NOTD - Matte about Carribean Blue

Written by Elisabeth on August 10, 2009 – 16:01 -

A couple of days ago I got Essie’s matte topcoat Matte about you in the mail. For a starters the name is adorable, but the best part is that this matte topcoat rocks! Today is the third day of wear (the forth day for the polish I mattified) and it’s just some slight tip wear. The finish is now more satiny, but still in the matte family and I have used lots of lotion and spent the better part of yesterday in the kitchen with some greasy abura age.

In the picture you can see how nice and matte Matte about you made my China Glaze Carribean Blue. It reminded me of those blue chalcs I used to draw on the pavement with when I was a kid.

Matte about you is the best matte top coat I have tried, and I love it! I highly doubt I’ll be sporting very many shiny manicures for the next few weeks; with a slight exception of a trip to Iceland (and I still haven’t decided on a mani for Iceland yet - it must be easy to combine with everything, yet be chic and cool as that is the only way to be in Reykjavik: Cool.). Also - at the first day of my new job (which is just two weeks away now) I’ll probably wear very traditional and more professional looking nails - I have to ease them into my nail polish obsession!


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Nails of Someday in the past - China Glaze, Who’s wearing what

Written by Elisabeth on August 8, 2009 – 15:11 -

This is absolutely a very pretty colour, it’s more subdued than what I usually wear, but sometimes all I want to see on my nails are these discreet colours that don’t scream out at anyone. So I’ve also put in a rather large order of sheer’ish polishes from Essie to broaden my Pretty Polish selection.

The picture is from a couple of weeks ago when I still tried to have long nails. The only problem with long nails is that my nails grow so incredibly fast and after just 3 weeks of OPI’s Nail Envy my nails were ridiculously hard. To top that off my nails curves a lot when they grow - you can see it partially on my thumb here, and it drives me insane because I go from perfectly nice tips to these tips that refuse to be shaped in a … uh… shapely manner faster than you can say “glass file“.

So now they are short again. I’m so fickle.

Anyways. The colour: Pretty, yes? Pretty, pretty, pretty.


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NOTD - China Glaze In the Lime Light

Written by Elisabeth on August 3, 2009 – 13:51 -

I guess I’m forgiven for this being the NOTD of Friday. Today’s NOTD is actually Essie’s Jelly Apple, but I’m not entirely happy with it - could be that it’s not as jelly’ish as I wanted it to be, or could be the gigantic smear on my right thumb since I was a huge klutz yesterday. Yes. Huge. I also burned my right hand on a cup of coffee (1/3 cup of coffee to be accurate, the rest managed to stay inside the cup). Anyways - Jelly Apple will accompany me on today’s sushi adventure, smear or no smear. I am totally beat after spending an hour at the gym with high intensity, that aerobics instructor of mine does earn her money’s worth!

So. Back to Friday. Friday was my last day at my job an I wanted to go out with some pizazz - a combination of so long and thanks for all the fish, I’m out of here, and let’s hope the grass will be greener at my new job. The Husband got to pick my colour and he went straight for China Glaze In the Lime Light.

And it was perfect!

Well, it would have been more perfect if it isn’t for the fact that I have a clumsy gene or something so I managed to get a dent in one of the nail. But, please, look beyond the dent and marvel in the hidden shimmer that this neon-dries-matte-is-transformed-by-top coat has! It’s marvellous and captivating and I spent large parts of my last day fluttering my fingers in front of my face with a happy sigh…


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No China Glaze today…

Written by Elisabeth on July 24, 2009 – 10:08 -

…or Seche Vite.

It has come to my attention that the American International Industries (AII)no longer wants their products to be shipped from e-tailers outside the US. And since Norway is firmly placed outside the US these news are unwelcome to say the least.

I have tried to use my google-skills to find out why they have stopped all e-sales but I either my skills are not good enough or they have not given a reason - it’s not like they have to if they don’t want to. The only reason that have come up as plausible through speculation is that they want to charge European prices through retailers. Which sucks as most of these brands are not readily available in Norway and the place that does sell China Glaze in Oslo (Kicks) do not have a full catalogue nor do they get new collections fast. And to boot the price pr bottle is more than $20! And not a bottle of Seche Vite in sight anywhere in Norway!

To me this equals somewhat of a catastrophe. Some might think this is overreacting, but bear with me - nail polish is after all a major hobby of mine, and it’s not an interest that gets funnier or more exciting by having to hunt down common brands and then pay through the nose for them on evilbay. Money spent that could have gone directly into the pockets of AII, so to me this makes no business-sense what so ever.

Boo boo on AII!


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