Monday, January 25, 2010

More Ciaté Swatches

Vandaag weer meer Ciaté swatches. Dit keer laat ik alleen lakken zien die in the winter pack zitten: Power Dressing, Stiletto en Ladylike Luxe. Waarschuwing: dit is een lange post!

Here I am with more Ciaté swatches. This time I show you three polishes that come in the winter pack; Power Dressing, Stiletto and Ladylike Luxe. Warning: this is a lenghty post!


ciaté stiletto green jelly nail polish nail swatches winter collection 2009/2010 nailswatches
ciaté stiletto green jelly nail polish nail swatches winter collection 2009/2010 nailswatches
(again, I have no idea how to get the images to upload on the right side.. It's really annoying! I started with paint.net so maybe that's the problem. I'll try to fix it!)

Stiletto, een groene jelly. Twee laagjes zonder topcoat. De bovenste foto is genomen zonder flits en is meer kleuraccuraat, de tweede foto is genomen met flits. Jellies.. Ik weet niet of het echt iets voor mij is. Misschien ligt het ook aan de kleur; deze groen spreekt me niet zo heel erg aan. De groen in de flitsfoto vind ik een stuk mooier. Ook deze lak was makkelijk aan te brengen en droogde snel.

This is Stiletto, a green jelly. This is two coats, without topcoat. The first picture is taken without flash and is way more coloraccurate than the second picture, which is taken with flash. Jellies.. I don't know if they're for me. Maybe it's the color. The green is pretty, but not really appealing to me. The green in the flashpicture is a green I like more. Application with this one was as good as the others I've shown you.


Ciaté Power Dressing blue jelly nail polish winter collection 2009/2010 nailswatches
Ciaté Power Dressing blue jelly nail polish winter collection 2009/2010 nailswatches
Ciaté Power Dressing blue jelly nail polish winter collection 2009/2010 nailswatches
Power Dressing is een blauwe jelly. Dit is twee laagjes, wederom zonder topcoat. De bovenste twee foto's zijn in daglicht genomen zonder flits, de derde foto is met flits. Na één laagje dacht ik 'Dit is niks voor mij, ik ben net een smurf!" maar na het tweede laagje is de kleur een stuk dieper en werd het een mooie 'royal blue'. Deze vind ik, in tegenstelling tot Stiletto, wel erg mooi. Deze was wel een beetje tricky om te lakken. Hoewel de lak niet dun was, leek het wel waterig op de nagel doordat het soort van uitliep. De nagellak zat aan beide zijden van mijn nagels tussen de nagel en de huid in. Nu lak ik niet supernetjes, maar zo erg als bij deze heb ik het nog nooit gehad. Verwijderen van deze lak levert blauwe vingertoppen op en om dat weg te krijgen moest ik flink weken. Desondanks ben ik tevreden over deze lak. De kleur maakt veel goed :)

Power Dressing is a blue jelly. This is two coats, again without topcoat. The first two pictures were taken in daylight, the third was taken with flash. The first two pictures are coloraccurate. After one coat I thought "Oh no, this is so not me!" but after the second coat I changed my mind since she turned out to be a very pretty royal dark blue. I like this one a lot better than I like Stiletto. The polish itself wasn't thin, but it was a bit runny. I had nailpolish on both sides of my nails against the skin. I don't want to say that I'm the best at polishing my nails, but I've never had polish like this before. It was everywhere! Removal of this polish gives smurfettefingers. I needed to soak a lot to get all the blue off my fingers. But, I have to say, I'm pleased with this one and I can see myself wearing it again.


Ciaté Ladylike luxe gold foil shimmer winter collection 2009/2010 nail polish nailswatches
Ciaté Ladylike luxe gold foil shimmer winter collection 2009/2010 nail polish nailswatches
Ciaté Ladylike luxe gold foil shimmer winter collection 2009/2010 nail polish nailswatches
Als laatste in deze post: Ladylike Luxe, een gouden shimmer met haast frosty of foily finish. Dit is de eerste lak die ik draag die gewoon écht niet bij mijn huidskleur past. Het is net alsof mijn handen ontzettend rood zijn! De lak zelf is erg mooi, maar het past gewoon niet bij me. Deze zal op de swaplijst gaan, zodat ik er hopelijk iemand mee blij kan maken bij wie deze lak wel staat :) De lak droogt slechter dan de andere Ciaté lakken die ik tot nu toe geprobeerd heb. De lak was nog helemaal niet droog toen ik de foto's maakte, terwijl de andere lakken dat wel waren.

Last in this post: Ladylike Luxe, a golden shimmer with a nearly frosty or foily finish. This is the first polish I'm wearing, that really doesn't play well with my skintone. I have lobsterclaws! The polish itself is very pretty, but it's just not for me. I will put this on my swaplist. Maybe I can make somebody happy that does look good while wearing this polish :) Drying time was longer than the other polishes I tried from Ciaté. The polish wasn't even dry when I took these pictures, while all the other polishes I've tried were long dry when I started to take pictures.

Overall, I think these are my least favorite of the bunch. I really like the color of Power Dressing, but Stiletto and Ladylike Luxe are just not my kind of colors.

Tomorrow I will give my opinion on the complete winter pack, after I've shown you the last two polishes of this set. I'm really looking forward to those; they look so pretty in the bottle!

Thank you for reading this long post and thanks for stopping by!

8 comments:

  1. Those all look so pretty, especially the green one!

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  2. Oh, die Ladylike Luxe! Geweldig!

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  3. Beautiful! If I'd known the the green and blue were jellies i'd have bought them!

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  4. that blue is gorgeous!

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  5. Thanks all! <3

    It has been quite an adventure to swatch these since I wasn't familiar with jellies or golds.. There's a first time for everything!

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  6. De flesjes zien er zo schattig uit. Waar heb je ze gekocht?

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