Texture Week - Kinetics Crying Lamborgini

Kinetics Crying Lamborgini (what's with the stupid name?) is a raspberry jelly with sand particles as well as blue and magenta pink glass flecks mixed in. Again I used just two coats, and the polish dries rater quickly. While it is pretty in its textured form, it is absolutely amazing with the top coat, and it reminds me of Orly Miss Conduct.

China Glaze Pink Voltage

There really is not much to say about Pink Voltage. It's pint, it's bright, it's neon, it also has some blue shimmer in it. I picked it up at my local shop when they were selling off Knockout Neons packages for a ridiculously low price. It is an older bottle with white label, so it takes a while to dry, but I really like the colour. It's the kind of neon I can wear. This was three thin coats.

OPI Party In My Cabana

Last weekend me and a few friends discovered a local farmers' market. I've missed proper fresh produce, and food that tastes like it should. Funny how such small things make me really happy. It will certainly be on our to-do list every Saturday morning from now on. Even though it's fairly small, it is very colourful. In one place you have people selling cheese, close by are people selling fruit and vegetables, along with live hens next to them.

I have no idea what made me get this polish when I bought it. I suppose the swatches online looked completely different (or with my skin tone it looks differently). On me it looks like a muted pink shade with a hint of coral. I still like the polish, even though it is not what I expected. I DO like the formula of the polish, it applied nicely and easily in two coats. Actually the South Beach Collection form 2009, which includes this polish, has a few of my all-time favourites.

Essie No Boundaries

Nothing lifts my spirits quite like bright pink polish. Essie No Boundaries is a good example of bright pink. It is a very pleasing colour, and I also like the formula - here I'm wearing just two coats. I find that it is a lovely base for nail art or glitter, since on its own it might be a bit boring, or not be everybody's cup of tea.

Jessica Born 2 Pansy

France is driving me slightly crazy :) It seems that I live in a neighborhood full of exhibitionists and voyeurs. People seem to prefer to have large windows and no curtains. But the absolute worst thing for me is the fact that the walls here are paper thin. I can hear everything that is happening in the neighbors' flats.

This is a very, very stunning polish. It is all in the shimmer, it changes colour from pink and purple to green and blue. The polish is from last spring and itself is on the sheer side, so I used three coats here. I love how feminine this polish looks.

OPI Pink Friday

I never get tired of pink nail polish. Different shades make it perfectly appropriate for any occasion. It is no surprise, therefore, that I like Pink Friday from OPI.
Pink Friday is great, a very fresh colour and a lovely formula. It is very easy to apply, it dried really quickly on me, it was 2 coats.

You would think that in a stash of my size and for a person that likes pink, there would be a dupe or few among my pinks. But actually that is not the case. I don't have a complete copy of this shade. The closest think I found is OPI I Think In Pink which is a jelly. In the bottle the colours are identical (a bit like OPI Miami Beet and Houston We Have a Purple, are the same shade, but are a creme and jelly). For comparison both polishes are 2 coats.

Barry M Chameleon Pink

I think I like the idea of this polish better than the polish itself. The formula of this polish is really, really nice. It covers in just one smooth, buttery coat. Without top coat it is a medium shimmery pink. But it is when the top coat is added that the real magic happens. The pink turns into bright purple. But that is also where I had a bit of trouble with this polish.
Since I try to paint my nails as close to the cuticle as possible, adding top coat over the polish completely and not flooding the cuticle is difficult. Also it proved difficult to get an even colour, in some cases I must have added more top coat or overlapped the brushstrokes to produce a darker shade of purple.
But all in all it is great to be able to change the colour of my polish with just top coat without redoing my nails :)

Layla Holographic #11 Shock Pink

A couple of days ago it became cold enough so that the clouds have parted and there finally was some sun. So it was time to bring out some holographic polishes. I've decided to wear some of my untried polishes, so Layla Shock Pink it was.
It is nice, pink and holographic, plus it is fairly easy to apply. I've used 2 coats over Gosh Fix Base Coat. I really don't like that base coat very much, it smells horribly of glue, but it makes the application of these holographic polishes easier.

Sophie's Pink

I mentioned that my dearest darling Sophie gave me some of her polishes, and this was one of them. Sophie's Pink, a lovely bubblegum pink. I used two coats here. This is lovely and bright, just perfect for the doom and gloom of the weather.

Here are some of the polishes that Sophie gave me. Thank you, dear! Can't wait to try them!

OPI Japanese Rose Garden

Japanese Rose Garden hasn't been in my stash for a long time, yet it became a favourite quite quickly. It's not like it is very original, original, yet I love this polish. It is just adorable and girly. A soft rosy a pronounced silver-white shimmer. I also really like the formula on this one, it is pretty much opaque and perfect in one fairly thick coat. Here I'm wearing two thin coats. Wearing this polish I feel like h I feel like I should be wearing a flowery dress, while enjoying afternoon tea and cakes with a group of A)

beautyuk posh polish #4 amethyst

I've been maniacally redoing the garden around our house. We've decided that a vegetable patch would be a cool thing to have, but it is such hard work! All the digging and shoveling the earth, every part of my body aches. My nails don't look that great these days, so I repaint them almost on the daily basis. Gives me a chance to wear all those untrieds.
Amethyst is a really cute pink-lilac foil. It dries really quickly. I used two coats here. It is really easy to apply and the wear time is great, even after two full days of gardening, these was no tip wear.

China Glaze High Hopes

This is one of those annoying colours that is impossible to describe. At certain times in looks pink, orange, coral and even sometimes almost neon. It's a lovely colour, don't get me wrong but on its own I don't love it, so whenever I reach for it I pair it up with some glitter, or better yet - flakies. This was two coats.

Flormar Neons

Neons are everywhere this summer. Yet, somehow I cannot get fully on board with this tren. So I'm really happy that I had an opportunity to try a couple of neons, to see what I thought and whether I liked them.
Well, these are two neons from a Turkish company, they are marked #14, the green one and #12, the red/pink one.
These had a fantastic formula, I used two coats for the green one and just one coat for the red one. They dried really quickly and were very shiny.
To be honest, I'm not sold on the green polish. It is a bright highlighter-green in colour. It is certainly a fun colour, but I don't particulary like how it looks with my skin tone.





I prefer this colour to the green one, much more so. It is gorgeous, you can see red, pink, coral and even a hint of orange in it in different light. I'm not sure I would call it neon, though it is very bright. The fact that this intensity is achieved with just one coat doesn't hurt either :)