Berlin shop log

I'm back from sunny and warm Berlin. It's nice to be home again! I did splurge on nail polish... which means I have lots of goodies to show you. I visited the dm (drogerie markt) to get my hands on some P2 polishes. Actually I visited several... because I wanted the complete Sand style collection, there are dm's all over Berlin, so that was actually very easy. Of course the last dm I entered had the entire collection complete... Figures. All the sand style polishes were € 1,95.

From left to right:

• P2 sand style - 010 adorable
• P2 sand style - 020 lovesome
• P2 sand style - 030 seductive

From left to right:

• P2 sand style - 040 illegal
• P2 sand style - 050 confidential
• P2 sand style - 060 strict

I also got a holo top coat for € 1,75, it made me very curious. And some cuticle cream for € 2,95.

From left to right:

• P2 Glamorous Finish - holo top coat 040 just fantastic!
• P2 Apricot Cuticle Cream

What I also did was look at any limited editions they had around, sometimes discounted old LE's for Catrice and Essence. I did find a few I liked and I also picked up a bottle that will be discontinued soon half price. I paid € 2 each for the Catrice LE Matchpoint polishes.

From left to right:

• Catrice LE Matchpoint - C03 Rockby
• Catrice LE Matchpoint - C01 Team Lucky Mustards
• Catrice - 34 Squeeze Me

Essence Limited Edition at the time was Tribal Summer, which won't be coming to The Netherlands as far as I know. I picked up the last 3 I could find for € 1,55 each. From left to right:

• Essence LE Tribal Summer - 02 INTI INKA
• Essence LE Tribal Summer - 01 WAKA-WAKA
• Essence LE Tribal Summer - 04 TIPI YA YEAH

When I visited the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden (a mall) I nearly squealed when I noticed they had a KIKO shop! And best part was... most nail polishes were on sale for € 1,50 each! KIKO also has a texture finish range, called Sugar Mat. I got a couple of those (some colours were already sold out unfortunately) and some normal polishes as well. I tried to hold back... I could have bought their entire range of lovely colours. Unfortunately KIKO only gives numbers to their polishes, not names. These are my first KIKO polishes, we do not have a KIKO store here in The Netherlands. They do in other European countries, you can check where here.

The texture polishes with shimmer, from left to right:

• KIKO - 644 Sea Blue
• KIKO - 643 Spring Green
• KIKO - 639 Golden Mandarin
• KIKO - 645 Burgundy

Plain texture polishes, from left to right:

• KIKO - 637 Turquoise
• KIKO - 636 Mint
• KIKO - 638 Taupe
• KIKO - 632 True Red

Their standard range, from left to right:

• KIKO - 343 Spring Green
• KIKO - 388 Caribbean Green
• KIKO - 300 Pearly Malachite Green
• KIKO - 378 Light Plum
• KIKO - 331 Violet

I also bought a few eye pencils in shades I did not have yet.

Two P2 ones:

• P2 perfect look kajal - 100 green
• P2 perfect look kajal - 130 lavender

And two KIKO ones:

• KIKO smart eye pencil 813 Aquamarine
• KIKO smart eye pencil 804 Mauve

I did wear some of the textured polishes while I was in Berlin, the texture is very fine and does not annoy me at all. After I got home (which a huge delay due to a delayed train and a missed connection) I quickly put on some colour before I had to dash off again for family visits. I only got round to taking pictures today, after 2 days of wearing. So here's a quick peek:

This is KIKO 300, 2 coats with top coat. I wore this as accent nails on my ring finger and thumb.

The textured KIKO 637, 2 coats, no top coat.

And because I was curious I quickly added the P2 holo top coat, picture shows with 1 coat in sunlight.

And with 2 coats. It is more a holo glitter top coat and it gives a scattered holo effect. It is nice, but I still want a few good linear holographic polishes to satisfy my holo hunger.