Reflecting Crystal and her wigs

Good news, everyone!

What? Huh?

Oh, you'll see.

But first: Zoya's Crystal, from the winter and holiday collection Fire & Ice.




Purrteh! 3 coats. Easy to work with.

Crystal must be the ultimate polish for Swedish royalists. Ultimate. Just look at these guys and dolls:

King Charles XI, or Karl XI as us Swedes prefer to call him...

...and his wife, Ulrika Eleonora...

...and the husband again, together with artist David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, painted by famous Swedish painter Carl Larsson...

...and Karl's and Ulrika Eleonora's daughter Ulrika Eleonora...

...and her husband Fredrik of Hessen-Kassel...

...and his successor Adolf Fredrik of Holstein-Gottorp...

...and his son and successor Gustavus III (but we call the Gustavuses Gustav)...

...and Gustav III again, but as a kid...

You can totally see where I'm going with this, can't you?

That's right. The ultimate polish for Swedish royalists. Though, I'm not one of them. I just have an unhealthy fascination for wigs.

However...

Look:

OPI Reflecting Pool, Zoya Crystal.

And again:

Now, why is this good news? Because, a lot of Americans were bummed that they didn't get the special that for once hit Asia and Europe. Well, now you can fully compensate for that! And, no matter how you look at it, this is also good news for those of you who already own Reflecting Pool- you may just save your money on the Zoya!

Swedish word of the night:
hosta -noun cough
I have one.

Rosy Reflection

Since Feline has shown you OPI Reflecting Pool, I thought I would swatch Reflecting Pool's pink sister. This is three coats of Rosy Reflection, a cool rose foil (no sunlight in Sweden unfortunately):

Swedish word of the day:
tema -noun theme
I'm preparing to do "comparison week"; if you have any special requests,
please leave a comment and I'll do the comparisons if I can (I don't have blue
or green polish in my collection)

2010 in color

So, my Swedish colleagues Sminkan, Kajalpennan and Nailtastic have posted their "best polishes of 2010" lists, and I reckon I can't be any worse, so I'll try to do the same! This is a summary of some of my favourite contemporary lacquers that I have posted about in the last year... Which is actually the entire history of my blog.

Here over Essie's Going Incognito.





Here it is over Head Bang from Viva La Diva.

Even though it's identical to OPI's Reflecting Pool, which was released ...some other year.



Thanks to Kelliegonzo. I never get tired of these colors!

Thanks to Roze!

Thanks to Allibally!







...or OPI's Catch Me In Your Net, or any of the other dupes. The color of the year, possibly..?




This year's first big love. You can tell it was pre blogging days because of the terrible watermarking! ;)

These was some of my favourites. My untrieds drawers are still full of releases from this year, that I haven't yet felt like wearing or blogging about. But this list is entirely biased anyway!

Swedish word of the day:
årsbästa -adjective best of the year
Sure!

Glitters XII

I did not forget about you Sanna- of course I didn't forget about any of you -so here is another shitload of glitters! Tonight, my blue ones. Please magnify by clicking the pictures.

Miscellaneous blue glitters: China Glaze Blue Sparrow, BB Couture Sea of Cortez, BB Couture Moon Over Manhattan, OPI Midnight Blue Glitter.

Silver glitter in blue base: Omega Labs 5 Stars Silvery Blue, China Glaze Dorothy Who?, Essie Starry Starry Night.

Very different blue glitters: Barielle Junebug, Barielle Falling Star.

Chunky glitters: China Glaze Luna, Creative Magic, China Glaze Blue Hawaiian, Claire's Chunky Blue.

Gold-in-blue glitters: Zoya Charla, OPI Catch Me In Your Net, OPI Reflecting Pool, OPI Absolutely Alice.

And the flakie finale: Sinful Colors Blue Ocean, Nfu Oh 53, Sinful Colors Deep Blue Ocean, Nfu Oh 52.

And yet I'm not done with the glitters...

Swedish word of the evening:
släkting -noun relative, family member
Because my place is full of 'em right now.