OPI - Black Cherry Chutney

Late last year I bought some polishes at a blog sale....something that is very new for me.

One of the polishes was OPI's Black Cherry Chutney

It's a dark burgundy, almost black on the nails. It kind of reminds me of German-icur by OPI from the Germany Collection from last year. Black Cherry Chutney comes from the India Collection from some years ago. It's a really nice looking color and I like it a lot :)

My IKEA Helmer

I have talked about this before..... read it about here and here

First I ordered my polishes by color in rows, then I had them according to brands and now I have done the drawers after color but not in rows....

I have done it like this

WHITES, CLEARS AND BLACKS

BLUES, GREENS AND TURQUOISES (and blue/greens or green/blues)

PINKS AND PURPLES

REDS, ORANGES AND YELLOWS

BROWNS, NUDES, METALLICS (gold, bronze, silver, copper etc.)

Why I did this, even if I like to have them in brand order, is cos it's a pain when I'm looking for a special color and have to go through my pretty rows (cos I'm kinda anal about having things in nice rows). So now I just have them randomly in the drawers until next time I feel like change it :P

Depend polishes

It's very dangerous to go shopping with my mum :P We where just going to buy some food....

well well....

It ended with 4 Depend polishes for 5kr* each...yeah they where on SALE :)

* 5 SEK is about £ 0.49, € 0.58 or $ 0.78 SO cheap cheap cheap :)

Giveaways on other blogs

So currently I have entered 5 (!) Giveaways on other blogs...
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First one is Dr. Poison Ivy's Beauty Blog
http://drpoisonivy.blogspot.in/2012/10/mega-birthday-giveaway-international.html


Who is giving away:
1.Cheeky Stamping plates summer collection (26 plates)
2.Sleek i divine bad girl eye shadow palette
3.Etude House total age repair BB cream
4.Glam secrets pastel nail polish collection (5 pieces)
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Then it's Polished Polyglot 
http://polished-polyglot.blogspot.se/2013/01/100-posts-giveaway.html


Natalia is giving away:
- all four polishes of the Essence Snow Jam LE in:
01 Goofy-blue,
02 Lilac is my style,
03 Life is a freeride,
04 top of the icestream
- the Essence Snow Jam mini files
- the Essence Snow Jam LE 24 hours protection Balm
- the Essence Vintage district LE Nail art decoration kit in 02designer for a day
- one  Essence Vintage district LE nail polish in 04 get arty
- an Essence Vintage district LE gel liner set in 01 Shopping @ Portobello Road
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Then it's Once Upon A Polish
http://www.onceuponapolish.com/2013/01/its-giveaway-time.html


Jessica is giving away:

1. Prize number one is a pair of butterLONDON holos: Dodgy Barnett and Trustifarian. 
2. Prize number two is a pair of butterLONDON glitters: Lovely Jubbly and Gobsmacked.
3. Prize number three is a par of LE drugstore polishes: Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Gilded Lily and Maybelline Color Show in Downtown Brown PLUS a few surprise extras thrown in for good measure.

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Then it's United In Beauty
(who actually followed me on twitter and that's how I found out about this Giveaway, thanks)
http://www.unitedinbeauty.com/2013/01/giveaway-enter-to-win-julep-blake.html

 
Who is giving away:
Julep - Blake
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 And last but not least... Which also ends today!!!!!!!

Manicurator
http://www.manicurator.com/2013/01/winter-blues-giveaway.html






One winner will get all this 10 polishes

Maybelline Colorama 654 Superpower Blue

Some weeks ago I went to H&M to get some hair products that where on sale. The thing is I can never just walk in at H&M without buying a nail polish, I always find something that they have cheaper/sale and this time it was Maybelline's Colorama polishes. I have 1, sine before, in the shade WHITE. But this one caught my attention, cos I had already seen it on someones nails....the girl that works at Monki. I had actually talk about the polish with her and what brand it was. SO now when it was cheaper I thought it was time to test it :)

I only needed 2 coats to make it complete covered. It's a really colorful blue with a lot of pigment and I really like it, but I think it would be even more better as a summer polish. Right now I'm kinda pale but to the summer, when I'm browner, it would be amazing. 

Oh and as you can see I did some doodling on my thumb... I took 2 lighter blue polishes and 1 turquoise and made kind of leopard dots on it. 

KIKO Holographic swatch and reveiw

As some of you know I was in Madrid 3 weeks ago and then we went  to Centro Comercial Plenilunio, where they have both Primark and Kiko

And at Kiko I bought this 3 polishes and 2 is Holographic ones. 

First of all I have to say sorry about the bad quality of the pictures... but we have very little sun here in Sweden during winter. I did wait some days to get a second round of pictures so they will also be here. 

The Grey one is 400 Steal Grey and the blueish is 401 Peacock Green

 

 The formula is runny which can make it hard to apply. I applied 2 coats and that was fine if you want it covered but if you want it really covered then you need 2 more layers which I did in the end. The colors are really nice and holographic. I saw right now that Kiko has a sale on their page and that the holo ones cost €2.40 instead of €4.90.

If anyone in the region of Hamburg and Bremen can buy me the holo in pink over internet or cheap in store (€2.40) I will be most grateful. Will be in Germany in April to see M&S.

Primark Caviar Nails

As I wrote in my post about the polishes I bought in Madrid (read it here ), we went to Primark...since we still don't have it here in Sweden I take the chance to go to every Primark there is when I go abroad :) and the Primark in Madrid was not an exception.

In Primark they sell 2 types of Caviar Polishes, one with black polish and black beads and the other with white or pearl (as you might will call it) and colorful beads or as I say sprinkle, cos it reminds me of sprinkle on cake :P 

Well I thought it was time to test this and I have always wanted to buy Ciaté's Caviar Manicure but once again the country I live in doesn't help much in importing this kind of things and when they do they cost you a fortune, which whit the money you have as a student isn't enough. I looked up how much Ciaté costs and in Sweden it is 199 SEK which is about € 23, $ 30 or £ 19.

Well nuff said

 Well I painted 2 nails in black and 2 nails in pearl and my middle finger I just left like it was. The black itself is actually a very nice black, much shinnier then other blacks I have. 

 

here you have a close up on how the different the colors look like on the nail. The Pearl was much harder to get nice on the nail even if I took 2 layers and a top coat afterwards.

 

I kind of follow the instructions on the package.... the thing is that a part of the package was a part to use as tray under when you pour the pearls, but since I was allowed 23 kg on the flight and I had 22 kg I got rid of things and packages around stuff that didn't break ....therefor also the plastic tray that was a part of the package where the polishes where in, was thrown in the garbage. But in my hand luggage I had 2 shotglasses that (oops) I took from one of the bars we where at on New Years ^-^.
So what I did was, that I poured the beads in the shotglass and then pressed down my nail in it. But the mistake I did was that I added top coat and the color of the beads started to change... the blacks became brownish... as you perhaps can see on the above picture and the pinks- and purple beads discolored. If I wouldn't have done that it would have been all good. I still like it, is not a problem that they have discolored a bit.

And for the price of  € 3,50 I can almost buy 6.5 packages of Primark Caviar Nails instead of 1 Ciaté Caviar Manicure.......just saying

HITS Hello Kitty

In the package from Claudias blog sale there was 2 Hello Kitty polishes from the Brazilian nailpolish company HITS - Gum and Melon

 

Next to my  Hello Kitty wallet that I got from my family in Mexico

A close up on the polishes Melon and Gum

The polish is a cream polish in very bright nice colors. They actually are sold in packages of 3 and different Pie Collection...this one that I have 2/3 is called Lemon Pie, the others are Apple Pie and Blueberry Pie

I did it a little more Hello Kitty and added Hello Kitty's bow that is made in fimo that I got in a big package from Born Pretty Store. http://www.bornprettystore.com/

OPI - Suzi and the 7 Düsseldorfs Germany Collection

Some weeks ago I ordered 3 polishes from eBay and when it arrived one of the bottles where broken. I never thought that I would get a new one for free (cos that didn't happen last time).

This is how it looked like when I opened the package from USA...

And this is how my new bottle look likes...THANK YOU SO MUCH for sending a new one :) 

I have a fascination for purple nail polishes, everyone thinks it's pink since I like that color but I seriously think I have more in purple. Suzi and the 7 Düsseldorfs is a metallic purple that I like very much and when I first got the package where the bottle was broken, I was really sad cos I have wanted to have this color since the Germany Collection came out. But as I have said before... 1 BOTTLE OF OPI IS 150 KR about  $23  here in Sweden!!!!!!!!!! and on eBay I get them for $ 5-6... a big difference.

Polishes bought in Madrid

 I did buy some polishes in Madrid...but it wasn't much and I thought that it would have been more, but that was not the case this time..

 I started of at Tiger at Calle Carretas ( http://www.tiger-stores.com/ ) where I bough this purple polish for €2

Then we went to Primark at Centro Comercial Plenilunio, where I bought this two sets of Caviar Polish, €3.50 each. Black polish with black caviar and white with sprinkles caviar. They also had a wide range of 4-pack polishes and stupid of me didn't bought one single one :( 

 

  I also bought this 4 container with glitter in the shades pink/purple for €1 (it said €1,50 but the guy had a good eye and made it cheaper ^_^ )

 

 

Then we finally went to KIKO... *yes*   There I only bought 3 polishes since I couldn't made up my mind....they have so many shades of the same color that I don't know what to do :/ well I did buy 374 Pearly Chocolate Noir, a very dark shade...it looks dark purple/brown in the bottle but is more black with goldie flakes when it comes out, then 401 Peacock Green and 400 Steel Grey both holo polishes that are super nice and there where on sale :)

Nail polishes from Holographic Hussy's blog sale

is still going on...go check Claudias page http://www.holographic-hussy.com/p/blog-sale.html

On Friday afternoon I got my polishes that I had bought from Claudia, according to my father since I was then on my way to Madrid.

 

It's Sofia from Julep a bright green with some darker green glitter 

Black Cherry Chutney from OPI a veryyyyy dark brown/purple polish 

Royal mews 022 from nails inc. a silver holo polish

Then Gum and Melon from Hits Hello Kitty Lemon Pie Kit...well I miss the 3rd one: Mint. They are cream polishes from the Brazilian polish company Hits. Here is a picture of the whole collection that it's called Pie Kit ( I think)... The red/orange/pink are Apple Pie, The blue/purple/glitter is Blueberry Pie and the 2/3 that I have is Lemon Pie.

New polishes from Mexico

On Thursday my mum came home from Mexico and therefore also a lot of things, Christmas gifts from the family (which I don't say no to ^_^ ).  My cousins girlfriend had bought me 5 polishes as a gift to me :) A black nail pen polish, 2 colorful polishes in metallic blue, Azul Elétrico, and pink, Rosa Coral, and 2 crackling polishes in black and silver. The four last once are from COLORfuN and the black nail pen in from an unknown brand.

2013

I'm back from Madrid!!!!

I came home yesterday night... very tired and with a heavy suitcase ^_^ I woke up like 1 ½ hrs ago and I'm trying to clean my room and put all the things I bought in the right place...I also have to fold my clothes (my mum did 3 machines with alllllll my clothes from the trip) and I also have to fix the pics from the trip in a folder.

I did buy some polishes but to be honest I wasn't overwhelm by the offer of polishes that the stores had.. We did go to one Sephora store at Plaza de la Puerta del Sol... and I was really let down buy it.. The Sephora I used to buy in, when I was living in Barcelona was soooooooooooooooo much bigger and had more things... perhaps we just went to the wrong Sephora shop in Madrid...

well I will try and upload some post about the polishes I did buy :) but now clean some more.