Adorned Nails: KOH Paparazzi Collection

Let's take a closer look at KOH's latest special collection, KOH Paparazzi.

It's a glitter-and-glamour collection. Three are simple but sophisticated while the remaining three are flashy, each meant to be layered over its less flamboyant mate. Here's the collection at a glance:

L-R:
KOH Gossip
KOH Extremely Famous
KOH Snap Shot
KOH Attention
KOH Biggest Fan
KOH Flashing Lights

I'm featuring the three pairs of polishes in this order: lilac, grey and blue. For each of the base colours, you're looking at two coats.


KOH Gossip
KOH Gossip is a lilac with subtle shimmer. It's pretty and subdued.

KOH Extremely Famous
Extremely Famous is an un-shy glitter polish in clear liquid. The mostly-large hexagonal glitters are pink and sapphire blue in colour. Here, it's shown layered over the lilac of Gossip.

KOH Biggest Fan
Biggest Fan is a straightforward dark grey créme.

KOH Flashing Lights
This one is a multi-sized flakey/glitter mix. The particles are rainbow-coloured, depending on how they catch the light. This is Flashing Lights layered over Biggest Fan.

KOH Snap Shot
Black-blue is how I would describe KOH Snap Shot. Like Biggest Fan, it's a glossy plain créme.

KOH Attention
This is my favourite pairing - KOH Attention layered over Snap Shot. Attention has both large and fine blue/purple hexagonal glitters accompanied by small, round green/aqua glitter bits.

Polishes kindly provided by KOH Cosmetics.

You can, of course, change the pairings. The combinations can always be played around with these six polishes.

The KOH Paparazzi collection is out now in stores and in the KOH online shop. Price: €14.99 per bottle.

Adorned Nails: KOH Atmosphere

Okay, here's the final polish from Galaxy and it's my other favourite from the collection.

KOH Atmosphere is pretty much the green counterpart of KOH Stardust. It's a green-gold duochrome shimmer and a two-coater.

At this angle, it looks an ashy brown-green.

Look at it again and Atmosphere becomes a pompous green.

And finally, here it is showing off its lovely combined green-goldness.

The Galaxy collection is now available via the KOH online shop.

Previous Galaxy polish: KOH Stardust

Adorned Nails: KOH Stardust

This is one of my two favourites from the Galaxy collection.

KOH Stardust is both beautiful and mysterious. It's predominantly a burgundy-golden brown duochrome shimmer but you may see a glint of green/green-gold at certain angles sometimes.

Here it is in all its burgundy glory.....

.....and here it is parading its burgundy-brown.

I love it when a polish has more than one personality!

Previous Galaxy polish: KOH Milky Way
Next and final Galaxy polish: KOH Atmosphere

Adorned Nails: KOH Milky Way

Polish number four from KOH Galaxy. It's a sophisticated beauty, methinks.

A two-coater, KOH Milky Way is a chocolate taupe shimmer. It's not too dark and not too somber. There's something very calming about it.

Previous Galaxy polish: KOH Magnetic
Next Galaxy polish: KOH Stardust

Adorned Nails: KOH Magnetic

This is another gorgeous one from the Galaxy collection. It's a magenta shimmer and KOH has christened it Magnetic. Two coats, as usual.

Previous Galaxy polish: KOH Falling Star
Next Galaxy polish: KOH Milky Way

Adorned Nails: KOH Falling Star

Here's the second polish from the Galaxy collection.

KOH Falling Star is a relatively simple purple shimmer polish but if you look at it closely in sunshine, you might be able to catch it twinkling blue and pink. You're looking at two coats.

Previous Galaxy polish: KOH Universe
Next Galaxy polish: KOH Magnetic

Adorned Nails: KOH Universe

It's time again for another new collection from KOH. The KOH Galaxy collection certainly has my kind of colours - mostly dark, stormy and foreboding.

I'll kick it off with the least broody of the six. You're looking at two coats of KOH Universe, a coral red glass-fleck polish. It looks pretty cheerful compared to the rest.

Here's Universe in the company of the other five:

L-R:
KOH Milky Way
KOH Magnetic
KOH Falling Star
KOH Stardust
KOH Universe
KOH Atmosphere
Polishes were kindly provided by KOH Cosmetics.

Next Galaxy polish: KOH Falling Star

Adorned Nails: KOH Candy Collection

If you thought the Herôme W.I.C. Peaceful Finland collection was too subdued for the summer, check out KOH's latest collection called Candy. They're all crèmes and when seen together, they make quite a splashy mob.

The six bombastic colours that make up this collection are:

L-R: Yellow Pops, Juicy Orange, Candy Crush, Funny Gum, Blueberry Bubbles, Jelly Bean Green


KOH Yellow Pops
It's an intense canary yellow. It's so yellow it's almost a crime.

KOH Juicy Orange
This one is a yellowy orange, like the colour of some egg yolks.

KOH Candy Crush
Candy Crush is a bright, juicy pink - not quite Barbie and not quite flamingo.

KOH Funny Gum
Here's a plain and simple magenta for you.

KOH Blueberry Bubbles
This one's a darkish cobalt blue.

KOH Jelly Bean Green
Pistachio green is how I would describe this final one.

Happy colours kindly provided by KOH Cosmetics.

Adorned Nails: KOH Passion Fruit

Here's the final polish from the KOH Delicious collection.

I would say that, of all the six polishes from the collection, KOH Passion Fruit is the one which stands out. It's a lovely periwinkle blue with subtle shimmer. It's not always obvious but it does sometimes have a glint of pinky-purple. I have the usual two coats on.

Previous Delicious collection: KOH Caviar

Adorned Nails: KOH Caviar

Let's continue the KOH Delicious series with KOH Caviar.

Caviar has the same finish as Champagne Rose but while Champagne Rose is on the pink side, Caviar is a soft, dainty coral. You're looking at the usual two coats here.

Previous Delicious polish: KOH Cocktail
Next and final Delicious polish: KOH Passion Fruit

Adorned Nails: KOH Cocktail

This one's for those of you who love nude nail polish shades. KOH Cocktail is just that, a creamy nude, like milk with just a tiny drop of chocolate. Cocktail is the only crème polish from the KOH Delicious limited edition collection. This too is a two-coater.

Previous Delicious polish: KOH Oyster
Next Delicious polish: KOH Caviar

Adorned Nails: KOH Oyster

I can't say I'm terribly charmed by KOH Oyster. It applied well (two coats) and it's certainly a colour that will easily match any item in your wardrobe but I find it a cold, steely silver that fails to stir the soul. Mine, anyway.

Oyster belongs to the recently-released KOH Delicious collection.


Previous Delicious polish: KOH Champagne Rose
Next Delicious polish: KOH Cocktail

Adorned Nails: KOH Champagne Rose

KOH Champagne Rose is the next polish to be featured from the KOH Delicious limited edition collection.

Champagne Rose too has subtle shimmer and the shade is somewhere between a pink and a dusty rose. It's sweet but not overly sugary. As usual, I have two coats on here.

Previous Delicious polish: KOH Silky Chocolate
Next Delicious polish: KOH Oyster

Adorned Nails: KOH Silky Chocolate

KOH released yet another new collection this month. The collection's called KOH Delicious and I'm kicking it off with KOH Silky Chocolate.

Silky Chocolate is a quiet taupe, simple and elegant with subtle shimmer. It was opaque in two easy coats.

There were delivery issues which greatly delayed the arrival of these samples but here's the collection:

These polishes were kindly provided by KOH Cosmetics.
L-R:
KOH Champagne Rose
KOH Oyster
KOH Passion Fruit
KOH Coctail
KOH Caviar
KOH Silky Chocolate

Retail price: €14.99 per bottle. It's a collection of soft shades and all but one have subtle shimmer. The other five polishes will follow very soon.

Next Delicious polish: KOH Champagne Rose

Adorned Nails: KOH Midnight Blue

Let's take a look at KOH Midnight Blue, something from KOH's permanent collection for a change.

In the run-up to the investiture of the Dutch king this coming Tuesday, KOH has been highlighting four of their permanent shades, three representing the Dutch flag colours and, of course, KOH Dutch, an orange, an absolute must around Queen's / King's Day.

These polishes were kindly provided by KOH Cosmetics.

The three colours that KOH has picked out to represent the Dutch flag this time around are the classic KOH Red, the pristine white KOH Crystal and the broody KOH Midnight Blue.

KOH Midnight Blue is a lovely one, especially if you like broody colours. It's like looking into a metallic night sky that is chockful with stars. It's a dark blue with a little green tint. I've got two coats on here.

For the red-white-blue colours. I didn't want to do something 'flaggy' like I did last year. So, I gave water-marbling a whirl.

Oh, water-marbling! You could say water-marbling is fun and unpredictable. You never know how it would turn out. I'll admit though it's not something I would do often. It's tedious and it's messy (even with tape). I'm sure it's nothing new to you but if this is unfamiliar territory, you can check out Youtube to see how the water-marbling gurus do it. I admire their patience and dedication.

This water-marbling was done on a white base of KOH Crystal. KOH Red turned out to be very dominant in the end result but I don't mind. One can't go wrong with a classic red, swirls or no swirls.

As for the orange, I didn't include it in the marbling. I just added a touch of it in the corner to give it a Dutch feel.