Rockjewel is a felice donna with Darling Diva Bella Donna

I ordered a whole bunch of polishes from Darling Diva's White Witch collection, but i didn't order Bella Donna. I thought it was enough with the other blue polishes so I passed on this. What a fluke that one of the members in my birthday-polish group ordered this for my birthday month! Happy :-D

As the rest of this collection the holo effect is very strong and absolutely stunning! Bella Donna is bright violet, but a lot of the holo effect shifts strongly to different blue notes. I just love it! This could possibly be my most beautiful blue holo polish!

The formula is good! When I swatched it on a stick it looked like it would be necessary with three coats, but on my nails it was enough with two easly applied coats for an opaque result. 

Rockjewel welcomes spring with Darling Diva A Christmas Story

OK, it's the wrong season. I know. I don't care, shiny things are suitable anytime, anyday. 

This is A Christmas Story by Darling Diva. I don't know how many times I put in the shopping cart, removed it and then put it back again. It was like "Oh it is lovely" "No, it's too much glitter" "Ooohhh shinyyyy" "No wrong time of year" again and again. Finally I let it come to my home, and it is shiny! And beautiful! These pictures are not even close to what it looks like irl. 

The formula is good, easy to apply. It is possible to get opacity with three coates, but I chose to put on Inglot No. 924 as undies and then two coats of ACS. 

I think it has just the right proportion of green glitter in the red. Or what do you think? 

Rockjewel wishes everybody a Happy Easter with Darling Diva and Model City

Wasn't planning on doing an Easter mani, but then I remembered that I recently got a lovely green polish and a lovely yellow polish so I changed my mind. 

I gladly admit that I'm not the best nail artist so I settled for some dots. Good enough for me.

The green one is Darling Diva Landslide, a grass-green linear holo from The White Witch Collection. The formula is almost like glue, a bit gooey and difficult to get in the right place. At least it seemed like that at first, but it somehow floated out over the nail so with two coats I got an almost perfect finish. 

The holo is strong and flashes mostly in yellow, at least in indoors lighting. It is a bit more linear that it appears in these pics. I bought this from Darling Diva's own shop.

The yellow polish is Corn Maze by Model City. It is a scattered, with a touch of linear, holo. It really is corn yellow with gold shimmer. The formula of this was better, but in this was actually more difficult to get even, it was a bit streaky even after the second coat. Nothing disturbing though, it is lovely anyway.

I bought this polish from Edgy, a Swedish shop with a wide range of indie polish brands. 

Rockjewel flying high with Darling Diva Nightbird

OK, I do have a couple of dark blue polishes. But they are not the same as this Darling Diva Nightbird. Maybe similar, but definitely not the same. Definitely. Not the same. Similar. I swear. Just kidding, it is actually not that similar, Nightbird is a fair bit darker than for example Beautiful Mistake by Love Thy Polish (which by the way is also stunning).

I absolutely love this really midnight blue holo. Couldn't stop looking at my nails, especially in the sun! 

It has a pretty strong holo effect but it still keeps its dark base color. with flashes in medium blue and a hint of purple. In a couple of the photos it looks like it is much lighter than it really is, but in these you can see the purple hint.

The formula isn't fantastic but manageable. A bit gooey, although good coverage. Opaque and a smooth finish with two coats.

Rockjewel goes wrooooom with Darling Diva GTO

Couldn't resist this even though I normally avoid glitter polishes with medium to large glitter particles in clear base, but GTO from Darling Diva was impossible to resist. It is from the Muscle Car Diva Collection and there are a few more from that collection that I thought about but actually could resist: Charger, Chevelle and maybe 'Cuda. Maybe next time...

GTO is sooo green and glittery so it ended up on my nails. I'm not really sure when I can use this, not a polish I would use at work, at least not when meeting customers. Don't want to distract them from the meeting agenda. Or do I... ;-)
Well it will be perfect for party!

As with many of the polishes of this type it is jelly-ish and a bit tricky to put on and get an even and smooth surface. I would say though that this was a bit easier than other polishes I've tried so far. It is packed with glitter so it was enough with two coats to get full opacity. I will though put on undies in a similar green color next time to avoid the uneven edges around cuticles and tips. 

PARTYYYYY...

Rockjewel thinks of raspberries with Darling Diva Rooms on Fire

Raspberry, raspberry, raspberry... It is a strange name for a berry. Could it be because of the small thorns on the stems maybe? 

Never mind, Darling Diva Rooms on Fire is a beautiful raspberry polish with a really strong, blurple-flashing holo, and no rasp at all. It is from the White Witch Collection, from which I realise I own most of them... Well, they are beautiful, all with strong holo and stunning colors. Rooms on Fire is no exception.

The formula is good, two coats for perfect, opaque finish. Some minor issues with gooey-ness on the first coat, but nothing that caused too much problems. I personally think that the DD brusehes are a bit thin, I prefer a bit wider, flat brush. Still it is not difficult to apply the polish, it works fine.

Rockjewel gets no nightmare with Darling Diva Dreams

This will be a quick one, time to go to bed. But first some photos of one of my latest Darling Diva polishes, Dreams from The White Witch Collection. Lots of lovely holo polishes in that collection and now I own some of them.


Darling Diva polishes have a really good formula. Dreams is no exception. Ok, the first coat seems to be quite sheer, but it is still enough with two coats.
The holo is linear and strong, the color is a deep, but not to dark, color. You can see a lighter, cornflower blue, as well as a stronger blue color. Really beautiful. The photos do not show as much of the cornflower as I wanted.

Rockjewel celebrates the Swedish Olympic participants!

OK, we didn't win against Canada in the Olympic hockey final, but silver is also a precious metal to be proud of! And Sweden have done the best Olympic winter games ever, 15 medals!! Most of them to the cross-country skiing-team, but also medals to the curling teams, Anna Holmlund in ski-cross and as said the hockey-team. Well done!!

I celebrate with a fantastic blue holo nail polish from Lilypad Lacquer: A Balt Out Of The Blue, a gold holo from Jade: Mystic Gold topped with a shimmering polish with glitter from Darling Diva: Stripper Pole.
I will probably do a full manicure of all each one of these three polishes so I will not say anything specific about them at this point, except that all three are fabolous! 

Rockjewel toughens up with Darling Diva Bitch Panties

The last of the Darling Divas I ordered from Norway Nails is Bitch Panties. Love the name! :-)
It is almost impossible to decide what color it is. It's a quite light polish with pale lavender, light blue, beige and the faintest hint of light green. 

The formula is ok. It dries a bit fast so it gets a bit gooey almost immediately after applying it. It is a a bit sheer, but I think it will be opaque with three coats, maybe even two if applied rich. Here I have put on "undies", my favorite nude, Kiko No 372. After that two coats of Bitch Panties and Orly Sec'N Dry on top.
As the other Darling diva polishes I bought I like it a lot. There is both a quite strong linear and a little scattered holo effect. I will certainly buy some more Darling Divas in the future.

Rockjewel with dreamy diva nails, Darling Diva Dreamy

Another one of the Darling Diva polishes I bought on the sale at NorwayNails. This one is Deamy, a quite sheer polish with linear holo effect that I think is best used as a holo top coat. It can be used as a regular polish but will need four coats to be reasonably opaque. The formula is good so it is possible to use four coats if wanted.

I wanted to try it on a white base and chose Maybelline Colorama Marshmallow for that, two coats. Over that I applied two coats of Dreamy. It went on smoothly, without any issues at all. I think the result is really nice although I think I will choose a creamy white next time. The pearly shimmer in Marshmallow seems to dim the holo effect a bit. I tried Dreamy also on a dark, creamy polish and the holo effect was very strong on that.

The shimmer of Dreamy shifts from a grey tone, to pale blue, to pink, to lilac. I think it would be very pretty to stamp with a light pastel color on this.

I thought I would not like this too much and was prepared to put it up for swap/sale after testing. Bought it anyway because the price was good. Now I think I will keep it, at least for a while. I think I will use it. :-)

Rockjewel embraces extraterrestrial bugs with Darling Diva Space Beetle

Space Beetle was one of three Darling Diva polishes I bought on the NorwayNails sale.

It looked a bit dull on the photos but I googled swatches and it looked promising. And it is really beautiful! No regrets whatsoever over buying them, neither for this, nor the other two I bought!

Darling Diva has recently released Muscle Car Diva Collection. Looks really nice, or what do you think? Beautiful swatches by Lavish Layering here. They're the same style as Little Red Corvette, which I already have. Maybe it needs some friends? ;-)

Enough of that and back to Space Beetle, it deserves some more space. 
It is a bit difficult to describe the color and finish. I would say that it is a grey-taupe base with mostly scattered, but also some really nice linear holo. "Neutral with a twist" maybe? In ordinary light the finish is almost a metallic, pink gold to taupe shimmer, but in dimmed flashlight and halogen lamp light it shows a lot more colors and dazzling glitter. 

The formula is good but on the sheer side. I used KIKO 372, a nude color, as base, and two coats of Space Beetle. Without colored base I think three coats are needed. 

It has a round brush. I prefer a flat and wide brush, but this worked ok anyway.

Rockjewel goes lilac with the Darling Diva - Gett Off

I have a couple of Darling Diva polishes, Little Red Corvette and one other. Even though they are beautiful, it is not one of my absolute favorite brands. I'm not too fond of polishes with large glitter particles, or too creamy ones, so there are other brands with mor for me to choose from.

When I bought a couple of Lilypads in a swap/sale group a couple of weeks ago I got one Darling Diva polish thrown into the deal for a small sum of money. I found some swatches, thought they looked ok, so I accepted the deal. And it proved to be a good deal. 

The formula was a bit tricky, difficult to apply thin layers and a bit streaky when applied thicker. But nevertheless it turned up to be really beautiful! I love this type of colour, a bit dimmed lavender. The amount of glitter is perfect, only a few sprinkles here and there. The holo effect is not very visible, but enough, 
Two coats was perfect. I think I might take a second look at Darling Diva in the future...