Parokeets Beauty Blog

While cleaning the flat and reorganizing my stash, I came across all the beautiful polishes I bought in the States. Memories memories … Because my nails were in desperate need of a new manicure I decided to paint my nails with a beautiful and interesting polish (bought in America of course). It’s called Peacock and it’s by Icing. It’s green ...

Catrice stands are still not available in our capital, so I consoled myself with few new Essence nail polishes. The shade that immediately ought my eye was Essence In Style. It looks like blue-green-purple duochrome in the bottle, but purple pretty much vanished when I applied it onto the nails. But it’s still pretty color. Brush strokes are a little ...

Since there’s a nice summer sale on Illamasqua’s web page, I thought I’d do a quick overview over the Illamasqua‘s products that I own. I don’t have a lot of them, since they are expensive. Some of the products were sent to me for review purposes in the past and some I bought myself. This is a bunch of products ...

Essence – 50′s Girls Reloaded. New trend edition, new review. Here we go. I was curious how the eyeshadow brush is going to be. I didn’t expect much and I think I didn’t get much either. First off, the brush is soft and it’s not dense. When I washed it, it shedded a bit too much for my liking. When ...

Even thou Gejba already mentioned Deborah Pret A Porter Collection in her post and movie, I had to show you swatches of my favorite Pret A Porter polishes one more time… I’m talking about purple ones of course. Lilac Seduction no.32 had biggest potential. It reminded me a lot of old She 375. I used 3 thin layers. I was ...

Quick post with ancient photos. Good thing that I write down my observations immediately … otherwise I’m not sure what would I remember about polish I wore a year ago. Flormar Plus Quartz 060 was not very memorable polish for me – coolish violet color, streaky … I used 2 coats and added the third one on my middle finger. ...

I just bought two gorgeous polishes and I simply had to show them to you right away. Lavender Blue was easy to apply – I used 2 thin layers. Even though this is frost finish polish, there were no steaks. This is lavenders colored polish – more gray than blue or violet. I layered it with Instant Nail Effect Blue ...