Búk 116 with Nfu Oh & Essence flakie comparison

Hey darlings! What's in the news today? I'm having a coffee day today, first a coffee/tea time with a couple of friends, including one of the darlings that came to Slovenia for a couple of days (she went to Spain for a year) and then another later in the evening, so I'm really happy about that. :) 

Today I want to show you my roadtrip mani. This baby lasted for three days and I still didn't get tired of it, but the mani got so chipped I just had to remove it. BTW; being tired as hell and in a hotel room isn't really the best motivation for a foil removal. The first time I regreted putting a flakie on my nails. 

I also compared Essence Waking up in Vegas with Nfu Oh 49 on this mani, I wondered how close they get. 

If you see any kind of difference between them, your sight is better than mine. I didn't see any difference, they are both the same. In general Nfu Oh has a bit bigger flakies, but that's the only difference I could find. They're both amazing, don't you think? 

My base colour was Búk 116, the only polish from Lithuania that I haven't tried yet. I've already talked about it, the brand is a local Lithuanian brand with a nice brush and an old but good formula. 116 is a bit disappointing though. It looks SO awesome in the bottle, sadly the shimmer is much much weaker on the nails. If it would be so strong as it is in the bottle this colour would rock.

Even in lightbox the shimmer is poor, on softer light it disappears completely. This was three coats, the formula is a bit runny and smelly, but all in all a very well behaved polish. I just wish the shimmer would be more visible. Still, it's an excellent base for the flakies! :) 

What do you think about these babies? Did you get any of the top coats from Re-mix your style LE?

Thank you for reading!

Búk - 199

Heya people. How are you doing? I'm a bit headachy, but still good from the wonderful weekend I had. It was my BF's bday and we went to the spa and relaxed a bit before the hobbit-like feast. And I discovered the before greatly underestimated addiction and fun of sauna. Sauna, baby! Those Finnish people know what the hell are they doing! I was always sceptical about sauna, because I greatly dislike to sweat, so my reaction usually was: I should walk into a room full of sweaty naked people to be naked and sweat like a pig with them? Thanks, but no thanks. Well, my BF almost had to drag me there, just so we would try it out at least once and I think i loved it 15236 times more than he did. :) Especially the seriously hot ones. And my skin was soft as silk after it. I really had a blast. So i guess I love sauna now. 

But to the nail polish. Today I have for you one of those my BF brought from Lithuania. It's one of their local brands, I'd assume, called Búk. Following the European nail polish habit it's named with a number, 199. As always when I discover a new brand, I googled Búk too. And I found this great post about it from a fellow nail-blogger, she has a blog called Less is more ... and I love how she put everything there is to know about this local brand polish in one post. People, DO MORE POSTS ON LOCAL BRANDS!! They're SO interesting (at least to me) to read, plus in this ever growing community it's always a nice thing to read about something new and unseen, agree?

Appearantly Búk means "Be" in Lithuanian language and they're pretty trendy too, they had a holographic collection in 2008! Nice! They are very cheap, but that doesn't affect the quality of the polish which is always a total win for me. The thing that I love about local brands are also the labels. I have great fun reading all the different ways people say "nail polish". Lithuanian nail polish junkies appearantly say "Lakas nagams". We, Slovene nail polish junkies, say "Lak za nohte". In case you're wondering. ;)

Búk 199 goes to my range of sexy reds. As you'll see, my BF got me only the sexy reds, since he prefers the reds that way. ;) I loved it so much. It's bright, has a bit of shimmer and just looks good on my nails, pardon my arrogance. I was worried how the pictures will turn out, as I took this in the house my BF's family has up there where there is no time, only relaxation, and of course I didn't have my computer, I applied it in low light and tried to catch the last rays of sunshine. But I think they turned out ok. :) 

This was two coats, it dries really really fast, no TC. The brush is ok, nothing above average, but not below it either. It behaves nicely. The only thing that it's quite noticable is the smell of the polish. It has a very strong smell, so I'm guessing toluen is still present in the cocktail. But nothing an open window can't fix! 

It's a great one, I like it a lot. Thanks to my love for getting it for me. I'm thinking I really need to get him used to buying me nail polish, he always picks the great ones, lol. :) 

What do you think about Búk 199? Are you, like me, a fan of trying local brands, do you enjoy reading about them, or do you prefer to choose the "checked", worldwide popular ones? 

Thank you for reading!

PS: I found this picture next to Búk ones, my BF took the shot while I was removing my Nfu Oh flakies and I guess he found it funny enough to make a photo of it.

So yes, this is how I walk around when I'm removing glitter, flakies and all the other hard to remove babies. Looks familiar? ;)