Essence You Belong To Me & Crack me! Black

Although I liked this color I decided to try how Essence Crack me! Black looks over You Belong To Me. I'm actually so bored with all crackles, because almost every brand has some. I want something new, not just crackles in one million different colors. :i

I got both to try out and here is Crack me! Black. Like almost all crackles, you must apply a coat over any dry polish. I tried China Glaze's crackles and their application is quite thick and this one isn't thick at all. It's so smooth, you can apply it so easily. Great job, Essence! 

It dries fast and it's very pigmented. Patterns of crackles are different than China Glaze's so it just depends, what you like more. I really love China Glaze's crackles but love Essence's formula. :P

It's dries matte so if you prefer shiny version, you can always apply a TC. :)

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With a layer of TC...

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What do you think? Do you like these kind of crackles or do you prefer China Glaze, OPI, Nicole by OPI, Barry M, LCN, Models Own, Golden Rose, etc. etc. etc... :D

A tiny picture spam, but I just couldn't decide which one to show you. :) I'm actually writing this post for an hour, my head is crazy, it seems like I forgot all words in English. :D I also spilled out a bottle of 108 Degrees today... I was sooooooooo mad! xo Not because I ruined the carpet but because I spilled one of most  beautiful polish. There's still a lot left but still... I'm so clumsy sometimes. xo

Nighty night,

Ivana :k

Swap with Martje from **Girly - Addictions** #2

I totally forgot to show you these beauties which I got a while ago. :i I'm still keeping them on my desk and watching them all the time. :P

I wanted them for a while, especially when I saw all those beautiful swatches from AmyGrace at The Polished Perfectionist. Seriously, I'd love to have all polishes she show us... Her pictures and NAILS are just amazing. :L

And then lovely Martje from **Girly - Addictions** make my dreams come true and I got them. :h She was so nice and got all I wanted for me and for Dolores from colorful bottle's blog. Thank you so much! :k

Teeez

Outa Control

Cool

Smooth

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All are soooo beautiful! I'm in love (again). :P

And some extras:

Thank you Martje! :k

Do you own or want any polishes from Teeez? :)

Have fun,
Ivana :k

Essence - You Belong To Me

I wanted to post my upgrade of Virtual Violet but I changed my mind today when I painted my nails. :D I got a bunch of polishes from my lil' sister Veri to try them out. I still didn't buy any single polish from Essence's new range. I'm broke, I have to complete my swaps first and then I'm picking some of them for me. :D But she already picked some of them so she was kind enough to lend them to me. :D Thank you dear. :k

I decided to pick something else, it's a time to show you something different than pink, right? :) You Belong To Me (what a pretty name :$ ) is a nice light blue with hint of green creme pastel, I suppose it's very similar to Essie - Mint Candy Apple. :)

Application is great, 2 coats and a coat of TC. I'm quite impressed with their formula, some pastels can be  really difficult to apply, but this one isn't.

I had so many problems with my nails today. My pointer curls.. A lot. :P And it really annoys me, because it's even more noticable on pics. So I had to soak it into water and take all the pictures again. Everything for decent pictures. :P

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As you can see, my nails are quite long now. They're not peeling at all, thanks to the Nail Tek Intesive Therapy II and now Foundation II. :b From light it depends how this polish looks like - I took this picture on daylight and it looks just blue. :)

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I really love it and I definitely need it! I love those little Color & Go polishes, they're cheap and great! You can't go wrong with them. :)

I watched Wimbledon today. What a great finals but of course Novak Đoković won! :e From tommorow on he's the #1! Congrats! :b

Xoxo,

Ivana :k

China Glaze - Virtual Violet

My nails are naked at the moment, I wanted to swatch some polishes today but the weather isn't great, I'm still tired so I'll probably do something with my nails tommorow. :D Today I wake up with a puffy eye, weird and funny feeling when you can't open your eye properly. :brow But it's better now. :D 

Let's start with another beauty, which I wore a month ago. :) Virtual Violet is a part of China Glaze's Tronica collection. Thanks to blondie711 I got my hands on them, but I'm still missing Electra Magenta (if anyone has an extra bottle and you don't need it, please lmk! :$ ). I had really big hopes for Tronica but when I saw first swatches I's totally dissapointed because I wanted them to be like OMG. But after seeing a million of beautiful pictures, I knew I had to have some of them. If I don't have LOL & BFF from OMG, at least I can try to get some of these. :P But China Glaze, make more holos like OMG or even bring Kaleidoscopes back! I don't have any of them. :c

Virtual Violet is a dark violet with scattered holo glitter, color is same as LOL just finish is different. :) I added 2 coats, application is amazing, if you're careful, you can get away with only 1 coat. :) But this beauty didn't last long, next day I had visible tipwear which bothered me so much so I had to upgrade it a little but I'll show you pictures of my upgrade next time. :) 

It's not super holo but still beautiful and much prettier in RL as on pictures. :L

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I'm happy to have it! :L 

What do you think about Tronica collection? Were you dissapointed? Or do you love it? Which collection'd you like to be brought back - OMG or Kaleidoscope? :) My answer is: BOTH, PLEASE. :L

XOXO,

Ivana :k

Broken Hearted Nova

Woohoo, my last exam was today! I was soooo in a bad mood today, like really really bad - although I passed 2 exams and I got a great mark of my term paper, I's so without energy today... It's even more dissapointing because I might fail at my last exam but okay... We'll see, I hope this bad feeling'll go away... Now I'm patiently waiting for results of 2 exams... I think it will take a while because one professor is somewhere on the other side of this world and one always takes his time for checking them... xo

And the day was even worse, when I went from home to capital, it started raining like craaaaaaazy, when something goes wrong, everything everything goes. :D I's wet, cold,... :ice xo But I survived. :D

I didn't change my mani for almost half and a week now and Catherine Arley 670 still looks "perfect" - there is tipwear of course which is almost invisible because polish is so light, just my nails has grown so I can see that not so tiny gap between cuticles and polish. :D But I'm removing it tommorow. :e

So for today I decided to show you my ooold mani, I took this pictures on 18th May, so yeah, OLD. :D I already showed you Nova, I added a coat of China Glaze's Broken Hearted when she started chipping after few days. I really love crackles, because I can easily hide chips and I can totally wear my mani few days more. :)

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I recently saw large pictures on some blogs and I'm totally loving them. :L Do you like larger pictures? Or not?

Thanks for your sweet comments on my Franken post, I's so happy to see that you like it too! :) I'm so behind with replying on comments, but I'm sure I'll have plenty of time right now to catch them up.

What do you think? Is Nova the only one who looks nice even Broken Hearted? :P

Now it's time for a looooooooooooong sleep! :d

Nighty night,

Ivana :k