Here’s another old goodie from the OMG collection, the light beige FYI. I had been wearing only two coats for a couple of days, and before I took the photos I added a third coat.
This is a wonderful polish when you want something discrete, but where there’s still some fun action going on. I love how fast drying these polishes are!
To be able to try as much neons as possible before I’m back to work I chose to use two of the Summer Neons polishes in one manicure, the purple/fuchsia Beach Cruise-r and the highlighter yellow Sun-Kissed. Sun-Kissed ended up with for coats on most nails, and Beach Cruise-r was two coats. I wasn’t really thinking about the thicker formula when I started applying it so it did pool a little here and there, but it looked OK in the end, except some VNL with Beach Cruise-r. It didn’t dry very fast, but I used Seche Vite and took it easy for about an hour before bed, and it did survive the night.
First photo with a bit of sun:
I couldn’t quite get the color to show up right for Beach Cruise-r, it’s slightly more purple than what it looks like here.
Next one is taken when it was cloudy:
And the last one with flash, where you can see more of the shimmer in Beach Cruise-r:
They’re both wonderful colors, Sun-Kissed is really a bright neon yellow with beautiful shimmer. Beach Cruise-r is a bit more shy, I would almost call it a work safe color even, as it’s not that super bright (but still beautiful!).
For this Holo Friday I’m going with less holo, but it’s a beautiful polish nonetheless. It’s the teal colored Saint George, from A England’s The Legend collection. It was a while I ago I wore this, but I’m quite sure it’s two coats as with the others I’ve tried from this collection. It has a slight scattered holographic effect, which mostly makes blue and green shifts in the color. It gives it a beautiful depth and I really like this one!
A few shots in the sun:
(Please excuse the dry hands..)
And the last photo in the shade:
I absolutely love this color, and the holographic particles makes this something special.
I wish you all a wonderful weekend! My vacation is now over and on Monday it’s back to work again *sniffs*
As I wrote in my previous post I got my new polishes just before I was going away on a trip, so I decided that a couple of them could accompany me on that. I chose to wear Surfin’ For Boys on my tips, and I’m With The Lifeguard on my toes.
I found the formula to be a little thick, but I thought it looked OK after two coats. There was a tiny bit of VNL but it didn’t bother me at all. They dried to a semi-matte finish and I added a coat of Seche Vite on top.
Surfin’ For Boys is an insane neon coral shade with shimmer, I don’t have anything like it in my stash.
This shade was really hard to capture on photo! It’s a bright red coral, I think I got close enough on these photos.
And on to my toes. I try to keep them at a safe distance from you so you won’t get a foot shock =)
I’m With The Lifeguard is a shimmery green neon, and I think the color looks pretty accurate here:
A perfect color for your toesies!
I know it’s already near the end of Summer now (at least in Sweden), but it’s not too late for neons just yet!
A while ago I placed an order at Transdesign, and they showed up the day before I went on a little trip. When I saw these babies I got a total neon overload, and my fiance probably thought I was going crazy when I started talking to the polishes and caressing them.. =)
I ordered six polishes from China Glaze’s Summer Neons collection:
L-R: Flirty Tankini, Surfin’ For Boys, Orange You Hot?, Beach Cruise-r, I’m With The Lifeguard, Sun-kissed
I also ordered three more polishes from different collections:
L-R: Color Club Metamorphosis (Take Wing collection), China Glaze Man Hunt (On Safari), Wicked Style (Electropop)
These polishes are all gorgeous, but the one I totally fell for was Surfin’ For Boys, I love the glowing coral shade!
I ordered a bunch of samples from Meow Cosmetics new Joys of Summer collection plus a couple of other samples, and for once I had some time to do swatches of my new pretties!
Here are the Joys of Summer samples (click picture below for bigger version):
Row 1 L-R: Iced Watermelon (blush), Endless Nights, Lazy Days, Heat Wave, Lime In The Coconut, Skee Ball
Row 2 L-R: Cricket Serenade, Sea Glass, Oasis, A/C, Azure Sky, Cannonball
Row 3 L-R: Iced Coffee, Marco Polo, Midnight Sun
I also ordered a couple of samples from the Rainforest collection; Canopy and Endangered.
The free samples are from the new Summer Spirits collection, I recieved Sex On The Beach and Spiked!
So, let’s move on to the swatches. The first photo of each swatch is in the shade, and the second one in the sun.
Row 1 L-R: Cricket Serenade, Sea Glass, A/C, Oasis
Row 2 L-R: Midnight Sun, Marco Polo, Cannonball, Azure Sky
Row 1 L-R: Cricket Serenade, Sea Glass, A/C, Oasis
Row 2 L-R: Midnight Sun, Marco Polo, Cannonball, Azure Sky
Row 1 L-R: Skee Ball, Lime In The Coconut, Iced Coffee, Heat Wave
Row 2 L-R: Endless Nights, Lazy Days, Iced Watermelon (I tried to blend it out a little to the right)
Row 1 L-R: Skee Ball, Lime In The Coconut, Iced Coffee, Heat Wave
Row 2 L-R: Endless Nights, Lazy Days, Iced Watermelon
Row 1 L-R: Canopy, Endangered
Row 2 L-R: Sex On The Beach, Spiked!
Row 1 L-R: Canopy, Endangered
Row 2 L-R: Sex On The Beach, Spiked!
Aren’t these pretty? I’m mostly weak for the blue/green shades like Oasis, Azure Sky and Sea Glass, but I also really like Lime In The Coconut and Endless Nights.
See anything you like? At the moment Meow Cosmetics is having a Founders Day Sale to celebrate six years, go here for more information about the sale.
Edit: I forgot to mention that that I applied a little of Too Faced Shadow Insurance to my hand before I did the swatches.
Finally I’m posting something for Kerstin’s Holo Friday! Here’s an old favorite of mine, the gorgeous dark pink QT from the now legendary OMG! collection. I wore this a while back, but I’m pretty sure I settled with three coats as I usually do. A dark hot pink holographic polish, can it get any better?
Here’s a few shots of this beauty in the sun:
Such a beautiful polish!
I had big plans for my nails for Midsummer back in June, unfortunately I had a nasty cold so I had to stay home and celebrate on my own, but at least I had a fun manicure to look at =)
I decided to do a Skittles manicure with colors that more or less matched the dress I was supposed to wear.
I decided to do the colors in the reverse order on my right hand.
The polishes L-R: Lovie No. 93, H&M Bella’s Choice, KleanColor Mango, China Glaze Gaga For Green, China Glaze Dance Baby
I think I applied about three coats of each polish, Mango needed four to get even.
And here’s a shot with the dress:
I’m all for happy colors now!
I was pleasantly surprised by this polish. I thought it would be hard to apply and greens like these aren’t really my favorite, but I ended up loving it! Gaga for Green is a medium soft grassy green, with a formula that I guess is somewhere between a regular creme and a jelly. I applied three coats and then Seche Vite on top. Here’s a couple of shots of it in the sun:
There’s a tiny bit of VNL but it didn’t bother me at all.
I’ll definitely be wearing this one again!
This is my first polish from Gina Tricot, after seeing this one a few blogs I had to try it out myself. I ended up with four coats as I thought it was sheer when I applied it in dim lights, but after seeing it in daylight I’m sure three would have been enough. Anyway, Viva Glam is a cool golden shade that shifts to a more silvery shade in some angles. It’s quite unique in my stash and I really like it! It’s packed with what I think is called micro-glitter, which was a bit of a pain to remove, but it was worth it =)
In this flash photo you can see that some of the glitter particles have a warmer tone, I thought I saw some copper tones and even some green in there.
Name: Martina Karlsson
Age: 30
Lives in: Kungsbacka, Sweden
Height: 160 cm
Hair color: Brown
Eyes: Green with a touch of blue
Favorite colors: Black, purple, hot pink, teal, silver
Occupation: Systems developer
Pets: Two cats, Lakrits and Sisco
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