Pretty and Polished - Jawbreaker swatch

Hi all lovely persons reading my blog!

As you might have noticed there was a three day blog pause here, the reason was school examinations. Now I only have my diploma thesis left to do before I graduate. I actually managed to get an awesome partner company to my diploma thesis and I look forward to start with the project. The only scary part is that I after must get a job, preferably one that I've studied for. ;) Today I will try catching up reading some blogs and finally re-paint my nails!

Today I'm showing Jawbreaker from Pretty and Polished. I know many of my readers (me also) love this kind of milky polishes with glitter so I hope you'll appreciate this review. ;)

What you see is three coats of jawbreaker and Seche Vite on top, I found drying time to be normal. The formula was also great.

This polish has as you can see a white milky base filled with different kind of glitter.

I saw purple micro glitter, "middle" size hexagons (perhaps 1MM?) in dark red, dark blue and yellow(or light yellowish green). There's also a fewer amount of "larger" (perhaps 2-3MM?) dark blue hexagons but they aren't that common, I see one in the middle of my pinkie finger and ring finger. ;)

There's also some rare square red glitter as you can see in the bottle. I also managed to get one at my pinkie on my left hand. On my right hand I got more but I wasn't able to make a steady shot of it so I skipped those photos.

So, my verdict about this; I really like it, even though it's not my favorite milky polish. I think that I would have liked it more if there where more square glitters in it because then it would have been more unique.

Sleepy Elin has a giveaway for Sweds

Elin celebrate that she has reached 50 followers at Bloglovin and I can only congratulate her! :D

Sleepy Elin's blog is written in Swedish with a lot of personality and she shows beautiful nail art and swatches plus occasional other beauty related stuff. :)

The rules for the giveaway can be found here on this >LINK< or simply click the picture.

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Kiwi nail art funky french

Sunday and Lelack's Nail Art Sunday with the theme "fruits". I decided early that I wanted to do kiwi's even though I've read that they technically are berries. I also decided that I didn't want to use fimos since it feels like i I use them all the time.

So here it is:

I'm not that content with this, the green "lines" doesn't show so much. I think they look cooler IRL because then I see the lines and the white isn't only white, I've mixed some light green in it too. I've got a new kiwi idea that I'll show another day that I liked way more. :)

 But yea, I like that it's super shiny and things could have been worse. :)

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Black
China Glaze - Sensuous
China Glaze - Gaga For Green
HM - In It For The Game
HM - Mint Madness
Sure Promise (dark green)
Sure Promise (green)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Mint

And yes, I was thinking of using hm - I'm not A Kiwi or CG - Kiwi-Cool-Ada..

Red funky french with a red and white floam gradient

Happy Saturday everybody!
For today I have a red funky french with a vertical red and white floam gradient. The red matte glitter gets a bit lost in the red base polish but was subtle visible irl. The polish I'm talking about is of cause Candy Cane Floam.

Below you perhaps can see the red glitter too. It almost look like a jelly sandwich, which this wasn't.

 I really liked Candy Cane Floam like this; layered. When I used it alone, like HERE, it looked a bit boring.

The base polish is from Kleancolor and is called Blood and the color truly is blood-like. Perfect for halloween nail arts. ;)

I really liked this manicure. The only thing I didn't like was the execution of the red line with Sure Promise. The lines aren't sharp enough to look god, if it wasn't for that I would have been very content with this. Therefor, a 3 out of 5.

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Sensuous
Kleancolor - Blood
Sure Promise (red)
Ninja Polish - Candy Cane Floam.

Color Club - Cherubic swatch

Hi, feels like if I'm doing theme days all the time but if it match it it's fun. :) Today it is Skimmerskuggan's holofredag, or holo Friday in English. There you'll find a link to all kind of different blogs showing holo by the end of the day. I usually just check all the links and drool but today I'll show something too. :)

The holo I'm showing I guess everyone has seen by now, it's Cherubic, the beige holo from the first Halo Hues collection.

It's an awesome polish which almost only need one coat. I think that I tried making two ultra thin layers just to see the outcome but it doesn't matter. It dries fast and the only reason I had SV was more to get a thicker layer on my nails.

Above is the actual color of Cherubic. It looks like a pink shimmer foil and I'm sure I wouldn't have bought it if it weren't holo. Luckily it doesn't look like this very often since it's very holographic in any kind of light.

 Lovely rainbows, couldn't stop looking at my nails while wearing this.

Basically, if you like holo you should definitely buy the collection, it's awesome!

Pretty and Polished - Elvis Pink Cadillac swatch

Hi!
Today I'm showing pink and I figured that I might as well participate in Emmas Pink Thursday. :)

As many of you know I bought a bunch of Pretty and Polished polishes and this is one of them. I rarely buy pink polishes, maybe I find them too girly but this one I really liked.

Sunlight.

This polish is like a pastel pink jelly and like all jellies it is sheer. I needed four coats to reach and opacity I was content with. I think shorter nails maybe could use three or even two. However I like that it looks like a jelly sandwich with all the glitter.

Indoor light.

The color is a light pastel pink and it contains of two sizes of hexagons, lots of small ones and fewer larger ones. In my bottle it looks like if a whole bunch of large one are stuck at the bottom and next time I'll use a stick to poke them loose.

Outdoor light.

Indoor light.

Indoor light.

I actually wore this polish for 7(!) days in a row (not by purpose by I had no time to change) and at the seventh day the polish still looked shiny and there was no tip wear despite the fact that I cleaned the whole appartement one day during those seven days. That's impressing!

Indoor light.

BTW, I've just bought a smart phone and went in to my blog and noticed that my photos looked a lot brighter there. Maybe even a bit brighter than they really are. Any one else who has noticed this?

Polish shopping from Pretty and Polished

Hi!
I hate microwave doors..When I tried to open one at my school my thumb nail slipped and I almost broke it..GRR Anyhow, I rescued it with some filing but I must cut it down some when I get home.

Anyhow, I though I should show some of my nail polish shopping from Pretty and Polished. I've seen some of them on swatches and then I just knew I needed them.

I'm Not A Banana, Everybody Loves Penguin

Everybody Loves Penguin looks awesome, if you click the photos they'll appear larger and then you would see that the yellow dots in ELP are a bit shimmery but not shiny. Can't wait to try it out!

Boy Bleu, Punk'd Up Betty

Jawbreaker, Elvis Pink Cadillac

EPC I've been wearing for perhaps 7 days now and will show swatches soon. The impressing part is that there's no tip wear and it is as shiny as if I'd just painted it. It looks a bit boring on this photo but irl it actually looks cool. :)

This is actually the first polishes I've bought from Etsy and I'm so stoked, it will definitely be more shopping there for sure! :)

My nail art stuff - part 1, rhinestones part 2

At Saturday I started to show my nail art stuff and I'm continuing now, with part two of rhinestones. Much of the fact in the previous post and this post, and upcoming posts might be things that's obvious for some but hopefully someone at least will learn and enjoy it. :)

Regular rhinestones, also called crystal rhinestones

Above we have rhinestone wheels. These are sometime called crystal rhinestones and they are transparent but comes in a variety of colors, looking like glass or a real rhinestone. The bottom of them have silver surface to make them looking shinier. I've seen that they come in two qualities. It's possible to buy Swarovski nail art rhinestones and I think they're in glass(maybe even cubic zirconia?). All the ones I've got is made out of plastic and I think they are good looking enough. All of these rhinestones is faceted. Sometime top coat can "remove" the effect of the facets so sometime I don't paint top coat on them if I really want to keep the faceted look.

Pearl rhinestones

Above I have some pearl rhinestones (which I like a lot).  They comes in all possible sizes and colors. The wheel to the left is the classical white color. These rhinestones are opaque and the colored pearl surface is only a thin layer on top no matter color. Because of this they can show some wear and tear after some days wear. To prevent this I always paint one or two coats of top coat on top to protect the surface.

Black opaque rhinestones

Above is my favorite, namely black opaque rhinestones. The plastic is black all way through so there's no risk of wear and tear even though I usually have top coat on anyway.

There's a lot of different shapes of rhinestones.

Above here we see a wheel of crystal rhinestones with a lot of different shapes. It's literally possible to get any shape of any rhinestone, both crystal, pearl and the black ones. Above there's rectangles, stars, flowers, hearts, squares, moons, tear drops, triangles, oval and the regular round ones.

Above is two of my favorite manicures with opaque black rhinestones and another one with pearl rhinestones.

Green sloping funky french with 4MM black opaque rhinestones

Black funky french with large pearl rhinestones

If you got any questions, please ask! :)

Pastel purple funky french with green cheetah spots

It's Sunday and that's mean Lelack's Nail Art Sunday and this week the theme is free. If you want to find more cool nail art from a lot of bloggers (mainly Swedish ones) that's the place to be when later to night there will be a link list of all blogs participating.

Since the theme is free I figured I'd show a nail art I did for some weeks ago. Basically the nail art is a pastel funky french with leopard or cheetah spots on half of the nail. I really like it and could consider wearing it again and again but next time I'll try a new color combination for variation. The design I've seen on several places already but that doesn't make it less nice, right? :)

The green polish in the manicure; Polish Me Happy is actually a polish I hate wearing as a full manicure, I'm not comfortable in it at all and I don't know why. Okay, I have my guesses, I think it has too much blue in it. The reason I keep it is for nail art, but maybe it's too dark for this manicure. Maybe it would have been nicer with a lighter green for this nail art.

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Pastel Purple
Kleancolor - Black
HM Nail Polish - Polish Me Happy.

What do you think about this? Weird or fun with pastel as a funky french and darker leopard spots on top? :)

My nail art stuff - part 1, rhinestones part 1

Hi!
I hope you're all doing fine! I'm feeling a bit down, my school assignment is going crap and bad luck is happening too often at the moment. I'm all stressed out over my upcoming diploma thesis and it was a long time ago I felt motivation. That's why I've been having less time for reading blogs, cocommenting on blogs, maintaining my own blog and even doing nail art(!). Luckily I have bought a lot of beautiful indies which doesn't need further decoration. (They will of cause be shown here at my blog.) Even though the blog takes time I think it's important that I let my self have some "free time"=blog/nail related time. And I really value every person who read and comment on my blog, that makes me very happy between all stress. :)

Now for some funnier stuff (maybe?) and I wanted to show you my nail art stuff. I have a lot of nail art stuff and I've noticed that many people doesn't like too many photos in one post so I figured that I divide them between posts. This time I'll show rhinestones. (haha, humongous amount of photos anyway...sry)

Above and below is most of my rhinestone wheels and rhinestone jars. In the photo there's also metal beads and flat glitter but I'll show them in another post.

To be able to make nail art it's not that important to have many sizes of rhinestones but I think it's fun and very versatile. I also use them and they're very cheap so I don't mind having many. Below are the sizes I've got.

In most of the rhinestone sizes I've got at least 12 colors but mostly more. The reason for is that they're often sold in 12, 16, 24packs.

1MM rhinestones

I have my index finger as a reference and also a ruler for you to get the picture.

2MM rhinestones

Between 1MM to 2MM I attach with top coat coat because they're very small and the topcoat covers them enough.

3MM rhinestones

From 3MM and larger rhinestones I attach with nail glue, otherwise they would pop of too easy.

4MM rhinestones

Up to 4MM I have no problem having them on my nails, the are easy to glue and the curves on my nails doesn't matter.

5MM pearl rhinestones

Up to 5MM the rhinestones are getting large and they are harder to place. I usually have them in the middle of my finger from the tip to the cuticles (where the nail is less curved.)

7MM rhinestones

The 7MM are harder to use, they fit my thumbs and can be applied on other nails with some tricks. I also use them on my toes as accent when it's summer.

Pink leopard spots and large rhinestones

To make the rhinestone manicure last as long as possible it is good to ad additional top coat (shown as gray) after the glue has dried. The images below is exaggerated, but I do this with the 3MM rhinestones too to be sure that they wont get stuck to anything which they will if the edge is open.

And if it isn't obvious, this is a stylized image of nails looking right in front of them at the top.

To see the funky french in the reference images above, click the image:

Humble Bee funky french