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Swatch: Catrice - Glamourama: En Vogue, Drama, Baby!

Review and swatches: Catrice – Glamourama

Glamourama is a limited edition by Catrice. The collection as a whole didn’t impress me. It’s nice, but nothing special. I bought two eyeshadows and one nail polish. The eyeshadows are nice and well pigmented. I don’t have any complaints about them. The limited edition eyeshadows are bigger than the ones from the regular line, … Read more

Swatch: Alverde - My Best Friend LE - lipsticks Nadja, Kathrin, Tula

Review and swatches: Alverde – My Best Friend LE (lipsticks)

I came across the new limited edition display by Alverde. The collection is called My Best Friend. I swatched almost everything in the store (there were no testers for the gel eyeliners) and at the end I “only” bought three lipsticks. I mean, the eyeshadow palettes were heavily pigmented and they felt nice. I was … Read more

Preview: Manhattan Colour Collection 2 nail polishes

Preview: Manhattan Colour Collection 2 nail polishes

A while ago I was browsing through Manhattan’s web page when I spotted new LE – Colour Collection 2. Of course nail polishes interested me the most. 101V, 87D and 78T are my favorites, but I wouldn’t turn down 69T, 56I and 34U. :D Colors are definitely more my style than those in Colour Collection … Read more

Comparison: Barry M Dusky Mauve vs. Alessandro Hypnotic bottle

Comparison: Barry M Dusky Mauve vs. Alessandro Hypnotic

Few of our readers wondered how alike are Barry M Dusky Mauve and Alessandro Hypnotic polishes. Since I do not own Dusky Mauve shade, I borrowed it from Maestra. Let’s take a look at bottles first. At first glance we’re looking at two completely different shades. But the difference gets a lot smaller after we … Read more

Detail: p2 - Rich

p2 – Rich

Another beautiful polish. This time it’s p2 – Rich. It’s dark purple or maybe dark plum base with lots and lots of different types of particles. I see blue shimmer and little gold flakes or maybe glass flecked particles. I’m really not sure. If I’m honest with you, I don’t care what types of particles … Read more

Manhattan 77T + Golden Rose Nail Art polish: 111, 110 bottles

Golden Rose Nail Art: 110, 111

Saturday night was kind of lazy and while I was thinking what should I put on my nails I remembered debate I had with Maybe about Golden Rose Nail Art polishes. It took me more than 10 minutes to find them, but I finally located them. A while ago I got 4 nail art polishes … Read more

Comparison: Orly Cosmic - Space Cadet vs. Golden Rose 11 bottles

Comparison: Orly Cosmic – Space Cadet vs. Golden Rose 11

Goga and I compared hers Orly Space Cadet polish (so called alien :D ) and mine Golden Rose Multi dimensions no. 11. If you just compare the bottles, you can see that Space Cadet is much more complex shade than Multi dimensions no. 11. Difference is obvious on the nails too. Golden Rose looks like … Read more

Alessandro - Hypnotic bottle

Alessandro – Hypnotic

For a few days now I’ve been admiring my manicure. Nothing strange for me if not for the fact that I’m talking about Alessandro Hypnotic shade which is supposedly dupe for Chanel Paradoxal … shade that didn’t really appeal to me (if I judge by the swatches). :D Alessandro presented us this fall LE that … Read more