Pixie Dust

Totally not sure if I chose the right time to wear this polish, I rather envisage it on my nails during a rainy spring day.. but I just couldn't look at this untried beauty anymore: Orly Pixie Dust.

I even added some snowy topping:

The polish by itself is just wonderful: dusty light grey packed with silver shimmer with a nice texture (2 coats on all pictures). But all 3 days that I was wearing it I was hanging around at Christmas market with my friends guzzling down Glühwein and having fun. I mean, grey polish and an atmosphere like this:

Next time I'll be more careful with matching events/mood/surrounding and a polish *went to find CG Ruby Pumps*. I'll certainly give Pixie Dust another chance in spring though : )

I'm OK, You're Bouquet!

One more sign of my total nail polish maniacism is hunting polishes just for their names. Today I'll show you one of such "ooooo!! Great name!!! I want it soo much!! What colour was that actually?..." examples - meet OPI I'm OK, You're Bouquet. The difficulty with this one was that it came out as a US exclusive in 2009, and if not one kind swapper on MUA, it would probably just stay forever in my wish-list. But no, here it is: 

An attempt to capture both hands:

As you can see, this polish is not any special. Pink. Creme. But what a name!!!! Ok, I shut up. Even the formula is not the best, 3 coats and pretty runny.. Although I was too spoiled by American Apparel Coney Island and China Glaze Something Sweet.  But that was later on, and OK Bouquet, as I call it shortly, landed on my WL even before I wrote my first post here.

And after adding some allure on it: 

Please tell me I'm not the only one buying polishes just for their names? 

*Shrek cat look*

Snow. Wanted.

You will probably think that I'm crazy but I desperately want some snow around. The more the better. Because I was born in a place where there was more than enough of it, starting from late September : ) Now that I'm here, with +12 degrees outside on the 1st of December.. it just turns me melancholic. So I thought ok, no snow in real life - let's do it on nails : )

This combination which reminds me sparkling snowy surroundings under the sunny clear winter sky is done with IsaDora Blue Sky (yes yes, exactly!!) covered by Wet'n'Wild Kaleidoscope. The beauties were sent to me in swaps with Miss Jones and Carolina - thank you so much ladies : ) 

The base polish by itself surprised me positively. I was postponing to try out this cute pearly light-blue shade because of the scary sign on the bottle - "WIDE BRUSH". You know that I hate OPI brushes, but... I totally liked IsaDora's one!!! Amazingly it was exactly one-stroke-application, with me being able to draw a nice curve near cuticles. I'm puzzled. 

The formula was fine too, 2 nonproblematic coats, happy end. And you don't really see the brush strokes (which I was afraid of) unless you're maniacally looking for them with a magnifying glass.

I'd love to hear your opinion on IsaDora, girls! What do you think about this brand? The brush?

Squared Stamping

Moin moin!

This post is devoted to those readers who love stamping as much as I do, but who missed seeing it in my blog! So here is some for you:

You can notice that my nails are usually too long for standard Konad images, so I have to be somewhat inventive : ) For this "nail look" I've been using Manhattan 96E as a base colour and CG 2030 for stamping. Manhattan was very easy to apply (2 coats), and totally pleasant to work with. Some pure swatches:

What I can tell is that this polish is ranging from grey to brown depending on the light, it's a taupe, or "greige", if you want. Under the artificial one it becomes somewhat brownish:

Generally I'm supersatisfied with Manhattan brand, although they don't really have a wide range of interesting colours, you can always find some pearls. And the quality is always on top level! As well as the price.

Weekend = Glitter

Quick post to prove that I don't only work like crazy (*sigh*) but also sometimes have weekends : ) And weekends for me is the time to wear all crazy shades I have, including glitters of course!! Today I'm showing one of really_rocking_glitter: Amour with a very inventive name Blue Glitter. And it's not simply blue, it's this electric blue, the colour I adore since my very childhood :) 

What can I say, I just love it!! Thanks to one wonderful person for sending me this! Such a festive and wintery colour.. Application was fine, removing was a bitch, 2 coats - yea, it's a very dense glitter. Can't wait to do some sponging with it : )

And a very random bonus pic: it's a whole bowl of tiramisu I cooked to say thanks to one of my friends who gave me so much support when I had uneasy time. Nails included, of course : )

What do you think about such glitter polishes? Why not or rather not? : ) 

Working Couple

As some of you know already, I've been to Egypt and Jordan lately. Unfortunately not as a tourist : ( Instead of enjoying the African sun somewhere on the beach I was rushing around Cairo (oh my, what a city..) trying to put things together for quite a massive international conference I was attending there. Pure working stuff. That means what? Right, properly (= unnoticeably) polished nails. Here are two polishes which helped me with that: 

Left: Revlon Cotton Candy, sent by lovely Carolina

Right: Essence Welcome To Wonderland, LE Fairytale, bought from Dani's blogsale

Let's start from the first one, cuz this pretty pink thing is actually very controversial...Revlon Cotton Candy. It was on my nails twice (!) already, but I still don't understand if I like it or not. Neither nor.

Why I do? Because it's a gorgeous pink shade with subtle golden shimmer, it's a nice office-friendly colour which is not so boring by itself and it's scented - the only scented polish I have.
And why not? Because to get this nice colour you need at least 3 slowly drying coats and a lot of patience, and then a thick coat of TC to even everything out. But when your mani is ready you can enjoy the nice smell for some days : )
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Second polish is a ivory light beige foil - Essence Welcome To Wonderland. It's also a 3 coater (2 is enough if you are ok with VNL), but the formula is much easier to handle and the layers dry fast. Pretty one and very boss-nerves-friendly : )

As I said, no pyramids for me.. Only from the window:

Soo hard to imagine that I was walking at Tahrir Square two weeks ago.. If by any chance I have Egyptian readers - you have all my support and compassion! Your country deserves a better future!

Cozy Purple

Quickly showing you one lovely thing today: Depend 243, which I got from an equally lovely fellow blogger Miss Jones. By the way, she also was showing it and after seeing her swatches I was sure I'll like this polish a lot. So it happened : ) You know why? 

Maybe because it's a wonderful calm purple with clearly visible silver shimmer, maybe because it matched so well the weather outside and to my mood or maybe just because this shade looked pretty unique to me (I don't have anything similar in my stash). The formula was ok (2 coats), however it took me some time to figure out how to properly layer it. 

Although generally I respect Depend as a brand (ok prices, good quality, small bottles, nice brushes), I have some things to rant about: a) these polishes chip fast; b) they discontinue the coolest shades (I've been chasing Depend 170 for a year now!); c) they are not sold in Germany (why in Slovenia, for example, but not in Germany/Austria/Switzerland?? Unfair!). Uff. 

What do you think about Depend, ladies? Is it sold in your country?