Week 29 - "Rockstar" Mani

I had no idea whatsoever what this mani was supposed to look like and Google wasn't much help... soo I had an idea, I even tried it on a display wheel but my time never seemed to be sufficient to start a mani..... As I didn't have time to do the mani I wanted I decided to just go with the most bling-bling I could, and right now I wanted to try out OPI Extra-va-vaganza from the Burlesque Collection in 2010! This is one of the polishes I got from in my Secret Santa Carly over at Laquered Lover...

It is a jam-packed glitter polish in a clear base that works really well on it's own but I chose to put i over a copper polish to get some more color into it! And for the "Rockstar" part.... isn't bling-bling and extravaganza enough? I think it is!

Blurry one just to see the sparkle!

 

I really love this combo and Extra-va-vaganza is beautiful!!

Hope you enjoyed!

Secret Santa!!

As of today I was sitting here painting my nails in the most amazing blue color when I realized it was time for the daily trip down to the mailbox. Said and done, I went.... but stopped in my tracks as I opened the door.... there, in the stairwell, sat a big box!

I did go down to get the rest of the mail, but just laid it aside when I came up again! As soon as I saw this box I knew it was from Secret Santa at the Polish-aholics Anonymous on Facebook. I was jumping up and down even before opening!!

As I opened the box up I found little individual packages....

These made it even more exciting to open! Inside I found polish (of course), a "hand mask" (I'll be trying that out soon) and quite a lot of candy!! Look....

I'm over the moon right now and will be trying these out sooner than soon! Now for some closeups....

Confetti in "Sprinkles on top"

Mini Wet'n'Wild (silver, copper and purple)

OPI "Extra-va-vaganza!"

A nice green shimmery cute snowman (no name)

Kisse's and Reese's

Jelly Belly

Lollipops - love these!

M&M- candy

Hand mask from Julep

And all this for just $15, that's amazing!! And yeah, I have a question for you.... does anyone have the names for the Wet'n'Wild minis?? We can't find them anywhere. The only thing I know is that the purple one may be "Sparked"....

Well, I hope you enjoyed!

Blues and Greens

Hi!!

Hope you all had a great weekend! I know it wasn't long ago I showed this one.... but of those wheels I have new colors on, this is the one with the longest timespan since I showed it last time.... make sense??

Well, here it is..... The new one is no 19, Crystal by Zoya.

Closeup Zoya Crystal

1: Depend: 227
2: Depend: 225
3: Yves Rocher Mini: Ciel Bleu (07)
4: OPI: Not Like the Movies
5: Sinful Colors: St Lucia Blue Sea
6: Pieces: Dolce Blue
7: Isadora: Blue Jeans (702)
8: Isadora: In the army (706)
9: Depend: 245
10: Depend: 246

11: Depend: 247
12: Depend: 249
13: Depend: 251
14: Depend: 252
15: Isadora: Blue Bugatti (78)
16: Depend: 5007 (Grafitti)
17: Isadora: Dazzling Aqua
18: Isadora: Dazzling Ocean
19: Zoya: Crystal

Hope you enjoyed!

Blues and Greens

Time for the blue wheel.... It seems to be the wheel that fills up the fastest!

1: Depend: 227

2: Depend: 225

3: Yves Rocher Mini: Ciel Bleu (07)

4: OPI: Not Like the Movies

5: Sinful Colors: St Lucia Blue Sea

6: Pieces: Dolce Blue

7: Isadora: Blue Jeans (702)

8: Isadora: In the army (706)

9: Depend: 245

10: Depend: 246

11: Depend: 247

12: Depend: 249

13: Depend: 251

14: Depend: 252

15: Isadora: Blue Bugatti (78)

16: Depend: 5007 (Grafitti)

17: Isadora: Dazzling Aqua

18: Isadora: Dazzling Ocean

I love the two last ones and you'll soon see swatches of them both!

Hope you enjoyed!

Blues and Greens

Well, I'll just have to show you this wheel again......

This is the start of me showing you the Depend Summer Collection and half of it was blue and green!

1: Depend: 227
2: Depend: 225
3: Yves Rocher Mini: Ciel Bleu (07)
4: OPI: Not Like the Movies
5: Sinful Colors: St Lucia Blue Sea
6: Pieces: Dolce Blue
7: Isadora: Blue Jeans (702)
8: Isadora: In the army (706)
9: Depend: 245
10: Depend: 246
11: Depend: 247
12: Depend: 249
13: Depend: 251
14: Depend: 252


Out of these ones number 14 is my absolute favorite! For the rest of the week you'll be seeing the new polishes, not necessarily from this wheel. I chose color by mood this time and I will show you the colors on the wheels as we go!

Hope you enjoyed!

Nailwheel Blues/Greens

Well, as if I would not buy any more polish..... hmf, I don't think so!!

I actually got three new blue and green ones.... The full wheel you can find on my nailwheel-page, it's wheel A.

4: OPI - Not Like the Movies
5: Sinful Colors - St Lucia Blue Sea
6: Pieces - Dolce Blue

You've already seen Not Like the Movies and are about to see Dolce Blue this week.... St Lucia is a save for some special occasion, I don't really know which one yet! As you can see.... no 5 is similar to no 3 (Yves Rocher Mini - Ciel Bleu) No 5 is more pigmented and has a gold shimmer instead of pink/purple. I just hope that no 5 is not as sheer as no 3!!

Well, if you have any questions, please ask!

Hope you enjoyed!

Movie flares

Even though "Not like the movies" is a pretty polish in it self.... I got bored! So, for my nieces birthday last monday I fixed them up with some flares.

I used my Lovie artliner and the dots are Depend 223 (silver) and 224 (gold). This made it look a bit more alive and fun! I'll give you a couple of angels just to show the base color and it's diversity.

I made three flares with my striper, all starting at the middle of my nail to create this design. Then I grabbed the silver and gold polishes and my dotting tool. You can use a toothpick or anything that gives you the possibility to make small dots. I put  three silver dots between the top two flares and three gold dots between the second and third flare. On top I put one coat of Seche Vite and it was dry in an instant without ruining the design!

Hope you enjoyed!

OPI - Not Like the Movies

Yey, my first OPI-polish!! Since I got a coupon for 20% off on any product at Kicks I wanted to try out this high end (in Sweden) polish. I chose "Not like the movies" because of the duochrome and the nice color!

The formula was a bit more sheer than I imagined and I needed two coats for it to be opaque. If you are having trouble with VNL you probably need three coats. I liked the brush, it's kind of medium and fits my nails very well.The color ranges from a mossy green to a bronzy purple and has, I think, some gold shimmers in it. It sparkles nicely in the sun!

All of these photos are taken i daylight with the sun out! The first one is what is usually looks like. In the second photo you can see the variation of colors that this polish shows. In the last photo you see the nice green "base" that just as often wants to be a copper color. Well, I can not say which color it is... it's just fantastic and got me hooked for duochrome polishes!!

And a bonus.... a clip/slideshow to see the polish in action!

Hope you enjoyed!

Haul

I just realized that I haven't showed you my most recent buy, fimocanes! You saw an example of them last thursday. I was searching Tradera for something fun and found these. I also found a blade (knife) to cut them with.

 I got ten of them and I really like that one of them had the shape of an easter egg! As I said Thursday, the where really hard to cut and I need to practice a lot more.....

 They came in this little plastic zip-bag. Really easy to keep them together, clean and whole.

 The knife was a bigger size razor blade. Not big, but 2 1/4 inches (ca 6,5 cm). Just enough to get a good grip and stability. This thursday I wanted to treat myself with something and want to my local Kicks store. As I hade a 20%-off coupon for one item, I bought my very first OPI polish! Me and my friend have been eyeing this one for a long time and I really want to try it. When I was on my way to the cashier I also saw that they had Seche Vite (top coat) a bit cheaper than normal so I had to try that to!

Here they are on my newest issue of the Photoshop Guide. Something I picked up while I was grocery-shopping the same day. The OPI polish is "Not like the movies" from the Katy Perry collectin. I can't really decide if it is a dark green or a purple.....The only thing I know for sure is that it's sparkles!!

Hope you enjoyed!

Collection (Warning, picture heavy!)

Ok, I have for a long time wanted to show you pictures of my stuff but have not been able to until now. It's not much, but enough to work with! Please ask if there anything you're wondering about.

My polishes stands in the lid from another box that fits perfectly. The round bottles in the bottom right corner is some acrylic paint that I'm experimenting with.

Storage

Depend fall 2010

Depend fall 2010

Depend summer 2010

Depend summer 2010

Depend regular collection

Depend regular collection

Depend regular collection and 174 from fall 2009

Depend regular collection plus power and top coat

Makeup Factory, Isadora and Lovie

Coaster is used for glopping polish for the dottingtool...