Blue skittle

As I was pondering about what to wear on my nails for Midsummers Eve this year my choice of color fell on blue as it is the other color apart from yellow in our Swedish flag. Then the work begins to figure out what shade.... And I couldn't decide so I picked out ten different ones and made a complete skittle of them!

 Above, from thumb to pinky we have.... Depend 254, Isadora 703 Petrol Posh, Depend 295, Isadora 738 Blue Lagoon and Isadora Baby Blue (swatch coming soon).

And for the right hand we got, from pinky to thumb... Depend 246, Isadora 700 Bel-Air Blue, Depend 255, Pieces Dolce Blue, and Depend 171.

Both Depend 295 and 255 are matte, but it worked out great with a shiny top coat over them!

What do you think? Ugly or a fun manicure?

Hope you enjoyed!

Dolce Vita

I'm really starting to enjoy painting my nails in these bright pink/red shades and this pink creme is just perfect! It's called Dolce Vita (617) by Isadora. It's not really baby pink, but just a tad bit darker. It has the wide brush and is really easy to paint with. Well, let's see....

And to show you how easy you can switch up a plain color I played with a couple of my stripers... A pink glitter by Lovie and a silver Art Liner 1060 by Depend.

Hope you enjoyed!

P!nk concert!

Last weekend me and my friends (including my hubbie) went to Stockholm and The Ericsson Globe Arena to see P!nk. It was really awesome and I had the nails to match!

I pulled out all my pink swatchsticks and chose and old polish by Isadora that the recently made available again. This is Power Pink (192) and I wanted something more than just a plain color so I decided to take out my Bundle Monster plates and play. This time my choice fell on a nice spiderweb from the BM13 and I stamped with Gothic Black (191) also by Isadora. On top as my topcoat I put Glistening Snow (168) by Claudia to make my nails sparkle!

For once I must have made something right because this manicure just started chipping yesterday and I had to take it off. That makes a whole week wearing this one!

Hope you enjoyed!

Gold and white art

Just some easy nailart to show a couple of my Depend Art Liners.

This is made with yesterdays Plum for a base and then I pulled out number 1061 (gold) and 1063 (white). These look like the regular Depend bottles but has a stripingbrush instead of the regular one and the price is a bit higher.

I started out with the gold one fanning out from the corner of my nail. I then added the with the same way and lastly one more go with the gold one. Looks ok i guess....

Hope you enjoyed!

Striped!

As I was not happy with the latest manicure I did, I changed it after just a couple of days. As I didn't want to have bare nails I painted them with Depend 47, a silver glitter you will get to see on it's own in a while, and then I use the Depend Art Liner in 1067, dark blue. Nothing fancy, but just easy and simple!

I love it! And it does glitter a lot more in real life! The Art Liner is really good and has a nice thin brush.

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!

French Manicure!

After a bit of a break from nailpolish I'm starting off with a nice glamorous French manicure. I've used Isadora Glamour White (649) for the tip and Claudia Glistening Snow (168) as the top coat.

This is photos from my iPhone, nothing fancy but it really shows the sparkles!

Oh, and I did make some finds at the after christmas sales, but those I'll show you in time!

Hope you enjoyed!

New Years Mani

Just realized I never took any photos of these.... Well, here they are, 3 days later and really worn. You'll have to stand it, haha :)

I started out with a image in my head with stamping, silver and blue polish. As I tried stamping with the polishes I've chosen I abandoned the idea and just painted my nails with Blue Heaven (2043) and Silver Ice (2045) from the Depend Mirror collection, the silver one went on my thumbs and ring fingers.

As I was painting and taking my time I realized that I actually have crackle polish in the right colors... Just to get them really sparkly I took Silver Flicks (812) and Mad Blue (814) from the Isadora Grafitti Collection and put the silver one over the blue polish and vise versa for the blue one... It really sparkles!!

It feels like my energy is on it's way back and I hope I can get more time to do my nails and blog about it!

Hope you enjoyed!

Break

I'm taking a break from all of this...

I don't know for how long, but right now I only feel pressure thinking about the blog and I need to find the happiness in painting my nails again! They are mostly bare right now and I can't seem to find the time to paint them in between work, cooking and bed....

From time to time I will post photos here, but not as often as I've done in the past. I'll try to keep the pages updated monthly and take photos when I do paint my nails!

After that's said I want to cheer you up with the manicure I'm wearing right now...

I put Lilac Bikini as a base, taped off half and put on Pure Purple, then I took my striping brush and made the middle stripe in Violet Vain... everything from Isadora.

Hope you enjoyed and see you soon!

Week 25 - Pride/Rainbow Mani

I'm on time!!

I love this kind of manicures with a lot of color!! I really wanted to do a sponge mani for this one, but change my mind and did a striped one instead....

As you can see I slipped a bit on my ring finger... these stripes are painted with my non dominant hand, hence the slipping.... But I'm happy and no one is going to inspect them more than me! :)

All polishes are Isadora, the base is Glamour White, then from tip in is Blue Lagoon, Ocean Green, Aloha and Bananas!

Hope you enjoyed!

Flash!

As I was swatching the Depend 129 a sudden urge made me take out my brand new Konadplate, the Q1 to see if it had anything appropriate... and it did!! The flash was perfect and I chose to do it in pink! (Isadora 192 Power Pink)

Because of the nailart I chose to wear my flash earrings too...  And by the way... my right middle nails is broken off now and I'm kind of trying to figure out if I'm going to cut them all or leave the rest. Any suggestions?

Hope you enjoyed!

Week 24 - Flag mani

I was planning to do the Swedish flag out of last weeks blue ombre... although it failed miserably so I made it today instead! I used Isadora Bananas! (736) for the base of my thumb and ring. Then I made strips of tape and topped it off with Isadora Silver sky, as well as the other nails....

I really love the outcome of this one and think I will be wearing this for the Swedish national day next year!

Hope you enjoyed!

Week 23 - Ombre Manicure

I'm more late than ever... My life has been upside down for a bit! New job with a lot of learning, a birthday party for Linda and my sister-in-law lost her son due to chronicle illness. But I''m still trying and my nails are more often painted now! This one I had to google just to make sure! Originally you are supposed to take a dark and a light polish and then mix them to get the gradient.... I made it easy and looked into my stash, picking out 5 polishes for this....just to bail out of the messy part! Here's my ombre....

Still loving blue and it matches my phone cover! From thumb to pinky: Isadora - Blue Jeans, Isadora - Bugatti Blue, Pieces - Dolce Blue, Isadora - Blue Lagoon and Isadora - Baby Blue.

Hope you enjoyed!

Silver Flicks

Yet another Isadora polish.... this time a graffiti one called Silver Flicks (812). A silver glitter shatter that came on great! Most of my nails I managed to do in one stroke due to the wide brush and it really helped to get a nice outcome!!

I'm wearing it over Blue Lagoon from the Thursday post and I love this combination! If I didn't have any other polish this is what I would get.....

 The fact that it matched my phone-case was just a plus!

Hope you enjoyed!

Week 22 - Splatter manicure

This is one of the messiest manicures I've ever done, even worse than water marbling!! I think if I practice this a bit more I will get a better outcome but I did not have the time today... I actually ended it after I tried on two nails.... It was too messy for me!!

I'm going to show you how it looked anyway, so you can see what colors I chose and such....

Cleaned up... it was hard getting the blue off.....

This is how messy it looks before cleanup....

As I said.... I was not to continue doing all my nails.... I took it off right away and I think I need thinner straws and more practice!!

Hope you enjoyed!!