Nail Polish: Make Up Store - Elin

I am pretty sure this nail polish is the oldest nail polish in my collection, I think I bought it in 2009. I really like this type of red colour since it is more of a fun red colour than a dramatic one. I remember I really liked this nail polish but it has really come to its end.

The formula has become to thick and too gooey, the brush has as well gotten to messy. I remember that when I bought the nail polish it took forever to dry and that is still the fact. Therefore, it went into the trash.

I am not sure if I will buy any other nail polishes from them (or any make-up) since I'm not sure if they are cruelty free, and I wouldn't really know where to buy them outside Iceland!

Bisous

Nail Polish: Chanel - 461 Blue Satin

This is the third dark blue nail polish that I have (the other two: Mavala - 269 Deep Blue and OPI - Yoga-Ta Get This Blue!). I will say that the one from Chanel has the best formula and is easiest to use. It doesn't mean that I like it the best (because it has some annoying flaws) but that their formula is the best.

However, even with the great formula this nail polish has the tendency to get damaged by the tiniest things. Today I put on my glasses and the nail polish chipped (more got a dent/hole), it didn't chip at the end of the nail but somewhat around the middle of the nail. Annoying.

I feel the Chanel nail polish is more of a nail polish when I am not planning on doing anything that day or touching anything since it will damage quite easily.

I will keep this polish and the other two since dark blue is one of my favorite colour.

Bisous

Nail Polish: Mavala - 269 Deep Blue

I didn't manage to do my nails on Thursday and Friday since I was working but I will just extend the week of  nail polish for two more days (or until next Tuesday). Today I am wearing Deep Blue (269) from Mavala. 

The bottle is almost empty (even if you can't see it from outside the bottle) and it is hard to get the final drops of the nail polish out. I want to finish this polish since I love it and it will definitely be in my next Empties post/video. 

I love this nail polish (and that is why the bottle is almost empty), the colour is fantastic and I just love everything about this nail polish.

I won't throw this one away (since I am about to finish it) but I won't repurchase it when it is finished since I already have this one from OPI, and they are just too similar for me to have both. I as well have another one from Chanel that is similar so I really don't need more of dark blue nail polishes.

Bisous

Nail Polish: OPI - Yoga-Ta Get This Blue!

I love this colour, and that is probably why I have this exactly same colour from Mavala and Chanel. I think this one is my favorite out of the three, I just like the formula better. But I want to focus on this one and I will write about the other ones later this week!

As I said, I love this colour. The formula is great, it is a bit thin and I probably should have but two coats on but I just couldn't be bothered today! Because of how thin the formula is you can see the imperfections of the nail even with the polish on top. Since I have quite bad nails sometimes that annoys me. The only thing I don't like that much is how messy this polish is compared to my other nail polishes and it is super hard to get it off my skin.

Still, I will definitively keep this one.

Bisous

Nail Polish: H&M - Fashionista

I am trying to talk about one nail polish ever day this week since I want to go through my stash and throw out the ones I don't like (you can read more about that here). I'm still following the rules of the challenge and I don't find it to be any hassle at all. But I want to finish writing about all the polishes I have and throw the ones I don't like out (because I like doing that).

What can I say about this nail polish. Well, it is from H&M ( I am still boycotting them) and I have another nail polish from Essence that is exactly the same colour. I love this colour, it is purple and shiny with out having glitter in it. What I don't like about it is that it doesn't stay on the nails at all. It lasts about 2 hours before it starts chipping. The formula is great, I only need 2 coats for it to look perfect but again, it doesn't even last for a long lunch.

I am quite torn, I hate polishes that don't even last a day but I love the colour and the formula is great. I think I  will put it in the maybe pile with Mikado from Astor and see when I have gone through all of my nail polishes if it is worth keeping or not.

I might do a post about all the nail polishes and which one I decided to keep and which ones I decided to throw away when I have gone though all my polishes.

Bisous

Nail Polish: Astor - Mikado

I am quite torn about this nail polish, it looks great but it takes too many coats for it to look opaque. But when I used it over blue nail polishes it looks great with just one coat! I think I will keep it.

The formula of the nail polish is great, but as you can see on the pictures even after 3 coats it wasn't really opaque. I think I will keep it and see how it works as a top coat for some of my other nail polishes.

Bisous.

P.S. Check out some of the other nail polishes I have written about.

Nail Polish: Essence Colour & Go - 15 Party On

My nail polish challenge is still on!  Today my contender is the Essence Colour & Go in colour 15 Party On. On the bottle it says that it only takes one second per nail and let me tell you, that is a lie!

The nail polish is stringy! I've never seen anything like it. The polish isn't old so it should be like this! The colour as well isn't that fantastic.

With one coat, the polish is super blotchy and looks awful (photo above) and with two coats the polish is still blotchy and uneven (photo below)

All in all, this nail polish sucks! Therefore, this polish is definitely going to the trash!

Bisous

Nail Polish: Catrice Cosmetics - Ultimate Nail Laquer - 510 Bye, Bye Birdy!

My nail polish challenge is still going strong! Today on the table is a nail polish from Catrice Cosmetics. The colour is a gorgeous yellow and is called 510 Bye, Bye Birdy! 

I love this colour, it is so yellow and pretty! The consistency of the nail polish itself is alright and Catrice claims to be cruelty free, but there are just so many other problems with this nail polish!

The main problem I have with this polish is that it chips horribly, it doesn't even last a day! It doesn't help that you need 3-4 coats for it to even look decent!

Therefore, I will toss this nail polish! Another one bites the dust!

Bisous

Check out my other nail polish posts!

Nail Polish: Yves Rocher - Mini Nail Polish - Maxi Colour - Vert Noir

By doing my nail polish challenge I am forcing myself to try all the nail polishes that I have in my stash. Some of them are awful and I have thrown out but some of them are amazing and I am happy that I found them again. This is one of the amazing ones.

It isn't sold anymore so I can't buy another one when this one is finished. Yves Rocher does have other Mini Nail Polishes and I think I will get some of them later because I really love them! They are a tiny 3 ml / 0.10 fl oz so it should be easy to finish them! 

I had to use two  coats for it to look right but it wasn't a problem since the formula isn't too think or otherwise unmanageable. I love the colour, it is a bit darker than emerald green and just amazing.

I will definitely use this nail polish again and hopefully I will be able to find this colour again when I finish this bottle!

Bisous

Nail Polish: Yves Rocher - Nail Lacquer High Colour High Shine - 12 Rose Fuchsia

This is one of my favorite nail polish and it is actually almost finished! I love the color, the consistency and just about everything about it.

The nail polish I am talking about is the Yves Rocher - Nail Lacquer - 12 Rose Fuschia - ($5), I have had it for a long time and it is still as awesome as the day I bought it. I hate when nail polishes go funky in couple of months.

It really is super shiny and the color is just amazing! I put on two coats of the nail polish and one coat of Incolore from Mavala and on my ring finger I have two coats of the Frosting topcoat from Catrice.

I am definitely keeping this one and it will probably be one of the nail polishes I will finish before the summer.  It is as well very likely I will finish my Incolore topcoat soon! I hate how the Frosting topcoat looks when it is photographed, it annoys me quite a lot because I take my pictures with natural light and no flash and it still doesn't really show how pretty the topcoat looks! 

Bisous

Nail Polish: Yves Rocher - Yria Age Repair - 307 Rouge Imperial

My Nail Polish Challenge continues and on the table today is Yves Rocher Yria Age Repair nail polish in colour 307 Rouge Imperial! I have had this nail polish for a very long time (it isn't even sold anymore)! Today when I started using the nail polish I noticed it had gone really thick! I put couple of drops on nail polish remover (yes I know I should do that) and the nail polish was manageable again!

I really want to buy a nail polish thinner, I know that Mavala has one that I have been eyeing for some time now! I might buy it after my 100 Days of Decluttering Challenge has ended.

I really love the colour and one coat is enough for the colour really to shine! I think I would buy some more of it if it would still be sold!

In conclusion, I am throwing this nail polish away! It has gotten old and it isn't really worth all the annoyance that comes with using nail polishes that aren't 100% amazing.

Bisous!

Nail Polish: Mavala - 130 Aqua Blue

As I mentioned in my February Favorites this nail polish is one of my favorite nail polishes! I love the colour and just pretty much everything about it. The 130 Aqua Blue by Mavala just ticks all of the things that I love in nail polishes.

I love how it shimmers without being glittery (can't stand glitter polishes), I love that it is blue, I love that it brightens my mood, I love the size of the bottle, I love the brush, I love the consistency of the polish itself. Therefore, this one is a definite keeper! 

I have written about Mavala nail polishes before, for example Sweety and Tropique. 

I actually have couple of nail polish posts ready for this week! My Nail Polish Challenge  seems to be going well and I feel like I am actually accomplishing things! Yay!

Nail Polish: Claire's Cosmetics Chip Resistance Nail Polish Colours B45 and B57

Since I started my Nail Polish Challenge I decided to jump into the deep end and just start right away! I decided to start with these Claire's Nail Polish. I only have these two colours from them, B57 which is the glittery yellow and B54 which I have been debating in  my head if it is orange or peach. 

I love the yellow glittery one, it has enough glitter for me (I can't stand chunky glitter) and the nail polish itself has a good consistency. I put on two coats and the nail polish wasn't too thick. I could easily have put on another coat if I wanted but I liked how it looked with just two coats.

But the peach/orange one is just horrible, the nail polish itself is somehow sticky and just doesn't work. I can't seem to use the polish on my entire nail because of its stickiness. Even just one coat is just too thick. And with only one coat it is uneven and is see-through in some spots, and with two or more it just becomes way to thick! In one word: horrible!

From left Claire's Cosmetics Chip Resistance - B45, Claire's Cosmetics Chip Resistance - B57, Mavala - Incolore

I have now thrown the orange/peachy one away since it is just horrible. However, I am keeping the yellow one! I love that one!

I as well used my favorite top coat, Incolore from Mavala!

Bisous!

Nail Polish: Bourjois - So Laque Ultra Shine Nail Enamel - Bleu Mystérieux 32 and Catrice Cosmetics - Frosting Top Coat

Part of my decluttering plan is to use up my ginormous make up stash, and that includes nail polishes! 

Without further ado, I want to talk about the Bourjois So Laque nail polish that I have. I only have one of the  colour from them and I know I won't be buying any more. I actually know that I won't be buying anything more from Bourjois because in my opinion they are shit. Yes, I said it. Bourjois products are just awful! I have tried their eye shadow (reviewed here) and I didn't like it so I can officially say no more Bourjois for me. 

The problem I have with the Bourjois So Laque nail polish is that the nail polish itself is just weird, the consistency and the brush are for me just not user-friendly at all. There is one thing that is good about the nail polish and that is the intensity of the colour, but I wouldn't buy it just because of that fact because there are other nail polishes with the same intensity of colour that don't have the issue that So Laque has. 

The colour I chose was The colour that I have is Bleu Mystérieux 32, and as you can see the colour is great. Finger number 1 and 3 have the Catrice Cosmetics Frosting top coat and finger number 2 only has So Laque.

However, I actually wanted to focus more on the topcoat I am using, it is from Catrice Cosmetics and is called Frosting. I love it! When I first bought it I kinda forgot about it and didn't really use it, but, luckily I accidentally stumbled upon it when I was looking through my nail polish drawer and I just knew I had to use it more! It both brings the colour of the nail polish out and gives it something extra! It helps as well how amazing the consistency of the top coat is!

You will definitively see me use the Catrice Frosting Top Coat again and you might see the So Laque polish in my decluttering posts of things I have thrown away or I might use it for some crafts! Do you know any crafts that I could do with awful nail polish?


Bisous

Nail Polish: Mavala - Sweety

I have only posted about Mavala once before but I swear I have super many of their nail polishes! I love them for couple of reasons, first they have amazing colours and secondly they have 5 ml / 0.17 fl.oz. bottles that are just perfect!

Today I am wearing the colour Sweety by Mavala. I only wear one coat because I love when the polish is a bit sheer sometimes and I just LOVE this colour!

I haven't been wearing nail polish at all for some time because my nails had some epic meltdown and just didn't want to do anything else but break! But with some tender, love and care I managed to get them healthy again.

Today I am as well wearing a nail strengthener from Yves Rocher, I haven't used it a lot so I can't really review it that well but so far I like what I am seeing! It is something I found at the bottom of my nail polish drawer, it seemingly has been discontinued and I can't find it anywhere online. But, it is called Manicure Soin Durcissant or Nail Strengthener.

Mavala in the colour Sweety can be purchaced at Boots.com for £4.30

Bisous

Nail Polish: Mavala - Tropique

Today I  won't do a Make-Up Monday. I have my first final exam tomorrow and I am certain my brain is melting inside my skull.  I was trying to ease my mind by putting on one of my favorite nail polish. 

Base: Alexandro - Nail Spa Colour - Mavala - Tropique Top Coat - Mavala - Incolore I am as well taking part in Mani Monday at Justlove.ly check it out: Bisous  P.S. Hopefully everything will be awesome after my last final on Wednesday! 

Nail Polish: Forever 21 - Love and Beauty - Scented - Dark Purple

I own quite a lot of Nail Polishes and I want to talk about them!

I bought this one in Austin, Tx this summer in Forever 21. It is supposed to smell like passion fruit but I find it smells more like bubble gum. The colour is supposed to be dark purple but when it is not in direct sunlight (like on the pictures) it is more of brown/black.

It was as well a pain to get on the nails, I don't think it is very visible in these pictures but there are spots where the nail polish just didn't stay on.

The nail varnish is messy as hell on these pictures, I started cleaning around the nails but I ran out of nail polish remover. A big "duh" move! So, my nails are a bit messy.

I can't decide if I like this colour or not, it just so bland. I can see myself using it if I would work in an office or somewhere where happiness isn't allowed.

Toodleoo

Nail Polish: Forever 21 - Love and Beauty - Teal

Since I arrived here in Austin I've been really psyched about trying all these things you can't get in Geneva. One of these things is (of course) Nail polishes.

I went to Forever 21 and wanted to buy some clothes. That didn't work, nothing looked good on me! I walked around the store and found my favourite thing in the world: Nail polish! I bought three bottles of it, I mean they were only $2.80!

When I tried to paint my nail with the nail polish I realized how thick it was, sadly it wasn't thick and colourful it was thick and the colour was too light.

Since it was so thick there were air bubbles, this was just one layer! Usually I never get any bubbles.

I decided to take quickly some pictures so that I wouldn't damage it and then would have to do it again to get some pictures. 

 

It was super messy because the brush was just bad, it was small and sometimes it grabbed a lot of  nail polish but didn't distribute it evenly. In general it was just awful. 

And then this happened. I had waited for over ten minutes to do anything with my nails, I wasn't even doing anything with my nail I was just turning the nail polish bottle around. I had to remove the nail polish from my nails, on all my nails the nail polish was still kinda wet. Something I really HATE about nail polishes.

After I took it all of I took this last picture showing the name of the nail polish. I wanted to show that one too because the colour is really not teal, it's more like pine tree green. 

I will try the other two that I bought from Forever 21 but I doubt that I'll buy any more nail polish from them again.

Nail Polish: Revlon - 375 Passion Fruit vs. OPI - Ate Berries in the Canaries

It's not lie that I love nail polishes. I've got a nice sized collection and always love buying new ones.  Last week I was looking into buying a new colour when I saw this one from Revlon called 375 Passion Fruit.

In the bottle it looked almost identical to one of my favourite nail polish from O.P.I called Ate Berries in the Canaries. I just had to check it out and see how similar they looked on my nails. 

As you can see they look almost identical. I find that the O.P.I is more brighter than the Revlon and I found the Revlon chip more than the O.P.I.

The extra plus to Revlon was the scent that it had when it dried, I'm not sure if it was supposed to smell like passion fruit or what, but it smelled sweet. 

I'll probably use both of them since sometimes I do like to have a little more dull colour on my nails but I do like the brightness of the O.P.I more.

Sorry for no posting, I've had had crazy weeks and travels. But now I've arrived at my final destination :)

Nail Polish: OPI - Orge-the-Top Blue

This weeks nail polish is my favorite. It's from OPI Shrek Forever After Collection. This color is called "Ogre-the-Top Blue"

I love this color because it's blue. I love blue and I love OPI! It's a match made in heaven !

I've been looking around how it's the best to do the photos and so here will be another try.

You can actually see how messy my cuticles are and that I didn't put the nail polish on super well.  But for me it doesn't really matter since I just LOVE this nail polish.