Summer Challenge #00: Preview

I’m proud to announce that…I’m going to participate the Summer nail challenge built by Kaki from Glitter Obsession and Theodora from Red Hair and Black Nail Polish! It starts from TOMORROW, I’m going to post the nail arts relating to summer-themes every other day as follows;

Also these girls are going to join for this challenge;

Theodora from Red Hair and Black Nail Polish
Kaki from GlitterObsession
Cuti-CLUE-les
Whimsical Glam
Jessie from Delight In Nails
Sue from Creative Nail Design by Sue
Sangy from Lipgloss Affairs
Taya from Taya
Kelly from Adventures in Nail Art
Diana from Nails by Diana
Alexis Leigh from -XOXO Alexis Leigh
Namira from Namira Rahman
IsaBella at IsaBella's World
Beautilicious Blogger
Nikki from Little Green Heart
Peace Love and Polish

Phew, it’s already pretty a big community, isn’t it!? Actually this is my FIRST challenge so I’m very excited, but honestly a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit nervous too :) Hope you all will enjoy…and hope I can go properly! :D

えー前から暖めていたのですが上記の通り明日から1ヶ月かけての「夏ネイルチャレンジ企画」に参加しまっす。発案者さんたちは「毎日じゃないから大丈夫よね！」みたくおっしゃられていたのですが　2　日　毎　いうのも大概物凄い頻度だと思います。もちろん現在最強に　不安でいっぱい　です。本当にやり切れるのかこれ。
……ええと、とりあえず完走できるよう頑張ります！

#049: Hot pink glitter sandwich: STILL practicing

P2 8 in 1 Nail wonder
essence better late than never (2 coats)
essence special effects topper disco disco (2 coats)
essence better late than never (diluted, 2 coats)
essence better than gel nails top sealer

So according to previous post, now I tried with OPAQUE glitters. I wanted to have jelly cover on uncolored glitter, so this time I used silver-holographic glitter. I also changed the color from blue to pink…just for my interest.

AND honestly I still feel something wrong. Probably my thought wasn’t right, sparkling effect of holographic silver glitter was totally masked by the jelly and even turned as black/gray spots. If I change the angle, sparkles are still visible but it again turns into matte black/gray spots by another angle. I think it’s because the color of glitter is really different (even though it looks same for all the glitter in the bottle), some are jelly friendly but some are not…and goes to uneven look :(

Anyway this result still looks unique and cute, that’s something made me happy, even this is STILL not my wished result :) Unfortunately I don’t have so much jelly & glitter…well, what shall I do? Now I’m looking for the way to go without getting gigantic amount of glitters/jellies…otherwise it’ll be never ending story :(

さてまだお試しは続きますよー。ラメが透明だったせいで沈んでしまって何も見えなくなった前回の反省を踏まえて不透明ラメ使ってみた！さあどうだ！！
……って何か物凄い微妙な結果になってしまってどうしようです。キレイ……かなあ。うん、それなりにキレイな気はする。少なくとも写真写りは悪くない感じ。なんだけども実際は光の加減でラメが黒や灰色の点になってしまってぱっと見た感じあまりキレイじゃない、というかむしろ何だか小汚い感じになってしまい大変がっくりなう、であります。もうちょっと何とかならんかったのか。ならなかったからこそのこの体たらくですが。
ところでbetter late than never、これ透明感のあるホットピンクで、1:10くらいで薄めたらとてもキレイな半透明ピンクポリになりました。これはいい大変気に入った。今我が家には空びんと攪拌球が相当数転がっているのでちょっといろいろやってみようと画策中です。無いなら作ってしまえばいいと思うんだ！

#048: Sold Out For Ever; Old and New

P2 8 in 1 Nail wonder
Catrice Sold Out For Ever (Old = light shimmery green, 3 coats)
Catrice Sold Out For Ever (New = pastel white-green, 3 coats)
essence better than gel nails top sealer

So…what I hate in polish world. I like/dislike many stuff around nail polish because of my taste, but I REALLY hate brands making DIFFERENT color in SAME name PLUS product code. One well-known example is of course the OPI My Private Jet that OPI made at least two - or even a few more - different versions with completely different shade. I don’t understand why brands do this, different shade could be different name or at least different code, no? Anyway today’s feature is another well-known example; Catrice’s Sold Out For Ever.

As far as I know…”old” Sold Out For Ever was released as 2010’s new core line, and was announced to be discontinued this March. Actually it was right and wrong; that NEW shade with SAME name Sold Out For Ever was added as one of NEW core line released at March 2012. Instead of nice green color with pretty shimmer, plain white-green crème got same name and product code…

By the way I own both, so…why not combine these two different shades with same name in one mani? I think this will give the idea for the difference of these shades…at least I’m happy to find these two shades are friendly and not fighting each other :) One thing I disliked is chalky formula of “new” one, but probably this will be good stamping polish…It seems to be.

新しい色に同じ名前と同じ製品番号をつける心算というのはどういうものなのか真剣に知りたいChiroです。一番良く知られているのはOPI My Private Jetでしょうか。別に新旧どちらのバージョンがいいとも悪いともいいませんが、違う色を作ったなら違う名前にしろ、せめて品番くらい変えろと本気で思うのですが。大した手間でも無いでしょーに、ホント。
さて今回のCatriceのSold Out For Everもそんな色の1つです。この名前を持つ色自体は2010年からあるのですが今年頭に廃番が発表、……されたと思ったら全く違う色が同じ名前で出て来たという。共通するのは緑系であるという点のみ、濃淡も違えばシマーの有無も違うという違いっぷりです。ここまで違うなら違う名前にしろよというところなのですがついた名前も品番も同じ。どういう判断ですか全く。
ともあれ違う色ですが同じ名前同じ品番ついでに同じ系統の色ということで組み合わせてみました。同系色である以外全く違う2色ですがそれなりにまとまったかなあと。ほんの少しくすみがあるからか意外に落ち着いた感じに仕上がりましたよ。ダブルフレンチとかに使っても相性は良さそうです。
……それにしてもどっちも系統が違うだけで悪くない色なのに、同じ名前なために比較されて良し悪しがつけられてしまう（そして古い方が良しとされて持て囃される傾向が）、というのはむしろ悲しいこと＋ブランドとしては損だと思うんですけどね。違うんかなあ。

#047: Blue glitter sandwich (or importance of practice)

P2 8 in 1 Nail wonder
KIKO 336 (blue base color, 1 coat)
KIKO 231 (hex glitter mix, 1 coat)
Nubar 2010 (Flakie glitter, 1 coat)
KIKO 335 (blue jelly, 1 coat)
essence better than gel nails top sealer

So today’s nail represents GOOD example to show what’ll happen if you paint your nail without trying your new combination for example on plastic tips. This also gives an idea that layering without any plan doesn’t give you desired result. OK of course it’s common sense for everything, every case, but…I was too lazy to follow such a general rule.

While I got gorgeous blue jelly from KIKO, my mind was full of “should go for glitter sandwich”. My biggest fault was I didn’t try to find the best glitter for such an idea. Actually these photos made me happy because they captured glitters pretty well, but they didn’t appear well in the real life - which is pretty rare - that it only looked like plain blue ink color nail. Yeah, I know color itself is already cool, but…that was NOT something I wanted to have this time *sigh*

But well, even I did wrong I still can LEARN from it :D My fault was pretty simple, that I used transparent glitters instead of opaque glitters. Especially I really will say myself NEVER to use Nubar 2010-like flakies for this purpose again, that even flakes covered the nail well they’ll be killed by one layer of jelly :( And OK, next time, I’ll definitely try on tip before the nail…that’s already something fun, too!

練習って大事ですねネイルですorz
いや本当やる前に試すのって大事。チップあるんだから試せよと。ぶっつけ本番とかやってんじゃねーよと。チップで試しても本番で上手く行かないなんていくらでもあるのに、大体プロの方だってチップで試しまくるなんてやってるのにドシロートが何やってんだよと！orz　大体クリアラメの上にシアーポリ塗ったら沈むなんて到って当たり前の話なのに何故塗るまで気づかなかったかとorz　……もうそんな反省点だらけのネイルであります。
まあ幸いだったのは見た目そのものが酷い状態では無かったことと、改善点が解りやすかったところでしょうか。とはいえ本気何してんだと思わんでは無いですが。Nubar 2010なんてかなりびっちり塗ったのに最早影も形もありませんよ。塗ったって解ってても見えないのに解ってなかったら尚更見えるわけ無い＝完全無意味とかorz
……えー、そんななのでそのうちリベンジれたらいいなあと思っています。あ、でもシアー青は「濃いクリア系青」って感じでいろいろ使えそうな雰囲気。試行錯誤するにもぴったりなのでいろいろいじってみようと思ってます！(｀・ω・´)

#046: Super busy week; means a week for HOLO

Jessica Retro Diva basecoat
China glaze FYI (2 coats)

...Because they dry super fast, because they look cool on simple painting with no arts, and because it entertains me even I’m really busy…why not? It’s definitely much, MUCH better than bare nails, no? :P

I wore this without any topcoat, so I’m sure it’ll get chipped within few days. But few days already rescue me! These days I have no energy to paint or design nails, but still this great holo rainbow can save my life…and that’s good reason to have MORE holos in my stash ;)

どうにも忙し過ぎて何かを考える暇が本当に無い→しかし素爪いうのは嫌だ→見た目シンプル系も何だかな→そうだ玉虫があった、で今回も　ま　た　玉虫です。でもこの昔ながらのキレイだけど塗りにくい系玉虫（長え）、かなり速乾でベースコートさえ乾いてしまえば15分で全て片付くので本気忙しいときのレスキュー用としてはうってつけだったりします。とはいえ玉虫キレイに残したかった＝トップコート塗っていないので多分数日以内に禿げて来るかな。その頃には嵐も過ぎ去っていると思うのでさっくり塗り直せばいっかーと考えているところです。トップ塗っていない分オフもかーんたん、なのです。

#045: HOLO AGAIN: holographic deep purple

P2 8 in 1 Nail wonder
Color Club Wild at Heart (3 coats)
essence better than gel nails top sealer

I’m so sure you felt I’m just crazy on “holographic” polishes. Oh yes that’s true, I can’t say that’s wrong, holos just drive me CRAZY! Even deep purple is the autumn color for me, I couldn’t let this sleep in my stash for next few more months…bottle color with great rainbow was just pushing my back to use it…so I couldn’t help coloring my nail with this even now…and of course the result made me totally happy :D

I think this Wild at Heart has strongest holographic effect in whole Color Club holos. It’s clearly visible through the bottle, and also appears really great on the nail too! I’m not great fan of dark purple color, but this one is exception. I just love it, looks good on me, I’m happy about this. Formula was a bit streaky but still OK, I think aqua base can make application really easy…so I bet I should try that way on next time ;)

ま　た　玉　虫　か　。
……ええまた玉虫です、大好きなんです玉虫！だってべったりワンカラー塗りでもばっちり映えるんですもの！だから手抜きにぴったり！＜おい
いやまあ冗談はさておき（冗談なんですか）何にそんなに魅かれるのか解りませんがどうも玉虫となると本当に我慢が効かないというか、これも買ったとき秋カラーだし秋まで我慢やなーと思ってたにも拘らずこの体たらくでございます。ボトル越しの色が本当にキレイで、正直一緒に買った他のColor Club玉虫よりずっとキレイで、手に取るたびうっとり→いや我慢だ、を繰り返し最終的に我慢が効かなくなったという。でも玉虫系って日差しが無いとキレイじゃないから今のうちだと思うんだ！＜とかいいつつ写真全部室内撮影ですが
Color Club玉虫の中では多分一番キレイに虹が出る色だと思います。あと虹の粒が大きい、気がする。液質も悪くないですし、ペディなんかにもいい素敵カラーでは無いでしょうかー。

#044: Black lacquer with golden glitter Reloaded

essence better than gel nails base sealer
essence color & go! black is back (black, 2 coats)
essence color & go! gold fever (golden glitter, gradient)
essence better than gel nails top sealer

THIS is what I wanted to do with these polish combination. However as I noticed before, gold fever had unexpectedly dense glitter which is just too much to build the gradient. So how can I do this?

Actually sponging did NOT work for this case. Glitter was really fine, it was completely stuck in the cavity of sponge; OR was released from the sponge at once. It was not fun, so now what I did…I just diluted gold fever with the clear polish.

As gold fever is really glitter rich, that I had to dilute on 1:10 ratio, but…anyway it worked! It’s also easy to control the amount of red spicy glitters on the nail, honestly I love this way to build the gradient ;) And I’m also happy how it looks like…kinda Japanesque-style! How do you think? :D

やっぱり斜めよりグラデだろう！ということで今度はトップコートで割って薄めまくった上で再挑戦。ますます漆器っぽい感じに（違）何だか訪問着っぽい感じにもなったかなーと。さすがに和装にこの爪だとイカツ過ぎる気がするのでやりませんが。金ラメって大きいと凄く下世話な感じになってしまう気がするのですが、この細かさと色出しで逆に品良く仕上がった……気がしているのは私だけでしょうか＜自信が無くなったらしい
ところで欧米ブログだと皆様揃ってグラデはスポンジで！という感じなのですがどうにも慣れないのは日本人だからですかね。シロップネイルというものがはるか昔から知られていて、かつシロップを作るのにひたすらシアーなポリを塗り重ねるというある意味超絶に面倒くさい手法を取り、それがスタンダード化しているのは日本くらいだと本気で思います。結局その方が繊細な仕上がりになるし、こういう手先面倒くさい系がスタンダードになっている日本人やっぱスゲー、と自分のことはさておき本当にそう思う次第です。

#043: Sexy light taupe with fine silver shimmer

P2 8 in 1 Nail wonder
Jessica Bronze Tailed (2 coats)
essence better than gel nails top sealer

As before I don’t own the office color so much, but because it just hooked my antenna sometime I fetch some skin color without recognizing them as “skin color”. This is one of such a polish; it’s unexpectedly sexy but quiet, which means it’ll be great for office color.

So it’s Jessica Bronze Tailed from their complete Chanel-dupe Peacock collection. As other Jessica polishes, formula is fantastic with great coverage and drying time. It was really easy application, so whenever I don’t have a time and also no idea to wear anything probably I’ll grab this :D I’m also happy that this color looked good on my skin tone, since I’ve never owned/tried taupe on my nail…;)

困ったときのーオフィスカラー（違）
いや本当に何を塗ればいいのかとなったらちょっとだけ濃い目のオフィス系カラーに走るわたくしChiroです。今回は使ったこと無いカラーで一度は塗ってみたいな！という感じだったのでこのJessica Bronze Tailedになったワケですが、それでも結構↑の傾向は強いです。……ということで地味色に走った場合「あ、ネタ切れか」とでも思って頂けたら大体間違っていないです＜をい
まあともかくこのChanel Quartzもどきですがなかなかいい色です。指がキレイに見えてしかもただの地味色では無く華やかさもあるこの色の感じはさすが。ただChanelにしか無い！とかだったら絶対買っていない自信ありますが。オフィス系カラーあまり塗らない＝所持していないので新たな1本ということで買ってよかったです。こういう色はやっぱり必要よな、……もう若くないんだし（遠い目）

#042: My fav glitter; Deep blue glitter jelly

P2 8 in 1 Nail wonder
essence color & go! walk on air (2 coats)
essence color & go! blue addicted (3 coats)
essence better than gel nails top sealer

I’m not a big fan of glitter polish, especially if it’s glitter-packed polish with clear base. I think it’s because I’m from JP, the country of nail arts and self-gel nailers, sorry but they don’t look so new and fabulous for me. BUT this well-known dupe of Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe is COMPLETE exception; It’s really eye-catching because of it’s balance of glitter and base color.

So blue addicted contains blue-green hex glitter and blue fine glitter in dark navy jelly. What I really love is the transparency of the navy jelly; It’s dark enough to appear its color by three coats (I tried on a bit light blue as a base color and its color was completely masked after third coat, haha) but clear enough to give the depth to the entire color. Glitter really looks floating in the jelly…doesn’t look so juicy? I can feel my mouth is watering!

Only my mistake this time was base color but now I learned any blue used as background will turn into same result so I’m OK :D However the sad news is that this is going to be discontinued within next TWO MONTHS…it’s too sad!! Oh god, I’m sure I must get few backups for myself soon…

ラメポリは基本的に日本の方がよっっっっっぽど進んでいると　確　信　していますが、ごくたまーにコレ日本には無いよ！というポリが出て来ることがありまして。このessenceのポリはその最たる例です。とはいえ同じようなのがDeborah Lippmannから出ていて（Across the Universe）なおかつ日本にも入っているようですからいう程新しいものでも無いと思いますが、これの特筆すべきはそのお値段！！であります。15mlでさんぜんえん（現地でも18ドル）！するDeborah Lippmannに対しこちら5ml入りとちんまりではありますが1.25ユーロ！すなわちひゃくごじゅうえん！！というスーパープチプラなのであります。
プチプラではありますがそこはessence、ネイビーのクリアベースの透明度が非常に絶妙でネイビーの中にラメがぷかぷか浮いているというような奥行きのある見た目になります。クリアなのでベースカラーを塗った方がいいですが、ネイビー意外と強く出るので青ならどんな青でも大体大丈夫そうです。ラメざくざくですがざりざりせず、上にグロス系トップをかけたら見事にちゅるりーんとした何とも美味しそうな仕上がりに。人差し指に六角ホロが何故かどっかり乗ってしまったのですが、本来は3回塗りで中指や薬指くらいのラメ具合になります。
ちゅるちゅるのジェルっぽい見た目も含めて、派手ではありますが超お気に入りの1本！しかし何と再来月廃番になっちゃうのです！！(´；ω；｀)　今のうちに何本かストックしとかないとなあ……(´・ω・`)

#041: Black lacquer with golden glitter

Essence better than gel nails base sealer
essence color & go! black is back (black, 2 coats)
essence color & go! gold fever (golden glitter, 1 coat)
Essence better than gel nails top sealer

Gold fever, I think this is best polish in all the colors which was added as 2012 spring/summer essence core line!! It’s clear polish packed with fine golden glitter and a bit bigger…RED glitter! Because choice of glitters are so unique and red glitter definitely gave a spice to golden glitter, I REALLY LOVE this.

It’s really glitter-rich polish, that this glitter tip was made by only ONE coat. It’s amazingly dense – even much than I expected – so I can say this polish has really good coverage. I’m not a big fan of completely glitter-covered nail, so my wish was a bit less glitter density but it’s definitely not a problem; I can dilute it. It’s always better to have concentrated one, that dilution is easy but concentration is VERY hard :D

今年のessenceはなかなか良いラメポリをばんばか出していてちょっと幸せです。というのも散々既出ですがラメポリってほんっとーにこっちで見かけないからです。あっても金ラメ粉1種突っ込んであるだけーとか細かいホロラメ1種だけーとかで捻りも何も無いのばかり。そこに来てこのgold feverは細かい金ラメにほんの少し大きい赤ラメを配し、金のきらきらの中にちらちら（でもはっきりと）光る赤ラメという素敵ポリに仕上がっていてわたくし幸せです。結構ラメ密度が凄くて本当はもっとさりげない感じにしたかったんですが一度塗りでべったりラメが乗ってしまった件(´・ω・`)　次は薄めるとかして使いこなしたいところです……が、薄過ぎるよりはいいかなあとも思うのです。ラメ密度無さ過ぎて全然拾えないポリよりはずっといいよね！！(｀・ω・´)

Swatch: essence Snow White LE (Snow White!)

OMG I’m really impressed that page view of my previous Snow White swatch post has been exploded and still increasing; thanks readers, thanks people who linked that post to their blog/forums, thank you so much all of you!!
Sadly this wonderful Snow White LE wasn’t ready for most of shop until today, but hey, TODAY…I found TWO other shops started to display them, which means slowly but for sure IT’S COMING!! OK girls, get ready to grab those fantastic collections, I already added some stock in my hand…including MISSING SNOW WHITE. Yay!!! :D

So I made a quick swatch here. Lighting is a bit different from previous, but polish color is close to the real life; that, it’s bright candy red jelly-like creme. I won’t say it’s jelly because I felt it’s a bit too opaque to say ”jelly”, but it’s still jelly-like that free edge was slightly visible even after two coats. Formula was REALLY good, it flowed extremely smooth and was very easy to apply. Of course there’s full of red polish floating around everywhere, but I think this is unique because of its jelly-like clear red texture. It’s great, thumbs up, must have!! :D

So…finally, where I found whole stuff is Kaufhof (one in my local and one in neighbor town) and Rossmann (my local). I don’t know why but dm isn’t carrying them until now (hope it’ll come), but at least shops above had this LE. Run girls, now it’s the time, RUN!!!!! ;)

#040: Baby blue holo: one of my fav!

P2 8 in 1 Nail wonder
Catherine Arley No. 674 (3 coats)
essence better than gel nails top sealer

Catherine Arley 676 is one of my favorite holo and my personal best in CA holos! CA holos often has moderate to subtle holo effect, BUT this is an exception; it has really strong holo effect! Even photos are taken under sunlight (yes today’s shots are taken under sunlight; my skin tone looks better under the sun), it still doesn’t tell the true color because it’s just blinging and blanging so much XD

Nothing more that I can say, it’s just really fabulous, I’m even thinking to have backup before it’ll discontinued…OR, of course I wish this will NEVER get discontinued :D

玉虫スキーなのでいろいろと持っているのですが（それでももっと欲しいと思うあたり重症ですが＜大体玉虫ピグメント持っている時点で本気重症ですが）中でも本気一番お気に入りな1本がコレです。かわいい水色の玉虫！ちょっとシアーですがちゃんと重ねると太陽光の元だけでなく室内でもびっかびか光ります。というか光る粒が大き過ぎるのかカメラが眩しがって上手く色を拾ってくれない件！（・∀・）でも地の水色もキレイだし、もちろん光り方もキレイだしで日にかざしてはにんまり、室内で光らせてはにんまりとわたくしタダの阿呆と化しています。もちろんペディにしてもかわいいよ！！

#039: Grass green gradient

P2 8 in 1 Nail wonder
Barielle Polished Princess (light green, 2 coats)
Barielle Date Night (Dark green, gradient)
essence better than gel nails top sealer

I’M VERY HAPPY HAVING THESE GREENS!!
...Ah, maybe I’m too excited for these my FIRST Barielle polishes but I wanted to shout out like that!! Today’s gradient is built by two greens from Barielle Earthy Green collection, the great package made with five green polishes. I chosen these two because they contains very similar fine shimmer which promises nice smooth gradient look. Actually shimmer is REALLY fine that it’s not seeable on the photo, but still I can say these two are nice couple for gradient!

Gradient is built by cosmetic sponge as well known, BUT instead of mixing color on foil I simply applied both polish DIRECTLY on the sponge, dabbed a bit and then applied on the nail. At least this worked better for me rather than picking up the mixed color from foil…and I think this is much simpler way to build the gradient without the mess, that all you need is sponge + polishes and nothing else. It’s kind of modified method, but…if it works better/easier than original method, why not? ;)

どうにもこうにも緑ポリとなると冷静さを失うようで、多少値が張っても緑ポリってなかなか無いし！とばかりに緑ポリセットを買ってしまうあたり実に重症であるといわざるを得ないのですが（とはいえこちらの記事見たらああまだまだだなあと思ったわけですが＜なおさら重症である）。今回はそんな経緯で買い込んだBarielleの緑ポリセットを使ってみますた。5本あるうちこの2色は大変にシマーの質感が似ていて、こりゃもうグラデるしか無いだろう！と思っていたのですが思っていた以上のしっくり感で大変満足です。多分白ポリとかで全面スタンプとかしたら相当キレイなんじゃなかろーかとも思うのですが如何せんわたくしスタンプが本当に　下　手　でしてな……(´・ω・`)　まだしばらくはチップ使っての練習あるのみという感じになっておりまするorz

あとグラデ、アルミホイル上で色を混ぜてスポンジで取って、……なんて面倒なコトやってられっかー！！ヽ(｀Д´)ﾉとなりまして。スポンジに　直　接　ポリを塗ったくって、1回ホイルに押し付けて境目を馴染ませて、それからべったり塗るという方法を取りました。正直この方がスポンジに吸われるポリの量を調整できるだけ簡単な気がします。全面グラデってなかなか境目をぼかしにくいものですがこれならもっと気軽かつ簡単にできるかなー、と思うのです。多少境目できてもトップコート塗れば解らなくなるよ！(｀・ω・´)

Swatch: essence Snow White LE (Seven dwarfs + others)

First, BE CAREFUL; it’s PICTURE HEAVY POST!!!!!
あと日本語記事は後ほど追加しますスミマセン！！
(June 09 2012 added: Snow White is finally here, go here for the swatch post!)

I’m not a one who buy new collections as soon as they are available, but when I saw this on preview I couldn’t wait until they’ll get released! They are too cute to avoid, so fancy…and lucky me, I could find the shop which began selling them earlier than others! Oh yes sadly Snow white was sold out there but all the rest were available, why could I pass by? I grabbed all of seven dwarfs and sub-characters, and…here they are!!

As known, concept of this collection is Disney’s Snow white, so these polishes are named after its characters. Seven small bottles are for seven dwarfs whereas Snow white is red polish with bigger bottle. Glitter toppers are sub-characters, Evil queen, The huntsman and Prince of charming. You can see each characters below;

(Image is taken from http://talaeh.wordpress.com/)

So now I decided to go for entire seven dwarfs’ swatch WITH entire toppers; each of them are 2 coats, and toppers applied are Evil Queen for index, The Huntsman for middle and Prince of Charming for ring finger (I mean, left to right: Evil Queen, The Huntsman, Prince of Charming).

Grumpy. Nice royal blue crème with a bit of jelly-ish finish. I don’t know why this is named “Grumpy”, that he doesn’t have any blue color on himself. Anyway the color itself is pretty, after two coats the nail line is still a bit visible but looks kinda juicy!

Doc. Bright orange crème with a hint of pastel. I don’t like vivid/neon orange on my skin tone but this one was OK for me. A bit thick and streaky but two coats were perfectly fine to have good even finish.

Happy. Egg-yolk like orange-yellow crème. Again a bit thick and streaky, but OK with two coats. I like the combination with The Huntsman! Gold with this soft yellow looks really great for me.

Sneezy. Pastel-toned light milk chocolate brown with fine golden shimmer. This was happy surprise for me; In the bottle it almost looks like normal crème, but on the nail…here comes the shimmer!! It just looks so lovely and sexy. Oh no I didn’t get the backup for this one, I better should get it ASAP…!

Sleepy. Pastel mint green with hint of blue shimmer. My camera misunderstood this color as bright sky blue but it’s a bit more greener in the real life. Shimmer is so fine it’s hard to see on the nail. I love the combination with Prince of Charming, it’s like swimming pool!!

Bashful. Green tea-green with full of golden shimmer and hint of gray. MY FAVORITE. The color is too nice, I have one backup but already feeling I need MORE! Also has best formula in entire polish, very smooth and almost one-coater. If you are the green lover, MUST HAVE. Even if you are not a big fan of green, still MUST HAVE :D

Dopey. Sheer pale lavender crème with fine silver glitter. This one was a bit too sheer that after two coat it was still uneven and uncovered. I did three coats on second pic (pinky), and now it’s OK. Glitter is hided back to crème base, but still gives pretty shimmer.

And yes, I must comment on toppers for sure;
Evil Queen. Nothing but big purple hex glitters. As usual polish with big glitters, it’s bit tricky to apply the glitter evenly, better not to apply by brush but scoop the glitters by toothpick or whatever…but well, glitter color itself is nice purple and will be good accent, especially on lilac/purple.
The Huntsman. Gold hex glitter, bronze glitter powder and clear chopped flake glitter. Mixture of hex + powder + chopped flake glitter! I’ve never seen such a combination! Density of glitters are just perfect; it’s enough for easy application but not too much.
Prince Charming. Marine blue hex glitter and holographic silver glitter powder. Easy-to-apply topper again, except density of blue hexes are not great so if you need enough blue hexes you must scoop them. But for sure this’ll give a good “charming” effect for summer nail!

So…I went very quickly, I hope these swatches will be your help. Actually overall formula was bit sheer, thick and streaky except lovely Bashful. Fortunately drying time is not bad so having two or three coats are not that stressful, but I have to say it’s not so smooth and bit tricky. But it’s concept is great and cute…now I’m feeling I must get ANOTHER ENTIRE SET for the backup!! Also I have to get Snow white polish as well. Unfortunately it’s not out at so many shops, that I’ve NEVER seen them at dm/Rossmann around me until now, but I strongly hope this LE will be available at all the shops very soon!! :D