Archive for the ‘Green’ Category

This is a lovely green with a yellow/golden shimmer. It’s kinda frosty/pearly and that’s not really my finish, but with this one I don’t mind. Application was okay, but it is a bit streaky. It is a sheer one, so I needed at least 3 coats. Downside on this polish was the drytime. It was slow as hell. I’m always getting really frustrated when a nailpolish takes a long time to dry. Guess you know what I mean. I always tend to bump into things and destroy my nailpolish. Happened with this one so I was lucky I took these photo’s right before that.

If this was a fastdrying polish I would wear it a lot more in summertimes, but I guess this one is staying in my Helmer for most of the time and I’ll pick one of the other greens I own.

So, it’s been a while ago since my last nailpolishpost. I’m sorry about that but school was a little bit more important for me last week. Now I’ve got time to blog again, so here is a new swatch. This time I’m gonna show you Essence’s Choose Me. I know this polish is featured quite a lot on the WWW and that’s why I waited a bit with swatching it. When I got this as a surprise at the package from PimpMyNailz I’ve won recently I remembered this one and decided it was time to do a blogpost. I got a backup for this one and will do a giveaway soon so you can win it!

This one is really easy to apply on your nails. The downside is that it is quite pigmentated and stains your nails easily. A good basecoats is really recommended for this one. The other downside is that it kinda sheer so I needed 3 quite thick coats to get this opaque. The pictures shown above are a little bit more green than the polish is irl. It’s more like the bottle. more duochrome with really gorgeous blue and green colors and shimmer. It’s one of the many dupes from Zoya Charla but I’m really glad I got it. A must-have for every lacquerista.

Here’s another of the MNY polishes I’ve won at PimpMyNailz. I’m not really wearing greens since I don’t like them with my skincolor, but I really like this one. It’s dark but with gorgeous lighter green shimmer in it. Looks really cool to me. I did 2 coats and it applied really easy. Dry time was a bit longer than I like but still good enough.

See the shimmer? MNY is becoming one of my favourite nailpolishbrands since they have a quite a bunch of colors and they are cheap. Most of them are easy to apply but there are a few formulas so I don’t like every polish I tried from them. Overall this is a good brand, it’s kinda cheap, only €2,49 if I’m not mistaken. MNY is sold in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.

No Mambo Jambo is this gorgeous blue shimmery color. I saw it when I was at my local H&M. Last year they rebuild the store and since then we have a little corner with some makeup. A few weeks ago I did a little shopping spree and found this one. They had a similar color without the shimmer, but I liked this one better. Application was really good. I almost always like the nailpolishes form H&M. The formula is just right and they applicate like a dream I think. I did 2 coats for these swatches and there is no VNL. Drytime was also quite good.

As a design-student I really like the design of these bottles. I dislike the fact that it has a square cap, but the typography is really good. Balanced and I like it. Enough about that. The bottle contains 9ml which isn’t that much. Enough for me since I have enough nailpolish for a lifetime (or two). It costs €3,95, which I think is a bit much for such a small bottle. Overall I like this nailpolish!

When I first saw bottle shots of these Diamond Cosmetics lacquers I immediately wanted a few of them. They are made for Boozyshop only, so it’s kinda a limited edition. They are €3,99 a bottle, and available at Boozyshop.

The first of the 5 I have is Devilish. A gorgeous green wich is opaque in 1 coat! Application was really great, I was amazed about the pigmentation. I am used to 2-coaters from DC, which is already great, but I did one coat for this swatch, only one and it covers my nails completely. I really like the color. I normally don’t buy or like green polish, but this one has a really nice shimmer in it. I know for a fact that the owner of Boozyshop got some compliments wearing this polish. I think it’s a great color for this fall/winter.

This is one of the lacquers in my stash that I have for quite a long time but forgot about having it. I bought it back in februari if I’m not mistaken and never even tried it. Shame on me. That’s the one side of being a blogger and a nailaddict. I’ve got so many lacquers that I forget about them and they are standing there in my Helmer, not being used once. When I did a little search trough my stash I found it, and decided to wear it.

I was actually quite surprised. It is amazing! The fact that I don’t really like greens, well, this one is gorgeous! It is a bit more green than the pictures show. I love the glitters in it. Opague in 3 coats. Drytime was quick. Well, I actually don’t have anything I do not like about this polish. Everyone knows by now that glitter is a bitch to remove, so that would be the only thing I can mention.

For the girls who like this lacquer, it is available at Cherryculture and Boozyshop. It’s from the Rockstar collection.

This is the second of the 5 p2 polishes I own at the moment. This one reminds me a bit of catrice Blue’s Brother. Blue’s Brother is more blue than this polish. So Cool has a bit of a duochrome effect with green and blue. It applies very smooth and I only needed 2 coats for complete coverage.

It has a nice silver shimmer. The polishes of P2 contain 8ml, wich isn’t that much. For example, China Glaze contains 14ml.

When I first noticed p2 polishes I really would like to get some of them. Unfortunately they are not sold in the Netherlands. So when a lovely girl on twitter said she could get me some when she was in Germany again I happily agreed. So, last week she bought some cool colors for me and dropped them when I was working. So sweet! I would like to thank you once again <3!

So today I’m showing you one of the bright colors she picked out. This is shockful. A really bright green. With the first layer it looked a bit like OPI’s Shrek, but this color is a bit brighter and greener than the shrek polish. Normally I don’t really like green polishes but this is an exception. I really love how bright it is. It’s not really a color to wear when I’m gonna work haha!

P2 applies really smooth and this polish needed 2 coats for full coverage, but because I can’t apply it right the first time (shame on me) I used three for having a smooth surface. If you live near a store that sells p2, buy them! They are only  €1,55 a piece.

From Essence their return to paradise limited edition I got one polish, named back to paradise. It’s a really dark green wich was really hard to capture on cam, most of the time it seemed almost black. But in real life it’s a really dark green color. The application was smooth, complete coverage in 2 coats wich is better than most of the essence polishes I own. They do chip quite fast on me so I don’t wear many Essence polishes. The polishes of the LE seems to be a better quality then their regular lines. When writing this the Return to Paradise collection is still available at the store I bought these so go check them out.

This one of the two polishes I got from my sister for my birthday. I’m not a big fan of metallic polishes. They always get a little streaky with me and I always forget to use a ridge filler so you can always see every imperfection I own.

This polish is great though. It blowed my mind away. It’s opaque in only 1 coat! I don’t wear many greens, just don’t like the color but this one is kinda cute. It’s a bit outta space but I like it. If you want to have this one, it’s from GOSH and the color is Metallic Green.