OPI Louvre Me, Louvre Me Not

These days I'm totally rocking the "two-pants-two-sweaters-&-wooly- socks" look at home, as it's just freezing. Every year my lovely seaside resort town is the last to get any heating, so we're keeping warm in any way possible. I've also already taken out all my scarves, hats and gloves. I love gloves because usually my hands cold ant time of the year.
Today I have for you guys an older polish that I like. This is from 2008 and it is as lovely as ever. Louvre me, Louvre me Not is a cross between pink and purple with plenty of that juicy grape shimmer. Just lovely! I think this was three coats, but you can easily get away with two. On me it doesn't last as long as the more recent OPI polishes, but it is still about two-three days.

Barry M Bright Purple

What is a girl to do when it is +3 degrees outside? Of course put on a bright summery nail polish. That is exactly what I did - I used two coats of Barry M nail paint 303 called Bright Purple. It is a really nice colour, kind of reminds me of of orchids. It is just bright enough to be interesting but not so bright that it is over the top. I like this polish, just as i like other Barry M polishes I've tried. They are great fun, are inexpensive, and the quality is very good. Plus the range of colours is just great. Oh, and on me their polishes last for 3-4 days.

Catrice 490 Iron Mermaiden

A couple of weeks ago I broke a few of my nails while moving and filed them all down to basically nothing. So I was going through the swatches I have, and found this. I'm astonished by how long my nails are here. As for the polish, well I have a couple of these duochromes, that look similar but are not totally identical. Well, most of them kind of remind me of mould, not in a bad way but just colour-wise.
This one applies fine, if somewhat sheer. The first coat was particularly sheer, but it builds up nicely, this is three coats. I actually quite like this polish, the colour is interesting, I think it would be flattering on different skin tones. On me it wears for an average of three days.

Essence #50 Irreplaceable

You know it's autumn when you only manage to take one decent picture a day and have to run around the house to catch any glimpse of sunlight and to be on stand by for when the rain stops. I am already starting to dread the next 5+ months when everything will be drained of colour and everything will look grey, the sky, the ground and even the air.
Today I have for you guys a really ordinary-looking polish, but it isn't. It is a sort of neutral beige with a hint of grey, but mixed in is a ton of tiny light gold flakies. This needed just two coats. It also wears surprisingly well for a polish that doesn't coast a whole lot - three or four days for me. Also I think this is one of those cases when my photos don't do the product justice, it looks so much better in real life.
Polishes like this make me earn for more Essence products, but unfortunately they are not available at all where I live :(

China Glaze Meteor Shower

Hey guys! Finally I can show you this, China Glaze Meteor Shower. I'm just drooling over this polish, it's so beautiful. No, scratch that, it is not just beautiful, this is probably the most beautiful polish I've ever owned or tried. Yes, I like it that much! Meteor Shower is packed with lots and lots of different colourful and iridescent glitter. It reminds me of the night sky. This needed just two coats, but it dries bumpy from all the glitter. Normally it doesn't matter to me at all, but in this case I used a few coats of top coats. I can wear it either way really, it is still stunning to me.

I also love how it shifts colour in different light sources. Sometimes the base colour is more prominent, and in other cases it is the glitter that pops out!

OPI Get Me To The Taj On Time

A friend gave me this polish to try. Sometimes I like to wear such muted colours, they can be very lady-like. This polish came out in 2008 and has a pretty pearly shimmer, and it it is rather sheer. Here I am wearing four coats. All because a smaller number of coats looks really uneven. It's very frustrating. Compared to this polish, the newer OPIs have a much better formula. Honestly, I don't have enough patience to put 4 coats on, just because it increases the likelihood of smudging the polish.

Pre-birthday shopping

Tomorrow is my birthday, so it seems a reason as good as any to shop for nail polish and get a few lemmings. I'm really good at justifying for myself why I should get a certain polish or three :) Some of these I got last week and some today.

China Glaze Meteor Shower, Kaleidoscope Him Out, OPI DS Glamour.

And here I keep saying that I'm not a fan of blue polishes!
Meteor Shower is a gorgeous glitter! Reminds me of a night sky. Now, I showed you Kaleidoscope Him Out previously when my friend got it. I figured that I would regret not getting it while the local shop still has it. I think it is the only one from that collection that is left. DS Glamour I have wanted for a while now, but somehow couldn't persuade myself to spend that amount of money on just one polish. I must say it looks gorgeous in the bright electric light, so I cannot wait to see it in bright sunlight.


OPI Lincoln Park At Midnight, Diva of Geneva, China Glaze Jitterbug.

After organizing my stash I am not surprised that I buy berry reds and pinks. So it's not a surprise really that I wanted the first two. Diva of Geneva has been sold out around here for a long time, but I spotted a bottle today and I accidentally found Lincoln park at Midnight. I got Jitterbug last week when China Glaze was 20% off here.