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Monday, July 13, 2015

El Corazon – Fashion Girl Swatche


I have two awesome polishes from Russian brand El Corazon to share with you today. Deborah from Love Varnish swatched these a while ago and I completely fell in love with them after seeing her post. So much so that Deborah decided they were better off with me since she wasn’t blown away so she sent them to me as a birthday surprise! I couldn’t thank her enough. <3 Without further ado let’s take a look!

El Corazon Active Bio-gel 423/213 Fashion girl in the Paris

El Corazon – Matte Swatches



Today I have two El Corazon polishes to share with you. El Corazon is a Russian cosmetics brand with a very large range of nail polishes. Today I have two shades from the Matte Effect line.

Also sharing polishes from this collection today is my dear friend Deborah aka Love Varnish. She has two other shades from this collection to show you, so be sure to head over to her blog to take a look. I’ve seen them and they are really gorgeous!



El Corazon – Matte Effect 165

Friday, July 10, 2015

NAIL ART INSPIRED BY NAIL TALK USING KALEIDOSCOPE BY EL CORAZON



Hi loves! Before we get into details today, I kinda want to scream: I tore off almost half of my middle finger nail, luckily not on my swatch hand.. but still. Sad day! I think I'll put a band aid over it since it looks terrible :-(.



On a positive note, I have a fun nail look to share today that was inspired by Mirjam fromNail Talk. I kinda copied her design but went with a different shade to stamp and use as an accent.


EL Corazon® - Kaleidoscope "Грезы о весне" №Spring-04 Первый подснежник

SWATCHES & REVIEW - 3 EL CORAZON LARGE HOLOGRAM SHADES

Hi loves! Today I have 3 amazing shades to show you, part of the El Corazon Large Hologram collection. In total, there are 16 shades in this set and they all have a jelly base (all tinted except for one) filled with large, silver holographic flakes. They give the most beautiful holographic sparkle in the sun or direct light, but also look pretty without a direct light source.


EL Corazon® Active Bio-gel Color gel polish "Large Hologram" №423/508 L.H. "Cosmos"

EL Corazon® Active Bio-gel Color gel polish "Large Hologram" №423/505 L.H. "Galaxy"


Curious?

SWATCHES & REVIEW - 2 EL CORAZON MATTE & SHINE SHADES

Hi loves! Today I am joining forces with my friend Emily from Very Emily ^^. We are both posting swatches of 2 El Corazon Matte & Shine shades! She has 2 more cute shades, I went for bold and jewel toned. As the name predicts these are matte shades, but with an intense silver shimmer that makes them almost glow from within.



EL Corazon® Matte & Shine Effect № m&s - 161



EL Corazon® Matte & Shine Effect № m&s - 163


Wednesday, July 8, 2015

SWATCHES & REVIEW - 4 EL CORAZON CREAM SHADES

Hi loves! Today I have lovely creme shades to show you from the El Corazon Active Bio-gel Color gel polish line - that's quite a mouthfull! Basically they are nice creamy shades, not gel or anything but just straight up polishes. I really liked these! The specific set is called Cream, you can see the other shades here.









EL CORAZON NAIL PARTY 423/622 LONG ISLAND


Wat weer een geniale, nieuwe collectie van El Corazon; 'Nail Party'. Ik koos voor twee lakken uit deze collectie, waaronder Long Island.
En wauw. Wat een beauty! En misschien wat lastig te omschrijven. Hij is donkerrood, tegen het bruine aan met rode shimmers. Het is een donkere, opvallende lak met een prachtige glans. Ik zei letterlijk wow... toen ik m'n eerste nagel lakte. Gewoon te mooi!

SHIMMERY BLUE - NAIL ART


Vandaag een vrij unusual  keus betreft kleuren. Wist niet hoe ik het zou gaan vinden.
Zelfs tijdens het stempelen twijfelde ik nog. Is dit wel mooi? Valt het ene nu weg door het andere? Maar wilde 'm toch afmaken. Ook omdat het zo leuk is om te doen!

EL CORAZON GEMSTONES - 423/459 RHINESTONE


El Corazon Prisma 423/39



I decided that the first swatch post after the break should be about the polish I've worn the most this month - three times!
Recently new colours were added to El Corazon Prisma collection and I chose one of them. I didn't pay attention to this collection before as colours seemed too boring to me, and I was so wrong! They have amazing holographic effect.
I love all the holos, but you may have noticed that there are different types of both linear and scattered holos. I'll talk only about scattered ones now. Some look as if a creme or a jelly was simply mixed with holo shimmer, other have completely different and stunning effect. Like in A-England polishes. A-England is famous for its amazing holos, and this is the kind of effect I like. It's strong and can almost look linear sometimes, more importantly, such polishes don't look bland without direct light. So I was extremely happy to find out that El Corazon holos have the same effect!
Moreover, 423/39 has a very pleasant colour - greyish beige. It looks simple but amazing.
Formula wise it's great, it is easy to apply, covers in two coats, dries fast and is very long-wearing. Only one thing that's not perfect: it is not really glossy without a top coat.




El Corazon Charme and Beauty 897



Charme and Beauty collection recently had several new additions to it, and I decided to show you the most interesting of them, in my opinion.

897 is a dusty creme... I could call it cool-toned pink or lilac pink. Or even orchid pink) That's right, it's similar to Pantone colour of 2014! And I like that about it. This spring I'm obsessed with orchid pinks.

Formula is quite good, it's a classic creme, easy to apply and opaque in two coats.







El Corazon Jelly 423/47




423/47 is one of my favourite shades from the Jelly collection. It has such a sweet and nice colour! It reminds me of baked milk (I know, you're probably wondering what that is. Well, Wikipedia has an article on it... It's a Russian traditional drink:). Also, it's a great nude colour for me.
As all El Corazon jellies, it's very easy to apply and is self-leveling. And it has a wonderful glossy finish!
I wanted to add something nice to this sweet colour and chose heart studs from Born Pretty Store for an accent nail. Don't forget that you can get a 10% discount in this shop by using my code AZX31:)





El Corazon Jelly 423/47





Kaleidoscope Alla Nails & El Corazon Lumenous



In the beginning of May El Corazon is releasing a new collection under its Kaleidoscope brand - Bloggers. As you may have guessed, it is devoted to bloggers, and each polish is named after one of the ladies:)
Today I'll show you the polish named after Alla from Alla Nails. I immediately put my eyes on it as soon as I saw the collection - it's so bright and unique! I don't know whether it suits Alla, but it is definitely my cup of tea, I love such polishes!
It's a light lime green jelly with neon yellow and green glitter, white glitter and black shredded glitter. So bright and original! I especially love the base colour and how it looks against neon glitter!
Despite loads of glitter it is fairly easy to apply, even shredded glitter isn't much trouble, and it is opaque in two coats. Although it's better to use top coat as shredded glitter sticks out a bit.



Kaleidoscope Alla Nails


Kaleidoscope Zlata Siren



Today I'm going to show you the polish named after a very talented blogger Zlata) I think many of you may already know her blog, and if you don't, you're missing out!
Not surprisingly, her polish turned out to be amazing. It's an ink blue jelly with black and holo glitter. This combination makes me think of a night sky... Beautiful and unique polish.
Its base is quite sheer, and it looks differently depending on the number of coats. With four coats it is completely opaque, while two coats look very light. I chose to apply three coats. It is easy to apply and self-levelling. The polish is glossy on its own, but a top coat makes it much smoother)




Kaleidoscope Zlata Siren



Rose garden

Today's manicure features one of the new stamping polishes by El Corazon. They've been released only recently, and the new addition to the collection has a lot of very interesting shades, many of the with shimmer! And this one, stm-28*, is a red metallic. I think it's my favourite, it's really gorgeous.
And so far I've been really impressed by the quality of El Corazon stamping polishes. They transfer perfectly and the light colours show up really well over dark background. They're comparable to Mundo de Unas, I would say)
I will do a separate post about these polishes and show them over different backgrounds, but for now I only have time to show you this manicure with the red one. I stamped with MoYou London Pro XL 10 over Erre Due 433.



 Kaleidoscope stm-28