Kiko: 254, 266, 299

Hello! Hope you're enjoying your Sunday! I had such a big lunch I can still bearly move. So this break from studying is a bit longer, i need to get my blood back into my brains or it will be useless. I have three Kikos today to show you. It was my first encounter with this Italian brand with the set Tevta brought me one day. It's her style, we go for a cup of coffee and she brings out this big KIKO bag and says: "I bought you a few bottles when I was in Italy." Gotta love her. :) These are totally awesome too. And no, we don't have them in Slovenia, even though Italy is like two hour drive from where I'm sitting right now. Sucks, doesn't it?

 254. These don't do this baby justice at all. It's a great great colour, but it wouldn't photograph, imagine loads of (visible to naked eye) sparkles more, giving a lot of depth to this colour.

 266. Similar to Catrice Blue My Mind, but since I'm a sucker for these kind of colours, I drool every time it's on my nails. 

299. The total winner of Kikos I own. Man, this is SO stunning. Teal goodness with little sparkles, too amazing for words. It's a total must in Kiko department.

The blue one, 299, is a two coater, the purple-red, 254, also, but I advise you to wear three, since you get more depth in the colour (and completely lose VNL), the teal one, 299, is for me a three coater. Someone with smaller and shorter nails could probably get away with two, but I had bold spots.

The brush on Kiko is fantastic. It's flatter, it hugs your nails so nicely. Application is a bliss, they also dry really fast. Really easy polish to work with in general, the formula is excellent. These three are my favourites so far, I have a couple more in the untrieds box, but IMHO the 299 is perfect above them all. I also really loved 254, it surprised me a lot. Both don't lose the sparkle/glitter that the bottle claims to have on the nail and that's totally awesome. Thanks, dear, for getting me these!

Any thoughts on these? Do you have them, have any Kiko polish?

Thank you for reading!

Gosh - Holographic

Hello! Yes, I'm a few hours later than usual again, and I suspect this will be my posting hour for a while, until I get my study-mode on and will be able to post earlier. Hope you don't mind. It's afternoon now somewhere on this planet, right? ;)

Anyway. I'm eating my very light dinner after the jogging hour right now and I can afford to post this one, sice it doesn't need much words to go with it. You all know it, and probably hate me right now for showing it again, since it's impossible to find. Unless you know one of the coolest persons in the world and she sends it to you in a swap package!

This is seriously soft light, I mean, seriously, no sun at all, it only catches a bit of light out of the window on my right and still it shows the straigh lines of holo effect.

This is two coats over Gosh Fix Base coat that Jette also send, giving me a little bottle from her own BC, how cool is that? Holographic applies like a dream, seriously, i could do it drunk and shaking from starving (I can *never* polish my nails when hungry, my hands shake like crazy), it dries really really fast. It lasted on my nails for three days with minor tip wear without any TC, so that's pretty awesome!

It made my camera crazy though, it just wouldn't pick up the holo effect, wouldn't even pick my entire hand while wearing it, it was quite an achievement to get the photos. I don't think I'll ever call any other holo insane, now that I had this baby on. It stayed holo basically in every single light, if only it had a lil' bit of lightning to pick up, it was ... insane. :) Jette, thank you SO much for this one!! You're beyond awesome for sending it to me!

I'm reading a lot about being fed up with a certain colour or finish (crackle, taupe, blurple etc.) ... is anyone out there sick of holographic yet? Or not a fan at all? Don't be shy. :)

Thank you for reading!

Depend - 249

Evening ladies! Well, it's almost 10 p.m. in our neck of the woods anyway ... I didn't think I'll post at all today, it's a funny day, with funny timings for me. I'm having serius difficulties with starting to study all over again. I'm running out of time, like really, and still, I can't bring myself to hit the books. I have no idea why, this is the hardest lack of motivation I have since I began with college. It sucks. At least my nails are pretty. They're getting long again, I miss them being long. Today's post will be with my nails being the shortest ever, it was the second mani I did right after I chopped them all off. 

I'm a fan of Depend, as you might have noticed before. I love their colours, their bottle shape, their everything. I blame Alizarine claws for that. ;) She always does such an amazing work with Depend that right after (and I mean seriously right after) I read her posts on them, I contact Kaneli, who lives in Finland (but is in Slovenia ATM, YAY!!) if she can buy me a couple of Depend bottles. This particular one I got from the amazing swap package Vettelicious lady sent me and it's totally awesome.

Try to imagine this much more vivid. I tried to get the most colour accurate pictures possible (you have no idea how many I got too green, and how many I eventually took), but still I think this looks too ... calm, if you will. It's a bright green, really lovely, it's not neon, but it pops out, I freakishly love it. It's also very well pigmented, two coats are more than enough. It's a bit thick though, I had to redip my brush quite often and I rarely do that even when I have my nails longer. I was a bit surprised, since normally when I have my nails short, I have no troubles with application, in average I need one coat less. But still, it's nothing one couldn't handle, and for this colour I'd have gone through much more trouble than dipping the brush a bit more often than usually. :) 

I love it! How about you, do you like Depend, do you know the brand, own a few bottles? 

Thank you for reading!

Khaki/cool military green comparison: 4

Hey everyone! How are you doing? I'm headachy, again and I'm craving something sweet, ghah! I have a requested comparison for you today. I felt like doing it and then posting it right away, so here it is. KarenD (I love her nail wheel posts, I always go through them like a madman, nail per nail and her display pics, so I can see what's going on in USAs drugstores) asked me in the Enter The Undergrowth post to compare the Catrice with Models Own and Essie. I then added a few pictures with H&M too. 

• Index: Essie - Sew Psyched
• Middle: Catrice - Enter The Undergrowth
• Ring: Models Own - Grace Green
• Little: Catrice Enter The Undergrowth

I tried to take pictures in many lightnings, sadly there was no sun today in Ljubljana. Then I removed Grace Green, since it's the most off of them all and put on H&M Hunt Me Down.

Flash, to make the differences more obvoious.

They are all two coaters, all dry extremly fast and are very easy to work with, I'm quite impressed! Even Hunt Me Down behaved extremely nicely today, unlike the first time I wore it. 

Aside from the application, which was, again, very nice on all four, the colour differences are obvious from the pictures, but lets write it down anyway.

Grace green from Models Own is the lightest green of them all. Gorgeous, I can't wait to wear it as a full mani, and the most different of them all, it's less "military" green, it has a more gentle feeling to it, if that makes sence.

Essie Sew Psyched is the darkest of them all, plus it's the only one that's not a creme, it has a very fine silver shimmer, that is visible only if you have some sort of lighting on your nails (like standing next to a window or something). So I would say it's different enough, a shade or two darker, bit more grey and with the shimmer, hardly visible, but still there.

The closest you get to Catrice Enter The Undergrowth is with H&M Hunt Me Down. You have to look really really close to see that H&M is a shade or two lighter than Catrice. It's also much more glossy. Still, I hate the H&M handle, it's really clumsy and I think Catrice has a totally winner of a brush, so it's my winner in this dual.

To a non-khaki green fan(atic) I think any of the trio Essie-Catrice-H&M would suffice. You just have your pick between darker, lighter and something in between. :) I'm glad to have all four of them. But if you don't count the silver shimmer in Essie, I think any of the three would be enough, quite honestly. If you're like me, and think Essie is different enough, you can pick between Catrice Enter The Undergrowth and H&M Hunt Me Down, they are really really close. 

What do you think? Close enough? Would you have all 4 of them? I don't mind, but then again, I'm a green freak. ;) 

Thank you for reading!