O.P.I. Red Lights Ahead…Where?

Ok so…it’s been a while I’ve been really busy this week, barley had time to breathe and eat so my nails were kind of the last thing I was thinking about (lucky for me my nail polish lasted a decent amount of time).

Today I give you…OPI Red Lights Ahead…Where? from the Holland collection released this spring.

First coat was really disappointing: sheer and plain ugly. The second one was better. Well, it got ok by the fourth.

I hated it at first. Badly! But as the days went by I fell hopelessly in love with it. It’s such a wonderful shade of red, so bright (almost neon) and sort of chameleonic – in some lights it looks bright red, in others it’s a little towards pink or just a beautiful shade of orange.

I really really love it! I mean…how could I not? The pictures speak for themselves (yup, I had to post three – the last one is the most colour accurate):

What do you think about it? Love it? Hate it? Would you buy it?

Emerald Sparkled’s China Glaze Hunger Games Giveaway

I usually don’t enter giveaways but this one is an exception

The prize is SO awesome! The WHOLE (yup, all of it) China Glaze Hunger Games Collection

You can enter here: China Glaze Hunger Games Givaway.

Good luck (well, I hope I win, but good luck to you as well ).

Electric Tiara or Lorelei’s Beat? :)

Today I have another mani from the Electropop  colection for you.

This time I used Electric beat as a base, a lovely dusty blue that reminds me of a clear summer’s sky and layerd Lorelei’s Tiara (Eye Candy collection) on top using a sponge. I quite like how it turned out, I’ve been staring at my nails all day

Formula is amazing, really easy to apply. I love it when cremes are like that. And I have a hunch that all the polishes from this collection have a wonderful formula. Good thing I got most of them.

Take care

China Glaze Aquadelic

Last week I recieved these beauties in the mail:

 The first three are part of China Glaze’s spring collection, Electropop, while the last one, White Out was released for the 2010 Holidays (I needed a white polish). I’m still expecting two more from this collection: Gothic lollita and Wicked style.

I was super excited but had zero time to try them last week and only got around to it on Sunday. I chose Aquadelic to do my mani and, because I wanted a little more than just simple nails, I added a konad design over it. Heck, it looked ok, so why not add some french tips and ruin it?

China Glaze Aquadelic

M64 Design with Konad white polish and Essie Mint Candy Apple for tips

 I’m not happy at all with the tips. I used tape to do them but they’re far from perfect (and I do need them nice and sharp). Well, maybe next time.

The formula was great, really easy to apply (for a cream) and the colour is wonderful! It does reming me a bit of For Audrey except I like this one (For Audrey is a little too much blue and too little green for my taste).

Have you tried anything from the Electropop collection? Did anything catch your eye?

Take care

China Glaze Eye Candy

When I first saw the Eye Candy Collection nothing really screamed “MUST HAVE” to me. And then I saw Lorelei’s Tiara on Alexa’s Blog and decided it has to be mine.

And because, of course, I couldn’t buy just one, I got Some Like it Haute as well.

 The picture really doesn’t do it justice. It’s so beautiful (eye candy, really!) – small silver glitter and bigger, hexagonal, blue glitter in a clear base. I did 3 coats but could have gotten away with two if I wasn’t such a perfectionist.

The down side is that it’s a huge top coat eater (well, what do I expect from glitters?) and it chips quite easily. But hey, I can live with that seeing that it’s so pretty. Oh yeah, removing it is a bi**h (pardon my french )! I dipped cotton pads in acetone, placed them over my nails and wrapped them in aluminum foil for about 5 minutes  and it was a lot easier (removing it the normal way is near to impossible).

This one was rather a pain to apply but I managed a decent job. I think it looks better in pictures than on the nail. I like it, but not as much as I expected. It’s a lot of small black glitter (actually a very dark grey), a bit of small silver and holo hex glitter. Yup, that’s a lot of glitter (you can see a close-up in the picture below).

It’s so sparkly (thanks to the holo) but I couldn’t get a focused picture to show you so…here, have an out of focus one

 Overall I think they’re pretty awesome, even though they don’t last very long and are kind of hard to remove.

I got them both from Beauty in The Bottle (if you’re from Romania I highly recomend it).

Nubar Amethyst

I’ve had this polish for quite some time now, but it’s the second time I’m actually using it.

It’s part of the Royal Gems collection released by Nubar for fall 2009 (so yeah, it’s old ) and it’s the only polish I have from this collection.

I love the formula, not too thick, not too runny, just nice and easy to apply. It’s also a breeze to clean if I get some on my skin. So why haven’t I worn this? Because it’s a top coat eater! After 2 coats of top coat it still feels gritty.

The colour in the photos is not very accurate, it’s a little more towards purple (but I guess it’s camera shy because it doesn’t come up at all) but that’s the best I got.

It has really beautiful red and blue microglitter but it’s visible only up close (you can see it in the above picture if you click on it and look at the bottle). Here’s a detail to understand what I’m talking about:

Getting past the fact that it’s rather gritty, I actually like it!

A new project!

I’ve been blogging for about 2 years (actually 2 years and a few days to be more precise) on my romanian blog. It’s been a great time and I can’t really believe so much time has passed.

It’s somewhat “in” to have a bilingual blog. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a long time. However, even though I like to use some words/expressions in english, I don’t really like to translate my posts in english. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against this, I just find it’s a rather boring job:)

So I’ve decided to buy a new domain – www.epurica.com (epurica is a sort of variation from the romanian equivalent of the word bunny – kinda like bunneh if you get my drift), and translate the theme entirely in english. I’m really lacking inspiration for writing in romanian lately (hence my lack of activity), but I do have a lot of ideas in english (I find myself thinking in english more times than I care to admit). I feel more confortable writing in english so it’s very possible I’ll update this blog more often than the other one (but only time will tell).

If you have any sugestions you’re more than welcome to share them.

Take care