Blue Polishes etc.

My life has been manic the last couple of weeks. Last Thursday was my last lecture ever for the foreseeable future. I hadn’t realised that until yesterday. This week I have exams every single day.
Also I’ve found that my cat hates women in skirts. This morning he looked at me in terror as if I were an alien and ran away.

My mum has pointed out that we have more nail polish than polish than we need (again), while I proceeded to make a point that we don’t with blue polishes that I don’t wear a lot of. My quote of “I have no more than 10 blue polishes” came back to bite me.

When I painted all of my blues on a nail wheel I was proven SO wrong.
Top row look more purple but I would call them blue. All polishes are two coats.L-R:

Tone Lise Design, no idea which shade this is
OPI Ink Suede
OPI DS Glamour
Essence 78 Blue Addicted
OPI Play Til Midnight
China Glaze Meteor Shower
OPI Simmer & Shimmer

Full wheel:
1 – Buk 112
2 – SpaRitual Full of Life
3 – Essence 53 You Belong To Me
4 – Catrice 540 Am I Blue Or Green?
5 – Orly Gumdrop
6 – Barry M 295 Turquoise
7 – China Glaze Kaleidoscope Him Out
8 – Revlon 320 Ocean Breeze
9 – Essence 55 Let’s Get Lost
10 – China Glaze DV8
11 – Essence 38 Choose Me!
12 – OPI Catch Me in your Net
13 – Essence 24 Under Water
14 – Misa On the Edge
15 – China Glaze Eyes Like Sapphires
16 – China Glaze Dorothy Who
17 – Essence 76 Hard To Resist
18 – Jessica 816 Blue Diamond

I now realize that I forgot to add a few polishes to the wheels, off the top of my head I’m missing H&M Peppermit Fusion, OPI Midnight Blue Glitter, one of my frankens, and probably something else. I am also happy that there aren’t too many dupes.

China Glaze Drenched In Diamonds

Normally when I am faced with a nail polish that even has a hint of frost to it, I run a mile. To me it looks really dated, like the 80s (not that I remember the 80s). But in the case of this polish I had to at least try it as it was a gift.
I can't say that I hate this polish, but I also don't like it. Let's say I don't dislike it as much as I thought I would. I think it's because the polish looks like snow, it is a sort of silver white colour, but damn this polish is sheer, sheer, sheer! This is three coats and you can still see my nails. It does apply quite evenly, so I would use it for layering in the future.

China Glaze Trendsetter

For now I only got two polishes form the China Glaze's autumn collection, this and Midtown Magic. I don't know what I was thinking when I bought this polish, it's totally not "me". It is certainly a very interesting colour, but I find it hard to call it pretty, it's both ugly and pretty. I like that it has this lit-from-within quality to it. The colour is the most impossible shade to describe. It's a cross between green and yellow, with a hint of mustard. That's the most pleasant description I'm going with. The formula is perfect, it needs just 2 coats.

OPI Strawberry Margarita

There has been a lack of pink and red polish posts on my blog lately. And since I like reds and pinks it's time to rectify that. Here is Strawberry Margarita, a sort of basic bright pink creme polish. The weather around here is grey and gloomy, so this pink is a perfect cheerful and happy colour that reminds me of summer. This was two medium thick coats, but you can get away with three thin coats; it dries fairly quickly and lasts about three days on me.

OPI DS Original

I have to admit it, I'm weak. After yet another stop at my local polish store, the call of this beauty "pick me! pick me!" got too strong. I could not resist any longer. I'm not totally happy with these photos, there's only occasional weak autumn sun so the holo effect is stronger in reality. This was three thin coats, and they dried really quickly. I love this polish, it is super pretty but the best thing is that the holographic effect is visible even when it is cloudy and indoors. The wear time for me is about 3 days.
Look how gorgeous it looks in the bottle:

YSL La Laque 128 Black Indigo

I am proven time and time again that men are very good at picking nail polishes that have something special about them. The same case happened with this beauty. YSL 128 Noir Indigo is an almost black polish that has some pink and purple shimmer. The shimmer is much more visible in the bottle, but less so on the nails, think along the lines of Chanel Vendetta.
Here I am wearing two coats. I like this polish a lot, it's a bit of a pity that when there is no direct sunlight it looks just black. The fact that the shimmer occasionally disappears makes this polish extremely difficult to photograph. Also I wish there was more of this polish than just 6ml, it's too pretty to be this small :)

OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys

I've bee a bit lazy with regards to my blog recently. Friday was the Independence Day here, which means a national holiday, so no studies or lectures. Yeah! Also as part of the celebration hundreds of candles were placed along the roads where I live, it looked gorgeous!
I was also somehow coerced into going to see the latest Twilight film, I'm still confused how that happened. Oh. my. It was bad bad bad. Trying to erase the image of it from my mind. I spent the rest of the weekend reading an exorbitant amount of academic articles on globalization for a class I have on Monday. That was a boring weekend.

I did not expect to like this at all, I mostly expected to hate it. I've always had this notion that brown polishes are dull and unimaginative. When I wear nail polish I like bright, fun colours, and brown is as far away from that as possible.
This polish was a gift and when I first put it on... I loved it! I like how it looks and how it feels, I think it goes fairly well with my skin tone. This is two coats and it goes on really well, dries quickly and wears fairly well.