Do these shades remind you of anything?

Any new or upcoming collections, maybe? *sly smile* 

My Most Worn & Used Polishes - Top 10+10

Some time ago lovely Ulmiel tagged me in a post about her most worn polishes, and recently I also saw Miss Jones and Danny and others telling us about theirs. So I decided to do the same and to show you the emptiest bottles of my stash. Believe me, with 200+ polishes emptying the bottles becomes a difficult challenge : ) 

Shall we start? So, the first picture tells you a lot about me: I'm an office worker : ) The dress code is not that strict, but I still try to stick to commonly accepted norms. Sometimes I fail and my boss keeps staring at my aqua blue nails, but you all heard this story : )

Here we go, office appropriate pinks - most used:

Left to right:

Color Club Vintage Couture

Nubar Oh Baby Pink

Orly Super Natural

Zoya Zanna

China Glaze Fifth Avenue

(clicking on the name of the polish leads you to my swatches of them, sometimes old ones with funny nail length and shape :) )

Still, although calm pink is a popular colour, it does not mean that all 200+ bottles I have are pink shades : ) 

Here are non-pink winners:

OPI Hey! Get In Lime! I actually wore it once, but in 5 (!!!) coats. No wonder the bottle is that empty. Real m****ker of my stash.
Essence My Yellow Fellow
Studio M Tru Passion did you know I like glitters? ^^
China Glaze Blue Island Iced Tea my first CG ever!! For some unexplainable reason I adore this polish, although it's not any popular..
Wet'n'Wild Caribbean Frost this is sooo not my colour.. green pearl, yuck!! But I use it as a base for Atlantis and Party Hearty

These were my officially top 10 worn polishes. But this is not the end, and apart from them I want to show you some more. Here, below, you see the polishes I do not use for normal manicures, but rather for stamping or as layering polishes: 

Stargazer 232

Milani Gold

Milani Gems

China Glaze 2030

China Glaze Pixie Dust

And lastly, the oldies. These I have for several years, and they neither ever finish nor I can dispose of them (I tried several times, but I cannot throw away a polish unless a bottle is completely empty).

Lady Rose Latino 592

Yves Rocher Nature de Peau

Yver Rocher Mauve Leger

Victoria Shu 16

Sally Hansen Purple Potion

Somehow, for me "the most worn polishes" does not equal "my favourite polishes".. Those that I adore most - I try to save every drop of them, hehe.

Now, I'm waiting to see your posts about most used polishes :) If you posted already, you can leave a link in the comments, I'd be glad!

Depends on Depends

For those who are tired of crazy stamping, glitter and variety of colours from my latest posts - today I'm showing one_single_plain_polish_even_not_stamped : ) Simply because it's beautiful and self-sufficient on its own. All the fuss is about Depend 221, one of my Depend stash department.

(On top: Depend 221

Down, left to right: Depend 218, 227, 243, 228)

To be honest, I have no idea how to describe the colour, it's exactly inbetween blue and green. Turquoise? Aqua? Greenish blue? Blueish green? You decide.

All the photos show 2 coats of polish and no top coat. Application was great, it's the same great quality for all Depend polishes I have.

Below I tried to capture the texture: it's amazing! The polish is stuffed with silver shimmer, which is small enough to become chunky flakes, but big enough to be seen on nails. Looks like it's a sister polish of Butter London Victoriana, which is one of my favourites ever.

So far, I love all Depend polishes I have - and you? Any opinion on Depend?

Finito!

Showing you the result of a couple of weekends work : )

133 out of 150 tips painted, predominantly cremes.
I had a lot of fun, revised my stash, and amazingly didn't discover almost any dupes : )
Although I realised that I have too many mint greens, taupes and pinks.
Conclusion: I strongly recommend this activity to every nail polish addict!!! : )

Carnival Nails

Carnival in Cologne - have you ever heard of that? That's what was going on whole last weekend : ) Since I live very close to Köln, I took a direct and active part in celebrating : ) Although I didn't have a cool costume, I had blingy nails instead! 

Milani Gems is one of my favourite glitters ever, and I always wanted to try it over blue, so I did. On the photos you see 2 coats of Zoya Jo topped with Gems. More combinations of Gems and other backgrounds are planned : )

P.S. Gems actually remind me of the Angry Birds background in Birthday Party episode :D :D

Post-V

Last manicure of "Valentine" series (I promise). The idea stroke me long ago, and finally I implemented it. Actually I'm very satisfied how it came out: both the colour combination and the stamping work, especially if to mention that I was using normal polishes for stamping, and not the Konad ones. 

Used products:

Base polish: China Glaze Light As Air

Stamping plate: m73

Stamping polishes: OPI Done Out In Deco

Finger Paints Heavenly Hydrangeas

Catrice Plum Play With Me

One of my favourite manicures ever. Some time later I plan to repeat it in pink shades. What do you think? : )

Valentine's Present

I start to suspect that 1) my boyfriend got a clue that I like nail polishes slightly above average; and 2) that he actually listens to what I'm blabbering, because I wanted this polish for ages (I even showed him swatches once - a year ago lol) and it's by far the most wanted one from Chanel for me, but he couldn't skim my wishlist because he has no idea about this blog. Love.

If he was reading this, I'd write "thanks" million times in a row, but he's not, so I'll just tell you that I got a star of my collection. You know, like these stars on top of a Christmas tree. High above. At least price-wise : ) : )

V

Here it is, this day again. Never in my life have I spent it snogging with a guy in a cafe with a bunch of roses lying on the table, or watching dramatically cute pink movie and eating heart-shaped chocolates that he [impersonal] presented me. Not even in the last 3 years that I have a boyfriend - he comes from a funny land where they only celebrate start and end of all wars possible, but not St. Valentines. When I was 15, I used to stress about it, but after 20 I don't care anymore. Still, for me it's a nice day because I see happy couples all around, and a depressing one, because I'm out of all that. Hence, the manicure. Pinky base but still black roses. 

Products used:

Base polish: Essie Guchi Muchi Puchi (3 coats)

Konad image plate: m65

Stamping polish: Konad Black

Hopefully you'll be spending this day in a much better way than me - this post turned out way more depressive than I planned it, but ok, at least you'll finally see some other mood of mine than eternal world-loving optimism. Hehe : )

Otherwise, HAPPY ST. VALENTINE'S DAY! 

Pre-V

To be very honest, I was just testing a new Konad plate, but accidentally it turned out like St. Valentine's Day style manicure - well and good, I'll show it : )

Used products: 

Base polish: OPI Flower-To-Flower

Konad image plate: m59

Stamping polish: American Apparel Berry

Wearing this I felt a bit childish, but the funny thing is that exactly for this mani I got a compliment from a 50+ y.o. lady who works in our office canteen ; ) ; ) Should mean something then : ) 

How I Am Spending My Weekend...

... is this.

Long way to go, ugh.

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UPD: Just thought some of you might wonder..
Nail tips stick were bought on ebay. Quality is fairly good.
Sellers:
#1: lxdstation - 3,20€ per 50 sticks
#2: zysysy2012 - 3,72€ per 50 sticks