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... 

OPI - Can't find my Czechbook with flowers (OPI - Koala Bear-y)

So today it's Friday and I painted my nails already on Sunday nigh,but yes this is how it is when you have waaaaaay to much in Uni so that you forget to upload a blogpost.

Here you have Can't find my Czechbook on its own. It's a soft blue, not light light blue but still not extremely dark either... Ok that was really a shitty explication on how the blue is but I think you can see from the pic otherwise you can always google search it. A little reminder that my pics are taken with flash, it's pitch black outside here in Sweden so there is no other way to do good pics.

And here I painted some flowers or poppies (well that is a flower, so yeah) by using OPI  Koala Bear-y and a black nail art pen from Kiss Nail Art Paint.

OPI - Mod About You ( one part of OPI's Breast Cancer 2014 duo)

So one of the polishes I bought this week was Mod About You, one of the two polishes that are the duo from OPI's Breast Cancer 2014 pack. It's a very soft shade of pink.

As you can see it's a very soft shade of pink. I had to do two layers so that I had full coverage and a deeper depth in the colour.

I was not going to...

but I did anyway and did it means bought more polishes...

I had a 20 % coupon so I bought the OPI Breast Cancer Awareness 2014 polishes The Power of Pink and Mod about you with that. Then when I went to H&M, cuz I was buying more nail polish remover, I saw that they had lower the price for China Glaze and that they had my favorite white which is White On White.

Trio with tape

On Sunday I painted my nails with these 3 green/blue/grey-ish polishes over my white nails, I used China Glaze White on White.

To do this design I wanted to use my striping tape that I bought at Born Pretty Store but then I decided to use normal tape and cut it with my scissors instead since I wanted different sizes and I didn't have the patient to add 2-3 striping tape when I wanted a thick line.. so yeah here is the result.

This is my left hand

 and my right hand.

The green polish is Essie Mojito Madness, the grey-ish polish is OPI Thanks a Windmillion and the blue-ish polish is Yesensy and I think the name or number is 049.

The design in my head was much nicer, this is just ok, and to be honest it takes a lot of time to do this with all the tape. You kind of have to be fast doing it cuz the polish starts to dry and then it's a bit hard to take the tape of the nails.

Cat and paws nails inspired by Cutepolish

So last night I took away the other nailpolish I had on my nails and painted this... Today we are going to Stockholm to see Ed Sheeran and I thought this design would fit quite well for the occasion ( Ed has a cat paw tattooed on his arm, the previous CD, +,  was orange and he likes cats...). Yeah I know, it's not like he ever gonna see my nails but I like the design and every time I get the chance to do something I have seen and liked then I take the chance to do it :) 

I started off by painting my nails with a Base coat and then I did french manicure with the black and orange polishes. I did 2 layers so that it was opac. I then took the dotting tool and made the paws on the orange tips. On the black tips, as you can see, I added more black to do the cat face, ears and tail.

This is all the polishes I uses: Ridge Filling Base Coat from Seche, Manhunter from H&M, 02 hello summer! from Essence, 944 Innocent from Sinful Colors, SPA12 Black and SPA02 White from Kiss Nail Art Paint and Dry Fast Top Coat from Seche Vite. And my dotting tool..

A lil pic with the bottles. Manhunter is my favorite black, which I notice yesterday when I painted...it's almost empty :-(

Here is Cutepolish video on how to do this, just follow Sandi's directions and you will be all fine :)

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.

Essie - Shearling Darling & Toggle To The Top

Hey people...Sorry for not uploading at once (even if I posted a pic of the nails on Instagram some days ago and said that more info about the polishes where coming here on the blog.) 

So right now I'm wearing two Essie polishes on my nails (why do we always paint the ring finger in another color? Like I have always done that without questioning but my friend asked me that when I posted a picture on FaceBook and I started asking myself that. SO WHY just that nail and not another ?)

Well back to the polishes, as I wrote it's two Essie polishes. One is Shearling Darling a dark red, perhaps bourbon or red/brown color. And the other is a red glitter polish Toggle To The Top. All are very Christmasy and perfect for the holidays. I did a bit of searching and both this polishes are from last year, the Winter 2013 collection and they have the numbers 282 (S.D) and 285 (T.T.T.T). I found both of mine at two different times in the sale section at H&M (also two different stores). In Sweden Essie is about 129 kr/each and I "only" payed 50kr /each.

Shearling Darling and Toggle To The Top taken with flash, so just keep that in mind since they are darker on the nails.

Stamping Sunday became Stamping Friday night

 So after Fridays post about IsaDora - 738 Blue Lagoon. I sat down and did some stamping with the new plates that I got from Born Pretty Store. I decided to use the m65 plate and with an teal colored nail polish I stamped over the baby blue that I already had on my nails. So to this I used, not only the above mention IsaDora and stamping plate but also, Azul Eléctrico from the brand COLORfuN (which I got from my cousins girlfriend in Mexico). It was very easy to use as a stamping polish and it's a beautiful teal. Before I got this polish I had never heard of if and to be honest I haven't found anything related to it ever since then when I got it. If you find any then do buy it cuz it seams like a really good brand.

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

IsaDora - 738 Blue Lagoon

 So last night I painted my nails with this wonderful blue, 738 Blue Lagoon from IsaDora. I had totally forgotten about this color, mostly cuz my polishes are stored in 3 Helmers and I don't see what I have and then always go for the once I really really like. I so need some nailpolish racks for my almost 400 polishes (iiiii when did that happened !!!!)

Blue Lagoon is a very nice and opac, after 2 layers, nailpolish. It may be even better as a summer polish since I think it will suit better for a tan skin and not my autumn/winter colored hands. They are so pale right now and it will be even worse in the next couple of months. We woke up with frost on the grounds today and the leaves have been falling off the trees.

Nail mail from Born Pretty Store

Today my package from Born Pretty Store finally arrived, sooooo happy!! I saw the mailman when he came in his little car and I had to run (like every day) to the big window that faces the street and I saw that it was something bigger in the bundle that he dropped down the mailbox... 

 So this was all the things in the nail mail. Holder for all my stamping plates, 4 plates, 5 dotting tools, stampers and scrapers, hairband and nail art striping tape. 

Here is a close up on the stamping plates that I bought .

Colorful nails for my friend's 27th Birthday

Today is my friend Sara's 27th birthday and this weekend we had the birthday celebrations. She invited us home to her place and we had snacks and drinks.

The theme for the party was colorful nails :) Yeay I say, just up my alley...

This was my contribution.

I started off by painting all my nails with White on White from China Glaze. After my nails had fully dried, I took a make up sponge and tore pieces of it so I could use it to do my colorful nails. I used Amazon....Amazoff, Formidably Orange, Ridiculously Yellow, Seriously Purple and Riotously Pink all from OPI.

With the make up sponge I dabbed on the different colors on the white base to create the colorful nails.

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.

OPI - Dutch'Ya Just Love OPI?

Today I painted my nails, in a new length, with one of the OPI polishes that I bought at Rusta in Karlstad. For all the ones that live in Sweden check your Rusta stores for OPI, specially now when the have raised the price to 155 kr, I bought this for 35 kr each!!!! Super bargain.

It's Dutch' Ya Just Love OPI? a purple cream polish with golden shimmer. It looks darker on the nail then in the bottle and in the bottle it's more shimmer but I really like it.