Yellow Mess

It all started with a simple desire to wear yellow. See, I don't have a lot of yellow shades in my stash, so choosing did not take a lot of time - I opted for Essence My Yellow Fellow. After enjoying it for a day, I decided to add up some stamping, and here I was pondering a lot. I ended up with a random lines stamping... and I called this manicure "a yellow mess" : ) 

The stamping was not any complicated: I used a BM-316 plate and triple-stamped the lines using Konad white polish, China Glaze 2030 and Orly Hook Up. I was just placing the stamper in a random order, so that the lines are not stamped one over the other. As simple as that.

And now I'll do something I've never done before in this blog - I'm posting a pic of my full hand! So that you can laugh at my curvy and bony fingers : )

I hope you enjoyed the yellow mess, because I actually did. And the people in the public transport did as well : ) 

Victoria Shu

One of my blog policies is: each and every polish I own must be swatched and shown to my readers. Even if it's immemorially old, discontinued or impossible to find - I just tend to show everything I wear. The polish of today's post falls exactly under all of these categories: old as dirt and not sold anymore. Victoria Shu #16 was purchased like 7 years ago, and nowadays the Internet history does not contain any mentioning about this line, although the brand remains. But has nothing to do with Barcelona, I'm afraid. 

The colour is quite pretty though: a purple shade with more red than blue tint in the mix, full of silver shimmer. Application was pleasant for such a dark shade, in fact it's a 1-coater and it stamps perfectly too! :)

After wearing it for a day I came up with a thought that such a texture should look nice mattified. Not bad, indeed :)

And then I added some top coat again and stamped over the base colour with BM-316. As you can see, I was really enjoying all kinds of variations with this polish :) 

It seems that even then, 7 years ago, I managed to pick a nice interesting shade. By the way, if you can remember any dupes or similar shades - please let me know!! This polish is simply finishing and I can't repurchase it, but I'd love to own a similar shade again..