Misa 178 & 179

I was meaning to post this a few days ago, but it has been heavily snowing here for the best part of 2 days, with the added bonus of power failure and no internet.
So back to the polishes. I picked up two Misa polishes that I liked the look of; they are 178 Forbidden Lust on the left and 179 Toxic Seduction on the right.
When I finally got a look at them in proper light, I was really pleased with my choice. I don't have anything similar in my collection, and they're not too over the top for me.

Forbidden Lust is a vibrant pink-purple shimmer. It goes on beautifully in two coats. When I started putting it on, I immediately thought that it looks like an orchid. Beautiful!

Toxic Seduction is a dark green. At first it looks dark gray, but when it catches the light, a gorgeous green is revealed.

I love these two polishes, the only thing I'm not really into are the names. They just don't make a lot of sense or match the colors themselves.

Comparison : OPI Play 'Til Midnight and Russian Navy

Sophie is a big lover of blue polishes, so of course she has the Russian Navy one. I had a chance to borrow it to compare to the blue that I have, Play 'Til Midnight.
It's a deeper, darker blue, which in two coats looks almost black. The bottle has this beautiful purple shimmer, but you can't see it on the nails.

When I put it on it was difficult to tell Russian Navy from Play 'Til Midnight. They are both deep blue, neither really stand out. And it's really difficult to photograph them so that the differences show. Below in the bottles Russian Navy is to the left and Play 'Til Midnight is on the right.



The only slightly difference I can tell is only in the brightest sunlight - Russian Navy seems just a little bit darker.

OPI Tease-y Does It

Here's my second polish from the Burlesque collection. Tease-y Does It is a deep brown polish with sparkle that in different light looks more yellow-gold or more red.

I have been wearing this polish for a couple of days now, and I'm undecided about it. I really liked it when I bought it, but now it doesn't seem all that special.



On a slightly different note, yesterday my BF Sophie took me to a cute little store that retails Misa polishes. After almost losing a few toes to frostbite and being blown away by gale winds, we got there. We actually went there with a specific purpose of getting the Office Polish-tics from the 9 to 5 Office Collection. We have such different tastes that I still can't believe that we wanted the same polish.
We had absolutely no luck, it will only be stocked "during the summer". Whaaat?? That's insane!
But I still got two polishes there :) I'll swatch them as soon as I get home form university.

my first OPIs

The first time I tried OPI polishes was three or four years ago when they first appeared around here in an upscale department store. They had a range of cute colors and funny names, so I bought three of them to try. I must say it was more of a hit and miss situation.

The first one is An Affair in Red Square. It's a decent red shimmer, but I don't like it on my nails. It shows every single ridge on my nails, even the ones I didn't know existed. It sort of made my nails look plastic. It stays on for just a couple of days and peels off in big chunks. Not cool.

Black Satin is yet another shimmer. It's somewhere between dark gray and black with silvery shimmer. Even though I hoped it would be more black than gray, this has been more of a hit with me than the others.

And the last one is Play 'Til Midnight, a blue polish with shimmer. In theory this was supposed to be a big hit with me, and the nicest of the three. But boy was I wrong about that. First of all, it looks absolutely gorgeous and shiny in the bottle, while on the nails it dulls SO much. You can tell that it's in the blue\purple color region but that's it. There is no shine and looks really boring. These photos I did in direct sunlight, so you can actually see the shimmer, but in normal light it's not as pretty.

I'm going to make a comparison to Russian Navy soon!

Looking back at my choices of OPI polishes I'm starting to doubt my taste and ability to choose pretty polish.

Orly Blue Suede

This is probably the nicest blue nail polish I've tried. Granted, I'm not really into blue polish in general, so haven't tried a whole lot of them, but this one is a true beauty!

With 2 coats it gives a really nice deep matte look. It goes on a little bit thick, so I can see where I painted my nail unevenly. I managed to wear the polish for four days without tip wear or chipping, which really surprised me.


Overall this polish is really beautiful, makes me really excited about other blue polishes out there, I love it!

OPI Sparkle-icious

I've bought two polishes from the Burlesque collection, they are the ones that I liked the most; they are obviously Tease-y Does It and Sparkle-icious

Sparke-icious is probably the most beautiful polish I own. It has golden, pink and blue hexagon glitter in a clear base.
When I started putting it on, it seemed that the gold was much more prominent. It looked as though there was twice as much gold glitter as the rest.
After two rather thick coats my nails were completely covered in glitter :)
I added one more coat to be completely happy with the result.


The last time I used glitter polish was ages ago, so I was quite surprised that on the nails the multi-colored glitter actually looked silver.

Close up of the glitter:

Orly Hook Up

I adore mini nail polishes in general, but especially the Orly ones like these! Not only are they cute and useful, but they also let me try out the polish, and in case I really like it I can get the full version of it.

Hook Up is a bright yellow with pearly shine to it. I must say that when I started applying it, it looked really horrible, as If my nails were awfully stained. But after 3 coats, I think it looks pretty decent!

I wore this polish for 3 days without any tip wear or chipping. The only thing I didn't like very much is that it's somewhat difficult to put on - need to be careful or brush strokes will be very visible.
Since it is my first and (currently) only yellow polish, I seriously need one without the shimmer!