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. 

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. 

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? 

Reggae Zebra Nail Art

So.. This is the nail art I made with the 'Raspberry Fields Forever' base. I wanted it to look like some regular animal nail art design.. But because of the colour combination, it looks reggae. And I don't even like reggae! ^^ I do like the design though. 
So first, I applied Catrice's Raspberry Fields Forever and then I sponged my nails with China Glaze Happy Go Lucky and Barry M Spring Green. The Zebra design is on plate BM-223. I used P2 - Eternal for stamping. 

Catrice - Raspberry Fields Forever

Although this really isn't my shade, I was wearing it anyway because I wanted to do a nail art with it. I'm sure some of you are familiar with Catrice's nail polish line called 'Ultimate Nail Lacquer'. 
This is Raspberry Fields Forever and it leans towards red, but I would still call it a dark pink. This is just one coat. 

China Glaze - Happy Go Lucky & Catrice - Pool Party At Night with M66

OK, so this evening I wanted to do a nail art and I had already decided I wanted to do this.. 'reversed french manicure thing'? Then I found out I ran out of these patterns, so I went to our local drugstore to get some. I picked two colors, China Glaze - Happy Go Lucky and Catrice - Pool Party At Night. At the end, I decided to stamp two butterflies on each nail, and now that I finished.. I don't think I like it. Maybe because it's too summer-y looking? Or maybe because it reminds me of Winnie The Pooh and his honey, lol. I think I should've used another stamp design, I probably would've liked it better. 

Catrice's Pool Party At Night is a great colour. I would call it a blurple, it's not really blue but not really purple either. It's the perfect cream, the application is flawless. 

This is China Glaze Happy Go Lucky on it's own. It was part of last year's Spring collection called 'Up And Away'. It was a great collection full of bright cremes. The formula is really good considering it's a yellow cream... I applied only two coats and it wasn't thick or anything. 


Please don't mind my extremely dry cuticles, this weather is really screwing them up! My hand cream is already working overtime, but it seems like it works for a couple of minutes and then they get all dry again.