BB Couture spring beauties

Hello my dear people. How's everything? Enjoying the first true days of Spring? Here we already have the beautiful Lady Spring moving in. Sure, today is a bit chillier and greyer, but otherwise it's getting nice and warm. Love that! A couple of days ago me and my BF went for a long long walk, and we went through the nearby forest too. Oh, it made me so happy. Flowers everywhere, even those I haven't seen for years, birds everywhere, the tiny, adorable ones that I love, jumping from tree to tree, the smell of woods and only a few people ... Nirvana for the soul.

Today I have two springy colours by BB Couture for ya. Nice and bright and sparkly. :) Horned Devil was on my WL for ages, literally. Dear Stefanie was so kind she surprised me with it and it is utterly gorgeous. 

Horned Devil is a part of BB Couture Butterfly Collection for Spring 2010. The same collection that has Caterpillar, another lemming of mine. Horned Devil is really bright and really juicy. I get thirsty for a glass of orange juice every time I wear it or see the photos. Like right now. It's a jelly, so the VNL is forgiven. And it's packed with sparkly fine, tiny glitter. You could see that on the video, but Blogger won't load it, little jerk. Playful, cheerful polish. Totally loved it. Three coats on the pictures. I thought about doing a fourth one, but since it's a loud jelly, i didn't mind VNL.

Second is Studio 54. A green BB Couture, how surprising, eh? I think green is their strongest colour and I adore the greens they do, they're unique! Studio 54 is a gorgeous bright green with  golden and green micro glitter. Yum!

Studio 54 is a part of BB Couture Disco Collection. I suspect it was released for Holidays 2009, since most of bloggers post it in the beginning of 2010 ... but I know not. Anyway. This was three coats. Two will suffice for full opacity, but the third one gives it more depth. It's really beautiful, although it bothers me a bit how it looks like the glitter is sitting on the polish. It's not, this baby is smooth with a single coat of TC. Nothing major though! :)

What are your colours to wear in Spring? :) 

Thank you for reading!

BB Couture hot things Widow Maker and Playboy

Hello people! How are you doing? It's sunny outside! Yay! Still cold cold cold, but sunny. I was sitting next to our porch doors, sunbathing like a cat for hours. It's national holiday today for us in Slovenia, we're remembering one of our greatest poets today, France Prešeren. If you like poetry, I really recommend his works, he's fantastic. Plus, there are many translations in many languages of his work, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Today I want to show you one of the colours I've received in my latest package, Widow Maker. As usual, I went first for the colour that seemed weirdest in the bunch. I always do that, even if others are my great lemmings. Widow Maker is incredibly unique and weird in a very good way, so it called for me. When I opened my BB Couture folder I saw many more were yet to be edited and showed. With my little collection of BB Couture in general that felt a little lame. So I'm showing you Playboy too. One of the best teals ever made. They are both from BB Couture polish line made for men, so it seemed like a good idea, showing them together.

While we're on the subject, I want to ask you about your thoughts and opinions on men wearing polish. I thought about it a while ago, and especially when there was the Essie and pink nails on a boy 'scandal' I firmly made up my mind. Men are cool with nail polish. I see no problem with them wearing nail polish, I salute their care for nails and hands in general, because neglected nails are just disgusting, on men or women. If they throw some colour on them too, even better! I think we're generally a very unisex society and I think is about damn time we break the stereotypes around make up too. 

And just in case there are any men who'd like to wear polish, but are afraid of it, out there reading this. Here's one of the hottest man on this planet, wearing sky blue polish. So awesome. :) You can't argue about awesomeness of Johnny Depp, it's a fact, just like gravity.

source: denisedoesjohnny.com

This is all, of course, just my opinion. When I'm asking for yours, I'm completely aware of the fact some might feel differently and I respect that. I respect every opinion, whether it's different, similar, the same, or 50-50 with mine. So don't worry about that, all right? There will be no arguing, only opinion sharing, if you'll be willing, of course. 

Anyway, to the nail polish! 

Here's Widow Maker. What a fantastic, utterly gorgeous grey this is. It has this shimmer, that on sunlight warms the grey, making it a bit taup-ish.It's hard to explain, you'll see what I mean on the pictures. The black glitter is fantastic. It's very subtle on the nails, you have to look for it, but when I find it, i go 'wiiii'. :)

See what I mean? On the sunlight it gets this steel look, or how should I describe it ... it's incredible colour, a complete surprise for me, really. I didn't even know it existed until I unwrapped the bottle. What a hidden gem! This isn't a part of a named collection, as far as I know, it's from the very first set of BB Couture nail polish for men (together with the ever so perfect Grenade). I did 3 coats, for the picture's sake, two would be enough, with a bald spot here and here, that only macro shot would catch.

The second one is Playboy. A gorgeous, gorgeous teal with shimmery glass-flecked finish I adore so much. I got this from the wonderful Kim on her Thoughts of Beauty blog. There was this competition called Tell us a story, and the winner would get a bottle of Playboy! To my great surprise I was the only one who entered with a relatively boring story. I never thought I'd win it, I just wanted to be a part of it, since I thought it's a wonderful idea. And so I won. I'm not complaining, mind you. This teal is gorgeous.

Isn't this amazing? Teal/peacock (as some call it) with teal, purple and silver glassflecked/micro glitter or whatever you wanna call it. My pictures sadly don't do it justice at all, I failed to capture the amazing shimmer it has. It's a part of BB Couture Eye Candy Collection for Spring/Summer (not sure) 2011. For men part, of course. On my WL from that part also Sexy Centerfold and Rustic Romance. But Playboy is the gem of this collection. Two easy coats.

The formula on both of them was amazing. As usual. BB Couture has a flawless formula, I never had any troubles with the application. I was expecting Widow Maker to be brush stroky, but it wasn't so that's great. All in all perfect polishes, really, I'm really happy I got them.

Any thoughts on men wearing polish, Widow Maker and Playboy? Do share. :) 

Thank you for reading!

Paket Petek

Heya people! Another Friday, another package! Ah, but this one is even more special than usual. I'm always extremely happy to receive any kind of packages, you know, in general, they're just super fun, and with having an awesome swap buddy every package is a total win. That is why I started with this particular label. To praise the packages! :)

Today's particular little gem of a package came yesterday. And it was completely unexpected and I can't get over the awesomeness of it. Remember when I was utterly surprised by dear Stefanie with a bottle of BB Couture Clyde? I keep it in my display picture too. Well, guess what. A couple of days ago I received another email from her. I don't think I could be more surprised about it. It was also a surprise package, so I could hardly wait to get it and when it arrived in a cute box, I could not open it fast enough. What was inside left me speechless. The totally great Rembrandt card with the cutest message that made me smile and ... these:

I couldn't believe it. Honestly. I mean, look at them. Before I forget, L to R: Kiko Frozen LE 06, BB Couture Horned Devil and Widow Maker, A England Order of the Garter, Cult Nails Power Thief and Nubar Gem. And now I'll go faint. 

I could go on and on about this. Two of my great lemmings, my first A England (and what a pick, this blue and the teal and the green holo are the ones I want the most from the new collection, the blue is SO electric and bright!), my first Cult (that looks like a darker Orly Nite Owl with not only silver but green and pink shimmer, FTW!!) ... Kiko looks like it's going to kill my Zoya Raven lemming and Widow maker makes me stare at the bottle for a few moments with its black glitter.
No words for how awesome this package is. Nor for how touched and honoured I am that Stefanie remembered me once more with this wonderful gift. Thank you so much, darling. It was the nicest surprise, I just can't get over it. I'll stop typing right here, because I can't think of words cool enough to express my gratitude or happiness. In short, Stefanie, you rock!

And now to pick the first one to wear! I'm thinking bright orange or bright blue. They are BRIGHT! 

What was in your latest package? :)

Thank you for reading!

Born Pretty Store review m69 plate

Hello people! How are you doing? I'm finally posting this review. I am so late with it I actually feel bad about it. After I got the plate (the package appearantly got lost somewhere on the way and it took longer for it to get to me) I went on my blogging break due to the studies and now that I got back to blogging I still didn't have enough time for my plan on this review. I planned to do each pattern in seperate post, having at least 3 manis done with it. Since now I'm back to my studies, I realize this is not going to happen this year. So let's make this the official Born Pretty Store review with extra linking on every design I'll do from now on with the plate, making them little reviews too, deal?

I'm showing you what I already created with this plate and my experience with stamping. With this plate it's basically the first time I tried stamping and liked it. Since I'm sure you all know your stamping and are admiring the same bloggers simply rocking the whole stamping deal as I am (yeah, I'm looking at you, Ohh Shinies!), you'll immediately notice my stamping is still rookie stamping. 

So let's see some observations of a rookie that just might help another rookie out. :)

• Stamping actually takes a lot less time than full scotch tape mani.
• Practice makes perfect. Seriously, the more you do it, the better will you get.
• Born Pretty Store plates have the design cut deep enough you actually pick up the pattern.
• It's fun! I used to think it's just a lot of work, but it's really fun! :)

All in all, I can only recommend buying from Born Pretty Store. They're really really nice and helpful and their prices are very low. Plus the choice they have of plates is almost endless: click! IMHO they also make a very awesome place for your Chirstmas/NY gift shopping. 

Pictures!

Misa Grey Matters with Brucci Sapphire. My latest mani too, I loved it. :)

Misa Hot Couture with Catrice Back to Black. This is the pattern I don't really understand. What is it suppose to be? Well, Hot Couture reminded me of Winnie The Pooh and the pattern of honeycomb, so this is what came out. 

Finger Paints Give Pink A Chance with Color Club Hot Like Lava and Cold Metal. You've already seen this. I wish I would do the blue pattern on all my nails ... oh well, next time!

Essence Barefoot Thorugh The Moss with BB Couture Clyde. My very first try and I disliked how I couldn't capture the tiny dots.

The funny thing about the whole deal is, I didn't use my favourite pattern on this plate, wanting to do an awesome green combo and ran out of time. That one is waiting for the proper moment, the idea is running in my head for way too long. 

What do you think of stamping? Are you a fan? Did you shop at Born Pretty Store yet? Any suggestions what I should buy when I place my order?

Thank you Born Pretty Store for providing me the plate for the review! 

Paket petek (Package Friday)

Heya! Yes, I'm again trying a new theme on the blog. Since the Question of the week failed miserabily thanks to me, I'm thinking of starting something that isn't exactly on weekly basis. Here's the thing. Whenever I get a package I'm SUPER excited and happy. And I always want to show everyone what cool stuff I got. But then I open the package, sort the polish/other items, try them out and after a couple of hours or a day or two I already have the products on at least two different places and I get too lazy to put them all in one place and photograph them. Now with the new theme I'll hopefully remember to take a picture of the stuff and share them with you, just like I always want to. It will include all the packages, of all the make up and basically every package I get, since my Lipstick tag got a good reaction I said why not. :)

Oh, the name. Paket petek is literally Package Friday in Slovene. Paket = package, petek = Friday. I really like the word play, since basically both words are a mixture of the same letters so it sounds kinda funny. I hope. Or am I being silly?

I got two packages in last two weeks. 

I got these two beauties on a forum sale from one of my favourite nail showers on the internet. She's rapidly becoming my dearest source of BB Couture polishes, since it's SO much easier for me to get them off second hand and BB Couture Studio 54 is of course one of many greens of BB Couture I have on my WL. And well, L.A. Girl Heavy Metal. I think the name explains everything. I just had to have it. It's utterly gorgeous too!

This was a package I got from my favourite beauty portal (Planet Lepote), I got both items - Fleur de Sante Clarity cleanser & mask and YSL Rouge Pure Shine sheer lipstick in Rose Paillette - as an award and I was SO happy about them. Lipstick looks incredibly pink and, well, not-me, but notice the title "sheer" on the box. On the lips the pink is down to a minimal and all you get is this fantastic silverish sheen on the lips that makes them look awesome. It's not the watery reflection of lipglosses that I'm not too fond of, it looks silvery, I can't really think of a good way to describe it, but is makes this an awesome lipstick for everyday and when I feel like emphesizing my eye make up only. Plus, ladies, this lipstick lasts for ages. Seriously, I was shocked at how well it stays on the lips. Pity YSL is so much into gold package, I mean, what an overkill. If it was silver or matte black it would be a perfect package, don't you think? :D 

As for the mask, I cannot say anything smart about it yet, I haven't tried it yet. It smells divine though. :)

That's it. I've been good when it comes to shopping. Well, I basically don't buy myself nail polish anymore, I prefer to get the swap package. Honestly. Packages are a cool source of my happiness, I'm always sooo excited when I get them. :)

What did you find in your latest package when you opened it? :)

Thank you for reading!

BB Couture - Moon Over Manhattan

Evening darlings! This is posted later than usual because my computer went all funny on me today. I had a wonderful weekend though - starting with Friday and one of the best concerts of one of my favourite bands ever. So it was a good wekeend, very relaxing. An escape from the studying for a while. And in this few days that I was away loads happened in my nail polish world. I'll do separate posts about it, so I won't talk much about it now. 

Right now a really bad news hit me - BB Couture Dragon's Breath might be completely sold out. Hooold on an effing minute! Do I have it? NO I don't! So one bottle more for me, please! If any of you don't feel particularly attached to their bottle, let me know, we can arrange a swap or something. :) But it just hit me with the news that BB Couture can get sold out just as any other polish ... with 30 or something on my WL, my most wanted brand of the WL, that's not a very relaxing news. But it's so effing hard to get to them for me. Not because we wouldn't have ways, Overallbeauty rocks all the way to Slovenia too, but the price is not friendly to my student budget and the customs are a little bitch too. But I guess I'll have to do something about my long WL and BB Couture! 

And because of the BB Couture news I'll show you a BB Couture today. As most of you know, a friend of mine moved her Helmer to my place for some time and kindly let me play with all the content. The helmer is defintion of heaven, seriously (one drawer of O.P.I. only!), I've aready played with a couple of them, but BBs I  took out only the ones I didn't know by name. Since most of them are on my WL, basically only Moon Over Manhattan was left and I couldn't decide from the bottle if I like it or not, so I put it on the nails.

See the silver specks in it? Forgive me for the lack of describing it properly, to me it felt almost glass-flecked, but I'm not sure if it would fall into that category by the expert opinion - perhaps it's better to say it's micro glitter. But I love it as much as I love glass flecked finish, so a major plus! Either way, it's a fantastic, really fantastic finish that trully rocks this colour. The colour itself is very unusual. I feel it's almost a bit more dusty IRL, very cool. When I put it on, it was so unusual I didn't know if I like it or not. An hour later I still couldn't stop looking at my nails, I loved it so much. It grows on you, it's really fantastic. And yet another one of BBs to put on my WL. Well, with 30 already there, one more or less ... ;)

Oh, yes, this was two coats. It applied like a dream, as BB usually does, I absolutely adore their brush. I don't wear TC on pictures! I don't think I added it at all, it dried really fast. Perfect polish, in short. 

How many BBs do you crave? What's the most listed brand on your WL?

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Brucci - Roberta's Green Garden with BB Clyde accent

Well, I didn't think I'll ever be away from the blog for so long! It's been hectic, darlings. A very nice beginning of the week, but then I had to study my arse off and today I had only the first in a row of very demanding exams. I hope it went well. As you can see, my blogging will be limited until I finish with my exam period, although I miss blogging and nail blogsphere and you guys when I'm away. So tell me, how have you been? :)

Today I'll show you another Brucci, this one I really fell in love with. Yes, it's green. :P It's a very vibrant green, very spring like. I had my break and I felt like doing a lil' bit of scotch tape accent, nothing new, you saw the stripes before, now only in a combination of greens, of course I picked BB Couture Clyde, as it's perfect.

I think I needed three coats of Roberta's Green Garden, to even it up, but I'm not sure, sorry. One coat of Clyde on my ring finger, and I should add another, but I removed the scotch tape already and what was done, was done. As always, my scotch tape tries are inspired by awesome Erika and her Chloe's Nails, and I'm sure you all know her, but I'm going to link the blog anyway. :)

This one I really loved, it's such a perfect spring green. Brush acted very nicely, and I had no troubles with the smell of the polish either. I used SV on top. Hm ... anything else? Let me know if you have any questions. I'm really starting to love Brucci, for the absurdly low price they come by in the USA, I wish we had them too. 

What do you think about this colour and combination? What's on your nails today, any new colours from new collections? :)

Thank you for reading!

Red comparison week - 8th day: red glitters: 6

The last one. I saved this one to be the final comparison, because who doesn't love red glitter on their nails? To finish the comparison week with a bit of oomph. ;) This week has been a lot of work, I won't deny it. Perhaps also  because I'm running out of time like crazy lately and an obligation to post every day has become very hard to keep, since I'm well into my study phase. I should be, at least. March is always tricky when it comes to studying for me, since it's my birthday month and so on. But nevertheless, it was a fun comparison. I found a bunch of polish that I want and a couple of dupes that helped me erase some names off the WL. I owe major thanks to Tevta, for letting me play with her reds - withough her gorgeous stash this wouldn't be half as big, since more than half of polish I was comparing is hers! So yes, thank you, hun. :) And now to the glitters! You'll see the pattern, group picture, natural light, direct sunlight, separate natural light, direct sunlight, and of course a video.

 Sparkle check, only with right hand, sorry.

If you enlarge this one, you'll see the difference in density of glitter between Fairy Blood and Ruby Pumps. And the difference between coverage of Red Glitter and Fire Sparkle. So I recommend it. ;)

Again thanks to my mom for helping me out with these. Here she already mastered the camera. Kind of. :D

Fairy Blood, BB Couture, don't think it came out in collection, and overallbeauty.com has collection covered pretty well. 

Ruby Pumps, China Glaze, originally 2001 collection, rereleased in 2008 Holiday Collection Sleigh Ride and 2009 collection Wizard of Ohh Ahz returns. Not that it matters much, it's a part of ChG classic range.

Red Glitter, Barry M. Don't think Barry M releases collections ... at least I didn't find any info on that.

Fire Sparkle, Nubar, 2010 Spring Collection.

Don't Toy With Me, O.P.I., 2008 Holiday in Toyland collection.

Glam, Orly, part of their classic range.

All 6 brands have B3F formula, yay!

Brush: do you get tired of listening how i didn't have any troubles with the brush? Well, I really didn't. Nubar, China Glaze, OP.I. (even minis), Orly, and of course BB Couture have perfect brushes, and I really think so. Barry M was my first one to try out, and I liked the brush, application not so much.

Coats: I managed to do two coats with all of them, except Ruby Pumps needed three and Barry M needs at least four - the pictures are with four coats, and you can easily see my nails especially at the end of the nail. So perhaps it's better to layer it. BB Couture of course made me fall in love with it all over again, since the application was flawless and sooo easy! Ruby Pumps it's a classic, have no troubles with it, Nubar actually surprised me, as I had in my memory that it's a three coater ... Glam still is right there with Ruby Pumps in my book, I actually love it even more. And Don't toy with me is still one of my biggest lemmings in O.P.I. department, it went right there to top 3 after I've finally gotten Catherine The Grape. Barry M ... like I said, more of a layering glitter. The formula is very goopy, like with not so great glitters (and Illamasqua's Harsh, actually!), it also dries the roughest, it would need three coats of TC added to be smooth, and frankly, I didn't have the time to do that.

Oh yes, all of them have Nfo Oh Ultra Shine top coat added, because these beauties deserve smooth surface! I added two only to Fire Sparkle and Barry M. 

Dupability: No dupes! Perhaps Red Glitter and Fire Sparkle seem close, but trust me, the gap in quality and opacity of both glitters is wide enough to buy Fire Sparkle. Mind you - Barry M Red Glitter is glitter in clear base, so if you're looking for a layering glitter that doesn't change base colour, go with Barry M! Fire Sparkle has a red base color. 

Fairy Blood is super jelly like, and I woooorship it for that! It has far less glitter than Ruby Pumps, but I don't mind that. Don't Toy With Me is the purpliest, of course and Glam the darkest. To keep it short: I need them all, except Barry M, as I'm not really fond of these kind of glitters.

There you have it! The end of the comparison week! Hope you guys liked it! Tell me how you feel about red glitters, love them, like them, hate them, aren't your favourites, shut-up-Ulmiel-I-can't-decide? :) 

Thank you for reading!

Nfu Oh 56 (over BB Couture Clyde)

Hello again darlings! It's a beautiful day here in Ljubljana, although the wind is blowing like it's getting paid for it. I simply have to show you the mani I did yesterday and that I find just so perfect I could cry every time I look at my nails. It's so gorgeous, I don't think I'll take it off at all. Well,  i probably will, but I can see myself polishing my nails with this combination more often than I did with Rampage. This post is a bit picture heavy, I also posted two (!) videos of this baby ... I cannot express my love for this mani. I took almost 60 pictures of it and 5 videos and it was painful to reduce it do this many pictures. I can't stop looking at my nails, I couldn't even walking to the bus station today, people in the cars probably thought I'm drunk or something ... it's poetry on my nails. I also did my new profile picture (that I wanted to do for months now) with it and my bday flowers. Pictures and videos!

And this is now my new profile picture. The red one was long overdue to changes, as I'm now big on green for months. It also carries all the things that I love in it - flowers (I crave spring, you hear me, crave it!!), a nail polish one of you darlings suprised me with (dear Stefanie with BB Couture) and Nfu Oh that my love gave to me, thus creating a perfect green polish. :)

I did two videos, one with macro function on and one with off. Yes, I know how to enable it, I just usually don't, because then the glitter effect is more visible. But with Nfu Oh 56 the incredible sparkle and shine gets through even in sharp shot. Too gorgeous!!

Here it is. The love of my nail polish life. I don't think I'll babble much anymore, because all I can express is awe and love and my admiration, and frankly, I did that before I posted the pictures. By the number of them and videos you can also get it how much I love this combination, not to mention I made it into my profile picture. In short, too gorgeous. Too perfect. I couldn't wait until I showed all the others I have in line for blog, I just had to show you this one first. Isn't it perfect? Seriously!

Oh, yes, maybe you're interested in the details: 1 coat of Nfu Oh Base Coat, 2 coats of BB Couture Clyde, 2 coats of Nfu Oh 56 and 1 coat of Seche Vite. All of these have perfect brush (Base Coat is SO perfect to apply it's almost funny), I had no troubles with any of them, I'm majorly, majorly impressed by Nfu Oh brush, seriously ... yes, SV is still being a bitch, but what can we do? I was in a hurry and couldn't use the Nfu Oh not-a-fast-drying-TC one. 

Nfu Oh 56 is perfect. Pure perfection. Thank you, dearest, for the perfect present. :** Over a really perfect green like BB Couture Clyde it makes me all giddy.

What do you think about the combination? Oh, please do share your thoughts about my new profile picture, is it good, or too much or whatever? :)

Thank you for reading and following! :*