Ninja Geeks

Well, that would be all of us nail polish lovers, right? Thanks to Ninja Polish producing their own shit, the polish addicts will never be clean – Ninja Polishes are just too pretty!
I started this manicure with two coats of Manhattan 08M, super creative name… It is a dusty teal creme with teensy golden glassflecks in it. Nice polish, and easy to apply.

Then I used one coat of Ninja Polish Geeks, which was lent to me by T. I often rely on my friends for my fix, it seems!

I love the name of this polish, but I must say I actually like the glitter mix more. Even though I love Sticks’n'Stones, I had enough of the black and white glitter variations. A black and green glitter mix is something new and fun again.

In this mix, there are green and black bar glitters, smaller round glitters in black, squares in green and tiny green glitterdust, all in a clear base. I love the layer of sparkliness over the dusty green polish. You can see it in the closeup – it’s a must-have for glitter lovers! Do you have any Ninja Polish polishes? Do you like Geeks?

 

Stamping Stairs

Just a quick post for today, but one of the manicures I loved the most lately. I started off with two coats of Revlon Cherry Bon Bon, a medium tomato red polish. It is somewhere between jelly and creme in texture – easy to apply, maybe a bit on the thin side.

Then I picked up my bottle of Sancion Angel Neytiri, which is a dark blue holographic polish – the holographic effect isn’t the strongest, but I like them that way too.  Most importantly, it works wonders for stamping.

I stamped this stair-look-alike pattern, and I wore it basically until it grew out. Who would’ve thought that I so adore the red and blue combination? What do you think?

IsaDora News

I came home after my holiday to find so many awesome things waiting for me (one of them being my friend B.), that I couldn’t decide what the best one was. But I’m absolutely certain that these two collections from IsaDora were- no, still are! – on top of the list. Polar Nights, Arctic Treasure and North Star are from the Northern Lights holiday collection, the rest is from the Jewels of the Orient Collection.

I decided to show you all but one polish today. So maybe grab a cup of coffee first, as this is going to be a loooooong post!
I just want to mention that the application was a dream. I love the short, wide IsaDora brushes, and the formula of these polishes was so creamy and buttery, I was amazed. Again. IsaDora polishes aren’t really cheap at 10€ a piece, but they are well worth it, especially since they’re working hard on expanding their line and making some unique and mind-blowing polishes.

IsaDora 741 Black Amethyst is a shimmery purple polish. It is a blackened purple, so it is really dark. I’m not the biggest purple lover in the world, but I’m sure that if you love purple, you will love this polish. I’m showing you one coat. Yes, honestly, one.

 

IsaDora 745 Persian Princess is a medium purple shimmer. It is one of those purples that freak out my camera, so the real color is somewhat between the pictures. I used two coats for this.

IsaDora 751 Arctic Treasure over essie jamaica me crazy. I used one coat – Arctic Treasure is a golden glitter polish, which I think everyone should have. At least either a golden or a silver glitter topper! I personally prefer the small glitters, so I love this. Adds the necessary sparkle!

IsaDora 749 North Star over Make Up Store Marcus. The twin brother of Arctic Treasure – a fine silver glitter topper. I used one coat, and I can’t decide which one I like better. It’s so hard to find just one colored one sized glitters these days, and finally there’s the answer! 

My two favourites from this collection are, surprisingly, the blues. I have kept one color aside, a flaming red, but more on that later! IsaDora 750 Polar Night is a royal blue jelly packed with a mix of small round and larger hexagonal silver glitter. I absolutely adore it, it looks like the night sky! I used two coats, and look how sparkly it is! As an extra, I added a close up of my nail – please let me know in the comments if you like to see close-ups of glitters like that!

IsaDora 746 Silk Road is another winner in my books. I can’t even name all the colors in this polish – I can see some yellow and green and shades of blue, maybe some purple too? This polis is so eclectic, it’s hard to say. I used two coats, and I couldn’t stop staring at this beauty. sigh… 

 

 

 

Which one is your favourite?

The products in this post were provided to me for my honest review.

Beautyfleamarket Vienna / Beautyflohmarkt Wien

Dear Readers,

while you thought I was only polishing my nails, I actually got busy!
Claudia, Jen, Mirela and I got together and organized a re-vamped Beauty Fleamarket. This will be the third edition of the fleamarket, which was a great success so far, but as it always is, this time it will be bigger, better and more glamorous!

The important data first:
Date: 08. December 2012, from 18:00 onwards
Location: Dschungel-Deli Wien, im MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien.
More info: on the blog, on facebook or the facebook-event.
Questions to: beautyflohmarktwien@gmail.com

What can you expect?
There will be 20+ sellers of beauty products. You’ll be able to find long-lost LE’s, hard-to-find products (I’ll only say MAC LE…!), barely used nail polish, and many more.
Additionally, the Box will grace us with their presence – how cool is that! I’ll totally have my picture taken! Thanks to the Dschungel-Deli, we’ll be able to offer you Punsch for 2,5 € only. I think that’s the cheapest Punsch in the city – definitely in the MQ! Yay for Punsch!
You can still email us and get a spot in one of the Workshops – this time we’re able to offer a Nailart and a Nail Care workshop. Details on our blog!
The absolute best part in my opinion are the Goodie-Bags. Thanks to Wienerin, Nägele & Strubell, Jessica Cosmetics, Zalando, Lush, Nivea, Inglot, L’Oréal and Coty Prestige we’ll be able to bring you the most amazing Goodie-Bags! You’ll have a chance to win them every hour.

I hope I’ll see you on the 8th of December!

 

essence Home Sweet Home LE

Happy Monday, everyone! Hope your week started good.

For this new week, I want to share with you a LE from essence, that I didn’t have time to review yet. I found these polishes at my local store weeks after it was released, so you might be lucky if something tickles your fancy.  The LE is called Home Sweet Home, and the best part of it were the blushes, mainly because they had such a cute print in them. I have enough blushes as it is, so I decided to pass them up.

Caramel Cheesecake is an orange creme polish. It’s not very pretty nor very appealing and the application is horrible. I used three coats to get the result shown below, and it still looked patchy. The color is pretty unique though, but if you ask me, it should stay unique.

Red-y to Relax is a tomato red creme. I used three coats too – I like that the polish is very vibrant, but I wouldn’t know what else to say about it. It seems so been there, done that. 

Berry me home is a darker red than Red-y to relax, but I’d still consider it a medium red creme. It is less yellow toned than Red-y to relax, and I “only” needed two coats. The formula was the best on this one.

Hot Fruit Punch is an aubergine creme polish. Aubergine seems to be the winter color, so if you don’t own essie Angora Cardi (which I suspect to be a dupe), snatch this up to be super amazingly fashionable! 2 coats.

All in all I wasn’t too amazed by this collection. I think the four colors would make a nice ombre manicure, but none of the colors called my name. Either that, or I’m still deaf from last week’s MUSE concert!

Bloggin’ around the Christmas Tree 2012

This year I participate in the big, amazing, super cool Bloggin’ around the Christmas Tree action!
48 bloggers worked hard to bring to you the happiest ‘Adventkalender’, which is a calender counting down the days until Christmas. Every day you can win not one, but two gifts to make the wait for Christmas seem less long.
Click on the image below to see all the participating bloggers! I will be revealing what is behind my door on the 7th of December. Together with T from Amused Polish, we’ll rock the 7th!

And last but not least, the theme song for this fun project – to get you into a Christmas mood, or, if you don’t celebrate Christmas, into a present mood! (presents always work, no?!)

Hope you’re as excited as I am!

Glossybox November

Well, this morning at 6:30 a.m. My lovely postman rang the door to hand me the November Glossybox.
I was very much hoping for an improvement, with Christmas coming and all, but no. Actually, I think this is the most depressing box ever.
See this:

It’s a face wash by Origins. It’s a try-out size (30ml) but it is so tiny, I will be able to try it out maybe 10 times, so I can’t tell if my skin likes it or not. Also, the additional prize for 150ml is 20€!!! (Origins) Fail.

Then we have shampoo and conditioner. Original size would be 250ml each, for 17,60€. That is a bit more expensive than my beloved Tony&guy shampoo and conditioner, but if it’s a great shampoo and conditioner, I’d be willing to splash the cash.

It gets a bit better with this IsaDora lip gloss, but not much. I like the brand IsaDora, that you know (especially their nail polishes!!!!), but why did Glossybox opt for a mini size lipgloss? I put it in my bag to try to find it again, but it is just too tiny. It is a bit shorter than my thumb, including the applicator.. The color is, although it looks a bit stale, very appealing and should fit a vast majority of the female population of Austria.

Lastly, the blush. It’s a blush by Kryolan, which comes in a Glossybox packaging. I’m not fond of the packaging, it looks cheap, uninspiring and plain, but I like the blush. It is matte, without shimmer and a cold pink color, which I like. It’s also not too intensive, so I can mix it with other blushes.

Well, additional to all that, I found a minus 10% voucher for Douglas in my box and little cards to attach to presents. I must say, this month I am especially happy that Glossybox sent me the box for free (and without conditions), because I would have hated to have blown my money on something that worthless.
Please Glossybox, think about your concept. Small samples are not what you said Glossybox would be about.

The products in this post were provided to me for my honest review.

How I wore it: Sephora my favorite jeans & PUPA M202 & KIKO 230

When we spent the weekend in Amsterdam this summer, I found a duo of nail polishes by PUPA. One of them seemed perfect to enhance the life span of Sephora My favourite jeans, which I had been wearing previously.

I decided to layer one coat of PUPA M202 over My favourite jeans (a dark blue jelly). PUPA M202 is a dark blue very sheer jelly polish, interspersed with holographic particles that glitz and glisten at your every move.

Over the tips I loosely applied KIKO 230 (Sparkle Touch Rainbow Glitter) so the whole manicure looked a bit like a gradient.

I love glitter gradients, and I wear them too seldom. A little glitter makes my day much happier

In fact, when I was waiting for my picture to be taken (the one below in particular), I realised a huge spider on the back leg of the chair so I decided to move to the front and look away - ready to get up in case the spider decided to come my way. I hate spiders, they really creep me out. Snakes too and other animals that have too long legs in my opinion.

The garden looks enchanted though in these pictures – it rarely is so overly green and full of blossoming plants but this year, both spring and summer have been good to the pants.

The ring I’m wearing is from H&M, it shows two birds sitting on it. I have it in a golden color too, and I think it’s so cute!

The dress is from Nümph. I’ve had it for a long time now, but the skirt part of it is very short, so I only wear it for going out or with thick, non-transparent tights.

Let me know what you think in the comments!

Mrs&Mr Glitter and The Huntsman

IsaDora is, as you may know, one of my favourite brands. Their polishes just seem to get better and better, and I just love their brush! This particular one, Blue Sky (#626) is a shimmery metallic lavender blue polish. It has this soft light about it, so it doesn’t look frosty or boring. I used two coats.

Then I decided to layer some glitter over it and I decided to pick Mrs&Mr Glitter, one of the newer glitter toppers from essence. Esentially, this is a blue, green and black hexagonally shaped glitter mix in a clear base.

It is one of those glitter toppers that look promising in the bottle but fail so sadly on the nail. I think this look has an air of unfinished business about it. As if I had some glue residue on my nails and unfortunately reached in a bag of confetti.

Well, I didn’t like this one bit, so I decided to take it off and start anew. I hadn’t worn Jordana Island Fuchsia yet, which is one of those blue-toned creme pinks that are always right up my alley. I love pinks like this, and Island Fuchsia didn’t fail me. I used two coats, and this polish dries surprisingly fast!

Then I agve glitter toppers a second try and reached for another essence glitter topper, this time from the Snow White LE. It’s a mix from gold glitters and iridiscent shreds, and it is called The Huntsman. The shreds are difficult to gt out of the bottle. I used one coat that I dabbed onto the nail.

After the failure above, I must say I like this better, but I am not totally in love with it. Better luck next time, I guess…

The Prize of very cranberry

It has been to long since I showed you a Nubar polish, so today I have one for you!

I started this manicure with two coats of essie very cranberry. It is one of these essie shades that I can’t decide on – do I like it or does it bore the cranberries out of me? The shade itself is very close to the color of a cranberry, maybe a bit lighter. The intense silver shimmer that is visible in the bottle merely transfers to the nail as a silver hue.

Over this, I decided to layer Nubar Prize. Prize is a jelly red polish, similar in color to very cranberry. I tried before to wear it on its own, but it never really looks opaque, because it is too sheer. Instead, I wore one coat over the essie polish, and that looks much better. Prize is not only a red jelly as you can see, but also it is packed with holographic glitters – small round ones and bigger hexagonal ones. They shimmer so beautifully different, depending on how the light hits them, and add great sparkle to this manicure.

Do you like very cranberry? And what about Prize, holographic glitter in a red jelly base – yay or nay?