Friday 21 January 2022

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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Wednesday 19 January 2022

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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Friday 14 January 2022

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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Thursday 13 January 2022

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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Tuesday 11 January 2022

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.

Sunday 9 January 2022

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: