Catrice Fall/Winter 2014 and Metallure LE - Preview

Ready for a big post with lots of new stuff? Then read on! :) As usual, Catrice will change their standard assortment again for Fall/Winter, and here's all the new stuff! Of course that means a lot of items will leave the displays as well, and the new items will be available in August, so make sure to get any backups you might like - or just check out the sale that usually comes before these changes! :) Check out this post by Die Lackmamsell to see what items will be removed! Some of the products in this post are already in their assortment, what's shown can simply be a new color that's being added (for example on some skin products). If you like to know more about something, let me know! And as always, images are clickable for an enlargement.

Top row, left to right: It's Showtime - Blue Skyfall - Let's Get Lost In Vegas - Lost 'N Roses
Botton row, left to right: Plum Fiction - Bronze Upon A Time - Stars & Stories - My Big Green Wedding

Luxury Lacquers Million Brilliance (€3,59). These come in a 'premium glass bottle', and I don't know about you, but I sure like the look of it! But that name rings a bell, doesn't it? Catrice had a LE called Luxury Lacquers, and part of it were the Million Brilliance glitter polishes. Let's hope they'll bring more sets of that LE to their standard stuff! =)

Anyway, back to these polishes, below you can see a close-up of each bottle, I figured that could be nice :) And yes, this image can be clicked too, if you'd like to see the glitters even bigger!

Top row, left to right: Mint The Gap - It's Time For Lovender - Be My Violetine - Blue And A Half Men - Greyday, Greyday!
Bottom row, left to right: First Class Up-Grape - Out Of The Dark - Greige! The New Beige - Must-Have STEELetto - Ombre Top Coat

Ultimate Nail Lacquer (€2,99) & Ombre Top Coat (price unknown to me). I skipped close-ups of the creme polishes, but below you'll see a close-up of the other polishes.

Mint The Gap - Blue And A Half Men - Greyday, Greyday!
First Class Up-Grape - Out Of The Dark - Must-Have STEELetto

Colour Correcting Mattifying Powder €4,59 - All Matt Plus Shine Control Powder €3,59 - Cover Stick €2,99 - Re-Touch Light Reflecting Concealer €3,99 - Defining Blush €3,59 - Nude Illusion Make-up €7,59 - Camouflage Cream €2,99
I also see a new 3 in 1 Skin Tone Adapting Make-up €6,99 and All Matt Plus Shine Control Make-up €6,59 but unfortunately I don't have the images of those.

Lash Boost Lash Extension Fibres €4,59 - Ultimate Lash Multimizer Volume Mascara WP €4,89 - Lash Extension Volume Mascara €3,99 - Long Lasting Eye Pencil Waterproof €2,39 - Kohl Kajal €1,99 - Multi Style Matt Eyeliner €3,59 - Duo Eyeshadow Brush €2,89 - Liquid Metal Eyeshadow €3,99 - Absolute Eye Colour Mono Eyeshadow €2,89 - Velvet Matt Eyeshadow €3,99

Infinite Shine Lip Gloss €2,99 - Longlasting Lip Pencil €1,99 - Made To Stay Smoothing Lip Polish €4,99 - Pure Shine Colour Lip Balm €4,99 - Beautifying Lip Smoother €3,59 - Ultimate Colour Lip Colour €3,99 - Tinted Lip Glow Balm €4,99 - Ultimate Shine Gel Lip Colour €3,99 - Ultimate Shine Lip Colour €3,99

But that's not all, Catrice will also bring out a new limited edition in August and September. This LE is called Metallure, and as always, when polish is said to be metallic, I can only think of 1 thing... stamping! Let's hope these will be pigmented enough :)

Nail polish: Alluring Red - Alluring Pink - Metalight - Metallicious - Metalfusion. € 2,99
Lipstick: Metalight - Alluring Pink - Alluring Red. € 3,99
Mascara Topper & Liner: Dazzling Dark (has a duo-applicator). € 3,99
Eye Shadow: Metalight - Metafusion - Metalliciour. € 3,59
Luminizing Bronzer: Shimmer Shade. € 4,99


Sooo, what do you think? Anything special that caught your attention? I have to say that I've been more excited about previous standard assortment changes, not that any of this looks bad, but that's a lot of glitter polish, haha! And I can totally love how a glitter polish looks, but I just don't find myself wearing them that often. But who knows, maybe when I see them in the stores... ;)
The polishes that I'm most curious about are a few of the ones shown in the 2nd close-up, and I like the idea behind that Ombre polish! But my inner Negative Nancy wonders how well that'll work :P I think it has to be a polish that applies very smooth and even, to get a nice result on every nail, and should be very thin and quick drying. You'll have to apply a regular polish first, so that's often a few coats already, then 1-4 coats of that polish, that could pile up quickly! Ah well, I'm sure we'll know how well it works in just a few months time :) Thanks for looking!

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Collage of the Month: June

Lots of A England nails in June, ánd lots of kitten pics! But those aren't added in this collage, check the Blog Archive if you like to see those :)

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Bright, round glitters... love them!

Hi guys! :) BornPrettyStore send me some glitters for review, and I think these might work great for making your own glitter top coat, but I barely have any experience with frankening polish. So I just placed them on my nails instead! The glitters come in 2 sizes and various matte colors, from very bright to neon, and that little pot with glitter has fun written all over it! :)

Essence Perfectly True with BPS round glitters.

The colors are a little bit more accurate here, but that's as far as my camera can handle the brightness! Just imagine them (almost) neon :) The little pot is the same size as the pots that these hexagonal glitters from BPS come in, and I've applied these glitters the same way as well. They're also great if you struggle with dotting (like my left hand, haha!), or when you don't have various bright colors to dot with.

I tried to capture the colors on my nails a bit better, still not perfect, but this pic hopefully gives you a better idea! They come in orange, blue, purple, green, yellow, light pink, dark pink and coral pink. I really like this fun look ♥ The glitters did soften a little bit in color from the top coat, but they didn't bleed color, and I also preferred the softened look!

I went for a simple white as basecolor, I'm sure these work great on other colors as well, but some colors are a little bit see-through (noticed it with the green and yellow). Not a problem at all, unless you want to use them to cover up a line between 2 colors. I started with a grey/white taped mani, and wanted to apply these over the line, but then you could see the grey come through a bit. If the whole nail would've been grey, I wouldn't have noticed it though. Anyway, that's just a very minor downside if you ask me, and I totally love these glitters!

These glitters cost $3.71 for a jar and you can find them here on the BPS website. Don't forget to use code ABJ61 for 10% off! I'd love to hear what you think of this mani! :) Thanks for stopping by and have a great Sunday!


The product(s) in this post was/were send to me for review. For more information, please have a look at my Disclosure Policy.

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She Walks In Beauty

The last A England polish that I didn't show you yet is She Walks In Beauty, and here we have it on itself and combined with Iseult :)

A England She Walks In Beauty.

A England: "An intricate and complex mix of large and small rose-coloured hexagonal glitter in a shimmering pale golden base that colour-shifts with light and movement"

This was 3 thin coats with top coat. At first you might think it's a golden shimmery base with pink glitter, but there's so much more going on! At times the base even looks like it has a bit blue-purple in it. This polish really has a few different looks, depending on the angle and on the light, just as Adina said in the description :)

I used the brush with barely any polish on it to gently dab from the tips to the middle, then rinse and repeat but kept going less high on the nail, to create a gradient. I used Iseult as base, which I've showed here a few years ago. The blurple color in the base that I mentionned above shows a little bit here, but it's more visible at times in real life! I like it when a glitter polish can be worn in several ways, that it covers well enough to be worn alone but is also sheer enough to use as layering polish or for gradients, and SWIB offers that!

A England Iseult with She Walks In Beauty.

What do you think of this polish? :) As always, you can find it on the A England website! Thanks for looking and have a wonderful weekend!


The product(s) in this post was/were send to me for review. For more information, please have a look at my Disclosure Policy.

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Geometric in holo

Morning all! Hurray for unposted manis, gives me something to post while my cuticle heals from a little encounter with a kittenclaw, haha! The little knights are doing great, they had their shots and chips yesterday and after sleeping for a long time to recover from their trip to the vet, they were back in action, racing around my house like nothing ever happened! :) I'll get some visitors this afternoon, so hopefully that means another adoption. The first 2 will leave on Friday next week, so I'll have 1.5 weeks of cuddling to do to say goodbye to those cuties. Today I don't have more kittenpics for you, back to nails, and as the title says, this time with a little bit of holo. Can't go wrong with that, right? :)

OPI Rumple's Wiggin' with A England Fonteyn and Bundle Monster plate 414.

As you can see, Fonteyn also works great for stamping, just as the other polishes I showed in this post! Even though it's holo ánd stamping, the result is still a bit soft thanks to the basecolor. Next time I'm going for a darker base :) Thanks for looking and take care ♥

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Still not done with the kittens!

I hope you don't mind some more kittenpics? :) Gives me some time to catch up with sorting nailpics as well, haha!

Tristram stealing my heart, awwww! He sleeps like this more often, or even when I hold him like this in both my hands (but I obviously can't make a pic of that :P) and then he purrs like mad with his eyes closed, all relaxed ♥

Tris having fun on the scratchingpole

And his normal face, such a cutie!

Tris likes to drink a bottle in his sleep, but being a bit upsidedown made his tongue hang out :)

As usual, kittens (Arthur in this case) want to play, Dewey wants to wash. I guess it's clear who ends up getting what he wants, those paws are no match for a kitten! :D

Together in the basket :)

Arthur having a look at my camera :)

Tristram being chatty as always!

Lancy upside down on my lap, aww!

Arthur and Tris ♥

Yep, that's little T once more! :D

Hope you enjoyed my kitten posts, thanks for stopping by :)

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More kitten pics

Let the kittenspam continue! :D

Lancelot on the couch

Perceval sleeping on the couch (And no, that's not the accurate color of my wall, I can't capture that color! And yes, that bugs me :P)

They discovered the scratchingpole and are loving the hanging basket :) Perce wanted to sleep here, but Lance had other plans! ^^

Tristram and Arthur showing off their kittenfur... It's so fluffeh! Love it!

Tristram being cute as always

Playing with 3 of them :) Arthur left, Tristram middle, Lancelot right

Poor Tris :P

Perceval and Artsy having fun on the heater

Thanks for stopping by :)

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Time for a kitten update!

Hi all! I've been working on my fosterblog today, added a bunch of posts and have some scheduled as well, which means I'm finally up-to-date again (I'll just ignore the fact that there's more pics on my phone and camera, lol). So how about a little update here as well! :) Both Perceval and Lancelot are adopted, next week they'll get their shots and chips and the week after (if all stays well) they'll move already! I heard today that there's people interested in Tristram as well, so hopefully he'll find a home soon too, and then it's just Arthur left. Fingers crossed that those 2 will find homes soon! :) And they're doing awesome, so happy to see how they've grown up! (Yeah, I know they're still tiny, but they feel huge already, haha!)


Perceval ♥

Lancelot turned into the biggest one of them, Perceval the smallest (in weight). Arthur and Tris are doing fine with that, but I can't get over Lance though... with 7 weeks old he was already 1040 gram, that's the weight that matches a few weeks older! :D

Lance loves to eat, here he fell asleep with his head in the foodbowl :)

Arthur at the top, Tris middle, Lance right

 

It's a bit tricky to get a nice pic of Lancy, he's so curious :)

Tris left and Artsy right, having fun with a toy mouse

Arthur

Lancelot and Arthur, Lance being his usual charming self :)

Little T asleep ♥

Perce and Lance

Dewey washing Lancelot, he still loves to wash kittens!

But Lancy was more interested in his tail! Too bad I didn't capture Dew's head, he really looked like 'huh, where did it go? :o' haha!

So cute sleeping together ♥

I'll schedule some kittenposts here too, so if you'd like to see more of them, check back in the coming days! Or if you really like to see everything of them, have a look at my fosterblog. Have a wonderful weekend and take care :)

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