Butterflies in the sky (P2 530 Charming)

This creation I made this weekend. I had it in my head the day I got these decals from one of my nail friends (thank you Syl). I did not really found this creation beautiful but I found it funny :) and it reminded my of wallpaper from a children's room. (that is what my mom and I said) I did found it very happy :)

I was in a supermarket in Germany and an older lady was handing out chocolates for the customers and I grabbed one and she noticed my nails. And wanted to see them and she was talking too fast so I couldn't understand everything but she really liked them. All I could say was Danke Danke Danke with my blushing head ;)

It could also be something for Easter with the clouds (look like dots from a distance).

Base P2 530 Charming, beautiful blue polish that reminds me a bit of Orly Snowcone, stamped with Konad SN white and imageplate M77. Water decals of some great colorfull butterflies, I got them from a friend (not self made). Photo with flash.

Photo with flash under artificial light of my right hand.

Photo without flash under artificial light.

Photo of just the base with the clouds.

Here some swatches of P2 530 Charming.

With flash.

Without flash under artificial light.

With flash of my other hand.

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My Easter nails from last year

I made this last year with Easter. I always find pastel colors perfect for spring and easter (now I also have pastel yellow easter nails I will post that later this week).

Base Catrice LE pastel yellow (don't know the exact name/number) Stamped with Konad SN pastel blue and pink pearl and imageplate M44. Selfmade water decals of Thumper coming out of an egg. And on my thumb decals of Happy Easter (on my ring finger Happy Easter in Dutch).

Here a swatch of the Catrice LE polish from last year.

Somehow there were a few bubbles in it :(

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Disney: Flounder in the sea (on Nubar Absolute)

I really love Disney and last weekend I really wanted to make some Disney nails. I also like sea themed nails, so I combined both....Flounder from The Little Mermaid is swimming in the sea.

Base Nubar Absolute, stamped the bubbles with Konad SN blue pearl and imageplaes M16 and M34. And ofcourse 5 different self made decals of Flounder ♥ Photo without flash under artificial light.

My right hand it is a bit blurry but I just can't keep my hand still while taking a photo. Photo with flash (because of the flash you see the holo effect better but the stamping and decals less).

Here some swatches of Nubar Absolute. It's a bit sheer so I just a coat of China Glaze Sexagon first to cover up my nailline. But after that I used 3 coats of Nubar Absolute so I don't think Sexagon has any effect on the holographic effect of Absolute. It looks the same on my nails as in the bottle.

 Photo with flash.

 Photo with flash other hand with equal size nails ;)

 Photo with without flash under artificial light.

Photo with flash under artificial light.

I have added a giveaway page on my blog, I will post giveways of fellow bloggers there :)
Especially for my Dutch readers check out: Nagelzone she is having her first giveaway when she has 30 followers.

Have a nice weekend!

P2 Sun City 010 Ocean Drive with Honeybees

A couple of weeks ago I saw the new P2 Limited Edition it's called Sun City and it has 5 nice colors of nail polish (and also a lot of bronzing make up and stuff). I bought 3 of them, the yellow, green and blue one. They also have a red and orange one, but I already have something similar to those 2 colors.

This week I really felt like making some sunhine on my nails so I painted my nails with P2 Sun City 010 Ocean Drive a really glowing yellow shimmery polish. P2 itself calls it metallic. First I'll show you my nail art photos, later the swatches and bottles photos. I really can't take good photo's with my left so sorry but most of them are of my left hand with my short nail in the middle ;)

Base P2 Sun City 010 Ocean Drive. Honeycomb stamped with Konad SN pastel orange and plate HB34 and the bees stamped with Konad SN black also HB34. I had to stamped the full nail on my thumb twice that did not went so perfect but it doesn't bother me ;) Photo with flash.

Photo without flash under artificial light.

Photo of my right hand, some how I can't keep my hand normal. But I do want to show you how it looks on nails with equal size ;)

With flash under artificial light.

I only took one swatch photo:

Sometimes I don't like yellow polish but I do like this one, it looks like it's glowing. I call it sunshine in a bottle ;) You can see my nail line but in real life this wasn't really showing, I think it's because of the flash. But I also could have done 3 coats instead of 2.

Here a photo of the 3 bottles I have from this collection.

Yellow 010 Ocean Drive, Green 020 Copacabana, Blue 050 La Rambla. I also like the square bottles :)

And here you can see them swatched on a wheel, I personally find them very pretty. Love the glowing shimmer effect ♥

Alessandro No 261 with flowers

This is one of the polishes I won with the Show us your Country Challenge on Parokeets a couple of months ago. It's a nice color with a bit of duochrome, but I found it hard to capture that with my camera. First I'll show you the photos with nail art, below are the swatches. I made this about 3 weeks ago before I broke my nail ;)

Base Alessandro No 261 stamped with China Glaze Metallic Muse and XL plate F. The pink dots are made with a dotting tool and China Glaze Emotion. Photo with flash.

Photo with flash under artificial light.

Photo without flash under artificial light. Here you can see the purple/blue duochrome a little bit.

Now here are the swatches, like a said it was difficult to capture it's true beauty so I have a lot of different photos.

With flash.

Without flash under artficial light.

Without flash under artificial light, a bit of strange skin color, but here you can see the purple glow a little bit.

Also without flash under artificial light with some strange settings but in a different angle.

The bottle, in the bottle you can see the two colors the best.

Finally with flash under artificial light, then the purple glow is hardly visible.

Thanks again to Parokeets for this lovely polish ♥

Brazil: Impala Rocket World Cup nails

I had Impala Rocket as a base nail polish on my nails during the World Cup soccer/football last summer. It was for the match Brazil - Holland. So I thought it would be nice to keep my nails in balance. A little bit of Brazil to support our Dutch team ;)  I've made this creation in July 2010.

Base Impala Rocket a glossy bit of silver gray polish, sponged the tips with Konad SN orange and some orange rainbow glitter. Self made water decals of an orange lion with a football. And some stars stamped in the colors of our flag Konad SN red, white and blue with imageplate M3.

They did bring good luck for Holland because we won the match ;)

Brazil: Impala matte magenta with flowers

I'm not really sure if I like matte nail polish, I do like to make something matte before removing it just to see how it looks. And I love OPI suede, but most of the time I make a polish that is matte of his own shiny with a (special) topcoat. Impala matte magenta is a polish that is already matte of his own. It's a really bright color. It's a very thin polish so my nail line was still visible at 3 coats so I used a nude base color from P2 first. Dries quick but it also shrinks on your nail (see my index finger first photo).

First I'll show you the photo's with nail art, below are the swatches.

Base Impala matte magenta. Stamped with Konad SN white and  XL imageplate F. The yellow dots are made with a dotting tool and Konad SN yellow.

My left hand with my sad middle finger that is growing bit by bit ;) Photo with flash.

Now here are the swatches.

Photo with flash.

Photo without flash under artificial light.

Photo with flash under artifcial light.

I still have to get used to matte polish it also feels weird ;) but I did liked this happy creation. And just love Impala :)

Brazil: Impala Pin up with some simple nail art

I got this polish for my birthday (that is in June) and I was at my parent's home (where I still offically live but all my nail stuff is at my boyfriends place) It was in the middle of the World Cup and I was tired of my football/soccer creation and just really wanted to try this polish. Luckily my boyfriend had to go to his home to pick something up so I asked him to grab some stampy polish, my scraper, stamp and an imageplate :) So I could do some nail art on it, it's very simple but I liked it. I made this in June 2010.

Base Impala Pin up, I really love this color. It has silver and pink pieces in it, it's form their Gloss collection. I call it a metallic foil or something ;) Stamped with Konad SN white and imageplate M77.

A bit strange color of my skin, but I was hard to capture it's true beauty. It covers really well in one coat but I used 2. It also dries really quick. Just love this one wish I had more of this gloss cellection

Brazil: Impala matte Fluors (with nail art)

When I got my first Brazilian nail polishes I did not know which one I wanted to try first. So I decided that every finger got a different neon color :) Not all the Impala matte fluors cover really well, so I first did a coat of China Glaze Snow. The purple one covers really well, but the yellow one doesn't. Below are the swatches first I'll show you the nail art photo. I made this in May 2010.

Base China Glaze Snow with Imapla matte fluors, on my thumb Impala Club, index finger Impala Shock, middle finger Impala Fluors, ring finger Impala Spirit and pinkie Impala Tech. I stamped with Konad SN black and image plate M64.

Now some swatch photo's.

Base China Glaze Snow with Imapla matte fluors, on my thumb Impala Club, index finger Impala Shock, middle finger Impala Fluors, ring finger Impala Spirit and pinkie Impala Tech. Photo without flash under artificial light.

Photo with flash under artificial light.

I really love these neons.

Brazil: my other Brazilian polishes

Like I said this week, when I showed you my new Brazilian polishes that I got, I have some more polishes that I got last year.

My first Brazilian polishes were a souvenir.

Two sets of nail polishes and a pair of glow in the dark Havaianas for me and a pair for my boyfriend. I also loveeee Havaianas ♥♥♥

Risqué nail polish in the color of the Brazilian flag. Yellow is Amarelo Real, green is Verde Esmeralda and blue Azul Hortensia.

A little bag with some great neon polishes from Impala.

Impala matte fluors from left to right: Club (purple), Shock (pink), Tech (orange), Fluors (yellow) and Spirit(green). Top with flash, bottom without flash.

Like I said before when my friend was in Brazil she took a photo of the store and from that photo I chose some polishes. When she was back I paid her ofcourse for these.

They are all Impala polishes, from left to right: Matte magenta (a really bright matte polish with blue shimmer), Rio doce ( a pink cream), Pipa (a coral cream), Gaivota (a nude cream) and Pier (a gray shimmer).

I few weeks after she came back it was my birthday and I got even more polishes, sooooo sweet ♥.

From left to right: Colorama  Marinho (a beautiful dark blue with pink shimmer), Colorama Note Quente (a purple cream), Colorama Azul Royal (a blue they call it artistica don't know what that means but it looks like a cream), Colorama Verde Palmeira (grass green same as the blue one), Impala Rocket (beautiful zilver shimmer glossy) and my favorite Imapla Pin up (pink with silver shimmer glossy... I don't know but it is sooo pretty)

Like I said I have quite a few Brazilian polishes and a really love them.