china glaze bizzare blurple (wicked)

bizarre blurple is a china glaze gem from their wicked collection for halloween 2012. i already showed cast a spell, one of my favourite polishes.

i love both purple and blue polishes, but i just might love blurples the most. this one is leaning more towards blue than purple. from the bottle, it would seem that it is a duochrome or a metallic polish, but in fact it is just highly saturated shimmer, but pretty nevertheless.

it is well pigmented with no particular formula difficulties.

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opi warm me up (mariah carey holiday)

after baby, please come home, i am showing another polish from opi's mariah carey holiday collection from back in 2013, and that is warm me up.

warm me up is described as a " deep brown/ black with a gold shimmer throughout." i am not really a brown person, but i love this one. the shade is this amazing chocolate hue with a perfect amount of fine silver glimmer that gives it a frost-like finish. this microshimmer can come alive as green and bronze in the sun.

formula is also perfect, a typical two-coater.

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ysl rouge pop art (1)

it seems that lately i'm publishing only dark polishes, and i felt like i need something more lively. what better choice than ysl rouge pop art, the first one in their core collection.

i am not a red nail polish hoarder, but from time to time i get the urge to wear red on my nails. and rouge pop art always manages to cheer me up. i believe that it is a red with a perfect balance of orange and blue undertones.

it is a borderline crelly. although the coverage is good, if you have longer and more pigmented nails, the tips will be visible. i don't mind it  though, for some reason it feels even more cute and fresh. it s well formulated, as usual.

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chanel graphite (illusions d'ombres)

after showing quartz and peridot from chanel's illusions d'ombres collection for autumn 2011, it is about time to show the third one, graphite.

graphite is a dark silver, but this is quite an oversimplification of its colour. it is a metallic, foily polish that looks a bit textured, while being perfectly smooth.

this unusual finish gives it more depth, so in shade it becomes more pewter-y, even greenish. formula is amazing, so much that even the chanel brush is not annoying me.

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picture polish gala (opulence)

picture polish gala was released in spring 2016 and added to the opulence collection that already had glitch and subsequently added chameleon.

gala is a gorgeous, prerfect purple shade. it is decribed as a dusky violet scatter holo, but to be honest, i don't see the dusk part. i love the holo flecks, it is one of my favourite finishes.

it has a solid formula and two coats are enough for perfect opacity.

new in and empties: 2021

 well, well, well... it took me a while to do this post because i had to triple check, but here we are: i bought a total of 0 polishes this year. 0. this was not planned, just pandemic doing its thing and time just passed. i was by no means on a no buy, but it happend. 

on the other hand, i finished up 8 bottles: