31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 04: Green

Welcome back dear polish addicts :)

Today I am already on day 4 of my looooong 31 day challenge, which means: GREEN NAILS!

And I had a hard time to decide which kind of green polishes I wanted to use, I own so many!!! So I came up with a Stained Glass Window design where I could include a faw of my favourite greens :)

Basically it was a very easy and nice manicure. I started to paint my nails with a beautiful grey-ish green as a base, OPI "Thanks a Windmillion", and then I used every other green one by one and painted freehand a little shape on each nail, wherever I wanted it to be :) Just out of my mood. Took a while but the result really was nice!
In the end I used as well my favourite golden polish ever, OPI "GoldenEye", to set an accent, and sure I created black lines around each green piece with a black striper.
That was it ^_^

(btw, this was my last years green manicure: CLICK)

I think I'm in love *_*
I really need to try these manicure again! It took a while to create but was really easy and the effect is just stunning!

Hey that's why I love these 31 day challenges! Because you finally try techniques you never did before :) I'm glad I did it again this year ^^

Polishes I used:

Light Green - IsaDora Wonder Nails "Marzipan"

Grey-ish Green - OPI "Thanks A Windmillion"

Neon Green - Golden Rose "No. 207"

Medium Green - OPI "Don't Mess With OPI"

Dark Green - OPI "Cuckoo For This Color"

Gold - OPI "Goldeneye"

+ Black Nail Art Striper

I hope that you had a great start into this week and that I will see you again in a few days :)

Check out right here which designs are still about to come:

CrowsToes - Frogs' Breath

Hi Everybody!!!

I am back with a new indie swatch, since I haven't done any in a longer time :) Should maybe mix swatches and nail designs equally... or what do you think? Maybe at least one swatch and one design every week, and more if I am in mood :D 

Today I wanna show you a polish I was waiting for a loooong time. Every time I saw it, it was sold out. And fiiinally I grabbed one from llarowe. Oh happy daaaaay :D

Frogs' Breath is a mix of medium and small green (dark & light), golden and a few black hex glitters in a clear base. Very very pretty!!!

I decided to layer my frog polish over 2 coats of OPI - "Stranger Tides". I think it really is a great combo, and it reminded me again how awesome this OPI polish actually is ^^

Application was easy. It was a perfect formula and there was enough glitter on the brush to avoid any fishing.  I purchased my polish over Llarowe.

See you soon for another nail design ;) 

10 Days Summer Challenge - Day 3: Neon Nails

Hi, how are you doing?

I am so tired, traveled through 3 of Helsinki's areas both ways and sat in 4 trains and 2 busses, had a few things to do and went to an important job interview... phew... was a lot :)

Came hore around 4pm and sat down pretty fast to do my nails for the 3rd day of the summer challenge - and today was FUN :D

Neon is just SO cool! I am scared to be blind soon, my manicure is burning out my eyes ^^
I used 4 different neon colors over white base polish to let them more pop - and damn, they popped :D

Sorry the the flood of pictures but I needed to take a ton of them. Sadly there was no sun showing up, still they turned out bright enough I think.

I am so happy how it turned out. 1) I love to do leopard prints because they are so easy and quick and have a huge effect. And 2) I never tried it with neons and I'm literally blown away :D

Polishes I used (over Sally Hansen Insta Dri "Whirlwind White")

Orange = Models Own - "Orange Sorbet"

Yellow = Wild & Mild - "Neon Chic"

Pink = Wild & Mild -" Ultra Pink"

Green = Golden Rose No. 207

For the black outsines and dots I used a black Nail art Pen from Wild & Mild.

I used 2 coats of every neon polish. I as well created first white dots before I applied the colorful ones to really make the result outstanding.

Check out the other Summer Girls :)

inSANEnails

fairyAna

Shadow

Taya

See you wednesday for the next day of challenge ^^

Dance Legend - Android

Happy Sunday!

It´s sooo hot today outside, but I somehow have nothing to do and slept a lot and stayed in my room. Boring sunday :) But at least I have my little blog to work on ^^

Today I have an awesome holographic polish to show you. Actually I have 3 of them - today is just the start ^^

Since a few month there is a new russian nail polish brand spreading like crazy, called Dance Legend. They are just amazing and have a very wide range of collections, from sand finnish to neons, nudes, glitters etc. But their holographic polish collection "New Prism" is just breathtaking!

The one I wear right now is called "Android", a grass green beauty with an amazing holographic effect.

But, let the pictures talk, shall we? :D Oh, the holographic effect in real was much stronger, my camera was just not able to capture it perfectly :)

And now 2 pictures how it looks like in the shadow. No holographic effect, but it's still a very pretty green. In artificial light it is shimmering already a little more.

I wore 2 coats of Android, with OPI Nail Envy basecoat and a fast drying topcoat, it's a very opaque polish. The topcoat did not dull the holographic effect at all. As well you don´t need a special aqua basecoat. These Dance Legend holos are VERY easy, no special preperation and care needed :)

I purchased mine direct on the official russian homepage. It´s a very nice service and low shipping - it just took around 8 weeks until it arrived. That's the only minus. But I knew it :)
You can as well wait for a new restock and grab yours from Llarowe.

Enjoy the last weekend-day ^^

Enchanted Polish - Wish Me Good Luck

Hi Everybody!

We finally got something like summer here in Finland, and I have been enjoying the last few days so much that I almost forgot my nails :D Weird...but after 6 month of snow everybody is freaking out here right now and we tend to forget everything else ^^

Now I have a super exciting polish for you guys to show:
Enchanted Polish -Wish Me Good Luck

I´m so glad I got it because normally when I visit my "dealer" Llarowe it is ALWAYS completely sold out. But somehow: I got one :D

Wish Me Good Luck is a clear base PACKED with yellow-ish green tiny and medium glitter, black bar glitter, teal medium hexes, black medium hexes and big black hex-glitter. My flatmate described the green color inside as "the first leaves in spring on the trees". Its so pretty!

I layered 1 coat of Wish Me Good Luck over 2 coats of OPI Cuckoo For This Color - a beautiful dark shimmery blue/green. 

Pics taken in sunlight:

Now one picture in shadow, and one picture with flash.

Last is a pretty shot of these beauty in it´s bottle, and the OPI polish on it´s own :)

I think its just stunning, and I got compliments for it :)
These polish was very easy to apply and you could nicely drag the glitter wherever you wanted it to be.

Hope in future to show you guys more from these amazing brand!

See you!

Nail Designs for Others :)

Welcome back on my blog :)

Today I wanted to show you the nail designs I did for my mum and 2 of my best friends while I was in Germany. It is somehow so exciting for me to do somebody else´s nails. And it is tricky, too, because you have no feeling at all any more how to paint and I always make a big mess around the cuticles and on the sites :D

Elegant Gold Design

My mum doesn´t like colouful or fun designs, so we agreed to use a nice silvery gold shade and top it with some tiny golden glitter :) I think it looked very pretty on her.

• Technic Golden Glitter
• Flormar

Green Striping Tape Manicure

One of my friends is crazy about all kind of green shades, so she got a nice manicure where I used a few pieces of striting tape :) I am really in love with these color combo *_*

• OPI - Don´t Mess With OPI
• Wet n Wild Fast Dry - 

Pink Gradient 

Hot pink with glitter - what else do I have to say :D She has a very good taste =^_^=

• OPI - Pirouette My Whistle
• China Glaze - Dance Baby
• China Glaze - Sweet Hook

See you soon!!!