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Make Up Store Britta

Friday, September 30th, 2011

It’s another fun Holo Friday with Kerstin! Say hello to Britta, my first polish from Make Up Store. It’s a light pink holo, and it’s quite lovely! Well, apart from the bald spots you get if you’re not smart to use a top coat as a base and in between layers. Anyway, I ended up with four coats, and the sun peeked through the clouds every now and then so I could get some good shots:

The base color looks lighter on the nail than in the bottle.

The next one is taken in the shade, where it looks more matte, still with a slight holo effect:

And last, but not least, holo overload!

Now I’m off to have some “Fredagsmys”! In English that would be.. ehm.. Friday cuddle? That may sound naughtier than it is.. =)

Cherry Culture 5 Years Anniversary Sale

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

I got this in my inbox today and thought I would share it in case someone is interested in some shopping:

25% off at Cherry Culture  until September 30th, when you use the code CC5Y. I can highly recommend you take a look at the L. A. Girl polishes, especially the Metal Collection. You can see some of the polishes in these posts:

Sterling Silver Gradient
Iron Red

Millenium
Chromium Green

Hmm.. my nails look quite shorter in some of those posts.. =)

Other nice things to pick up are the NYX jumbo eyeshadow pencils, NYX round lipsticks, Milani’s 3D polishes (I have Cyberspace and Hi-Res so far) and so on.

Happy shopping! I might pick up a few more things even though I placed an order only a month ago.. *shopaholic*

 

Holo Friday With Nubar Reclaim

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Kerstin at Skimmerskuggan has started up a Holo Friday series, and posting holo polishes every Friday. Today I finally managed to get something up for the theme. This is my first Nubar polish, and a gorgeous one at that! Reclaim is a beautiful medium grassy green with a good holographic effect, and was quite easy to apply.

I was expecting some guests when I decided to put this one since the sun was showing itself, so I slapped on two quick coats which dried almost instantly, went out on the balcony to take a few pics and then the guests arrived. So this was a real quick one!



Isn’t it wonderful?

China Glaze Skyscraper

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Skyscraper is a dark blue jelly loaded with silver glitter, and while I wore it I could hardly keep my eyes away from my nails! What you see here is three coats (if you have short nails you can probably do just fine with two) plus a layer of China Glaze Fast Forward. I didn’t find it very gritty at all, and it got quite smooth with top coat.

Unfortunately the sun had troubles breaking through the clouds, I guess it would have looked better in full sunlight.

The next photo is taken inside with flash, the base looks a little darker there, and that’s more what it looks like inside.

And a close-up under the kitchen lamp:

Yummy!

My Latest Haul

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

I just wanted to show you what I ordered from Nailsupplies.us, as you can see it was before the OPI’s disappeared from the site.

First we have five China Glaze polishes from the Metro Fall collection.

L-R: Trendsetter, Traffic Jam, Street Chic, Concrete Catwalk, Skyscraper.

And the rest of the polishes, which I’ve had on my buying-list for a while:

L-R, China Glaze Senorita Bonita from the Island Escape collection, OPI Serena Williams Glam Slam! England collection with Grape… Set… Match and Servin’ Up Sparkle, and OPI Last Friday Night from the Katy Perry collection.

I’m curious to try out the Metro polishes, I’m not a creme-fanatic but I ended up with three cremes anyway.

Is there anything in particular you want to see?

KleanColor Metallic Black And Some Layering With Nfu Oh 48

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Mmmm.. black… *said in Homer Simpson style while drooling*. KleanColor Metallic Black looks nearly black with its silver shimmer, and dries a little matte. I really love this finish, and as with the rest of the polishes in this collection one coat was enough (except for the ring finger, I was clumsy and dented it).

It looks like there’s tip wear, but I had just filed my nails and it kind of looked weird because of that.

The shimmer looks quite lovely in the sun.

While I was taking photos inside, my cat Lakrits wanted to join in, so here you have a fur background =)

I thought this polish was perfect to layer something on, so I chose my Nfu Oh 48 to put on top of it. That one has a sheer pink base, with silver shimmer and flakies that change color between yellow, orange, green and some kind of salmon pink. Let’s see what that looks like:

I really like this combination!

Here you see some of the color shifts in the flakies.

Ooops, haven’t done my cleanup I see..

KleanColor Metallic Aqua

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

I’m continuing trying out KleanColor polishes, now it’s time for Metallic Aqua. After the staining from Metallic Pink I thought it would be best to use a base coat, so I put on Seche Ridge Filling Base Coat, and then one coat of Metallic Aqua. I don’t remember having any troubles with the drying time here.

And what do I have to say about this one? I love the color! I wouldn’t really call it aqua though, it’s more blue than that.

In natural light.

With flash to show the shimmer.

Some Konad Practice

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

While I was wearing KleanColor Mango I wanted to practise some more on my non-existent Konad skillz, so my right hand ended up with some black stars:

They’re far from perfect, but with time I may be confident enough to do a real manicure with stamping. I used Konad’s special polish in black, and stamped with the M3 plate.

I was also curious about how it would work to stamp with a normal polish, so I chose China Glaze Harmony for my left hand. Being a kitty lover I tried out the leopard pattern on plate M57. As it didn’t cover my longest nails I improvised some french tips with with a sponge.

Please excuse the mess around my nails, the light was slipping away so I had to hurry up to take some photos.

I’m not really sure if it’s absolutely awful or a little cool. But it was fun to do!

KleanColor Mango

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

The next KleanColor polish I tried was the orange creme Mango. This is such a bright and fun color! I don’t know if it was due to my incompetence, but I ended up with four coats as it got a bit streaky. Other than that I had no problems with the formula. I put on Fast Forward top coat but I did get some tiny sheet marks the next morning (I did my nails in the evening), but a second layer of top coat fixed that.

I took all the photos in sunlight:

Yes, my fingers take on a slightly sick shade with this polish on.. But who cares? Not me =)

 

 

KleanColor Chunky Holo Purple

Friday, August 19th, 2011

I decided to layer Chunky Holo Purple on top of KleanColor Metallic Pink and Metallic Purple, and I think it looked better on top of the purple. The pink and purple both got a deeper and warmer tone by Chunky Holo Purple. I have to say that I’m not too happy about these pictures, the two coats I applied got a bit messy (especially on my ring finger), and it didn’t help much with a top coat. I guess I’ll have to give this polish another try in the future.

Inside in natural light. Here you can see some of the yellow/orange/green tones in the glitter.

Some pink tones here.

And since I’m not happy with these photos I give you a random cat photo as well, with our little Sisco in an apple tree: