Primark - Hello Kitty collection

This summer when I was working in Oxford, I had the nice pleasure to have a Primark just after my bus stop on my way in to work. Which meant that I could pop in before and after work. I looked one day amongst the sale section where they have make up and found something I had searched for a long time... 

4 of what I think was a 6 piece collection with Hello Kitty nail polish. Apparently the collection had several parts, like eyeshadow, brushes etc. I'm just happy I found what I found. 

So I got these four 

* Beat Box - lilac

*Respect - deep metallic blue

*Got Dat Thang - cerise

*Meltdown - pink 

Sheer tints. How to and manicure.

 Some days ago I did my own Sheer Tints ( I can't pay $25 for each Sheer Tint from OPI) after I saw a video that Nails By Joha did on Instagram. I know I did something similar at the age of 14 so it's not something new but I have never thought of having a white base and then do nail art with it... 

This is how I did: I used China Glaze Purple Panic, Sinful Colors Innocent (which I call "the Shrek green") and a blue from Primark (that turned purple after some days of mixing the polishes). I used clear polishes from Bissu (for the pink), FOF (for the green) and H&M (for the blue/purple) and I then added about 20 drops of the polishes I had decided for. Give it a good stir and then you have Sheer Tints in the colors of your choice :) 

 So today I painted my nails (on top of the Pink Mist from H&M) with China Glaze White on White and the sheer tints.

UK Haul from Primark, Poundland, H&M and TK Maxx

I have totally forgotten to upload what I bought while working in UK this summer ... I came home  like a week ago.

 Upper big picture is all Sinful Colors from left to right it's  Forget Now,  Out Of This World, Gogo Girl, Lets Talk, Blue By You and Kissy all £1/each from Poundland in Oxford. 

Lower big picture is all Primark in Oxford and all £1/each since it was all on SALE... Got Dat Thang, Meltdown, Beat Box and Respect from the Hello Kitty collection and also a Denim Effect and a blue Caviar nailpolish with the beads
 
Then upper small picture it's Poundland again and Rimmel Brit Blue and Sally Hansen Sugar Coat in the colour Cherry Drop for £1/each

 From H&M I bought Shanghai Nights and Pink Mist for £1/each, since it was on sale.

and last but not least
 
Then it's 2 Orly Choreographed Chaos and Elation Generation from Bath and TK Maxx for £2,99/each

Primark haul

Yesterday I went to Primark and oooops they had reduced price on some of their nail polishes soo I bought some. 

It's the 4 nail polishes from the Hello Kitty collection: Beat Box, Got Dat Thang, Respect and Meltdown

Then also Denim effect and a blue Caviar nail polish. And all was £1/each so only £6.

Oh My...

...how could I haven't written here since end of January!!!!!!! The thing is that I post all my things on Instagram (cos I got lazy and I have to much things to do...) My instagram is here, you can all go and follow :-)

Last time I did a post was of ALL the manis I had had in January (this:)

After that I have added 17(!) pics of my nails, my friends nails and some family members nails that I have done, but not here ONLY on Instagram..... 

The 4th of February 

I did my first plaided nailart :) In pink ! Using IsaDora "115 Water Rose" and Pixi "35 Luminous Lilac"

First picture where like 7 o'clock in the morning with my bed light as a light source and the second picture was when I came home from work and I used the light from outside.. 

The 10th of February

I meet up with my friend that moved back from Germany and she had bought me 2 polishes and brought with her some polishes that I bought from a nail blogger in München :) 

I bought  Essence - "Dreams For Sale" and "Waking Up In Vegas" from the blogsale, my friend bought Essence - "Sugar Plum Fairy" and "As Long As You Love Me". I also got Manhattan - "Lotus Effect" and  eyeliner from Catrice - 140 Chocwave from Daniela who has the blogsale. 

The 11th of February  

 I have previously done water marbling but this time I wanted to try out the spotted effect so I did just like when water marbling but with one small change... I had a spray bottle with vodka in it and I sprayed on the black polish before I stuck my finger in the water and yeap there where a spotted effect :) I used H&M "Manhunter" and "Lucky Lady"

The same day my friend came and I bought some polishes from her :) (she is moving to L.A and is selling of her things that she can't bring with her)

I bought "My Private Jet", "The It Color", "Japanese Rose Garden", "Ate Berries In The Canaries", "Shorts Story" and "Koala Bear-y"

The 19th of February 

My friend came over so I could re-make her nails.

 This first picture is of her nails that I hade done like 10 days earlier. I used two shades of blue from the brand Bissu and then I added some glitter from H&M on her ringfinger.

I did the Caviar Nail Art with the polishes from Primark that I wrote about here

The 20th of February

On the 22nd of February I went to Stockholm to see 30 Seconds To Mars and therefore I made a 30STM inspired nailart on my nails... I did the triad, the symbols and the white with colorful dots from the latest cd cover *LoveLustFaithDreams*

The 24th of February

I had hard to decide which PINK OPI polish I was going to have..... SO I tried out all the shades that I have... 

The 27th of February

I then decided for "Japanese Rose Garden". 

Unfortunately just 2 days after this happened... :

My nail broke right down and actually continued to do so even today ...same nail was cracked in two halves when I took away my last nail art today :( 

The 3rd of March

I painted my nails with 2 different grey holo polishes . Nails inc - "Royal Mews" and Kiko - 400 

A bit of macro of the holos ... so nice :)

The 6th of March

I then went over to China Glazes "White on White " and used a sponge to add H&M's "Miss Stone Heart" and "Manhunter"

The 12th of March

I saw a post on Pinterest, when I was browsing for ideas, on this owl painted on grey holo polish so I did my own but whit OPI's "My private Jet" as a base  and the I used white and black from Kiss Nail Art Polishes and OPI's "Barefoot in Barcelona" for the eyes.

I then also painted the same owl on my dads cousins nail, she wanted to show it to her kids at work,

but instead of OPI I used H&M "Nice N'Naughty" as a base. I had also, the day before, painted my mums nails with IsaDora "31 Burgundy Rose"

TODAY

 I posted this to Instagram, the first time I did a fishtail och braided nail art. I used OPI "Koala Bear-y" and "Shorts Story" and Manhattan "Lotus Effect" in number 1. 

ALL PICS ARE FROM INSTAGRAM, SO SORRY FOR THE BAD QUALITY. I WILL SOON POST BETTER...JUST HAVE TO GET THEM FROM THE CARD TO MY COMPUTER :)

January Month Manis

Well well it's soon a new month but first I'm going to show you the manis I have been wearing this month..

I started the new year with Essie-After School Boy Blazer and H&M-Blue Bliss.

I then went over to OPI's Mariah Carey Collection and the polishes Visions of Love, My favorite Ornament and I Snow You Love Me

I continued with OPI-Visions of Love with Essence-Time for romance

I then did a mani with inspiration from my trip to the US West coast and San Francisco.

I used ALL this polish: Essence-hello summer!, Mavala-Pistachio, BarryM-Spring green, OPI-Can't find my Czechbook and Barefoot in Barcelona, China Glaze-White on white, SinfulColors-Cinderella, H&M-Green street, Manhunter and Miss Stone Heart, a red nail art polish and 3 polishes from Primark that doesn't have any names.

I continued with OPI's-Can't find my Czechbook and OPI....Eurso Euro with a white nail art polish.

Right now I'm rocking IsaDora-Chateau Grey with Sephora-Chaotic. 

What I bought in Germany

This is all I bought. I will write where I bought them first and then pictures to it. 

Rossmann at Spitalerstrasse, Hamburg

 This is all I bought there... I don't know how much I just paid for the polishes cos I also bought some food and shampoo/conditioner and shower gel, but the Colour & Go /Sun kissed was € 1.55/ each and Hugs & Kisses was on sale for € 0.70, so I think you can do the math yourself.

 Hugs & Kisses - 02 Love it or leave it, Colour & Go - 112 Time for Romance and 103 Space Queen and Sun kissed - 02 Hello Summer!

Primark, Waterfront shoppingcenter , Bremen

 €2,50 for all the 4

€2,50 for all the 4

All 3 sets of Caviar Polishes from Primark, €3,50/each

Gold with Green and Gold beads

Pink with Pink and Yellow beads

Silver with Pink and Silver beads

Müller, Waterfront shoppingcenter, Bremen

All this for €18.85

Nail Art Special Effect Topper - 15 Cool Breeze, Nail Art - Peel Off Base Coat, Nail Art Twins reloaded - 01 Edward, 02 Romeo, 02 Julia and 03 Mr Big

 Magnetic Pen to do freehand design in the metallic polishes and then 4 plates to do stamping and the stamper and scraper.

Rossmann, Brunnenstrasse, Bremen

Show your feet - 17 lemon sorbet  was on sale so I only paid €0.90 for it

Kiko, Elbe einkaufszentrum, Hamburg

600 Light Yellow, 601 Mandarin, 602 True Red and 606 Lilac are all shatter polishes from Kiko and they where on Sale... only € 1 /each

Rossmann, Train station Hamburg

I was only returning my bootles that I had for recycling, but then I saw this one that looks a lot like Ciaté - Oil Slick and this Catrice - Genius in the bottle was only €2.75 (if I'm not mistaken)

Airport, Hamburg

OPI - Barefoot in Barcelona, €12.90 but I had a coupon on €10 so only €2.90

OPI - Lucky Lucky Lavender

Hello :)

So today I'm gonna show you a swatch of OPI's Lucky Lucky Lavender from the Hong Kong Collection. Lavender you say....mmmmm or NOT. I think it's more PINK. Either way it's still a very nice color and after 2 layers it's perfect. The polish is a cream polish which covers the nail really good.

 

And since it was Valentines Day, I added 2 hearts on my thumb 

(they are the ones that I bought at Primark on my trip to Madrid)

 

And as always, the color of the polish varies from what kind of light it's in. I always take my pictures in closeup with flash.

Primark Caviar Nails

As I wrote in my post about the polishes I bought in Madrid (read it here ), we went to Primark...since we still don't have it here in Sweden I take the chance to go to every Primark there is when I go abroad :) and the Primark in Madrid was not an exception.

In Primark they sell 2 types of Caviar Polishes, one with black polish and black beads and the other with white or pearl (as you might will call it) and colorful beads or as I say sprinkle, cos it reminds me of sprinkle on cake :P 

Well I thought it was time to test this and I have always wanted to buy Ciaté's Caviar Manicure but once again the country I live in doesn't help much in importing this kind of things and when they do they cost you a fortune, which whit the money you have as a student isn't enough. I looked up how much Ciaté costs and in Sweden it is 199 SEK which is about € 23, $ 30 or £ 19.

Well nuff said

 Well I painted 2 nails in black and 2 nails in pearl and my middle finger I just left like it was. The black itself is actually a very nice black, much shinnier then other blacks I have. 

 

here you have a close up on how the different the colors look like on the nail. The Pearl was much harder to get nice on the nail even if I took 2 layers and a top coat afterwards.

 

I kind of follow the instructions on the package.... the thing is that a part of the package was a part to use as tray under when you pour the pearls, but since I was allowed 23 kg on the flight and I had 22 kg I got rid of things and packages around stuff that didn't break ....therefor also the plastic tray that was a part of the package where the polishes where in, was thrown in the garbage. But in my hand luggage I had 2 shotglasses that (oops) I took from one of the bars we where at on New Years ^-^.
So what I did was, that I poured the beads in the shotglass and then pressed down my nail in it. But the mistake I did was that I added top coat and the color of the beads started to change... the blacks became brownish... as you perhaps can see on the above picture and the pinks- and purple beads discolored. If I wouldn't have done that it would have been all good. I still like it, is not a problem that they have discolored a bit.

And for the price of  € 3,50 I can almost buy 6.5 packages of Primark Caviar Nails instead of 1 Ciaté Caviar Manicure.......just saying