China Glaze Holiday 2010 Collection
I think I should admit to someone, most importantly myself maybe, that I'm a total sucker for shimmery nail polish. When I saw the new Holiday 2010 collection from China Glaze yesterday I just had to go on a hunt for proper swatches, and Scrangie is one of those fantastic nail bloggers who rarely lets me down. I quickly pegged which ones I wanted, and hurried off to Trans Design to place my order, just as I use to. From earlier experience these special polishes tend to sell out fairly quickly, so I wanted to be sure I'd get mine before they are gone. Unfortunately TD is only offering 12 of the polishes in this collection - why they don't offer "Mommy Kissed Santa", "Jingle Bells", "Frosty" or "Snow" is unknown - so I scampered off to Head2Toe instead. A few minutes later my order had been placed, and now I'm crossing my fingers it'll arrive shortly!
I'm not a very Christmas-y person as we all already know, but these polishes ended up giving me warm, fuzzy feelings inside, reminding me of Christmas when I was a kid and actually liked snow.
"Frosty" is a gorgeous white shimmer, totally reminding me of powdery, magical snow. There are six different reds in the collection, but I was instantly drawn to "Sugar Plums", a plum shimmer with glitter - and "Mommy Kissing Santa", a gorgeous rich cranberry shimmer. "Little Drummer Boy" is an absolutely stunning rich blue shimmer - I love the name, and it's also one of very few Christmas songs I like to listen to. "Midnight Kisses" is a pretty gold shimmer, and "Cheers to You" looks like silver shimmer twin. The wild card of my order is "Party Hearty" which is a glitter top coat-mix of red, green, silver and gold glitter - this is not typically a polish I would order, but it looked quite unique, and I'm sure I'll find a way to layer it.
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The total price for seven nail polishes? $37 included shipping to Norway by USPS First-Class Mail International ($15.70), or about 213,- NOK with today's exchange rate. They cost a little less than amazing 17,- NOK per bottle! Now I'm just a little anxious to see whether or not Head2Toe declare the shipments correctly (value and shipping separate), or if I have to pay taxes and fees upon arrival.
Choose between the 16 colors, or get all of them from Head2Toe.
Photos © Head2Toe Beauty
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®
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
Oh, the lemmings..
Lemming (from Urban Dictionary)
A lemming refers to a purchase/wished-for-item which results from reading an enthusiastic post about a new fabulous product. Overcome by compulsion, readers follow like lemmings diving off a cliff.
Sakset fra Polish Pixie
Lemmingslista mi bare vokser og vokser, iallfall når det kommer til neglelakk og det som ellers passer i den kategorien. Jeg kan nesten ikke se meg mett på alle de sinnssykt flotte bildene folk legger ut i neglebloggene sine, av ulike lakker, fantastiske farger, tøffe trykk osv. - jeg vil også? Neglelakkmani oppfordrer stadig til å øve, øve og øve mer på å legge Konad, så jeg har planer om å sette meg ned og legge en plan for hvordan mine egne negler skal se ut. Per idag har jeg ikke mer enn tre forskjellige Konad-plater, og det holder jo ikke. Derfor har jeg atter en gang vært innom eBay, og funnet meg en samlepakke med uoriginale plater. Pakken inneholdt 18 forskjellige plater, med omtrent 8 trykk per plate. Dessverre var bildene tatt på avstand som gjorde dem utydelige nok til at det var umulig å se motivene godt, derfor kommer jeg til å fikse bilder på egenhånd når pakken kommer. Om de ikke faller i smak hos meg, så kommer jeg til å tilby dem her for salg her. Kanskje noen andre kan ha glede av dem?
Ellers ønsker jeg meg Romantique-kolleksjonen fra China Glaze! Selv syns jeg ikke denne kolleksjonen egner seg som lakk alene på neglene, uten at jeg kan sette fingeren på hvorfor, men som ton-i-ton trykk er de intet mindre enn fantastiske. Hvis du lurer på hva jeg mener med ton-i-ton, så ta en kikk hos Neglelakkmani, hvor hun demonstrerer det hele i fargene grønt, grått og lilla. Jeg elsker det!
Nå kunne jeg helt sikkert ha fortsatt i det uendelige om neglelakker og annet snacks jeg har lyst på, men det skal jeg ikke gjøre. Tror nok jeg kommer til å skaffe meg noen lakker fra ZOYA etterhvert, og så har både OPI og China Glaze enkeltfarger jeg kunne tenke meg å ha i mitt eie. Før jeg handler noen fler, skal jeg derimot øve meg mer på å legge lakk på begge hendene. Jeg har nemlig ingen planer om å starte en ny trend med lakk på én hånd, selv om det tidvis kan virke sånn. Det er bare veldig, veldig kinkig å være høyrehendt til tider!
Foto: © China Glaze
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