Kiwi Smoothie

Hello everyone!

I finally tried out the polish I hauled last winter!
It's Dance Legend 949 Kiwi Smoothie from the series Fruity Milk.
This polish is semi-opaque, milky-green with small glitter dots and hexagons in green and gold.
After staying too long on the shelf the glitters went down the bottle. What is more important, this polish dries really slowly. I don't have enough patience to wait... Or am I just hopelessly spoiled with all the super-quick-dry polishes?

Прывітанне!
Сёння я нарэшце спытала лак для пазногцяў, які я здабыла яшчэ ўзімку, калі была ў Мінску. Гэта лак рускай маркі Dance Legend нумар 949, са смачнай назвай Kiwi Smoothie ("садавінавы кактэйль з ківі"). Назва серыі таксама гучыць салодка: Fruity Milk ("садавінавае малако").
Лак напаўпразрысты, малочна-зялёны, з таксама зялёнымі і залатымі бліскаўкамі, частка з якіх вельмі дробныя, як кропачкі, другая частка - трохі буйнейшыя шасцікутнічкі.
Ад доўгача чакання на паліцы шасцікутнічкі пачалі падаць да дна. Аднак большая праблема - гэта доўгі час на сушэнне лака. Гэты лак сохне вельмі доўга. Мне не хапае цярплівасці на такое чаканне... Можа я дужа спешчаная ўсімі сучаснымі лакамі, якія суперхутка сохнуць?

 Here there are four coats of Kiwi Smoothie. Three coats were still a bit too sheer.

Тут чатыры слаі  Kiwi Smoothie. Праз тры слаі можна было яшчэ трошкі бачыць пазногаць.

ColorShow Stripped Nudes

Hello!
After some weeks of relatively high stress in my job, I went to check on the drogery shops, andI discovered so many new releases... I just cannot keep up with buying!
Maybelline brought out the new series Stripped Nudes.
I don't know exactly, what colours are in the palette of Stripped Nudes, because they were almost all sold out. I managed to secure the two following colours: Bare it all and Bronze me up.

The nude shade has relatively good covering power: two coats are enough to cover the nail completely. It's plain colour without glitter or shimmer, and is has a glossy finish.
Glittery Bronze me up contains larger slightly curled hexagons and small glitter in the same copper colour. You have to paint some more coats (I did three or four).

And for the good company I dug out my old good Copper Cabana by Catrice, which is great colour and also stamps well. It's MoYou London Pro collection 14.

Weihnachtsfeier

Junge, Junge, ich bin schon so lange dabei im Unternehmen, aber erst dieses Jahr durfte ich die Weihnachtsfeier miterleben. Da unsere Firma mächtig auf den Sparkurs geht, war dieses Mal alles bescheiden. Was mich natürlich nicht davon abhalten konnte, die Pracht von Gold und Glitzer auf meine Nägel zu bringen.
Gerade dazu passend sind die Pailletten oder sequins von der limitierten Edition "Feathers & Pearls" von Catrice. Sie bestehen aus sehr feinen runden Glitterpartikeln und aus normalgroßen Hexagonen. Es gab diese Pailletten in Gold und Schwarz.

Man, I am already that long in the company, but I was allowed to be on the Christmas Party first time this year. Because our firma is on austerity course, the party of this year was kind of modest. But I could not but create luxuriousness of gold and glitzer and on my nails.
Recently I bought some products of Limited Edition "Feather & Pearls" by catrice. Gold and black sequins are the perfect choice for the Christmas Party. They consist from very small round glitter particles and normal sized hexagons.

Dazu passend ist auch der Nagellack C05 Runnig Wild von der gleichen Serie - schwarz mit Mikroglitter.

The polish C05 Runnig Wild of the same LE series is matching the sequins. It's black with tiny silvery glitter.

Von der gleichen Serie habe ich noch C01 Flapper Style und die namengebende Perlen, die fürs Kleben am Körper, aber ich denke, es geht auch mit den Nägeln. Die Perlen sind nicht flach, daher wird die Maniküre damit so ziemlich voluminös.

I've got two other products from the series: polish C01 Flapper Style and the eponymous pearls. They are supposed to be worn on your body, but I guess they would do also on the nails. You have to keep in mind they are not flat and could easely drop away.

Aber zurück zu unseren Schafen, also Nägeln. Ich habe den Akzentnagel mit Glitz and Glamour von Orly lackiert und tauchte die Nagelspitze in die goldenen Pailletten.

But let's return to our muttons, id est nails. I've painted the accent nail with Glitz and Glamour by Orly and dipped the nail tip in the golden sequins.

Den Rest habe ich mit dem Runnig Wild lakiert und den Mittelfinger in die schwarzen Pailletten eingetunkt.

All other nails are painted with Running Wild and I dipped the middle finger nail into the black sequins, this time full nail.

Favorite Polish

Day 19 of the Laid Back 31 Day Challenge - Favourite polish.

Help! It is the hardest challenge ever - I like every polish I've got! :) And I buy generally only the lovely ones. :) So I took a newest favourite polish - ANNY 690 "after dinner show". This is a minty glitter-glitter consisting of small and a bit bigger glitter particles. I guess the name of the polish should be something like "after eight", but since it's patented name for some sweets ANNY thought another name out.

I don't know why ANNY don't announce the small specials which are always in small flacons (6 ml) just like this one. Also you wouldn't find them on the shopping page of Douglas. I discovered them in a Douglas store and fell in love with this polish.

Although it covers the nails with one coat, two are more intense. The surface is rough, in any case not smooth. but I think it's normal for 100% glitter polishes.

I let the surface without top coat, because of the way it reflects light in different angles.

Here you can see different particles:

Cheer Up Mani

Day13 of Laid Back 31 Day Challenge - Cheer Yourself Up Mani

To cheer up you need something sparkly, funny and bright. So I found a good occasion to use the essence nails design kit "Vintage District" with their big blue glitter:

One of my favourite colours is turquios. So I painted all nails with "boat trip" by p2. Unfortunately my camera doesn't do a good job for some colours like turquios or pink.

My accent nail has stripes of misslyn "heaven on earth", butter LONDON "Victoriana" and Golden Rose matte blue (maybe 10 is a number of that shade, but I'm not sure).

Then I planted a glitter per a stripe so that I've got another stripe across the tricoloured stripes.

Tape mani

Day 12 of Laid back 31 day challenge - Tape mani.

Long time I wanted to try out the butter LONDON's polish. This time it's here! The colour is called Victoriana. I like the blue with silver shimmer. And the colour is also intense, so that one coat is also opaque.

I bought the whole bunch of striping tapes.The most matching colour is silver in my opinion. I have got also iridescent ones, but it looked overloaded with sparkling. For an accent nail I took two stripes and filled the space with rhomb glitter from the essence "Vintage District" nail art kit.

 

On my thumb I tried some other variation of rhombs and stripes. I think it could be okay for all nails.

How is this mani? Would you try it out?