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20 Sep 2012

H&M Blue Bliss

 Remember how I talked about the many uses of a good black creme polish? Here’s a perfect example of what I mean!

H&M Blue Bliss is a sheer blue jelly polish with small hex glitters in red, green, blue, teal and gold (and I think even some holos). On its own, even three coats leaves it extremely sheer and makes you look like you’re about to freeze to death. A look some may like, but certainly not one I strive for on a daily basis… ;)

If you layer it over black, however, it’s instantly transformed and the glitters really come through. Over black, it’s like a completely different polish: one at least I can’t stop looking at!

It sparkles and glitters and shifts colours as you move your fingers. Absolute brilliance!

Formula-wise, it’s easy to work with and dries quite quickly, unless you apply multiple coats. There’s no reason to do that, though, as the glitters come out of the bottle quite willingly and you don’t need more than one coat over your base to really make it pop.

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16 Sep 2012

H&M Look At Me

Remember Lady Luck from a week or so ago? Here’s another shimmery gem I picked up from a later trip to H&M.

It’s called Look At Me and I can guarantee that that is exactly the statement your nails will make when you wear it. It’s a very vibrant, very shimmery red with an intense glow “from within.” I love it! (I wore it over OPI Lady in Black on my index finger, to see if the black made a big difference, and while it does make the glow deeper, it’s not absolutely necessary to make it look good.)

Like Lady Luck, this does run the risk of having brush strokes dry apparent, but with a little care while applying, it’s not really an issue. The formula is a little thin too, so if you have too much polish on the brush, you end up with fingers looking like mine in the photo here. ::cough::

All in all, lovely little thing, this. I can see myself wearing it for Christmas.

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14 Sep 2012
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OPI Lady in Black

 I think young people these days are less likely to have a “little black dress” than they were a few decades ago. (I swear I’m not as old as that statement makes me sound!) It’s a pity, in my opinion, because the little black dress is such a versatile thing to have in one’s closet.

A good black creme is the “little black dress” of the nail polish world. It’s a great start for a lot of different styles of nail art. You can use it as a base under glitter polishes and layer it under other polishes where you want to make the colour deeper. Every polish addict should have one, and I dare say every polish addict does.

Until recently, my go-to black creme was Isadora’s Gothic black, which is awesome: it covers in one coat, dries quickly and is ridiculously shiny, even on its own. The only downside is that the bottle is quite small, and dries up quite quickly. I’ve employed my Seche Restore on it a few times already, but really felt I had to find a good alternative.

Enter OPI Lady in Black*. It’s super shiny. Super shiny! (No top coat used for these pics and look at those reflections on my nails!) It’s opaque in just two coats and you only need one if you want to layer something else over it.

Of course, swatching black polishes is kind of boring and it’s been done to death, but there you are. That’s what happens when a polish is a given staple in the collections of a lot of people with different tastes.

*I’m told this was previously known as OPI Black Onyx.

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