Jolly Holly

Also another polish you've seen before, but I really wanted all my swatches to be just swatches so I'll show them again.

From China Glaze's colecction 'tis season to be naughty and nice (x-mas 2010) that I bought on sale with two of the other polishes (Mistletoe Kisses and Midnight Kiss) and I simply love it! This is how it looks in the sun...

It looks really dark in the bottle but it lights up in the sun and looks really great even in summer! Felt just as new to paint with and dried quickly.

Hope you enjoyed!

Modify Me!

It came just in time....

I got this one from Linda for my birthday this week and it's kind of awesome! I had almost forgot about these because I haven't seen that much photos of them. This one is Modify Me by China Glaze from the Tranzitions Collection. It changes color slightly when top coat is applied.

Here I've used a dotting tool to create the dots, but the back of a pen or a tooth pic is just good enough!

Hope you enjoyed!

Depend 314

As the world outside is just white, gray and blue I wanted something with a colorpunch and I had a craving for green!!

I pulled out all my green swatchsticks from the untried batch and tried to make something of them, but I had to get the tried ones out as well... I had a hard time choosing and I tried the design on a nailwheel first in four different combos. It came out 50-50, but this was really the best one! A big thanks to Linda, who cave the good advise!

First I want to show you my base color. This is number 314 from Depend. A really nice green pastel that came out with the Summer collection of 2012, but it was quickly withdrawn due to staining. I was fast and got me one and I don't really care if it does stain now that I now it probably will... it's a really nice green!!

 The first photo is more color correct than the second who is way too cool...  As I said, green was the way to go this weekend and I did try several combinations with this green as the base. A couple too wimpy and a couple really good, but the one down below was a real winner!!

I took some striping tape and made this design... not very difficult but it calls for precision and patience! The dark green polish is China Glaze Jolly Holly from the 2011 Christmas collection. I've saved the best photo for last.... my instagram photo....

I used our chiliplant as props and the nice huge daylight lamp hanging above it was great lighting....

Hope you enjoyed!

Easy inspiration!

Yesterday I was looking at my subscription channels on Youtube and this had just come up.



She is really talented, check out her blog: Nail Art for more!! This gave me inspiration to do something on top of the green beetle! I didn't manage to do the spirals, but I did my own twist.

The background is as I you know Isadora Beetle Green (720). The gold stripes and dots are made with Depend Art Liner in gold (1061) and under those patches are China Glaze Mistletoe Kisses.

Hope you enjoyed!

Glitters

As for now, this is the only wheel where I'm able to show you anything new.....

Wheel D:
1: China Glaze: Mistletoe Kisses
2: Depend: 45
3: Depend: 47
4: Mavala: Red Glitter
5: Gallery Colours: Red Sparkle (421)
6: Gallery Colours: Purple Sparkle (422)
7: La Femme Beauty: Sapphire
8: Claudia: Sparkling Purple (159)
9: Claudia: Glitter mix (151)
The rest of the wheel is empty....

Hope you enjoyed!

Hunter green +Mistletoe kisses = True

Well.... it was a real hit! The boring almost black green became sparkley and nice to look at again! Sorry about the delay today.... I really thought that I had my day prepared..... and yet nothing worked out. Today is also prom night for your high school student, so I'm going down town to look at all the gorgeous boys and girls and cars!!!

Here are the photos!!

The glitter does not really show in the pictures, but I promise you it was really beautiful!

Hope you enjoyed!

Browns, Golds, Yellows and Nudes

....or at least one brown....

I'll put the full wheel in here for you to see, but I honestly only wanted to show you the one brown on the new wheel.....the swatch for that one is coming up as soon as I'm out of greens from the Isadora Autumn/Winter collection!

I wheel:
1: Isadora: Cool Camel (708)

You can find the brands and colors for the G wheel HERE!!, no need to write them again.....

Hope you enjoyed!

Brown, Golds, Yellows and Nudes

Last time for the G-wheel!

I've obviously managed to fill this wheel to.... Here we go! And yes... this is a photo from the new camera... a lot better than the old ones. Click for a closer look!

The G-wheel consists of:
1: Depend: 86
2: Depend: 124
3: Depend: 9
4: Depend: 210
5: Depend: 35
6: Depend: 192
7: MNY: 449
8: Depend: 208
9: Makeup Factory: Pearl (288)
10: China Glaze: Midnight Kiss
11: Depend: 135
12: Depend: 229
13: Depend: 230
14: Pieces: Candy Dandy
15: Depend: 224
16: Yves Rocher: Or Scintillant (12)
17: Mavala: Acid Yellow (128)
18: Lumene: Get Color  (13)
19: Pieces: Blazing Yellow
20: Depend: 42

Above a closeup of the three newest ones.... Acid Yellow, Get Color and Blazing Yellow! And as you know, these three are the result of my resent yellow addiction! I think it's over, but you never know......

You can find the G wheel on the Nail Wheel page to have a closer look.... still trying to figure out a way to make things easy for you there!!

Hope you enjoyed!

Brown, Golds, Yellows and Nudes

I only have two new polishes to show you this time! The wheel looks like this...

The colors are:
1: Depend: 86
2: Depend: 124
3: Depend: 9
4: Depend: 210
5: Depend: 35
6: Depend: 192
7: MNY: 449
8: Depend: 208
9: Makeup Factory: Pearl (288)
10: China Glaze: Midnight Kiss
11: Depend: 135
12: Depend: 229
13: Depend: 230
14: Pieces: Candy Dandy
15: Depend: 224
16: Yves Rocher: Or Scintillant (12)
17: Mavala: Acid Yellow (128)
18: Lumene: Get Color  (13)
19: Empty
20: Depend: 42

And a closeup of the two new ones....

Gold & Pink Watermarble

My second attempt at water marbling and I wanted to show you the results.....

I found it a bit hard to do and had to figure out a way to get as close to filtered water as I could (anyone know a good way of getting filtered water in Sweden without spending a lot of money?) The polish would not spread as good as I wanted it to, but enough for me to dip my nails in. I'll show you both hands and my favorite nails.

For you who are thinking of trying this, do some research and make sure you have the supplies and a few hours to play. Your first try, or even second, will not be perfect (mine isn't) and just have fun with it!!

Top pictures are of my left hand (to the left) and my right hand. Bottom pictures are of my right thumb (left), my right ring finger (middle) and my left thumb (right). The lower pictures are my favorite outcomes of this trial. I found myself hurrying past myself and not taping my nails so I had to start over a few times.

The nails are prepped with a base coat (as always) and then Isadora Tip White to make the colors more vibrant and visible.... The two colors I used for the marbling is China Glaze Midnight Kiss and Claudia Shocking Pink.

Hope you enjoyed!

Colour of the month

I really must say that I've glanced too many times over at my glitter polishes and thought that i really like each and every one of them! So therefore, this month will not be a specific color, just anything that sparkles!!!

I'm gonna give you a photobomb of the sparkley polishes that I've showed you before....

Galley Colours - 422

Gallery Colours - 421

China Glaze - Mistletoe Kisses

Depend 58

Isadora - Sheer Amethyst

Winter Snow

Hope you enjoyed!

Glitters

Yeey, my absolut favourite wheel! I just love the sparkle.... I'm not gonna ramble about this, I'll just show you!

1: China Glaze: Mistletoe Kisses
2: Depend: 45
3: Depend: 47
4: Mavala: Red Glitter
5: Gallery Colours: Red Sparkle (421)
6: Gallery Colours: Purple Sparkle (422)
7: La Femme Beauty: Sapphire
The rest of the wheel is empty....

Browns, Golds, Yellows and Nudes

This is a really mixed wheel right now....G-wheel! As you can see (and probably already done) I've taken of those ridiculous labels and replaced  them with a letter in the middle and numbers by the color. It really looks better!

1: Depend: 86
2: Depend: 124
3: Depend: 9
4: Depend: 210
5: Depend: 35
6: Depend: 192
7: MNY: 449
8: Depend: 208
9: Makeup Factory: 288 (Pearl)
10: China Glaze: Midnight Kiss
11: Depend: 135
12: Depend: 229
13: Depend: 230
14: Pieces: Candy Dandy
15: Depend: 224
16: Yves Rocher: 12 (Or scintillant)
17: Empty
18: Empty
19: Empty
20: Depend: 42

Checkers!

When I was surfing around other blog I found a design that I really loved. On top of that I realized I had the material to almost copy it. THIS is the original design by My Simple Little Pleasures.... and below you can see mine. Thanx for the inspiration Colette!

I've used China Glaze Misteltoe Kisses as base, wore for a day and the stamped with black konad special polish and konad imageplate m64. I loved it and wore it until it started to chip!!

Sunlight

With colour accent

Misteltoe Kisses

This one came with the set of three China Glaze polishes named Dreamin' of a Green Christmas.... it also contained Midnight Kiss and Jolly Holly. You've already seen it on top of Jolly Holly and I wanted you to see it on its own. I really love the sparkle and I only needed two coats to make it opaque. I can't take my eyes off my nails now....

Also, since I've started with the Myrrh Oil on my cuticles, they have gotten much much better so now I don't have to be embarressed over them! Oh, and I almost forgot... here a little video of the sparkle...

Colour of the month - January

Here´s something new for you, colour of the month!

I will present the most popular post and what colour I've been mostly obsessed with the past month. As for the post, the Depend Art Liner har the highest number of views and I really like it for it's opacity and just because it is a liner. What I've heard since a made the post it has been difficult to get a hold of and I think I'm quite lucky to have found it.

On the my colourobsession side I've felt very glittery this month although I've only shown a few designs and swatches with glitter my feelings for glitter also includes shimmers.... I just love that extra bit of sparkle it gives. All time high in my current collection is Isadoras Sheer Amethyst and Mistletoe Kisses!

Midnight Kiss

This one I've tried one time before, took pictures and everything. But I was never quite satisfied with it. Now that I've tried it again I'm still not convinced.....

The first coat is fine, but it is a bit sheer so two or three coats are needed. When I put the second coat on it looks good but I think that you should probably let the second coat be as thin as possible and put a third on. My second coat always tends to be a little bit thick so the result I got this time was dents on my thumbs even though I waited for it to dry between coats and for the last coat to dry before I put a topcoat on.

The colour on the other hand is amazing, it really looks like gold to me. The finish is a pure foil, with the metallic base and lote of sparkly glitter. Even if it didn't turn out perfekt I took some pictures....

Jolly Holly and Misteltoe Kisses

These two are from China Glaze collection 'Tis The Season to be Naught and Nice. I bought them in a set that also contained Midnight Kisses. Jolly Holly is a really dark green creme. It's opaque enough in one coat but I made it two just because.... And for a bit of life a put Misteltoe Kisses as an accent. It's a green glitter on a sheer green base. It looked perfect on Jolly Holly!!

I manage to get a little bit of sun... that's rare for this time of year and I'm happy to have caught it!

Small Holiday Sale Haul!!

Tog mig ner på mellandagsredan och fyndade lite lack.... Hittade China Glaze Dreamin' of a Green Christmas-setet från 'Tis The Season to be naughty and nice kollektionen för ynka 140 spänn på Kicks! Ett Isadora 6 ml,  nummer 121 Sheer Amethyst, som jag inte kan hitta när det kom (Kan nån hjälpa mig?). Endast 19 kronor på Åhléns där jag även hittade lackborttagning för halva priset! Myrraoljan från Depend var inte på rea, men fick följa med hem ändå!


In English: I took a trip down town for the big sale between Christmas and New Years and got some cheap polishes.... Found China Glazes Dreamin' of a Green Christmas-kit fron 'Tis The Season to be naughty and nice-collecion for about just 15 euros on Kicks! I also found an Isadora Wonder Nail 6 ml, number 121 Sheer Amethyst, that I cant figure out which collection it comes from (Can anyone help?). Only about 2 euros at Åhléns where I also found nailpolish remover half off! The Myrrh Oil from Depend wasn't on sale but got to come home with me anyways!

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