Hello!

I have another Estée Lauder polish to share with you on the blog. It's Hot Spell and it's part of Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess collection for Summer 2013.

 

 

 

Hot Spell is a bright red-orange creme polish. Application was a real dream. It was opaque in 2 easy coats.

 

 

 

I also tried an ombre manicure with some Estée Lauder polishes I have. From index to pinkie: Coral Cult, Hot Spell, Pure Red, and Love Bite. And this reminds me that I'm slightly obssessed with Pure Red. It's the most perfect red polishes I've ever tried! If you like red polishes, don't miss this one!

 

 

 

 

In the Bronze Goddess collection, there are also two lipglosses (Succulent and Squeeze) that have a roll-on applicator and that I briefly mentioned here. Sincerely it's such a fun lip product I have to retalk about it in this post. The roll-on applicator is just amazing. It delivers the perfect amount of lipgloss and it makes the application on the lips really easy. Moreover, it's super super glossy (probably the most glossy gloss I've ever tried) but not sticky at all. I've already worn it a few times but I guess it will be even better for this summer. The one I have is "Succulent".

 

 

 

 

 

Purchase info:

Estée Lauder products can be purchased from autorized retailers for which you can find a list on Estée Lauder official website. For Switzerland, you can find them here.

You can also follow Estée Lauder on Facebook.
Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess will be available in April 2013.

*Product(s) in this post was(were) sent for my honest review*

I've an Ozotic comparison to show you today: 502 vs 520.

To see my full post for Ozotic 502, click here and for Ozotic 520, here.

I wanted to do this comparison because when I wanted to buy some Ozotic, I couldn't really tell the difference between those 2 according to the pictures I saw on the internet. So I hope this post will be useful for some of you :D

Final verdict: When they are side by side, they look completely different! 520 is warmer than 502. 

520 shifts from rusty burgundy to red, to amber, to gold, and to orange while 502 shifts from  gold to orange, to a light red with a touch of pink in it. On these pictures, I used 2 coats of 520 and 3 coats of 502 to reach full opacity. I didn't use a black or dark base coat. Of course, you can do it to save polish and to get a slightly different effect. 

Ozotic polishes can be purchased from Llarowe. This is the US stockist for Glitter Gal, Ozotic, Picture Polish, A-England, Hits, Ludurana, and Lynnderella polishes, awesome nail polishes brands. They sell internationally (except Italy) and have an awesome customer service. You can visit Llarowe on Facebook. Ozotic polishes are $17,50 for 15 mL

You can also purchase Ozotic polishes from Harlow&Co, the Canadian stockist for Glitter Gal, Nubar, Models Own, Nerd Lacquer, Ozotic, and Scotch Naturals! They also ship worldwide! Finally you can also buy them directly from Picture Polish online shop. Stephanie from Packer Lacquer is also an US stockist for Picture Polish and Ozotics polishes. 

Today it's the ultimate comparison between Ozotic 504, 505, 506 and Ludurana Emocionante, Show, and Reluz.

If you missed my previous post comparing Ozotic 504, 505, and 506, click here and for the comparison between Ludurana Emocionante, Show, and Reluz, click here.

Here is the 1st post of my "comparison series". You may have noticed Ozotic 504, 505, 506, and Ludurana Emocionante, Show, and Reluz share some similarities. So I'll compare all of them. I'll start with a pure Ozotic comparison (504 vs 505 vs 506), in the following post a pure Ludurana comparison (Emocionante vs Show vs Reluz) and finally I'll show you the ultimate Ozotic vs Ludurana comparison!lol

So let's start with the Ozotic comparison!

If you want to see my full post of 

- Ozotic 504, click here

- Ozotic 505, click here

On the index is Ozotic 504, middle finger and pinkie 505, and ring finger 506. 2 coats of the different Ozotic are layered over A-England Lancelot (you can see my post about Lancelot here). On each picture, the bottle I'm holding is Ozotic 505.

As you can see on this 1st picture, they are all multichrome. For exampe, 504 displays royal blue, pink, purple and copper, while 505 teal/green, purple, and copper and finally 506 cyan and purple. On the above picture 505 and 506 seem close but this is due to a trick of my camera that tends to turn the green of 505 into blue. IRL they are both very distinct (green for 505 and cyan for 506). I insist on the distinct difference between them. It's not a slight difference! You can really see that they are different!

Here again, my camera turns 505 blue but it's green in real life and thus very different from 506, which is blue/cyan. 506 and 504 are color-accurate.

The above picture is an outdoor picture. You see the green of 505 better! Yay~ Here all the colors are accurate!

The above picture was taken with flash. It shows you the main base color of the different polishes.

And finally you can see the purple you've got in each polish. The purple in 505 and 506 is mostly identical, in 504 it's more red-toned.

Final verdict: All of them are rather sheer (I'll show you in my Ozotic vs Ludurana comparison post), so you need to layer them over a base color. A dark color will show the multichrome effect better. They are all very multichromatic! You move your nails from 1mm and you can see a different colors! There is no trick in my pictures! You can really see that in real life! 504 and 506 shift from blue to purple while 505 from green to purple. 504 is a warmer polish than 506. 504 has a warm-royal blue as a base color and it shifts toward copper-purple. 506 shifts from cyan to a lighter purple. So they are all different and beautiful! Don't forget most cameras tend to turn green into blue so that may be confusing and make you think 505 and 506 are similar but I think I've demonstrated here (esp with the outdoor picture and the picture taken with flash) that they are both different! :D

Today I have a comparison post between 2 lovely purple polishes: Mimi (Zoya) and Forget Me Not (Catrice). In the following text, I'll use the abbreviation FMN for Forget Me Not.
I previously swatched Mimi here and did a Zoya purple comparison there.

Both of them are royal purple with microglitters.

Honestly it's very very hard to see any difference between FMN and Mimi. However, when you apply the first layer of polish, you can spot some pink microglitters in Mimi that you don't have in FMN. In FMN you rather have some silver microglitters which are slightly smaller than Mimi's. Nevertheless the overwhole effect (color) is nearly the same in both polishes. Even in sunlight, you can't really tell the difference between them. This tiny difference in glitters (pink vs silver) is no more visible when you apply a 2nd coat of polish.

The main difference between them is the opacity. FMN is more opaque. On this picture I used 2 coats for both polishes. You can clearly see that you have some visible nail line with Mimi (2 coats) while FMN is totally opaque.

However, if you apply 3 coats of Mimi, look at what you get.

So finally I would say that FMN and Mimi are really close. From a color and texture point of view, I would say they are identical. In my opinion, the only difference lay in their opacity. FMN is more opaque. Application was easy with both polishes.

This is a reader request.

So here I will prensent 3 purple giltters from Essence cosmetics.

I can't tell the difference between Louise and It's purplicious. They look exactly identical on the nails. What a good news if you missed Louise (retired now). You can grab It's purplicious instead.
They are both constituated of very fine purple glitters in a clear base with some larger light reflecting purple squares.

Troy is quite different. It has very fine purple and blue glitters and it's much more densly packed. 

I added a second layer of glitters to see if you could start seeing a difference between Louise and It's purplicious.

So definitively Louise and It's purplicious are dupe. You can also see how dense Troy is. I haven't tried but with 3 coats, you may reach full opacitiy for Troy.

And I couldn't resist mattifying the glitters with Icing Matte About You.




And here is Lucky in Lilac (Catrice) alone.

Lucky in Lilac (Catrice), 2 coats, without top coat

Some people sharing their love on Zoya Facebook Page wanted to see a comparison picture of Dannii and Zara. They seem indeed quite close in the bottle but are really different on the nails!

Here are some pictures to show you the differences between these 2 gorgeous nail polishes! I've also added 2 other Zoya purple polishes I have, i.e. Yasmeen and Mimi. This is 3 coats for all nail polishes, without any top coat so that you can see the different finishes better.
Application was perfect for all. Nevertheless Dannii was slightly more difficult to work with but application was still flawless.

You can see the difference in color and in finish! Zara on the left, Dannii on the right.

As you can see on the pictures, Zara is lighter and softer than Dannii. 

Compared to Dannii, Zara tends to lean towards pink. 

The finish is also different, Zara has a softer, smoother finish while Danni is more foil-like with a metallic finish.

Zara is also a bit sheer with a kind of jelly texture, but with 3 coats you can easily achieve full opacity. Dannii is more opaque, you only need 2 coats.

Zara is an incredible duochrome nail polish that flashes gold very strongly. It's very soft, sophisticated and work appropriate, I believe.

Dannii with its kind of metallic finish and its beautiful purple color with red and gold shimmer is really a stunning polish as well!

Yaseem leans towards burgundy and has a very smooth glass-like finish.

Mimi leans towards blue but is still more purple than blue, I think. It's a very glittery and shimmery nail polish.