Pastels for summer!
Mr. Postman apparently decided to brighten up my day a little as he brought me two packages today! I haven't received any mail for a long time. For normal people the definition of "a long time" might differ a bit from mine, but I'm the one doing the defining here. The first package contained a small eBay haul of nail polishes after a recommendation from Pinchy Peach, and I'm thrilled! I do have to blame one of the polishes on Neglelakkmani, for including it when she swatched three slightly different lilacs for me in the end of March. The polish I'm talking about is OPI A Grape Fit!, and I absolutely love the color. I had OPI Do You Lilac It? from before, and it's been a favorite ever since I used it the first time. What would life be like without purples?
The rest of the haul mainly consisted of essie® The Resort Collection (Splash of Grenadine, Lapis of Luxury, Turquoise & Caicos, Playa del Platinum), China Glaze Something Sweet and essie® Matte About You (matte top coat), as I mentioned here. I'm a bit disappointed in ChG Something Sweet, because it seems to be one of those completely off pinks which make my skin turn ashy. Who'd wanna look like a zombie? With pink nails? Bah. I'll have to try it out though, I might be wrong. And if you want to see Theo making a sneaky guest appearance while Øyvind is taking pictures of my haul, feel free to click here.
Moving on to the second package! On May 4th I received a very nice comment from Kari, who wanted to know whether or not I'm pleased with our beloved Nespresso Lattissima and also asking me for my address so she could send me a little something from Nespresso for PR. How cool isn't that? So today I received some free capsules of Nespresso's new coffee Fortissio Lungo - purrfect! Thank you so much, Kari.
Imagine that, my blog actually contributed in getting me a cool freebie. 
Photo © Øyvind H. '10
essie® The Resort Collection
It's been quite some time since I obsessed with nail polish last, but now I've found the perfect polish for summer: essie® The Resort Collection. It was love at first sight, and I knew I had to have them. I don't have much experience with essie®, apart from the one bottle of "Starry Starry Night" that I own, but I'm hoping this will be a nice experience. I'm not a several-layers-girl, and those of you who know me know that every time I find a polish that needs more than two, or preferably one coat, all I want to do is to throw it out the window.
Because of this huge ordeal with Trans Design not shipping internationally anymore, I had to resolve to eBay once again. I had been planning to place another order with Trans Design for quite a while, but I kept postponing it without really knowing why - and suddenly it was too late. Thanks to Pinchy Peach I found a seller who offered all the seven items I was out to get, and that made this transaction very smooth indeed. The three other items in my shipment are ChG Something Sweet from the Up & Away collection, OPI A Grape Fit! and then essie® Matte About You Top Coat. I'm not overly enthusiastic about matte nail polish, but with a matte top coat I'm at least able to choose for myself if I want my manicure to be glossy or matte.
I was trying to sell some of my nail polishes, but I kinda failed. When push came to shove I couldn't part with them after all, and I ended up keeping them all - I'm such a color junkie! I think I will be giving it another shot by hosting a little "blog sale" soon, where you can get your hands on some China Glaze, Sally Hansen and maybe a few other brands of nail polish. Some of the bottles have never been opened, others have been swatched lightly once.
Photo © essie®
Sephora by OPI Metro Chic
One of the popular nail polish colors nowadays is Sephora by O·P·I "Metro Chic". As the name implies it's sold only at Sephora, and therefore not available to a lot of us. Thankfully there are a few other options like eBay, a CP* or even using a redirecting service offering some kind of "personal shopper" like MyUS or other similar companies. I've been watching a few YouTube videos where this nail polish has been mentioned several times as a must-have color, but I never thought it would be a color for me. Sephora describes it as a "dark smoke with a hint of purple", and it's categorized as a gray color. To me it's a lot more taupe, with a purplish undertone, and I really like it.
Last week I got a sample bottle of CND "Cinch My Corset" from a very sweet girl on the Wave. She had gotten the sample with an order, tried it and decided that she didn't want it herself. Her description of the color was that it looked like diarrhea. Not a very flattering description at all, but something made me wonder if a taupe color like that would look good with my complexion, so I asked her if I could have it. Just a couple of days later it arrived in my mailbox, and naturally I had to swatch it immediately. I instantly had to disagree with the somewhat amusing description, because it didn't look like diarrhea at all! It's a lot less purplish than "Metro Chic", and reminds me slightly of milk chocolate.
I had no other choice but to go ahead and add another bottle of nail polish to my collection, the gorgeous CND "Cinch My Corset" in full size. Thank heavens for eBay, I say! I'll be adding some photos of these two colors shortly, also with a small description of each brand and how they apply.
Photo from Google
Kicks fra China Glaze
Å bestille noe fra Trans Design er et eventyr i seg selv, det vet alle som har prøvd. Det tar nemlig en hel evighet fra ordren er lagt inn til man mottar ordrebekreftelse, og så tar det ytterligere en liten evighet til man faktisk får pakken med det man har bestilt i posten. Riktignok var evigheten noe kortere denne gangen enn sist, men det tok likevel såpass lang tid at jeg nærmest hadde glemt hva jeg faktisk ventet på. Jeg er en skikkelig sucker for farger. Ser jeg sterke klare farger så er jeg solgt, uansett hva det er snakk om, og det blir på ingen måte bedre om det er snakk om neglelakk. Derfor ble jeg også umiddelbart solgt da jeg oppdaget den nye sommerkolleksjonen "Kicks" fra China Glaze! Farger! Jeg blir så lykkelig. Dessverre var begge de grønne og den turkise utsolgt da jeg la inn ordren min, men jeg fikk kloret til meg B-Girlz, Laced Up som er to lekre rosafarger, Style Wars og Breakin' som er to oransje som av en eller annen merkelig grunn gir meg vann i munnen, Sky High-Top som er blå, og Fly som er en nydelig lilla - i tillegg til Orange Marmalade og Grape Juice fra "Summer Days"-kolleksjonen. Jeg kan godt innrømme at jeg aller helst ville kjøpt dem alle, men jeg klarte å begrense meg denne gangen. Entourage som er den lyseste av de to grønne i "Kicks"-kolleksjonen får heller stå på lemmingslista til neste gang jeg bestemmer meg for å bestille noe fra Trans Design.
Den egentlige grunnen til at jeg bestilte fra Trans Design denne gangen var at jeg skulle ha et eksemplar av Orly Matte Top. Dette er altså en matt overlakk, og hvordan den oppfører seg kan du se hos neglelakkmani. Å ha en overlakk som transformerer en hvilken som helst blank neglelakk om til matt neglelakk er verdt å ha i samlingen sin, spør du meg!
NÅ.. er jeg klar for å la sommeren ta meg med storm.
Foto: © China Glaze
Fauxnad, minst like morsomt som Konad
For en stund siden bestilte jeg 18 slike fauxnad-plater (samme prinsipp som Konad, bare uoriginale) fra eBay, for en slikk og ingenting. Bildet som lå ute på auksjonen var ekstremt dårlig, så det var nærmest umulig å se hvilke motiver det var på de forskjellige platene, men jeg valgte likevel å ta en sjanse på at de var brukbare. Jeg angrer ikke! Fler av motivene ligner på enkelte du kan finne på Konad-plater, men prismessig er det jo bare en fordel. Jeg betalte omtrent $9 for alle 18 platene, noe som utgjorde rundt 60,- kroner uten medregnet frakt. Billig, og absolutt verdt pengene!
Jeg har ikke prøvd dem enda, rett og slett fordi jeg ikke har hatt hverken tiltakslyst eller tålmodighet til å sette meg ned med neglelakk på en stund nå, men etter å ha sett det supersøte Hello Kitty-trykket Neglelakkmani skrev om tidligere idag, så har lysten meldt seg igjen. Kanskje jeg skal fikse neglene mine før vi drar hjem til mamma og pappa? Det var langt fra enkleste sak i verden å ta bilder av platene, men jeg har gjort et forsøk likevel - bildene er dog manipulerte for å få frem motivene best mulig.
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