Holy Grail alert: KIKO 428 "River Green"

Oh my, when I saw swatches of it online I knew I had to get it. I am a sucker for greens, and this one may just be my all-time favourite. It's 428 "River Green" from the new Kiko collection, called "Sun Pearl". The formula is amazing and the colour is out of this world, it's such a rich emerald green with gold&green shimmer and a slight blue tinge to it. Divine.

Easter manicure

On my left hand:

Thumb: Kiko 332, smooth application, beautiful colour;
Index: Debby 206, love the colour, very easy to apply and very opaque, I did 2 coats for good measure but 1 would have been ok too;
Medium: Kiko 288, love the colour, Barbie pink slightly pulling violet, 3 coats;
Ring: Illamasqua Serenity, gorgeous turquoise, amazing application, 2 coats, self-levelling, dries to a rubber finish but I like glossy so I topped it with Essence "Better than gel nails" top coat;
Pinky: Catrice Planet Tokyo, lovely bright green, very easy application, 2 coats.

On my right hand:

Thumb: Essence With X's and O's, lovely lilac, easy application, 2 coats;

Index: Gosh Peachy, I love this colour, it's dark peach, I had to do 3 coats for full opacity;

Medium: Sinful Colors Pink Forever, lovely Barbie pink, opaque in 3 coats;

Ring: Illamasqua Noble, gorgeous turquoise, slightly darker than Serenity, fantastic application, fully opaque in 2 coats;

Pinky: Essence Upper Green Side, love this colour, light pistachio green, easy application, 2 coats.  

Stamping:

I used a combination of designs from Nailways "Spring Time - Easter Bunny" and HB Nails HB38 plates, plus Konad M60 and an Essence plate for the flowers. I love all of these plates and I highly recommend them!

Kiko 424 "Pearly Siren"

This is from Kiko's new Celebration collection. I had a hard time photographing this one, most of the time my camera refused to detect the very-evident-in-real-life purple shimmer and just made the polish look plain blue, so I had to resort to the good old blurry shots. In the sun it does look mostly just blue, but in the shade and artificial lighting the purple is there indeed, to the point of taking over sometimes. I kept looking back and forth at my camera monitor and at my nails and I was like "hey, my nails are purple, where the hell does this blue come from?!". The  first 6 photos are not the best quality but at least they show the real colour of this polish. 3 coats, 2 would have sufficed but I did one more for good measure. Easy application. I like it quite a lot!

in the sun

  
A little bit of stamping using a number of Dashica plates, which I absolutely adore, mind-blowing designs and top quality! I wish I had better stamping polishes in my stash, they are never quite as sharp as I would care for them to be, but these designs are so pretty that they still look great regardless of the not-so-perfect polishes: