Battle of the Whites

Hello everyone!

Today I want to show you a few white polishes. I usually use china glaze - White On White as a base for light coloured nailpolish, but it always is so streaky. Now I am looking for another white to use instead. I applied two coats each for these swatches.

Maybelline - White Dream & Pearly White & Marshmallow - essence - give me nude, baby!

The Maybelline polishes all have a pearly shimmer and are quite sheer. There is not much difference in colour. With two coats there is still quite a bit VNL.

Same goes for the essence polish. It has a few specks of microglitter in an offwhite very sheer creme polish. 

These polishes are all too sheer to be used as a base.

Next I tried:

NYX - White - s-he stylzone - 120 - BeYu Nail Color 6 - OPI - Angel with a Leadfoot

The s-he stylezone is not opaque enough as a base, but the others would all work fine. I think that I will use NYX - White Blanc in the future. It went on best and gave good coverage in one layer.

Do you also have that many white nailpolish?

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essence Polish-Index

Hi everyone!

Today I want to show you an index of all my essence polishes and top coats. I decided to catalogue them and it took quite a while to do it right.

I couldn't believe, that I had 58 different shades of essence polish! (clear base and top coats not included!) See for yourself:

I have lots and lots of glitter polishes and top coats.

But also a variety of different colours.

I just could not get them to look lined-up straight in the picture... The pamorama shot made that impossible!

Here is a list:

I will link back to the colours once I've done swatches and reviews.

01-pixie dust (holo shimmer)

02-baby, you're a firework (sparkling sugar)

02-circus confetti (3D effect)

03-glitz&glam (twinkling bling bling)

05-sugar pie, honey bunch -6in1 nail candies

06-party in a bottle (glitter jewels)

10-glitterbomb (glitter jewels)

11-party crasher (glitter jewels)

12-bejeweled (holo jewels)

13-laser show (polka dots)

14-flash powder (sparkling sugar)

15-underwater love (sparkling sugar)

16-lovely,maybe (twinkling bling bling)

17-never stop dancing (twinkling bling bling)

18-that's my pop cake! (electric feathers)

19-gold fingers (electric feathers)

19-bird of paradise (feather effect)

20-hidden garden (twinkling bling bling)

21-get the party started (twinkling stars)

21-icy fairy (twinkling bling bling)

22-i *heart* magic (holo graphics)

22-black dress and white tie (101 dalmations)

23-rock my world (galaxy flakes)

24-party never ends (PARTY jewels)

25-holo topcoat

26-awesome blossom (twinkling bling bling)

29-i don't need money, honey! (liquid foil)

30-lady mermaid (liquid foil)

32-the black cat (latex matt)

101-jewels in the pool (glitter jewels)

102-sparkling water lily

103-space queen

105-party princess

106-free hugs

111-english rose

113-do you speak love?

114-fame fatal

128-let's get lost

132-break through

138-L.O.L.

140-go bold!

144-black is back

146-that's what i mint!

152-give me nude,baby!

154-pink & proud

156-me & my lover (sparkle sand effect)

164-crazy fancy love

167-candy love

169-a hint of love

170-beijos de brazil

172-splash!

173-over the rainbow

174-purple sugar

175-be berry now!

176-headphones on!

177-happy end

179-roller coaster

180-it's raining men!

184-girls night out

187-juicy love

188-dare to kiss (the satin)

189-new york city call (the satin)

190-kiss me, freddy

191-love is in the air

193-best dressed

194-little lila town

195-you wow'd me again

196-i *heart* my blue jeans (the suede)

197-caramel brownie

come to Town-01-the most wonderful tree (lametta topper)

come to Town-01 NAUGHTY OR NICE?-coral

come to Town-01 NAUGHTY OR NICE?-purple

come to Town-01 NAUGHTY OR NICE?-gold topper

come to Town-02 GOT MY LIST?-grey

come to Town-02 GOT MY LIST?-pink

come to Town-02 GOT MY LIST?-silver topper

like an unforgettable kiss-02 always on my mint

thermo effect - 03 - It's hot stuff

thermo effect - 04 - the heat is on

THE PASTELS - 04 - sweet at first sight

THE PASTELS - 05 - yummy gummy

THE PASTELS - 06 - sparkles in a bottle

Cinderella LE - 01 - Sing Sweet Nightingale

Cinderella LE - 02 - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

Cinderella LE - 03 - Prince Charming

Cinderella LE - 04 - Watch Out Lady Tremaine!

Cinderella LE - 01 - The Glass Slipper (glitter topper)

update (27.01.2015): 2 more

update (05.02.2015): 15 more

update (18.02.2015): 6 more

update (5.03.2015): 5 more

essence - circus confetti

Hi again everybody!

This is my second post for today, but since my first one was missing the christmas spirit, I wanted to show you something sparkly! The essence special effect topper circus confetti is a fabulous 3D glitter polish. It contains silver microglitter and small and medium sized hexes in all the colours of the rainbow and more. Let's get right to the pictures:

 This is one coat of circus confetti on my plain nail. You can see the glitter density best this way.

 I then added a 2nd coat to show you all the wonderful colours.
Like many glitter topcoats the jelly base is more on the thick side, but application is easy. It takes a little while to dry, because the layers are not as thin as usual nailpolish would be. This topper dries to a gritty finish, but with a generouse layer of topcoat (I preferre Seche Vite) it smoothens out.

I also layered this topper over some different polishes to see it's full beauty. 

First I have two coats of circus confetti over one coat of Purple Charism. 

Indoors:

And outdoors:

Then I layered CC over Chicago Champagne Toast. I only used one coat plus some dabbing here. And on my ringfinger I had a golden glitter accent nail before I did this manicure. It looks more dense than the others.

I also used circus confetti as an accent over Catrice - Hyde in the Park, that I will show you after Christmas.

And over Sinful Colors - Dancing Nails.

I really love it!

How do you like this topper?

Gold Polish comparison

Hello everyone!

I'm driving home for Christmas today and am quite excited! But this means that I will not be writing "live" on my blog. I have posts scheduled for the next few days though so please stop by to check them out! There will also be some Christmas manicures :-D

Since Christmas is only a few more days away and my fingers where craving for some gold I thought that a comparison of a few different golden polishes couldn't hurt.

On my thumb I put Catrice - Metallicious (C04 Limited Edition - Metallure).

On my index- and middelfinger I used Maybelline - Gold All Night (735). 

And on my pinkie and Ringfinger I used essence - go bold (140) .

Thumb: Application of the Catrice polish was very easy and it was opaque in 2 coats. It has a metallic, brassy finish with a few visible brushstrokes. Topcoat would have probably smoothened them. All in all I think it is a pretty warm golden colour.

Index- & Middelfinger: I used two coats of Gold All Night, but one coat would have been okay too. This creme polish is quite opaque. The colour is a little cooler than the others and has a hint of silver in it. It is a perfect base for designs. I would describe it as a metallic foil finish if that makes any sence. :-) It has a little of both.

Last but not least the beautiful essence - go bold. I just love this golden colour. It is so shiny, with a foil finish and looks almost liquid on your fingers. I think it is perfect for Christmas nail art.

All pictures where taken indoors with a flash. I did put on basecoat for these swatches.

Which polish do you like best?

OPI - The Glittering Night vs. OPI Metallic 4 Life

Hello everybody!

I just did a review on OPI - Metallic 4 Life a few days ago and was looking at my polishes from my latest online shopping haul to decide wich one to do next, when I realized, that M4L does look exactly like OPI - The Glittering Night. It was not hard to decide what to do now: A comparison on those two!

So I painted my index and ringfinger with M4L and the others with The Glittering Night.
On the 1st coat I felt that M4L was a little easier to apply and the base was just a hint darker, but after the second coat I could not tell the difference anymore. They where both fully opaque and equally dark.
I did not use any base or topcoat here.

Indoors under LED light

Indoors with flash

Outdoors without flash

Outdoors without flash

Outdoors without flash

I like M4L a little better, because I think that application was a bit easier. Otherwise I could not see any variation. Glitter sizes and density is exactly the same to my eyes.

Do you see any difference?