Archive for the ‘Shimmer’ Category

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.

Remember that I posted ORLY’s Fantasea a while ago? Well, don’t you think Diamond Cosmetics Canyon Sunrise looks a like? It is a little less duochrome and the gold isn’t as noticeable as in Fantasea but still. It’s pretty close! I saw this nailpolish at first at Sarah her blog Cherryplumsky and I put it on my wishlist immediately. I ordered it together with Hue are you last sunday and I really like it. Application was really easy and it only needed 3 coats to be opaque. A lot better than Fantasea which needed an extra coat and came to a total of 4 coats. Dry time was quick, that’s what I used to with Diamond Cosmetics and I almost never get dissapointed by this brand.

A while ago I was the winner of a giveaway at Iris (PimpMyNailz) her blog. I’ve won 5 nailpolishes from MNY. Luckily, I didn’t already had one of them. The first I’m gonna show you is this darkblue with a nice shimmer. I didn’t understand what everybody was bragging about with the MNY lacquers. They said the weren’t easy to apply etc. I never experienced that till this polish. The application was not that easy. It dried not fast enough so when I was ready to apply the second coat the first came off.. Hmmz, needed to be a little more patient. When I waited for a few minutes I could apply a second and third coat.

I think it’s a shame that this polish wasn’t that easy to apply since I really dig the color! I love these kind of blue’s. I needed 3 coats for full coverage and a smooth surface. Dry time was a bit on the long  side and you need to be really carefull when applying a topcoat. I wish this was one of the nice formula lacquers but unfortunately it’s not. I will use this more often since I really like the color!

When I found out on twitter that one of my favourite webshops Boozyshop had a -40% off Diamond Cosmetics sale I immediately knew I had to order some. I had 3 colors on my wishlist but only 2 were available. I already have so much Diamond Cosmetics polishes that the rest wasn’t really my thing so I only ordered the two I wanted in first place.

First of them is Hue Are You. A brownish red with little gold shimmer/glitter. It’s not really glitter, it’s not really shimmer so I don’t really know how to describe it. It really is a gorgeous polish. The color is in between these pictures. It was really easy to apply, but the formula was a bit on the thin side. I personally don’t mind that, but I know that some of my readers like their nailpolish a bit thicker. Drytime was quick! I accidently bumped into my camera while swatching, think the nailpolish was on for a little less than 5 minutes and nothing really happened. Well if that isn’t fast!

Diamond Cosmetics is available for €3,95 at Boozyshop.nl. She sends internationally so for my non-dutch readers, you can order at her!

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 look at the name of this polish I would’ve thought that this will be a gorgeous barbie or bright pink. Well, as you can see, it isn’t. This is a gorgeous greenish blue with shimmer. It reminds me of the ocean and summer. It isn’t an unique color, I’ve seen it by serveral brands before and I own a few colors that are very similar to this one.

One thing I like about this polish that this one is the most easy to applicate from al these kinda colors I have. It is almost opaque in 2 coats and dries very fast. I bet it will last quite long too, cause most of the China Glaze lacquers I own tend to do that. I will give this one another try in the summer. With these dark days I like to use darker colors on my nails.

I’m not really a girl who wears brown. A brown lacquer almost always makes my skintone look really pale. This one doesn’t. It is a really light brown with golden shimmer. The brown has a red undertone.

Application was great. This is only 2 coats. The polish itself is quite thin, so I had to make sure that there wasn’t a lot of polish on the brush. Drytime was quite good. ChinaGlaze is one of my favourite brands and this is one of the reasons why. Their application is almost every time really good, weartime is good, most of the formulas are quite good so I don’t have anything bad to say about the brand.

Way back, when Boozyshop.nl was just born, the owner sold DaVinci, a brand from Poland if i’m not mistaken. I’ve worn this lacquer a lot. It reminds me of summer ’08. On my nails the color is way more orange than in the bottle. I was surprised when I tried this for the first time. It is almost a one-coater. The polish takes a bit of time to dry, but it doesn’t annoy me and with some seche or david you solve this problem.

I’m kinda sad Boozy isn’t selling this brand anymore cause I would loved to try out some more polishes of this brand. I think this one is quite unique for a brand as cheap as DaVinci was.

When I am in one of the drugstores I always buy some nailpolish I skip this brand. I don’t know why but for some reason I do not like the way it looks or something like that. A few weeks ago I was there again and when I was waiting for my sister who took a looong time looking at some stuff, so I decided to take a look at 2B. The lacquer I’m showing you today is the one that caught my eye. It is a dark purple with blue shimmer. In the bottle it looks a bit more on the red side than on my nails.

I didn’t thought I would like it as much as I do.  Why didn’t I picked up this brand before? The application was great. The polish is kinda on the thick side, but nothing worse. I did 3 coats for this polish to get complete coverage.

A close up in sunlight. See how gorgeous it is? 2B is a cheap brand, and unfortunately I can’t remember how much it is, but it will be something like 2 or 3€.