China Glaze Desert Sun - swatches and review

I bought this polish for a friend but I just had to try it on first! Naughty me...!! ;)
This is NOT a colour for my skintone, but it's a lovely colour that soooo reminds me of toffee!! :D
When I look at my nails I can actually taste toffee in my mouth!!
Take a look and see if you can feel it to!! :)

In daylight

In artificial light

Doesn't it look like warm toffee sauce?! :D

It dries a shade darker than the colour in the bottle

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Cream.

Colour: A brown/orange/caramel colour which best can be described as TOFFEE! :D

Collection: China Glaze On Safari Collection Fall 2012.

Opacity: Very good! This is two coats. If you do one thick coat, and aren't that fussy, you can get away with one coat! :)

Drying time: A bit faster normal. :)

Formula: Excellent! It's applies perfectly - like warm toffee sauce ;) and it stays exactly where you want it to! :D

Brush: Ok. A bit on the thin side but the formula is so good I didn't mind.

Shine: Shiny on its own, but I have one coat of Seche Vite in these pictures. NOTE! Seche made the colour a tiny bit brighter when I applied it, so make sure you apply the top coat evenly to avoid colour changes.

Accurate colour, photo vs IRL: Quite accurate. Best picture is the nails in the bottle picture.

Grade: 3/5 :)

This is a fun colour and the formula is great! I also love the strong toffee feeling about it!! :D
The relatival low grade is because it doesn't match my skin tone at all! But it would look great on someone with darker skin!
I also noticed that it looked better when wearing black clothes.

So, do you feel like eating toffee now...? ;)

More new arrivals!

Today I received a parcel with EIGHT gorgeous new nail polishes!!! :D

Let's look at them, shall we? ;)

Exotic Encounters, Desert Sun and Cast A Spell

Halo and Miss Conduct

Live Love Laugh, Hello Gorgeous and Exquisite

A close up of Cast A Spell

I can't wait to try them on!!! :D

What do you think? Any likes or dislikes?

Which one should I try on first...? ;)

OPI Crown me Already - swatches and review

Put on your sunglasses ladies! ;) Here comes a show stopper! :D

In light bulb light

In light bulb light

Extreme close up ;) Reminds me of an armour ;)

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Glitter glitter glitter! :D

Colour: A clear base with silver glitter i FOUR sizes, from microglitter to large hexagon glitters.

Collection: OPI Miss Universe Collection Summer 2011.

Opacity: Good for a glitter polish! This is three coats. :)

Drying time: Normal.

Formula: Good! It's rather thick but it's not difficult to apply.

Brush: Very good! Thick and firm - I love it! :D

Shine: Very shiny and glittery on its own, but I have one coat of Seche Vite in these pictures. It leaves your nail with a rather rough surface so I recommend at least one coat of top coat. If you want your nails super smooth you will need more than one coat ;)

Accurate colour, photo vs IRL: Colourwise accurate but it's soooo much more glittery and shiny live! :D This is one of those polishes you have to see live to fully appreciate! :)

Grade: 5/5 :D

This is a really nice and sooo glittery and shiny polish!!! And it has really good qualities too! It's so much more than an ordinary silver glitter polish! :D As all glitter polishes the only downside is the removal part... ;)

Have you tried this polish?

How do you remove your glitter polishes?

China Glaze Winter Berry - swatches and review

I haven't worn red for a while now so I thought it was about time I did ;)
Here is a lovely classic deep red from last year. I give you... Winter Berry! :)

In daylight

Full hand in daylight

In halogen light

Remember this...? ;)

 GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Cream with a hint of jelly.

Colour: A deep red with blue undertones.

Collection: China Glaze Let it Snow Holiday Collection 2011.
 
Opacity: Good! This is two coats. There's a hint of VNL so it could do with a third coat, but two is just fine too (especially if you're just as lazy as I ;))

Drying time: Normal.

Formula: Good! It's rather thin but it stays where you want it to if you don't apply it too thick. It has a bit of a jelly quality but I'd say it's more cream than jelly ;)

Brush: Ok. A bit thin but firm so it's quite easy to work with.

Shine: Very shiny on its own but I have one coat of Seche Vite in these pictures.

Accurate colour, photo vs IRL: Red polishes are generally hard to capture and so is this one. The most accurate picture is the full hand in daylight. The others have a bit too much yellow undertones in them. This is NOT a red/orange polish. This is a red/blue polish. But it's RED, not blueish or purpleish ;)
Does this explanation make any sense at all to you...?!?! ;)

Grade: 4/5 :D

I don't wear a lot of reds but this is a polish with a great shade of red AND with good qualities!
A classic deep red which should should be found in every womans make-up bag ;)
This would be a great polish for your Christmas manicure too! :D

New polish arrivals!!! :D

I love to see what other laquer heads have bought - so I thought you would like to see what I've bought! ;) This is what I picked up at Gina Tricot the other day:

From the left: Petrol, Brilliant Blue and Wannabe

I got so inspired by Pamsan at ClawsInColor when she had her Gina Tricot week last week! I just had to pick up three Gina Tricot polishes of my own! ;)

I expected to have to stand by the the crowded pay desk and look through a messy box of polishes but NO! They had a neat large rack (almost a wall) in the shop area where all the polishes stood in their own holes sorted by colour :D
This was a nice suprise indeed! :D
They had at least 30 different colours and also removers, nail files etc.

The price is also quite good - you get three polishes (10 ml bottles) for 99 SEK ($14 or £9). (Or 39 SEK per bottle.)

I'm a big fan of blue and green so it'll be great fun to try them on!

Have you tried any of Gina Tricot's polishes?

What do you think of them?

Do you like the ones I bought? :)

Revealing of the secret give away!

For all of you who wonders what was in the secret package of three nail polishes in my last give away....

....this is what the winner got! :)

From left to right:

Essie - Pink Parka

China Glaze - Ingrid

Color Club - Factory Girl

Was it a good nail polish package?

Will you take part in the next give away? :)