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Bloody Halloween Nails

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Since it’s Halloween I thought I’d post a little idea I had for a bloody Halloween manicure. And since I feel like scaring you all to death I will start by showing you this… my bare nails!

Ah teh horrorz! That’s what you get for always wearing nail polish..

Anyway, I wanted to do a bloody manicure so I used these things:

A blood red polish (Depend no. 19) and a nude polish (Mavala Reno). The pin is used as a dotting tool, as I don’t own a real one.

So what I did was applying one coat of the nude polish, i probably would have needed more coats since my nails still look yellow. But hey, it’s scarier this way =) Then I put a few drops of the red polish onto a piece of paper, and then dipped the pin in it to paint  along my cuticles. I randomly dragged out some of the polish to make it looks like dripping blood.

And here’s the result!

It was really quick and easy. I know the photos suck, but the sun is now hiding from Sweden..

And with this I wish you all a Happy Halloween!

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L.A. Girl Millennium

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Here’s another fantastic polish from L.A. Girls Metal collection, the purple Millennium. Like Chromium Green this is a metallic kind of shade with silver micro glitter. It’s a beautiful medium purple and applies really well. This is also an old NOTD so I don’t remember how many coats I did =) Probably two or three.

Isn’t it gorgeous? I can’t wait to try out the rest of the polishes I have from this collection.

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AllYouDesire’s Giveaway!

Friday, October 15th, 2010

I’m going to enter AllYouDesire’s giveaway where you can win three beautiful Cover Girl polishes. Why don’t you check out her blog, and try your luck as well? Click on the image to go to her post about the giveaway:

Photo from AllYouDesire.

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Zoya Ki

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

I wore Zoya Ki a few weeks ago, but I haven’t got around to fix the photos until now. This is my first Zoya polish, and I’m in looove! This is a shimmer polish with a beautiful duochrome effect, the base is a dark purple and changes into green in certain angles. I would say the colors are a little dusty, but in a good way! When I first put it on I didn’t see much of the green, it does need the right lighting for it. But I think I managed to capture it in these photos. I have no top coat on, only Seche Base and probably three, four layers of the polish (my memory sucks!). I’m pretty sure thought that I didn’t have problems with the drying time.

On my index finger you can see a third shade, dark brownish something.

This photo shows some more of the green shade. It was so cool to have one hand look purple, and the other green at times =)

I really need some more duochrome polishes in my collection, I have Zoya Adina which I haven’t tried yet, but I think it will be a favorite, too. Do you have any favorite duochromes?

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China Glaze Ingrid

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

The first polish I’ve tried from the Vintage Vixen collection was Ingrid, and I would call this a medium brown color with gold shimmer. This is actually the only brown polish I have so far, but I really  like it! I applied three layers, if you’re better than me to get it even you can probably get away with just two. I also applied Seche Base and Seche Vite top coat.

Photo taken in daylight.

With flash. Here you can see more of the golden shimmer. It’s quite subtle but it gives this polish that little extra.

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China Glaze Awaken

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

Awaken is from the Romantique Collection, and is a beautiful grey (frosty?) metallic. This applied like a dream and I went for two coats (I normally go for three excluding base coat). And for this manicure I used Seche Vite top coat for the first time! I’ve never really understood the need for a good top coat, but I think I’m starting to get the point now =) I thought I put on too much, but it dried nice and quick, and I made sure to wrap it around the edges since I’ve read that it may cause some shrinking of the underlying polish.

Taken in daylight. It looks a bit blue here, but it is really a neutral grey tone.

Taken with flash.

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Wild At Heart

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

I think I first saw this polish at MakeupMyLack some time ago. I decided to get the polish, and after trying it out for the first time I was in love! This is the second time I’ve worn it and the love is still there =) It’s a holographic purple, and it sparkles in all kinds of colors in sunlight! It’s a great formula and you can get nice coverage with two coats.

In the shadow you don’t see much of the holo effect.

Direct sun, do you see all the pretty colors? This one also shows more of the red shade that this purple has.

A little closeup of the bling.

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Punk with added bling

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

Another excellent polish from L. A. Girl, Punk from the Rockstar collection. A dark blue color full with shimmer. It has some duochrome action going on as well, it shifts a bit to purple in certain angles. It’s quite subtle, but If you look for it you’ll definitely see it! I think I applied four coats to get a real depth in it, and it was fairly easy to work with.

As you can see it’s very glossy, no top coat was used here.

Hopefully you can see some of the purple in the second photo (click thumbnail for larger image!).

Also here you can see a hint of purple to the left.

After wearing this for a few days I felt like doing something more with it, so I pulled out a Depend polish that’s just been sitting in my drawer for a year without being used. The number is 155, and it’s a sheer pink jelly, with silver glitter and flakies in it.

Even more duochrome! The flakies change color between salmon pink,  yellow, and green. I think you’d get a similar result with Nfu Oh 48.

So what do you think? I think it was a pretty fun combination.

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Graffiti Subway Green

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

Once upon a time Max Factor released some crackle polishes, named Nail Mosaics, and I tried the blue one. This was over 10 years ago so I have no memory of what more colors there were. Anyway, I do remember that this polish was crap! It was sheer and pretty flaky so it didn’t stay on very well. I probably only tried it once and then it went to rest in a shoebox. This is what the polish looks like now:

It’s all dryed up into big chunks, I saved the bottle because it looks quite cool, it’s better like this than on the nails =)

Anyway, when I heard about the new Isadora Graffiti polishes that used the same concept I was a little skeptic. But I picked up “Subway Green” because I wanted to try it out. And wow, these are sooo much better! It’s a thick polish and obviously dries quickly, so you have to be fast when you apply it. I applied it on top of China Glaze QT with no top coat:

Please excuse the mess and tipwear, I’d had QT on for over a week by this time. It dries a little matte, but I like that look. And I have to say I’m quite impressed that it doesn’t need a top coat in order to stay on!

The thumb doesn’t look quite as good as the others, I think I didn’t get enough polish on the second brush stroke.

I thought this would be just a plain creme color, but do you see the tiny shimmer in it? I have no idea if it’s just this color or if the other colors have it as well.

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What a QT

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

This is the third polish I’ve tried from the OMG-collection, and it’s probably one of my favorites. I like my hot pinks =) Application was pretty much as the rest of them, there’s a risk of bald spots if you’re not careful, and go over the same area twice with the brush. I ended up with three layers which I usually do.

In sunlight. Yep, the nails are shorter since the accident from the last post..

I used my pretty cat Lakrits as a background for this. Taken with flash inside, but it’s a little dark.

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