China Glaze Pull Me Close

If 2011 was the year of the crackles, 2012 seems to be the year of the magnetics. I’m not complaining, while crack polish wasn’t my cup of tea, I’ve been fascinated by magnetic polish and I’m happy to see that so many brands are bringing it back. China Glaze just came out with the Magnetics collection, and I chose the blue Pull Me Close from that one. I really didn’t need another magnetic polish, as I already have two from nails inc., but I just had to have the China Glaze horseshoe magnet. That’s the only one I’ve seen which has a star pattern, and I’ve been lemming a star magnet ever since I learned that magnetic polish even existed.

Some bloggers have reported that the China Glaze magnet doesn’t work that well, but I didn’t have any problems with it. Sure, it doesn’t work as quickly as the nails inc. one, but the design showed up crisp and clear after holding it over my wet nail for approximately 30 seconds. By the way, Scrangie has a great magnetic polish FAQ, so check it out if you need some tips and tricks on getting magnetics to work for you!

Pull Me Close was quite easy to apply, I started out with one coat on each nail, then I added a second coat on one nail at a time and held the magnet over the wet polish while counting slowly to 30. I love the sort of 3D effect the magnetic pattern gives, so smexy!

The China Glaze Magnetix is available in stores and webshops now, I got mine from eBay because I only wanted the one polish and the magnet.

What do you think of the magnetic trend? Do you welcome it, or are you as sick of it as I am of crack?

OPI Meet Me On The Star Ferry

Yay, the sun is out! Finally, I can show you OPI Meet Me On The Star Ferry!

This is the polish I was most excited about from the Hong Kong collection. Forget Jade and Feng Shui, this is what it’s about for me! (Ok, I didn’t completely forget Jade and Feng Shui, of course I got them. ) This is such a unique and interesting polish, I love everything about it. It’s a rosy mauve with lots of sparkly golden glitter, and the finish is something between metallic and foil. And thank goodness the sun finally showed up, because this one really comes to life in the sunlight! Check it out!

Now with 100% more flowers!

The formula is top notch, and I only needed 2 coats. Looooove! I think I might need a backup of this one.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you liked Star Ferry too!
Have a nice day!
Love, S.

OPI Cozu-Melted In The Sun

Hi! Sorry for the lack of posting here this week. I can’t say that I’ve been busy, really, it’s rather that this week has been really ineficcient, that’s all. So I haven’t gotten around to swatching or doing my nails.

But I thought I could show you the mani I’ve been wearing for the last couple of days.
This is OPI Cozu-Melted In The Sun from the Mexico Collection, a light peach metallic with glass fleck glitter. It’s very shiny and sparkly and summery. I didn’t think I would like the peach on me, I was afraid it would look too orange, but I actually think it’s really cute. It’s a very summery color.

Excuse the tipwear in these pics, I’ve been wearing this through cleaning my house and stuff.

This polish is really easy to apply, but it’s a tad sheer. I used three coats, but there’s still a hint of VNL.

I’ll be taking a break from posting during Easter, because we’re getting company over from Norway and thus I won’t have time to blog (never heard that before, have you). And because I’ve been so lazy this week, I haven’t prepared any posts in advance either. I hope you’ll still be reading my blog after Easter, though!

That’s it for today. I wish you all a Happy Easter!

Gosh Ocean

This is one of the polishes which started all of this madness. Last spring, I saw it over at Karianne’s blog, and I couldn’t wait to go back to Norway for the summer so I could snatch up this beauty. Gosh Ocean was my very first lemming.

Ocean is a turquoise-blue-green metallic shimmer. It sparkles in the sunlight, but is metallic in the shade. I’ve captured the blue side of it in these pics, but remember that it’s more turqoise-green in real life.

I think the formula is good. My bottle was a little gloopy, but I’ve put quite a lot of thinner in it during the past few months, so it’s probably not the same as when I bought it. I’m wearing two coats in these pics, but it wouldn’t hurt to add a third. It’s very streaky, though, but that’s metallics for ya!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a nice weekend!

China Glaze Harmony (Or: How I Learned to Use My Camera and Love the Purple)

After the last attempt to photograph a purple polish I was a little apprehensive about China Glaze Harmony. This purple metallic from the Romantique Collection seemed just as hard to get on memory card as Coconut Kiss. I didn’t give up, and I think I tried just about every setting my wonderful little camera has. I took over 40 pictures of this, so don’t say I don’t try my hardest!

First pic is with flash, second is without flash. Both are taken indoors. I think these are quite color accurate.

Regarding application, I think I’ve finally cracked the code to these metallics. I used to avoid them because I always ended up with a streaky mess that showed all the flaws of my nails. Metallics will always reveal even the tiniest imperfections, so I used a ridge filler this time. And I guess practice makes perfect, because I had no problems avoiding streaks, I even got away with just a single coat!

Well, now I know that hopefully Romantiques won’t be a problem any more.
How about you, do you like metallics?

That’s all for now, see you soon!