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,

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,

Broken Dawn

It's not a surprise that the name of this nail polish 'The Dawn Is Broken' was inspired by the title of a Twilight book as it was part of the Essence Vampire's Love trend edition.