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Pretty Serious Emma Louise

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Hullo again. I wanted to post my pics of Pretty Serious’ first Limited Edition polish Emma Louise before stocks run out. Because doing so after stocks run out is just cruel right?:)

I wore this a few weeks back and it was just such a pretty polish to wear. Purple is my favourite colour. And purple and green my favourite colour combination. According to the blurb, Kaz designed this polish as a gift to her best mate, Emma Louise. It’s a limited edition run of 300 polishes and $5 from the sale of each bottle goes to the New South Wales Cancer Council. A thoughtful concept on all counts.

Pretty Serious Emma Louise

Pretty Serious Emma Louise

Pretty Serious Emma Louise

The formula is great, very easy to work with and not thick and paste-like which is what you get with some glitter polishes (yes Butter London Chancer I am talking about you!). It dried beautifully with a coat of Seche Vita. One coat of top coat was enough to leave it nice and smooth.

The lovely boxes that this polish came in are numbered and mine were #71 and #72. I bought a second one as a wee gift for my best mate. I ordered pretty early on on the day of release so as you can see this was a fairly sought after purchase. So if you love purple and green, please be sure to act soon whilst there is still stock - http://www.pretty-serious.com/collections/limited-edition/products/emma-louise-nail-polish-11ml

I must say I’m slightly addicted to Kaz’s polishes. I’ve snapped up each one so far. Whilst not absolutely every one is precisely ‘me’ the collector in me loves having them all because they are great polishes in their own right in a diverse range of colours with the quirkiest names. I also love lending the little support I can to someone who has been brave enough to take on the not inconsiderable personal risk of starting up their own business. Something I admire strongly and would love to do myself but lack the energy and nouse to do so.

Did you buy Emma Louise already? What other Pretty Serious products have you tried?

xx

Holothon: Cirque Fascination Street

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I really do have more holographic polishes that I initially thought. And of course a fair few of them are untried. So this challenge, which is so relaxed that it doesn’t feel like a challenge at all, has spurred me  on to to trying some beauties that I’ve neglected thus far.

Fascination Street is one of four polishes I bought a while back from Cirque. From memory the Cirque collection contained two holographic polishes (I bought both), a couple of duochromes and some glitters. Something for everyone:) Fascination is a lovely mid purple polish and has quite a strong holo effect despite that it applies much like a creme than a pure linea holo.

Cirque Fascination Street

I applied Fascination Street over Nfu Oh Aqua Base because I wanted to try out the base coat. But judging by the texture of the Fascination Street’s formula it doesn’t need an aqua base.

Cirque Fascination Street

The colour in these pics is spot on which surprised me since I usually have difficulty getting our camera to play nicely with purples. Here’s another pic trying to show the holo-goodness of this baby.

Cirque Fascination Street

 

I bought this polish direct from Cirque’s online store here, however, I know that Mei Mei’s Signature’s is a stockist too. Both sites ship internationally.

I recently re-organised my stash in the Ikea Alex drawers that I use because I hadn’t allowed enough room for growth in various brands, nor for the acquisition of previously unknown-to-me indies. Rest assured there is space now for more Cirque polishes as I’ll be very interested to see what further beauties come out from this brand.

Have you tried any Cirque polishes yet?

xx


China Glaze Let’s Groove (and how to flatten camera batteries!)

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Howdy thrill seekers! Am in quite a sleep-deprived but silly mood tonight. Not sure why…although it could just be because I am on HOLIDAY! Yes that’s right, coming to you live (well, at time of blogging at least) from still-balmy, sunny Noosa, mid-north east coast of Australia.

In honour of a week off, and the opportunity to wear open toed shoes again, I bought a stack of polish with me so I will have a crack at reducing my untried stats further. But one of the friends that I’m holidaying with particularly requested purple nail polish, so much of what I bought with me is in that hue. So it could well be a purple swatch-fest.

One polish that would have qualified for a trip in my suitcase to Noosa but for the fact that it’s not an untried is China Glaze’s Let’s Groove. I wore it last week after seeing it on a girlfriend’s nails. It’s only the third China Glaze polish that I’ve worn but wow, it was so luscious that I ordered a backup on eBay the day after. I just knew it would become a regular love.

China Glaze Let's Groove

China Glaze Let's Groove

This is two coats. It would be a single coater for someone who is a wee bit more adept at application than I am. I took about 30 shots of this but only about half a dozen came anywhere close to capturing the colour. It’s a very rich, vampy, berry purple. The formula is great to work with, applies easily, dries fast. It was certainly one of those ‘I can’t stop staring at my nails’ polishes. After wearing this I’ve since ordered a few other China Glaze polishes from the Retro Diva collection that this one was part of.

Despite that I am in love with this colour, curiosity got the better of me on the second day and I decided to see what it looked like with a coat of Clarins 230 over it. Stunning. Simply stunning. But quite a change. Under Clarins 230 Let’s Groove looked more blackened and of course the green, red and purple multichrome effect of Clarins 230 dominated. Despite that I loved the combination, I almost regretted not leaving Let’s Groove alone as it is that good just on it’s own. It really doesn’t need any embellishment.

Sadly though, on setting up the camera to photograph the product of my experiment I found that I’d managed to flatten the newly replaced batteries in our camera by leaving it hooked up by USB to the computer.  So I don’t have any pics to show you of Clarins 230 over Let’s Groove. Bad nail polish blogger Kate.

Am sure I will do this combo again in future though so I’ll no doubt get some pics then.

xx