Manhattan - Candlelight Dinner

Manhattan is a lovely nailpolish brand which is so affordable. One of my favorite classic Manhattan polishes is Candlelight Dinner.

On the pictures it looks way more red than in person. Sadly I wasn't able to capture the real beauty of this polish.

So onto describing: First of, if you have the option to buy it in stores, take a look at it. It seems boring but for everyone wanting a beautiful (fallish) saturated but still bright purpley-light-burgundy-something, this is it. Really nice formula and 2 coats give a squishy look. Love it!

Essie - Check your baggage

I'm on the hunt for a happy sunny yellow creme nailpolish. So Check Your Baggage from Essies Flying Solo Collection caught my eye.

In the bottle it really looks like a match for my wants. But sadly on the nails, especially indoors, it darkens quite a bit and looks more like a light yellowish orange.

The first picture is inside the other picture in direct light (without sunshine). Still it is a pretty color just not what I was expecting. The formular is great, 2 medium coats are enough for a perfect application.

So the search goes on...

OPI - My Chihuahua Doesn't Bite Anymore

I love so many polishes of the OPI Mexico City Collection but OPIs are so expensive in Germany that I limited myself to one polish. And it's my chihuahua doesn't bite anymore.

I don't own My chihuahua bites but I'm a sucker for orangey-reds so I had to have this one.

The formula on this creme polish is quite good to work with but a little bit sheerer as I expected. I needed one thin and one thicker coat to get the opacity I wanted. But still, easy to work with.

I love this kind of orange which is bright but kind of red and it looks classy (at least on a redhead like myself).OPI makes fantastic polishes and if they weren't like 16€ I would for sure shop their entire collections.

China Glaze - For Audrey

Here is an absolut classic: China Glaze - For Audrey. This polish is a tiffany-turqouise-blue-whatever creme.

I think this is a wonderful colour for winter and spring. It's a pop of colour but not too bright. The formula is good so I usually wear 2 coats.

This is a staple in my collection and I have quite a few colours in this colour family.

Essie - Unwrap me

After wanting to buy everything from Essie's spring collection 2019 I just picked up one polish from spring collection 2020. Unwrap me is a magenta metallic color with the nice bottle cover like Essie did in 2019. Not a thing I would buy a polish for but it looks nice for sure.

Unwrap me applies like a normal metallic polish, a few visible brushstrokes but they vanished by the time the polish was dry. And of course as a metallic polish, it dries quickly.

Now that I look at the picture I should have tried it with a matte topcoat as well. I will for sure in the future. Also as a side note: I think it looks stunning as a pedicure in spring. Not gonna show pictures of it because... feet.

I used two coats with top- and basecoat.

Catrice - Nap Green

Catrice is my favorite drugstore brand (widely available here in Germany) for nailpolishes. I love their bristles and the formula is often absolutely beautiful. So since they came out with a few new polishes I needed to take a look at them. One of the ones I picked up is Nap Green.

This is a soft pastel minty-green. I have a few of these in my collection but I have to say this one has the best formula! By far!

Yes you need two coats. But with two (easy) coats it's fully opaque and non-streaky! Love this. SO MUCH!

ANNY - autumn in the city

I bought a few polishes of the kiss my pumpkin collection from ANNY last fall. Autumn in the city is one of them. This is a lovely dark purplish grey with bronze-sheen.

I didn't shake the polish up because you can see the purple on the neck of the bottle and the shimmer quite clearly in this picture.

I'm wearing two coats plus base- and topcoat. This polish is really easy to apply and just as easy to take off.

Autumn in the city is really flattering on my nails and I love the shimmer that becomes visible in sunlight. One of my favorite polishes to wear in fall 2019.