HM - Lemon Tree, swatch

Today I'm showing the yellow Lemon Tree from HM. Below is 4 coats and there's a slight VNL but not bothersome enough for me to care. As you can see it's a darker yellow with a hint of red but with out being orange. The formula is creme and on the photos I've got Seche Vite on to make it shine some more. :)

This remind me about the yellow NP18 from Nordic Cap I just showed you. Maybe I should make a comparison so we could check it out. ;) I do love comparisons! :)

I realized afterwards that I hadn't done any clean up so there's some mess on my cuticles but with some luck you're just like me and only notice it because I just told you. ;)

Pink speckled polish comparison

Hi, it's Thursday and let's make it pink with a comparison between pink polishes with matte black opaque glitter. Normally I'm not in to pink polishes (unless they're neon) but with black glitter anything goes, I LOVE black glitter.

And yes, pink and Thursday, for more pink polishes, check out Princessemma and her Pink Thursday theme. :)

At first I thought these three polishes where quite similar based at looking at the bottles. However I soon realized that they're are very far from each other on the nail. It's more like if they would be good for an ombre which means that I must get two more pink polishes with black glitter to make this work! ;) 

 Above you see the polishes on the nails. I've showed them separately swatched here at my blog before and if you want to come to the full blog post, just click the link below for each polish.

Smitten Polish - Ladybird. The darkest pink of the bunch and a crelly and 4 coats.

Pretty & Polished - Elvis Pink Cadillac. A baby pink jelly and  4 coats.

Smitten Polish - Cookies & Cream. A apricot colored crelly and 4 coats.

Nordic Cap Star Nails - NP18 (yellow), swatch

Of cause I also had to purchase the new Swedish budget polish available, Nordic Cap which just suddenly arrived in our everyday supermarkets and for 10 SEK it's hard to resist. (About 1€, £0,9 or $1,5)

I picked up four colors and this is one of them, of cause I had to try on the yellow! ;)

 This is as you can see a darker yellow toned polish and the formula is jelly.

I used four coats and there's still some VNL as you can see. The polish it self was very shiny and glossy and the brush was surprisingly good.

I liked this, however I have other yellow polishes very similar to this, but with fewer coats. Basically it's an okay polish for the price. I will probably end up buying more colors.

Sloping funky french with zebra stripes

Today I'm showing zebra stripes again. It's the print I'm always making when I'm out of fantasy, this will be zebra nail combination nr. 15, apparently according to my labels. These nails are archive nails, must empty my archive but I have so much new funnier things that I want to show too. ;) Any how, this time I've used a black base and white stripes instead of my regular white base and black stripes. I quite like the result.

Polishes used:
Paris Memories (black)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - White
Sure Promise (pink glitter)

Oopsie Daisies - Bluebird, swatch

It's Blue Monday and I'm showing a blue beauty from Oopsie Daisies. For more blue polishes, please check out Lindas Nailorama.

 Basically Bluebird is a baby blue crelly with small round brown and copper glitter.

 I'm pretty sure I used three coats for this.

 I really loved this polish, except for one thing.. It had small balls of pigments that I couldn't smear out with the brush, I've also rolled the bottle in my hands to mix it more but it hasn't worked out. I guess that it doesn't show that much but it's annoying.

Above you might see some pigment balls sticking up from the side of my ring finger.

I like the name of it, the polish is suppose to look like a birds egg with speckles. I really like that the glitter isn't black, but brown and copper. I also like that the glitter is small and therefore subtle comparing to all my other polishes like this one.

Do you got any trick or solution when a bottle of polish isn't properly mixed?

Side-flower french manicure

It's Sunday and Lelack's Nail Art Sunday theme is free. So this weekend I want to show you a nail art I did about two weeks ago. It's a french manicure embellished with thin flowers and red rhinestones. I'm really content over the result, I especially like the thin flowers. I also miss the length of my nails, I cut them down after this manicure and they haven't returned to the length I feel most comfortable in yet.

Polishes used:
HM - In It For The Game
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Red 2MM rhinestones

Lush Lacquer - Neon Lights, swatch

Today I'm showing the ultimate summer polish, it's neon in lots of colors in one polish!

Basically by looking at it it's a gorgeous polish with four sizes of hexagons in four matte neon colors. The colors are neon pink, neon yellow, neon green and neon orange.

 The base color is white and I would call it a crelly and I used 3 coats. I guess two coats could do the trick too, and I'd also recommend this for layering on white. The drying time was fast, before I had got the to last nail it has completely dried on the other hand which is amazing.

Now to the problems; the formula is a bit grainy with the glitter, making application hard. I'd almost go so far that I'd say that the polish contains a little bit too much glitter, there's definitely no need for fishing, almost the opposite to get less glitter on the brush. Top coat is a must for this, there's reflective curling on the glitter and since there's so much glitter they almost stick up from the surface. I think I used two coats of SV for this and I think I refilled with another coat of SV the other day.

When I wrote this post I remember being more positive than I am now, despite that I will definitely use it again, the hazzle is worth it because I love the color combination.

I've tried my other Lush Lacquer I bought so you'll see them here soon. :)

What do you think about Lush Lacquer? and Neon Lights?

W7 - Purple Rain, swatch

Today I'm showing W7 - Purple Rain. I first bought it because I thought it was part of the duochrome Planet Collection from W7. I later realized that it wasn't but as you can see from the bottle it looks like it do have some duochrome range.

However on the nails there's nothing duochrome about it. It's hard to explain the finish of this, but I would say it's glass-flecked and warm purple toned. On my ring finger I've used 3 coats on my naked nail and on my other nails I've used a black creme base and 2 coats. As you can see there's some color difference but it covered better than I thought on its own.

 

 I've also chosen to decorate this manicure with a light blue flower rhinestone as you can see. :)

I really want to wear Purple Rain again, I don't think my photos makes it justice. When the sun return I'll try use it again and show you again. :)

Sunshine Award

The rules for this award are easy and fun:

- Thank the person who nominated you!
- Post the award logo on your blog

- Share 7 facts about yourself

- Nominate 5 or more blogs that inspire you

Last week I was nominated to the Sunshine Award by Little Miss Nailpolish. Sorry it took so long time but I did't have the time until now. I also saw that Fastnaglad also has given me this award now. So thank you so much both of you! It makes me so happy to recieve this.

The seven facts:

1. It was about two years ago I last counted my nail polish stash and I have no clue how many I got today.
2. I now got a bachelor in industrial design and really hope I'll get the opportunity to work with it in the future.
3. I'm not really into chips and salty snacks, my favorite combination is Marabou milk chocolate with these pink Ferrari cars.
4. I'm more of a dog person than anything else. Even though I like all kinds of animal.
5. I don't like soft drink or bubbly water and I don't like hamburgers and pizza that much.
6. I do like cooking my own food from scratch and baking my own bread etc.I don't like all the additives they put into food.
7. I have a boyfriend and dog and we live together in a flat in the north of Sweden.

There's a lot of people who inspires me, some because they have beautiful nails and shows beautiful swatches and some people inspires me because of there innovative nail art and technique. And some are even both. ;) I've been a bit slow here so I've seen that many of the bloggers I like have already got this award, but some will get it anyhow. ;)


Beauty by Shortylegs
She is actually one of few beauty and nail blogs I read. Most blogs I read are mainly only nail related. She is very detailed in her posts and she seems like such a nice person!

Fastnaglad
I know she's already done this award but I can't help my self having her here as well, I really adore her nail art skills. She always has nail art's that feels very unique and that feels so inspiring to look at.

Hon med naglarna
She's had a little blog paus now, but I've followed her for a long time and her nails are beautiful and I love her nail art and swatches. As soon as I see that she's updated I'll go and check it out.

Ithinity beauty
This is a talented and nice girl I've followed for quite some time. She's showing beautiful nail art's and I'm always looking forward to see what she's come up with.

Sleepy Elin
She's a quite "new" blogger but she's already popular and it's understandable, she shows the most beautiful swatches and it's almost dangerous to check her photos because I end up putting lots of polishes on my wish list!

Pene Negler
I also wanted to ad a 6th blogger which is a norwegian blog I've started to read this last period of time. I really like reading her posts and looking at her photos. She deserve some extra attention and is well worth a visit. :)

I realize that it would be easy to fill in many more blogs and bloggers as well, there are so many of you out there who's so inspiring, have awesome nails, shows beautiful swatches and nail art's, write awesome text and you all seems so nice and kind. Basically you all, both mentioned and not mentioned, makes blogging so much funnier for me. :)
Thank you ALL for being so awesome! :)

China Glaze - Surfin' For Boys, swatch

Today I'm showing a bright neon orange jelly-like polish with pink shimmer making it look coral. I used
3 coats and there is some vnl but not so much that I bothered. Surfin' For Boys was in China Glaze's 2012 summer neon collection for those interested. ;)

I must say that I really like love this polish, it's so vibrant and perfect for summer and tanned hands. It's also unique in at least my collection having this cool shimmer in the neon.

Blue My Mind sloping funky french

Hello, today I'm showing a blue sloping funky french with black stripes and orange rhinestones. As you can see by the length of my nails these are archive nails. But I hope you don't mind some length differences here in the blog. :)

With some luck, if Linda accept this as blue enough, this could join Lindas Nailoramas Blue Monday. ;) But I could understand if it's too multi colored. :)

The blue is the well-known Blue My Mind from HM. A well-know fact is that some people's blue-pigmented polishes (like this one) has faded, and as soon as I got time I'll find mine and check out if mine also has faded because I suspect it has.. 

Polishes used:
HM - Blue My Mind
LA. Color Art Deco - Black
1 MM orange rhinestones

Mickey Mouse funky french nail art

Nail Art Sunday at Lelack and the theme was "Disney". I must confess that I've never been that interested in Disney like some people I know are. Anyhow, I decided for old version Mickey Mouse and wanted to do it like a funky french. I think this has potential, but I wasn't so steady on my hands today and I couldn't find my favorite tools..well it's not perfect but I'm showing it anyhow. Hope you'll still like it. :)

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Sensuous
HM - In It For The Game (white)
Kleancolor - Black
Sure Promise (black)

Fan brush nail art in yellow and blue

Hi, I thought that I should have lots of time for nail related things this week but I was wrong. Time is moving (too) fast.

Today I'm showing the manicure I wore yesterday. Yesterday, the 6th of June it was the national day here in Sweden so I decided that I wanted to do a yellow and blue nail art. I did a Swedish flag nail art last year, which was ugly.. and I haven't showed it here yet and I'm not sure I will. ;) Anyhow I wanted to do something new and remembered that I have a fan brush. I also saw an inspiring nail art with it but in other colors.

I quite liked the end result, it's not too in-your-face but still fun. :) I'll use the fan brush more times in the future for sure.

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP18
Isadora - Surfers Paradise

Green water marble

Hi!
Today I'm showing a green water marble, I'm also participating in Green Wednesday at Vacker&Underbar.

I was trying this new spray method but the result didn't come out the way I wanted it to. However it ended up looking kinda cool anyhow, feels vegetable like or swamp like. :) What do you think about it?

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Neon Green

Maybelline Colorama - Pow Green

Later today I'll show you an award Little Miss Nailpolish gave me <3

Kleancolor - Pastel Purple, swatch

Let us look at Pastel Purple from Kleancolor! This is two coats with an awesome formula and as you can see the purple leans towards red. I really like it this :)

Whirled away in a green and blue gradient

Nail Art Sunday at Lelack and this Sunday the theme is free so I chose showing you a gradient I did some days ago. It's not my most seem less gradient but I like the color combination and the glitter, it reminds me of summer. As usual Whirled Away is a bit tricky to applicate as I've written about >HERE< before.
Enjoy!

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Bahamian Escape
needme PARIS Nail Polish - 12
China Glaze - Whirled Away