Catrice - Dirty Berry

I shortened my nails. The corners of my nails were growing inwards, if you know what I mean. Today I'm showing you Catrice's Dirty Berry, a beautiful violet, prismatic polish. I might buy a back-up bottle of this one. I applied two coats. 

Essence - High Spirits

High Spirits.. I like the name, but I don't really like the polish. I kind of bought it because I read a lot of positive reviews about it, but it's just not my colour. They only cost €1,29 so it's not a complete disaster if you decide you won't ever use a shade again. I applied two coats. 

Nubar - Red Flame

I think this polish from Nubar is pretty old. I bought it in an amazing sale. This one is called Red Flame and I believe it is part of their Classic Collection. It's a beautiful red with an orange shimmer. It is quite sheer though. I applied two coats, but should've done three. I love trying 'less-known' polishes from well-known brands, some of them are so surprising!

Essence - Make It Golden over China Glaze - Passion & Seether/3DD concert

This weekend I decided to finally use this Essence Colour & Go polish called 'Make It Golden'. It exists of small round glitter and larger hexagon glitter. Make It Golden definitely needs to be layered, I would probably need around fifteen coats for full opacity, lol. So anyway, I wanted something festive so I layered it over China Glaze - Passion. I basically bought Passion just for stamping, because all these Romantique polishes are very streaky. This is actually the only simple gold polish I have except for a holographic one, so I had to use this one. I applied two coats.










Here's a picture of China Glaze - Passion on its own: 

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It's already a week ago, but last saturday me and a friend went to see 3 Doors Down, yay! It was really awesome. We saw Seether, too! So here are some of the videos we made:

    

Catherine Arley - 806 and my new snake ring

Sorry for not blogging for a while, I was busy doing.. Yeah, well, doing what actually? I guess I just wasn't into blogging for a short time. I did have my prom last week, which was less fun than I had expected. I might spend another post on that soon, where I'll also show a picture starring me wearing my dress. 


So today I got this ring as a present from my mom, I love it, especially the small details on the snake's head. It remembers me of a holiday in Australia with my parents when I was about three years old and we were going to some kind of zoo where they were showing the audience some kind of dangerous snake. Everybody took a step back, except for me, I just kept standing there in front of the snake, staring at it, lol. 


Anyway, I found this at my local drugstore, that was kind of a surprise.. I also looked at some other jewellery they have, and some of it is pretty interesting so I might go back some time. 

Then I was just playing around with some polishes and I found this Catherine Arley jewel which I've never worn before. I think it goes pretty well with my new ring, don't you? 


I bought this second hand from someone who apparently didn't want it anymore. I should just buy a bunch of them on Ebay, but I'm such a coward when it's about those things... So I bought this from someone who lives in my country. 


So this is #806, a pretty bronze color. It leans more towards orange when the holographic effect is visible, but I would still describe the colour as bronze.The application was great, I love the brush. I applied two coats, but three coats would have probably been better. In real life, there is this visible nail line, but this is kind of invisible in my picture because all the holoness is going on. 

                                                                                  

P2 - Green Lagoon layered

Last weekend I wanted to do a sea nail art, so I decided to use a polish from P2 called 'Green Lagoon', this was in their Deep Water Love limited edition. Unfortunately, it's very sheer, so I decided to layer it over China Glaze - Re-fresh Mint. This is Re-fresh Mint by itself: 

And this is P2 - Green Lagoon layered over China Glaze - Re-fresh Mint:

Just a small picture of the nail art, because I wasn't really satisfied. Could've looked better! I used SN Red, SN Blue, SN White, SN  Yellow and SN Green for stamping. The imageplates I used are m28, m36 and BM09. I also used two glitter polishes: China Glaze - Nova and Orly - Here Comes Trouble. 

China Glaze - Secret Peri-Winkle

Today I'm showing you a beautiful cream from China Glaze called Secret Peri-Winkle. It's not blue, it's not lilac.. So I guess 'periwinkle' suits this colour perfectly. It's part of the Operation Colour collection. It's easy to apply, only two coats. 

Catrice - King Of Greens

My favourite from Catrice's polishes since their assortment switch. This one is called 'King of Greens', I don't think I have something like this in my stash. It's a medium green with a light green shimmer, I like it a lot. Application was good, I applied two coats. 

Teeez - Cool

Today I'm showing you a pretty prismatic polish from the brand Teeez called Cool. Prismatic polishes from Teeez are quite sheer and so is this one, so I applied three coats. Drying time was fast, though. The perfect sky blue prismatic polish. ^^

Valentines Nails

A day late, but I wanted to show you my Valentines nails anyway. 

The base is Catrice's Snow Motion. I had to apply two coats for full opacity. Then I stamped a full nail design from m65 with SN Red. 


Just the base colour:

Catrice Haul!

This afternoon, I went back to the drugstore to see if there were some more nail polishes. And I found them! There were also some other nail polishes from the old range and they were on sale for just €1,-. 

The colors from left to right: Snow Motion - Sing: Hey, Dirty-Lilah! - ASHley - ACid/DC - Birdy Reloaded - Genius In The Bottle - King Of Greens - Heavy Metallilac - Blues Brother Vol. II - After Eight

Catrice - Genius In The Bottle & Comparison

Catrice recently replaced some products out of their range for new ones, about 25 %. So tonight I went to several drugstores where they sell Catrice, and found out they were taking care of it at that moment. Since they weren't done yet, and I was cold and had to go back home to study, I just grabbed some of the polishes that were already there. 

Catrice has also improved their brush, it became larger. I think I like it, but I have to get used to it first. You only need two streaks to cover a nail. 

When I looked at Catrice's press release photo's, 'Genius In The Bottle' was my favourite, so I was glad I was able to find that one. 

Here it is! Definitely a duochrome. I have this feeling it's some kind of replacement for the discontinued 'Iron Mermaiden', also a duochrome, but the colours are way different. It changes from copper to green to bronze... Very pretty. I keep staring at it and turning my nails into different angles, even when I was taking a shower, lol. Also, the name of this polishes reminds me of that song called 'Genie in a bottle' from Christina Aguilera. No idea if it has anything to do with it.


I thought Nubar's Wildlife might be similar to Genius In The Bottle, so I decided to do a comparison.

The formula turns out to be way different. Fortunately, neither of them are streaky, which I experience a lot when applying a duochrome. Genius In The Bottle contains more shimmer and less duochrome than Wildlife. I actually don't think I can choose between these two, because Wildlife has a stronger duochrome effect, but Genius In The Bottle turns out to look warmer.
If you want to see a swatch of Nubar Wildlife, click here. 


So, what do you think? Would you buy both of them or do you have one of them? 

Giveaway winner!

This is just gonna be a quick post to announce the giveaway winner. First of all, thanks for participating! 
I used random.org to determine the winner.

The winner is....

Congratulations to Quite Polished, you will receive a mix of eight Catrice and Essence polishes! I will contact you shortly.

Essence - Trendsetter

My second polish called 'Trendsetter', yay! Unfortunately, Essence has discontinued this line.. (why Essence, WHY?!). They had some great colours, in my opinion. It's a mud green cream, very pretty. I applied two coats. 


Just want to let you know that I'll announce the giveaway winner asap, things have been really hectic with school and stuff.

China Glaze - Haunting

Haunting is named after China Glaze's halloween collection called Haunting (surprise, yay). I was kind of disappointed because of this. China Glaze always makes up great names for their polishes, so why name this after the collection? Well, anyway. It's a black with round silver glitters. Simple, but pretty. Two coats. 

Essence - Blue Ray

Last year, Essence released the MeetMe@Holographics.com trend edition, which was said to contain five holographic polishes. As some of you may know, Essence doesn't know the definition of h o l o g r a p h i c. 'Where Is The Party?' and 'Out Of My Mind' from Essence's Colour & Go line where said to be holographic too, but they appeared to be duochrome. Just like this collection. At the time, I was already expecting it, so I was just looking out for five gorgeous duochrome shades. And they turned out to be pretty amazing! 


Because I'm more leaning towards darker shades, this is one of my favourites. It's called 'Blue Ray' and is one of the two dark shades. Unfortunately, the duochrome effect is pretty invisible in my picture. To give you an idea, the base colour is blue and it has a purple duochrome effect. This is a two-coater. 

Some China Glaze Pretties

Just some random pretties I decided to swatch, because I didn't wear them yet or just because they deserve a better picture. 



China Glaze - Bahamian Escape. The perfect sky blue cream. 

China Glaze - He's Going In Circles. Unfortunately the only Kaleidoscope polish I have. 

China Glaze - Pink Voltage Neon. The name says it all, it's a pink neon and it dries matte. 

P2 - Artful with stamping nail art

P2 is a brand I usually buy in Germany, but I recently saw them at our local drug store too, yay! They were a bit more expensive, but not too much. Still around €2,25 for one bottle. And... I'm definitely gonna buy some more! To be honest, I haven't used a lot of the polishes I bought in Germany, but I should have. There's nothing to complain about. The application is flawless, it's perfectly smooth, two coats is enough and the colour is GREEN! 








So tomorrow there is some kind of a sports day at our school. I'm not really a sports fan, so I enrolled myself for Wii games, lol.. And tonight I was looking for a new nail art design, so I decided to use this one. It looks like.. A game or something, right? Anyway, I stamped with SN Red, and the plate is BM-204. 

Barry M - Cobalt Blue & Barry M - Spring Green

Cobalt Blue. This looks a bit less washed out in real life, but it's absolutely gorgeous. The name of this polish says it all. Two coats.

Spring Green. This deserves to have a better swatch and I should've applied three coats instead of two. Pardon my dry cuticles!

Australis - Limited Edition 2 & Australis - Emerald Star

Limited Edition 2. That's the real name, the bottle doesn't say anything but that. The colour reminds me of Shrek, it might be a dupe to OPI - Who The Shrek Are You? Except that this one has shimmer, and I believe WTSAY is a cream. These are two coats, but one coat could have been enough. 

























Emerald Star. I picked this up at Target, it was discounted to just $2 or $3. Probably because it's not in their range anymore, which I do not understand. I mean, look at it! The base is teal and then there is this gold shimmery duochrome effect, absolutely gorgeous if you ask me. Two coats. 


I have to pick up some more of these, the formula is amazing and they dry really fast. I applied two coats just because I'm used to doing that, but one coat should be enough. 




Ok, so this has nothing to do with these polishes, but it's one of my favourite scenes from Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows part II (except for the Severus & Lily part of course) and it makes me laugh every time I watch it!