Two bright spring/summer Zoyas

Hey people! How are you doing? It's the study season! Well, it feels like it's always a study season for me, hah. Now, I know I have a few beauties to show you from my last package, but lately I've been on a giant orange kick, and since I don't have any unused orange polish, I'm putting my untrieds to a pause and reaching again form my already used polish. And yesterday I wanted to wear something insanely bright and blue and Tallulah just jumped into my mind and I remembered I haven't shown you this beauty before. As I opened my Zoya folder I saw it's quite full of not posted pictures, so I added Midori, being  one of my favourite Zoyas ever. They are both insanely bright and cheerful and just perfect for the warmer days, I'd say. :)

 Here's an older one with my long nails and a kitty on my ring finger. :)

Zoya Tallulah is awesome. So bright! So cheerful! Even has the slightest purple flash if you know how to turn your hand. Extremely easy to work with, the formula was a very pleasant surprise even for a Zoya (I'm used to awesome formula with their polish), it's very nicely pigmented and all in all a very good behaved polish. It's a part of Zoya Ooh-La-La Summer Collection for 2009, and I see now that so is Midori, haha, nice coincidence. :)

Zoya Midori reminds me of the Shire. Yeah, the hobbit Shire. Remember the fresh green colour of the grass in the movie when Gandalf is riding to Hobbiton and Frodo is sitting under the tree? I love that scene, because it depicts my thought of Shire very well. And Midori has the freshness of Shire grass, hehe. I love this polish to pieces. Three coats on the pictures, I did dots with Zoya Veruschka and screwed it up majorly on my little finger. I didn't like the overall result much either. Oh well. Midori still rocks!

Definitively the two stars of Ooh-La-La collection! What do you wear in Spring? Do you get the kicks for really bright colours like me or do you prefer the springy pastels? 

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Barielle - Buddha-ful (a.k.a Luna Lovegood polish)

Heya people! How are you doing? I'm enjoying my cup of coffee after my lunch and I think it's about time I show you this beauty. Buddha-ful got the most 'votes' or rather wishes to be seen first in the last package I got, so I'm showing it first too. I was curious about how we'll get along, being a very gentle colour that I don't usually wear, and still intriguing me from the bottle. I went through the blogsphere, trying to figure out whether to layer it or build it up and then I decided to build it up, since I wanted to have the bottle colour on my nails. 

I'm wearing it ATM and after two days I'm still loving it. I knew this will be the colour I'll either love or remove after an hour of wearing and as it seems, it is a major win in my book. It's unusual. Unique flakie.Of course I don't have anything near the colour in my stash yet. It's hard not to stare at your nails, the soft rose/beige base colour making your hands so gentle and elegant and the green-blue flakies providing the twist for the gentleness, making it a bit weird. 

I understand the connection with Buddha and the esoteric feeling this colour gives you when you're looking at it, but the first thing I thought of when my mani was complete was one strange and cute little witch, Luna Lovegood. From Harry Potter books, of course. Luna is very gentle, sweet and at the same time very unique and strange person. One of my favourite characters from the HP world, I love that girl. And I think the weird combination of soft beige base colour and green flakies would be a nice polish to make for Luna in Harry Potter nail polish collection. Yes, I had an idea of making it, 12 bottle collection, I'd go big. :D

Pictures!

The only way I could capture the blue shift of flakies is this rather bad photo, I'm afraid.

Alas my camera wasn't made to capture such details correctly. You'll just have to take my word for it, the flakies are much more visible IRL and the green-blue change isn't so hard to see with the naked eye. Still, most of the time flakies are green and i think that suits this polish just fine. I made a million photos and even a video,  and this is the best I could come up with. 

Buddha-ful is a part of Barielle Karma Collection for Summer 2011, a collection that does have some nice colours, but Buddha-ful is by far the most unique. On the pictures I have 4 thin coats, I payed special attention to not flooding my nails with too much polish, making them 'fat' as I call it. With four coats it builds very nicely. Three would be enough if you don't mind VNL. I think I'd have VNL with four too, if my nails were longer, but now I basically don't. I love how this polish builds, the base colour is sheer enough so the flakies look layered. You can also layer it but I don't like the milky touch the base colour gives to the mani if it is layered over a dark colour, so I decided against it.When my nails will be longer I'll probably layer it over a total nude, so it won't show.

The brush and formula were great too. This is my first Barielle, so I was curious about that. :)

Buddha-ful is a gorgeous polish. Very unique. I'm very positively surprised by it. :) How about you?

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The many faces of Nubar Wildlife

Heya people! How about I show you today one of the Going Green Nubars? I've worn them all now and all I can say is, they are exactly what I expected or even more. Today I'll show you Wildlife with some Depend stickers I've bought a while ago. If you thought layering is the lazy way to do nail art, I discovered nail art stickers bring that laziness to a new level. :) But they are fun and I think they make a good accent nail mani.

Anyway. A few pictures, i wanted to capture as many colours this baby has as I could. 

 The stickers. I wanted to bring some wild life to the Wildlife polish, haha.

 The usual look of the colour.

 But wait! There's more!

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And the stickers, if you're curious about them. I find them cute, because they're not overdone (like most nail stickers are). Just silver, simple things. Plus I like flowers.

Nubar Wildlife took three coats to be fully opaque. Mind you, for most two would be enough, it's just me being picky. The application was superb, as always with Nubar. I must admit something. Wildlife was a complete surprise for me. I didn't love it much on the photos. I liked it, but I prefered the rest of them over Wildlife. On the nails it took my breath away. I couldn't stop staring at my nails, especially outside. It's incredible. Trully incredible, you need this, if you like duochromes and/or green. I really recommend it. :) 

Do you have Wildlife? Do you like nail stickers or do you think they're a waste of time and money? 

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Paket Petek

Hello! It's going to be a short one today, I don't feel very well. Don't even know why, I hope I didn't catch anything. 

So here it is, another Paket Petek. Gotta love them, I sure do! :D This time it's a package from my swap buddy, and as always she sent a hell of a set!

A more unusual photo today, because I love how Buddha-ful looks like here. :) 

From L to mostly R: SpaRitual Sacred Ground, Barielle Buddha-ful, a franken Kris made and three Revlon bottles: Mistletoe, Glitz&Glam and Snow Bunny.

I can't get over how incredibly, incredibly cute a Sparitual mini is. I adore mini bottles, but Sparitual is the cutest of them all. Not to mention Sacred Ground was a wish of mine since the first time I saw the swatches. 

I can't wait to try the franken too, I also have to name it, it doesn't have a name! 

The colours that intrigue me the most are naturally the ones that aren't 'me'. Barielle Buddha-ful and Revlon Snow Bunny. Budda-ful is so unusual. So unusual I keep staring at the bottle, trying to figure it out. I love unusual polishes. Snow Bunny is a white sliverish foil, as it seems. A total win in the making, I suspect. ;) Either way, can't wait to play with them! Kris, you rock, like usually. :) Thank you!

Any special wishes on seeing any of them ASAP? And what was in your latest package you received?

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