Back in time - Wooden Shoes Like to Know by OPI

 Bonjour!

Aujourd'hui une petite manucure toute simple avec un vernis de printemps, mais du printemps d'il y a deux ans, le Wooden Shoes Like to Know de la collection Holland par OPI. 

J'ai eu envie de fouiller dans mes OPI récemment et ce taupe irisé de rose méritait d'être dépoussiéré. Et pour l'agrémenter en douceur, j'ai fait un stamping au Kiko 620 et la plaque Moyou Princess 14.

Butin des soldes...

 Coucou tout le monde! Vu que j'essaie d'alterner entre les nail-arts et les swatchs, aujourd'hui c'est swatch. A vrai dire, je ne sais pas encore ce que je vais vous montrer demain, je n'ai pas eu le temps de réfléchir à mon Friends' Friday, mais j'ai quelques nail-arts en réserve. Bref, ce matin, je vous montre mes achats soldesques sephoresques. Ça ne va pas aller bien loin comme vous pouvez le voir, parce que je n'ai ramené en tout et pour tout qu'un vernis, le Dutch'Ya Just Love OPI de la collection Holland, que j'aimais bien, mais pas assez ni pour le commander sur internet ni pour le prendre à 9€ chez les grossistes parisiens. A 5€, c'est parfait! C'est un violet tirant vers le rouge avec des reflets dorés et c'est une couleur qu'on a beaucoup vue au printemps (je pense à un dupe chez Zoya par exemple). Vous le voyez ici en deux couches, sans top-coat, et sur la main droite (l'autre est occupée par la SundayNailBattle), ce qui explique les postures bizarres de mes mains!!

 

 

Gros plan sur les reflets dorés (et sur mes cuticules toutes sèches post eczéma...)

OPI I Don't Give a Rotterdam + NOTD

 Hi guys! After being grumpy yesterday after the filing fiasco, I decided to take out one of my new precious to see if I could nonetheless do something. And well, I have to admit that I like what I did, so no archive pictures today, you're gonna see exactly what I'm wearing as I type this.

The last OPI from the Holland collection that I had been eyeing was the slate-blue packed with silver shimmer I Don't Give a Rotterdam, but I had resolved to wait until Paris (and the wholesale shops) to buy it. I'm showing it below in three coats, without top-coat and only on two fingers because I haven't yet worn it as a full manucure. It's a very pretty slate blue, slightly greyer in real than it appears on the picture, but it requires three coats for opacity. 

I suspected it was quite close to a Sephora polish I bought last year called Jaccuzi Bubbles, which is also a slate blue that shows blue shimmer in the bottle, but since it's actually a satin-finished polish, you don't see the shimmer (unless you top-coat it). I applied JB on my ring fingers and added a coat of Essie Matte About You to really turn it matte. 

And then I looked for a stamping design to stamp on the matte nail with I Don't Give a Rotterdam. This proved harder than expected since IDGaR is quite sheer, so in the end, I had to take a cowprint design, not something I usually go for (I'm not at all into "animal" designs), but well, let's pretend they are clouds!

 

  

As you can see, it's a very sublte nail-art, but that's probably why I like it so much! I thought it was showing a bit better on my right hand, so get ready for awkwardly oriented pictures and uneven nails (my middle finger has a patch)!!

 

OPI Vampsterdam + comparisons

Damn, I had completely forgotten to show you the second polish I bought from OPI Holland collection, the beautiful Vampsterdam. I'm showing you a lot of vampys this week, but no worries, after this one, there'll be plenty of bright and glitter!
Vampsterdam, as a dark plum, is quite an unusual colour for a Spring collection, but I've heard no one complaining about that yet! The one big complaint about it though is that it's bordering on frosty and shows some brushstrokes, as you will see on the flash pictures. You see it in two coats.

 

 

 

 

As you can guess, I have quite a lot of comparison material for Vampsterdam, so there we go, from left to right, all by OPI: Have You Seen My Limo, Vampsterdam, Black Tie Optional, Lincoln Park After Dark. Vampsterdam is quite close to HYSML in terms of base colour but the silver and green shimmer of the latter make a difference. Both BTO and LPAD are darker.

 

OPI Holland - Wooden Shoe Like to Know

Today I'm proposing you a little break from A-england Mythicals by going back to my beloved OPIs. You know what they say about the Internet, everything you write leaves a trace. Well, I guess I can only eat my tongue now after having written this  months ago and then discovering that some shades from OPI's Holland collection for Spring 2012 stole my heart! Among those is Wooden Shoe Like to Know, a beautiful taupey-brown with gorgeous golden and pink shimmer. Application is super easy, opacity is perfect in two coats and it dries quickly to a gorgeous shine. You see it after three days, there's a bit of tipwear but nothing much really, so I'm definitely in love!!