catrice - Minty Memories

Hello Lovelies!

Today I want to show you a polish I bought in Austria a few weeks back. I was asking wich polishes you would like to see and my friend Andera from Colour Your Life was curious about this polish so let me present to you Minty Memories (04) by Catrice Luxury Vintage, with a Satin Matte Effect.

As Andrea mentioned in her lovely comment, the polish looks quite stunning in the bottle wich you can see in the picture above. it has a wonderful blue shimmer to a soft turquouse base and I instantly fell in love with it, when I layed eyes on it. Being on Sale and half price off I simply had to buy it! 

My exaltation was attenuated when I started painting my nails. The first coat went on very streaky, but I thought that might level out with the second one. Once that was dry I painted them again wich caused bubbles and even more streaks. I then did a third coat just to make sure to do everything I could to make it better, but it didn't help much either. I am really disappointed in this polish. In addition to the bad formula I hardly see any of the beautiful shimmer from the bottle on my nails.

I thought my problems with the application may have something to do with the Maybelline base coat I use and so I will give this a second chance with another base coat. Hopefully that will help.

Have you ever had trouble with applying a polish like that?

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Accent Nails using Tip Guide Stickers

Hello Lovelies!

I am a bit late with posting today, but my morning was incredibly busy. I only want to show you a quick manicure with some French Nail Tip Guides I recently purchased.

Here they are: The pack contains three different patterns. A rounded one, one V-shaped and one with a drop-like tip. I used the V-shaped Tip Guides for this manicure.

I started off with two coats of essie - cocktails & coconuts and let that dry completely. Then I chose two accent nails and placed my stickers on. Using essence the gel nail polish - prince charming I painted over those two nails twice and then quickly removed the stickers again with some tweezers.

To finish it off I applied a layer of Seche Vite, wich leveled out all the edges.

This is such a fun and easy way to do chevrons. You could also use this technique to spice up a day old manicure so it looks different with hardly any effort!

How do you like the combination? 

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essence - nail art special topper - glorious aquarius

Hello everyone!

And Happy Friday! Today I want to show you a glitter topper from essence by the name glorious aquarius.

Glorious aquarius (10) contains light blue and silver iridescent hexes in three different sizes from very small to medium. It sparkles with any lighting. I used it on top of essence - prince charming, wich I shared with you here, and they really complement each other perfectly!

In direct sunlight you can see price charmings shimmer shining through wich makes this manicure even prettier. As most glitter toppers glorious aquarius is a bit gooey but still quite easy to apply. And the glitter density is good too. I only used one layer of glitter topper in these pictures.

I can't stop looking at it and wiggling my fingers!

How do you like this glitter topper? Do you like sparkly, glittery nails?


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essence - the gel nail polish - prince charming

Hello Beauties!

Today I want to show you one of the new essence - the gel nail polishes, that I recently purcased: prince charming (25). 

Prince charming is a greenish turquoise with the most beautiful duachrome pearl shimmer, that shifts from blue to green with a hint of purple.

For todays manicure I used the base and topcoat that come with this new line. The basecoat is fantastic! It is so easy to apply and dries very quickly. Prince charming also has a great formula. The first coat went on a tiny bit streaky, but the second layered that out completely.

The topcoat is also just wonderful. It reminds me a bit of Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat wich is my go to topcoat. Within minutes the polish is dry and super glossy.

Natalia from Polished Polyglot did a great rewiew last week of one of the gel nail polishes. Check it out! It encouraged me to paint my nails directly before going to bed. I was finished maybe half an hour before I laid down. The first thing I did in the morning was taking a look at my nails and being happy they weren't smudged or scratched at all.

Around noon I finally got a chance to take pictures in sunlight wich will show you prince charming's real charme! :-D Here you can see the beautiful shimmer, that I instantly fell in love with. Although in nature it is even prettier. The camera doesn't do this polish much justice.

Since there are so many great polishes I still want to try on and swatch for you, I will not do a durability test of prince charming now. If you are interested in that be sure to check out Polished Poliglot! Natalia wrote a very informative post on love is in the air, that covers that topic perfectly.

How do you like prince charming? Is this a colour you would like to wear?

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p2 - color victim polish collection

Hello Lovelies!

I took some time recently to sort through all my nailpolish and thought that it was about time to show you all the beautiful colours I own from the p2 color victim line.

p2 is an Austrian brand that you can find very inexpensive in drugstores here in Germany. They have seasonal vibrant colours with an excellent formula and a wonderful brush, that makes application a dream. I loved every colour I have tried so far.

993 lovely madness

960 dress + go!

621 summer calling

980 sashimi ship

992 most popular

691 can't get enough!

650 fever

623 rock it!

693 that's it!

970 keep in touch

570 so cool!

920 up in the air!

990 free to be

890 lost in paradise

620 artful

940 never 2 much

624 final countdown

900 next exit: party!

996 before sunrise

I just love looking at these beautiful colours! It makes me happy to see this lovely rainbow.

And my latest edition to this lovely collection, that I bought after taking all these colourful pictures: (see the haul here)

627 kind of crazy  

I also have a bunch of glitter polishes from p2, but I'll save the Lost In Glitter line and some other p2 polishes for another day. Also I will link back to this page, once I've done swatches of these polishes.

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ANNY - surf the wave

Hello Lovelies!

How are you today? Anything special going on?

Today I want to show you another polish from my latest haul. This is the lovely ANNY - surf the wave (378). It actually only is the second polish from this brand I have tried so far, but since I liked the first polish very much, I was happy to try this one out. (See ANNY - midtown skyline)

Surf the wave is a light teal creme polish with a purplish pearl shimmer. It has a great formula, that is a bit on the thin side, but not runny. It was easy to apply, spread out smoothly and dried quickly. With two coats surf the wave is fully opaque. Due to the pearl shimmer there are a few visible brushstrokes, but they are hardly visible. You really have to look closely so see them. Furthermore it has a slightly matte finish, wich I think is really lovely for this colour. For these swatches I used a Maybelline base coat and no top coat.

Isn't this a gorgeous summer polish? Girlie and elegant at the same time! Perfect for the beach or a girls night out. I bet it would look even prettier with a bit of a tan.

This definitely is a polish I will be wearing again. This brand really is growing on me! :-D It is a bit more expensive though (about 10€ per bottle) and I was glad to get this one for the half prize. Lucky me!

How do you like surf the wave? Do you like ANNY polish?

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Latest Polish Purchase

Hello Beauties!

It has been a while since my last post and I bought a few new polishes since then that I want to share with you today! During the Easter Holidays my aunt visited me in Munich and we explored some drugstores that I have never been in and I made great discoveries!

I have seen a lot of Ruby Kisses polish on other blogs and social media, but never could find it around here. But now I know where to get them! Here are my picks:

Purple Fever - Magenta - Twinkling Mauve - Steel Magnolia - Millionaire Green

They had so many lovely colours to choose from and I barely managed to limit myself to only these 5 shades. Took real will power... :-D

Also essence launched a new line recently and I had to get a few of those too. The line is called the gel nail polish and contains 46 gorgeouse new colours.

bubble gum - indigo to go - wonderfuel - prince charming - frozen kiss

They come with a base and topcoat to make the polish last even longer. Furthermore I bought two new effect polishes that I finally could get my hands on. They were always out of stock when I was looking for them.

truth or dare? - #rebel

ANNY: surf the wave - diva

p2 - color victim: kind of crazy

Misslyn - velvet diamond: oriental emerald

I have been looking at this gorgeouse polish a couple of times before and didn't buy it. I can not tell you why I was hesitant. This is such a lovely colour and you will get to see it on my nails shortly.

I also got some nail art supplies. I love these little rhinestones. They contain stars, moons, squares, droplets and many more and I am eager to try them out! And I got two containers of nail transfer foils. They both look so pretty. The only thing is that I forgot to order the glue right with them and so I have to wait for that to arrive a bit longer... :-(

I really am quite happy with my findings and will share some soon!

How do you like these polishes? Any favourites so far? Wich one would you like too see swatched?

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