OPI - Kiss Me At Midnight

Today I want to show you a lovely polish from OPI *yay*

Kiss Me At Midnight is a gorgeous blue liquid sand polish with big silver glitter from the 2013 Mariah Carey Holiday collection.

It's a very pretty bright blue color that really pops with the big glitters that catch the light nicely. The formula was a little thick, but not noticeably and I didn't have any issues applying it. Only 2 coats and it was totally opaque and for a liquid sand the drying time was nice enough, but it does dry slower than normal since I didn't apply a quick drying top coat because I like the rough surface and the way it looks.

Time for photos.

Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 9/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8,5/10
Buy again: Yes

Literary Lacquers - John Thomas/Lady Jane

Today I want to show you one of the polishes I got from the new years sale Literary Lacquers had.

On wednesday I had an exam and I figured it would be fitting with green nails for good luck, so I chose John Thomas/Lady Jane for the purpose.

John Thomas/Lady Jane is a deep forest green glitter polish with many shapes and sizes of green glitter and shimmer and a touch of white glitter from The Good Parts collection. The maker Amy writes describes the inspiration for the polish:

"This polish is inspired by Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1928, specifically the scene where Constance Chatterley and her lover Mellors (the gamekeeper) run naked through the English wood during a rainstorm. After their lovemaking they celebrate the marriage of “John Thomas” to “Lady Jane” if you catch my drift."

It's really easy to work with and the glitter applies very evenly on the nail. The base is very sheer though and I think you might be able to make it opaque on its own in 4-5 layers, but I chose to layer it over a dark green shimmer polish, namely Wet 'n Wild - Sagreena the Teenage Witch, so I won't use it up to quickly. 
I used two layers over the undie to give it a bit of depth and I must say I was very pleased with the result. It looked gorgeous! Take a look for yourself.

Photos are with 1 layer of topcoat.

What do you think?

Opacity: N/A

Colour, prettiness: 7/10
Value for money: 7/10
Overall: 7/10
Buy again: Maybe

Giveaway!

I think it's about time that I host my first giveaway! Don't you?

I have picked out some brand new polishes for you that you now have the chance to win *Yay*

You have the chance to win the 6 polishes in the picture

Essie - Bazooka

e.l.f. - Passion Pink

By K - No. 54 Imperial Holly

By K - No. 50 Imperial Bluebottle

Perfect Sand - No. S64

Perfect Sand - No. S78

This giveaway is open internationally!

Please see the rules below and enter via the Rafflecopter widget below!

• Giveaway is open from 13.01.14 at 12 AM to 13.02.14.
• You must enter using the Rafflecopter Widget below.
• I will email the winner within 48 hours of the end of the giveaway.
• Winner has 48 hours to respond to my email. If the winner does not response within the time frame I will pick a new winner.
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Good luck!

And don't forget to visit Rainbowify Me's blog to enter her New Year Giveaway!

Girly Bits - Fright Night

I got my very first nail polish from Girly Bits which is an indie brand based in Canada and owned by the founder Pam Heil.

Fright Night is a black jelly base with red glitters in various shapes and sizes from the 2012 Halloween collection.  It's very pretty and I really love the black/red combination. Since it's a jelly base it's very sheer and although you might be able to wear it on it's own I think it would take many layers before it got opaque, so I chose to layer it over a black undie. The formula is great to work with, it's not hard to even out the glitter at all and it dries at a nice pace aswell. I gave it 2 coats over the black to try and give it a bit of depth.

The pictures are with a layer of top coat.

So pretty and filled with glitter!

What do you think?

Opacity: N/A

Colour, prettiness: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8/10
Buy again: Yes 

There's going to be a giveaway tomorrow on the blog so keep an eye out.

Sally Hansen - Save the Date

Today I want to show you a polish from Sally Hansen.

Save the Date is a dark plum/purple metallic with very fine shimmer from Sally Hansen's Diamond Strength line. It's a very pretty color and I was totally in love when I got it on my nails! Further more it has a nice formula which makes it easy to work with, it's totally opaque after 2 coats and it has a nice drying time aswell.

I don't own many of Sally Hansen's nail polishes mostly because I'm not totally impressed by many of the colors they make, but the few I have I'm very happy with.

Time for pictures!

The pictures are with top coat.

Soooo gorgoues even though it's such a simple polish without much bling and stuff.

Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 10/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8,5/10
Buy again: Yes 

A England - Dragon & Essie - Shine of the Times

Today I want to show you 2 new polishes.

The first one is A England - Dragon which is a dark mossy green with a subtle holo effect from the 2012 The Legend collection. This one is just a beauty and it certainly has not dampened my enthusiasm towards A England polishes! The formula is a dream to work with and just smooths out like butter. In addition it's aaaalmost a 1 coater, although it only covers 95% so a second coat is necessary, but then it's completely opaque and it drying time is fairly quick, so all in all a wonderful polish in general.

The pictures are taken without topcoat.

Unfortunately there was no sun out, so I couldn't catch the holo effect in the pictures *sob*

 

Isn't it just soo pretty? I really love it!

The second polish I want to show you is Essie - Shine of the Times which is a flakie from the 2011 Luxeffect collection which has been relaunched in 2013.

I'm using one coat over Dragon and its really dense and easy to work with. Furthermore it looks very pretty especially on darker undercolors, but also over lighter colors.

The pictures are still with no topcoat.

I then finished of the mani with a layer of China Glaze's Matte Magic matte top coat. It gave it a really nice look in real life, but I'm not quite sure you can see the difference in the pictures... There were a bigger difference though in real life.

What do you think?

A England - Dragon
Opacity: 9/10
Colour, prettiness: 9/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
Buy again: Yes 

Essie - Shine of the times
Opacity: N/A
Colour, prettiness: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9,5/10
Buy again: Yes 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all of you!

I know it's a little late, but I have been really busy since christmas and have hardly had 5 min to sit at my computer... But now that's finally over and I'm back *yay*

I hope you had a nice christmas and a wonderful New Year!

Did you get any polishes for christmas? I got some. 2 essie luxeffect from my brother and A England - Dragon from my sister. And today my lovely hubby gave me money to spend in Literary Lacquers' New Year Sale, so I bought 5 new polishes there that I just can't wait to show you, but since its being shipped from USA I have to put my patient face on and wait a while. If you want to buy some of her polishes aswell you just need to use the code: HAPPY2014 at checkout and you get 20% discount.

Today I want to show you the mani I wore New Years Eve.

It's a very simple design, but I'm actually really happy with the result!
Its made with saran wrap. If you don't know how that works here's a video from Dearnatural62 from youtube where she shows how it works. It's really simple and gives a cool effect.

I started of with 2 coats of Sally Hansen - Black Tie on all my nails. I then used the saran wrap along with China Glaze - Passion on 8 of them and gave my ringfingers a coat of Wet n' Wild - Diamond in the Rough and a coat of China Glaze - Fairy Dust. After that I finished off with a top coat and decorated the nails on my ringfingers with rhinestones in different sizes.

What do you think?

I really like this mani. It didn't take very long to make, but I think it looks great.

Unfortunately the stones quickly started to lose some shine and looked a little dull *sob*