Some new goodies

I went to Germany some place very close, because I was still a bit sick. I really wanted to go outside because of the nice weather, and of course it is always fun to look a the new nail polish collections. I bought some new polishes, but unfortunately I was really disappointed in two.

From left to right:

- a new color from Essence 52 Out of my mind (beautiful blue with green/gold shimmer maybe duochrome)

- Essence effect topper 04 Mystic mermaid (silver with blue and purple sparkles, really like this one but it's for a topcoat too opaque)

- P2 590 Who cares (such a sweet color)

- Essence magnetic nail polish 01 Miracle shine (a gray polish with lilac shimmer, nice color but the effect is disappointed compaired to the Essence LE magnetics and Alessandro)

- Essence cracking white (really ugly it cracks bad and slow and most of the time only veritcal cracks)

From left to right:

- Essence cracking white, you can see how ugly it is. It needs a really thin coat otherwise it doesn't crack at all, this was a thin coat.,

- Essence magnetic 01 Miracle shine with strong Alessandro magnet, you see the effect isn't that big.

- Essence magnetic 01 Miracle shine without any magnet, a nice gray with lilac shimmer, dries matte.

- Essence effect topper 04 Mystic mermaid.

- Essence 52 Out of my mind (love this color)

- P2 590 Who cares (also love this one it's is sooo cute)

On this photo you can see all my magnetic polishes with different magnets tests.

On 5 o'clock you see the new Essence magentic 01 Miracle shine, the bigger stripes are made with a refrigerator magnet, the smaller ones with the Alessandro magnet. You can see the effect of this new one is less. (don't pay attention to 4 o'clock there is crack polish under those magnetic polishes, so it looks nasty)

I really hated the white crack I tested it over my mood polish and then a did one coat of Essence 52 Out of my mind to make the white blue, it looks better, but I still hate the way it cracks. A close up of the magnetic polish you can see the lilac shimmer in it, but this was the best result with the magnet I could get :( I was playing with it for an hour, first I thought the magnet didn't worked anymore, later I thought I just couldn't do it anymore. But then I tested it with my other magnetic polishes and everything was fine.

I don't recommend buying the Essence white cracking polish, the magnetic one is not that magnetic but still a nice color without the magnetic effect.

Claire's Mood polish flirty/shy (+ CND effect and nail art)

Today I have a lot of photo's for you. Claire's Mood polish flirty/shy is a beautiful dark blue color and I love playing with mood polishes so I took a lot of photo's :) Also with CND effects Sapphire Sparkle on top and some nail art.

Let's start with the swatches of flirty/shy without the CND effect. It dries matte.

This is how it looks most of the time, warm fingers and cold tips.

Warm.

Warm and the tips are slowly turning colder.

Cold.

Cold and  I put the tips under warm water, you get the opposite effect of what it normally looks like :)

Under cold water.

Index and ring finger normal, middle finger and pinkie cold.

Index and ring finger warm, middle finger and pinkie cold.

Now the swatches with CND effects Sapphire Sparkle. Unfortunately I always find it hard to capture the effects on photo. So I couldn't capture the pink shimmer in it :(

With CND Sapphire Sparkle normal.

With CND Sapphire Sparkle warm.

With CND Sapphire Sparkle cold, in real life it looks a lot like Orly Lunar Eclipse, too bad I couldn't capture the pink in it.

With CND Sapphire Sparkle index and ring finger warm, middle finger and pinkie cold.

Close up, you can see the sparkle better (but not the pink flashes)

I really loved the polish with the CND but I did wanted to do some nail art on it. I liked the simplicity.

Stamped with Konad SN pastel blue and imageplate BM05.

A bit of strange settings but here you can see the sparkle better.

I totally love mood polishes, too bad they don't sell them here in Holland.

Blue and silver holographic Penguin nails

I had this on my nails two weeks ago, I really really liked this so it stayed longer than a week on my nails. I didn't wanted to remove it but it was Carnival (see previous blog) and these nails didn't matched with my outfit ;) I especially liked the two colored holo base and found the penguins sooo cute ;)  I have a lot of photo's to show you, because it was difficult to take a good photo.

Base the first half China Glaze Sexagon and the other half China Glaze Kaleidoscope Him Out. Self made decals of some really cute penguins. Snowflakes stamped with Konad SN white and SN pastel blue imageplate HB23. Photo without flash under artificial light.

Photo with flash.

Photo without flash under artificial light.

Photo wtih flash different settings.

Some strange settings but here you can see that the penguins have cute gray bellies.

Only the base with decals without the stamping.

Ofcourse I also have some swatches of the base that I really love ♥ and I'm definitely going do something similar with different colors some day ;)

With flash.

Without flash or light, the colors are a bit strange but you can see the gradient effect better.

With flash.

Without flash or artificial light a bit blurry, but the main thing is you can see the gradient effect.

Have a nice weekend ♥

Carnival Bunny nails

Last weekend I celebrated Carnival....my outfit was totally wrong ;) I was a "sexy" sort of playboy bunny. And my motto was: Who says playboy bunny's have to be pretty, skinny and blonde....? Why can't it be a plus size brunette ;) haha. No this is bullshit it wasn't my motto, I did say something like that but it was more to give me some self-convidence and courage to go out. I can be really insecure and I'm not this pretty skinny girl, and I often call myself fat but that is just me always negative about who I am and what I look like :P The important thing was I got my outfit from my boyfriend and he liked the way I looked. And during Carnival everbody can be something/someone else ;) And it wasn't even that sexy because I wore a lot of clothes over/ under it, so hardly any skin was showing ;) and the bunny dress was knee length.  But for me it felt wrong but also fun...I know I doesn't make sense right? But most important is that we had a lot of fun :)

Anyway I love matching nails with outfits so I made bunny nails.

Base OPI Alpine Snow with one coat of Orly Gogo for the silver small glitters. French made of Golden Rose Magic Paris color 321. I stamped small bunny feet with Konad SN black and HB38, also some Konad SN psyche pink bunny's from HB38. I had a hard time taking pictures because the bunny's turned purple on the photo, but on this photo it looks real they are the same color as my french.

Me as a bunny ;)

My boyfriend was this Japanese/Chinese guy oh I had so much fun putting make up on his face hahaha.

He looks so sad and serious ;) but we were laughing all the time.

Bunny and Japanese/Chinese guy before going out.

My big butt and bunny tail.

Together dancing in a bar.

So this was my wrong carnival blog *lol*

China Glaze TTYL with nail art (my blog logo)

Like I said in my previous blog, my nails are really long here but it was nice to put a lot of nail art on it ;)

Base China Glaze TTYL I stamped with Konad SN pink pearl, yellow and pastel blue. Imageplates M31, M36, M74. I did (or tried) some shadow stamping, first I stamped the image with pink pearl and then later the same image a few millimeters to the right in yellow. On my ring finger a blue rhinestone.

Photo with flash.

It was almost Summer and nice weather so again I matched my feet and hands :)

Photo with flash.

This is the original photo where I made my blog logo from. We went to Giethoorn (a place in the Netherlands with lots of water and bridges where you can hire small motor boats....it's sometimes called the Dutch Venice) we hired a boat there and had a lot of fun. You can see that I'm on a boat.

My dad editted the background for me so I could make it my logo and make the banner for my blog.

Chin Glaze OMG week: TTYL

This is the last swatch of this collection I have to show you, the 3 remaining colors I still haven't worn yet. So I will post them when I have them on my nails. TTYL is this really beautiful color it's hard to describe but I find it a bit rusty. My nails are very long here, a bit too long but sometimes it nice to have really long nails...more room for nail art ;) These photo's are from June 2009.

Photo with flash.

Photo without flash in daylight.

Photo without flash in direct sunlight.

Ps: don't my short thumb it already had nail art on it ;)

Next blog: China Glaze TTYL with nailart (my blog logo)

China Glaze L8R G8R with nail art

It's a sort of a spring creation with green, pink and yellow. I made this in May 2009. Looking back now almost 2 years later I don't know if I really like it, but back then I did :)

Base China Glaze L8R G8R, stamped with Konad SN green, yellow and psyche pink. I used imageplates M26 and M76 on my ring finger I have 2 yellow and 2 pink rhinestones. Photo with flash.

Photo without flash, natural daylight.

The weather was really nice so ofcourse I  had to match my feet with my hands ;)

Photo with flash.

Next blog: China Glaze TTYL swacthes.

China Glaze OMG week: L8R G8R

I find this a strange color, but I do like it :) It's a greenish holographic polish. I made these photo's in May 2009.

Photo with flash.

Photo without flash and direct sun light.

Next: China Glaze L8R G8R with nail art.

China Glaze OMG with Alice in Wonderland nail art

In my previous blog you saw the base of this creation China Glaze OMG with a french of OPI Absolutely Alice. Here is the nail art on it ;) I made this when we went to the movies to see Alice in Wonderland 3D in April 2010.

I made my own water decals of the Alice in Wonderland characters and stamped with Konad SN blue pearl and M34. Photo withou flash under artificial light.

Next blog: China Glaze L8R G8R swatch.

China Glaze OMG week: OMG (with OPI Absolutely Alice)

I know I promised you a swatch of China Glaze OMG - OMG but I can't seem to find the swatch photo :( I only have this one with a blue glitter french made with OPI Absolutely Alice. This photo is from April 2010.

But despite of the blue glitter french you can still see the color of OMG and it's holo effect.

Next blog: OMG with Absolutely Alice french and Alice in Wonderland nail art.