Ciate Mini Mani Month Days 5-10

We finally have internet at home again, although we are trying to change companies and I doubt this will last long.  So without further a due here is the next 6 days of the Ciate Mini Mani Calendar.

All swatches below are three coats with no top coat.

Day 5: Hoopla

Ciate Hoopla - Sunshine

Ciate Hoopla - Shade

Day 6: Sugar Plum

Ciate Sugar Plum - Sunshine

Ciate Sugar Plum - Shade

Day 7: Main Stage 

Ciate Main Stage - Sunshine

Ciate Main Stage - Shade

Day 8:  Midnight in Manhattan (Caviar Pearls)

Ciate Midnight in Manhattan (Caviar Pearls) 

over Main Stage - Sunshine

Day 9: Candy Floss

Ciate Candy Floss - Sunshine

Ciate Candy Floss - Shade

Day 10: Pillow Fight

Ciate Pillow Fight - Sunshine

Ciate Pillow Fight - Shade

Lots of Love

Lisa

Deborah Lippmann Lilac Wine and Lacquerhead Polish As Girly As It Gets

Deborah Lippmann started selling polishes in Sephora a few months ago, and released 4 Exclusive polishes when they launched.  Lilac Wine is one of the four Sephora exclusive polishes.

Deborah Lippmann Lilac Wine - Sunshine

Deborah Lippmann Lilac Wine - Shade

This is three coats.  These photos make it look brighter than it is in real life. It is a pale purple lilac. It is not overly blue or pink toned, just a perfect lilac colour.  It has a great formula and was a great creme polish. 

As a comparison, this is more pink and less blue toned than OPI You're Such a Budapest.

Lacquerhead Polish As Girly As It Gets

 over Deborah Lippmann Lilac Wine - Sunshine

Lacquerhead Polish As Girly As It Gets

 over Deborah Lippmann Lilac Wine - Shade

As Girly As It Gets is a slightly tinted blue base full of pastel shaped glitter. It contains light blue butterflies, lilac, pink and light blue stars, light blue hearts and light blue and green shards with small lilac squares and light blue hex glitter.  I used one dabbed coat, where i went fishing for the shaped glitter here. The base is quite thick, so it was not the easiest to apply with an even spread of shaped glitter.

Lacquerhead Polishes are available here and come with cute little bows ties around the bottle necks.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Pop Culture Cosmetics The Haunted Mouse collection

I love Pop Culture Cosmetics Polishes. They are one of my favourite Indies. Problem is they release so many collections that are topical to me, that I am quickly running out of money. Recently they have had great Disney collections, A Once Upon A Time collection and now an awesome Christmas collection. Check out their store here http://popculturecosmetics.com.

For my birthday Lisa (the other one) bought me two of the polishes from the The Haunted Mouse Halloween collection.

Pop Culture Cosmetics Awaken the Spearits - Sunshine

Pop Culture Cosmetics Awaken the Spearits - Shade

Pop Culture Cosmetics Awaken the Spearits - White Light

This is one dabbed coat of Awaken the Spearits over a black crème. This one is full of lots of different shaped silver glitter in a black base.  It has Mickey Mouse ears, three sizes of circles, diamonds, stars, two sizes of moons, and two sizes of square glitter, as well as little hexes and silver shimmer.  I did have to go fishing for the shaped glitter, but it wasn't too hard to find enough to cover my nails (I think I actually ended up with too many shapes on my nails).

 

Pop Culture Cosmetics Simply Villainous - Sunshine

Pop Culture Cosmetics Simply Villainous - Shade

Pop Culture Cosmetics Simply Villainous - White Light

Simply Villainous is an awesome purple glitter polish. This is three coats.  It has silver Mickey Mouse heads with 3 sizes of purple circles, silver stars, mini moons and iridescent purple squares, in a purple glittery shimmery base.  I love this, and the fact that you can wear it alone.  This one didn't require any fishing for shaped glitter, and after three coats there were enough shapes on each nail anyway.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Pretty Serious Cosmetics Emma Louise

Emma Louise is the second Limited Edition polish I have from Pretty Serious Cosmetics.  I got this from the second run of 100 bottles, so mine is unnumbered.  The original run of 300 bottles of Emma Louise was released in October 2012.

This polish is named after Emma, who is friends with Kaz, the creator of Pretty Serious Cosmetics, with all proceeds from the sales of this polish going to Cancer Council Australia.

Pretty Serious Cosmetics Emma Louise - Shade

Pretty Serious Cosmetics Emma Louise - Natural Light

According to the Pretty Serious website Emma Louise is "a vibrant violet jelly base with golden green glass fleck, purple micro-glitter, and purple and green hex glitter."

This is three coats.  The description above is pretty accurate. It is a purple base with gold and purple micro glitter, with bigger green and purple hex glitter. The purple hex glitter is slightly lighter than the base purple, so that it is visible amongst the purple and gold shimmer.

The formula on this is great, and it doesn't apply lumpy, so only one coat of regular top coat is required.

Unfortunately Emma Louise is no longer available. But there are lots of other great polishes (and cosmetics) available in their store. Pretty Serious Cosmetics are available from their website here.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid Collection

Earlier this year my Mum and Dad took a trip to America. I only asked for 5 things. The Sephora Disney Jasmine nail polish set and the 4 new Deborah Lippmann Mermaid polishes.  Luckily these weren't too hard for my parents to find in New York.

On to the swatches!

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Dream - Sunshine

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Dream - Shade

Mermaid's Dream is the original Mermaid Polish, released before the other four, back in 2012.  I picked this up while on holiday last October in America.  It matched the dress I wore to my brother-in-law's wedding, which was in Toronto last October.  This swatch is three coats, which apply easily. It is a teal green glitter packed polish, with golden micro-shimmer.  It looks like it is gritty and bumpy, but with one thick coat of top coat, is as smooth as a regular polish.

The next four polishes were released as the summer 2013 Mermaid's collection.

Deborah Lippmann Do the Mermaid - Shade

Deborah Lippmann Do the Mermaid - Sunshine

This is a lilac version of Mermaid's Dream.  A light lilac base, with darker purple glitter and golden micro shimmer.  Again this is 3 coats.

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Kiss - Sunshine

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Eyes - Shade

Mermaid's  Kiss is the pink version in this collection. The gold shimmer in this one is a lot more obvious, and actually looks like bigger bits of glitter instead of the shimmer in the other polishes.  It still has a rose pink base, with darker pink glitter.  This is three coats.

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Eyes - Sunshine

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Eyes - Shade

Mermaid's Eyes is the odd one out from this collection.  The base and the glitter colour are a lot closer in colour, with the base colour being darker than the other polishes in this collection.  It still contains the darker glitter pieces and the golden micro shimmer, but they don't show up as much on the nail. 

Deborah Lippmann Million Dollar Mermaid - Shade

Fortunately the sun decided to disappear when I was swatching the last polish in this set.  Million Dollar Mermaid is the orange/peach version in this collection.  The base on this one is quite light and the golden shimmer is quite present (although not as much as in Mermaid's Kiss).  This is three coats.

I love this collection. Even 6 months later it is still unique in my collection.  The biggest problem is that Deborah Lippmann polishes are not sold in New Zealand.  However this website does ship them to New Zealand, and has regular sales.

Lots of Love

Lisa

Pretty Serious Cosmetics Naughty Night Shift Nurse

Pretty Serious Cosmetics Naughty Night Shift Nurse was a special polish designed for Kirsty from The Polish Haven for her birthday as a gift from her friends and released in June 2013.  Originally 100 bottles were made, and sold like crazy.  Last month though, Pretty Serious released another 100 unnumbered bottles of Naughty Night Shift Nurse. And I managed to get one!

Pretty Serious Cosmetics Naughty Night Shift Nurse - Natural Light

This is three coats. It is quite a thin polish.  It is a duochrome fuchsia with lighter iridescent flakies.
It is purple and red duochrome base with added blue shimmer that also changes to orange in the right light, with pink flakies. This is a pretty complex polish, I mean flakies and duochromatic in one bottle!

Pretty Serious Cosmetics Naughty Night Shift Nurse

This picture was taken underwater to show the colour shifts

The Polish Haven actually swatched this over black, and it makes the polish appear a lot more purple, so I am thinking of trying it out that way.  As it is not really 'me' in this form.

My sister is a nurse and I'm wondering if she would appreciate this one. But I am torn, because it is Limited Edition and I am a nail polish addict, and she is not.

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

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