Astor - Quick'n Go - Caribbean Sea 325

Hello Lovelies!

I hope you all had a great weekend and a good start into the new week. Today I want to show you an Astor nailpolish. This is 325 - Caribbean Sea from the Kisses From Mexico Collection (2014).

Caribbean Sea is a bright turquoise creme polish that dries to a glossy finish. I really like this vibrant colour a lot, but the formula of this polish was not the best. I had a lot of trouble handeling it, because it was so runny. No matter how careful I was, this polish caused flooding in my cuticle area and along the side walls. It was easy to remove though with an orange stick and a brush dipped in polish remover as long as it was still wet. This was only for a few seconds, because it dries pretty quickly. After that it was a pain in the ***. With two coats this polish was opaque.

As an accent I applied a layer of etos - Matt Velvet Nail Polish - blue to my ringfinger. I bought this when I was in the Netherlands a few months ago. This polish also has a consistency that needs getting used to. Contrary to the Astor polish the etos polish has a thick gooey formula that tends to get streaky when you apply it too thin. Maybe this is because it dries very fast. But the colour is worth any trouble. It totally reminds me of bluejeans with that soft silver shimmer and the velvet matte finish. Love it!

I was happy with this combination so far, but it was missing something. So guess what I did!? Yes, I added some glitter. China glaze - Fairy Dust is my go to in these situations. I applied one coat to my turquoise nails and it felt right!

Here comes the next bad news for Caribbean Sea: Even though I used a base coat this polish stained my nails pretty badly. When you look closely, you can see that even my skin was turquoise after removal. I had to scrub a long time to get my fingers clean.

This is so sad, because I really like the colour a lot. Maybe it will work on a white base. I have to try.

How do you like todays polishes? Are these colours something you would like to wear?

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essie - Merino Cool

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a good start into this week and are up for todays post on the gorgeous essie - Merino Cool. It is a bluish berry purple with a hint of brown - depending on the lighting. This was actually the first essie polish that I've tried so far and have to tell you, that I love the formula. It was perfectly easy to apply and required hardly any cleanup. 

Indoors with flash

Without flash under LED light

Indoors without flash under LED light.

Indoors with flash.

All outdoor pictures below where taken with a flash as it was a very grey day and simply too dark outside.

As you can see in these pictures the colour is hard to describe. It sometimes looks blue, then purple and sometimes brown. I think that's great because I don't have to pick only one colour! :-)

Do you own any essie nail polish? And what do you think of Merino Cool? Did you come up with a better colour description than I did at the top?

Blue Glitter Gradient Nails

Hi everyone!

I recently developed an obsession with nailpolish. After reading a couple of blogs that I really loved I thought, why not do it myself.

So here it comes - my first post:

Today I was in the mood for blue nailpolish so I put on some Maybelline New York Forever Strong Pro Nailpolish - Midnight Blue (650) over one coat of Maybelline Jade Transparent Base.
It is a dark blue cremepolish with a very nice shimmer and it went on very smooth. It would have been opaque in one coat, but I decided to put on a second because it brought out the shimmer better.

Here you can see the beautyful shimmer in the bottle

In this one the colour of the nails was captured better.

I really like this polish on its own, but since I wanted to do a glitter gradient mani, I had to go on.
With a layer of the gorgeouse Wet n Wild - Blue Moon (E466) I achieved the colour I was looking for.

Do you see the hint of green this added?

Unfortunately the camera could not capture the full beauty of this colour.

Blue Moon has a great consistency and went on without any problems. It added a slight green touch to the blue and I bet is just great on its own wich I will definetly try in the future.

I then added two coats of Wet n Wild - Kaleidoscope (E460D) to the upper half of my nails and then two coats of BeYu - Sparkling Topcoat (15).

This one is kind of blurry, but I think you can see the reflections better this way.

Can you see all these pretty sparkles?

Kaleidoscope has a transparant base with small hexagonal glitter in it. It reflects in all colours of the rainbow. So does the sparkling top coat from BeYu but it has even smaller hexes in it and also some larger ones.

I topped it of with two thin layers of Seche Vite quick dry topcoat.

I really like the way this manicure turned out.