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Essence Colour & Go – 73 Princess Prunella

February 19th, 2012 | Posted by Mari in Nail Polish Swatches - (0 Comments)

Last summer when I was looking for legwarmers to wear with my white shorts and light pink sandals, I stumbled upon a small knitting shop at the local mall. There I saw a yarn of the color I really liked, and I though it would be great to knit a pair of legwarmers with it. I am not an experienced knitter, but I know some basic stiches and I can knit simple things like scarves or hand/leg warmers. So long story short, I bought the yarn.
Today, when I painted my nails with Essence #75 Princess Prunella I noticed how nice they go together :)

Essence Princess Prunella

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Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear – Ice Coffee

January 25th, 2012 | Posted by Mari in Nail Polish Swatches - (0 Comments)

I like Sally Hansen’s Xtreme Wear line because it is really cheap. Moreover, it’s often on sale, and I can find them for less than $2. So even if after buying and applying a Xtreme Wear polish I suddenly realize I don’t like the shade on my nails, I don’t feel like I wasted money on it.
Today’s nail polish from the line is called Ice Coffee:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Brush

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Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear – Chocolate Nut

December 15th, 2011 | Posted by Mari in Nail Polish Swatches - (0 Comments)

It’s been raining for 3 days in a row here in Saint Petersburg, and I’m beginning to feel kinda trapped inside due to the cold wind and rainy weather. This all makes me sleepy, today I woke up close to 2pm and my first thought was… don’t laugh! – “It’s so late already! How I’m going to do a new swatch?” :))
These short winter days make it tough as there’s very little daylight shooting time available for me. Waking up early has never been my thing and I can’t seem to feel ok if I get up before noon. And what is more, the rain-clouds steal the sun away. So please, bare with me and my swatches :)

Now onto today’s polish – it’s called Chocolate Nut from Sally Hansen’s Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear line. This is how it looks like in daylight when it’s raining outside:

Chocolate Nut Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear swatch

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Sally Hansen Hard as Nails – Truffle

November 22nd, 2011 | Posted by Mari in Nail Polish Swatches - (0 Comments)

Yesterday when I was going through and organizing my nail polishes, I found a veeery old bottle of nail polish – Sally Hansen Truffle creme. I haven’t been using it for a year or so… tbh I completely forgot about this polish, and discovered now that it’s still thin and fine to apply. I think I bought it at least 3 years ago at the local drugstore — there used to be a big display with Hard As Nails collection and the polishes were fairly cheap.

I’m glad it didn’t get sticky through these years. I don’t use thinners and revivers to restore polishes to new if they become goopy and too thick. I just don’t like the idea… I prefer to toss the old polish and buy another one of similar color… But back to the color — Sally Hansen’s Truffle is a medium brownish shade of red. It can also be described as a very dark neutral shade depending on skin tone.

3 coats of Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Truffle Cream with no top (daylight, no sun, indoors):

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Truffle

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You Don’t Know Jacques!.. Now I do :)

October 29th, 2011 | Posted by Mari in Nail Polish Swatches - (0 Comments)

It is one of two most interesting colors in the OPI France collection for Fall 2008 (the other one is Parlez vous Opi?). You Don’t Know Jacques is a very unique brown/grey taupe shade and it looks true-to-bottle.

Here is the pic of Jacques with OPI’s Mother Road Rose (You don’t know Jacques is on the right):

OPI Nail Polish You don't know Jacques! review

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