Shimmer Polish - Anna

*Disclaimer: this item was received for review. All opinions expressed are my own and are not influenced by anyone or anything.

Hi everyone!

I'm back today with a Shimmer Polish review. And it's a very pretty one!

LynB Designs: Mind Palace

*Disclaimer: some items in this blog post have been previously received for review.

Hello everyone!

I'm sharing another one of my LynB Designs polishes with you today from my mega haul - you already saw the gorgeous Galaxy We Call the Milky Way here. But today's post is all about the equally stunning Mind Palace!

This polish has been on my wishlist for SO long but I didn't get it until now because I was always afraid that it would be tricky to apply - I'm so happy to tell you that it only requires a little bit of effort and that it just looks spectacular on my nails!

Some New Swatches - NY Lover, Boho Look and Leather Effect Bordeaux

Hi! :D

You might remember my January-February haul post. You already saw my Sally Hansen Satin Glam swatches and the swatches of the polishes I got as a gift from Miriam. Today I'll be showing you some more swatches of that haul. This post has been lurking in my unpublished folder for a while now, so it's glad to finally come out!

I'm going to show you Catrice Earnie & Birdy, Maybelline NY Lover, L'Oreal Boho Look and 2B Leather Effect Bordeaux. 

Shimmer Polish - Courtney

*Disclaimer: this item was received for review. All opinions expressed are my own and are not influenced by anyone or anything.

Hello!

It's Shimmer time again! Today I'll be showing you Shimmer Polish Courtney, who is totally jummy. 

Courtney has a medium pink/red jelly base with rainbow glitter. In the bottle, she mainly looks red and blue but she is so much more than that. When I saw Courtney in the bottle she didn't wow me, but on my nails I loved her a lot.

Vampy Gradient with Shimmer Polish Eva

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Hi!!

I have a gorgeously sexy polish for you today!

I already swatched Shimmer Eva for you (here), I had really long nails then and I put Eva on top of another red polish. I also had a different lighting setup then, and that has improved a lot now so I wanted to show you Eva again. This time, I swatched her on her own, and Oh my.

Shimmer Polish - Tracy

*Disclaimer: this item was provided for review. All opinions are my own and are not influenced by anyone or anything.

It's Shimmer time again!!

When my first batch of Shimmer Polishes were all swatched and reviewed, (you can click here for a recap) I was very lucky to receive some more! I'll be showing you these glitter bombs in the coming months, and I'm starting with Tracy!

Christmas Sweater Sparkles

Hiii!!

As you will probably know already, it's almost Christmas! :D (Emily will be so excited lol!)

I decided it was finally time to create a Christmas design. I'm not really a person to make seasonal appropriate nail art - I just do designs when I think of them. So I don't feel the need to create a whole bunch of Christmassy designs just because it's that time of the year.

Painted Sabotage - Gargle Blaster

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My polish loving fiends, are you ready for a gorgeous polish?

I have Painted Sabotage's Gargle Blaster for you today, which is inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy! If you read my Tomboyish post, then you'll know how I don't particularly like green polishes. Gargle Blaster, I don't like. I LOVE. I ADORE. And then some.

Guest Post at Craftynail!

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Hi everyone!

Today you can find me over at Craftynail, where I'm helping out the lovely Jacqui who is on a conference trip for work right now! She's having a few guest posts, and I have to honour to kick it off! :D

So click here to go read my guest post, and after that go wonder around on Jacqui's blog because she's pretty much amazing. She's such a sweet person (she even sent me some MoYou stamping plates!) and has the prettiest and coolest designs. So if you're not following her already, go do it now! Thank you!!

WingDust Collections - After-Party @ Jimmay's

Disclaimer: some of the products used in this blog post have previously been received for review.

Reader! Prepare yourself to admire the magnificent sight of a gorgeous polish!

Shimmer Polish - Eva

*Disclaimer: this product was provided for review. All opinions in this blogpost are my own and are not influenced by anything of anyone.

I have another gorgeous Shimmer Polish for you today!

This time I'm showing you Eva. Eva has a burgundy red jelly base, with red, silver and black fine microglitters in.

Bourjois Paris - Dangerous Wish

Bonjour! (it seemed fitting to start this post in French as the polish I'm showing you today is from Bourjois Paris)

I'm currently still settling in in the new appartment and haven't been able to do new nail art (though I'm working on a review right now, so expect that soon!), so I decided to give you a post that has been sitting in my Draft space - until now!

WingDust Collections - Funhouse

Hi everyone!

Remember when I told you about the six WingDust polishes I had won in this blog post here? Well, today I'm showing you my first pick!

Pretty & Polished - Popples

Hellooo fellow polish lovers!

As you may recal, a few weeks ago I asked for your input in my very first indie polish purchases! (you can read my blog post about it here) I decided to order some polishes from Pretty & Polished and from ILNP, and all of my orders have arrived now! So today I'm showing you the first of my new cuties :)

Shimmer Polish - Kim

*Disclaimer: this product was provided for review. All opinions in this blogpost are my own and are not influenced by anything of anyone.

Hellooow!

A few weeks ago I won a little giveaway from Shimmer Polish, and when she learned that I had a blog she asked me if I wanted to review some polishes for her. Of course I said yes, because every swatch I've seen from a Shimmer polish looks so gorgeous!

Make Your Own Polish! - Nayll Swatches and Review Part 2 (Glitters) + Discount Code!

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Hi everyone!

I'm back with the second part of my Nayll review! Today I'll be talking about the glitter polishes I created. In case you missed my first review, go check it out here! You'll find some more info on Nayll there too. 

Today I'll be reviewing my custom glitter polishes. AND I also have a discount code for a flash sale at the end of my post! So keep reading :)

Baby Pink and Glittery Grey Manicure

Hello everyone!

I went on a polish haul a few days ago and bought 7 new polishes! (pictures of the haul coming soon)

For today's manicure I used 4 of my new polishes:

Muchi, Muchi - Essie
Sugar Crystals - Maybelline New York Color Show
Gris Cashmire - Arcancil
Two Million Dollar Baby - Catrice

I started by painting three nails with the Essie polish. But I'm a bit disappointed in the formula: after four thin layers of polish, I still didn't have full coverage! My nail line was still visible, and I don't really like it when that's the case. 

All of the Essie polishes I've bought so far are very thin so I always need 3 coats, but then at least there's full coverage. So mhh, I was expecting more from this one. But I do love the colour, it's such a nice baby pink.

Then I painted over those three nails with Sugar Crystals, 2 coats. This polish is a very very sheer pink polish with tiny glittery things in it. So even after two coats of this one, my nail line was still visible... Oh well, I guess I'll have to learn to live with that :)

Then I painted my thumb and ring finger with two coats of Gris Cashmire. After that, I used the glitter top coat. I needed 3 coats to get this much glitter and I did have to place the glitter a bit, but look at that sparkle!

I was quite surprised when I saw the glitter on my nails, because in the bottle it had seemed like it was one size of gold glitter. But actually the polish consists of a small sized gold glitter and a bit larger sized silver glitter. I think Two Million Dollar Baby would look great in a glitter gradient :)

I also bought a small nail stud wheel, so I added two gold studs on my index finger.

Then, to finish this blogpost: I also bought some lovely big rings and jumped on the bandwagon of midi rings! I think they look great with my manicure :)

 Thanks for reading!

Blingy Ruffian Manicure - New Year's Eve Nails

Hello everyone!

I'm a bit late with posting this, but I wanted to show you the manicure I wore on New Year's Eve.

I first had a very different manicure in mind than the one you're seeing here: I wanted to cover my nails completely in gold glitter - but not just throw random glitter over them, but really place the glitter very neatly onto my nails. I started with my thumbnail, and by the time I got to my index finger I was completely sick of it. I just had to stop to preserve what was left of my sanity. I was quite bummed because I love glitter manicures (for example: Polish All The Nails does them all the time and they look so amazing), but I just couldn't bring myself to spending what was going to be 4 hours on it...

Here's a very bad quality picture of how far I had come: 

At first I didn't have inspiration for a new manicure, but then it came to me: a very simple silver and black ruffian manicure. With rhinestones of course, because I had to be blingy on New Year's Eve! ;)

I used my new Hema polish and Black on Black by Sinful Colors. 

I first painted my nails with the silver colour - two coats. Then I put on the black and just made sure not to start painting my nails at the base, but I left a little space so the silver would be visible.

I felt my manicure needed some extra bling, so I added silver rhinestones on my ring finger.

That's it!

I hope you all had a great time at New Year, I know I did! (lots and lots of food!)

Firework Nails

Hi everyone!

Today I have a firework design on my nails, very appropriate around New Year's Eve :)
(unfortunately, also not very original, but since it's my first time doing firework nails I'm considering them original for me anyways :p )

I used a lot of polishes for this design:

OPI - Nail Envy (my favourite base coat)
Sinful Colors - Black on Black
OPI - DS Lapis (Raw Granite)
Essie - Toggle to the Top
The Dazzling Starry Magical Multicolored Shell Glitter Nail Art Polish Varnish #4 from Bornpretty Store
Hema - 07 (pink)
Hema - 08 (purple)
Hema - 17 (light purple greyish)
Hema - 15 (light pinkish)
Hema - 11 (silver)
Essie - Let it Shine topcoat

The Hema polishes were a Christmas gift, so I really wanted to use them in a design to see what they looked like. I'm very happy I got them, they're so pretty!

These polishes have colours that I wouldn't buy myself (I like or very plain colours without any shimmer of glitter in them, or very obvious glittery special polishes, and these Hema polishes are the inbetween ones, they are all one colour polishes but have very subtle shimmer in them, if you know what I mean?), so it's great that I got them as a gift because this way I'm discovering some great new colours that, to my own surprise, I really like.

For these firework nails, I first painted my nails black with two coats of Black on Black.

Then I used a small nail art brush to make the fireworks. I just drew a lot of lines on my nails, I don't really have a technique to make these.

Do you have a special New Year's Eve manicure in mind? I'm planning on making a very glittery design tonight to start 2014 in a very (very) bright way!

Hope you all have a great end of 2013 and an even greater start of 2014!

Christmas Nails #2

Hi everyone!

These are the nails I wore for Christmas! I used gold and green colours, because they are incredibly Christmas appropriate :)

First I painted all my nails gold, and then I used a tiny brush to paint on the twirly things that are supposed to represent Christmas trees - can you see how they're supposed to look like a tree?

I wanted to do a gold accent nail, so I spent about half an hour placing gold glitter on my ring finger - which was so worth it! I had never done anything with glitter like this before, but honestly, I was so glad I had done this because it felt very rewarding when I was finished and saw the glittery goodness that was now on my nail :)

I'm sorry for the lack of posts lately - right now is a very busy time with lots of papers to write! But I already have a great New Year's nail art idea, so I'm definitely doing that soon!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas or just a great day (I know I did - so much food!).
Thanks for reading!