Marni by H&M

Don't you just love this collection? I saw the long version of the commercial on tv yesterday and I was pleasantly surprised. I made a collage of my favorites. Gorgeous model too, btw.

This collection will be available on March 8 at H&M.

'til next time!

Shopping Log - Part 2

As Catrice and Essence are introducing their updated collections, so is OPI! As a Dutch nail polish lover my goal is to buy all colors of the Holland Collection but with limited cash, I have to spread it out a little. These are the ones I bought earlier this week, together with two Sephora polishes.

Sephora 84 Full Moon Party, 69 Midnight Crawl

OPI Green-wich Village, A Roll In The Hague, Dutch 'Ya Just Love OPI?, Gouda Gouda Two Shoes, I Don't Give A Rotterdam

For some reason I never noticed that awesome green OPI color, Green-wich Village. I love, love, love it and can't wait to try it out, just like the other ones. Be still, my nail polish-loving heart.

Happy Sunday,

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 feel... Wicked

I went to see the Dutch version of the well-known musical Wicked earlier this month and I was blown away. It's absolutely amazing! Reason enough for me to create a nail look inspired by Glinda's dress as worn in the picture below.

(Photo credit: Unkown. Please drop me a comment if you know who this picture belongs to)

The look I created;

Silly me didn't realise I didn't have a light, baby blue color so I improvised a little and used a white polish as base color. I added a general glitter polish over half the nail, a blue glitter polish to get the blueish glitter and used another jelly based blue glitter polish on the lower part of my nails to get the blue look.

I hope you like the look and that it may inspire you to create one of your own :-)

Have a great week,

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.

A Base To Build On

Everybody who dyes their nails all the time knows this problem; discoloration of your nails. Using a good base coat helps a lot to avoid this and it makes your nail manicure to last longer too. But as useful as a base coat is, I don't really want to pay big bucks for it. This HEMA base coat does what it should do for a nice price.

Price: < €3,00, I can't remember exactly
Content: 11ml

It works well with any brand, less chipping of your colored nail polish and... no discoloration. At all. The only bad news is that as far as I know they only sell in the Benelux. But should you ever be visiting, pick up a few of these bottles. It's the best budget base coat I've ever used and I've tried many.

See ya!

Shopping Log

Because I didn't hurt my wallet bad enough just yet, I went to Sephora. They had the new OPI Nicki Minaj collection and I picked up Save Me. I also got a nail polish of the Sephora brand, no. 76 I love matte khaki.

Again, reviews will follow.

Cheers,