#85 Grey Can Be A Happy Colour

Grey tips and 4 or 5 layers of glitter polish. These are legit Halli-Galli-Dreckssau-Party Nails!

I did the tips freehand btw. Getting slowly better huh huh.

I did the silver with a metallic Skin Food polish, the glitter clear top is called Circus Confetti by essence.

Also looked good when I cut my nails

#68 Spacy Black Diamond Constellation

sorry, was too lazy to crop the pic

Done with:

p2 in Spacy,

essence in Black Diamonds (I think it's so old that they don't even sell it anymore),

and

American Apparel in Constellation

#64 Nail Fail

Actually I wanted to do the water surface-sanitizer spray-nail art, but I failed badly. Here is instead a picture of what I intended to be the base: a reverse ombre with essence's crystallized in Ice Eyes Baby (check #46), H&M's turquoise Bambi-Polish (check #52) which is hardly seen because the colours are too similar, and essie's Mint Candy Apple.

Extra pic of my last nails, a mysterious triangle appeared on my ring finger!

#63 Price class

Have you ever wondered why there are nail polish brands that sell their polishes for over 15 bucks and others for 0.99 cents?

Did you ever question yourself what's the difference in quality and if it pays off to invest ten times more money into the same colour?

I tried to compare three pink polishes with quite the same colour, but very different prices.

I. OPI in That's Hot! Pink (kinda my all time favourite), ~16 € 

II. H&M in French Kiss, 3,95 € (though my sister bought it on sale for 1 €)

III. Essence in Ultimate Pink, 1,25 €

The colours look all pretty similar. Because the nails on thumb and index were already chipping, I only compared the other three nails.

Let's start with applying:

I compared the quality of the brushes and how smooth you can apply your polish. And also if the consistence leaves streaks or an uneven surface on the first layer.

The essence polish definitely wins because it has a round brush which makes it easier to paint. The colour was more runny than the others, though, not so opaque. 

OPI has a really thick brush, which is ok, too. The coverage was very good, just like the H&M. The brush with the latter wasn't that good for applying because its way too thin.

The next point is drying time: 

My results aren't quite accurate because I checked on how dry the polishes were from time to time by touching the surface, but I didn't do it thoroughly in order to not mess up the nails.

From that, I had the feeling that the OPI took the longest to dry.

Last point: durability

This is a picture I took after about one week. The pinky with the essence polish looked a little bit worn out. The middle finger's tip with the OPI looked the most chipped!

Notice that on all three nails there is only one layer of polish! So it's not true that more expensive polish stays longer!

The H&M one clearly wins in this category!

Here is a chart I made to sum it up:

My result is that the best one is the cheapest one!

But I also have to mention that the OPI one was the oldest polish, we bought it about 5, 6 years ago!

Maybe that's the reason why the most expensive polish lost to the other cheaper two.

#62 Klimt & Kaviar

The opulence of Jugendstil, created with:

Three layers of essence gold fever,

two layers of essence circus confetti,

and last but not least some pink sprinkles from essence.

My next post will be a review about polishes from different price classes. I can already spoil that essence is really one of the black horses considering nail polish. (Just polish tho)

#61 BALLIN'

Does the design make it a party-themed nails or the title?

:-|

Somewhat crappy tuxedo nails because I draw the black parts freehand. I think matte top coat makes your nails look very classy tho.

Making these bows was such a pain in the ass!

Normally the beads stick to your wet layer of polish, but I had to put them on the matte polish that dried way too fast. I almost needed half an hour to finish one bow!

>______<"

I messed up so much on the right hand so that I had to cover it with glitter polish that doesn't even fit to the nail design... 

#57 Snow Storm

No, this is no Olympic Winter Games inspired nails. I don't support homophobic Russia, politics over there are aweful!

I rather got inspired by Lorde's performance at the Grammys earlier this year where she had these crazy painted black finger tips.

Couldn't find a proper video of that on youtube though to post it here, which sucks.

Anyways, I used a essence matte coat above the black and white ombre.

Sorry for the weird pics.

#56 Sugar, Baby!

I got some nail caviar/microbeads for my birthday from some supersweet friends of mine!

(^3^) 

(And also a lot more nail polish n_n )

I first painted a layer of a similar pink (essence in Ultimate Pink), waited for it to completely dry, and then painted a second layer to stick the beads on it. You just dip your wet nail into the pot, that's how you do it. 

I also thought that this darker silver from Skin Food, which I bought in Shanghai long time ago, would match well with the bright pink.

It's nearly impossible to get the pearls to spread evenly, that's why they looked a little crooked in my opinion. They fell off really easy on the tips, too.

I tried to fix it by appliying a top coat, but as a result, the beads looked not that shiny anymore but more of a stuck-together-mass, and my brush turned pink!!!!!

Also the colour was slightly washed away...

After about 24 hours later, my nails looked like this:

(Ever heard of Trypophobia?)

About 96% of the beads fell off!!!!!

It was somewhat annoying being careful at whatever you do all the time to protect them from falling off. (If you prepare food f.e., a good advice would be to use gloves, because you don't want little crunchy particles in your food, right?)

I removed them 2 days later, because I had enough of little pink pearls EVERYWHERE, in the shower, in the sink, in my food, in my bed...

Too bad that securing the caviar layer doesn't work well with top coat. Maybe I can use them for other creative stuff apart from my nails.

http://vimeo.com/34001754

#51 Millenium Overkill

You might not be able to tell, but there is an arse-thick layer of nail polish on each of my nails. 

Why? 

Lemme tell you why:

That polish on the left, Models Own in Silver Fox, was so dry it was more like a glitter paste. I don't know how long ago my sister bought this one. The bottle was closed firmly, too. 

The surface turned out rough on that superfat three layers to spread the paste evenly, so I put on some top coat with glitter from essence (in 02 julia). I reached the absolute glitter overkill, everybody.

That's why I'm pausing here and will not upload anything in the near future. Removing all that glitter will be such a pain in the ass, so I'm waiting for the polish to chip and my nails to break off so I can cut them all evenly short. I also have to concentrate on studys, duh.

#47 Ombre Nails - Part I: 10 Shades Of Pink

Recently I've only simply painted my nails in one colour, I know, sorry for the lack of cool nail designs. But I really wanted to do some fading colour shades because my sister owns so many polishes, bright and dark tones of so many colours.

I want to try blue, maybe black fading colours, too. ;D

From left to right:

essence 05 sweet as candy

Orly Flirty Girl

butter London Teddy Girl

Manhattan 55N

Astor 208

Essie 20 Lovie Dovie

essence 19 VIP appeal

OPI That's Hot! Pink

essence 108 ultimate pink

H&M French Kiss

...the last three colours look pretty much the same...

#46 Snowy Party Nails

My nail broke because I was partying too hard.

Boohooo!

The colour is a greyish white with glitter called 04 Ice Eyes Baby, from the essence crystalliced line.

And there's no snow this Christmas at my place, so double BOOHOO!!!

#43 Carbonized

Sketches of where I wanted the matte polish

Sorry, it looks a little bit crappy because the edges are crooked. Done with essence black nail polish, essence matte coat, and sticky tape.

#34 Wassily Kandinsky - Composition VII

Messy rainbow-marble nail art that reminds me of that painting (google it! :-] )

What a mess...


Done with:

#16 Icing with Sparkles

 

I used:

  From left to right:

1) essence 02 circus confetti for the sparkles

2) butter London in Teddy Girl for the icing

3) catrice 860 Browno Mars (ok that's a really crappy name)

4) p2 042 being in heaven

5) catrice 830 salmon & garfunkel (AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)

6) p2 043 dream lover

7) p2 044 dating time

8) p2 041 blushing bride

This was how my nails looked like after I tried to remove the kaleidoscope nails:

It looks cool somehow, but if that happens, you're screwed, because removing that will always fuck up my nails and leave scratches and even shreds of nail layers hanging around -.-

#11 stony mahony

I really fell in love with that essence effect polish (08 night in vegas) which I featured earlier in this blog. So when I was extremly bored and looked at my nails for hours, I recognized there were three colours in the shimmer: yellow, red, and green. You get that now? ;D

I chose Grey as the base, because Smoking gives you lung cancer afterall. Haha so metaphoric.

The Grey polish is from H&M, the name is 'Miss Stone Heart', that hidden and unintended pun!!! 

I really love these nails...

 ;3