Halloween nails

Tomorrow it's Halloween! And even though it isn't really celebrated here, I still wanted to do some Halloween nails. Nothing original though, some bloody nails, swirl nails and what's still on them; some Frankenstein nails.

The white was done with Essence White Secret, the 'blood' with
P2 Red Tip Painter. I'm not satisfied with this one at all, that's why it came off right after away.

Swirls over endless coats of different Nfu Oh's, which you can't even see in the picture..

Last my current nails, stitches with one Frankenstein face, with a sad mouth.. The Green is Essence Here I Am.



I could've used a lot more practice for these looks. But I'll only wear them for one day anyway I guess.

What are your plans for Halloween tomorrow? Any nail plans?

Plaid Nails

Hey everyone,

Yesterday I tried the plaid design for the first time. I've seen this look a couple of times on various blogs and just fell in love with it. As a guide on how to do this I watched the Plaid Nails tutorial by Asami. Mine aren't nearly as pretty as hers, but I'm content with the result.



I used Essence 'Fatal' (black)

Catrice 'London's Weather Forecast' (grey)

and a white striper by Essence.

And it matched with one of my coats. Which I wore yesterday, totally intentionally!

Thanks for reading! xxx

Essence Nailart Twins swatches

Hey everyone,

Most of you probably know the Essence Nailart Twins polishes. Four combinations of two polishes, one colour and one glitter topper. The polishes have pretty cool names of famous couples/partners. Here's all of them.

Thelma & Louise

Two coats of Thelma


And with one coat of Louise

Thelma is a dark purple creme. Almost black it some lights. Kinda dull actually, but with Louise over it it looks almost cosmic. She contains little purple glitters with some larger purple-red square glitters. I love the combo of these two!

Romeo & Julia

Two coats of Romeo..


..and joined by Julia


Romeo is a silver metallic polish, it applies okay, a bit streaky though. Together with Julia it's a very festive mani. Her glitters contain all the colors of the rainbow!

Bonnie & Clyde

Two coats of Bonnie


And with one coat of Clyde


Bonnie is a lovely blue creme, I actually like her on her own. She applied lovely. Clyde is a bit boring to me, he contains some small blue glitters but the larger ones are just plain silver. They still look hot together though.

Mr. Big & Carrie

Two coats of Mr Big being lonely..

..and with Carrie's company



Mr Big is a pink berry creme. Applied really well. Carrie is deep red berry-like glitter. I think they look like berries together!

 

The Nailart Twins can also be bought sperate, one bottle costs €1,79.

I really like this small collection of twins. They are quite a hell to get off, but having such cheerful nails for a few days makes up for that. And if I'm supposed to believe the internet, there's another couple out there! Joe & Victory:



Don't they look lovely? I will definately hop over the border after school to check if Germany has got them! I recently found out there's a DM Store (German drugstore) just a five minute drive from my school! Really excited about that, I just hope I won't be there after every day of college. But today I will be! I can't wait till it's 3pm, just 7-something more hours ^^

Do you have favorite couple of these Nailart Twins?

So far mine are Thelma & Louise together. But Joe & Victory look veryyy promising!

Thanks for reading! xxx

NOTD China Glaze Heli-Yum

Hey everyone,
Something pink again cause it's still October.
Heli-Yum is from the Up & Away (spring 2010) collection of China Glaze. Just the name of this polish is enough to make me happy. The pretty hot pink colour and nice application make me even happier!



Today another lazy sunday is at it's beginning, also the last day of my autumn break :( So I'll be playing a bit with my polishes.

Thanks for reading, have a nice day! xxx

Water Marble Winter Blues

Hey everyone

* Edit: Etos, a Dutch drugstore, is having a 'second half price' sale. Buy one polish (or some beauty product) and get the second half price! So I know where I'll be going today ^^ This sale ends on October 31 *

Yesterday I did a water marble, it suprised me how fast it went this time. This was the third time I did it. I'm pretty happy with the result, though the nails on my right hand have a lot of bubbles on them. I spend an age choosing the colors, I wanted something autumn-ish but just couldn't come up with a combination I liked. So I decided to go for some blues, since I'm getting the winter blues anyway. Atleast my nails cheer me up a bit with this dark and rainy weather.

And my two favorites:


I used: Essence 'Chica' (Show Off), 'My Boyfriends Jeans' and 'Forever Mine' (Demin Wanted) and Maybelline 130 (white) which was also the base coat.

I'm still so excited about this method, I should do it more often! The neon marbles I saw on Youtube inspired me so much that I just ordered the entire China Glaze Poolside collection. They look so gorgeous in water marbles!
But it does take a lot of time, a lot of polish and it always breaks my heart to take it off. But my nails quickly bore me and I like polishing them too much. So maybe these will stick around for just one more day.

What do you girls think of this marble?

Thanks for reading and have a nice day! xxx

Haul from Helsinki!

Hey everybody!

I've been away a few days, me and my boyfriend went on a citytrip to Helsinki (the capital of Finland) for four days ^^ It was veryyy last-minute. I had a great time. And of course I had to buy some nail polish! Helsinki had an awesome variation in nail supply. Many brands such as Orly, Models Own, Konad etc were available in the huge warehouses. It was lovely seeing all those things I always have order in real life. But it's an extremely expensive city (country I guess), Orly and O.P.I. cost €19,95 a bottle, Konad plates were €8, so I didn't buy that much. Here's my haul:

Three polishes of Orly's Cosmic FX collection: Lunar Eclipse, Halleys Comet and Out of this World.


A brand I didn't own before, Wild and Crazy. Lemon and Lollipop. I'm having the hardest time understanding how gold and lollipops go together..


Three lonely ones: O.P.I. Jade is the New Black, GOSH Bright Passion and Models Own Bubblegum.


Some nail stickers, mainly because of the ones on the lighest paper that look like the Ed Hardy design and the roses on the paper above it (not that visible). And the Konad image plate M60!

If there's one thing I LOVE besides nail polish, it's travelling! I'm a girl that easily obsesses over stuff that starts fascinating me, fortunately I'm not easily fascinated! But also travelling has gotten to me, just like nail polish. In the past months my polish collection grew from 40-something to a 144 polishes today. The same thing happened with travelling (slower though, this hobby is pricier and takes up more time). A year back I had visited about 15 countries in western and southern Europe, now I've been in 20 countries in three continents. I'd actually like to blog about travelling as well. But this is my nail blog, so onto nails, my vacation nails!

Before we left I made a tux-design on my ringfinger and the other nails matte black. I didn't lost the bow as I actually expected!

And here are two holidays pictures



I can't wait to swatch all the polishes I bought. But it's dark and rainy outside.. welcome back home in Holland -_- So the light isn't gonna be right for swatching I guess.

I'm going to buy a third shelf for my polish collection today, with the new additions it isn't possible to store them out nicely over the two shelves without it looking overcrowded.

Thanks for reading everyone! xxx

Essence - Secret new trend edition?! 'Show Off!'

Hellooo,

I love living so close to the borders and having a quite different world of make-up and nail polish on both sides. Though I'm rarely in Belgium and weekly in Germany.. Anyway, I went to the German DM drugstore yesterday. Buying a few things that I'll be needing on vacation. Cause I'm going to Helsinki with my boyfriend for a few days in the autumn break! We'll leave on friday the 15th and will return the next monday. *Excited!*

Anyway, I bumped into an unfamiliar Essence display, called 'Show Off'. The 'NEWNEWNEW' boards around it suggested it indeed was new. Why didn't I know of this? Have I missed it on the web? Did it all got announced and out in the few days my internet was being a bitch? Or is this something only Germany was informed about and blessed with?

Here's a crappy image from the display:



(Left-right, back-front) Click-on nails, two lipglosses, blush brushes, two kinds of fake lashes, 5 new polishes, pink blusher, 4 eyeshadows and two kohl pencils.

I bought two of the polishes. I have no idea what all the names are, cause it's nowhere to be found online. I bought the green one 'Here I Am', the dark blue 'Chica' (which looks like black, in the middle) and the blush brush. I believe the pink polish was called 'Me Me Me!'.

I really don't get why they have brought this out without any marketing or even the slightest announcement. Neither do I get how they managed to do that without something leaking out.

This first one is 'Here I Am':

Inside



Outside in direct sunlight

Here I Am is a shiny lime polish. I was in doubt about buying it. But I'm glad I did. It got stipes during the applying which turned to patchy with the second coat. But the top coat evened it out and I like the way it looks. It's not like any other green, lime or green-yellow I own. I also think this would make a lovely Halloween colour.

And then there's Chica:

Inside

Outside in direct sunlight

Detail

Chica is a dark blue with lighter blue sparkles in it. I barely noticed them in the bottle, but they pop out in the sunlight. I'm wearing two coats. This one applied a lot nicer than Here I Am. It's not unique in my collection at all, it's just another lovely blue. Which is fine :)

I don't know in which countries this collection will be available, except for Germany of course. I really hope I'll run into in in Holland soon though!

Do you girls like this collection?

Thanks for reading! xxx

MAC Venomous Villains Formidable

Last saturday the Venomous Villains collection was finally released in the Netherlands. I got to the MAC counter quite early and they only had one bottle of Bad Fairy left! Just one! For me :D I also bought Formidable, but left Mean and Green because it looks a lot like Orly Space Cadet.
Right now I also feel a little bummed about only buying polishes and nothing else of this collection, mainly cause the polishes don't have a design on them '^^
Even though I was crazy about getting Bad Fairy, once home I wanted to try Formidable first.

These two are my first MAC nailpolishes. Whenever I'm about to try a total new brand I always seem to have expectations. Usually they're price related. The same for MAC, I don't have many expensive polishes and these to me belong to the few rare ones. I expected nice quality and Formidable was just that. It's a very dark plum base with teal sparkles in it. I love it, and I couldn't stop taking pictures of it!

Inside

Outside



I'm really glad I got these and can't wait to try Bad Fairy! Do you girls like this polish?

Thanks for reading! xx

P2 Crackling top coats

Hello everyone,

I already mentioned that I've got the P2 Crackling top coats. I tried them yesterday, but the colour sheme I chose turned out to be rather disgusting. I wanted to do it again today with some different colors, but it's almost certain that there will be three Nfu Oh opals arriving in the mail today. Of course they get the privilege of getting on my nails right away and therefor I've done the Crackling top coats on a nailwheel.

But first the haul of th estuff I bought in DM (German drugstore).



The Crackling top coats 'Black Explosion' and 'Silver Blast'. Color Victim 'Lovely' and 'Dating Time'. And some stickers.

As I base for the crackling top coats I used two Essence Colour & Go polishes. The neon green is 'Check me Out' and the blue is 'Shocking Blue'.



You just apply your base colour over your entire nail. The same goes for the top coats, apply them all over your nails. They both look very sheer when you apply them, but this is fine. Don't try to even it out and don't add more coats. Just let the magic begin!



I'm not too fond about the way the cracks appeared in this one. But it's pretty amazing anyway. I wonder how they came up with this? I'd like to believe that this first came out as a production error of either a black or silver polish. How the people of P2 were all like 'how the fuck did that happen?' and then just decided there probably were people who would like it.
Well I certainly do!

Here's the 'Silver Blast' in proces. This one did get cracks in a prettier way.



These polishes really are something special! I hope P2 will make these in a few more colors. I'd definatly buy them. I know a look like this isn't everybody's cup of tea, but that's another thing I love about it. It's different, daring, lovely to watch the proces, in-your-face results and nothing to wear to some fancy job. Love it!

I got these at DM for €1,75 a polish, they contain 11ml.

Do you girls like crackling top coats?

Thanks for reading and have a nice day! xx

China Glaze Fight Like A Women swatches

Hey everyone!

Just a quick note about yesterday's post: I've got the P2 Crackling topcoats! I was going to try them  today but something else came in the mail which I got a little more excited about. The China Glaze Fight Like A Women collection! Which consists of three very different pink polishes. So here they are!

Encouragement, Empowerment and Endurance.



This is Encouragement. I wouldn't even call it pink, it's rather pearly white with some pink shimmer in it. I'm wearing three coats in the pictures, but it still doesn't fully cover. I don't think it's meant to that anyway. Even though I put on three coats, it didn't get too thick. I really like this polish, I love the colour!

This is Empowerment. I just really love it cause I think it's 'the' pink. The colour pink I imagine when I think about pink stuff (eh.. yeah). I'm wearing three coats. It applied pretty well, but it took forever to dry, causing me to smudge it a few times. Kinda annoyed me. But I still really like it!



Excuse me for the first picture. It looks like crap but it was the best in the bunch and right now it's too dark to take new pics.

Anyway, last but least, Endurance. This is my favorite of the collection. It's a pink-purple base with purple-lilac-ish glitter in it (god I'm the worst colour discriber). I'm wearing three coats. I'm a big fan of in-your-face polishes like these.

But of course there's more to this collection than three pretty polishes. It's about breast cancer awareness, pink for october. I think this subject is very imporetant. My grandmother was a two time breast cancer survivor (who died cause of lung cancer a year ao). I hope that there will be more research, for this aweful disease in general actually.

So, I did a pink ribbon mani..



I used the Konad imageplate M73 and Heli-Yum by China Glaze for the stamping. The ribbons with Essence Pink nail art painter.

Thanks for reading! xxx