Aaaah how I am looking forward to my weekly holo dose. This time I’m showing you another Glitter Gal, Marine Blue, which is a dark blue holographic polish. I like the more scattered holographic effect because it adds this ‘unterwater’ touch to the polish. Under the sea, under the sea, …
Anyhow. Apply 2 coats of Marine Blue, add a bit of sunshine and enjoy!
The first picture was made in the shade, the other two in direct sunlight.
As the holiday season draws closer and the cities heat up, almost everyone dreams of sandy beaches and the cool sea. Glossybox picked up a sea/vacation theme this month, and hence the box this month is beige and sandy, and the wrapping is blue. Nice!
The products in the box were chosen to prepare us perfectly to enjoy the hot weather – at least that’s what the card promises. Let’s see what’s in the box…
Clearasil Daily Clear Vitamin & Extract Peeling. Well, not to bad to have an extra peeling. Smells fresh.
Sans Soucis One Apple A Day Face Mask. Smells nice, but considering the tube is rather small, I won’t be able to tell if it really smoothens my skin and flattens out wrinkles (…).
Origins Modern Friction Peeling and La Roche Posay Hydreane Legere Face Lotion. I tried the Origins facial cream some weeks back and got the worst spots and rash on my face. I stay away from Origins as far as I can. I do have some friends who swear by it, so that’s where this try-out tube of Peeling will end up. The Roche Posay lotion is a welcome travel sized version of one of the lotions I use anyways for my overly sensitive (bitchy) skin. If you like this one best, your local pharmacy should be able to supply you with one of them to try it out. You can get those for free easily!
Alessandro Nail Polish in Happy Pink – it’s the smaller Alessandro nail polish size which I find a bit difficult to handle because the top is squared and big and the brush is a bit small. Some Alessandro polishes are spot on, but this one is rather boring. It’s a bubblegum pink, which is not the summer color, and it is a tad too warm for me too. As it is a pastel creme, the application is a bit tricky, so you best use two coats (like I did in the picture). Unfortunately, these pinks give me lobster hands. After mauve and purple last month, I would have preferred a mint green for this month’s box; it’s the summer color at least!
L’oréal Paris Color Riche Les Ombres Eyeshadow quad. I received the browns and neutral shades, which I don’t use much. I must admit thought that I already looked at the Eyeshadow quads in our local drugstore and I love the design. If I’d have gotten more vibrant colors, I personally would’ve been more happy. 
Overall, this box isn’t the most exiting one for me. I find the travel sized lotions and peelings handy, they are perfect to take with on vacation, as is the eyeshadow quad. The nail polish is meh, as I think the Glossybox team’s picks are too safe. The full sized Clearasil peeling is nice, as it’s always good to have something like that in the house.
What was in your box? How do you like it?
I received this box for free from the Glossybox PR Team.
OPI Conga-line Coral is a polish that was released in their South Beach Collection in 2009. All the colours from that collection were somewhat safe, but none were super awesome stand-out shades. From the same collection, I own Miami Beet.
Conga-line Coral is a very pink/red coral, nice shimmer and all, but nothing that excites me too much. I wore it a couple of times and now it went to my fleamarket box! 2 coats.
above: daylight, below: artificial light, no flash.
I decided that this would be the perfect base for Impala Sex Appeal. Impala is a brazilian brand, like HITS, and they make beautiful duochromes and flakies. Sex appeal is a duochrome that shifts from gold to bright pink, which I like very very much! 1 coat over Conga-line Coral.
Do you prefer the darker or the lighter duochromes?
My first INGLOT polish, no 869 and I will most probably always be friends. 869, despite having a more creative name, it a super intensive reddish pink, which refuses to be photographed – it shows a different side everytime I try to make a picture.
I have reviewed it before here. This time I decided to wear two coats of 869 for a day and then layer or stamp over it – eventually I decided to layer over it. But first, pics of 869 on it’s own!
I thought that BB Couture Hermosa Surfer Girl would look perfect over 869. Hermosa Surfer Girl is rather sheer by itself, but buildable. I didn’t wear it on it’s own yet, so I figured I can at least layer it for once! Hermosa Surfer Girl is a red-pink jelly with thousands of tiny (holographic?) glitters dispersed through it. It looks very deep here – and that’s two thin coats over Inglot 869. To be honest, I’m super happy with all the BB Coutures I own, except for Lazy Bum, which is brown, and I just can’t get over myself wearing that. 
The winners of the SpaRitual Giveaway have been contacted. Thanks everyone for entering!
I don’t think I’ve ever shown you anything from artdeco. The polishes have never appealed to me and the bottles seemed rather small for the selling price, and somewhat old-school in a grandparents-way.
Well, I was on a shopping spree sometime back and a set of two polishes from artdeco found it’s way into my shopping basket, so I’d like to show them to you today.
First: artdeco 291 – the polishes have numbers, not names. I’ve forgiven both KIKO and Inglot for that, but I haven’t quite forgiven OPI for their *§”$$%&$%/(&W§’%&*$%’ naming of the Germany polishes (fall collection), so I’m more than happy with numbers at the moment. artdeco 291 is a auburn red color, which gets darker the more coats one applies. artdeco calls their polishes ceramic lacquer, which I can somehow understand as they dry to a look which can be best described as the look of perfectly glazed porcelain. I’d consider 291 to be a glassfleck. 2 coats, and I must say I was deeply impressed by the flawless and easy application. The first picture was taken in the shade, the second one with flash.
Because I bought a duo set, there is another artdeco polish I can show you today: 294. This is a somewhat unusual color, as it is light gold with pink/lavender glassfleck particles. I was positively surprised, because in the bottle it looked like something I’d wear afterI reached my 60th birthday, but it is totally wearable and elegant! 2 coats, and some more admiration for the artdeco formula.
All in all I have to admit I was surprised by artdeco. Have you tried any of their polishes?
Magnetics are the ant’s pants this season. I have no idea if I use this expression right, but I have to use it for two reasons: 1.) the dictionary told me it was right and 2.) it’s hilarious.
So. Stop Laughing. Ant’s pants. Yes. Magnetics.
These magnetic polishes are from ICING. I haven’t been able to identify a name on them, so due to lack of that I’m calling them “blue” and “red.” Creative, no?
What I’ve learned from playing around with my magnetic polishes is, that you have to apply one regular coat and let it dry thoroughly; alternatively you can use a non-magnetic polish as a first coat. Then, apply the second coat of magnetic polish quickly and rather thick, hold the magnet over it for at least 10 seconds and wait for the design to show up. try not to hold the magnet too far away, as the pattern won’t show up nicely, but don’t hold it so close that you make dips into the design.
I tried various patterns and sofar the magnet from the Layla magnetics is my favourite, followed by the KIKO star shaped magnet.
This is ICING “red”:
This is ICING “blue”, where I tried the wave pattern. Doesn’t work very well for me…
Do you think magnetics are cool or just some fancyschmancy stuff used to up nail polish sales?
Don’t you love it that finally the summer has arrived (at least here in Vienna) and the sun shines and the holographic polishes sparkle?!
Glitter Gal High Voltage is a deep aubergine (or eggplant, if you prefer) purple that contains immense amounts of holographic glitter. It’s less in your face holographic than the Layla Holos for example, but that makes it only more interesting. So far I really enjoyed wearing all the Glitter Gals I got to try!
2 coats and millions of pictures because it’s just too much fun to photograph something so pretty.
This is how it looks in the shade:
So. do we like or do we like??
Don’t forget to enter the Glossybox/SpaRitual Giveaway: It’ll be closed tonight!
First the bad news, right?
Wacky Lacki, Jenny Froggy and Connie Hatfield-West have not responded to my announcment of them winning the Giveaway. I deeply regret that, but hence they have lost their prize and it will go to someone else.
Good news therefore is – new winners for the unclaimed prizes!
MY FAVOURITE ASIAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN POLISHES GO TO:
Claudia Van Dijk
THE NAIL-VENTUROUS POLISHES GO TO:
Aurelie from DesTrucsDeFille
THE LIQUID GLITZ POLISHES GO TO:
Katii Deubl
Please, dear new winners, make sure you claim your prize by emailing me your adress to goodlacknail@gmail.com - I do check my SPAM folder regularly, just in case, and also you have 48 hours to claim your prize (otherwise, I’ll draw a new winner again, but after that, I’ll keep them to myself. Ha! 
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LAST DAY TO ENTER MY GLOSSYBOX/SPARITUAL GIVEAWAY!
Sooooo when I went to Poland I showed you all I got and one of the polishes was this stunningly beautiful blue: INGLOT 992.
Originally I bought it with the thought that I’d send it to a friend but then it was standing there innocently smiling at me, and I couldn’t resist it. 
2 coats of this fabulous bright blue with a hint of purple shimmer. It’s a bit of a chameleon, just like my red/pink Inglot, 869, but I have to admit that I love that – a slightly different angle and light changes, and the polish shows a different side of itself. 
One picture with flash, to show the purple shimmer better:
Eventually I decided that 992 would be a perfect base for Cult Nails Hypnotize Me, so I put on a layer of Hypnotize Me. I was very, very, content with this combination. And I stamped over my ringfinger with wet’n'wild White Cream and Illamasqua Nomad using the DRK-A plate. Isn’t it pretty??
7 little dwarfs, 1 ‘taller’ Snow White and 3 princes? In the eyes of cosnova (the company producing essence nail polishes) Snow White must have been quite a woman. Even though she slept for a considerable amount of her story!
**Beware: this is a long post. There are manymanymany pics!*
Before I bore you with my thoughts on life, the universe and everything (to which the answer is, as you all know, 42), let’s see what the colors are from this collection!
Happy is yellow, which I totally understand because yellow makes me happy too. This one is a bit too sunflowerish to be my exact taste but never the less. Yellow! 2 coats.
Grumpy is everything but. The polish is a bright vivid Yves Klein blue and above that it’s rather squshy and jelly-ish, so it shines like crazy. Good work, essence!! 2 coats.
Doc. Orange Creme, 2 coats, easy application, totally average color. (Sorry for my super red hands, but the camera was being a diva and didn’t want to show the color of the polish accurate unless it could make my hands bright red.)
Dopey is a lavender creme with silver glitter. 2 coats; it’s a bit sheer so 2 coats is the minimum I’d apply. Nothing fancy, but definitely created with more creativity than other dwarfs.
Sleepy is cute, even though it’s an average light blue creme. 2 coats.
Bashful is a forest green creme with tiny golden shimmer flakes in it. 2 coats, application was easy. Super pretty color!
Sneezy is a medium brown, as we’ve seen in the past from essence. A bit of glitter in there, but nothing amazing. Again, 2 coats.
And now…. Snow White! A super regular, totally common medium red, I’d call it TSER (totally standard essence red). Nice, but if you have bought one in the past, you might consider buying this only because of the name and collection. 2 coats (of utter boredom, even though the red fits the theme.).
I somehow couldn’t pass on the opportunity to wear and write this: The Huntsman over Snow White. I know, I know. The Huntsman is a glitter topper, something essence does pretty damn welland it consists of small round golden and larger golden hex glitters in a clear base with the occasional golden/iridiscent shred mixed through it. I like!
Prince Charming (here shown over Grumpy) is another glitter topper, small holographic glitters and light blue hex glitters in a clear base. Nice too.
Evil Queen reminds me of a certain color club nail polish, but I just can’t come up with the name. It’s large purple hex glitters in a clear base, rather chunky looking and not that special all together. Shown here over Sleepy.
Did you hunt down some of the dwarfs, princes or Snow White herself?
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Good Lack, Nail!
