Wet 'n Wild - Eggplant Frost

Hello Beauties!

Long time no see (read). I was too busy last week and could not post. Sorry for that. Today I want to show you Wet 'n Wild - Eggplant Frost.

Eggplant frost is a blueish purple, shimmery creme polish with an ecxellent formula. For this manicure I used a Maybelline basecoat and two layers of polish wich went on smoothly and dried pretty quick.

Unfortunatelly I always have trouble capturing dark purple with my camera. It looks more like blue in most pictures. I think the best ones here are those taken at a weired angle and are slightly blurry like the two pictures below.

In direct sunlight as shown in all pics above you can see how shiny and glossy this polish is without a top coat on. I just love that. And the shimmer is also a reason why I love this polish. I find you can best see that in the pictures with a flash below.

Isn't this a lovely colour? It goes so well with all different shades of purple, lilac, lavender, mauve... You name it!


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NYX - Under The Moon

Happy Monday Everyone!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are ready to start into the new week. Today I want to show you NXY - Under The Moon from my drugstore haul.

Under The Moon is a gorgeous glitter polish with a blue jelly base packed with different sized iridescent hexes. Mainly medium and very small hexes as well as lots of microglitter. The formula is excellent and easy to apply, but this polish is quite sheer and you will need many coats to reach opacity. I started with three coats wich you can see in the bottle shot above and added two more to get good coverage.

In certain lighting there is still some VNL, but it is okay with the five coats. The polish is so sparkly no one will notice the nail line! :-D

In direct sunlight you can see the iridescent glitter shining in all colours of the rainbow. Mostly you see red, orange and yellow, but there also is green, purple and pink. So beautiful!

For this polish I would recommend layering it over a blue polish of your choice. Under The Moon has a lovely colour on it's own, but it takes so long to dry with all the layers you need. The colour will change depending on the base polish you will use, but it will still sparkle and shine beautifully.

I was wearing essence - Have A Beau-Tea-Full Day from the new brit-tea LE in three coats and decided to add a little sparkle. Using two coats of Under The Moon I ended up with more than just a little sparkle though!

Being curious about how it would look like with a different base colour, I layered it over essence - the gel polish - prince charming. I only used one coat of Under The Moon since prince charming has a lovely shimmer on its own, that I did not want to be covered up completely.

I smudged one nail on my usual camera hand so I went ahead and took pictures of the right hand. Please excuse the weired camera angles. I simply can not handle my camera with the left hand. I also cover up the display and hardly can see where I am aiming... :-(

The turquoise base is not really my first choice for this glitter. I think it looks better on a pastel blue polish. Maybe I'll try it with a white base.

How do you like Under The Moon? Would you layer it or would you wear it on its own?



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Drugstore Polish Haul

Hello Beauties!

And Happy Friday! As usual I could not resist buying a couple of new polishes, when I went to the drugstore this week. It was even more tempting to buy some from the Limited Editions I discovered. Let me show you what I got:

p2 LE - Beauty goes Safari: offers four new polishes in trendy colours for the upcoming season with a gorgeous chatoyant pearl effect. I got three of them.

unforgettable - runaway - sunsational

NYX: Under The Moon - Enchanted Forest

p2 Metal Reflections: apricot soul - mint metal

Maybelline Color Show: Watery Waste - Grey Matters

essence - brit-tea LE: Have A Beau-Tea-Full Day - Green Tea For Two

There are some real beauties here, that I can not wait to put on and show you! I wish you all a great weekend.

Do you have a favourite polish from this haul?

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Ruby Kisses - Twinkling Mauve

Hello Beauties!

Happy Sunday to you! Today I want to show you another one of my new Ruby Kisses polishes. This is Twinkling Mauve (RNP109).

 You probably guessed by the name, that this is a mauve coloured polish. :-D But there are lots of other details to this polish that I want to share with you today.

Twinkling Mauve is a creme metallic polish with an excellent formula. I applied two coats on topcoat  for full opacity and sealed it in with Seche Vite. The whole manicure took me only about 15 minutes and there was no clean up to do at all. The polish went on so smoothly and evenly and simply was a dream to apply.

And the colour is so beautiful. It is a sparkling bronzy, rosy mauve with tiny golden flecks in it. I love it and I can tell you that I have nothing like it in my huge collection. I usually am not the biggest fan of metallic polishes, but this one is quite different. It is simply gorgeous.

I was a bit annoyed, when I discovered a small piece of polish was chipped off on my right thumbnail only a few hours after I polished my nails. I was baking a cake and was quite busy that day with cleaning the house and other stuff. but that was too short. I was not ready to give up un this polish so I decided to patch it up. I dipped on some polish on the plain edge and let it dry a bit, Then I blended it in with a thin layer and fixed it up with topcoat. If you don't know I did some extra work there, you would never see it!

I painted them Wednesday afternoon and am still wearing them now (Sunday late morning). There only is minor tipwear and I will be wearing them throughout the day without hiding my hands. I am really impressed how long this polish lasts. I only paid €1,99 for this bottle and it lasts way longer than some €10.- or  €15.- polishes do. I love it!

And the best thing about this polish is, that it goes well with any colour. I have been wearing different shades of blue, khaki, purple, white, antique pink and beige as well as apricot and bordeaux and it lookes amazing with everything. Maybe a bright red would be a no go, but I haven't tried that.

How do you like the colour? Isn't it pretty?


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essence - brit-tea LE - Have A Beau-Tea-Full Day

Hello Lovelies!

And Happy Saturday. It has been an incredible busy week for me and I totally forgot to schedule some posts for you. Here comes a late night post today. I want to show you essence Have A Beau-Tea-Full Day from the new brit-tea LE that I only bought recently. (See the full haul.)

Have A Beau-Tea-Full Day is quite similar to Green Tea For Two from the same LE. It has a satin matte finish with a soft shimmer and is quite sheer so you will need at least three coats for opacity.

The formula on green Tea For Two was a bit better though. With the pastel blue one I had a few problems applying the second coat. It did not dry that fast and therefore caused some balding. It did level out with the third coat though so it was okay.

I really like this colour for spring and will definitely wear this polish again. In direct sunlight it appears to be a mint colour. I would say that in this case the indoor pictures with a flash (all above) show the actual colour best.

Have you tried any of these Limited Edition polishes? How do you like pastels for spring?

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