Nicole by OPI - One Less Lonely Glitter

Here I am again, posting something new. :D I just finished watching El Clásico, seriously Real Madrid played so great today. I's really hoping we'll win because their game was amazing. :e I'm sorry because I spammed some of you with my tweets but watching El Clásico is sooooooooooooo stressfull for me. xo Wishing best of luck to Real Madrid on next match! Hala Madrid! :L

I've a glittery beauty for you today. You probably all know that Justin Bieber released his own nail polish collections. I really like Justin, he's so young and he really achieved a lot in his life just with his talent. I've a tiny Bieber fever lately, but not in a worst way though, I'd have a little brother like him. :D It's funny to see all those little girls all in love with Justin. When I was young, we're in love with Backstreet Boys, Caught in the Act, Kelly Family, Spice Girls etc. xP What was your childhood crush? :D

Anyway, I wanted One Less Lonely Glitter from the moment I saw it and Karen was kind enough to send me one bottle of this beauty. I never tried Nicole by OPI polish before so I didn't know what to expect. I really don't like their bottle shape, it's so weird and really hard to hold it in my hand while taking pictures. When I saw its brush, I's like, OH NO! It's very similar to Sally Hansen Broken Treasure, which I totally hate so I didn't expect much. But when I tried it, it fits perfectly to my nails and cuticle line, no clean up needed. Maybe because it's glitter and you don't have to be careful as much as with cremes or similar, but I loved it. :D

One Less Lonely Glitter is a violet mixed small and larger circle glitter. The color of glitter is same as Tru Passion from Color Club although my father said that OLLG is a tad darker but I really couldn't see the difference. :D But the glitter is same as in Bubbly Bombshell from Orly, just the color isn't same obviously. 

I added 3 coats, no TC, although the surface is gritty so I'll probably add a TC tommorow. Like I said, application is great, it dries fast, the brush is really perfect for me, I love it! :L

Daylight

Sun

It's so shinny too! This picture below isn't color accurate because sun has warmed this violet color, but you can see how blingy it is. :L

Blurry - Sun

Here's a quick bottle comparison.

Nicole by OPI - One Less Lonely Girl vs. Color Club - Tru Passion

Nicole by OPI wasn't sold in Slovenia before but now Müller have them, so if any of you still want them, be sure you'll check Müller. I think they cost around 10€. I don't know if they're already sold out, but you can still take a look and maybe you'll find something you like.

What do you think about Bieber's collection? Do you like them? Or do you hate JB? :P

I guess this polish was names after this song from JB - One Less Lonely Girl. :$

Enjoy! :P

My window is open all the time at night (that's how I get grasshoppers in my room! xo :c ) and it's already 1 AM and my neighbour always watch TV so loudly. I think she usually fall asleep because I can hear her TV even at 5 AM sometimes. :D She's just funny. :D

Nighty night,
Ivana :k

OPI - Rumple's Wiggin

I didn't like Rumpelstiltskin in the movie... But Rumple's Wiggin stole my heart. :) Another stunner from Shrek forever after collection after Funky Dunkey. :L I wore it almost a month ago and I finally crop the pictures and choose the best of them. :)

Application is great, I think I used 3 thin coats for a full opacity. It's nice light lilac soft creme color. :) First picture is most color accurate.

Sun

Shade

In case you're searching for its dupe, I think Essie - Nice is nice is the closest. :) I really can't see the difference between these two... I still didn't try Essie so I can't compare them by application but I think you don't need both of them unless if you want a back up. I prefer having differents brand than 2 same bottles, it's more fun. :D

I really love pastels so I love it! What about you?

Xoxo,

Ivana :k

Magnetic - Powerful Purple

It's such a beautiful day... Again. :) Thank you so much for your comments, my wrist is totally fine now, it hurts just a little from time to time but I think I'm totally OK now. :i

The weather is so sunny and hot - even too hot for April! Don't get me wrong, I like it, because I just love sun but it's never been so hot in April till now like it's July... I think it's something with ozone hole so be sure you're using sun protection because the sun is too strong! And be sure you're drinking a lot of water. :)

But when it's such a sunny beautiful day you can't go wrong with holographic polish, right? :e I picked Magnetic - Powerful Purple, which I got from colorful bottle. Thank you so much! :k We met a week ago, she's sooo sweet and we even didn't talk just about nail polish. :i Can't wait to see you again! :h

So I added 2 coat of this lilac linear holographic polish. This is my first Magnetic polish and I love it! It contains 15ml of polish - wooohooo! :i If it would be smaller, I would definitely need a back up. :D Brush is very similar to China Glaze, application is great and drying time is fast. Rainbow is so much visible in RL as on pictures.

Here are my short nails with this pretty polish... :$

Sun

Sun, blurry

I totally forgot to take a picture in shade or daylight, so I've just pictures on sun for now. :D I really love this polish! :L I think I've a new obsession with holos, because I want all holos I see around. :$

When I got Powerful Purple I thought it's same like China Glaze - IDK and because I don't have time to make a comparison on nails I took a picture of bottles.

Magnetic - Powerful Purple vs. China Glaze - IDK

I don't think they're dupes... Powerful Purple is a tad darker and colder and IDK is warmer but have in mind I'm not good at describing colors! I'm happy to have them both. :L

What do you think? Do you like it? 

I hope you're enjoying your weekend!

Xoxo,
Ivana :k

Catherine Arley - 675 vs. S-he - 427

I'm back, did you missed me? I definitely miss you all! :$ I was neglecting my blog lately and probably I'll neglect it for couple of weeks more because I's so tired and I still am but at least I can sleep long tomorrow. I started working at our administrative unit, work isn't difficult because I don't do mostly anything, just checking some papers or enter them to computer and that's it. It's not the work which makes me so tired but early waking. I don't sleep enough that's why I'm so tired when I get home and I take a nap almost every day but that gives me energy for staying late as always... So I'm going in circles... Well 3 weeks more and I'll be done. :)

It didn't happen much this week I guess....oh it was something new! I had my wrist in bandages. :$ Nothing serious as it looks like. :i I had a lump big as those little marble balls since last year but I never went to doctor.. But lately my right wrist hurt me bad so I went and they'd to make a puncture and now it's gone. It can happen again but next time they'll cut it out so I hope it won't come back. It was sooo hard and I thought it was a bone, but it was something filled with colorless liquid. I so enjoy watching surgeons during their work (my biggest wish when I's younger was to become a surgeon but unfortunately I'm not even near medicine :( ).
So I had just a little wound of injection but they wrap my wrist with bandages like I have broken wrist. :D It was fun because at work they thought it's something serious and I didn't have to do anything just sitting there and relaxing. :D

But now I don't have any bandages just a plaster. :i I just have to share this with you. :$

I wore my stamped Pink it up! manicure till today and I broke a nail yesterday - well it wasn't broken but it was so peeled that it became so sensitive and when I saw that's almost gone, I shortened them all. I'm using Nail Tek II Intensive Therapy for 2 weeks now I think and my nails are better, stronger... Just my pointer started peeling even before I started using Nail Tek and I didn't want to cut them all... So I'm glad I can start at the beginning... I'll probably make separate post dedicated to this nail hardener in near future. :)

I promised you a picture of comparison between Catherine Arley - 675 and S-he 427. S-he #427 is the only holo which we can get in drugstores... Pretty pink with great application and low price. :) When I was searching the nearest shade from CA I own to this beauty I thought it would match with 675 but I was wrong.

As you can see the difference is quite obvious but if you're not a pink lover, you definetely don't need both. But if you're like me, you must have both - I really can never have enough of holos, but if they're pink... I have to have them all!! :i
I applied 2 coats of each, fast drying, great application... :L

Sun

Daylight

 Middle finger and pinkie: Catherine Arley - 675

Pointer and ring finger: S-he - 427

#675 is more pink and #427 is more like mauve pink - I'm really not so good with describing colors. :D Oh, and why my pinkie looks darker? - I really don't know. xo Maybe the light hits it under different angle or I applied one coat more? I can't remember. :D So, which one do you like more?
CA polishes can be bought online and S-he at drugstores in Europe called DM but not all DMs have it (some ha. At the moment they're on sale, because we can expect new products from them soon! I hope they'll make more interesting colors! :D

I read all your comments but I'll reply on them probably this weekend, when I will be rested!

I wish you all great and relaxing Sunday! :k
Xoxo,
Ivana :k

OPI - DS Original vs. Color Club - Fashion Addict

It was such a horrible day today. I fell asleep really late and wake up quite fast. It was really time that I visit lectures at least for these exams I have to pass in June. So, everything was just fine, I met really sweet lady Tinna from Tinna's nails (she and her nails are soooo pretty :L ), I checked some DM for S-he discontinued polishes (although I didn't find anything I wanted) and walked towards my facutly. Everything was just fine until it's started raining so much that even my umbrella didn't help. But when I finally arrived at facutly all wet we waited an hour and half for professor, but he didn't come at all. :@ I wouldn't be bothered if my faculty was in my town, but I have to take a train and bus to get there and I always spend 2 hours that's why I was in bad mood since then. xo He should just tell us that he won't make it but no... They can do everything...

Anyway, enough of complaining, Rebecca from rebecca likes nails asked me if I can do a comparison between OPI - DS Original and Color Club - Fashion Addict. Fashion Addict isn't holographic as Original at all. If I had the first version of Fashion Addict, which was more holo it would be even more interesting doing this comparison. :D 

I added 2 coats of both. FA is definetely more pink and Original is more lilac. :)

 Pointer and ring finger: Color Club - Fashion Addict

Middle finger and pinkie: OPI - DS Original

Sun

Daylight

Rebecca I hope this helps you and I'm sure you will definetely buy Original too, right? :) Which one do you prefer more? I think both are just gorgeous. :L

I'm soooooo tired so I'm going to sleep now. :$

Sweet dreams,
Ivana :k

Violet Foil Comparison

It was such a awful day for me today. First I woke up and my laptop didn't work properly at all. Windows 7 has crashed for no reason. I really don't know what happened, because it worked for almost a year without any tiny problem! I was soooo angry. I can't be without my computer at all, so I spent almost all day trying to fix it, but no success. So... I had to format it! And now my hard drive is empty, I've lost all my files - pictures, music, documents for school, movies,... But at least my laptop is working now like it has to. I will try to recover lost files, hope it'll work!!

And as if this wasn't enough I broke my nail while pushing the reset button on my old computer, because I wanted to find some informations on the internet what could be wrong with my laptop and in the middle of searching it's frozen. I was so mad so I filed them all down! Now my nails are weird... I really prefer this lenght of my nails like on the pictures below and not so short as now.

Right before I broke my nail I took a picture of violet/lilac foils from my collection. I pick these 3 for this comparison:

From L to R:

Essence TE Into the Ocean - Bubble Bubble

Essence TE Fairytale - Fairy Berry

S-he - 436

And in the same sequence on my nails... 2 coats of each.

Daylight, cloudy day

As you can see, Bubble Bubble and Fairy Berry are very very close, #436 is kind of colder violet than other 2. Their application was good, quick drying,...

And I changed a background and header of my blog, I'm still searching for perfect background picture, but I like it how it looks right now too. What do you think? Would you change anything?

Tnx for reading!

Xoxo,
Ivana

Brown/Taupe Comparison

I got S-he - #500 from my friend to try it out. First I wanted to paint all my nails with it, but I change my mind when I put it on my pinkie. So I decided to try other brown/taupe polishes from my collection.

From L to R:
S-he -#500
Essence LE Into the Wild - Desert Fox
Essence LE Creamylicious - Chocolate Shake
Essence LE Into the Wild - Zulu

Hmm... How would I describe these colors? #500 and Desert Fox is brown/taupe cremes. These 2 could be dupes or very very close, but I think that #500 is more brown than Desert Fox. Chocolate Shake is a brown with cooper shimmer nail polish and Zulu is a light grey with a touch of brown creme. Zulu dries in plastic-satin finish, it's not matte, but for this comparison I added 1 coat Seche Vite.

I like Chocolate Shake most and even Zulu with TC looks beautiful. Chocolate Shake was one of my first polishes I bought when I became obssesed with polishes and TE from Essence.

Which one do you like?

I'm going to paint my nails with PINK!

Xoxo,
Ivana

Konad & BM image plates

I'm at home now so I took some time to write this post.

When I recevied BM plates, it was obvious that patterns are smaller than on Konad image plates, but I was hoping that they will still match to my nails. First I tried the stripes pattern on BM20 that I showed you here and I already told you, that the pattern was perfect only for my pinkie. So you have to stamp twice or more if you want to cover your whole nail.

Here is picture of both plates, Konad on left and BM on right. They're quite same size, but on Konad are mostly just 4 all-over nail pattern and on BM 6. From this picture you can already see difference in size of patterns.

I also stamped one pattern from Konad and one from BM on paper to show you the difference. Lenght of BM pattern is just a little smaller but width is much smaller, so those with wide nails will have to stamp at least twice.

When I stamp my nails with Konad image plates, I usually have to stamp just once or twice if my nails are longer, but with BM like I said, I had to stamp more than twice. So, you have to be patient and very precise. Only those with small and narrow nails will stamp just once. I really don't know why are patterns on BM plates so small.

But BM plates have so many lovely patterns that Konad doesn't have, so you need both.

So, that's it! Hope this comparison is helpful!

Xoxo,
Ivana

For Audrey & Bella's Choice Comparison

I give up from doing a comparisons, because I can't capture the real difference between them.

I apply 2 coats of each, For Audrey and Party Blue are still streaky with just 1 but I didn't have any problems with application, Bella's Choice could work also with one, if you're very careful and you apply one thicker coat.

From L to R:
H&M - Bella's Choice
Maybelline Mini Colorama - Party Blue
China Glaze - For Audrey
H&M - Bella's Choice

In RL is difference between For Audrey and Bella's Choice more obvious, BC is darker and greener then FA. If you like turquoise color, you need both, believe me! I add Party blue to show you the difference between pastel blue and turquoise.

What's next? IDK, maybe a taupe color?

Xoxo,
Ivana

Nubar - Petunia Sparkle Comparison

A few weeks ago, when I showed you my first Nubar - Petunia Sparkle, Pink_Diamond asked me if I can show her how this beauty looks with just one coat and 2, etc... She said that she's too lazy to put too many coats, because she ruined it before it dries. I was just like her, but when I got Good to go, a fast drying TC from Essie, 3 coats or more aren't the problem anymore for me. But Petunia Sparkle also dries fast even without TC.

Number on picture is the number of coats I used on each nail.

If I would be more careful, it would also look great with 2 coats, but I had to put one more to cover my nails tips. It's too sheer to add just one and it doesn't look nice if you ask me. I tried my best to cover my whole nail with one coat, but the brush kept wiping off the glitter, so I couldn't make it just with one.

Hope this comparison helped you, Pink_Diamond!

As you can see, I changed the header. I want something with fall theme and this one is perfect - with a touch of pink. How do you like it?

Take care,
Ivana