Polish Bloggers Link Love 3/19

Brooke took a tour of Hong Kong and has the polish swatches to prove it! Check out all the colors from OPI's newest collection and see which ones she loves the most at Babbling Brooke.





Tuli opened up a virtual polish market to facilitate polish swaps at Tuli's Nails! Check it out and sign up - someone may just be trading that polish you've been looking everywhere for.





Landa went totally holographic at Bright Lights, Big Color - and it only cost her $2!





Rija of Polishing the Nails has some Pistachio ice cream nails. Who would have thought a Laguna Lagoon would be so beautifully minty?





Check out how OPI's hottest new shade, Jade is the New Black, stacks up against a few other greens at Prim and Polished!





The Dutch Nail Blog swatched some scandalous polishes from Cheeky Monkey Cosmetics. Check out her great Konad and see just why these polishes are called 'Cheeky'!





Purple looks great with purple, especially on GildedAngel's nails! Pop over to Naive Nails to see her lovely Konad.





A taupe is a taupe is a taupe, right? Not so fast! Look at how a variety of taupes stack up against each other at The Swatchaholic. Which one is your favorite?





Are you loving Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland? Check out Therese's great Alice in Wonderland mani at Nail Design, and learn how to do it yourself with her tutorial!





Nail'd and Polish'd has some gorgeous pops of spring color from Ulta's polish collection. What's your favorite shade?





Get a taste of OPI's delicious Hong Kong collection at Manicure Mommas, and check out how gorgeous they look matte!





Take a walk down glittery Canal Street with Helen at Just Nice Things.





Did you love the Oscars? Relive the glamour and excitement with Niki's awesome manicure, representing each movie on one nail. Wow!





How does Nars Purple Rain stack up against China Glaze Let's Groove? Check out My Guilty Pleasure's comparison, and decide if the $21 price tag is worth it for the Nars!

And now.....Giveaways!!!

Check out...

Rija is giving away 6 gorgeous glittery polishes in celebration of her birthday. Check it out before March 21!





Win two polishes from the OPI Hong Kong collection at Manicure Mommas! Enter before March 22!





European readers, enter to win some Konad and China Glaze to get you polishing this spring at The Dutch Nail Blog! Enter before March 21.





Enter to win a boatload of goodies, including OPI polishes from the Hong Kong collection at Bright Lights, Big Color! Enter before March 19!





Babbling Brooke has teamed up with Designer Blogs to give away a blog makeover. Enter to win before March 27!

OPI Suzi says Feng shui sea-themed konadicure - picture heavy

 Today I present you the first konadicure I did with the polishes from OPI's new collection Hong Kong (these are the Tiny Takeouts I got from ZaPikoNaI), see the other two HERE.

I used 2 coats of OPI Suzi says Feng shui and 1 coat of OPI RapiDry topcoat, then Konad special nail polish in white, Konad im m27 and fauxnad im D02.

How do you fancy the  KOTD? DO you like it or not?

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished day:*

All images are clickable:)

OPI Hong Kong Tiny Takeouts Swatches, lots and lots of pictures:)

As promised yesterday (see the post for colour description), I'm bringing you the swatches of OPI Hong Kong collection, more precisely the polishes which are in the Tiny Takeouts, generously sent to me by ZaPikoNaI, Slovenian nail polish distributor.

All polishes were applied in 2 coats, though I must say they have great coverage, perhaps one thicker coat would do. There is no top coat in the pictures, you can see that these polishes are super glossy. I also didn't have any difficulties when applying them, the pictures aren't pre-cleaned, the brush was really easy to handle although it's really small:) I was pleasantly surprized at how shiny they are. Pictures were taken in in direct sun, then in lightbox with artificial light w/- flash.

I just cannot help myself, my personal favourite is Dim sum plum:) How about yours?

Thank you, dear readers and followers, have a nice and polished day:*

Suzi says Feng shui

direct sun, no flash

lightbox, artificial light, no flash

lightbox, artif.light, with flash

lightbox, artif.light, with flash

Read my fortune cookie (this one looked so bright red, almost neon on me)

direct sun, no flash

lightbox, artif.light, no flash

lightbox, artif.light, flash

Dim sum pum

direct sun light

lightbox, artif.light, no flash

lightbox, artif. light, with flash (not so colour accurate)

All images are clickable:)

OPI Hong Kong Tiny Takeouts pics and GIVEAWAY reminder

 Hello, dear readers:)

how was your weekend? Did you get some new energy for the week? Me and my BF spent one day at the ski slopes in Rogla.

On Friday I got a package from Slovenian web store ZaPikoNaI which sells OPI, China Glaze, Orly, and Zoya at great prices. Its owner kindly sent me the mini polishes from the newest OPI collection Hong Kong to review and swatch. The four polishes are packed in the cutest little box which resembles the box you get at your favourite Chinese restaurant when you want to take your food with you, isn't it just cute?? :) In this Tiny takeouts box you get 3 colour polishes; Read my fortune cookie, Dim sum plum, and Suzi says Feng shui. You also get one bottle of RapiDry TopCoat. These tinny OPI bottles are just the cutest on Earth:) even though they contain only 3.75 ml/ 1/8 Fl. Oz. Pictures were taken in my lightbox with artificial light and flash.

The box says for Read my fortune cookie ''And this rich red is in my future'', it's a truly bright and rich red indeed  I even think it's the brightest red I own, and I own many:)

Dim sum plum is ''A berry delectable delicacy'' which certainly holds true:), though the colour looks more like a dark cyclamen colour to me than just berry.

Suzi says Feng shui is ''A serene cobalt blue to balance your yin yang'', it's an amazing colour, it reminds me of sea. It certainly has something special to it.

I'll post the swatches tomorrow. What do you think of this collection?Do you want to order some polishesfrom it? Or already have some?

You can still enter my 300+ followers giveaway, which you find HERE and it ends 21st March, so hurry up and get a chance to win some great prizes;)

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished day:*

All images are clickable:)

Red&White lily konad

Yeah, it's FRIDAY:) I'm really excited and looking forward to the weekend!

Today's KOTD post will be a really short one. Over yesterday's NOTD I used Konad special nail polish in white and konad im 36 and 36-1.

Hope you like it:P

Thank you, dear readers and followers, have a nice and polished weekend:*

All images are clickable:)

Skin MD Natural coupon code and There's never enough red:)

Hey,

today was a busy and a bit nervous day, I had my first lesson taught infront of our head teacher, there are four to go, among the obligatory 30 lessons I have to teach alone:)

Skin MD Natural has kindly given a -20% discount code for you, my lovely readers.Just type in KONAD and your order will be smaller for 20%. I just love their Natural shielding lotion, especially for my hands, it works miracles, you can see my review of it HERE. The code will be valid for 30 days, so hurry up if you want your bottle:)

On to today's NOTD, it's again a polish a got from my swap with Tuli:) I know I'm being a bit annoying wit repeating myself, but I can't thank her enough for sending me a bunch of these gorgeous polishes, thus there are so many polishes I can swatch right now:) Here's Careline 335, a bright and timeless red, great application, a 2-coater,  and 1 coat of Poshe Fast drying topcoat.

Please excuse the bad quality of the pics, I was in a hurry.

How do you like the colour?

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished day:*

PS. Don't forget to enter my 300+ followers giveaway ;)

All the images are clickable:)

Update: Polish bloggers network China glaze and Seche contest

Hey,

I've just seen it being posted on the web, so HERE  is the link where you can vote for your favourite manicure. I'm taking part with THIS manicure under number 3, Anita (KONADomania).

Thank you all, and have a nice and polished day:*