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Cactus’ Nail Polish – Thallium

Friday, September 6th, 2013

How about a gorgeous green polish for Kerstin’s Holo Friday? This is one of Cactus’ polishes which where on sale earlier this year, and I’m really glad I got hold of this. It’s not super holographic, but the bright lime green color just makes me so happy! The funny thing is, this is a color I wouldn’t have looked twice at a few years ago. I’m glad I’ve my taste has developed over the years so I can enjoy more colors on my paws =)

I applied four thin coats and it dried very quickly to a matte finish, so I topped it of with a coat of Poshé top coat.

Here are some sunny photos:

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There’s still some minor VNL but it didn’t really bother me at all.

I wish you a wonderful weekend! I will try and enjoy the great weather outside, as it might well be the last weekend with summer temperatures for the season.

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A England – Tess D’Urbervilles

Wednesday, August 7th, 2013

It seems like I didn’t just take vacation from work, but also from this blog. I’m probably the worst blogger out there, but I don’t really care about that =) With the absolutely fantastic weather that’s been lately in Sweden I’ve just taken the opportunity to enjoy life out there, in real life =)

Anyway, I have a dark vampy beauty for you today, which of course is green for Green Wednesday at Vacker & Underbar! When I chose a polish for my first week of vacation you would think I would go for something fun and bright. But nooo, I picked one of the darkest shades I have. Tess D’Urbervilles from A England’s collection Gothic Beauties is a very dark green shimmer. In dim lighting it mostly looks black but I think it’s quite easy to see the green shade in normal indoor lighting. I applied two coats plus Poshé top coat, and there were no problems at all with the formula.

My camera had some troubles with focusing in the sun, but I think you can get an idea of how beautiful it is:

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The next two photos are taken in indirect light outside, it’s gorgeous even then:

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Oh boy, do I have a lot of blog posts to wade through on Bloglovin’ now..

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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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China Glaze – OMG A UFO

Friday, March 29th, 2013

How about a break in all the Color Club holos for Holo Friday? Though I’m sure I won’t be alone in posting the new Hologlam polishes from China Glaze, I hope you won’t get bored. When I got my eight polishes from the collection I decided to try this one first, the golden olive green OMG A UFO? I love both the name and color of this!

I had to wait for a couple of days before I could photograph it, so there are some tip wear on this. I applied three coats without any top coat. The first thought I had when I started applying it is that it looked like it had a frosty finish before it dried. And if you’re not careful with the amount of polish you have on the brush it can get a little streaky. It dries really fast like most holographic polishes do, on a couple of nails I messed up a little when I was applying the second coat and managed to drag the underlying polish with it. But it did look OK in the end when I got used to the formula.

I found some morning sun to take these photos in:

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I really like this polish, even though the holographic effect seems to drown a little in this color.

And with this I wish you all a Happy Easter!

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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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Color Club – Angel Kiss

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

Yay it’s time for Skimmerskuggan’s Holo Friday again! Today I’m showing you my favorite from the Color Club Halo Hues 2012 collection, the light green Angel Kiss. I applied three coats and didn’t use a top coat. I totally fell in love with this and wore it for a whole week. When I wore it I found it more turquoise than the sea foam green that I excepted, but it was gorgeous nonetheless.

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I also took a photo after six days, as I was quite impressed with how little tip wear I had without top coat:

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Not that I do much work with my hands, being a lazy geek, but still… =)

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Color Club – Kismet

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Yay, it’s Holo Friday! I haven’t even tried all the Halo Hues from 2012 before I’m all over the new ones. Today I have the light (lime?) green Kismet from Color Club’s Halo Hues collection from this year, which I’m sure you’ve all seen already. I had no light for these photos either, so these are taken with flash. I applied three coats and there where no problems at all with the application.

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It’s a beautiful shade that I think will be fun for Spring and Summer.

Have you bought any of the new Halo Hues polishes? I will soon have all of them, I just couldn’t resist them!

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Gina Tricot – Petrol

Saturday, January 26th, 2013

Petrol is the first creme polish that I’ve tried from Gina Tricot, and it was a pleasant encounter. The formula was easy to work with and I  ended up with two coats. I am really weak for petrol colored things, be it nail polish, makeup or clothes, so I couldn’t resist this one.

Here I’ve also tried Poshé top coat for the first time. I’ve been using Seche Vite for a couple of years now, but I can’t really get over how thick it gets after a while, so I figured it was time to try something new. My first impression is that I like the brush from Poshé much better, and it’s much easier to apply. But I don’t feel that it dries as quickly as Seche Vite, but I don’t know if that was just with this polish. I will continue my trial to see what I think of it.

It was a cloudy winter’s day so there’s no sun in these photos, just a gloomy gray sky.

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The edges look a little weird, I’d probably been there with a nail file again, it took a while for me to get the shape right after shortening my nails.

There was one downside to this polish, it did stain my nails a little. But since I don’t use a base coat I guess I can only blame myself.. =)

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China Glaze – Winter Holly

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

I forgot my camera at home, but I just wanted to show you my manicure for Christmas. This is one coat of the dark green Hunter Green from IsaDora, and then one coat of China Glaze Winter Holly, which is a beautiful mix of green, gold and prismatic glitter. Please forgive me for this crappy mobile photo:

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You have to use your imagination to see how gorgeous this is =)

Merry Christmas, I hope you’re all having a wonderful time with friends and family!

Update December 27th: I was lucky to have some sun today so I took a few photos with a fresh layer of top coat on. My, does this glitter eat top coat or what!

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Do you see all the pretty colors twinkling in there? It’s wonderful!

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