The best of 2012

This time of year calls for summaries. First, I'll summarize my favourite polishes worn in the past year - that I have [decent] photos of! I may have liked some that I never got around to photographing, but let's not dwell on that, and take a look at the twelve prettiest manicures I did in 2012.

Lilacquer Jimi Thing (over Color Club In the Limelight)

Color Club Port-Folio

Finger Paints Plum Startled

Happy Hands Motherboy (here sandwiched with OPI Don't Touch My Tutu!)

OPI On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Girly Bits Shift Happens (over Jessica Divine Pine)

Pahlish Still Alive

Darling Diva Polish Carrie (over China Glaze Reggae to Riches)

Rimmel Hard Edged

L'Oréal Rebel Blue

Revlon Smoldering

Skin Food Cucumber


I enjoyed wearing all of these. Now, let's move on to next year and see what that brings.

It's a Jimi Thing

Lots of silence going on in this blog for a wjile now, but I'm planning on improving, at least once I have some time off from work so that I'm allowed to polish my nails! Today's manicure is one I wore before I went back to work after some time off, before I filed all my nails down to match my broken index nail - I don't care, this polish is pretty despite the unfortunate nubbin. It's from the independent brand specialized in duochromes, Lilacquer Polishes, and it's a fantastic multichrome one called Jimi Thing.

In these photos I have applied two coats of Jimi Thing over the blue creme In the Limelight from Color Club. I made the coats fairly thin, and the drying time was pretty much lightning fast. Some of the photos are a bit blurry due to the lighting situation around here, but does it matter? Not much, you can clearly see all the shifting going on anyway: from the direct angle aqua blue/teal-ish, over a sky blue, over to purple and pink.

What's not to love? My only criticism is towards a few lumps of unsolved blue pigments floating around in the bottle, but not even that can stop me from loving this gorgeousness.

You can get Lilacquer Polishes here, though Jimi Thing isn't stocked at the moment - but some other niceties are, including Schrodinger's Catastrophe.

This product was a personal gift.

Swedish word of the day:
sak -noun thing
Simple as that.

If the cat is in the box...

Did I mention I love the so called disco glitters? With their iridescent and duochrome properties, they're right up my alley. Luckily for me, there's an independent brand mainly focusing on duochrome polishes, and it's called Lilacquer. Cathleen, who is the brain behind the polishes, revealed some time ago a full collecton of science themed topping glitters, consisting of disco glitters and duochrome and iridescent shimmers. What can I say? Not only do I like iridescent and duochrome, I also like topping glitters of this particular kind, and the witty science names certainly didn't make me less interested. Despite that everything speaks in favor of me buying every single polish in this collection, I have only one, and that is Schrodinger's Catastrophe.

Yeah, there wasn't much light present when I brought out my focus hating DSLR that day, but what you see here is one coat of Schrodinger's Catastrophe over a very bright purple Sation creme, called Miss Emo Shun All. Schrodinger's Cat consists of the green-aqua-blue-purple variety of iridescent hex glitters, together with corresponding shimmer in a clear base. Unfortunately the Sation never dried, so this particular manicure got all danged up pretty soon, but I loved the color combination, it was so mesmerizing.  This of course also means I will have to wear Schrodinger (or, since both Swedish and German are languages full of umlaut: Schrödinger) again soon, because I want to wear it way longer than I got to this time!

The collection Schrodinger's Catastrophe is part of, is simply called Science, and it has been released one polish at a time during the fall. The last will be available in the very end of November, if I'm not mistaken, and at November 30th you will be able to find a selection of the Science toppers and other polishes in the Lilacquer Etsy shop.

All products were purchased with own funds.

Swedish word of the day:
fysiker -noun physicist
Has brains working way different to mine.