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My Stash: Indie brands, Essie, Color Club, Misa and more

I have the third stash post for you today! In this one I'll show you the third drawer of my Helmer, which has quite many brands in it. I have all my indie polishes in the third drawer as well as all my Essie, Color Club, Misa, American Apparel, Nubar, Kiko, Perfect, Hits, Depend and some other brands too. If you missed the first and second stash post, you can check them here and here. (The first one has also some general info about my stash if you're interested.)

But here's how the third drawer looks like:
So as you can see, this has a bit more of mixed brands than the first two drawers I've shown you. However, I think I need to do some changes soon, as I've been lately more into all the indie polishes and they will soon run out of room here, so I probably have move some polishes around. Also, it might make more sense to have all my a-england polishes here with the indie ones, as they could be also considered (at least somewhat) indie. Anyhow, this is the current situation, so let's see all the polishes, right?!

So let's start with the indie polishes and first off are all my Shimmer Polish lacquers: Candace, Mary, Lucie, Irene and Maria.

More Shimmer Polish lacquers: Nichole, Leslie, Jasmine, Sarah and Julie.

Then all my KBShimmer polishes: Bejeweled, Orange Pop, Diva, Proud Peacock, I Got A Crush On Blue and Iris My Case.

Then I have two WellNails polishes: Nothing symbolic about that... and Christmassy Winter Wonderland, two Lush Lacquer polishes: Mr. Bubble and Seas The Moment, one Rainbow Honey called Sweet Talk and two Pretty Serious polishes: Mummy Mush and Gargoyle Ganache.

Next off are all my Essie polishes: Shine of the Times, Mint Candy Apple, Orange It's Obvious, Lights and Leading Lady.
 
Essies continue: Action, Guilty Pleasures, Muchi Muchi and Demure Vixen.

I also have the Madison Ave-hue collection that actually isn't in the drawer as they came in the cute box, that doesn't really fit to the drawer, so I'm not still sure where I'll keep them, but anyhow these are: Madison-Avehue, Avenue Maintain, Go Ginza, Maximillian Strasse Her, Bond With Whomever and Hip-Anema.

Then all the Color Club polishes: Starry Temptress Topcoat, Halo-graphic, Blue Heaven, Angel Kiss, Cherubic and Eternal Beauty.
 
All the rest of the Color Clubs: Beyond The Mistletoe, Gingerbread, Sugarplum Fairy, Cold Metal, Fashion Addict and Wild at Heart.

Next off are all my Misas (I don't know why I have only four of these as I quite like the brand): Greay Matters, Genie in This Bottle,Taking Chances and Live Without Knowing.

 Then here's all my Kiko polishes (I wish I had more of these too, well actually, I just got two more of those Sugar Mat polishes, but they weren't here when I took these pics, so I'll show them in a haul post later): Sparkle Touch Multicolour Glitter Ivory (229), Purple Microglitter (255), Sugar Mat Mint (636), Sugar Mat Poppy Red (640), Sugar Mat Strawberry Pink (641), Sugar Mat Burgundy (645).

Then I have four Glitter Gal polishes (I think these have gotten some new and more interesting names, but mine are so old that these have the "boring" names): Copper/3D Holo, Silver 3D/Holo, Black 3D/Holo and Red 3D/Holo.
 
I also have four Nubar polishes: White Polka Dot, Reclaim, Purple Rain Glitter and Toga Purple.

Then here is my American Apparel polishes: Dance, L'Esprit, Lopez Canyon and Dynasty.
 
AA continues: Supernova, Violet Panache, Moonlight Beach and Manhattan Beach.

 I have also have few Depend polishes, these are really small and cute, but unfortunately these only have numbers: 105, 170, 218, 222, 251, 227, 135, 313 and 351.

I have these five Hits polishes, the first two are from Phenomena collection: Moonbow and Air Glow, then the other three are from Speciallita collection: Apolo, Zeus and Ares. The last one is a brand called Up Colors and the polish is called Azul Arco-Iris.

Then I have these six polishes that are from different brands, but to me they are somewhat special. These are MAC Whirlwind, L'Oreal Confettis, Max Factor Fantasy Fire, Ciaté Pepperminty, Ciate mini Vintage, Layla Ceramic Effect CE52.

And last I have these Perfect glitter (and one metal) polishes (these have again only numbers): S37, S34, S36, S41 and K33.


So, which ones were your favourites? Anything you'd like to own?
Hope you enjoyed this yet another stash post, I have still one left later!

pekal

Lush Lacquer Purple Splash

I have quite many indie polishes in my untrieds right now because of the two orders that I've made earlier this year to Harlow & Co. and I have all those Shimmer polishes to try too. Also I have couple more KBShimmer polishes on their way to me and then of course several mainstream brand polishes in my untrieds too, so I'm having quite hard time choosing what to wear next, but I'm not definately complaining. Today I have the second Lush Lacquer polish to show you.

This one is Purple Splash and I have two coats here over one coat of Nubar Toga Purple. Purple Splash is has a purple jelly base with different sizes and shapes of white glitter and also tiny holographic glitter. The purple base itself is quite sheer, so I layered it over another purple to get it more opaque and to avoid using several coats of Purple Splash. This polish has me torn in two basically, because there are elements in the polish that I absolutely love, but then there are couple elements that I don't really like. I love the purple base and how it makes the polish look and the combination of purple and white, I also love the tiny holographic glitter combined with the small and medium sized white glitter. I even love those squared white glitters, but those overly big hexagons didn't really work for me and it was also quite hard to get them on nails. However, the one thing that ruins this polish for me is the bar glitter. I knew when I ordered this that this has bar glitter and I'm not always been the biggest fan of bar glitter, but somehow lately I've been liking some polishes that have had some bar glitter in them. So that's why I thought I might like this one, but for me there's just too much of those ugly bars in here.

If this didn't have that bar glitter in it, I would adore this so much and wouldn't even complain about those large hexagons, but like I said, with that much of bar glitter this just isn't working for me. Also as there are so large glitter pieces in this polish, they tend to sink to the bottom of the bottle, but that easy to solve by keeping the bottle upside down for a while.

Nail Tek Foundation II
Nubar Toga Purple 1 coat
Lush Lacquer Purple Splash 2 coats
Essie Good To Go

pekal

Lush Lacquer - Neon Lights

Hello everyone!! I am so psyched to show you the polish I wore all weekend. I was part of a group who recently won their choice of polish from Lush Lacquer's new Neon Collection. I knew immediately which one I would choose. I can't seem to resist neon glitter in a creamy white base.

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And oooOO is Neon Lights made of creamy hotness! Seriously, the milky white base is so creamy and dreamy, and the neon glitter scattered throughout just makes it all the better. The glitter is awesomely chunky; I found my first coat was a bit streaky where the brush dragged some of the bigger glitters, but a small and simple side to side swish with your brushstrokes instead of a straight cuticle to tip drag does wonders! And as you can see, the second coat makes everything perfect even without the side to side motion. This is two coats of Neon Lights with two coats of Seche Vite.

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The glitter in this so, soooo much brighter. I tried everything I could to get these pictures true to color, but nothing worked. :( Check out Crystal's Crazy Combos to really see the amazingness of this glitter and to see the other awesome neon polishes in this collection.

To purchase these polishes for yourself see the Lush Lacquer Etsy Shop. Each polish is $9. You can also find Lush Lacquer on Facebook.

*This polish was won in a giveaway. I was not asked to do a post on this polish, and all opinions are my own.

pekal

Lush Lacquer Mr. Bubble over OPI Skull & Glossbones

Today I have another indie polish for you guys from my latest haul from Harlow & Co. I had a hard time choosing which one of those Lush Lacquer polishes I shoul try first, but I finally decided to start with Mr. Bubble.
 
So I started this with OPI Skull & Glossbones and after it was dry, I used one coat of Mr. Bubble. Those glitter came out of the bottle fairly easy, but they needed some attention on nail, so that they wouldn't be all in the same pile. But overall this was very easy to use and I really like the combo of pink, blue and white glitter. So I had a very positive experience with my first Lush Lacquer and I really can't wait to try out the other ones too that I have!


Nail Tek Foundation II
OPI Skull & Glossbones 3 coats
Lush Lacquer Mr. Bubble 1 coat
Essie Good To Go

pekal

Weird things about me with some recent hauls

I got challenged by Sannu to tell five weird facts about me. This challenge has been going around in Finnish nail polish blogs for a while and Sannu challenged me already last week, so I thought I should really do this now before I'm (again) too late.. Also I didn't want to do a post without any pics, so I decided to include some of my recent nail polish hauls to this post too, so that you'd have some pics to watch also. :)

Harlow & Co. haul (from left to right): Lush Lacquer Seas The Moment, Purple Splas and Mr. Bubble. KBShimmer Diva, Orange Pop, Proud Peacock and Bejeweled.

It was a bit hard to think of five weird facts about myself (because I'm sooooo normal, right?!) but I also thought that this would be a fun way for you guys to maybe learn to know me a bit better.. So, here we go.

1. I find it very difficult if not even impossible to sleep if there's a ticking clock in the same room where I sleep. Also other constant noises have the same effect, but if the noise is varying it won't bother me that much. Strangely enough, one of my favourite songs of all time is Snow Patrol - Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking...

2. I don't like if people sing, hum or whistle when I'm trying to do something. Especially my mom drives me crazy, because she tends to sing a lot and I just can't stand it. I don't usually sing anywhere, but I do sing when I'm driving by myself or with my boyfriend. We usually sing great duets while driving and listening to radio, though I'm not sure if anyone else would think so if they would hear us singing...

3. I hate bananas if they are too ripe. I do eat them and even like them if their peels are somewhat green but if they are already all yellow I don't want to eat them. Also I hate when people put banana slices or mush between cakes or in some other baked goods. There are so many other good things to put there so I just don't understand the (maybe Finnish?) need to use bananas...

Zoyas (Tiffany, Gilda and Reva) and Kleancolor Holo Chrome are bought from a Facebook nail polish group. The last three are from Ebay: Color Club Eternal Beauty, China Glaze Glitz'n Pieces and OPI Can't Let Go.


4. I like to do schedules and plan everything ahead. For example I couldn't leave for a vacation abroad if I didn't have at least some time beforehand to do some reasearch and plan which sights I want to see. 

5. I don't drink alcohol much, though I'm not an absolutist either. I just never have learned "the habbit" and I don't feel the need to do that, also there isn't many alcohol drinks that taste good to me. I may have couple glasses of sparkling wine (at New Year's Eve) and maybe one or two ciders or something similar during summer time and that's about my yearly consumption.

These Orlys are bought from a Finnish store where they were on sale. Salla was so kind and provided me these as I didn't have the change to get to the store myself as it is located on the other side of the country. From left to right these are: Pixie Dust, Sweet Peacock, Glitz and It's Not Rocket Science.

This challenge has been around quite much so I'm not sure who has done it already and who hasn't, so I'm gonna challenge everyone who feel like doing this challenge and revealing weird facts about themselves. Let me know if you do it! :)

So, am I too weird? :) And did you like my recent hauls? Is there anything you'd like to see first?

pekal

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