China Glaze Ruby Pumps

If I would have to choose just one nail polish that perfectly describes Christmas and Christmas holidays, I would say Ruby Pumps by China Glaze.

 It is also the nail polish that I wear most frequently around Christmas and New Year. It has tiny red glitter in a red base. One coat leans more towards pink side, but with two coats it becomes the perfect sparky red.

 The application is ok, no problems with it whatsoever, here I applied it over the peel off base, because the removal can be a problem with all the glitter. I also put a top coat over for a shinier effect, without the top coat it becomes somehow dull.

 Just look at it, perfect Christmassy nail polish :)

 Have a great day and happy hollidays!

What I'm reading + NOTD pt.42

If you are looking for a book that you could finish in one afternoon, here it is. Like Family (original title Il nero e l'argento) by Paolo Giordano features his trademark character-driven narrative and intimate domestic setting that first made him an international sensation. When Mrs. A. first enters the narrator s home, his wife, Nora, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. First as their maid and nanny, then their confidante, this older woman begins to help her employers negotiate married life, quickly becoming the glue in their small household. She is the steady, maternal influence for both husband and wife, and their son, Emanuele.

I recommend also his other novels, The Solitude of Prime Numbers and The Human Body.

The nail polish (did you notice that this is the third pink nail polish in a row?) is from China Glaze, Beach Cruise-r. It's a vibrant pink with tiny violet and blue shimmer. There are two things that are wrong with this nail polish and one is easy fixable. The finish is not shiny, it's soft matte, like some kind of plastic finish and I don't like it at all, but add a top coat and you have a nice shiny finish. The second thing is the brush. It's very narrow which makes it very difficult to apply nail polish in a nice way and you must be careful that you don't make a mess, because the brush is so small I had to dip it at least two times in the polish for one nail to cover.

Have a nice day :)

What I'm reading + NOTD pt.41

On the first day of autumn I present you the most summery nail polish in my collection. But let's start with the book.

Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancée. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her - and the life he knows vanishes like smoke. Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won't stop for him, his landlord rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness - to a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is well written and funny and if you like a little bit of fantasy this is just for you. 

The nail polish is China Glaze and it's a neon. In the bottle it looks a true neon pink, but on the nails it looks a bit like orange neon too. The name of this one is Pool Party. The application is not the easiest since my brush is wonky, and has shorter and longer bristles like it wasn't cut right. When it's dry it is matte, so I use a top coat for a nice shine, since it's prettier than matte.

Have a nice day :)

What I'm reading + NOTD pt.18

First of all I want to apologise, because I'm posting the fifth NOTD and a book in a row, but I'm totally without ideas and motivation when it comes to beauty posts. I haven't bought beauty stuff worth reviewing in a while, but I read a lot so these posts seem logical. To tell you the truth I didn't even managed to apply my nail polish so I could show it together with the books I was reading.

But here is the book I did manage to photograph together with the nail polish and it is Gone Girl. Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?

In my previous post I said that I will see if The Dinner is really "European Gone Girl". After reading both of them I can see no similarities. Ok, one thing that they have in common is the ending, *some kind of spoiler* meaning that the end is morally disputable. What is right does not prevail, if you wish *end of spoiler*. Other that this, nothing. Gone girl is a classic crime genre and The Dinner is not. So why compare them? 

I liked Gone Girl, but I can't say that is the best book in the crime genre. Just as I liked this one I also liked Rosamund Lupton novels.

The nail polish is China Glaze with the name Harvest Moon. Easy application, two coats are enough for full coverage and the finish is almost like a foil one. The colour is golden bronze. 

Have a great day :)