Posts Tagged ‘Green Wednesday’

Illamasqua – Nomad

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

Today I have a real beauty to show you on Karin’s Green Wednesday. Nomad from Illamasqua is an absolutely gorgeous jade green creme. I love how it’s soft and bright at the same time.  This is three coats plus Poshé top coat, it was a very nice formula on this one.

I photographed it in the evening without sun. I’m not sure how accurate the color is, I think it looks a tad too cool in these photos.

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I will definitely be wearing this one again!

Besides the polish, I just wanted to show you an outfit I wore with Nomad. Please excuse the lousy background and weird pose. It’s hard taking a photo of yourself when the cord is only a meter long. Lets just say that I don’t have any plans on becoming a fashion blogger anytime soon.. =)

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This lovely sweater is from Desigual, I love it since there are so many colors in it to match with nails and makeup. You probably can’t see it in the photo, but there is some green in it that I thought matched Nomad pretty well. And yes, I also have sneakers with hot pink leopard pattern!

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Picture Polish – Kryptonite

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

Long time no write for me… April has been a busy month so there hasn’t really been time nor motivation to write any blog posts. But if you’ve been stopping by anyway you may have noticed that there is some life on my Instagram feed in the sidebar.

But today I have a green beauty to show you on Karin’s Green Wednesday! I fell in love with this polish the first time I saw it a few years ago, and finally I have it. Kryptonite is a dark green jelly filled with irregular shaped holo shimmer. My photos do not do this polish justice, it has to be seen in real life. It was easy to apply, and I went with three coats to get real depth in it.

A couple of shots in the sun:

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The next photo is taken in the shade, where the shimmer looks mostly silver:

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And last we have a closeup of it:

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Isn’t it gorgeous? I love that it has a jelly finish so that you can see the underlying shimmer, it gives the polish a wonderful depth.

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Tiger – no. 47 & no. 48

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

For once I have something green on a Wednesday, which means I can contribute to Green Wednesday at Vacker & Underbar!

I found these two polishes at a TGR store, I think they cost 20 SEK each. I just loved the colors so I figured I’d try them out for that price. The formula is quite thin on these and that’s a good thing in my world, the worst thing I know are thick and goopy creme polishes. But even if the formula was OK I did do a lousy job on this manicure with uneven edges and some cat hairs stuck here and there, I hope you can bear with that. I applied three thin coats of each and topped it with Poshé top coat.

47 is the turquoise shade, and 48 is the the light green.

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I really love this color combination, it’s fun and makes me think of Spring. I really needed that with the cold and depressing weather that’s been lately, even though the sun has been out more now.

And what do I do if I’m not happy with the photos? Post a kitty pic! Lakrits is really enjoying the sun and is moving with it during the day:

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Aah, warm sun on my tummy!

And yes, that package has been lying on our living room floor for the past months, things don’t happen fast in our home..

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