Hits Speciallita Mari Moon ~ Unconventional

Hey everybody. How are you doing? How about a minute to reflect on my blogging in 2013? As I didn't manage to do any of the favourites of 2013 post, where that would be more fitting ... My blogging in 2013, to put it short, sucked. 

As my regular readers will know, in the beginning of the year I was a part of a large international competition that lasted until April, and afterwards of course I had my exams and my social life to put back in order, and before you know it I was here in Bratislava in September. During all that time for blog was non-existent or I simply lacked the energy for writing and taking pictures (even went entire March without nail polish, which hasn't happened in years before that). 

If I thought I will have more time for blogging here, even about Bratislava, I was of course mistaken. In fact, during Summer I actually considered closing the blog, but then a friend of mine convinced me not to do it. Still, the statistic are a bit sad. I wrote 60 blog posts in the last year. In year before that 112 and in 2011 222 posts. I think one factor was also the fact my camera got kind of broken this year, the battery case keeps randomly opening up, which sometimes makes shooting decent photos quite frustrating and time consuming. Now that I have a decent phone with a camera better than the previous one I think I'll get back the joy of taking pictures of my hands. ;)

I will not make any promises to write regularly, because I make them way too often and then just break them, but I will try. I do love blogging and I have "met" through blog so many great people I think I should keep on doing it. So if you stuck with me until now: thank you, and I hope I'll met you here in 2014 too. :)

The star of this blogpost is from the package wonderful Eveline from Tudo Sobre Esmaltes sent me oh so many months ago. For some odd reason I have not worn Mari Moon Unconventional until now. And it is one of the most stunning multichromes I own. It is insane, really, you should see it in person. Sometimes it is warm purple with blue shimmer, but then it shifts to brighter royal purple and if you shift your hand some more, to a sexy dark red (not unlike Zoya Isla, I think), and if you shift your hand even more it goes orange-y red. Stunningly gorgeous. 

The photos were made with my new phone my BF bought me for NY and the camera is pretty darn awesome, much better than my old one. I love how these pictures turned out. I couldn't capture all the colours of Unconventional, there are too many and some of them get most obvious in light too soft for the camera to work properly in. But even these pictures ... ah, isn't it gorgeous?

This was three coats. It is in fact a two coater, but the brush is very Hits Speciallita like, which means way too stiff and bristles are messy, so they dent the polish surface and you need the third coat to even it up. Totally worth the trouble though. :)

Eveline, thank you! I think every single polish from your package was breathtaking. :)

What is your favourite multi/duochrome shade?

Thank you for reading and commenting!

Hits ~ Zeus

Another gorgeous holo for this beautiful sunny day. It's a holiday today in Slovenia, but i have to study my butt off and then I have dance practise in the evening. I can't wait, to tell you the truth, I missed having regular workout routine during the past few months. And with this beautiful weather we are having, I can go out and start jogging and all, yay! I prefer to jog right after the sun goes down, so I jog in twilight. Also because I get red in the face really fast and then people, who pass me by, look at me like I am about to faint, although I feel just fine. For some odd reason that bothers me, maybe because I do not have the confidence of a jogger yet. ;) Doesn't matter, what I need to show you today is Hits beauty called Zeus. Scrangie said about it "if you missed out on the original version of OPI My Private Jet, this is practically the same thing, only a little bit better". I did missed out on the My Private Jet hype, but I have worn it, the original and the brown version, that I have borrowed from a friend. And I can only agree, Zeus is more holographic, at least as far as I can recall.

Even in faint evening light, this beauty still shimmers with holographic effect, only the strongest holos in my stash are able to do that.

The brush is less than good, it is wonky and stiff. I had worse but I also had much much better. It can be seen on some of my nails, that is why it bothers me. But ok, it is manageable. I put two to three coats, depends on the nail. I love it, I really do. It is an amazing black holo, just what I craved from My Private Jet and Revvvolution phase on. :)

Do you like black holos, do you have one or a favourite?

Thank you for reading!

Hits ~ Hera

Hey guys! Today's beautiful day called for a holografic polish! And since I had this gorgeous deep teal holo waiting in my small group of untrieds, I gave it a go. Hera is a part of Speciallita Hits no Olimpo Holographic collection and is utterly gorgeous. My lemming for DV8 is finally dead.

The sun washes off a bit of teal base colour, this is in fact a gorgeous deep teal holo and a very strong holo effect it has as well! I needed only two coats, the brush was good as well. A very cool polish indeed. Thanks, Eveline!

What do you think? Getting sick of holo effect? :)

Thank you for reading!

Powerpuff Girls set

Heya people! I have been away for a while, thanks to my college work. It does not mean I stopped polishing my nails. :) I have the Powerpuff Girls trio for ya today. I admit, I am a big fan of Powerpuff Girls, I like most of the characters, especially Him and Buttercup and Bubbles. I dislike Blossom, because she is such a smartypants. I generally dislike controlfreak-ish, bossy people. And she is 'the leader'. Oh well.:) 

Hits had come up with an entire Powerpuff girls collection, so I asked the lovely Eveline to get me one for each girl. I chose Cotton Candy from Bubbles line, Elemento X from Buttercup's and Pink Night from Blossom's.

Cotton Candy (the last one) is in fact more pink than purple, but my camera refused to show the real warmth of the shade, on the photos it is much too blue based.

Pink Nights is in fact a neon, yes. My first neon too! I love it. It has a tad bit more pink in the red than my photos show. 

Elemento X is a blackened green that looks black most of the time. You see the flash of green, if you really pay attention to your nails though. 

What all of these have in common is a seriously bad brush. I also tried a Hits holo and it came with the same bad brush, so I guess it is how Hits brushes roll or something. Not an easy application with these, especially with Elemento X, where the bristles are actually so stiff they scrape off the polish already on the nails, when applying a new coat. Formula wise they are all two coaters, but thanks to the brush you have to put three for an even mani. Just a fair warning. Still, I love the theme of these bottles. Powerpuff girls, yay! You know what would be awesome? Dexter's Laboratory and Forster's Home for Imaginary Friends collection! Oh, and Beetlejuice too! Oh oh, and Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy! Oh man, that would be so cool. :)

Do you like Powerpuff girls? How about Hits polish?

Thank you for reading!

Paket petek (haul post)

Hello my dear people. It's haul post again! I had emotionally a pretty hard week, so I was glad to receive these beauties and make my day a bit brighter. It is the first half of our swap with Eveline, that came second to my greedy claws. As I mentioned before, Eveline and 5 other Brazilian ladies own a beautiful blog called Tudo Sobre Esmaltes and she made this swapping experience simply wonderful. This package contained basically my entire WL when it comes to Brazilian nail polish. Oh yes, Ludurana multichromes!

I really like how the first one turned out, so I'm posting two photos. As you can see, I have a set of Powerpuff Girls as well! Wiii! And oh, I can't get over how amazing Ludurana polish looks in the bottle. I also wished for a couple of Hits holographic polish that you all know so well. Now I have covered every holographic shade I ever wanted to have, except white. But teal, red and black are right here, can't wait to try it on. But Ludurana shall be first. The problem is, which one ... ;)

Eveline, this package is amazing, thank you so much for everything!

What was in your latest package?

Thank you for reading!

Paket Petek (haul post)

Hello my people! How are you doing? It's that great Friday again when I get up to a package awaiting me. This time I was in a hurry and I didn't have time to open it right away, the agony! The package came all the way from Brazil. A wonderful nail polish blogger contacted me a few weeks ago about nail polish that bears her name and if I would be interested in a swap. But of course! I never ever thought I'll get my hands on Brazil beauties so this was a real surprise. Eveline has a nail polish blog with five other Brazilian gals and their photos and nails are absolutely stunning, see for yourself: Tudo Sobre Esmaltes. Let not the langauge be an obstacle, beautiful swatch needs no words. ;)

This package is actually number 2, number 1 is probably still somewhere on the way. Since one of the packages sent to me got lost during Summer I'm a bit anxious about late packages, but I hope all will be fine. Let's have a look at the beauties! 

Gorgeous. <3 Can't wait to play with them. I'm a fan of Powerpuff Girls (one of the rare 'classic girly' cartoons I love) so I had to choose some of them, and I absolutely adore Guacamole and the funky glitter it is. And the Sea Blue franken actually has a bow on the handle, how adorable is that? The one that intrigues me the most is actually Lotus franken, so I just might start with that one. Such a lovely package, Lord of the Rings, am I a happy hobbit!

Eveline, swapping with you was awesome, I'm really glad to meet another amazing person in this lovely nail polish blogsphere. Thanks again!

Do you have any Brazilian polish? 

Thank you for reading!