Nail of the Day // Astor

Astor Quick & Shine Nail Polish 204 Life in Pink

Astor does quite a few amazig nail polishes. This is the newest addition to my collection and I do not have any other color like this. The color in the bottle looks exactly like the polish on the nails. To me this is the perfect pink for everyday wear because it is not too bright but still vibrant. You could get away with only one coat of color with this nail polish but I applied two. I also wore a base and a top coat and the nail polish lasted few days on my nails without chipping.

What is your favorite pink nail polish?

Nail of the Day // Two Million Dollar Crème Brulée

I have posted about both of these nail polishes before. The Astor Perfect Stay Gel Shine Nail Polish in the color 502/302 Crème Brulée is definitely one of my most worn nail polishes of the year - if not the most worn.

I am wearing my usual base coat Perfect Nail Hardener by p2 and two coats of the Astor nail polish. On top of that I applied one thick coat of the Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer Effect Coat in 41 Two Million Dollar Baby. This top coat is a beautiful glittery polish that mainly gold but in certain light it appears silver. I adore this combination of the darker nude and the metallic glitter.

What are you favorite nail polish combinations right now?

Nail of the Day // Hot Chocolate Season

Last May I already posted about this Astor Quick & Shine Nail Polish in 502 Hot Chocolate Season. I loved wearing it solo for a night out all year round but now that autumn is here I have been wearing it lots in the day time as well. The color is just so wonderful - it is the perfect mix of gold and silver. Since I have been wearing it so much lately I wanted to give a little twist to it this time. That is why I put a glitter top coat on top. (I am wearing the glitter top coat in both pictures).

This flormar Super Shine Shine & Hot Prfect Nail Polish 39 is by far my most worn glitter top coat and I love how it brings out the silver tones in the Astor nail polish. It also gives just the right amount of texture to the nail. I always wear a base and a top coat so the actual surface of the nail is smooth and shiny but it still looks slightly textured.

I have pledged not to buy more than five new nail polishes this year and while I still have a two more left I can buy this cut down on new additions to my collection makes me try new combinations and revisit older colors I almost forgot about.

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Nail of the Day // Mirror

 

KIKO Mirror Nail Lacquer 629

Rosegold has been a trend for a while now and I still love to wear it. My boyfriend usually does not care what color nail polish I wear but even he really liked this one (which is a first!). I applied two coats but if you want you could probably get away with applying only one. The downside to this polish is that every brushstroke and every little bump on your nails is very visible. Applying a second layer and a top coat on top helps with that but you can still see the irregularities. If you do not want to apply a top coat the finish of the polish is already shiny. Usually I do not wear simply metallic nail polish with no shimmer or glitter but this color itself is so pretty I love it on my nails. I did a post in September about my TOP 10 Autumn Nail Polishes and I should have included this one - I must have forgotten this nail polish in my collection.

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Nail of the Day // My Little Kimono

essence Nail Polish Limited Edition Cherry Blossom 02 My Little Kimono 

This nail polish is no longer available but since I talked about it in last Sunday's Favorite Top 10 Autumn Nail Polishes I wanted to post a picture of what it actually looked like on the nails. You can find colors like this by many other brands and to me light grey is a great alternative to all the darker shades of nail polishes that I like to wear in the autumn time. With every new season people like to talk about buying new products to 'get ready' to change up their look for the upcoming season but before you go out and buy new things maybe you should take a look at those products you already have. At least that is what I am trying to do. That also involves posting about old products from my collection that are no longer available in stores but hopefully it make you want to shop your own stash.

What is your favorite 'old' nail polish that you also like to wear this season?

Nail of the Day // Night Out

Astor Quick & Shine Nail Polish 502 Hot Chocolate Season

It says on the back of the bottle that you only need one coat of nail polish to get a perfect and opaque finish - that is not true. I needed two coats but I do not mind that. This is the first time I am wearing this nail polish because to me this is the perfect night-out nail polish and tonight I am going out. The dark metal / glitter color is just amazing and I do not own anything else like this in my collection. This is part of Astor's permanent nail polish selection so you can get your hands on the any time!

I applied two coats of Hot Chocolate Season and used p2 Perfect Nail Hardener as a base coat and the essence The Gel Nail Polish Top Coat on top.

What is your go-to night-out nail polish?

Cherry Sin // Nail of the Day

Maybelline Super Stay Forever Strong Gel Nail Color Rouge Laqué 501 Cherry Sin

I finally found the perfect 'classic' red nail polish. I love wearing red nails. I wear dark red nail polish a lot and I also like wearing bright red nail polish but I was always missing that perfect 'classic' red right in the middle. Maybelline Super Stay Gel Nail Colors are some of my favorite nail polish lines when it comes to quality but the color selection sadly is not that great. I think I now own every color form the range that I like.

I applied three coats of Cherry Sin and used p2 Perfect Nail Hardener as a base coat and the essence The Gel Nail Polish Top Coat on top.

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Crème Brulée // Nail of the Day

Astor Perfect Stay Gel Shine Nail Polish 502/302 Crème Brulée

It is slightly ridiculous how long I debated with myself before getting this nail polish. I got this color as a gift for my best friend's birthday and finally caved and bought it for myself as well. It is a beautiful nude polish with brown and rose undertones. I generally like Astor nail polishes and even though they are a little more expensive I just love their color selection and they last longer on my nails than a lot of other polishes.

I used the p2 Perfect Nail Hardener as a base coat and the essence The Gel Nail Polish Top Coat as a top coat. Two coats of the Astor nail polish are enough to get an opaque and even finish.

What is your favorite nail polish brand?

Nail of the Day // Wild at Heart

ANNY nail polish 517 wild at heart

This is my very first ANNY nail polish! So far I really like it.

The duochrome pink and orange color is pretty far out of my usual comfort zone - that is why I am very happy to gotten this as a gift for Christmas. My nails basically look like a sparkly sunset. I have never seen a polish like this and therefor I think this would be an amazing polish to wear on Valentine's Day. It is still pink but with a unique twist to it.

The application was easy and I only needed two layer of polish. As always I am wearing a base and a top coat but the polish itself is pretty shiny as well. What I love the most about this polish - other than the unique color - is the shimmer. It looks even better in person than in the pictures.

Have you tried ANNY nail polishes?

Nail of the Day // Sparkle

Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer 300 Be My Millionaire

KIKO Fancy Top Coat nail lacquer 657

Both of these nail polishes are really special. The base polish is a perfect balance between gold and silver which is rather hard to find. The KIKO top coat is one of my favorite glitter polishes of all time. It is actually so sparkly it almost makes your nails glow. I just love the effect.

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Nail of the Day // amethyst

Astor perfect stay crystal effect nail polish 001 elegant amethyst

I am not usually one for effect polishes like this but I actually really like this polish. The polish does look very different in the bottle than on your nails. I did not put a top coat over this (because of the three-dimensional effect) but I might try that some time.

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Nail of the Day - just fabulous

Astor perfect stay gel shine nail polish 604 just fabulous

This is the perfect autumn nail color! The polish itself is a very dark almost black red with lighter pinkish-red-whine color shimmer. I do not own any other color like this. It almost looks three-dimensional. I only applied two coats instead of my usual three. In my opinion you can tell quality differences between for example essence nail polishes or a little more expensive drugstore polishes by Astor or Maybelline. Not that essence polishes are bad, Astor polishes are just better.

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Nail of the Day - Well Plum!

essence nail polish the darks 16 well plum!

Is that not the most gorgeous purple color you have ever seen? I adore this color. No matter how much I love the color though this is not a perfect nail polish. You do need at least three coats of polish for it to be opaque. The thing about polishes that have thinner consistency like this one is that it is hard do get a nice clean edge. You can tell in some of the pictures. The edge just does not look as clean as it should be. Having said that you cannot really see that from a distance.

I am not the biggest fan of the brushes of essence nail polish because it is rather thin. You can work with it but a thicker brush would make the application easier. The only real downside to this nail polish is it's staying power. After two days I got pretty bad tip wear and it came off on the edges. Two days are still okay for nail polish hardly ever stays on my nails for that long anyways but there are polishes that can do better.

I bet I will wear this a lot in the fall time. I have thing for purple lately ;)

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Nail of the Day - Soho, so hot

Maybelline Super Stay Gel Nail Color Soho, So Hot 505 Forever Red

This is the most amazing bright red. It does have a little bit of a pink undertone to it so it is not a 'true-true' red but that is part of what I like about it. The pink undertones make it look a lot better with my skin tone than a lot of other reds do. I love the Super Stay range by Maybelline and I love this as well. I cannot remember whether I applied two or three coats but you do definitely need more than one. Over all it was easy to apply and lasted pretty well considering my nails were a mess and my top coat was not in good shape anymore. 

What is your favorite red nail polish?

Nail of the Day - Nude Sparkles

Catrice, Ultimate Nail Lacquer Effect Coat 41 Two Million Dollar Baby 

Base Color: Maybelline Super Stay Forever Strong 7 Days Gel Nail Color 76 French Manicure

Basecoat: p2, Intensive Nail! Hardener

It is no secret that I love  sparkles! I just think sometimes it can be hard to pull it off without looking like an 8-year-old did your nails while still making it feel like summer instead of going out at night in October. The great thing about Two Million Dollar Baby is that it has both silver and golden glitter which means you can pair it up with pretty much everything. I applied two coats of the nude color and one thick glitter layer and left out the topcoat. I adore this combination. Actually I am about to do my toe nails the same ;)

What are you wearing on your nails today?And what is you favorite glitter polish for summer?

Nail of the Day - blue ombré nail art

Esprit, nail polish 815 The big blue

Revlon colorstay, nail polish 170 coastal surf

Manhattan, lotus effect nail polish 78D

essence Trend Edition Snow White nail polish 06 Sleepy

Maybelline Super Stay Forever Strong Gel Nail Color 615 Mint for Life

Basecoat: p2, Intensive Nail! Hardener

Topcoat: KIKO Fancy Topcoat nail lacquer 657

This is the closest thing to nail art I can do. I applied three coats of each base color and topped it of with one coat of silver glitter. To me glitter nail polish is usually something I would wear in the colder moths but in combination with different shades of blue it reminds me of water in a swimming pool.

What are you wearing on your nails this week?

Nail of the Day - Mint for Life

Maybelline Super Stay Forever Strong Gel Nail Color 615 Mint for Life

Basecoat: p2, Intensive Nail! Hardener

Topcoat: essence, studio nails, better than gel nails, top sealer

Please ignore my awful nailbeds, I know they are dry and I should get them back in shape...
Nevertheless this polish is amazing! Like every polish from the Super Stay Forever Strong range that I own this one wears amazingly. It stays on my nails without chipping for at least a few days. I applied three coats (as always) but you could get away with just one. This is definitely one of my favorite and most worn nail polishes of all time.

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Nail of the Day - Glitterazzi

Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer Effect Coat 50 Glitterazzi

Base Color: essie nail lacquer 38 nice is nice

Basecoat: p2, Intensive Nail! Hardener

Topcoat: essence, studio nails, better than gel nails, top sealer

I allplied two coats of the essie polish and one of the effect coat. I love how different Glitterazzi looks depending what kind of base color you use. The only thing I would change about it is the amount of glitter. There should be more. You have to apply a fairly thick coat of the glitter polish because otherwise the glitter will not stick and you would just brush it off again when you try to distribute the polish. It still dries quite quickly which is great.

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Nail of the Day - Get The Blues

Catrice, Ultimate Nail Lacquer 55 Get The Blues

Basecoat: p2, Intensive Nail! Hardener

Topcoat: essence, studio nails, better than gel nails, top sealer

I am going out tonight and this is the first color I thought of when trying to decide what to put on my nails. What does it remind you of? - To me it just screams mermaid. 

Depending on the light it looks more green, blue or purple. The duochrome effect is not as 'strong' on the nails than it was in the bottle but it still looks great. I applied three coats but maybe two would do the job as well.

You can definitely see the brush strokes from applying it but in this case I think it just adds a cool texture to the polish.  

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Nail of the Day - I'm so aNude

Catrice, Ultimate Nail Lacquer 51 I'm so aNude

Basecoat: p2, Intensive Nail! Hardener

Topcoat: essence, studio nails, better than gel nails, top sealer

I am in a love-hate relationship with this polish. I do love the color very much and the settle shimmer is right up my alley. I had to apply four coats to get this finish and I am still not quite happy with it. You can still see the withe of the tips of my fingernails. In addition to that it simply looks uneven to me. You can only see that close up but it still bothers me. I simply own other light pink nail polishes that I like better - and they stay on my nails without chipping longer. In the end I have worn I'm in aNude with Kitch Me If You Can on top before and loved it! It stayed on my nails way longer and I only had to apply two coats since the glitter on top made the imperfections of the base color undetectable.

What are you wearing on your nails today?