Geometrical nail art

Almost a year ago when I was on the plane home from Marrakesh I saw a picture of a manicure that I liked so I screenshot it so that I would be able to re-create it later.

Here is what I did. The white base is "White on White" from China Glaze the rest are nail art nail polishes from Kiss USA "Kiss Nail Art Paint" in Black, Silver Glitter, Soft Blue, Beach Pink and Soft Purple. Also the L.A Colors Art Deco in Bright Green and some miscellaneous from Walmart in Mexico. 

Nails inc. - Royal Mews and stamping with BPS plate QA88

 So I will start of this post with this macro shot of my nails wearing Royal Mews from nails inc. It's a silver holographic nail polish. I painted black under as a base coat so that the holo would pop better.

I used this plate, QA 88, from Born Pretty Store.

And this is my final result, a bit dry around the nails since it was so cold here.

OPI - You Only Live Twice and some Christmasy nails

So for this nail day I used the above polishes: 

OPI - Goldeneye 

OPI - I Snow You Love Me

OPI  - You Only Live Twice 

L.A Colors Art Deco - Bright Green

and some nails stones and glitters

I started off by painting my nails with You Only Live Twice, except that I didn't do that on my left hand ringfinger cuz that one I painted with Goldeneye. I did 2 layers to get it proper opac and then a layer of Seche Vite.

I added glitter to You Only Live Twice with the glitter from I Snow You Love Me, the round ones, and stars from a nail art pack from I think Stradivarius that I got from my friends. On Goldeneye I added 3 red stones and I tried (!) to do the leaves for the holly with a toothpick and some green nail art paint. Not completely satisfied with them but ok... 

Sally Hansen - 814 Platinum Star and 816 Malbec

 

So yesterday I painted my nails with these two polishes that I bought at Rusta last time I was in Stockholm. 

It's 814 Platinum Star and 816 Malbec from Sally Hansen. 

814 Platinum Star is a silver nail polish that is at it's best when layered 2-3 times, it can be a bit streaky so be patient with it.

816 Malbec is a dark purple if it's layered 2-3 times, but it might be even better with 3-4 layers to make the color more opac (it also looks sooooo much darker in the bottle then on the actual nail).

The accent nail didn't turn out like I wanted it but it's ok, we all have do some practice before it can be fine or even good.

New Polishes

oh holly, don't let me come close to a store that sells nailpolishes cuz I always find some new one that I want.

Last weekend I went home to my friend in Stockholm, since she had her birthday on Monday and we then had the party on Saturday and went out in Stockholm. 

But before going home to my friend, I did a small detour to Bromma Blocks since they have Rusta (the place where I found OPI for only 35 kr instead of 155kr for each bottle). But when I got there they only had Thanks a Windmillion from OPI, which I already got last time.... So instead I bought 2 bottles of Sally Hansen, like the only place you can get it. Did I mention I don't like living in Sweden cuz the tax is a joke on make up, hygiene articles and stuff like that, so please don't complain if a polish in UK or USA is "expensive", since the price for ONE OPI is 155 kr = $21, £13 or €17 (more or less). And some brands we don't even have here and therefore never will have the pleasure to try out :( 

Sorry about the rant, but saw someone on Instagram complaining on the price for an OPI being $ 8 for a bottle and I was like "yessez woman, that's nothing". 

 So this is all I got

814 Platinum Star and 816 Malbec - Sally Hansen from Rusta 29kr/each

Toggle to the top and Belugaria - Essie from H&M 50kr/each

128 Ocean Crush and 866 Dragon - IsaDora from H&M 30kr and 10kr 

233 Spontaneous - China Glaze from H&M 30 kr

Stamping Sunday #1

Well let's see if I can do this to a weekly thing, since I already know I'm going away next weekend. 

Well obviously this is with flash and I know I need to work on my stamping technique but I'm waiting on a new stamper that is square cuz all the ones I have are round. I have used two different grey/silver polishes: Moonraker and Push And Shove and the base is Dutch' Ya Just Love OPI? all from OPI. 

Here is a picture with no flash and you can now see the different between the to polishes much more then the above picture.

Thumb, ringfinger and pinkie are painted with Moonraker from the Skyfall collection (James Bond) and the index and middle finger with Push And Shove from Gwen Stefani collection. The plate is m70 from Born Pretty Store.

Pink October

October is Breast Cancer Month, even if I think the whole year should be Cancer Year. 

And one of the things a lot of people do is wear pink clothes, jewelry, shoes, bags, nailpolish etc. So I decided to paint my nails with one of my untried polishes. Number 369 from Depend, that I bought in August. It's a very bright pink cream polish that are totally opac and smooth after 2 layers. I did  also add a splash of glitter by using In True Stefani Fashion from OPI's Gwen Stefani collection that came out this spring.

New polishes

The latest nailpolishes (bought from the 13th of September till last weekend) to my stash. . . 

From the top left to bottom right is: IsaDora Polar Nights, Depend 426, OPI In True Stefani Fashion and then H&M Khaki Madness, Lollipop Lullaby, Moonlight, Car Paint Purple, Midnight Mystery, Fluid Metal and Midnight Blue. 

All was on sale:

 H&M was 5 and 10kr, 

 Depend 15kr,

 IsaDora 29kr

 and OPI 83kr (instead of 155kr). . . 

when I see it like this, then I see that's a lot of blue this time... 

Ciaté - Strawberry Milkshake 079 and dreamcatchers & feather nailart.

After my doodling post yesterday I took it away and painted my nails with Ciaté Strawberry Milkshake that is from the Caviar Manicure together with Rainbow  (that I got from my co-worker). 

As you can see it really is the color of a Strawberry Milkshake. I had a hard time applying it to my nails, cuz Ciaté dries fast and you need a bit of polish to cover the whole nail before it dries and yeah I had to little and it got messy in the beginning but then I sorted things out. 

In the evening I sat infront of the computer and did this: 

Some dreamcatchers and feathers using nailart pens from Models Own, Amour, Kiss Nail Art Paint and L.A. Colors Art Deco. 

And here are all the polishes I used: Gold Glitter and Intense Pink from L.A. Colors Art Deco, blue from the food store, red from Amour, Strawberry Milkshake from Ciaté, black from Models Own and Silver Glitter, White and Black from Kiss Nail Art Paint.

And a picture without flash.

OPI all my purple polishes

Today I participated in a competition on Instagram with OPI Sverige and the #opilila. The competition was to create a nail art with their purple polishes

I used all my purple colors of nailpolish that I have from OPI. The base is Lucky Lucky Lavender and then I did dots with the colors Do You Lilac It?, Suzi And The 7 Düsseldorfs, Casino Royal, Significant Other Color, Dutch'ya Just Love Opi?, Diva Of Geneva, Seriously Purple and accent color using the lovely Push And Shove.

Nails Inc - Lanesborough Place and stamping with Bissu & OPI - Push & Shove

Today I painted my nails with Nails Inc - Lanesborough Place, that I got from my friend Rica (check her blog, she makes jewellery), a golden nailpolish and over it a made some stamping with anchors and swallows (with a plate from essence, that I bought in Bremen or Hamburg) with a black Bissu and the silver Push And Shove from OPI. 

The Lansborough Place was a bit hard to apply even on my nails, I don't know if it's starting to be "old" or cuz it's in a small bottle ( I seam to always have problem with small bottle polishes...) 

Gwen Stefani and Mariah Carey mani

Today I'm going to the airport, Arlanda, cuz tomorrow I'm flying to UK with 16 kids that are going to Cambridge or with me to Oxford to study English for the next 3 weeks. So since I bought some polishes yesterday I thought it was good to also use them in a mani so that my nails would look nice at least the first couple of days. 

I used 4 in the morning from the Gwen Stefani collection on all my nails except the ring finger where I painted with Push & Shove from the same collection, then I also added some of the round glitter from I snow you love me from the Mariah Carey winter collection. 

Gift from my co-worker and a nice SALE

Today I finally walked over to my ex co-worker, she lives like 5 mins from me, she sent me a message on Facebook wondering if I wanted this package of Ciaté caviar manicure. How could I turn that offer down, she didn't want it sooo....

After picking up this sweet little thing I went for a walk to the city center , another 5-10 mins walking from my ex co-workers house, and what do I find when I arrive at Kicks... A sale and they have some of the "new" OPI nailpolishes from the Gwen Stefani collection that came out this year... 

So I bought "4 in the morning", "I sing in color" and "Push & Shove" (which also comes with a Base coat polish in a small bottle). The bottles where half price so I thought it was totally ok to buy them.

Silver zebra

I wasn't really happy whit this :( 

I painted my nails with Manhattan - Lotus Effect in number 1, which is a silver colored polish. I was going to do zebra nailart on all my nails but it was quite late and the only light source I had was my computer so I ended up adding shatter nailpolish to my right hand (which is the one i paint with and always get neglected since my left hand is my weak one...)

They had sale.....

So I bought some polishes... Actually this happend for like 2 weeks ago now but still (better late then never)

China glaze - "White on white", "Electrify" and "Bling it on" 

OPI - "Oy-another polish joke!", "My favorite ornament", "Visions of love" and "I snow you love me"

Models Own - Juicy Jules and Peach Sherbet

Some days ago I painted my nails with models owns polishes Juicy Jules and Peach Sherbet in what can be a very nice manicure for a wedding

I didn't take the swirl away on my ringfinger cos I really liked it and therefore it will stay. Juicy Jules is a silver glitter with holographic. 

Halloween nails...

Some days ago I watched cutepolish channel on youtube (see it here) and she did Halloween nail art.

This is the final picture from cutepolishes page on facebook.

And this is my final picture of my nails that I did :)

This are all the polishes I used to do this manicure: 

Kiss Nail Art Paint - Silver Glitter

OPI - Do you lilac it? NL B29

Maybelline - 130 Winter Baby

Julep - Sofia

essence - 02 hello summer!

H&M - Lemon Tree

 IsaDora - 115Water Rose

OPI - Barefoot in Barcelona

H&M - Cherry

Kiss Nail Art Paint - Black

models own - black nail art pen

 On my left hand I did (from left to right): spiderweb, mummy, Frankenstein, jack o lantern and a skull, using this polishes:

 On my right hand I did: bucket of a witches hat, candy corn, graveyard, dripping blood and a ghost. I used this polishes:

What I bought in USA

Hello all,

so I have been home now almost 2 weeks, unbelievable how fast time goes and that goes for both the time on the trip and now coming home....A whole month on the west coast :)


AND yes I did do some nail polish shopping *surprise*

Art Deco - nail art polish, in the colors "Bright Green", "Intense Pink" and "Gold Glitter". $ 2,59/each at Ray's in Garberville, California

Deborah Lippmann - "Happy Birthday". $19 from Sephora at Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade

Essie - "As gold as it get", $9.59 from Target in Seattle

L.A Colors - "Berry Red", $1,79 from Ray's in Garberville, CA.

SinfulColors - "1106 Cinderella", "944 Innocent", "102 Purple Diamond", "940 Rise and Shine" and "923 Queen of Beauty", $ 1,99/ each from Target in Seattle.

Sally Hansen - "100 Wool Lite" and "700 Wool Knot", $6,49/each from Target in Seattle

OPI - "Magazine cover mouse - M59", "Hawaiian orchid - A06", "Mimmie Style - M57", "Lincoln park after dark - W42", "Pussy Galore - M50", "Alcatraz...rocks - F67", "Significant Other Color - B28", "Can't find my Czechbook - E75" and Top Coat. Between $7,97 to $10,99 

What I have been wearing on my nails the last 3 weeks

I know It's been long time again :/ bad me !

 I started of with "You only live twice" from the James Bond collection from OPI

 I then experimented with IsaDora Glitter Graffiti Nails  813 Pink Fame on top of OPI

then I used 53 Noir Prune from Yves Rocher (Colours Nature) togheter with Models Own Juicy Jules 

and now I have essence - sun kissed 02 Hello Summer! and Crazy Good Times 05 Candyction

 I will be gone again, cos I'm off to south of Spain to work for the next 3 weeks, so it will be (perhaps) silence here until at latest the 23rd of July

nails inc. - Royal Mews & Paris inspired nail art

Yesterday when I was sitting and waiting for the family to come I did a french manicure on my nails with some Paris inspired nail art (cos my cousin and his girlfriend did a stop there on there Europe trip)

But please ignore my failed mustache :/ 

 Models Own - Black nail art pen that I got for free last year when you bought 2 nail polishes from Models Own and nails inc. - Royal Mews that I bought at a blog sale last year. Royal Mews is a silver holographic that is really nice and not screaming holographic.