Today I'm wearing Catrice - In the Bronx, a beautiful shimmery bronze. Application is very smooth and the brush has a nice size. I used 2 coats.
With Flash:
Without Flash:
I love the colour, but one thing that is strange (and I think that might be a thing with shimmery polishes in general, cause I've noticed it in the past): It seems like the polish is shrinking while it dries, cause sometimes the polish doesn't line up exactly with the end of the nail, although I painted it the whole way. It's only noticeable when you look at it up close, but that's enough to annoy me a bit.
Today's nail polish is Orly Rage. Above I took a picture without flash (but unnatural light, cause it's dark outside), which shows the actual colour a bit better. Below is the picture with flash. Rage is a beautiful white gold. Unfortunately I find it too light for my pale skin and I thought it looked a bit boring on it's own, so I decided to pimp it with my Konad m60 plate.
As mentioned in my last posts I went on a crazy Drugstore shopping spree while in Germany. I got some great stuff from P2, Catrice and Essence. All three have awesome products, great quality and are very very affordable.
I love the Essence Nail Polishes and this time didn't dissapoint either. I also got the Essence Limited Edition Eyeshadow Palette.
Let's start with the nail polishes. First items I got are the Nail Art - freestyle & tip painter in the colours (left to right): 12 metallic champagne, 03 silver surver, 11 grape-metallic rocks! and 09 mysterious black. I didn't get a chance to test them yet, but they have a very fine tip and thin brush to allow for detailed nail art work.
I also got some regular color & go nail polishes in the colours (left to right) 85 galactic black, 68 high spirits and 33 just in case and one from the Vampire's Love collection in the colour 01 Gold Old Buffy
Swatched (left to right) galactic black, Just in Case, high spirits & Gold Old Buffy:
Essence also added magnetized nail polishes to their collection and I decided to give them a try. They were only €2.49 after all... can't beat that, right?:-) You have to buy the magnet seperatly, but I didn't buy it, cause I decided to use the one from my 17 nail polish.
The colours I got are (left to right): 04 mystic wish!, 02 hex, hex! and 03 magic wand!
Swatched with and without flash (left to right): magic wand!, mystic wish! and hex, hex!:
The effect is not crazy strong, but I didn't hold the magnet over it for too long and I used only one coat, so I suspect you can get it stronger if you want.
Last, but not least, I came across a very pretty Limited Edition Eyeshadow Palette, which totally reminds me of the Urban Decay palette styles. You get 12 eyeshadows, 2 eyelinersand 2 brushes (one domed eyeshadow brush and one angled eyeliner brush). All that for €9.99. Pretty impressive. The shadows have a good colour payoff and the selection is really nice. Not too over the top. It has a mirror inside, but strangly the colours don't seem to have any names.
Therefore I'll show the swatches by row.
Here are the swatches. First, left row from top to bottom:
Second row, top to bottom:
Third row to to bottom:
All colours are shimmery apart from the second from the left in the third row swatches.
Eyeliners swatched:
I think it's nice that they included brown and grey as eyeliner colours, cause most people probably have a black already it seems like teh palette is designed for more subtle looks anyway (besides the purple colours probably).
All in all, I'm very impressed again by the quality of the nail polishes and eyeshadows, especially regarding the price.
As mentioned in my last blog post, I went a little Shopping Crazy during my visit home to Germany.
Catrice is another one of those companies that offer amazing products for great prices in German Drugstores like Ihr Platz and DM. I just checked their website and saw that you can buy their products in Austria and Switzerland as well.
I tried several of their products so far (nail polishes, lip glosses, eye shadows, blushes) and I have to say that I was always very impressed. I'm asolutely in love with their nail polishes (you will know by now that I am obsessed with nail polishes) and their eye shadows are awesome too... very pigmented, beautiful colours. The few other prodcts I tested never let me down either.
This time I only got nail polished, cause I bought so many eye shadows and palettes lately that I really didn't need any more. Although, I probably didn't need more nail polishes either... ah well.
Here are the shades I got. I had to split the swatches, so I will show them in 3 parts.
Colours are from the left: I'm a star... (greenish gold), Sir, Yes Sir! (army green), In the Bronx (coppery gold (so beautiful)) and Grey's Kelly.
Swatched (2 coats, apart from the one on the right, cause I forgot to put a second one on:-)):
Next, we have 2 beautiful girly colours: Let's Mauve on! (light rose metallic) and Lovely Sinner (pink, that looks red in the bottle, with tons of bright red shimmer)
And last but not least 2 darker, but nonetheless beautiful, shades. Plum Play With Me (left), I Wear My Sunglasses At Night (right):
Swatched:
I really love those nail polishes. The colours and especially the names are just great. Unfortunately the Lovely Sinner doesn't show up on camera as awesome as it is on the nails, but you will just have to imagine it's beauty. If Catrice is available to you, I'd totally encourage you to go and get some nail polishes or eye shadows or whatever other beauty product your heart desires. I'm a Big Fan!
During my holiday at home in Germany I spend a serious amount of time in several drugstores shopping for stuff... mainly nail polish. I am obsessed after all:-)
German Drugstores like DM, Ihr Platz and Rossmann stock some amazing products from companies like Catrice, P2 and Essence. All three are my favorites for nail polishes, cause they are super pigmented and dirt cheap (and I don't mean quality wise, but price-wise).
I will create different blog entries for all three companies and will start with P2.
I bought 8 nail polishes, some Kajals and Metallic Eye Pencils. First, let's take a look at the beautiful nail polishes. The colours from left to right are: Freeze (shimmery white), So Cool (metallic blue), Night Out (dark grey/blue), Can't get enough! (dark red), Dating Time (full on red) and Lucky (green).
Here are the shades swatched (Freeze, So Cool, Night Out, Lucky, Can't get enough! and Dating Time):
The quality is amazing. For some colours you could even get away with using one coat. The swatches above have 2 coats though. I love their colour range and I find new amazing colours whenever I go to Germany. These nail polishes are €1.55 each... do I need to say more?
I also got 2 of their crackling nail polishes, cause the colours looked so nice, but I didn't think about it enough, cause they would actually look nice as a top coat or nail polish, but not so much as a crackle polish, cause they just look really bad cracked.
The colours I got are violet fusion and red volcano:
Here are they swatched (used Freeze as a base):
The left one (red volcano) looks like you have rusty nails (not a look I aspire) and the right one (violet fusion) is very thin and doesn't crackle very nice. It may look nicer over a darker base.. who knows. I will have to test it some more. But I'm a bit dissapointed with them, cause the surface is so rough... like sand paper. But then, they were pretty cheap, so I won't cry myself to sleep:-)
P2 continuesly add new products to their range (e.g. Lipsticks, Lip Glosses, Liners etc.). I haven't really tried much of their other stuff yet, but this time I decided to get some of their other products.
I had my eye on some of the Urban Decay Glide on Pencils for a while, but they are soo annoyingly expensive that I hesitated to actually get them. I saw that P2 has a similar thing, called Metallic Style Eye Pencil. I decided I have to try them. I can't really compare them to Urban Decay though, cause I never used them. But I liked the swatches so far. I got it in 4 colours (think they only had 6 in total). The colours I got are 050 - catwalk style (dark brown), 010 - stage beauty (purple), 040 - standing ovation (green) and 060 - designer's best (silver):
Swatched (with flash):
I also got 2 of their Perfect Look Kajals in 030 bronze and 080 lilac and Intensive Khol Eyeliners in 090 Stylish Great Britain (grey) and 030 Crazy Brazil (green):
A friend of mine went to the States a few weeks ago and I grabbed the chance by the horns to get some stuff from Ulta that she could bring back to the UK for me. As you can imagine, my list was way longer than 5 items, but Ulta didn't have some of the stuff I wanted, so this is what I ended up with.
Finally got some of the Real Techniques Brushes that I had my eyes on for quite a while. I got the Core Collection and the Travel Essentials. I didn't try them yet, but I'm sure they are awesome. Sam just can't be wrong, right:-)
And then, of course, I also got some nail polishes.
The ones I got are Revlon - Copper Penny (left, looks awesome), Orly - Rage (middle, nice one) and Orly - Space Cadet (right, a bit dissaponting, cause it's quite sheer) .
On my way to Germany two weeks ago I stopped by the Mac Counter in Heathrow to check out the Christmas collection. I didn't really see anything too exciting (in my opinion), so I just went for 2 fairly neutral eyeshadows from the Styledriven collection, which I thought would be perfect for a neutral every day look.
The colours I got are Lie Low and Sweet Satisfaction. Lie Low is a warm dark frosted golden brown and Sweet Satisfaction is a soft neutral shimmery beige. They are quite pigmented. I think they are perfect fall/winter shades.
