Today I decided to try another one of my new-ish OPI polishes. I was in the mood for something simple so I picked Pedal Faster Suzi! It's a pretty, delicate pink with lots of silver shimmer. I liked it a lot more on my nails than I thought it would!
It was very sheer though and required four or five coats, I'm not sure which as I lost count! But it dried really quickly so I didn't mind it. It dries a bit matte so you'll need a good shiny top coat to bring out all the pretty shimmer.
After a couple of hours I I started to feel like it's missing something. I'm not used to wearing pale colours on their own so I started rummaging through my nail polish box. I picked Wet 'n Wild Night Prowl, which I haven't worn yet so it was the perfect chance to give it a try. Night Prowl is a black nail polish with lots and lots of purple shimmer.
It actually looks glittery in the bottle but the shimmer is much more fine and subtle in real life. And it's even less noticeable on my nails. Anyway, I decided to do a French manicure with Night Prowl!
I like how the silver and purple shimmer look next to each other. Next time I'll definitely try Night Prowl on it's own!
I've been wearing lots of different nail polishes lately but haven't gotten around to taking any pictures, except for today and yesterday. First is my sloppy attempt at using my new fimo sticks. The base is H&M's Yellow (yes, that's what it's called!). There's no close-up because my cuticles look horribly dry and no one needs to see that! So, here it is:
Today I wanted to finally properly try one of my new mini OPI nail polishes. I picked Kiss Me On My Tulips, a pretty hot pink polish. The polish itself is lovely, it dries quickly and isn't streaky or patchy or anything, but the brush... Not great. It's tiny! But I know the polish itself is tiny too so it makes sense that the brush isn't enormous either. Oh well. I'm wearing two coats here, although I probably could've gotten away with just one.
If anyone has any tips or recommendations on what I could do to make my cuticles look better, I'd love to hear it! I'm desperate.
My nail polishes from Asos, that is. It only took six days! The box looked like it was about to fall apart but the nail polishes were in good condition. Phew. I can't wait to try them, they're all so pretty! The OPI polishes are teeny tiny as expected but the rest are fine, especially the Barry M polish. It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be.
| |  I was worried that the Barry M polish (Aqua Glitter) and the Models Own polish (Emerald City) would be really similar but in real life they're nothing alike. Aqua Glitter has turquoise microglitter and blue, or aqua, coloured hexagonal glitter. Emerald City just has small square shaped greenish teal glitter in it. My picture makes it look a bit more green that what it really is.
The other two Models Own polishes are Scarlet Sparkle and Bluebelle. As far as I can tell, Scarlet Sparkle has the finest glitter of them all, and Bluebelle is pretty fine too. I can't say much about the formula yet, I'll dedicate a post to the swatches later!
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Now here's what I've been really looking forward to. My mini OPI collection! I haven't even tried them on yet and I already love them. Such a shame they're so tiny, I'd love to swatch them all right away but I don't want to waste a single drop! So individual bottle shots will have to do for now.
 I Have A Herring Problem is a gorgeous, shimmery, blueish gray. Or grayish blue? Anyway, on the box it says it includes real silver! The shimmer in it looks golden and silver and blue and pink, but in a very subtle way. I can't wait to try it on!
|  Red Lights Ahead... Where? is a coral red. It's not as warm toned as in my pictures, or as muted. It's very bright! Otherwise it's a pretty basic creme.
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 Kiss Me On My Tulips is a hot pink creme, and this time my picture is way off. It looks like a bubblegum pink here but it isn't. It's sort of more fuchsia in real life. Probably not the most unique colour in the world but it'll probably be the first one I'll try because I don't have anything like it yet!
|  Pedal Faster Suzi! is a pale pink with plenty of silvery shimmer. I don't have such pale, delicate nail polishes in my collection so I'm looking forward to trying this one and seeing how different it looks compared to all the dark colours I normally wear!
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Another thing that arrived today was my nail foils from eBay! Everything I've ordered from eBay so far has been a very pleasant surprise, mainly because the delivery was so quick and both orders were in envelopes so I didn't have to pick them up at the post office. Yay! Here's pictures, with and without flash so you'll see all the holographic awesomeness of the gold and red foils.
So in case you can't tell, the foils are: gold, champagne, leopard, lace (transparent), holographic gold, rose (transparent), flowers and holographic red. It also included the adhesive and some golden flower rhinestones.
Phew, that was long. Now all I have to do is decide what I should try first!
I've been ordering lots of nail polishes and nail art things recently, including my very first OPI nail polishes!
Here's what I'm waiting on at the moment from Asos: OPI Dutch Treats Mini Collection, €17.90,
including I Have A Herring Problem, Red Lights Ahead... Where?, Kiss Me On My Tulips and Pedal Faster Suzi!
Models Own Mini Glitter Collection, €7.60, including Emerald City, Scarlett Sparkle and Bluebell.
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Barry M Aqua Glitter, €4.13
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After ordering those I wandered off to eBay. Now I've never actually bought anything from there before as I always thought it seemed so confusing and complicated. This time I decided to give it a try to and set up a PayPal account and the rest is history. I have so many things on my wish list now! Here's what I ended up getting though:
OPI Nothin' Mousie 'Bout It from the Minnie Mouse Collection. I can't wait to try this out!
I also got some nail art stuff as well, like French manicure stickers, nail wheels and nail foils. Hopefully it'll all arrive soon!
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