Painting kids nails

Today we had people over and with that some kids... My goddaughter, her brother and their 2 cousins.. And of course they all wanted me to paint their nails. My goddaughter is 10 years and her brother 3 years, their cousins are 6 and 4 years. I let them go thru all my swatches and after a very long time they had all decided.

 Here they are all the 4 hands of the kids :)

 

My goddaughter wanted a blue polish so she decided for Rimmel - 130 Apple Berry Smoothie from the Cocktail Colour collection from last year. 

 

 The brother had a nailpolish with him from home, a blue polish from Depend. 

 

 The cousin 1, wanted gold, so he decided on OPI - Goldeneye

 The cousin 2, wanted the same color as his pike so OPI- Lucky Lucky Lavender was the perfect match to it.

Depend - 19 (red)

This red comes from Depend with the number 19. It is a very deep and shinny red and only after 2 layers it look like this. I'm very pleased with it, just sad that it is such a small bottle.

Distress Neon Using OPI - Outrageous Neons

This distress neon nailart I did after the blue water fall nails started to peel but I saved the Union Jack since it was still looking good.

I used China Glaze's White on White as the base and then I used the 4 colors from the OPI Outrageous Neons - Ridiculously Yellow, Formidably Orange, Riotously Pink and Seriously Purple.

I started off with the white polish and then I took all the neon ones and kind of brushed off all the color, so it wasn't that runny, so that I then could apply it on my nails. 

Water fall nails for Robbie Williams concert

Today my 3 friends , Rica, Ida and Milla , and I are going to Globen in Stockholm to see Robbie Williams.. Last time I saw him was in the summer of 2003..

To do nails that fit for the occasion wasn't hard.. I knew I wanted to do a Union Jack since R.W is from Stoke-On-Trent and since the base for the flag is blue is just continued with the blue colors make my first waterfall nailart.

OPI - Lincoln Park After Dark + Essence - Waking Up In Vegas

I made a quick nailart using Lincoln Park After Dark from OPI and to make it a bit more extra i used Waking Up In Vegas from Essence and a Matte Top Coat from H&M. Waking Up In Vegas is a flakie polish that shifts in all the colors of the rainbow. 

CR Cairuo - 20 Green Tea

Last week it was time to start testing my new polishes that I got in Morocco, so I started with 20 Green Tea from CR Cairuo.

I think it really looks like Tiffany blue...

I have searched like crazy for a homepage or something from the brand but I can't find anything.. I had never heard of this brand before arriving to Marrakech, but when I Google I find a lot of people have uploaded pics with their bottles and nails...

Other polishes smell a bit strange but this one smelled like flowers...

Just my normal luck...

What I bought in Marrakech

This are the nail polishes I bought  when we went to Marrakesh.

OPI - "A-piers to be tan" from the San Francisco collection from last year and "Amazon...Amazoff" from the Brazil collection from this year.

CR Cairuo  - "19 Blueberry" and "20 Green Tea"

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...)

IsaDora - Moroccan Blue (721)

3 weeks ago before going to Marrakech I painted my nails with a very appropriated blue polish: Moroccan Blue from IsaDora and my challenge was to see if that blue really was as the blue in Morocco... 

 I did some stamping on my ring finger. I chose to do swallows in white, grey and black.... also this was a very appropriated motive, since there was A LOT of swallows in Marrakech.

 I also stamped a flower garland on my thumb. And I did find the same blue nuance as Moroccan Blue on a table of the restaurant we eat at in Essaouria.

Models Own - Golden Green and Copper Pot from the BeetleJuice collection

is what I currently have on my nails :) I took this pic some days ago and posted it to my instagram. It was warm and sunny that day, well we still have it warm and sunny in the days but in the afternoons it has rained and been a bit windy. Not today however. 

Well so Golden Green is a green duochrome that goes over to a golden color and Copper Pot  is just what the name refers to COPPER but also with a golden color.

I think it's really nice but I would like to do some nail art with this someday

China Glaze and Seche at H&M

Hello,

some days ago I saw on Instagram that H&M had started to sell China Glaze (!!!!) in their stores. So on Monday after work I went downtown and to H&M.... I didn't only buy nailpolish but also shampoo, conditioner and deodorant that they had on sale.

 So I bought Seche's Base coat, manly coz it's a ridge filling base coat and I been planing on buying one for my nails a long time since my thumb sometimes makes me go bonkers... 

 And I bought this China Glaze 1008 Purple Panic a neon, well I would call it PINK and not PURPLE... and it dries matte. And it's really really neon!

ps. the pictures does not capture the real color very well but trust me on that it's neon and pink!

Beetle nails

Last year when I was in Germany I bought Catrice "07 Genius In The Bottle", which is a duochrome polish in gold/green (you can read/see a picture of the bottle here)

I haven't used it until this week, why you might ask... well to be honest I don't know!!! It's absolutely gorgeous. Sure it's a bit hard to get it totally opac and not showing any strokes...but it get soooo nice when it's done.

 This picture is with flash and my Canon camera

This is without flash and my Iphone 4s.

I wanted to do like a beetles back, when they kind of open up their wings before liftoff. 

My inspiration was this:

 A female Golden Stag Beetle....

Pieces from Vero Moda stores

I went to Vero Moda in my city to see if I could find a pair of black skinny jeans.. mine are more then 10 years old and are starting to, well break is the only word to use... 

But I couldn't find any jeans that I liked...I did however stumbled across some nailpolishes since they had mid-season sale... (a lot of clothes where on sale, some accessories and then nailpolish).

I bought one of each color that was on sale, they only cost 10 kr (Swedish Crowns) each.. Which in Sweden is a damn fine bargain!!!

From left to right: Dusty Green, Light Sand, Khaki Green, Wine Red, Mocca, Nature Brown, Lime, Sailor Blue and Midnight Blue

Essence - 04 Sugar Plum Fairy

This is what I uploaded on my Instagram like a week ago. The Happy Holidays nailpolish from essance in the color 04 Sugar Plum Fairy. My friend Constance bought it to me in Siegen, Germany (where she lived until February) which I wrote about here 

And this I took the same day I was taking it away from my nails.. As you can see I only used one part of the 2 part polish. I didn't want to use glitter this time but only the pure glossy polish.

Sunshine

...was what we had 2 weeks ago when I took this picture

I used OPI "The "it" Color" and China Glaze "Electrify" from the Hunger Games collection, sadly you can't really see all the nice glitter coz of the bright sunshine on my nails.