Nail Art: Blue

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Today I have my picks from the KBShimmer winter 2013 collection to share with you guys. KBShimmer is really one of my favourite brands and I thought this winter collection was pretty awesome. I ended up buying total of six polishes from the collection and I'm gonna show five of those to you today. I have quite a lot of pictures to share with you guys as these pretty polishes really deserve more than just one picture.

Green Hex and Glam is a green jelly with holographic hex glitter in various sizes. I just love love love KBShimmer I Got A Crush On Blue and since this is pretty much the green version of that same polish, I had high expectations for this one. Unfortunately, this didn't work for me in green like the blue one did. It's unquestionably a gorgeous polish and if you like green, I'm sure you'll love this one. I think I'm going to stick with my beloved blue one.

I used three coats here with base and top coat. This is a bit sheer because of the jelly base, but you can still easily build it up for full opacity. The formula was nice and easy to work with, though like with all large glitters, you'll need to fish a bit for those biggest ones.

I also wanted to see how Green Hex and Glam would look matte, so I applied a coat of matte top coat over it:

I prefer the shiny version, but it did look quite interesting matte too.

Maybe Navy is a shimmering navy blue. Those shimmer flakes shine also in purple and in some lights pink. This reminds me a bit of KBShimmer fall collection polish called Teal Another Tail as there's maybe something similar in these two and that subtle duochrome effect they have. This has a great formula, I used two easy coats here, no base or top coat.

Myth You Lots is a really interesting one as it is a holographic multichrome. Unfortunately I didn't have any sunlight available to really capture the holo effect, but you can still see it a bit here too. Just keep in mind that it really is much stronger in real life. The multichrome shifts between purple, blue, red and more. It's really one of those polishes that you have to see your self! I used three easy coats here, no base or top coat. This one can also be layered over black or some other colors, I think I'll need to try that out next.

Snow Flaking Way was one of the two polishes from this collection that first seemed impossible to get as it was always sold out immediately. I finally managed to get it and I'm really glad I did. I was a bit worried that this wouldn't work for me as my nails are quite curved and those snowflake glitters are quite big, but it worked just fine. I used three coats here with a coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food (to even out those flakes) and a coat of top coat. Those snowflakes are quite large ones, so you'll need to fish for them a bit, but there's plenty of them in the bottle, so it's not impossible to get them on your nails. It also helps to turn the bottle upside down for a while before applying the polish.

I'm a big fan of circle glitter, so Will Yule Marry Me? seemed like a really interesting and unique polish to me. It's a really dusty navy blue with silver and holographic hex and circle glitter. It dries a tad darker on nail than it is in the bottle. I wish this would have been more towards a blue navy than what it is, as to me it looks pretty much like a dark grey one instead of the navy. Also, I would have probably liked it more if it wouldn't dry as dark as it does. It's still a really pretty one, but it wasn't my favourite. The formula with this one was pretty nice though I struggled a bit to get those little bit bigger circle glitters on nail. I used two coats here, no base or top coat.

My favourites from these were Myth You Lots and Snow Flaking Way, but the other three are also quite interesting and unique polishes too. There are actually quite many more unique ones in the KBShimmer winter collection! However, like I said in the beginning of this post, I got six polishes from this collection and to me the real star of the collection is the oh-so-gorgeous topper I Only Have Ice For You. I have used that one for quite many manicures already, for example here and here.

Which one was your favourite polish from the entire collection?

If you live in the US you can pick these up at KBShimmer.com, if not, then you'll need to do as I do and buy yours from Harlow & Co. I have bought all these polishes myself and I don't gain anything if you use the links, their here just to help you guys.

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Tänään esittelyssä minun valintani KBShimmerin 2013 talvikokoelmasta. KBShimmer on yksi suosikkimerkeistäni ja tämä talvikokoelma oli mielestäni varsin onnistunut, joten päädyin ostamaan jopa kuusi lakkaa tästä kokoelmasta. Suosikeiksi viidestä tässä esitellystä nousivat Myth You Lots ja Snow Flaking Way. Tosin ehdoton suosikkini tästä talvikokoelmasta on upean kaunis topperi I Only Have Ice For You, jota olenkin käyttänyt jo useammassa lakkauksessa, esim. täällä ja täällä.

Mikä tämän talvikokoelman lakoista oli teidän suosikkinne?

KBShimmereitä voi tilata Harlow&Co:lta, josta itsekin omat KBShimmer lakkani aina hankin.

Hello everyone!

Today I'm combining two challenges, so I'm using a blue vintage Dior nail polish (for the GOT Challenge) and was inspired by my blue silk top, which is my favourite piece of clothing (for Day 18 in the #31Nails2014 Challenge). Before publishing this blog post, I had hoped to make all the nail art for day 6- 17 and to have written about it here on the blog, but the submissions for the GOT challenge close today...

I'm probably using my favourite blue nail polish for the last time... :-( The bottle is nearly empty, so I really hope I'll find a dupe! Christian Dior #489 Cobalt is one of my oldest nail polishes. I've written about Dior Cobalt here, and about my tiny vintage nail polish collection here. If you know how old this bottle is, please let me know. My guess is that it's from 1993. So although I've showed this polish before, I had to take some last pictures of it on it's own too. And none of the photos show how beautiful this polish is.

2 coats, no top coat: (IRL it looks shiny.)

With top coat:

Sadly there's not much daylight here this time of the year. I wish we had daylight in the afternoon. In the artificial light, the shine doesn't show. And the days I could take photos outside, it was snowing...

This is the first time I'm wearing Cobalt with nail art. I just used some Joby rhinestone stickers. I like them and they don't cover to much of the polish. And sealed with a generous coat of Seche Vite they stayed on.

Products used:

Christian Dior #489 Cobalt
Joby Nail Art: #351 Gemstone
and IsaDora #600 Clear as base coat and Seche Vite top coat.
and a false nail for my broken pinkie nail

Now I'm curious about how many are participating, and what they made for these challenges. If you want to, you can take a closer look at the blue nails and the other old blue nail polish bottles, by clicking on a thumbnail below.

Lani

Today I'm finally going to continue the challenge! You know guys, I really struggled with today's task. I tried so hard to figure out what I wanted to do and I always came up empty. I do love good movies and I also watch movies quite often, but I just couldn't figure out even what movie I wanted to do. That's also the main reason it has taken me so long to continue this challenge... Finally I decided to just do this the easy and obvious way and then I managed to do at least something. The mani isn't no where near perfect and I pretty much got ruined, but I decided to post this anyhow as I really don't want to do this movie manicure again.

Yeah, like I said, the mani isn't too good, but it's something! Obviously I used Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast At Tiffany's as my inspiration. I started the mani with two coats of L'Oreal BB Perfect Pastel Coat, then I placed the water decals on my ring fingers. Then I painted the half moons with China Glaze For Audrey using some hole reinforcers to create the half moons and framed the decals on my ring finger nails with the same polish. Finally with the help of some top coat I applied small pieces from that plastic beads to each nails.

I thought this was nice and simple idea, but the beads didn't really want to work with me. It was so incredibly hard to somehow get them to that somewhat round shape on my ring fingers and I also seem to have too narrow nails for this. Also it would have probably been better idea to use some nail glue instead of top coat to secure those beads into place as with top coat they really went pretty much where they wanted to and they certainly didn't stay there where you put them. Those water decals are also some poor ebay quality and they were really thick but somehow still managed to get wrinkled...

At least the color of China Glaze For Audrey is as gorgeous as always and the color of the beads went really well together with the polish!

I have gotten the beads from Born Pretty Store for review and mine are color #2. These 100 cm of these in the one package, so there's really plenty to use for several manicures. I just have to ficure out some easier way to use these!

Don't forget that you can get 10% off with my code MBL91 and BPS offers free worldwide shipping! I don't gain anything if you use my code, but BPS has promised that they will sponsor a giveaway here in my blog if ten people use the code.

Here's what I used:

L'Oreal BB Perfect Pastel Coat (2 coats)

China Glaze For Audrey

Mereneid Top It All Top Coat

water decals

Reinforcements (for the half moons)

Wire cutters (to cut those beads)

My movie inspired mani wasn't that creative two years ago either:

But I think I still liked it more than that newer one. You can check out the full post about the mani here.

Do you guys have any movie in mind that would be great for nail art inspiration?

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Tänään vihdoin jatkuu siis 31. päivän haaste. Haasteen jatkaminen on venynyt lähinnä siksi, että oli ihan uskomattoman vaikeata keksiä mitä tämän päivän kynsiksi tekisi! En millään keksinyt edes mitään elokuvaa, mistä haluaisin inspiroitua tekemään kynsiä, vaikka katselenkin aika paljon elokuvia... Lopulta päätin mennä sieltä missä aita on ainakin suhteellisen matala eli tehdä jotakin melko ilmiselvää.

Varmastikaan ei tarvitsisi edes sanoa, että näihin epäonnisiin haastekynsiin inspiraatio on saatu Audrey Hepburnista ja Aamiainen Tiffanylla elokuvasta. Idea kynsiin oli ihan kiva, mutta toteutus ei sitten onnistunut ollenkaan. Tuo helminauha on kyllä kivan näköistä ja väristä, mutta eihän se meinannut taipua millään kynsille. Tuon vähän ympyrää/soikiota muistuttavan kuvion tekeminen tuolla nauhalla oli ihan yhtä tuskaa ja kaiken lisäksi omat kynnet oli näköjään liian kapoiset moiseen. Olisi alunperin pitänyt muutenkin käyttää tuon helminauhan kiinnittämiseen kynsiliimaan päällilakan sijaan. Eihän se tietenkään pysynyt päällilakan kanssa siellä minne sen asetti, kun päällilakalla ottaa tietysti aikansa kuivua. Lisäksi nuo Audrey-siirtokuvat on jotain surkeaa ebay-laatua, eli ne oli aivan liian paksut, mutta silti ruttaantuvat. Sentään China Glazen For Audrey näytti kynsillä yhtä kauniin väriseltä kuin aina ja tuon helminauhan väri sointui lakan väriin nätisti.

Kahden vuoden takaiset haastekynnet eivät nekään olleet mikään kynsitaiteen riemuvoitto, mutta silti tykkäsin niistä kuitenkin enemmän kuin tämänpäiväisistä. Miten voikaan olla niin vaikea keksiä leffainspiraatiota?! Onko teillä jotakin loistavia ideoita elokuvista, joita voisi käyttää kynsi-inspiraationa?

Valentine's Day is closing in quickly and I figured it was time to start posting some of my Valentine's Day nail art. First up - corset nails. :)

I've always wanted a corset (and the confidence to actually wear it). I guess having them on my nails is the next best thing.

I started with a base of Spellbound Nails Cheeks Tinted Red and drew a quick line down the middle with Spellbound Nails I'm All Aflutter. If I had thought this through I would have started with a base of I'm All Aflutter and taped off the middle for neater lines but the end result wasn't horrible. The laces of the corset actually helped disguise the imperfect lines so I call it a win!

A close up look of the corsets. I used Spellbound Nails Steel Wool for the metal and some unaltered white base for the laces.

Overall, this is not a hard mani at all! And if you don't feel up to doing all 10 nails as corsets these work perfectly as accent nails as well. :)

Until next time,
♥ Ashley ♥

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Hello Lovelies, remember Cynthia, from Alter Ego Nail Enamel? Cynthia sent me this amazing shades to review and show you. Terra Cotta Planter is a gorgeous brick earth shade with a suede finish and Armed Forces Vet is a Blue-Red glitter. She Shines! is a high shine top coat with an amazing fruity scent. Lets see them all.

Hello meninas. Lembram-se da Cynthia, criadora da Marca Indie Alter Ego Nail Enamel? A Cynthia enviou-me estes lindos meninos para review e para vos mostrar. O Terra Cotta Planter e um suede com um tom tijolo/terra e o Armed Forces Vet é um glitter concentradíssimo em glitters pequenos vermelhos e azuis. O She Shines! é um top coat para promover o brilho do verniz e tem um cheirinho delicioso. Vamos ver tudo?

*brand info by the end of the post*

Terra Cotta Planter

This polish has an orange brick / earth shade and a very pigmented formula. 2 thin coats for full opacity and around 5 mins drying time. The polish dries to a suede finish.

Este verniz tem um tom laranja meio tijolo meio terra. A fórmula é bastante bem pimentada e são apenas ncessárias 2 finas camadas para opacidade total e acabamento homogeneo. O tempo de secagem é de cerca de 5 mins. O acabamento final é suede/matte.

She Shines !

Thumb, indicator and ring finger with She Shines! for you to see the differences in brightness and suede finish. She shines dries relatively fast an has an amazing fruity scent.

O She Shines é um top com a finalidade de aumentar o brilho do verniz. Neste caso o she shines confere o brilho ao acabamento suede do Terra Cotta Planter. O She Shines! tem um aroma frutado delicioso. Podem ver a diferença com e sem top coat nas fotos abaixo. Polegar, indicador e anelar com top coat.

Armed Forces Vet

1 Coat - Indicator vs 2 coats in middle finger. Armed Forces Vet is a highly pigmented glitter top coat filled with blue and red glitters. Layers quite easily and the outcome is very homogeneous. Drying time is around 6 mins without top coat.
1 camada no dedo indicador e duas na unha do dedo médio. O Armed Forces Vet é um top coat glitter altamente concentrado em glitter vermelho, azul e prateado. Os glitters dispersam-se na unha com facilidade e o acabamento fica homogeneo. O tempo de secagem é de cerca de 6 mins sem top coat.

*the products on this post were sent by the brand for an honest review, all opinions are my own*

Alter Ego Nail Enamel Contacts

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Store:http://alterego.storenvy.com/
Stockists: too many suppliers to name!
Indie Guide Project Post

Hello ladies, remember the Yes Love Speckled post I made a while ago here? This is the Color Speckled collection, the 2nd speckled collection by Yes Love. This one was released a couple months ago but I've been delaying the swatches. Shame on me. Here they are.

Cucu!! Lembram-se de um post que fiz há algum tempo com a 1ª colecção speckled da Yes Love (aqui).. Esta é a 2ª colecção speckled da marca mas desta vez com glitters de várias cores e tamanhos. Esta colecção foi lançada há já alguns meses mas tenho andado a molengar e só agora é que fiz os swatches.

About the collection

All shades have mix colored and sized glitters in tons of red, blue, purple, black, orange and pink. The previous collection had only black glitters in the formula as you can see here.

The base formulas are all very well pigmented and all take 2 generous or 3 thin coats. The finish is slightly bumpy but that issue is settled with a generous coat of top coat. The overall drying time is fast, less than 10 mins.

Todas as cores desta colecção têm glitters de várias cores e tamanhos incorporados na fórmula. Os tons de glitters variam entre o azul, roxo, preto, vermelho, laranja e rosa. A primeira colecção era composta apenas por glitters pretos como podem ver aqui. Todos os vernizes têm uma fórmula bem pigmentada e cobrem a unha em 2 camadas generosas ou 3 finans ( fica um acabamento mais homogeneo). O acabamento é um pouco rugoso em alguns pontos por causa dos glitters mas isto é facilmente resolvido com uma generoa camada de top coat. O tempo geral de secagem não excede os 10 mins.

Yellow Y6
Light yellow - lime. 3 coats