Essie Mod Squad - swatches and review

This is a wonderful bright pink polish with a tiny drop of blue in it to get that cool feeling about it. I'm not a pink person but I actually like this shade of pink. Pink normally doesn't suit my skin tone but this one isn't too bad at all.
This beauty was released six years ago :D but it does't feel at all out of date to me.

GOOD TO KNOW ABOUT MOD SQUAD:

Type of polish: Cream.

Colour: A bright medium cold pink with a drop of blue in it.

Collection: Essie It's a Mod, Mod World Spring 2007.

Opacity: Very good! This is two coats.

Formula: Very good! Self leveling.

Brush: Very good! No complaints.

Top Coat: Yes.

Accurate colour, photo vs IRL: Accurate.

Grade: 4/5 :)

This is a really pretty pink shade that even I like - even though I'm not much of a pink fan ;)

How do you like Mod Squad?

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Blue Poison Frog Nails - swatches

The theme for today's Nail Art Sunday is "Frogs" and as per usual I can never do something "normal" ;) So there will be no green little froggy here today but instead a pattern inspired by the poisonous but extremely beautiful Blue Dart Frog! There's a picture of it further down if you're interested :)

To achieve this pattern I applied two coats of Barry M Gelly Blueberry. Then I sponged on an area of H&M Blue My Mind in the middle of each nail to make the pattern more alive. Finally I did all the black dots and one coat of Seche Vite to seal the manicure.

Source

I used the following polishes: (from left to right)

Barry M Gelly Blueberry

H&M Blue My Mind

Illamasqua Boosh

How do you like this frog manicure?

Isn't this frog absolutely beautiful?

H&M Peach Me Soon - swatches and review

I found this little gem about a month ago on a small shelf at H&M marked "Just arrived". Peach is normally not my color, I do like it but it usually doesn't suit my skin tone. Anyway, a friend of mine fell in love with it but neither she or I have been able to find it again anywhere?! Strange.

No matter how I tried my camera didn't want to capture the right shade of this polish. It is not this orange looking. It's more a pale almost dusky orange peach. Really pretty actually!

GOOD TO KNOW ABOUT PEACH ME SOON:

Type of polish: Cream.

Colour: A pale dusky orange peach.

Opacity: Very good! This is two coats.

Formula: Very good! Self leveling.

Brush: Very good! No complaints. The cap is a bit big to hold but H&M's all new polishes have a new normal cap. Great!

Shine: Very shiny on its own so I have no top coat in these pictures.

Accurate colour, photo vs IRL: Quite accurate, but not quite so orange looking even though it's an orange peach color.

Grade: 4/5 :)

Peach isn't my best color but this one has quite a lot of orange in it so it actually suits me fairly well. It's really strange that it's been nowhere to find though. Did they only make a small batch? Did they sell out immediately? I haven't seen it at many blogs though... Only a paler version from last year. This is a mystery to me!

How do you like Peach Me Soon?

Do you know why this polish is so hard to find?

Happy Midsummer!

Today we are celebrating Midsummer here in Sweden! It's Midsummer Eve and many of us sing, dance and barbecue with our friends and family.

Flowers are an important part to! That's why I've been working like crazy this week... We dress a wooden pole with leaves and flowers, wear flower wreaths on our heads and have flower bouquets on our tables.

Another tradition is to pick seven different flowers during complete silence late on Midsummer Eve and put them under the pillow. It's said that if you do this the man or woman you dream of during this magic night is the one you will marry ;)

Please note that everyone celebrates in their own way, traditional or not :) I'll be spending the day with my boyfriend and some friends and I'm just doing the barbecue and flower wreath part ;)

Tomorrow I'll be back with an nail polish post as usual!

Have a nice Midsummer Eve everyone!!

My self made flower wreath! :)

Comparison Cobalt Blue Polishes

I've been bad at doing comparisons lately so to make up for that I hereby give you the second comparison this week ;)
This time I'm comparing my favourite shade of blue - cobalt blue!

All polishes are two coats with one coat of top coat.

The Essie polish on the index finger looked opaque to me but somehow the camera captured it with a bit of vnl. In reality it looks opaque.

I compared these four polishes: (from left to right)

Index: Essie Bouncer It's Me

Middle: Nails Inc Baker Street

Ring: SinfulColors Endless Blue

Pinkie: H&M Blue My Mind

In short:

Most beautiful: Nails Inc Baker Street

Best formula: Nails Inc Baker Street

Worst formula: Essie Bouncer It's Me

Most opaque: SinfulColors Endless Blue

Least opaque: Essie Bouncer It's Me

Best brush: Nails Inc Baker Street

Worst brush: SinfulColors Endless Blue

As you can see none of them are dupes, not even similar to me ;)

Which one is your favorite?

Do you find comparison posts useful?

Swiss Nail Mail :)

I got the most wonderful nail mail from my dear friend Christine in Switzerland the other day! :D My Swiss nail polish haul consists of four Essence polishes, one KBShimmer polish and one jar of flocking powder! :D Oh, and also a fridge magnet so I can learn how to find my way around Switzerland :)

Christine also has her own amazing blog Polishes Marvels, be sure to check it out!

KBShimmer Lilac Dreams

Essence The Boy Next Door

Essence We Rock the Green

Essence I'm the Moss

Essence Plant the Planet

Flocking powder

Since I'm a green, blue and holo lover this nail mail matched me perfectly! I can't wait to try the flocking powder! Or the polishes too for that matter! :D 

The Guerilla Gardening polishes are perfect for a florist like me ;) I've actually done some guerilla floristry once ;) 

Thank you so much Christine! You are spoiling me rotten!! Love you! <3

Which polish should I try first?

Have you tried flocking powder?