Bongiorno, ladies!! Be prepared for a long post loaded with pictures, it's my way to make up for irregular blogging :)

Recently I thought that it's unfair that I haven't shown you one of my top polishes - Zoya Andi, although I used it 3 (!) times already and even did one tape mani with it. So, why do I like it so much? Because it's a great red shade (although it's 1 tone brighter than my "ideal red" is), very workable formula and.. 1 coater. Red-y To Go should be it's name or smth like that : ) 

Yes yes, one coat! :) Warning: in 2 coats it looks darker. And chips less, of course.

 

And because (as you might know already) I adore black+red combination, I stamped it with black roses pattern:

What do you think? Too banal or rather ok? =)

Zeil Avenue

In reality it is of course Fifth Avenue by China Glaze, but I was mostly walking this polish over the main shopping street of Frankfurt - Zeil. Exactly on this "avenue" I found some Deborah Lippmann polishes which I have barely seen live before, so I couldn't miss my chance to play around with them (thank heaven there were testers for each shade!). Look what I tried on: 

Honestly, I expected more from Lippmanns for such a price. Maybe I shouldn't judge from trying them on quickly in a shop, but there's no way that I can afford any DL polish in the nearest future, so until then I'll keep my "unimpressed" opinion : ) 

Much more I was satisfied with China Glaze Fifth Avenue itself: it's a cold dusty rose user- and your_office_colleagues_psychical_health-friendly polish, easy to handle and easy to wear. Although by itslef it chips from the nail tips pretty fast, with a top coat (INM, for example) it lives a long life of 5 days. Don't know, maybe even longer, I just got bored and removed it : )

Looks nice doesn't it? Lately I'm really keen on such classical although not boring (in my view) shades.. Getting older or so.. : )

piCture pOlish GIVEAWAY WINNER!

Time to draw the winner, shall we? :) 134 entries... Let's draw the winning one:

Random.org says it's number 62. Okay, let's check the name..

I've blurred your e-mail addresses out of privacy reasons, but it's still visible that the winner is....

Sarah @ Chalkboard Nails

Congratulations, Sarah!!! I'm also very glad because thanks to this giveaway I discovered Sarah's creative nail blog, I recommend you all to check it!

Thanks to everyone who entered, and I hope to offer you some more giveaways soon!

And now some food for thought for piCture pOlish girls :) 

I did a little market analysis and sorted all the shades that the entrants indicated by their popularity. Number in brackets = number of times the polish was chosen. See the results below!

Denim is an absolute winner.. I don't have it but I'd love to! Someday, someday.. :)

Disko Ball Nails

Last weekend I had a kinda important event that I had to attend - the official part of my graduation ceremony, previously we just had a huge party, and now we received our degrees. So I had to invent some festive nail look to match the occasion but at the same time to avoid exaggerations. I think I suceeded pretty well: 

Now let's have a closer look: it's not a nail foil or a silver holographic as it might seem in the beginning. It's a little sandwich from Essie Fill The Gap, Zoya Trixie and Essence Hello Holo that makes my nails look silvery and blingy.

We had gloomy weather all these days, so I cannot show you how beautiful it all looks under the sun, but I still tried to catch the holosparkles:

And a little bonus pic. I don't have kitties or cats to use as a cute background, but I have something else ;) ;) 

[Sorry for the quality, it was cropped from a bigger photo..]

Ode to Lost Summer

Around a year ago, last autumn, when I just became an official lacquer addict, I was dreaming of one polish [apart from 50 others] and thinking "mmm...the colour is gorgeous, but the best thing is that it would match my swimming suit so perfectly!!". Later I bought it and kept on wishing: "Can't wait till summer when I can combine them together on the beach!!". And now.. now the summer is gone. And guess what - I didn't have any single chance to wear my swimsuit. Partly because of the busy times I had and partly because of the damn weather. But I still wore this polish, just to make some melancholic swatches. Here we go. 

I guess there's no need to introduce it, most of you will recognize it from the first glance. Yep, the legendary China Glaze For Audrey. With my unworn swimsuit : (  Every blogger has it swatched, right? So I won't go into details: turquoise creme with user-friendly formula. A perfect "Tiffany" colour for many women. I'm totally satisfied with everything about this polish. Except maybe for the fact that I couldn't wear it how and when I wanted.. 

Giveaway Alert + Random Swatch

[1] I just wanted to remind you that my piCture pOlish giveaway is closing in around 20 hours, so those who didn't entered yet - you are very welcome to do so! : ) Don't miss the chance to win 3 lovely piCture pOlish shades!!

[2] Addressing to followers: Breigh, kaderkismet and Nora.

Ladies, this giveaway ONLY includes piCture pOlish lacquers, and NOT Ozotic shades. Please reenter, I'll delete your previous entries and add the new ones.

[3] Just browsing all my tonns of unpublished swatches, I decided to show you this one: 

Essie Cute As A Button. Don't be scared, these are my old good HELL LONG nails!!! The swatch is about half a year old, and I remember one thing: I was really dissatisfied with the polish. The formula was so-so (3 coats), but the most irritating thing was that it looked really different in the bottle than on the nails (donno if it's visible on the picture)! I expected a complex creme coral shade, and what I got is a boring orange neon. You see this cool gloss on the pic? It disappeared after 5 minutes. And the boring orange neon became half-matte cheap looking boring orange neon. Chipping fast, by the way. Boo, Essie! : (