Darling Diva Polish Zen Pool

 Zen Pool is one of the more recent releases from Darling Diva Polish.  

Darling Diva Polish Zen Pool - sunshine

This is three coats, and still leaves a visible nail line as it is not fully opaque.  This polish has a teal shimmer crelly base with teal micro glitter, small round teal and fuchsia glitter, medium white hexagon glitter, bigger fuchsia and white round glitters and giant white hexagon glitter.  

The formula was ok, the hardest part was fishing out the bigger pieces of glitter.  Also some of the bigger bits of glitter had stuck together so when it was swiped on the nail, you ended up with multiple pieces the same.

Darling Diva Polish Zen Pool (over OPI Can't Find My Czechbook) - sunshine

I found I liked this polish much better with a base underneath.  This is two coats of Zen pool over two coats of Can't Find My Czechbook.  These two are a perfect match for each other. I wore this to work the other day and got quite a lot of comments about it. 

Lots of Love

Lisa

OPI Euro Centrale Collection

I finally finished swatching the 11 of the 12 OPI Euro Centrale Collection polishes that I own.  This is my all time favourite OPI collection. I love the cremes and the shimmers, as well as the glitter. The whole collection is perfect for summer and even though it is winter here I have been getting a lot of wear out of them. I have often been wearing these polishes as bases for glitter top coats (indie ones - as you can see in some of my previous posts).

OPI A Woman's Prague-ative 

 

OPI Can't Find My Czechbook

OPI - OPI...Eurso Euro 

OPI My Vampire is Buff

OPI Oy - Another Polish Joke

OPI Vant to Bite My Neck?

OPI You're Such a Budapest

OPI Suzi's Hungary Again

OPI I Saw... U Saw... We Saw... Warsaw

OPI Polka.com 

(over OPI I Saw... U Saw... We Saw... Warsaw)

OPI My Paprika is Hotter than Yours!

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: OPI Couture de Minnie Collection

I spotted the OPI Couture de Minnie Collection in Farmers yesterday.

This is the second collection OPI has done with Minnie Mouse, with the last one, OPI Vintage Minnie Mouse Collection, being released at the same time last year.

OPI Couture de Minnie Collection

This collection has 5 polishes. One of which is glitter and one is a liquid sands polish.

Left to Right: Chic From Ears To Tail, A Definite Moust-Have, Minnie Style, 

Innie Minnie Mightie Bow, Magazine Cover Mouse

These are NZ$26.99 at Farmers. But can always be found cheaper online.

I am the biggest Disney fan, and need to own every polish that is even remotely Disney related. However I am sitting on the fence about this collection.  I think I will end up getting them just because of the names, but not so much because of the colours or finishes.

Lots of Love

Lisa

OPI Can't Find My Czechbook + Lush Lacquer Party Rockin

OPI Can't Find My Czechbook - sunshine

OPI Can't Find My Czechbook is the teal crème polish from the OPI Euro Centrale collection.  This is three coats, but you could easily get away with two coats. It applies easily and its not streaky.  It appears dustier coloured in the bottle than it does on the nail, where is seems brighter.

Lush Lacquer Party Rockin - Shade

Lush Lacquer Party Rockin - Sunshine

This is one coat of Lush Lacquer Party Rockin over OPI Can't Find My Czechbook.  Party Rockin is a reasonably packed mixture of small orange and dark pink glitter, with bigger hexagon medium toned teal glitter and larger dark teal hexagon glitter in a clear base.  I love this mixture of colours, and I think it works well because teal/blue and orange are opposites on the colour wheel.

Unfortunately Lush Lacquer announced today on Facebook that they will be stopping international shipping at the end of Wednesday (22 March). SO RUN! NOW! and get some while you still can!

Lots of Love

Lisa

OPI Vant to Bite My Neck? + Darling Diva Polish Baby Got Back

Vant to Bite My Neck? is another polish from the 2013 Euro Centrale Collection, which I am working my way through. This is definitely my favourite OPI collection in a long time.

OPI Vant to Bite My Neck? - Sunshine

Love this polish. This is three coats, although two is fine for this polish. Vant to Bite my Neck? is a dark purple crème  This one is interesting as it seems to be a straight purple (it doesn't really lean blue or pink toned).  I know this is from the summer collection in the Northern Hemisphere, but it is a nice winter colour for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere.

Darling Diva Polish Baby got Back (over OPI Vant to Bite My Neck?) - sunshine

Darling Diva Polish Baby got Back (over OPI Vant to Bite My Neck?) - shade

This is one coat of Darling Diva Polish Baby got Back over OPI Vant to Bite My Neck?. Baby got Back is an awesome mix of purple, pink and teal glitters. It was hard to capture the complexity of this polish on camera.  It has teeny tiny light pink glitter, and larger hexagon pink glitter, with medium sized teal and fuchsia glitter.  The teal in this polish makes it super pretty and transforms it from just a regular pink/purple glitter.  

Darling Diva Polish Baby got Back (over OPI Vant to Bite My Neck?) - yellow light 

Looks a bit weird but I was trying to capture the teal better

Have a great weekend!

Lots of Love

Lisa

OPI My Vampire is Buff + Dollish Polish Coitus

Hi everyone, 

I am back from my long weekend in Sydney. We had amazing weather and did a lot of shopping. But unfortunately it was straight back to work and cold weather here for me.

These pictures were taking a few weeks ago when we actually had some sun, but I am wearing the exact same mani again today.  OPI My Vampire is Buff and Dollish Polish Coitus make a great combo.

OPI My Vampire is Buff - sunshine

OPI My Vampire is Buff - shade

This is three coats of OPI My Vampire is Buff.  It is a smooth light yellow toned nude crème polish.  I used three coats, but it is easily opaque in two.  This is a surprising favourite from the Euro Centrale collection for me, as I am not normally a fan of light nude crèmes.

Dollish Polish Coitus (over OPI My Vampire is Buff) - sunshine

Dollish Polish Coitus (over OPI My Vampire is Buff) - shade

Coitus is one of four polishes from Dollish Polishes Big Band Theory Collection that was released a few months ago.  I had a bit of trouble trying to work out what to wear underneath Coitus, but think this combo works well (hence I am wearing this combo again today).  It is a pastel glitter with light pink and blue glitter, and slightly bigger light yellow/gold glitter, all in a clear base.  This is two coats of Coitus.  Glitter coverage is a little sparse with just one coat, but two coats seems to give a good amount of coverage.

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI You're Such a BudaPest with Darling Diva Dangerous Driver

OPI You're Such a BudaPest - Sunshine

OPI You're Such a BudaPest is my favourite polish from the OPI Euro Centrale collection.  This is a slightly blue toned creme lilac.  This is three coats that applied beautifully.

Darling Diva Dangerous Driver (over OPI You're Such a BudaPest) - sunshine

This is an amazing combo! A holographic polish that should exist, that I haven't managed to find in real life yet.  Dangerous Driver is not only holographic but also duochromatic and switches from purple to pink in different lights. This is one thin coat of Dangerous Driver over OPI You're Such a BudaPest.  

Lots of Love

Lisa

OPI...Eurso Euro with Lush Lacquer Bubble Yummy

OPI...Eurso Euro - sunshine

OPI...Eurso Euro is The dark blue crelly (creme/jelly) from the OPI Euro Centrale collection.  This is two coats and I found application very easy.  This is a great formula that glides on smoothly and gives great coverage.   This polish looks quite a bit darker inside in the shade.

This polish is a great base colour for quite a few of my polishes. I am thinking of trying Max Factor Fantasy Fire on top next.  But for the last two days I have been wearing Lush Lacquer Bubble Yummy over the top.

Lush Lacquer Bubble Yummy (over OPI...Eurso Euro)

Lush Lacquer Bubble Yummy (over OPI...Eurso Euro)

Lush Lacquer Bubble Yummy is a blue toned purple shimmer with small silver holographic glitter and larger hexagon shaped teal/cyan coloured glitter.  This is one coat over OPI...Eurso Euro.  I did have a few application issues with this. In my bottle the bigger teal bits of glitter have all sunk to the bottom of the bottle, and no matter how much I shake it, I cant seem to get the glitter spread evenly throughout the polish. This mean I did have to go fishing for the bigger bits of glitter. I think this problem may be solved by adding some more stainless steal balls to my bottle.

Lots of Love

Lisa

OPI OY-Another Polish Joke!

We saw a bit of sun here on Saturday so I decide to start swatching my OPI Euro Centrale Collection.  Currently I have 10 out of the 12 polishes from this collection. I am still on the hunt for a reasonably prices Polka.com. The other one I am missing is Hands off my Kielbasa! however, I am not so keen on the colour, but to complete the collection I will probably end up getting it.

OPI OY-Another Polish Joke! - natural light

OPI OY-Another Polish Joke! - shade

This is OY-Another Polish Joke! It is a soft yellow glass effect shimmerey polish. This is three coats by itself. Three coats is needed to build up some opacity. I was suprised how much I like this polish. Yellows are hard to get right, and to look good on multiple skin colours.  This would make a good shimmery topcoat over other polishes as well.

Lots of Love

Lisa

Spotted in NZ: OPI The Bond Girls collection

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I spotted these in Farmers last Monday.  The Bond Girls collection is the 2013 bright scollections from OPI. All 6 shades are the new textured liquid sands polishes. 

 

• Solitaire: This diamond-sparkling white is totally engaging
• Pussy Galore: This light feminine pink has the purrrfect amount of shimmer
• Tiffany Case: A classic light blue worth investigating
• Vesper: A mysterious and intriguing deep purple
• Honey Ryder: Take a ryde on the wild side in this shimmery gold
• Jinx: This mesmerizing matte coral has lucky sparkle

Jinx is by far my favourite, but alas was not able to come home with me (unfortunately I am banned from buying any more polishes for the foreseable future).
These are retailing for NZ$26.90 in Famers. 

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: OPI the Great and Powerful Oz

I spotted these in Farmers yesterday. The Great and Powerful Oz Collection. This is the 2013 Soft shades collection from OPI, that also features one of the new liquid sand polishes.

I had already picked up the three polishes I wanted from this collection two three weeks ago at the importers clearance for NZ$12 a polish (instead of NZ$27 at Farmers)

There has been a lot of hoo ha on the internet about When Monkeys Fly! which is the gold glitter polish. The large gold pieces of glitter curl and do not sit flat on the nail. OPI has offered to replace bottles of this with another polish from this collection (but I am pretty sure that that offer is only open to those in America). So if I was you, I would stay away from When Monkeys Fly! in New Zealand as you will surely be disappointed.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Darling Diva Polish Blanche

Blanche was one of the Darling Diva Polishes I received with my 5 for $25 deal.  

Darling Diva Polish Blanche (over OPI Tomorrow Never Dies)- Shade

 

Darling Diva Polish Blanche (over OPI Tomorrow Never Dies)- Sunshine

Blanche is made up of a tinted navy/purple base and contains extra large red hexagon glitter, larger light purple square glitter, medium yellow holographic hexagon glitter, medium light purple hexagon glitter, smaller blue hexagon glitter and little purple hexagon glitter. 

The big pieces of glitter in this are not too hard to fish out of the bottle. I ended up with a red piece of glitter on every nail. The big red pieces, along with all the other glitter lie flat on the nail. There is no curling glitter here. 

To be honest, the colours and glitter in this are not me. I wore this manicure for over two days, but unfortunately I did not warm up to Blanche. Formula wise this is a great indie polish though and I would recommend it, if you like the mix of glitter colours and sizes.

Here is a bonus picture of OPI Tomorrow Never Dies from the 2012 Holiday James Bond Collection.  It is slightly more purple than it appears in this photo.

OPI Tomorrow Never Dies - Sunshine

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: OPI Euro Central

The OPI Euro Central collection is out in New Zealand now. This is one of the first collections from OPI I am excited about, and I actually want the whole collection for myself.

This is why I will not be buying the whole collection in store in New Zealand:

Lots of Love
Lisa

New 2013 Polish collections

Here is a little round up of the commercial brand polish collections that have recently been released or are about to be released.

Zoya Pixie Dust - out now

Color Club Fiesta - out now in America

China Glaze Texture - Expected release March 2012

China Glaze Hologlam - Expected release March 2013

Models Own Ice Neon - out now

Butter London Sweetie Shop - out now

OPI OZ soft shades collection - Expected release March 2013

China Glaze Neons - Expected release April 2013

OPI Euro Centrale - Out now

Ruby Wing Spring Garden - out now

Orly Hope & Freedom Collection - out now

Zoya Lovely Collection - out now

Nicole by OPI Selena Gomez Collection - out now

Nicole by OPI Modern Family Collection - out now

I haven't seen any of these collections in New Zealand yet. OPI Euro Centrale was supposed to be released this week, but I haven't spotted it yet.  

Lots of Love

Lisa