Mellow Yellow

Holiday time starts to feel in the air, and I'm still painting my nails with the pastel shades. But what can I do if I have the undying love for pastels :) Besides, yellow is good at any time of the year, even winter. So, the hero of today's post is piCture pOlish Mellow Yellow:

Mellow Yellow is a pale pastel yellow creme, which I have shown in my blog once already. You can compare the swatches of "now" and "then", hehe. What I feel is that the formula became a bit goopy with time, and so I needed 3 coats to cover all bold spots.

The shade is very pretty though and the application is way better than in case of similar whitened pastels. And it dries very fast, so I didn't bother to put on any top coat. 

Actually I did use a top coat, but later on, when I decided to cover the polish with loose gold glitter - holiday time is in the air, I'm telling you :) That was not a rocket sience: working with one nail at a time, I was applying a top coat and immediately sowing the glitter on top of the nail with a fan brush. Then dabbing slightly and letting dry a bit. 

So, are you in the Xmas/holiday mood already or it didn't reach you yet? :) 

Macro Sparkle

Without a doubt I'm gonna tell you: piCture pOlish Sparkle is the most interesting polish in my stash so far - texture-wise. It's also interesting by its origin, because it made its way directly from Australia, but it's another story : )

The texture is so enchanting that it desires some macro shots - so I thought. And although I'm not a fan of taking macro pictures because of my sad dry skin and cuticles, but this time I'll make an exception. 

Firstly, the bottle close-ups:

Do you see?? You see this multicolour glitter swimming around and sparkling? Exactly this attracts me in this polish, and [supposingly] it's the reason why it was called Sparkle. The base is something special too: it's pearly-silvery white with a barely distinguishable lilac undertone, rather sheer.

Do you have polishes with "unusual" textures? Those you love staring at while wearing them? : )

More swatches (not so macro) of Sparkle you can find here

*The given polish was kindly provided to me by piCture pOlish.

piCture pOlish Blog Fest: Mellow Yellow

Today I was honoured to take part in piCture pOlish Blog Fest - a worldwide flash mob organized by lovely Australian girls, the founders of piCture pOlish brand. The colours for review were allocated randomly, but I was really lucky to get a trendy pale yellow creme - piCture pOlish Mellow Yellow:

The application was flawless, we all know that the cremes are sometimes hard to handle, but this was not the case. I applied 2 coats and it was enough for opaque even coverage; on the photos I was using neither BC nor TC, I wanted to be fair and to show the polish as it is. And it is awesome: both the shade, and the formula. Not that I'm a frantic yellow addict, but if it is to wear yellow, then definitely this one - pale and subtle pastel looks nice on nails of any length I guess.

That day I got compliments 2 times from random people, including a seller in a Kiko shop : ) She said it's a pity they don't have a similar shade hehe ^^ And of course I couldn't miss the opportunity to stamp over such a pretty base! 

In conclusion: uf, long post with a tonne of pictures, but it was worth it. Mellow Yellow is definitely a lovely pastel shade and a user-friendly polish that left only positive impressions... And Australians ladies are lucky, as I heard, to be able to buy it from a vending machine! Otherwise you can order the polishes from the official site of piCture pOlish, they ship worldwide. 

Thanks to those who made it till the end and I'm very curious to see other shades reviewed today!

*The polishes were kindly provided by piCture pOlish for review, however, this didn't influence my opinion in any way.

My Australian Mates (part I)

Although my stash is not so huge, it includes polishes from many different countries: up to Scandinavia and ... down to Australia :) Yep, even from there. Recently I got two new maties from there, piCture pOlish Sparkle and Ozotic Pro 621:

piCture pOlish Sparkle consists of white/silver perlmut base and tiny multicolour glitter particles. Pretty unique shade I'd say, I haven't seen any similar polishes. The formula is nice, number of coats depends on one's taste: it looks nice already with 2 coats, but VNL haters should rather use 3. Drying time is alright, the brush is also convenient, at least for me.

What I love about this shade is that it's so subtle and interesting at the same time. I couldn't stop staring at my nails, constantly watching at these multicolour particles :)

In my opinion this polish looks extremely nice with light-blue jeans clothes:

I should say, so far I have only positive impressions from this brand. Of course, I'd like to try more piCture pOlishes, so as soon as I have a couple of spare euros, I'll definitely order a pair of other shades.

If you are interested, you can see the whole assortiment of the brand at piCture pOlish official site, they have a lot of interesting colours!

Do you have any polishes from Australia? Share your experience :)

*These polishes were kindly provided to me by piCture pOlish for free, however, this didn't influence my opinion.