China Glaze - Trendsetter

Hey people! Why, my comeback isn't really working, eh? I had tons of work to do, not to mention I came home from Austria on Sunday, enjoying wonderful weekend with fellow Tolkien geeks. It was amazing, in short. ATM I'm waiting for my lunch to cook before I go back to the books, so I have a few minutes to spare. 

Trendsetter is a typical ugly-but-beautiful colour, I think. I adore this type of colours for their uniqueness and strangeness, yes. I resent all the feces related comparison the colour is getting, I think Scrangie and Short'n Chic describe it perfectly: a dingy dijon mustard base with a bunch of avocado mixed in & an incredibly elegant swampy green with really lovely golden shimmer.

 

I'm far from being a purist, but toilet humour is really not my thing and I can't imagine how you can wear something that reminds you of something gross. But that's just me, I guess. This colour reminds me a lot of swamp and its murky colours, I love it. Plus the shimmer is amazing. Most of people around me hate it though. My mother and BF were even more worried about my colour choice than usual. ;) A couple of friends said it was interesting ... but still ugly, hehehe.

The last picture is sooo old. It's taken when I wore Trendsetter for the first time and on blogsphere Trendsetter reminded some people on Classic Camel, so I took a shot that's by now probably irrelevant. Still. :) I can't pull off Classic Camel, it looks horrible on my skin tone, but Trendsetter I love. It was a part of China Glaze Metro Collection for Fall 2011 and it's the only colour I got, it's not a strong collection for my taste. Trendsetter is amazing gem in it though. 

Do you like "ugly" colours in general? Which one is your favourite?

*due to me thinking fugly means something completely different, I used the expression and now changed it :P Thanks, Chaosophia!

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Zoya - Dree NOTD

Hey people! How are ya? I'm a bit sleepy, had to get up early. I also got new shoes, my BF bought them (I'm lucky enough that my BF loves me in high heels, haha :)) and I wanted to take them out for a walk, but our weathermen threatened with rain so I changed my mind. It's actually a lovely warm but insanely humid day here in Ljubljana. I'm about to leave for a coffee with a friend before she leaves for Paris. She'll stay there for 6 months. There is one reason why I'd like to visit Paris. The city is the mother of all perfumes! I can just imagine going through all the perfume stores and finally discover some niche perfumes as well ... I think it has to be a great place for a perfume fan. And yeah, I am a perfume fan, a big one too. If you like perfumes too, check fragrantica.com, they have a great base there, with notes and everything!

But aaaaanyway! My NOTD is Zoya Dree. It's the second time I wear it and it called to me from the shelf. Lovely, gorgeous olive colour, I adore it. It's a part of a very strong collection Zoya made in Fall 2011 called Smoke and Mirrors (Dree being in the Smoke part of it). I can't get sick of this type of colours, olive, dusty green, creme is still one of my favourite finishes, so yeah ... Dree is a great colour. 

I published the fourth picture just so you'd see how insanely glossy this polish is. Look at it! The pictures made outside are completely useless due to the glossy reflection. But it makes the polish look fantastic! This is actually two sets of pictures, I already took them the first time I wore Dree and my nails had a more beautiful lenght. My index finger is slowly recovering so hopefully it won't last long until it grows back and hurts less too. ;) Dree is a great little gem in my Zoya collection, the formula and brush are, as always for Zoya, flawless. Too bad this year's Zoya collection for Fall is a disappointment. Then again, I can wear Smoke and Mirrors more often now! :)

Do you like this type of greens? Do you like Zoya collection for Fall 2012?

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Vipera Jumpy 141

Hey people! I don't know about you, but I'm on dark, almost black, vampy shades for a few weeks now. I guess I'm all ready and set for Fall colours. Plus, I think vampy shades look their best on sunlight, that's why I always wear them during Summer at least once. This time it was Jumpys turn, this beautiful vampy purple sat on my untrieds table for way, way too long. 

This is a very rich vampy purple, I absolutely loved it. It has a rich shimmer of different shades of purple that really come alive on the sunlight. Jumpy really has some amazing shades. It took three coats to even up, but the application was wonderful, same goes for brush. On my brutally short nails, btw. My index and thumb finger got hurt again so I needed to cut them completely. I have no idea what's happening to my nails lately, I'm thinking about starting eating biotin again, maybe that would help.

Anyway. Gorgeous little one! Do you like vampy shades in Summer?

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Essence Love & Peace and Purple feels so good!

Hey people. I'm having the headache of the Summer, so no smart words of wisdom today. It's the last Essence I'll show you in this long Essence phase, because Into The Dark went very funny on me yesterday and I need to see if I'm right about the top coat being the guilty one for that. So my Essence folder is almost empty and I'll finish it with the topper play. Re-mix your style was a LE everyone went absolutely nuts about. Flakies were in it, so yeah. I got 3 toppers out of 4 and I gave away all of them. Figures. Flakies made their year, so I have tons of them now, and the rest ... well,  I guess I got caught up in the LE hype with this one, bad Ulmiel!

Actually Essence LOVE top coat or Feels So Good, as it's called, is a great, great one. Funny, Essence claims holographic on so many things that aren't holographic at all. And then they make this amazing duochrome topper and they name it 'rose shimmer'. Lol. If I hadn't seen this one at Nihrida's, I'd never have bought it. But I did and then layered it over Essence Love, Peace & Purple. Put the stupid name aside, this purple is amazing. Dupe of one of Chanel's, Perplex I think, and many others and I love it. I've shown it in a post separately here. And here it is layered:

On the sun it looks like rose shimmer only, so I guess Essence was right to some degree. Sun kills duochromes.

This is only one coat of Feels So Good and they make a perfect pair with Love, Peace & Purple. I liked this one a lot.

And now I must go, prepare lunch, hope my head does not explode, you know, the usual Sunday. ;) Did you get any toppers and colours from Re-mix Your Style LE?

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