OPI Midnight Blue Glitter

I haven't worn this polish in ages, and the last time I showed Midnight Blue Glitter my photos didn't really show how pretty it is. The blue glitter catches the light at different angles making the whole polish light up. This was two coats over silvery-grey polish.

Texture Week - Essence Here's My Number

Okay, this, simply put, is one awesome polish.This is probably my favourite sand polish I own. It is very beautiful, both when it is textured and with the top coat. Here's My Number is a charcoal grey polish that has small matte black glitter in it as well as slightly larger holographic glitter that flashes mainly blue, green and red. This was two coats.With the top coat on it looks kind of like OPI Midnight Blue Glitter on steroids.

 

Layla Flash Black

Flash Black is one of the polishes that I picked up recently. It is so unassuming in the bottle, but on the nails it looks gorgeous. I used two coats of polish, which I think is the same for all my Layla holographic polishes. On top I used Laylas's Nail Polish Sealer, a top coat kind of product, which is the only one I have ever tried that gives insane shine and doesn't dull the prismatic effect at all. Although it claims to prolong nail polish wear 'until you decide to remove your polish', it prolonged the wear for me on this polish by one day.

NOTD China Glaze Recycle

Whenever I get tired of wearing bright or dark polishes on my nails, I usually go for pale and seer jellies, something like OPI Soft Shades. But this time I chose a polish that I always overlook, and was surprised by the result.

For some reason grey polishes I own don't get used often. I guess they just seem very boring. But this time I decided to wear Recycle, and I just loved it! It turned out to be the perfect shade of grey :)
Not too dark, not too pale, just right. And I really liked the formula and texture. I used two coats, and the polish seemed to self-level as well. Now I will definitely use it more often!

China Glaze Jitterbug

Today marks my one week countdown till my departure home! Yes! I cannot wait. Today is also my cat's birthday AND my parents' wedding anniversary.

Somehow I have amassed a few polishes that look similar, these silvery grey foil metallic shades.Why, I have no idea. It is not a type\shade I am particularly fond of, but they inexplicably make their way into my possession. Jitterbug is quite nice, it requires only two coats, and I like how it changes how it looks depending on the light - in the shade it is very silver, while in the sun it is more metallic grey.

Sparitual Deep

I've spent last weekend in Paris. How often can you say that?! We walked a lot around the city with a few friends, went to Montmartre and Sacre Coeur Basilica, but I think that I've enjoyed Musee d'Orsay the most.
Sparitual Deep is labeled as 'shimmer' which is a very fitting description. It is a murky grey-blue colour with a very faint pink shimmer in it. You only really see the shimmer in bright light or in the sun. The formula is okay, this was two coats.

Dance Legend #2 Spacecraft

What a beauty! This polish was brought to me by a friend from Russia while she was visiting her family (Sasha, thank you so much!).
Spacecraft is magnificent. It is a black\charcoal grey holographic polish. It has a lovely formula, it is very dense, so you can get away with just one thick coat. Here I'm wearing two thin coats, no base coat or top coat. In person it is even more vibrant.

 Here is how it compares to the other two Dance Legend Holos that I have:

OPI Moon Over Mumbai

I've spent a considerable time last week in bed with a cold. Just my luck to get sick with summer just around the corner.
I have a few very exciting recent additions to my stash (Dance Legend Holos et.), but because it has been raining for weeks now, I will wait for the sun to show them off. For now I would like to show you an older OPI polish. Moon Over Mumbai is from Spring 2008. It is a pretty shimmery white-grey, it sort of reminds me of pearls. The visible nail line with this polish drove me insane, so I used 3-4 coats. But I think you can use fewer coats as well.

 

Sparitual Sacred Ground

I can't wait for today to be over. After months of being in France and being busy all the time I'm finally going to Paris on Saturday. I'm really excited, since I've never been to Paris before (my dad is not too fond of the French, so we've never been there on holiday).

Sparitual marks Sacred Ground as 'glitter' on the bottom of the bottle, but I don't really think that it is a true glitter. To me it looks more like tiny shimmery flakies in a variety of colours in the pewter base. It is awesome either way. For me it is a very moody polish, since it has so many facets - at times it looks very grey, at other time more golden or bluish-purple. I used two coats.

China Glaze Elephant Walk

I have no idea why I bought this polish, it was one of those I-should-get-something-from-this-collection moment. Not to say that the colour is not nice, it is, it just doesn't get me all that excited. My bottle is always separating into weird greenish yellow sludge-like mess. Anyway, it is grey with a hint of green, and it has a lovely silver-white shimmer. This was two coats.

OPI "Sheer" Your Toys

I'm leaving for my exchange semester in France tomorrow. I can't believe how quickly the time has come.
Today I'm wearing 'Sheer' Your Toys, an older polish from OPI, but it is a fabulous one - pale grey with a hint of pearl shimmer AND tiny copper bits. From looking at this polish you'd think that is would be rather sheer, but I only had to use 2 coats.

Hema Long Lasting Nail Polish #41

Long time no see! My mind has been far away from nail polish recently. We nearly lost our cat yesterday. We took him for a walk, I turned away for just a second and he was not there. The next half an hour was spent frantically running around the house screaming "Felix!". When panic started to set in, there he was as if saying 'what, I just went exploring a bit'. And he was a slight shade of green - we're having trouble with pine pollen at the moment. Every surface outside and inside is covered with lime green polled dust, even the air is yellow in colour.

As for nail polish I'd like to share Hema #41 from the Long Lasting line of polishes. That being said, I haven't noticed it being particularly long lasting, I wore in for two or three days, just like most of my polishes. I do, however, like the colour. It is grey black with very fine silver white shimmer. I don't have other polishes exactly like this one, other grey/black shimmer tend to look frosty and have visible brushstrokes, this one doesn't. This was two coats.

Catrice #280 London's Weather Forecast

It is that weird time of the year when it is no longer winter and almost no snow, but it is not yet spring. Everything looks faded and boring. Also I'm going to London next week, so it seems like a good time to wear this polish. I don't love it as much as I hoped I would. It's a very pretty grey that has very subtle silver white shimmer in it. The formula is also quite nice, this was two coats.

OPI Skull & Glossbones + Silver Shatter

I'm really impresses with the Pirates collection from OPI. All the polishes are pale and have this dusty feel to them, but surprisingly I really like that. Skull & Glossbones is one of the nicest polish from the whole collection in my opinion. It is this pale grey, kind of bone colour, super creamy polish. This was just two coats and I wore it for 4 days. I was afraid that this grey polish would look bad next to my pale skin, but I like how it looks. We'll see how it looks in winter though.

And here is Silver Shatter over Skull & Glossbones. I think they go well together, and this is pretty much the only crackle polish that I like. Perhaps that's because the contrast between the polishes is not that big.

Mavala Minsk

I wanted to post this yesterday, but had trouble with Blogger. It has been raining here pretty much every day, not constantly, just enough for it to be cold and went. So this seems a rather appropriate polish. Here I have Mavala Minsk. Don't you just love this colour, this dark murky grey with a hint of blue and purple. Amazing! The best thing is that it was just one coat, oh and I have been wearing it for three days now, and it is holding up just fine.

OPI Brand New Skates

Hey everyone! I've got a really gorgeous polish to show you today. I picked it up about a month ago. Brand New Skates is a real beauty, it is charcoal grey shimmer with tiny bits of gold flakes. I just love it! The first coat was very sheer, but it did build up nicely, so I needed just three thin coats. I wore it for about three days, and it looked just great in every light and angle.