Parokeets Beauty Blog

My friend Nina gave for my birthday all four polishes from Secrets Of The Past Trend Edition. Thank you Nina. All four of them are creme, so I was surprised they named the lightest shade Glittering Daylight. To me name symbolizes something with shimmer or glitter. Like most of the white polishes, this one is also streaky. I used two ...

The time has come to show you all the Halloween Special! manicures our reader made! All of the manicures are fantastic and really scary! Once again you proved that creativity is limitless. We’re impressed! This is our first really international contest – this time photos came from all over the world! Lets take a look at photographs. They’re published in ...

I got these beauties quite some time ago. These are all oldies but goodies. They are from a CND‘s discontinued line. You all of course know by now about their new line with 50 creme shades and 15 effect. But I won’t babble about the new line today. I’d like to show you three really lovely shades today. The names ...

As you read in Maestra’s Haunted House manicure post our giveaway ends today at 23:59 (GMT +1). Brooke from Getcha Nails Did posted about it on her blog together with two other contest/giveaways. Nail-Art World Winter Manicure contest cough my eye right away. Yesterday I finally managed to do the manicure for Lisa’s contest. Here are my entry photos. I ...

Have you enter our Halloween special already? No? You have time until tomorrow, 23:59, 30th October 2009 GMT+1. We already received some great photos! I really hope there will be more and Halloween is going to be special with all your photos of Halloween manicures posted on our blog! Ladies (and gentlemen), please, don’t be afraid to enter. Send us ...

Emerald Sparkle, oh Emerald Sparkle, you’re finally here with me! I’ll write the whole story on how long I’ve been waiting for it and how it finally found me, in another post. Today, I just wanted to show you some similarities and differences between China Glaze – Emerald Sparkle and NYX – Las Vegas (the green version). After one coat, ...

While I was doing swatches for Essence Moonlight TE collection I was intrigued by the combination of Live Forever and Essie Matte About You. I could just see Konad over it. I used Stargazer 236 metallic blue polish and waves from Chez-Delaney plate H 17. I can tell you that removing Live Forever after all those layers of polish was ...