Miss D by Diva - Catch Up For Coffee

Really loved the cute name of this one. Diva is a cheap costume jewellery store in Australia. They occasionally have collections of nail polish. This was on sale for $3.

Well, I was surprised as it was quite nice to paint on, although the formula was really unforgiving (see the third finger - I didn't file it back and you can see how my nailbed was uneven). It was unstreaky but is on the thin side. The thumb photo shows 1 coat so it is pretty even although something this thin you'd normally need a few coats to get a good finish.

I really love this colour. It has a purple tone and so while it is a neutral, it really set off my purple winter clothes I wore this week. Definitely a cool toned coffee.

It is wearing ok, after 5 days. Not chipping but wears off at the tip. It's clinging on for dear life! Winter has made me loathe to change nail colour - it's cold to get the colour off, and shivering makes it hard to paint properly. Lol.

Claire's Mood - excited bored

Paints well with a very nice brush. I've got 3 of the Claire's mood polishes. This one probably worked the best for me. Today it was clearly visible with the two colours, but maybe cold weather helps as well as the part of the nail not on the nail bed really has the chance to get cold.

This colour is a salmony pink with the cold colour being the dark coral. It is a matte shade and it chipped like hell without a top coat. So while the matte look is very pretty, if you intend to last the day you will need to cover it up. Top coating doesn't alter it's mood abilities at all.

It goes on very sheer and stripy alas, so take a lot of care putting it on. I needed 5 coats just to get all the patches non visible. It also tends to accentuate nail unevenness, so maybe try a ridge filler.

Eleanor - ENP029

A lovely cobalt blue with silver throughout, dries to a beautiful foil finish, thoroughly eye catching hue. Painted on lovely. Quite good and wore long (I had it on about 5 or 6 days). Doesn't even smell too bad.

This was one of a big bag my friend Wiggles brought over from Malaysia in return for Ozzie goods I shipped. Yay! It came from Sasa the major beauty chain in Asia.