Glitter All Around

Hi again!

Have you had a nice christmas time? 

I really enjoy to be with my family and to see a few of my friends again.

Yesterday I spend a whole day with my best friend and brought around 50 polishes to her place ;) So we spend a lot of our time with talking about nail art and I ended up painting her any my nails.

And somehow we both choose glitter ^^

1) My Manicure

Polishes I used:

• Wild & Mild - 1$ Bill
• Essence Nail Art Special Effect Topper - 10 Glorious Aquarius

I used 2 coats of the soft mint polish and on top one coat of the turquoise glitter. It is btw an amazing glitter topcoat with multiple sized turquoise glitter particles, holographic glitter and copper hexagon glitter.

My Friend´s Manicure

• China Glaze - Hello Gorgeous
• Essie - A Cut Above
• China Glaze - Sweet Hook

I used Sweet Hook as a base coat and then started to create a soft gradient with Sweet Hook. To make the effect a little bit more bling I painted on a tiny layer of A Cut Above. The glitter particles are way bigger and made the gradient more stand out.

Enjoy the last day of 2012 :)

Easy Christmas Tree Nails

Ho ho ho!!!

I hope you all enjoyed christmas very much and celebrated with your family and friends :)

I am right now in Germany to see my family and seriously brought more than 50 polishes with me because I could not decide which I may need or not :D My dad said already "child, I love you, but you are crazy" 

Yesterday I went to see one of my grandmas and I created christmas tree nails for her.

Polishes I used:

• O.P.I. DS - Extravagance
• O.P.I. - Don´t Mess With OPI
• Claire´s Polish - Copper & Gold
• Wet ´n Wild Fast Dry - Party of Five Glitters
• Wild & Mild Nail Art Pen - Red
• Wild & Mild Nail Art Pen - Yellow
• Essie Good To Go as a topcoat

First I applied Extravagance as my base color. It is so damn sparkly and perfect, almost a 1 coater :)

After I used scotch tape to create a triangle shape and painted over with my green polish.

After I removed the tape I painted on my pointer and ring finger some of the multi-glitter and on my thumb, middle finger andn pinkie I used the gold & copper glitter - but always just for the trees.

As an extra detail I tried to paint on some candles with the red and yellow nail art pens, but this is just optional.

I finnished with gluing on a tiny star on top of my christmas trees and applied a fast drying topcoat.

Enjoy the rest of your week!!!

31 Day Challenge 2012 - Day 21: Inspired By A Colour

Hi Everybody!

Yeah, the last 10 "inspired by..." days started today!

I think these are the hardest challenges but I´ll try to do my very best *_*

I inspired myself today by a beautiful awesome polish I fell immediately in love with when I saw the first swatches. It is "Every Day Is Oktoberfest" from the O.P.I. Germany Collection.

It is a vampy superdark whine-red, or basically black with whine red shimmer. Extremely genious! And since I just love dark, especially black polishes, I HAD to get it!

I don´t wanted to spoil these amazing polish with some weird patterns etc, so I just set a accent nail with Essie light pink glitter and applied a light pink rhinestone on top of all nails.

Hope you will like it - and please again excuse my bad light situation :-p

Polishes I used:

•  Seche Vite Topcoat
• Essie "A Cut Above"
• O.P.I. "Every Day Is Oktoberfest"

See you very soon for the next design :)

All Star / Converse Nail Tutorial

Heeeey!

Today I want to show you how to create easy super cute All Star / Converse shoes on your nails :)

Ever since I saw the first pictures of these designs in the internet I fell in love and always wanted to re-create it. For these tutorial I decided not to use bright colours or black like everybody else did yet, but just a very nice taupe shade.

These are the polishes I used for the design:

(Left to right)

• Golden Rose No. 66
• Golden Rose Nail Art Polish White
• Golden Rose Nail Art Polish Black
• Essie "Chinchilly"

Okay, lets get started!

First you paint your nails in a colour of your choise. I used a pretty taupe colour by Essie.

Then you paint the tip of your nails with a solid white polish.

After you pick your dotting tool and create 3 or more tiny silver dots on each side of the nail.

Then you pick a white nail art polish or a thin brush and average white polish and create 2 x-shapes from dot to dot.

Then pick again your dotting tool and dot a slightly smaller black dot inside of the silver ones, and after paint a small black line on your white nail-tip.

Finnish with a topcoat and you are ready!

I hope you guys liked these tutorial and it was easy for you to follow :)

Always feel free to ask me if there is any question!

See you on friday!

Essie "A Cut Above"

Happy Friday 13th!!!

Today I will swatch my newest polish for you, Essie "A Cut Above" of the luxeffects collection.

It is a dark pinkish glitter topcoat, stuffed with small and medium hexagonal glitter particles.

I decided to layer it over pure white polish.

2 coats of Sally Hansen Insta-Dry Whirlwind White

I used just one coat of the Essie polish, it is really stuffed with glitter :)

 

Even I liked these combination very very much, I decided to give it a try with a matte topcoat.

P2 Matte Victim topcoat

I think I like these combinatione even more :) It is so elegant and cute.

Here you can see the difference between the polish with and without matte topcoat:

Enjoy your friday and be careful because of the date :D

Random Swatches & May-Haul

Moooi!

I was thinking about how to manage this blog and just thought I may throw out from time to time totally random swatches of my favourite polishes and new colours. I am sure you guys will not complain about, aren´t you? :)

Just when I watch at the polishes I bought in may, JUST in may, I hear my wallet cry :D But on the other hand my heart is jumping because of all the joy.

Take a look at my may-polishes:

1. (left to right)
2.  China Glaze "He´s Going in Circles"
3.  China Glaze "Spin Me Round"
4.  China Glaze "Kaleidoscope Him Out"
5.  China Glaze "Calypso Blue"
6.  China Glaze "Material Girl"
7.  China Glaze "Strawberry Fields"
8.  China Glaze "Recycle"
9.  China Glaze "Outta Bounds"
10.  O.P.I. Pirouette My Whistle

Yeah... I kinda love China Gaze :D You got me...

Then I was shopping today and got my hands on 2 polishes I wanted to have since I saw the swatches, which are these babies:

Sally Hansen Gem Crush No. 01 "Showgirl Chic"   &

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength No. 410 "3K or More!"

I never had Sally Hansen Polishes, just love to use a few nail-care products so I am really excited about them :)

And I think I might buy some more polishes soon, because I just saw today that Anttila, my favourite polish-location, started to sell Essie. OMG!

This will be a dangerous month!

Within the new month I will now start swatching these polishes for you. Please feel free to tell me which ones you are especially interested in and I will give them higher priority :)

Enyou your weekend!