OPI Venice Fall Winter 2015 - A Great Opera-tunity

A Great Opera-tunity is from OPI's Venice collection for Fall/Winter 2015. This is the perfect salmon shade every collection needs! It goes on so incredibly smooth and only needs two thin coats for full coverage. What I like most about Opera-tunity is that it's an all year-round shade. I also like that it just has that little bit of punch to it that stops it from being a 'my nails but better' shade.

Nail Juice - So Kawaii!

So Kawaii! is one of Nail Juice's playful shades. A sweet light grey crelly filled with neon pink and turquoise glitters. A shade inspired by Japan's Kawaii pop culture.

Links:
Nail Juice So Kawaii!

Nail Juice - Ice Cream ChocChip Series

Nail Juice's Banana ChocChip is a glorious glossy yellow crelly filled with tiny 'chocolate' flakes. Look at that shine! I'm wearing two coats without top coat here.

Berry ChocChip is a beautiful deep pink sprinkled with tiny black flakes. This is two coats here without top coat.

 Bubblegum ChocChip - my absolute favourite of the bunch. A sweet pink crelly with little flecks of 'chocolate'. This is two coats here without topcoat.

Mint ChocChip - Ok maybe this one is my favourite too?! Mint ChocChip has been my favourite flavour of ice cream of all time. If only this was peppermint scented! Two coats here without top coat.

Links:

http://www.nailjuiceshop.com/

Revlon Gel Envy - Cardshark

Well, how adorable is this little sweetie? Usually bubblegum pinks look horrid on me, but Cardshark has just enough blue in it to make it quite suitable for us yellow folk!

Cardshark went straight to my Top 10. Something I noticed when editing the photos is that there is actually hidden shimmer in Cardshark (and most creme Gel Envys for that matter) yet it's barely visible. Why do they do this?

Two coats worn here. Two fabulous, dreamy, smooth, buttery coats.

See you again soon with more Gel Envys!

Mangled to Magnificent pt.2: Funky Fingers Partly Cloudy

 My first thermal polish! I was incredibly excited to try it. At first I didn't think it worked as I was driving around at work in the sunlight and it still looked turquoise. It was only today when I went out to take a quick snap - that I saw it begin to change!

On the nail growth side of things, it's quite amazing how quickly my nails can grow when they aren't being bitten off several times a day. I'm incredibly happy with how the growth is coming along. See you next week for pt. 3's progress!

Is anyone else growing their nails out, too?

Essie Mint Candy Apple

Mint Candy Apple is a part of Essie's main line after being released for the holidays a few years ago.

The formula is ok, a little on the streaky side and needs 3 coats to even out.

It is much greener and slightly chalkier than China Glaze For Audrey.

OPI Pirates of the Caribbean Round-Up

A round-up of all the reviews and photos! Each name of the polish will take you to it's review :)

Mermaid's Tears

Skull and Glossbones

Steady As She Rose

Silver Shatter

Essie Borrowed & Blue

Here we have Borrowed and Blue from Essie's wedding collection this year. First of all, I'm sure just the name would make it a huge hit. Can you imagine all the brides with their baby blue toenails? Or fingertips if they are daring! I think it's quite nice really, but I don't quite understand how it's borrowed? Unless you are borrowing the shade from someone, you paid for it, you own it.

As much as I love baby blues, this one left me wanting more. Perhaps it isn't as creamy as I thought it was. It is a very chalky pastely blue.


It's quite close to Color Club's Take Me To Your Chateau and Blue Light, but it definitely has that starkness to it that those two don't.

OPI Skull & Glossbones

Quite possibly my new favourite polish. Or... coming a close second behind Who The Shrek Are You. This is Skull and Glossbones from OPI's Pirate's of the Caribbean collection.

I'm not all too sure on what to call this colour. It's a bit grey, it's a bit beige, even a nude! Maybe? Not 100% sure what it is, but I like it. I did need three coats but I think like Mermaids Tears and Steady As She Rose, I applied the coats too thinly which started to pull off colour from undernieth. They are pastels and they are a little bit chalky.

It almost reminds me a bit of those three nudes from OPI's Japanese collection. Miso Happy With This Color, Let Them Eat Rice Cake and Have a Tempura Tan-trum.

I'm seriously thinking Skulls is back-up material.

OPI Steady As She Rose

I finally have the Internet back and it's uploading my photos no problem now :) Today I have Steady As She Rose from OPI's Pirate's of the Caribbean collection. A very sweet and delicate pink creme.

I just love this. It's not an overly yellow or blue pink, it's just right. It does have that dusty quality to it like the rest of the collection which makes it just that much nicer.

I did need three coats however. I think I was using the polish to thin though, it seemed to to work better when I used thicker coats. I've got loads of polishes ready to post for you, so keep checking back!

OPI Mermaid's Tears

Mermaid's Tears is from OPI's Pirate's of the Caribbean collection. I only picked up four out of seven; Mermaid's Tears, Steady as She Rose, Skulls & Glossbones and the silver shatter. I am just smitten with all of them!

I didn't really like the other three that much. Sparrow Me The Drama and Planks A Lot seemed to be brighter than the rest, and Stranger Tides just looked weird against my skin.

Here I am wearing two coats. Lovely coverage with Mermaid's Tears, very nice formula as well.

This colour took me back to when Peppermint Patti was a big thing and everybody started doing minty greens and blues. Mermaid's Tears, like the rest of the collection, has a dusty quality to it. So it's a lot greyer than most mint greens. However! The OPI display I looked at was right beside Orly's new lot, Precious. Ancient Jade looked to be just a smidgen off of being a complete duplicate.

Mermaid's Tears is one of my new favourites. I just love all the colours being released at the moment.

Essie Nice is Nice

Oh my gosh I have been trying to post this for days! But blogger keeps freezing on me. Today it finally it let me upload the photos :D


I was humming and harring for quite a while, trying to decide whether to get Nice is Nice or Lilacism. 


Nice is Nice definitely has more red in it, making it more violet where as Lilacism has the blue in it making it lavender. 


I am thinking maybe I should have gone with Lilacism. I think Nice is Nice is too pink for my liking. It reminded me of three other polishes I have which I have pictured at the end of the post. OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender, OPI Panda-monium Pink and Orly Lollipop. Nice is Nice definitely has that little bit more purple/blue in it compared to those three though but they are definitely all from the same family. 

I didn't have any issues with the formula. Just typical Essie. I used two coats here, fairly good coverage all though it could go streaky if you do your coats too thin.

I absolutely adore the colour but I am not sure if it is right for my colourings.

These three spring to mind being imilar.

Lollipop

Lucky Lucky Lavender

Panda-monium Pink

OPI I Think In Pink

OPI I Think In Pink is from the same collection as It's a Girl and Isn't It Precious recently featured.


Think in Pink is a bubblegum coloured pink, it has those yellow undertones but I think it is subtle enough to be a bit more flattering. I always find very yellow based pinks to look strange against my pink toned skin. A good example of that is I Believe in Amour, quite washed out in my photos though.

A Quick Look At: Orly Instant Artist

I hope you had an awesome Christmas! I hope you got some of the polishes on your wish list :)

I just wanted to show you something that I came across today and have never seen before, the Orly Instant Artist collection.

This seems to be a collection of special nail art colours. By that I mean they have super long and thin brushes designed for nail art. I chose the only colour that blew me away. Blue Sky. It's a pastel periwinkle shade.The rest were quite bold colours or basic glitters. (I took a photo of the stand, trying to upload it).

There was a set of Black, White, Red, Yellow and Blue for $49.90. Basically the same price for any 5 colours, but you get a dotting tool with that lot. The polishes retail for $10.90 each. Not too bad!

I only had a quick play with it (as I managed to spill some on my new pyjamas :( ) and I was really impressed! The coverage was great, not sheer at all. The brush was really easy to control.

I've also managed to pick up Sinful Daddy's Girl, OPI It's a Girl! and OPI Time-less is More. So stay tuned for those ones!

More pictures to come when the sun is out :)

Chanel Les Pops Collection

I am pretty sure almost everyone fell in love at first sight with the promo pictures of these beauties. 

The Les Pops collection is now available in New Zealand and retail for $46 each. I got my lot a little early so I can't give you a release date sorry.

Riviera

Riviera

I wasn't really hyped about this one as I am sure I have something close to this shade. Mum fell in love with it though so luckily I was allowed to share it with you :) Two coats here, almost perfect coverage in first coat. Beautiful formula. Not as blue or deep as Splendeur incase you are wondering.

Mistral

Mistral

I only got Mistral and Nouvelle, but I wore this one straight away. It looks so cute in the bottle. But you do lose the glitter a little once you apply it to your nails. Mistral is a very soft, delicate, feminine shade. I like it. three coats here, it's a little more sheer than the other two.

Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague

My absolute favourite. It just looks so smooth and... frothy? lol I don't know, it reminds me of Goody Goody Gumdrop ice cream. Two coats here. The formula is honestly the best I have ever come across. Ever.

I absolutely love this collection, it's just so... cute and ice creamy. I am really glad I got them, these are limited so don't mess around if you want one or two! :)