Inspired by a Bracelet

Do you often get inspired by clothes or accessoires? I do, and I even picture the suitable manicure designs in my mind, it's just not that often that I implement them. However, I didn't even hesitate when I first unpacked and saw the bracelet I got from SammyDress store for review.

The bracelet is dark blue with gold, white and pink abstract patterns, it's very light and fits perfectly to my somewhat wide wrist. It clips easily and doesn't fall off during the day. I also like that it doesn't catch neither hair nor clothes when you wear it.

The bracelet retails at 4.43$ (!) at SammyDress store - here you can find the direct link to the item. There are also other colours and patterns, but I think you can never guess which one you get, hehe. I didn't mind about that because I liked all the colours and pattens they offer.

As for the manicure - it was very easy to create: I started with 2 coats of Layla Ceramic Effect #13 (swatch), applied rhinestones on my index and pinkie fingers, then added some drops of gold, white and pink polish and made some random movements with a needle. Easier to create than to describe :)

To be honest, I haven't done any nail design with a needle since high school, and I was happy to experiment with it again. And, what is good about abstract designs - you can never go wrong :)

Noites de Verão

Summer nights.. I've seen them from different Earth angles, starting from the north of Siberia, and down to African skies. Gotta go to Argentina still, but the opinion has been formed already - I love them! Considering this, you may imagine how happy I am to own a nail polish called Noites de Verão - Summer Nights that is. Actually, it's called Inocos Dançar, and Noites de Verão is the name of the collection. Besides, the polish itself is quite rare for me, it comes from Portugal - a country with the best summer nights I guess :) Lovely Akuma Kanji sent it to me in a swap, for which I'm so grateful to her! :)

Inocos Dançar is an enchanting dark blue foil with a great formula: opaque in 1 coat already (2 coats on the pictures), perfect application. The colour seems more purplish inside under the artificial dim light, the top coat also added (!) the shade a purple hue. 

I'm not sure if it makes sense to post macroshots for a foil texture, but I still did, simply because I love jeans foils, so enjoy :) 

Now that I'm in Saint Petersburg, it's "white nights" time.. for me this phenomenon is just as beautiful as a dark starry night somewhere in the south - in a different way of course. And I hope that you enjoy the summer nights (polish and real) as well - wherever you are! :)

Confetti Del Corazón

Today I'm happy to introduce you to a nail polish brand I've never shown before in my blog - it's called El Corazón. Despite the Spanish name, the brand comes from Russia, and I can say that during the last couple of years El Corazón launched a series of mind-blowing collections, which made it one of the top Russian nail brands nowadays. The polish I am showing in this post is a part of the Confetti collection, a real colour glitter explosion! Since I'm a glitter girl, it's a great fun for me to wear this one - El Corazón Confetti 529a.

First of all, have a look at the bottle! I really like the design: flat but curved. Pretty convenient to use and to store. 

El Corazón Confetti 529a is a dark blue glitter in a purple (!) base, yet the glitter particles are so many that the base colour is barely visible. Although sometimes it gives the polish a purple hue, especially indoors. 

Application did not cause any problems, the glitter is very opaque, in fact it's a one-coater (!), you see 2 coats + top coat on the pics though. The brush is of a medium size, so I could paint a nice cuticle curve. The glitter is not "top coat hungry", i.e. it doesn't absorb the top coat after the application. One medium layer of top coat is enough for nice gloss. Removal was... foily :) you know yourself :)

And of course, this kind of glitter deserves some macro shots!

And finally, some good news: El Corazón ships worldwide, so if you want to get some of their lovely bottles, you can visit their web-site or just write an e-mail listing your order. Very customer friendly :) *The nail polish was kindly provided by El Corazón company for my consideration. In this post I expressed my honest and unbiased opinion about the product.

Hamburg Haul

For years now I've been sure that Germany cannot surprise me anymore in terms of nail polish assortment  I had a firm belief that I saw and fiddled around with each and every brand Germany offers in its shops, or at least knew where to get what. And that from city to city the assortment of polishes doesn't differ much. I was wrong. 

Surprise came when I happened to be in Hamburg for a weekend. German girls know that there are no DMs in Hamburg, they have Budnis instead. I've never been to any Budni before, so I decided to peep in and see the difference between DM's and Budni's assortment  First thing I noticed: Debby polishes! I never saw them in Germany before, and even less expected to encounter the Italian polishes in the north of Germany. Moreover, I also detected Bourjous and something called Black Bird. After that, I was passing by a little indie shop and spotted some brand called Miss Cop with really pretty shades! So I grabbed 2 of those + a Debby polish from Budni:

Miss Cop Les Blue Jeans #05, Debby ColorPlay #125, Miss Cop Les Blue Jeans #04 

The first polish I'll show is Miss Cop Les Blue Jeans #05, typical 'jeans' shade. That is, a dark blue foil composed of blue and silver shimmer. Formula was a bit thick and not so easy to manage, but opaque in 2 coats already. I confess, I have a crush on jeans shades : )

And then later I mattified it (which I often do with such textures) and I was very happy with the result:

The second polish, Miss Cop Les Blue Jeans #04, just won my heart with the first stroke! It's a baby blue semi-jelly with 'sugar effect' finish - packed with white/silver shimmer. Also not so easy to apply because of its thickness, but for THIS shade I'm ready to forgive whatever difficulties! Amazingly, I don't have anything similar in my stash.

And this is exactly the polish I was featuring in my previous post about Firmoo sunglasses. There you saw it in matte version, in this post I'm showing it as it is, without a top coat even.

The last polish from the Hamburg haul - Debby ColorPlay #125 - is coming up next. In a quite interesting combination. You'll see :)

Now, girls, please tell me if you know anything about this brand, Miss Cop. Is it sold in your country? Do you have any Miss Cop polishes?

Starry Nails

You know what special category of polish I like a lot? Those which you stare at, when you have them on your nails, the same way you stare at the night sky full of stars.. especially at the night summer sky away from the city, where you look at those billions of stars above and can't stop. Away from poetry, for polishes this mostly means deep/dark blue glitter. Something like China Glaze Skyscraper or Essie Starry Starry Night (yes, Essie, why the heck discontinued?!)..  But this time just a layering combination done by myself: 

I did this starry mani by layering NYC Lights, Camera, Glitter and Wet'n'Wild Kaleidoscope over Layla #13, but you can just take any similar dark blue and silver glitter and create a similar thing.

I seriously don't recommend doing similar manis when you have a high workload at uni or at work... distracting as hell! =)

Jeansy Nails

Each and every nail polish fanatic has a "jeans denim colour" in her stash, right? : )

I also do, and although the polish is not really "well known" one, but the colour is just fantastic - Debby ColorPlay #188. My polish buying-wearing-swatching-posting becomes really international: I bought this one in Italy, wore it in Russia, and I'm posting it now from cold Germany. Funny : )

As you see, it's a darker blue foil, very pretty and unproblematic in application - it's very opaque and not stripy, 1 or 2 coats on the photos. I think I even didn't use the top coat. My love for foils will never go away, I guess :)

Debby is generally a nice brand in my opinion, and if you pass by Italy, you should pay attention to these little bottles - they have some win shades inside.

The last swatch looks so "not me", and rather Scrangie-style : ) That was not my intention, I just wanted to capture the texture in the poor Russian northern light. Gotta work on my macro-shooting still : )