Dance Legend - Machete, swatch

Hi, today I'm showing a swatch of Dance Legend - Machete. I'm using archive pics and this was the base of my heart beat nail art way back. I got Machete from my dear friend @lakobotan and this is unique in my stash. Machete is part of a Steel collection from 2014 which is filled of smooth metallics, where machete is one with warm beige undertones. I think I used 3 coats for this and as usual I topped it of with Seche Vite. Really like it! :D

Gift.

Catrice - Polaroid Promises, swatch

Polaroid Promises is from Catrice's Luxary Vintage collection and it has a satin matte effect finish from the start. The color is nougat warm beige brown with bright magenta shimmer which gives a romantic feel when it's matte. Application wise this one is tricky, you need plenty of polish on
the brush (which thankfully isn't Catrices regular brush, which I don't like) because otherwise it looks streaky because it get surface dry very fast. With topcoat it feels like a whole other polish, it's darker, looks brown and where the shine hits, it looks pink, almost like a duochrome but still not. It needed 2 coats to cover.

No top coat and natural light.

No top coat and natural light.

No top coat and natural light.

Top coat added and natural light.

Top coat added and natural light.

Top coat added and natural light.

Top coat and in sunlight.

Bought at Rossman for about 2 euros.

What do you think about this one? Nougat feel or just meh?

Color Club - Cherubic, swatch

A quick post between my job searching frenzy. Today I'm showing Color Club - Cherubic from their Halo Hues Collection. I'm not the most holo fanatic girl out there, but I'm SO happy that I have all 12 polishes. As all of the polishes in the collection they all are super holographic in literally all lights and the formula is awesome, they're pretty much one-coaters if you put a thick coat on, but I rather use 2 thin coats. They also stamp well. 

Cherubic is like a taupe/beige color and is as the others just awesome. Below I've written down what type of light it has been while I have been photographing. And as you can see the color slightly "change", in the flourecent light I think it's more taupe (like gray toned beige), in natural light; beige or pinkish beige, in the warm sunlight it gets a more orange beige look. Love it <3

Fluorescent light.

Fluorescent light.

Fluorescent light.

Fluorescent light.

Fluorescent light.

Here you see it in natural light, shadow with no external light source, and it is still pretty holograpic. The advantage seeing it like this too is that we're able to see the base color pretty well.

Natural light, shadow

Natural light, shadow

Direct sunlight.

Fluorescent light.

Bought at head2toebeauty for $8 each.

Nude jelly sandwich

Hi there! I'm still ill and my blog and also reading your blogs has been suffering. However, it's Sunday and I felt that it would almost be a sin not to post on Nail Art Sunday ;)

For today I have an archive nude jelly sandwich;

You might remember this manicure from THIS post and this is the same but with Sheer Pastel Cocoa on top as well. I really like how the glitter looks here, hidden but still visible. Subtle but still really cool. :) Jellies have become the new favorite finish for me!

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Sugar Coat
Kleancolor - Sheer Pastel Cocoa

Smitten Polish - Cookies & Cream, swatch

More Smitten Polish! :D This time in what in the bottle looked like a pale pink, but on the nails is more like beige or nude colored. The manufacturer of Smitten Polish, Noelie describes it as a "Pale peach/nude crelly" and that is a good description.

Same as Robin's Egg which I showed you guys yesterday this is filled with different sizes of matte black hexagon glitter, in this case three sizes. This one however does not have any shiny glitter like Robin's Egg had. Being a crelly it's sheer and I actually had 4 coats on. Maybe this one is a bit more sheer than Robin's Egg or I made too thin coats. There is some vnl but not in the way that it would bother me.

I really liked this polish, edgy but still very neutral. Now to the biggest surprise ever! It stained and discolored my nails heavy in pink! :-O And now you might think that it must be the polish I wore previously, but I had an accent nail with another polish on my other hand and that one didn't get stained at all. Weird, but I still like this polish, however the next time I'll use double coats of base coat. :)

And for more Smitten Polish I'd go check out My Nail Polish Online who showed a blue beauty which is on its way home to me..hihi. And maybe Sminkan will show some Smitten today too as she did yesterday? :)

Kleancolor- Sheer Pastel Cocoa, swatch

Today I'll show you a polish which feel like having naked nails, or nude naked nails at least. It's Sheer Pastel Cocoa from Kleancolor I'm showing.

 For this I used 2 coats, but I probably should have used one more for more opacity. However I would say it's a jelly so I was prepared for it to be sheer, as the name claimed.

 As you can see, the color is a beige towards red/pink. The first photo is the most color accurate to me and I don't think that the color is that attractive on it's own.

However, for nail art purposes it's awesome, I've used it in jelly sandwiches and in this awesome nail art:

Nude crackle over metallic blue to nude gradient

The budget nude swatch

Some how I think this swatches are boring when I do them. I don't like them more when I see how messy my cuticles looks and how shaky the picture looks. When I of some reason was was hoarding nude polishes I came across this one from needme PARIS Nail Polish at ebay for £0,99.

The number is 3 and I used 3 coats even though I think one could manage with two if you would use thicker layer. It have a pastel formula so at the first coat it look streaky. The color as you can see from the pictures are that kind of color that children have on their crayon for skin tones (you know that unrealistic skin tone no one have). It's not my favorite nude color wise but for the price which is like 11 SEK, I'm still content. And it is great as underwear for other polishes.