Catrice Welcome To The Jungle

Here's Catrice Welcome to the Jungle nail polish. It is a kind of bronze olive green with flashes of golden and red. It sort of looks like a younger sister of Wagon Trail. This needed just two coats and the wear time was good, about three days I think. For me this polish is also rather sentimental. When I was a teenager I went through a phase when I only wore clothes of this colour. Skirts, tights, sweaters, even shoes came in this colour. I have no idea what I was thinking back then, but there you have it.

American Apparel Poppy

This polish has been a lemming of mine for a while. But as it is usually the case there is no American Apparel store for thousands of miles around. Poppy is a beautiful red with a hint of coral. But the nicest thing about the polish is the formula, it's on the thick side but it means that this needs only one coat! It goes on smoothly and lasts for about 3 days.

OPI Come To Poppy

Summer is not entirely over here, there is still quite a bit of sunshine even if it gets really cold in the evenings. So it seems fitting to share with you one polish from this summer's collection, Nice Stems from OPI. Come To Poppy is a coral pink with a lot of white pearly shimmer. Now, I usually don't like these sort of shimmery polishes, I tend to favour either the plain old cremes or the totally colourful and shiny glitters. But here it works and I like it. This was mostly one coat, some nails needed a second coat, so a really great formula on this one. It dries fast and last a fair amount of time. What else could a girl want?

Catrice Forget-me-not!

Hey everyone! Here I am blogging during my lectures. How fun! Today I would like to show you one gorgeous polish I got in Amsterdam on my holidays. Catrice Forget-me-not! is amazing. It's purple and it is kind of metallic foil with a lot of silver in it. It has this interesting look, as at times it seems more silver that purple. This is just one coat, and it dries nicely on me. It needs a top coat because it dries to a kind of dull finish. Overall, I'm really happy with the quality of polishes by Catrice, especially for the small price.

Chanel 513 Black Pearl

Hey everyone, I hope you are great. I've had my first day back at the university today and it was awful, simply horrendous! I really wonder how people like these are allowed to teach. One woman, a philosophy professor, managed to praise herself for 90minutes without saying anything relevant to the subject, and another guy in Political Science has ADD or something, he kept jumping back and forth between slights until everyone was bored, or sick or both, he was absolutely unable to finish a thought without jumping to the next.
As a way to cheer myself up I am wearing Black Pearl courtesy of my friend Lena. It's a very interesting and pretty colour, a sort of metallic steel grey with a flash of bottle green, very nice. This was two coats and surprisingly it took a long time to dry (my friend loves how quick it dries), so I'm wondering if it doesn't go well together with OPI base coat. Hmm, I'll have to try some other combinations.

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.

China Glaze L8R G8R

Holographic polishes quickly became one of my favourites. I love how they sparkle and shift colour. Love, love, LOVE!!!!!! They just remind me so much of warmth and summer when it is getting colder. L8R G8R is a light green goodness. Here I'm wearing just two coats, how awesome is this! These holographic polishes also last a long time on me, usually 4+ days.