Parokeets Beauty Blog

Today I was gardening with Essence aka I tried out one of the polishes and nail effect powders from their Guerilla Gardening LE. I bought I’m The Moss nail polish and nail effect powder in the same color. Nail polish is green but with yellow undertone so not really my favorite color. Manicure actually looks better with powder over it ...

I was browsing through Essence stands couple of weeks ago and spotted 2 new image plates. I could not find other two anywhere … I’m assuming there are 4 of them as they usually bring them out. I spotted the third one few timed on beauty blogs, but never really saw 4th one. Does anybody have it? How does it ...

I received 3 of Alessandro Sweet, Sweet Flowers LE nail polishes few weeks ago, opened the box and started to drool over pastels. After few minutes I wondered if I should go check my temperature, put them on my swatch table and let them rest for a while. It’s really weird that I actually started liking pastel shades. I always ...

I don’t celebrate many “holidays”, but International Woman’s Day is one that I always remember and reflect upon. I guess it is just something that comes from all the literature I read about subject and being aware of all the suffering and lives lost so we could have basic rights. To me 8th of March is special day and I ...

I think somebody wanted to keep me from finishing swatches planed for todays post. I had to change my plan couple of times as phones kept ringing, emails that had to be responded right away came one after another … and here I was racing against the clock aka sun. In the end, I found it to be quite funny. ...

Today I have a gorgeous nail polish to show you. It is 212-Sephora by Sephora by OPI. It is a dark brown almost light smokey black polish with gold and copper glitter, holographic glitter and duochrome flakes. It’s one of the most complex polishes I own. It looks amazing in the bottle. Unfortunately the complexity doesn’t show up as beautiful ...

I stumbled across two new trend editions by Essence the other day. One being the Snow Jam and the other Vintage District Trend Edition. In the Snow Jam TE the white nail polish with an interesting blue shimmer caught my eyes and in the Vintage District the grey nail polish with a purple shimmer was the most interesting to me. ...