TOTALLY RANDOM SUNDAY #4

HAULS

NAIL POLISHES FROM ITALIAN BRANDS!

I have no job during these months, as I've often written, so I can buy just a few of polishes, but, actually, my Helmer is half full and I don't feel the desire for many new shades, anymore. Dupes is not my way, although I have some, and I'm very happy and proud of my collection, but I don't want to cross the line of common sense. BUT! A little gift to myself is necessary to survive! ;P

- ASTRA - ITALIAN ROMANTIC COLOURS - 48

I promised to not buy Astra polishes again because I was no satisfied from their quality, but I fell in love in front of this beauty 1 month ago, and, luckily, the formula is more than decent. Yay! 

- BASIC BEAUTY - 119 - ARANCIO GHIACCIOLO

I bought this one almost 2 months ago 'cause it reminded me a lot to OPI - Ginger Bells, a lemming of mine, and I'm very happy to have taken it. Creamy, opaque, rusty... I like it. 

- KIKO - 354 - CONSTELLATION PURPLE

From the new Light Impulse limited edition, I refuse to comment the name for this nail polishes line: "Hologram (?????) Nail Lacquer". Ok. Let's go on. :P By the way this GLASS FLECKS is enchanting, pretty sheer but beautiful. Not unique, but who cares? 

- KIKO - 223 - RAME PERLATO

This polish was on sale at €1,50 1 month ago and I couldn't resist to try it, even it's a very old and uncool shade, but it could match well with my skintone. Cross my fingers.

- EVER - 16 VIOLA FASHION
A gift from my cousin, this is a kind of glitter I didn't own, yet, and I'm very charmed from: worms glitters! Cuuuuuuute! *^__^*

- ESSENCE - VAMPIRE?S LOVE - 01 GOLD OLD BUFFY
A friend of mine bought for me 2 items from the new Vampire's Love limited edition: the eyeshadows palette and the light grey with few black microglitters nail polish, but I don't remember its name right now. :P Anyway I went to OVS 2 days ago and also luckily found this one lovely golden/olive/black miniflakies. ^_^/

- ESSENCE - FORGET IT! 3 IN 1 CONCEALER
I'm a total newbie about makeup, so I'm trying few products to experiment different colors and textures with the purpose to find what suits better with my skin. For this reason I bought this trio of concelear, especially very useful to learn how to use the green and the pink. In the future I also would to try a light blue and lilac concelear. ^__^

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Labels: astra, basic beauty, essence, ever, face-concealer, haul, kiko, makeup

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Ever - 38 + various bases

First of all: hands on! I'm pretty sure to have made a lot of chaos with English grammar, so be patient! ;P
I didn't know this EVER Italian brand at all, until I've seen this post on Smalto Italiano blog, but I've never seen it in stores, and I had no idea how to find it... I was almost forgetting about these polishes, when I spotted them at an OVS store pretty far from my house, I was there by chance for the first time, infact. They were all amazing in bottle that I couldn't decide how many and which to buy! Eventually I choose two of them, and this is the first one.

Natural light


Artificial light


BASE COLORS:

THUMB: KIKO - 346 - swatch here
INDEX: CATRICE - 250 I SEA YOU! - swatch here
MIDDLE: KIKO - 344 - swatch here
RING: EYEKO - VINTAGE - swatch here
PINKIE: ISADORA - 627 BONBON MINT - swatch here

● EVER - 38
Seriously? I can't decide if I like or not this polish! Alice from Mai senza smalto blog reviewed this one and she drew attention to the fact that it's pretty sheer and not very intense as seems in the bottle. Actually she's right and you can see her swatch here, so I decided to layer it over an opaque base, but I couldn't decide which was most fitted for it... So I tried 5 different mint polishes! The result is pretty good and the polish has shown the best of it, especially the pretty matte silver particles and few gold glitters. The color isn't a duochrome like I hoped, but it's a lovely mint green; it's more frost than I expected, but still pretty, and there aren't so many shade differences when you'll have layered this polish over other colors.
This wasn't a bad purchase, in the end, but I'm not 100% convinced, yet, sorry. ç__ç

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Labels: catrice, creme, ever, eyeko, frost, green, isadora, kiko, layering, pearl

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