franken polish: is this it? by shine eye

it's about time i've shown another franken. this one is called is this it?.

as i wrote in she's thunderstorms post, my method of frankening consist of mixing the last droplets of otherwise emptied polishes, so they end up being mostly blurple :)

is this it? is from the dark blurple range, with navy blue dominating. shimmer is quite complex, blue, purple and green. i will have to reswatch it on a more sunny day, for the bling. it is named after the strokes song (and album).

a england let me in (to emily bronte)

i have neglected a england recently, so i will start with the gorgeous  let me in, from the to emily bronte collection.

to call a england the queen of rich subtle holos is an understatement, and let me in is no exception.

it is a gorgeous deep magenta with a subtle scattered holo particles, or, in their words, "dark red berry holo full of depth and passion". it is so rich, with an effortless formula, a real stunner!

natural light:

dance legend wood goblin (anna gorelova winter 2014)

gloomy weather is perfect for duochromes, so i am going with wood goblin from anna gorelova's winter collaboration with dance legend.

wood goblin is really stunning. it's a deep green duochrome, shifting to deep purple. unfortunately, even though the shift is very visible in the shade, my camera just couldn't capture it, but you can at least get a glimpse of it in the bottle.

it dries in kind of a satiny finish, which i find to be gorgeous so i didn't use a top coat.

natural light:

china glaze awaken (romantique)

in another blast from the past post, i am showing one of two first china glaze polishes i ever bought, awaken from romantique collection back in 2008.

awaken was my only pick from romantique, a very interesting collection made of frosty-like metallic polishes. a really stunning polish and even in retrospect, i can see why i picked it at the very beginning of my nailpolish addiction,

the color is just amazing gunmetal grey with a metallic finish. the formula is great, no streaking at all. it is just so pretty and edgy.

natural light:

picture polish fool's gold (collaboration shade)

 today i'm showing you fool's gold, another picture polish collaboration shade.

the autumn 2014 gave us four amazing colalboration shades (there are also unicorn, forget me not and sizzle). although i immediately wanted all 4, fool's gold was a instant love. it was made in collaboration with sam from the nailasaurus. her inspiration was "flecks of gold as seen through deep, tropical waters", and i think it turned out exactly as that!

the base colour is turquoise (my camera has a problem with these shades, they always look more blue), with gold glitter and shimmer. it is a stunner! formula is amazing, it dries smoothly so it doesn't need extra layers of top coat to look nice, and another plus side is that you don't need the special techniques to remove it, the glitter goes off almost effortlessly.

natural light:

cirque colors hygge (holiday 2017)

cirque colors have some very unique polishes. as a huge fan of iridescent look, i have no idea why i waited so long to get hygge off their holiday 2017 collection.

cirque people describe hygge as "a sheer blue with copper pearlescent sheen". the word "hygge" means cosy in danish, and the name suits the shade so well! the holo sparkles are not overwhelming and the iridescent part is more prominent.

i love it, it is such a cold but delicate shade. it is a bit sheen, but i liked how it looked with two coats and left it at that.

opi play 'til midnight (holiday in toyland)

wow, this is an oldie! polish of the day is play 'til midnight, from opi's 2008 holiday in toyland collection.

play 'till midnight is one of those classic shades: an amazing, rich navy blue with perfect amount of shimmer. sure, i may have on or two (hm..) similar polishes in my stash, but this is a colour i find myself wearing more and more.

even though it's more than decade old, formula is still impeccable. 

natural light: 

ysl bronze fever (night 54)

it's been a while since i've shown studio silver, so it's time for the second polish from yls's night 54 collection, bronze fever.

like with studio silver, bronze fever is also inspired by glitz and glam (and glitter!) of studio 54. as the name says, it is a deep, rich bronze shade with silver and copper glitter. even though we are talking about chunky glitter here, it can be worn solo, without a base colour. 

it is borderline textured, and really hard to capture as it is really blingy! it's definitely not your everyday shade.

china glaze running in circles (cirque du soleil worlds away)

one the last china glaze's collection i was obsessed with was 2012 cirque du soleil worlds away that, luckily, came to serbia.  i got my hands on whirled away, it's a trap-eze!, running in circles, hanging in the balance and water you waiting for.

i said it already, i love my greens, but this one is soooo special! the base colour is emerald green, packed with lighter green flashing gold glass flecks. the formula is really amazing, it applied beautifully and everything is surprisingly opaque after two layers. the finish is pretty shiny even without topcoat (of coarse, i had to add it since i like to be fully functional with my hands immediately after applying the polish).

i love how sparkly this looks, too bad it's cloudy these days, but i hope i managed to show it's gorgeousness!

natural light: 

picture polish meow (collaboration shade)

for my first post of the year, i chose another picture polish collaboration shade. this time it is meow, from back in 2016.

meow was created with ukranian bloger nata113nata. they describe it as  "sage green jelly scatter holo". i can't say that i completely agree, as for me, sage is predominantly muted green, while meow has a lot of blue undertones. it is such a unique shade, and for me, a lover of all things green and blue and in between, it is perfect.

it is also packed with picture polish signature holographic flakes and amazing formula.