Pasha

Moin, today I'm showing something special. Special for me, because I normally don't wear such colours. But as I was looking at the swatches of Zoya Pasha on the web, I was thinking how nice it looks, and then Pasha went to my wish list. I never really hoped to get it, but Carolina was so kind to send it to me in a swap : ) For a long time I didn't have courage to try it, but I couldn't just keep watching at it forever, so here are the swatches:

Pasha is a coffee-with-milk cool-shaded polish with a silver shimmer (frost, if you want), and I just cannot describe it any other way.. Somewhere between beige and taupe?

The main stress should be made on the words "cool-shaded". Exactly because of that it doesn't create 'lobster hands' effect on me, but if you have warm skin tone, you won't have to worry at all : ) I did worry. In vain, as it turned out.

For Pasha to look nice on your nails they have to be without ridges - this polish tends to highlight them. Secondly, you will need a top coat in order to smooth the shimmer streaks. On the photos there are barely any - that's only because of the top coat. Otherwise, the application is typical Zoya - smooth and nice, 2 fast drying coats. 

Otherwise, Zoya Pasha was the only case when my bf, being asked if he likes it on my nails, said explicitly: "No". Maybe it was weird for him to see such a colour on me, don't know. Me, on the contrary.. I liked Pasha more than I expected : ) Do you?

Jo!

Blue shimmers? Oh well... You can meet different attitude to those among girls. My stance is: yes, when they fit the mood. Or outfit. Or both : ) I don't have many of those shades, but today I'll show you one - meet Zoya Jo!

Jo is a periwinkle polish packed with blue and silver nanoshimmer, and it's the latter and a slight touch of dustiness that makes the shade quite special. Application was ok, 2 coats were enough, but I remember it drying longer than normal, and also a tipwear appeared very soon. 

And the last thing: I don't state that my swatches are the ultimate truth, but there are a lot of crappy pics with distorted colours online - beware.

So, what do you say? Blue shimmers - "yeeee!", "baaaah..", "hmmm"? :)

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

Kelly Psychedelly

It's not that often that I'm in the mood for such colours, but sometimes I feel like having grey and muddy nails. Painted with Zoya Kelly, for example. 

Nothing much to say, it's all been said and described. Dark grey creme with a dusty touch, covers the nails perfectly in 1 coat, although there are 2 on the pictures. Perfection, if you are okay with the colour. I was, it looked pretty stylish on short nails =) 

Later, when I fully enjoyed the pure colour for some days I stamped it with a kinda psychedelic Konad pattern that I never used before: 

What do you think about such colours? Cool and trendy or just too gloomy?

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? =)

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..]

Caitlin in Frankfurt

Or her on me in Frankfurt. You got the point anyway: I went to Frnakfurt wearing Zoya Caitlin - as simple as that. Swatches were made during the trip, so they are a little random, sorry.

What can I say... For the whole summer I was complaining how bad was the weather in Germany, and it still is, and that made me switch to autumn colours. In case of Caitlin, great autumn colours. The application was flawless, it's a 1 coater (2 on the photos because I needed it to last longer). Very recommendable polish.

So, Caitlin:

And Frankfurt: