded brushes I've encountered.

Hema Long Lasting Nail Polish #79

I don't really know how to describe this colour. It's a dark, jewel shimmery shade with a hint of red, brown, purple and even a flash of blue. This was two coats. Lovely colour, especially perfect for autumn.
This is what I'm currently wearing, since around here summer is well and truly over. Actually, there were about a total of 15 hot days this summer, the most miserable summer I can remember! Wooly socks have been my friends for a month now.

OPI Holiday Glow

This is possibly the least summer appripriate polish there is. To me is screams autumn, fallen leaves, maybe even winter holidays. But just as I like to listen to Christmas and holiday tunes in the middle of summer, this is what I'm wearing on one of the hottest days. It is difficult to describe how much I like this polish. It is brown with two different glitters. It is awesome. Two coats here.

OPI DS Jewel

I feel a little guilty about not liking this polish more. My dad got it as a surprise saying that he knew I like the ones with silver caps in boxes, referring to old DS polishes. On me DS Jewel looks a little bit like a 'mom color', though this reddish brown colour is very pretty. Ironically, my mum really likes this polish. This was two coats.

At the moment my life is just a bit crazy, I have literally just a few days to finish my research paper. Every day I go to bed with bloodshot eyes from staring at the computer all day, and then my brain keeps me awake, listing all the things that need doing.

Great day and OPI Warm & Fozzie

My mum is a really outdoorsy person. She likes any sort of hiking and generally being outside. So it is no surprise that she likes gardening and in the summer we have an amazing garden. I on the other hand am not a fan, I don't like getting dirty, oh and don't get me started on the bugs and creepy crawlies.
I spent all day today outdoors. I woke up with a clear idea that I wanted to go and garden, prune trees and so on, my parents thought I was crazy. I helped my dad make raised beds for herbs that we plant every year. Now I know how to straighten crooked nails with a hammer :) He also had a lot of fun about the way I hold a hammer, which apparently is wrong.

This polish is beautiful, a kind of copper colour with a hint of pink and many other colours. I would say that it is a clear-based polish with lots of tiny metallic irregularly-shaped shimmer. It gave me a little trouble in terms of application, it was difficult to get enough polish right at the tips of my nails, so I ended up using 3 coats.



This polish changes color so much depending on the lighting!

Catrice 220 Lost In Mud

It's snowing again, but it is windy too, so as I look outside my window it is snowing completely sideways.
Originally this polish was supposed to be a small gift for a friend who was dreaming of Jacques. We looked and looked for it in all the usual shops, but it was nowhere to be found. This seemed like a fairly similar colour, but then one of the shops in Amsterdam had a whole bucket of Jacques. So she got that and I kept this one. In the bottle the colours are actually quite close, I'll do a comparison some other time.
Lost In Mud has a pleasant formula, it needed two coats, and it dries quickly. As for the colour I am still not sold. Hopefully in time I will warm up to the whole range of taupe brown colours. I should probably try layering something on top and see if I like it.

China Glaze Midtown Magic

Hey guys! I've been rather busy this past week, I've started my internship and just had no energy left to blog. But I hope things to get better. Today I want to show you this gorgeous polish, I'm sure you've seen it a hundred times before, but in my eyes it is SO awesome that another can't hurt. I suppose it can be described as dark brown with these multicolored flecks in it. It was two easy coats for me, and I love, love, love it!

OPI You Don't Know Jacques

Last week I managed to walk into a door (again), and basically snapped my nails off. They are the shortest they've been in years, I feel almost naked without them. I don't like my nails when they are so short for two reasons - the polish, any polish, chips very quickly, like within a day and a half, and the tip wear shows really fast. It also seems that when my nails are very short I need to be very neat in terms of application, otherwise every imperfection shows.
So I'm going to go through the backlog of swatches that I haven't posted before. Plus there will be no sun around here for weeks to come, so it's fine.

I don't know about you, but I'm undecided about Jacques. On the one hand it's a very classic shade, on the other I find is so dreary! Yet another taupe brown, and I'm not sure if this shade goes well with my skin tone well. I was rather worried when I started to put Jacques on. First coat was extremely patchy, I thought it would never be even. Second coat was better, but here I'm wearing three coats to even out all the patches. Also this polish dries much darker than it looks in the bottle. In terms of wear, it lasted a couple of days on my nails, kind of average.

OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys

I've bee a bit lazy with regards to my blog recently. Friday was the Independence Day here, which means a national holiday, so no studies or lectures. Yeah! Also as part of the celebration hundreds of candles were placed along the roads where I live, it looked gorgeous!
I was also somehow coerced into going to see the latest Twilight film, I'm still confused how that happened. Oh. my. It was bad bad bad. Trying to erase the image of it from my mind. I spent the rest of the weekend reading an exorbitant amount of academic articles on globalization for a class I have on Monday. That was a boring weekend.

I did not expect to like this at all, I mostly expected to hate it. I've always had this notion that brown polishes are dull and unimaginative. When I wear nail polish I like bright, fun colours, and brown is as far away from that as possible.
This polish was a gift and when I first put it on... I loved it! I like how it looks and how it feels, I think it goes fairly well with my skin tone. This is two coats and it goes on really well, dries quickly and wears fairly well.

China Glaze Ingrid

Well, what can I say about this polish?! It is one of those "what was I thinking?" polishes. I got it months and months ago, last winter and haven't worn it as a full manicure yet. I was seduced by beautiful swatches online, even though I am rather indifferent to taupe brown polishes. To me they are just boring.
Ingrid looks exactly like the colour of the pine tree bark when there is no sun out. It becomes slightly more interesting when there is sun, as you can see the golden shimmer in the polish. Another good thing is that Ingrid is completely opaque in just two coats. Other than that it is just an ok polish, I don't love it, but I don't hate it either.

China Glaze In Awe Of Amber

Hey everyone! For some reason I am absolutely exhausted today and it is not yet 7 o'clock. I've had way too many lectures today and I there isn't even anything fun to do - my best friend is away visiting her boyfriend, and another friend is slaving away for the benefit of one company abroad. So it is my blog and some movie for me.
Today I am going to show you one of the polishes I got as a present from my parents. In Awe Of Amber is a sort of gold copper colour, it almost looks like a foil but it isn't. Also it looks nothing like most amber (I should know, amber is a local thing here), but I appreciate the effort. I used three coats in the photos, but you can use just two, it will just look more sheer.
This is part of the "We Adorn You" set and there is something slightly funky that I've discovered. It has 8 nail polishes and most say 14ml on the bottle apart from three, including this one. You can see that it says 19ml on the bottle, and all the 19ml polishes looked slightly less full that the rest. Now, I have no clue at all whether China Glaze has ever had polishes with 19 ml in them, they bottles don't look any different to the 14ml ones, so I'm not sure what's up with that.

YSL La Laque 40 Extreme Purple

Hey everyone! Happy autumn! I'm stuck at university all day today. Who would have thought that the most interesting lectures this semester would be philosophy!
I realized that I never posted the swatches of YSL polishes that my dad brought for me from London months ago. I did swatch them right away, but my hard disk drive died during the summer taking all my photos with it.
So I've finally redone the swatches. Here is YSL #40 called Extreme Purple. Hmm... I don't see it. It's neither extreme, nor purple, not one bit. It is kind of reddish brown creme polish. I applied 2 coats indoors and it looked perfectly fine and even, but when I went in the sun to photograph it uneven patches became visible. I added one more coat and here we are! It's a nice polish, I think I like it. It lasts about 3 days on me. I especially like the packaging on this one. I'm a sucker for nail polish bottles with a square footprint. The polish is a bit on the pricy side. I think it was 13 GBP for 10 ml duty free.