Layering: New York Summer Hot purple + Gosh Rainbow

Još jedan jelly sendvič na repertoaru je miks ljubičastog jellyja i flejkija. New York Summer Hot purple odličan mi je za ove sendviče iako nije tako vodenast kao Sinful Colors Daddy's girl pa flejkiji nisu toliko vidljivi. Ahhhh, da mi je ovakav plavi jelly... :x. Probala sam slično s Orly Royal navy - boja je savršena ali malo je pregust pa skroz prekrije flejkije.Tu su dva sloja Hot purple (jedan bi bio dovoljan ispod), pa sloj Rainbow, pa još jedan Hot purple i nadlak. Opet puno slojeva ali oba se lakića brzo suše i daju lijepo tanko nanijeti tako da mi ne smeta. Sendvič zapravo zaguši ono predivno prelijevanje flejkija ali ova kombinacija boja mi je svejedno predivna.  
Today I have another jelly sandwich for you - a purple jelly + flakie mix. New York Summer Hot purple works great for these sandwich manis although it's a bit more opaque than Sinful Colors Daddy's girl I swatched last, so the flakies don't show as much. Ahhh, I wish I had a blue jelly like this one.... :x. I tried to do this with Orly Royal navy - the color is perfect but it's too thick and it covers the flakies completely. There are two coats of Hot purple, a coat of Rainbow, another coat of Hot purple and tc in these swatches. Again, it's four layers plus tc, but both of these dry pretty quick and apply nice and thin so I don't mind. The sandwich actually hides that gorgeous color shifting in Gosh Rainbow but I love this color combination anyway.

Sprženo...
Overexposed...

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Comparison: Catrice Put lavender on agenda vs OPI Parlez-vous OPI

Ovo mi definitivno nisu bolji swatchevi ali kako se rijetko sjetim napraviti usporedbe a sama ih volim vidjeti, ipak odlučih staviti ovih par slikica. Unaprijed se ispričavam za: debelo nanošenje, izliznuće na trećoj fotki, suhe zanoktice i sve ostalo... Znači, ovo su Catrice Put lavender on agenda i OPI Parlez-vous OPI ovim redom (s lijeva na desno): Catrice / OPI / Catrice / OPI. Razlika je stvarno neznatna i ja je vidim samo na prve dvije fotke - OPI kao da ima dašak više ljubičaste a Catrice malo više smeđe, tj. u opiću kao da ima kapljicu više plavog. S obzirom da je Parlez-vous OPI ukinut i kreće se od 15 $ na više a da je Catrice dostupan i da je bočica nekih 5x jeftinija (10 ml doduše), izbor je jednostavan. Meni je OPI četkica osobno puno bolja od ove nove Catrice, no možda sam ja dobila neku očerupanu, tko zna. Tu su dva sloja ('ko bi rekao :D) i sloj INM Out the door.

So these definitely aren't my most representative swatches but since I rarely remember to do comparisons and love checking them out on other blogs, I thought I'd post this one. I apologize in advance for: thick and sloppy application, tip wear on photo #3, dry cuticles etc. So these are Catrice Put lavender on agenda and OPI Parlez-vous OPI in this order (L-R): Catrice / OPI / Catrice / OPI. There is a slight difference but it's so subtle I can only tell it in first two photos - Catrice leans a bit more brown and OPI more purple. Since Parlez-vous OPI is discontinued and goes from 15$ up and that Catrice is available and the bottle is around 5x cheaper (although it's 10 ml / 0,33 oz), the choice is pretty simple. I personally prefer the OPI brush over the new Catrice brush but maybe I just got a weird one (from what I heard, many girls are raving about it). There are two coats (you'd never tell it's only two, right? :D ) and a coat of INM Out the door.

Na popodnevnom suncu...
In the afternoon sun...

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China Glaze Some like it haute

Nakon glittera... još jedan glitter :D. Nevjerojatno je kako mi nisu dosadili ali mislim da ovaj niti neće. Moram reći da mi je ovo, uz Nubar Violet sparkle, najkul glitter koji sam vidjela :x  - sitni crni i srebrni glitter (ako me oči dobro služe) i veliki holografski glitter u prozirnoj bazi. Kao da ste u bočicu China Glaze Nove ulili Milani Silver dazzle... Fenomenalno! Jedina zamjerka je što je "pocicao" dva sloja nadlaka pa sam morala dodati i treći, na dva sloja laka. Some like it haute (divno mu je i ime :) ) dio je zimske Eye candy 3D kolekcije glittera iz 2011. (iz koje mjerkam još i Lorelei's Tiaru...).

After some glitters... more glitter :D. It's amazing that I'm not fed up with them yet. And I'm not sure I could be fed up with Some like it haute... ever. This is one of the coolest glitter polishes I have ever seen :x (along with Nubar Violet sparkle) - it's black and silver microglitter with some large round holographic glitter in clear base. It's like you poured Milani Silver dazzle into China Glaze Nova ... Awesome! The only flaw I can find is that it sucked two layers of top coat so I had to use three. There are two layers of polish underneath. Some like it haute (love the name too :) ) was released in 2011. Winter Eye candy 3D glitter collection (from which I'm also lemming Lorelei's Tiara... ).

Isprobavala sam neke nove "poze", više ili manje uspješno. Neke su dosta smiješne :D...
I've been trying some new swatching "poses", with limited success. Some are quite ridiculous :D...

Ova mi je osobni favorit, zovem je "Napad mutantske šljokičave kandže" :D
This is my personal favorite, I call it "The attack of the mutant glitter claw" :D

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Layering: Sinful Colors Daddy's girl + China Glaze Nova

Ovome obično pribjegnem kad trebam malo blinga ali želim izbjeći hrapavost glittera i stavljanje x slojeva nadlaka - jelly sandwich :D. Na fotkama je sloj Sinful Colors Daddy's girl, sloj China Glaze Nove pa opet 2x Daddy's girl i sloj brzosušećeg nadlaka. Da, to je opet 5 slojeva ali ova manikura je bila gotova za 20-tak minuta bez puno čekanja između slojeva. Novu sam već prije fotkala preko srebrnog CND Silver chromea ali daleko mi je zanimljivija u ovoj varijanti. Nekako mi ova manikura ima puno više "dubine" od običnog layeringa. Daddy's girl je dosta rijedak jelly ali baš zato odlično ide uz Novu i ne zagušuje njezin holo čak ni s dva sloja. Novin hex glitter se i ispod svjetluca kao lud. :x Definitivno trebam još jelly lakova - dosta!
I usually do this type of mani when I need some bling but want to avoid the chunkiness of glitter and using half a bottle of top coat - jelly sandwich :D. This is: one coat of Sinful Colors Daddy's girl, one layer of China Glaze Nova +  two more layers of Daddy's girl and one of tc. True, it's still 5 layers of polish but this mani was done in 20 minutes without much waiting in between layers. I swatched Nova once before, over CND Silver Chrome but I find it much more interesting in this combo. Somehow, there's much more depth in this than in a regular layering. Daddy's girl is a pretty thin jelly but that makes it work great because it doesn't smother the holo in Nova, even after two layers. The hex holo glitter in Nova sparkles like crazy even under those two layers :x. I'll definitely be needing more jelly polishes...

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