If you know anything about me, you know I’m a big fan of Halloween (or Samhain). Even though we don’t celebrate it over here in Western-Europe, it’s still always the peak of the year to me, and trumps holidays like Christmas. For the next 13 weeks (get it?!) starting today, I’ll be showing you a few Halloween nail arts that I did to celebrate the nearing of this holiday. Today, I start with a bit of a cheat: I’m showing you one of my recently made nail polishes.
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I’m not going to lie: I’m a nostalgic kind of person. I somehow remember specific eye looks or nail arts I’ve worn over the years, and my series Lacquered Memories are another witness of my nostalgic personality. For exactly that reason, I’d like to kick off a new series: Trends from the Past. In this series, I’m reviewing nail art trends that were hawt many years ago (and some did even come back!), and that I still do like a lot. It can be specific charms, a finish, a type of nail art, or even certain polishes that were so much sought after that the amount of pigment a brand had, were not meeting the demand anymore. Yes, that happened sometimes! Today I’m starting with a trend you either love or hate: kaviar nails.
If time travel would exist, going back ten years in time would show me as a young twenty-something mixing up pigments and glitter for my own nail polish brand. Yes, I used to be an indie seller! Not very successful, to be honest, mainly because it was just a hobby, but a fun one regardless! My brand used to be called Bows & Polkadots, and I’ve already shown you some mixes on this website. Today I’m showing you were it all started, with The Neon Collection.
As you may know, I love buying secondhand nail polish. It offers me the chance to buy older nail polishes that are discontinued, buy more for less money, and find polishes I’ve wanted for years without any luck (looking at you, indie polishes!). Recently, I bought someone’s collection of regular nail polish on 2dehands, a national online marketplace. In it, I found a bottle of Essie Muchi Muchi, a cool-toned pink colour. Immediately, I raised my eyebrows. Didn’t I already have this polish? And didn’t it… look different? I picked my own bottle from its cabinet, and quickly saw it’s indeed a different colour. Same name, number, and polish name, but… different?
3x Catrice Nail Polish – 149 Vanilla Chai, 164 Elsa’s Favourite & 167 Love It Or Leaf It + Essie dupe alert!
by Deborah
I have a confession to make. Ever since I started using Vinted to buy polishes, I don’t usually visit my local stores to check them anymore. Perhaps it’s also due to the fact drugstore polishes are much less interesting when you start collecting indies, but regardless: it’s just not my place to be anymore. Exceptions are made, however, when there’s a sale going on. Because one can never stock up on basic creams, right? Today I’m reviewing three polishes I bought at Kruidvat, and one even looks like a dupe!
Another month, and another installation of “My Partner Picks”! Last time was also the first time I posted this on my blog, so I was curious what my partner would pick next. Apparently, we’re staying in the realms of pink, glittery polishes, but this one is rather different.
After my last post about summer polishes, it’s only fitting to follow suit with a new installation of Lacquered Memories with a very sunny nail polish. Today Essie’s Olé Caliente, a polish that started my love for Essie.
Happy Summer Solstice! Today marks the longest day of the year, as well as the celebration of Litha, the pagan festival surrounding the solstice. For the ocassion, I decided to pick my five favourite summer polishes. Let’s look at them, in no particular order!
Something I always enjoyed on other blogs, is when someone totally not into nail polish picks out polishes for the owner of the website. Not to buy, oh no; from their own collection. It’s usually a husband or boyfriend, and I happen to have the latter around! When we got together, I don’t think he knew the sheer extent of my hobby, and he was soon met with two Helmers stuffed with nail polish and related stuff. But it did have its perks: the occasional MAN-icure, as well as never being out of hand creams.
Day 24, which means it’s the last Advent day! Today I’m showing a new polish (at least to my collection) by Lancôme, topped with an oldie I once bought at the Wibra.
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