Priti NYC Day Flower

Day Flower is a nail polish from the Priti NYC Turkish Sorbet collection. It’s a light lavender cream.

The application and formula of the nail polish is flawless. It is pigmented and non-streaky, but I would recommend using 2 coats anyways.

Kleancolor Cappuccino

Cappuccino is a medium brown crème. It’s not a fancy or trendy shade and definitely not a spring one. I just thought I’d pick it up because I don’t have this color. 

The formula is good. It’s easy to apply and dries fast. I used 2 coats.

OPI Wooden Shoe Like to Know?

Hi Ladies,

Here’s another OPI from Holland collection for you. I already reviewed I Don’t Give a Rotterdam! here.

Wooden Show Like to Know? is on the classy side. It’s a taupe crème with tiny pink glitter particles for the shimmery effect. I like the color, but I have several polishes of this kind. I thought pink shimmer would be a little bit more obvious. I wasn’t able to see it in direct sunlight.

Back to Nude: Nubar Taffeta

This week was pretty bright with my first Pink Wednesday and Holos.  I decided to go “classy” for a couple of days with Nubar Taffeta from Finest Silks collection. I ordered Taffeta online as I was looking for the brown-orange crème. It turned out to be more neutral then orange or brown as on many swatches from the internet.

Anyways, Taffeta is beautiful in a subtle way and like most of the polishes in this collection, it’s perfect for all skin tones and nail shapes. For me, it's a perfect nude creme and there's nothing more to add. 

The Last But Not the Least: Priti NYC Rabbit Tracks

Why every time I set myself a goal not to buy the nail polish for a while I always end up bying even more than usual or find out cool new stuff.  Right now I literally persuade myself to be reasonable and not to buy more of the Priti stuff….at least for couple of more weeks. There so many other shades I want to try out, but my nail polishes already need “another bigger place to live”J We’ll see how the struggle with myself goes….

Rabbit Tracks is a muddy grey with hints of blue and green. It is not a traditional noble grey and not a fashionable bluish grey. And this is what makes it very interesting for me. Rabbit Tracks reminds me the color of the mineral mud from the Dead Sea, nothing to do with the rabbit though.

Priti NYC non-toxic nail polish swatches and review: Black Prince Orchid and Royale Robe

Black Prince Orchid and Royale Robe are another 2 I got from Priti NYC. I covered Lace Aloe and Bachelor's Buttons here.

These were some sort of a pleasant surprise to me. When they arrived and I saw them in the bottle I thought that these 2 are definitely nothing special and I would give them out to someone. But each of them is much more interesting on the nails then in the bottle. These beauties are very glossy, so it is hard to take normal photos.

Black Prince Orchid is described as matted orchid. Not mahogany, not matted for sure. I would describe it as burgundy mauve and for me personally it is closer to the rose than to the orchid. The color of the nail polish is very pretty though. I have a problem with mauve – I love it, but I get bored in a second. This one is definitely an exclusion.

Royale Robe is a rich purple glossy crème. I love purples, so it was a no brainer. It is almost black with ink undertones. It is a part of the Spring 2011 collection, quite dark for spring though.

Bottom line: This Priti NYC is definitely worth exploring more, there are some nice ones on their website that I would love to try out. But There are couple of things that I noticed: The names are sometimes have nothing to do with an actual color of the nail polish…maybe, it’s only in my mind. And the colors are different on the website from the real nail polish.

Caution!!! These polishes have a very thin formula. Because 3 coats are needed to get full opacity, the dry time is very slow. I noticed one specific thing though – without a top-coat you can wait literally forever and still will get smudges here and there. With the top-coat (I used Essie To Dry For) nail polish dries in seconds, but even if you will use a regular top-coat (not a speed dry one) you will get the fast drying effect.

Priti NYC non-toxic nail polish swatches and review: Bachelor’s Buttons and Lace Aloe

Priti NYC is a nail polish discovery in some ways for me. Although the brand was launched in 2005, I have never heard of it before and probably wouldn’t hear if Ideeli didn’t have a 50% of sale on these beauties.

It is a 3-free non-toxic nail polish. Priti NYC has a huge variety of colors; you can check it on their website here. Some of the colors though are not quite well depicted on the pictures. At least 2 of 5 that I ordered look a little different, but they are still gorgeous.

Although the concept of the eco-friendly nail polish is similar to Scotch Naturals (You can find review and swatches here and here), the implementation is the opposite. Priti nail polish feel, smell and are applied in the same way as usual nail polish we all got used to. The formula is a little thinner than that of other brands, so 3 coats are needed to reach opacity.

I will start with 2 of my favorites: Bachelor’s Buttons and Lace Aloe.

Bachelor’s Buttons is a dark blue crème nail polish, described as “classic blue collar” on Priti website. Although on the picture it had visible purple undertones, it has no purple when applied on the nails.

Lace aloe is a gorgeous green with some small silver glitter in it. It’s quite a strange one. In the day light it is a dark green and looks a lot like aloe. But in the bright artificial light it become bright green with a hint of duochrome.

China Glaze Metro Collection Fall 2011. Part 3 – Dark crèmes: Westside warrior and Concrete Catwalk

Hey guys,

Trendsetter and Midtown Magic swatches are here and here if interested.

Westside Warrior is one of my favorites. It’s a dark moss green crème nail polish, quite a unique shade. For the best opaque coverage I applied 3 coats. It is nice that there are not so many close dupes to it that I could find.

Concrete catwalk is a grey crème with a shade of the wet concrete. It is not a very original color, I have seen something similar before…and not once. This one has more blue undertones to it though.

As I already mentioned in my previous post about this collection, the formula is very thin. As for dark crèmes it’s especially important I would recommend applying 3 coats for full coverage. Otherwise the color is uneven. It was especially evident in Westside Warrior nail polish.