I'm Sold

Long time, no see. Between getting used to my new job and another surgery, I haven't been able to write blogs. But I've made swatches and I plan on catching up with reviews the next few weeks. Starting now with Catrice's Sold Out Forever.

Shopping Log - Part 4

I ran into the store to grab a cleansing tonic and I bumped into the Catrice Million Styles display. I had no idea it was available already! Generally luck isn't on my side, but this time I was at the right place at the right time as they still had all colors in stock.

No Smoke Without Fire, Million Dollar Baby, Miss Money Penny, Shake It! Flake It!

The Return Of The Space Cowboys, Godfather Of Pearl, ¿Holo Qué Tal?, Have An Ice Day!

As the promotion for Million Styles also included reduced prices for the normal nail polishes, I brought a few of those with me as well.

Wrapped Around My Finger, Welcome To Roosywood, Blue Cara Ciao, Pool Party At Night

Big City Dazzel

I can't wait to try all of them out!

Shopping Log - Part 3

Yes, here I am again with  another shopping log. I promise it's a small one this time around and that the next post will be an actual review instead of more new products.

Catrice: London's Weather Forecast, Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans!, Browno Mars, Sing: Oh Champs-Elysée, Essence: Choose Me

The first two colors of Catrice are old colors that are being released again for this Spring/Summer, the other two are new colors. The Essence nail polish is an oldie but my local store never sold it until now.

Have a crazy Thursday!

Shopping Log

A lot of brands are introducing their Spring/Summer collections and I went on a bit of a Catrice/Essence shopping sprea.

Old Catrice products that were for sale (apart from the brush, that's from the new collection)

Lots of new nail polish!

fltr; Gold Fever, Birdy Reloaded!, ACid/DC, Sold Out Forever, King of Greens, Limited Edition: Be Pool, Genius In A Bottle

fltr; Fred Said Red, Aretha's R--E-S-P-I-N-K, The Pinky And The Brain, Heavy Metallilac

fltr; Shopping Trip In Soho, Boys Are Back In Town, A Walk In The Park

Swatches will follow at some point. Leave a comment if there's a particular color you'd be interested in seeing first.

Happy Monday,

I Got The Blues

Every gal needs a good dark blue nailpolish in her stash so I picked up this one by Catrice; Blues Brother Vol II. Looking at the name, I assume there's been a previous edition of this little thing, but I'm not familiar with that one so I can't compare it.

Shopping Log

Discounts are bad for my wallet! Not for my nails though. Catrice will be renewing their collection soon so all products that are getting replaced are 50% off at my local store. There were three colors I wanted but didn't own yet, and I decided to get a back-up bottle of one of my favorite nude colors Mona Lisa Is Staring Back.

Next to that, they had another 25% off every second product and look at that, they have a new limited edition out... Enough products worth grabbing! Then I noticed the new trend edition by Essence and I liked three colors right away. But why leave those other two colors behind, right? :-) My local store also works with personalised discounts and I got to buy four bottles of the Essence Colour & Go collection at a reduced price and voila, this is what I end up with;

• Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer, no. 130 Lucky In Lilac; no. 320 Back To Black; no. 120 Plum Play With Me
• Catrice Hidden World Limited Edition Nail Lacquer, C01 White And Seek; C02 Walk On Air; C03 Wood You Follow Me?
• Catrice Hidden World Limited Edition Eye Soufflé, C02 Yes, I Wood!; C03 Rosy&Cozy
• Catrice Hidden World Limited Edition Blush Mousse
• Catrice Hidden World Limited Edition Illuminating Base
• Catrice Ultimate Nudes, no. 060 Mona Lisa Is Staring Back
• Essence Colour & Go, no 43 Where Is The Party?; no. 50 Irreplaceable; no.51 Mellow Yellow; no. 68 High Spirits
• Essence Trend Edition Nail Polish, 01 It's A Snow-Woman's World; 02 Ice Crystals On My Window; 03 Ice Age Reloaded; 04 Ice Eyes Baby; 05 Frosted Champaign

Reviews will follow, but it might take a while. So much new stuff!

Happy Wednesday,

Star Of The Nail Polishes

I hadn't planned on buying this particular nail polish as I thought it resembled a different color I already own, but after seeing swatches, I caved anyway, so here we go; Catrice Welcome To Las Vegas Limited Edition Ultimate Nail Lacquer, C03 'Star of the Show'.

Unforgettable

As it's already December, a little glamour on the nails is always welcome so I'm reviewing Catrice's 'Forget-Me-Not!' for you today.

Shopping List

I went to the store the other day and got these products. I hope they'll be as great as I expect them to be :-)

Items:

Essence Multi Action Smokey Eyes Mascara 01 (Black)

Catrice Infinite Matt Up to 18h Make Up 020 Honey Beige

Catrice Limited Edition: Welcome To Las Vegas Liquid Eyeliner C01 Drama Queen

Catrice Limited Edition: Welcome To Las Vegas Duo Lipgloss C01 Lovely Sinner

Catrice Limited Edition: Welcome To Las Vegas Nail Polish C01 Lovely Sinner

Catrice Limited Edition: Welcome To Las Vegas Nail Polish C04 Drama Queen

I also had a look at the other items from this collection and though I liked a lot of them, I didn't consider them worth buying. This limited edition has two other nail polishes, a blue and a gold/yellow one, but I thought the colors looked too familiar to Catrice's After Eight and Sand Francisco, which I both already own and will review at some point. 

At first I thought Drama Queen (the black polish) was very much like Essence Vampire's Love Gold Old Buffy but luckily I was wearing that one and could compare them in store. They proved to be quite different, but I shall compare these at a later point in time.

Be seeing ya!

New But The Old, Sexy Kind Of Way

Yes, dear readers, another one from the Catrice Fall 2011 collection; no 560, 'Rusty But Sexy'. This color was also released as part of the Modern Muse limited edition in August of this year but shows up in the fall collection too. I'm not exactly sure what Catrice wanted to accomplish with that, but the good news is that this polish will be available for a longer while! :)

Dirty Lilac

I am a big fan of the 2011 Fall collection by Catrice and one of the new colors is Ultimate Nail Lacquer, no 630, 'Sing: Hey Dirty-Lilah!'. Gotta love their names too.

Frosted ASHley

Today I'll be reviewing Catrice's Ultimate Nail Lacquer, no 610, 'ASHley' with the Catrice Frosting Top Coat.

 

Living The Big City Life

New goodies! The Catrice Limited Edition Big City Life collection is awesome. The inspirational cities are London (yellow), Berlin (pink), Sydney (purple) and New York (blue). I got all four make-up palettes and absolutely gorgeous nail polishes. I will provide more pictures and reviews soon. For now though; hurry to the store to get yours if you want, because they're going fast and the collection is only available till half November.

Happy Friday!

Rainbow Toe Nails

I'm anything but traditional when it comes to the nail polish I use for my toe nails. I will on very rare occassion go for the traditional dark red or brown colors, but I prefer to have colorful toe nails no matter the season. Don't ask me why, the only excuse I can give you is that I'm a little weird :-) For those looking for inspiration, here are my Rainbow toe nails (they're a little short, sorry).

How to get this look?

The colors that I used are these;

From left to right in this picture (and on my left foot, right foot is mirrored);
- Herôme W.I.C. Moroccan Collection (Spring 2011), no 152, Essaouirab
- Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer, no 450, Sand Francisco
- Herôme W.I.C. Moroccan Collection (Spring 2011), no 150, Zagora
- Herôme W.I.C., no 76, Rome
- Herôme W.I.C. Moroccan Collection (Spring 2011), no 149, Rabat
I did two layers of each, even though most colors didn't need for good coverage, but to get really bright colors, it's better to use two layers.

I'll review these colors at a later moment as I prefer to use the nail polish on my hands for that.

'til next time!

Aye, Captain!

As it's getting colder outside, I feel like going for some of the darker colors I have in my collection so today I'll be reviewing Catrice's Ultimate Nail Lacquer, no. 620, 'Captain Sparrow's Boat'. As the name kind of implies already, this color is definitely inspired by Chanel's Black Pearl from this year's Spring collection. I don't have the Chanel nail polish, but I'm including a picture below so you can see the similarities :)

  

In The Nude

I've hurt my ankle quite badly this weekend and though nothing ended up broken - fortunately - I didn't really have the energy or the patience to do my nails for real. But my New York look had chips so I had to remove it and I decided to pimp the nude look a little with Catrice's Ultimate Nudes, no. 060 Mona Lisa Is Staring Back.

A Star In The Making...

I had a fancy dinner last night and my previous nail look was already damaged so you're getting a new review from me already. After a while of contemplating, I decided to try Catrice's Ultimate Nail Lacquer, no 660 "I'm A Star..."

Frosted Spices?

Testing today: 

* Essence Multi Dimension XXXL Shine, no. 39 "Spicy"

* Catrice Frosting Top Coat