Pretty and Polished - Everybody Loves Penguin swatch

Here I have Everybody Loves Penguin. I don't know what's penguin about this and maybe it's not so easter either but there's yellow glitter in it so it counts. ;)

This is 4-5 coats and still some VNL but not like if it's bothersome.

The polish has a white jelly base with yellow smaller sized hexagon and two sizes of black opaque hexagons. The yellow hexagons are semi shiny, metallic looking but not shiny like regular glitter per ce.  The largest of the black are 4mm and not that common, and I needed to do some fishing and some what placing of them.

I really loved this polish, the only sad thing is that it needed so many coats because I think one manicure needed about 1/5 or 1/6 of the whole bottle which was 5ml. I will try getting my hands of a full-size bottle if possible (There where no large ones available last time). Maybe I'll use it for layering the next time because as I said I really likes this color/glitter combination.

For safety I used two coats of SV so the black large glitter wouldn't stick up from the surface, even though they sunk in surprisingly well in the polish.

Pretty and Polished - Jawbreaker swatch

Hi all lovely persons reading my blog!

As you might have noticed there was a three day blog pause here, the reason was school examinations. Now I only have my diploma thesis left to do before I graduate. I actually managed to get an awesome partner company to my diploma thesis and I look forward to start with the project. The only scary part is that I after must get a job, preferably one that I've studied for. ;) Today I will try catching up reading some blogs and finally re-paint my nails!

Today I'm showing Jawbreaker from Pretty and Polished. I know many of my readers (me also) love this kind of milky polishes with glitter so I hope you'll appreciate this review. ;)

What you see is three coats of jawbreaker and Seche Vite on top, I found drying time to be normal. The formula was also great.

This polish has as you can see a white milky base filled with different kind of glitter.

I saw purple micro glitter, "middle" size hexagons (perhaps 1MM?) in dark red, dark blue and yellow(or light yellowish green). There's also a fewer amount of "larger" (perhaps 2-3MM?) dark blue hexagons but they aren't that common, I see one in the middle of my pinkie finger and ring finger. ;)

There's also some rare square red glitter as you can see in the bottle. I also managed to get one at my pinkie on my left hand. On my right hand I got more but I wasn't able to make a steady shot of it so I skipped those photos.

So, my verdict about this; I really like it, even though it's not my favorite milky polish. I think that I would have liked it more if there where more square glitters in it because then it would have been more unique.

Pretty and Polished - Elvis Pink Cadillac swatch

Hi!
Today I'm showing pink and I figured that I might as well participate in Emmas Pink Thursday. :)

As many of you know I bought a bunch of Pretty and Polished polishes and this is one of them. I rarely buy pink polishes, maybe I find them too girly but this one I really liked.

Sunlight.

This polish is like a pastel pink jelly and like all jellies it is sheer. I needed four coats to reach and opacity I was content with. I think shorter nails maybe could use three or even two. However I like that it looks like a jelly sandwich with all the glitter.

Indoor light.

The color is a light pastel pink and it contains of two sizes of hexagons, lots of small ones and fewer larger ones. In my bottle it looks like if a whole bunch of large one are stuck at the bottom and next time I'll use a stick to poke them loose.

Outdoor light.

Indoor light.

Indoor light.

I actually wore this polish for 7(!) days in a row (not by purpose by I had no time to change) and at the seventh day the polish still looked shiny and there was no tip wear despite the fact that I cleaned the whole appartement one day during those seven days. That's impressing!

Indoor light.

BTW, I've just bought a smart phone and went in to my blog and noticed that my photos looked a lot brighter there. Maybe even a bit brighter than they really are. Any one else who has noticed this?

Salt n Pepper funky french

For today I have my, I guess, top five favorite nail polish of the moment. I can't explain it but I'm silly and childishly fond of this milky polish filled with black matte glitter. This is also a lovely way of wearing it, nail art but in a very simple manner. I only wish that I would have had made sharper black lines.

Shadow outdoors.

Sunlight outdoors.

 And a somewhat close up:

It seems to be very sheer at first glance but it actually isn't. I used two coats to make it cover and no VNL in sight. However the second coat still reveal the underlaying matte black glitter making it feel a bit jelly-sandwich'y. Maybe that's what the base is, jelly, or crelly since it cover so easy? Or definitely milky, a milky finish.. haha :)

Polishes used:
W7 Nail Polish - Salt n Pepper
Jordana Pop Art - Black

So what do you think about it? ;P Any thoughts?