Happy Halloween!

This is not my current NOTD, because I’m at work all day until late evening and don’t have time to change my polish. Nevertheless, I think this is a fitting Halloween homage.

This is Sunblinded, and You cannot buy this polish anywhere. It was frankened for me by a net friend in Sweden, Moonshadow. She doesn’t have her own blog, but participates in a Swedish Beauty network, http://www.pret-ty.se/.

The colour is a fantastic, orange neon infused with gold shimmer. As all neon colours, it is really impossible to capture it in a picture, but notice how the bottle kind of light up my hand in one of the pictures.

Happy Halloween everybody, and be safe out there tonight! :)

Maybelline Two Timer

Good Evening Ladies!

Tonight is dreary dark and chilly and I’m tired.
So I decided to try to perk myself up with a look in my archive. I found this sheer but festive polish, slightly iridescent blue/turquoise Maybelline Two Timer. This is three coats, over base and with Seche Vite on top.

Uptown Girl!

This is the manicure of the week.

One picture is taken in the dying daylight with aid of the camera flash, one is taken in artificial lightning (halogen) with flash. Since it is dark when I leave for work and dark when I return home, if I don’t get a professional “light box”, this is how my photos are going to look during the winter. You (and myself) might just as well get used to it.

In this case, I think I got the polish look spot on. In some light, it looks fairly light rose, and when I first saw it in the bottle, I thought that this must be the most boring colour ever. But, not so!
This lovely Essie polish changes faces with light, and what is soft rose one minute is sophisticated beige the next. Besides that, the polish is a charm to apply. Almost opaque in one coat, two thin coat was truly great and is what I show here, with one coat of base and CG FF on top.

I never had so many “slink moments” with a beige polish as with Uptown Taupe. This makes me feel very sophisticated and uptown indeed! J

Guest Star: PolishPiglet

Time for the second appearance of my lovely hand model Harriet. She really likes my Hello Kitty polishes, so today, we just went on with the same winning concept as last week but with the red polish. It is dark red in the bottle, but with one coat it appeared lighter and closer to the “candy cane” look I had in mind.

A word about these polishes. They are sold at H&M and the two I have tried so far seems to be very good quality for your money. Opaque in one coat, easy to apply. Converted to USD, they are about $3.50 each, and that is seriously cheap in a country that charges about $23 for a regular OPI and up to $40 for a OPI DS.

So, those of you who have a H&M Store nearby, run and stock up. The third HK colour is a lovely, shimmery, dark purple, and Harriet already advised on a design that she would like, involving the purple polish and a gold striper. Gulp!! ;-)

Saturday Night Bling

I hauled a couple of polishes from BarryM recently, and they were waiting in my mail box last night. One of them looked so tempting in the bottle I had to try it immediately. This is one quick coat of Hologram Hexagrams over my one week old, scuffed mani with Love’em Leave’em. Blingtastic!

Love’Em Leave’Em

It is true, I have polish on my nails this week too. I'm just a little slow telling about it. I did not pick any polish from the weekend's polish spree, but stuck to my earlier decision. I present to You: Color Club's Love’Em Leave’Em!

Beautiful polish with just enough holo effect to make it really interesting. However, my bottle was a PITA to apply. Thick and messy, I thinned it since and now it seems to be going on the nail a little better, but if I compare it to my favourite OPI DS Design this is really a case of Love’Em Leave’Em!

Three coats + top coat here.

Picture This

Well, something went wrong with my last post and no picture showed up. Here it comes!