Limited Edition Delight Collection For Koh Autumn/Winter 2014

The fashion world is already looking forward to autumn. And if the prospect of cold, damp, grey autumn days doesn't really sound like music to your ears, KOH has some exciting news for you. KOH DELIGHT! - Limited Edition nail polish in six fabulous and tantalising shades - will make it a dazzling autumn.

The six shades:

• With KOH SERENDIPITY! we are immediately in for a pleasant surprise. KOH has translated the idea of serendipity, which means ‘lucky chance’, into a heavenly pale pink. Pastel shades have been a successful feature of the fashion scene for several seasons. This coming season they make a welcome addition to autumnal browns.
• If we need any convincing, KOH ENJOYMENT! makes it clear that there will be plenty to enjoy this autumn. This enchanting lilac dovetails seamlessly with the ‘kidults’ trend: we can dress up in outfits with a naive childlike look in soft tones and bright colours. Fabrics are also wonderfully childish: teddy furs, for example, are totally on trend again. Never grow up!
• KOH FELICITY! and KOH PROSPERITY! are sister shades. Felicity is a gorgeous fuchsia with a light purple shimmer. Prosperity is the more affluent relative: another fuchsia, but with a rich gold glitter. The purple orchid colour spectrum will continue to brighten the fashion scene all year. The same goes for women’s suits. Whether you team the jacket with masculine wide leg pinstripe pants, or a sexy pencil skirt, go basic. Wear your suit in icy aluminium grey and add a touch of style with one of these ravishing fuchsias!
• The deep dark purple KOH SUMPTUOUS! adds a voluptuous note to your autumn wardrobe, which absolutely must include several sweaters and dresses with little roll collars. Because the roll collar is back! Make a fantastic fashion statement by combining a caramel coloured crop top with a roll collar with a flared skirt worn just over the knee and sumptuously stylish nails.
• Bringing up the rear is KOH WANDERLUST! – a deep dark grey. The desire to go wandering is irresistible. So throw open the gates and tread through a thick carpet of freshly fallen autumn leaves on your thick platform soles. In line with the motto, ‘big, bigger, biggest’, fish your oversized boyfriend coat back out of the cupboard, and you’re all set to discover the wonderful world of autumn!

You’ll be as happy as can be this autumn with the six heavenly shades of KOH DELIGHT!

The Limited Edition KOH DELIGHT! collection is available from October from perfumeries and drug stores, KOH Flagship stores at Bijenkorf department stores in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, KOH Self service-stores at Bijenkorf department stores in Amstelveen and Utrecht and www.kohcosmetics.com

The recommended retail price is €18.95. KOH DELIGHT! is a Limited Edition of KOH Colours, a nail polish range that consists of 120 basic colours. Every 3 months KOH brings out a Limited Edition collection that ties in with surprising and new trends.

Now after taxes, KOH polishes definitely and easily take the cake as being the most pricey polishes I own, but they just as easily win as my most loved polishes and best most luxurious ones I own!

Koh Bahama! Swatched

I am really digging this metallic purple with an almost grey/blue duochrome affect. The shimmer  is soinsane and vibrant that it really does kind of give it that look of a duochrome!

It is a little streaky and hard to work with, but oh so worth it!

Nail Mail!

So I thought I would do an unboxing video, but since my camera was dead and I was NOT about to wait for it to charge, photos will have to do! An AMAZING gift from halfway around the world!

She must have KNOWN I only use cream and not clear nail wheels! And tape, lots of nail tape!

And still a STUFFED box!

I have never tried MUA makeup before! Cant wait to try these palettes!

Undressed, and Dusk Til Dawn:

And a cool looking MUA blush and one that says Collection. I THINK that this is the same brand that is the infamous Collection 2000 concealer?

Oh my goodness! KOH!!

I know these are just seed beads easily gotten anywhere! But Ive wanted these nail constellations for ages! The colour combos are just so pretty!

Holographic gorgeousness!

More MUA products! I am super picky on lipglosses, so I am interested to see how these are!

KOH LOVE STORY!

A romantic date, a kiss which melts your heart, a feeling of being in love that changes into an ?I love you?? One can never say all there is to say about love. KOH was able to capture the feeling of love, in a breathtaking collection, in the new limited edition KOH LOVE STORY! Experience KOH?s love story and get into the mood for the most dazzling season of the year: spring.KOH LOVE STORY! will be available in the stores the Netherlands as of January 2013.Create your own love story with KOH LOVE STORY!

I really need Hold Me Tight!, Lean On Me! and Our Song! What do you guys think about this collection? I really truly love these polishes. They are on the pricey side. Two polishes delivered is $60, three is $80 and four end up being $100. So depending on how many you order they range from $25-$30 a polish. Have you tried them before? I have a half dozen or so and I love them. But be warned! They are VERY fragile! They break if you LOOK at them the wrong way. I accidentally dropped one last year and it SHATTERED. Thankfully it was on a hardwood floor and was super easy to clean up with no permanent mess or staining.

KOH Elements & Fantasy Collections

KOH came out earlier in the year with this limited edition collection! This collection has 6 nail polishes inspired by the four elements earth, water, fire and air.

I really didn't pay it much attention. I do love Mediterranean Sea! but that is the only one I really really want from this collection. And possibly Fire!.

This collection, KOH Fantasy features six more limited edition nail polishes and are named after things in which we are supposed to fantasize about. And by supposed to, I mean media and television tells us we should. Now I don't know that skinny, rich and famous are things I personally fantasize about, but these 6 polishes I certainly do fantasize about!! OMG!!! Talk about stunning, gorgeous polishes!!! I NEED all 6. I am pretty sure I will never get them, but OMG do I want them!!

Which polishes in these sets do you love? Are you lemming any of these? Do you have any of these? Let me know!!!

Storage Solutions - Storage Options & My First Melmer

So for those of you not familiar with the term melmer, I will explain. Ikea has a piece of furniture named the Helmer. I am not sure who first got it and thought "this would be perfect for my nail polish stash!" but someone did. It spread like dandelions through the polish world and fast became the bloggers number one choice in nail polish storage. Its metal and it has always felt a little........ flimsy is not the right word but just didnt feel right every time I looked at them (which of course meant on trips to Calgary, New York, New Jersey and the like as IKEA does not have a store in my city. YET. One is being built). Maybe its just the aluminium that puts me off.

Someone later got the brilliant idea to use the scrapbooking storage solution from Michaels. I went numerous times to look at this but they were and are ALWAYS sold out here. So I gave up on that option.

The next option I fell in love with was this solution from IKEA. I planned on biding my time until IKEA finally opened (and a few extra months until the NEW factor died down and IKEA was less zoo-ish). Its called the Alex and it seemed almost perfect.  I say almost because if you see the drawers are not all uniform and the smaller drawers are just a little too small for many brands and the larger drawers are just too big for many brands. So while not perfect for me, the aesthetic was certainly me. I also liked that it come sin two different size options.

Anyways, I came home from seeing a movie with a girlfriend last night (a really really BAD movie) and guess what was lying on my bed! A MELMER!!!! Now for those of you debating or looking at this option let me start by saying its NOT CALLED A MELMER!! I had to laugh out loud when I heard that when my parents when to the craft store to buy it they asked for a melmer. It was nicknamed a melmer online for its the Michaels version of the hELMER.

So after failing to convince my father that it was a "daddys job" to put together, I set off to build it myself. There was no way I was waiting even a day to put it together.

There are a LOT of parts that fit in that little box! EEK!!

I am sad to say that an hour later this was all I had done. But I eventually got it finished (think it took an hour and a half) but I am confidant that the next one should take me 20-30 minutes to build! And yes, I think I need 2 more. Though I FOR SURE need one more!

So now that it was built it went to its new home on my dresser. I just took the mirrored tray with my perfumes on it and put it on the unit and I was all ready to go!

The bottom drawer has all my Julep, Nars, Dior and Chanel polishes. Not much room to grow unfortunately.

The middle drawer has all my Le Metier De Beaute nail polishes, Yves Saint Laurent and Deborah Lippmann polishes and box sets from those three brands. I can add one LMDB and 5 Lippmanns and then that drawer is full too. EEK! Oh! And my one and only RGB polish is in there too!

And the top drawer has my koh, MAC, Cult Nails, Nfu-Oh, Illamasqua, Butter London and Tuff Scents polishes.

This is perfect in aesthetic for me, functional, and it can grow with my always growing polish stash. Sadly, this is what does not fit in the unit.