Stargazer - n. 305

AWESOME colour, you see?

Clearly it was better in real life, but I think you can see its beauty as well from the pictures :>

(artificial light)

One of the best feature of this nailpolish is that both the two colours (blue and purple) are almost always visible, because particles are really reflective.

(daylight)

Look how deep is the blue!

(full sun)

In direct sun is stunning, like a dark mirror *_*

(artificial light)

Application is easy, these are two or three coats (two, with my usual touch-ups in the balder areas), dries normally, I can't say anything bad about this.

HIGHLY recommended!

Have a nice day/night/whatever and thanks for your attention ;¬)

New amazing colours - pt. 2

Welcome to pt.2 :D

Not only buyings, here, but a swap too: as usual, my nailpolish-fairy Sabbatha gave me some bottles I had in my WL... Must be sort of a nailpolish-mine hidden somewhere in a forest in Poland, and she knows how to extract them :D

From top:

- Sally Hansen "Purple Gala" ♥;

- Sally Hansen "Mystic Lilac"♥;

- Essie "Turquoise&Caicos" ♥;

- bonus: NatRobbins "Greed" ♥, well pictured (and compared) here. I guess this would be a gorgeous layering green too, because it's pretty sheer on its own, but gives a great green metallic effect when pur over something else.


Some days ago, I compulsively purchased two beauties from Stargazer which I had pinned in my mind after buying the first two:

These are n. 303 the blue one ("Lunar Eclipse" dupe? I hope so :D) and n. 305 the purple one, I'll leave you just with the pictures :D
They're beautiful, cheap, 14ml and you can find them on eBay.


Then, I wanna try wearing a crackle nailpolish on its own, trying to cover the entire nail; that's because I found this great indigo-with-gold-and-green-irregular-shaped-glitters which I would LOVE as a regular nail varnish:

Obviously a Deborah crackle, n. 04.

As you may have noticed, Deborah (and Debby) is growing in terms of interesting offers to italian nailpolish fanatics: lately, they released five shades with that batch of metallic pigments we've admired in Sephora's "Diving in Malaysia", Chanel's "Péridot" and another million of sub-brands :D

By now, I just took n. 71 "Scarabeo Green" with me, as the other ones are dupes of other Chanel/Sephora colours - there's a couple of them I'm still interested in, but I don't want to buy the tenth purple/green duochrome or the third "Péridot" dupe, so I'll have to scan them very carefully...
Stregalice bought more bottles and did comparisons, take a look!

I searched for a similar shade in my Helmer, and found Kiko n. 352: they contain undoubtedly the same pigment, but consistency, base and formula aren't the same at all:

Test on cap: see the difference? N. 71 is clearly waaaaayy more dense and saturated (it's like green molted metal bottled), while Kiko has a grey base, silver glitters and, I suppose, a lighter amount of blue-green colour in it.

Angled view shows it's the same pigment.


Have a nice day/night/whatever and thanks for your attention ;¬)

Stargazer - n. 307

Mh, I guess I don't have to add much more to this post other than images, don't you think?

So many faces!

That's it, one of my VERY favourites :>

Just one note: I put two coats (and a third one here and there to fill bald areas) over one coat of a franken of mine, a blue-green jelly I made ages ago: since the base of 307 is a light coloured teal jelly, this way I made it deeper and less sheer.

You can find n. 307 on eBay, seller ships fast, and you can have magic colours on your nails. It's simple!


Have a nice day/night/whatever and thanks for your attention ;¬)

I'm not always blue...

I always had a personal rainbow in my mind, where blues, cold greens and purples took the major place of it, but tertiary and quaternary (and so on :D) colours are something really fascinating to me.

What's these introduction got to do with nailpolish?
I don't know :D, but I like duo-tri-multichrome varnish not only for the colours you clearly see with a glance, but for the colours "at the edges" too, which are often a sum of the firsts, even if it can be hard to spy them once you apply polish (and if you have flat nails).

This is my last multichrome haul:

Stargazers are n. 307 (left) and n. 161 (right): "Space Cadet" dupe the first one, awesomeness in a ball bottle the second one.

N. 161 is a blurple-prussian blue JELLY base filled with golden-green shimmer, Nihrida swatched this, but at that time my bottle was already on journey toward my Helmer, so I chose it on eBay just by instinct :D

And the best part is the price: I paid like a total of €5 for two bottles, shipping included; bottles are of 14ml, made in UK... Gorgeous.

But few days ago I visited a Layla stand and found these two too:

Not blues! :D

But I literally fell in love with them *_*
Metal Sense is one of the million ranges Layla has just for its nailpolish division, lol.
I didn't even know about it before seeing these bottles last friday, everytime I discover a new one.
As usual, swatches/images on site are ridicously off from the real appearance, but I am (we are) here specifically to help buyers out there :P

N. 11 is a metallic version of "Space Cadet", while n. 9... I don't know, I don' t have a similar colour.
Violet-to-pink-to-a rusty bronze *_*

Here I show you how they change on the bottle cap, one coat over a coat of black:

I like them because they're truly metallic, I mean, with that grainy texture, like infused with a fine metal dust.

But... there are two flaws.
First one - not for me, but I know some girls (or boys?) keep this in consideration: they're not B3F.

I highlighted ingredients list on one bottle, and you can read "formaldehyde resin" and "toluene"; according to this post by AllLacqueredUp, formaldehyde resin isn't toxic.
I don't know if other components are bad as well, but I guessed they weren't safe just by the smell, then I checked ingredients :D

Well, maybe Layla too will become aware of this and completely stop making polishes using toxic substances; I have two of their Ceramic Effect and they're safe, no bad stuff.

Second flaw, price: they're like €7 each, but you know my mind, original (or well made) products are worthy a little higher expense. And they're made in Italy too :>
What do you think?


Have a nice day/night/whatever and thanks for your attention ;¬)