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Goodness from a good-un

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July 29, 2010

So far this seems to be my week in terms of people who really are just too lovely for words.

Today is the turn of a lovely lady by the name of Magic Maid (well actually called Nicole but hey!)  She had a sale the other week, and I couldn’t resist the urge to get a couple of polishes.  She then proceeded to fill the rest of the box with some lovelies for me – silly, sweet, super lady she is!

From L-R

Claires Chunky Gold, Sally Hanson – Mellow Yellow, Fingerpaints – Artists Inspiration, Sinful Colors – What’s your name, Tapping Nails, Milani – Paint the town red, and my purry-chases – China Glaze- Thunderbird, Lubu Heels. and OPI DS Passion.

I feel like the luckiest little girl ever!  And the day was completed by a nice favourable council tax reduction – score!

Så nu ska jag pratar lite på svenska.  Jag är ibland irriterad när Engelska och Svenska är inte liknade, men presis nu jag skriver annorlunda… hmmm kanske jag måste förklara i mitt huvud hur jag ska försätta…

Förra veckan har jag köpt lite lack från Nicole (Magic Maid), hon hade rea/sale och jag kunde inte säger nej!  Hon var så snäll och den hela packet hade 9 nägellack (er?) totall  i den  Jätte jätte söt tjej hon är!

Under bild finns listen :)

Jag är så lycklig, jag också hade ett brev från England – jag för rabatt från min lägenhet skätt också! Yey!

(Arghh semester betyder jag har glömt så mycket svenska.)

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It was all yellow – Golden EoTD

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July 29, 2010

Carrying on with the awesome things that I got sent the other day.  This is Happy Birthday which I expected to be pinky but actually looked all coppery when I added some Pixie Epoxy under it.  Not that I’m complaining though – I think it went really nicely with Aztec Gold.

Quite a simple look really, and I’d quite like to use the Happy Birthday dry as well since I think that it could work as a gentler shade as well.

Fyrinnae – Aztec Gold, Pixie Epoxy
Everyday Minerals – Happy Birthday

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H&M You Rock my world NoTD

Filed Under: Nail of the Day, Review by Emybloom — 1 Comment
July 28, 2010

Yesh, I got impatient waiting for my Nfu.Oh Nail mail, so I took Night party off.  The wear after 3 days was minimal (just tip wear) So if I ever see another that looks funky (and ideally in a sale) I may very well give it a go!  Anyways Today I decided to give You rock my world a go, the silver holo from H&M (which I got thanks to a certain wonderful person who you should check out if you don’t already)

Application wise, it was a little easier in terms of not smearing between layers than Nfu.Oh’s holos over the same (Depend Hydrating) base, however it dried a lot slower and was victim to me being impatient (hence my thumb obscuring my finger in these shots).  The effect is more shimmery and less holo than Nfu.Oh which I like in some respects, though at the same time it was a little streaky which I wasn’t *as* chuffed about.

Unfortunatly I utterly ragged my left hand taking pictures (as I said… impatient girl here!), so I can’t really talk about wear.  It’s a keeper for sure though – as the overall silver colour is *love*

Onto the pictures – all are flash as I was a little late this evening!

See slightly streaky looking.

And a close up for the final shot – hololicious!

Now I have a little question for anyone who may speak swedish and reads this – basically I’m considering (as part of trying to write better swedish) of dual languaging some of my posts – would you read the swedish or just not bother? Would it give you a good giggle when I fail?  If so I’m totally up for it, haha!

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Sometimes people are the best :)

Filed Under: Eye of the Day by Emybloom — 5 Comments
July 27, 2010

YEY mail!  I have a little review of  a soap/lipbalm/stuff shop on Etsy coming up, but today I got this awesome set of shiny things from a certain wonderful girl – Alzarine Claws She helped me out with a couple of the H&M holo polishes I’d missed out on and then suprised me with a couple of mineral eyeshadows :o I was quite shocked by the loveliness!

So of course I had to take one for a test run – this is Silver Spoon (if I remember correctly), Sugarpill- Tiara, a little Fyrinnae pixie epoxy and 1.22 gigawatt, and Aromaleigh Infernal Chaos.

Because pulling faces is the most fun ever!

You may notice slightly more tamed eyebrows. Thank you to future sister in law for that one!

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Night Party flakies NoTD

Filed Under: Nail of the Day by Emybloom — 2 Comments
July 26, 2010

I got this last week in a sale, it’s a brand called Lumene and the colour is called night party, a brown shimmer with flakies.  Initially the bottle made me so excited that I simply had to have it (I mean FLAKIESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!111!!!!oneoneone), but the initial application when I got home made me all sad.  The brown was too pigmented (and not jelly enough) to show through the awesome sparklies.  Dispondant at it being a bit rubbish, I put it away and growled a little.

Having only a quite small collection, and fancying a change I dragged it out today to swatch, and I must say I’m actually liking it.  Though by gum it’s a hard colour to photograph (perhaps even more so when it’s raining!)

This is three coats, though it could take two I think.  The flakies are diffused throughout the nail, although the shimmer tends to catch the light more in a lot of cases.

Just look at the bottle, is it hard to see why I got excited?

Though on the nail with a few layers it does look kinda nice…

There are flakies scattered through out, though the camera tends to only catch them away from the main light source.

Overall I can see myself wearing this a lot in the autumn, and perhaps with another layer of flakies on top, haha!

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July Blues, matching my new theme – EoTD

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July 25, 2010

Been playing with makeup again, this time a mix of Aromaleigh and Fyrinnae.  The weather outside is rubbish today, so pictures are relatively fail.  Nothing overly exciting to note – haha!  Well other than my sadness that Aromaleigh will no longer ship Internationally.

I know they are closing and everything – but I was looking forwards to payday and ordering a little more (Backstory here is that I wanted to order quite a lot next year for wedding makeup).  While I understand that it’s not really the shops fault to have lost money due to mean ass customers and be forced to do this – there’s something about it that makes me a little sad/annoyed at them.  I’m going to put that down to me being me, and order me some Evil Shades and Fyrinnae shortly :D  (Also I was offered an American Address from a lovely girl on twitter… all together now… awwwww!)

Anyways, onto yet another blue look!

I used:-

Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy, 1.22 Gigawatts (can’t really see, it’s blended in with the aromaleigh)

Aromaleigh – Sapphire and Jade

I’m really liking having shadow under my eyes for some reason at the moment. Perhaps because it ends up there regardless!  No full face action as I have a really angry spot on my nose that I’ve been attacking in my sleep. Nice!

Is there any look you’d like me to try?  Challenge my lack of ability!

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Watermarble, attempt the third.

Filed Under: Nail of the Day by Emybloom — 2 Comments
July 24, 2010

Unimpressed however with my lack of creativity in my weekly PHD attempt, yesterday evening I attempted something a little more daring.  The dreaded water marble.

I’m an utter idiot at doing this. I’ve tried all sorts of things, boiled kettle, differing temperatures of water, differing polishes, it doesn’t matter, sometimes I get something okay, most the time I end up with very messy fingers with very little to show for it.  Regardless I’ll keep at it, every so often attempting a new one.  I’ve found that for me working on only two fingers or one as an accent stresses me out *significantly* less, so until I am a master at this technique, that’s how it’s going to be.

This week it was the turn of my ring fingers to get the ‘pop’ of colour.

Polishes I used were:- Moonless Night by H&M for the main stay of my nails. White by Mavela, and pinky colour is Dim sum Plum by OPI, which I like more and more each time I wear it.

My water fingers aren’t so exciting, and bubbly, but hey ho!

Time for your close up nails!

Yeah, a little bubbly, and not my favourites ever, but they get the point accross, and well I’ll be trying again soon no doubt!

Do you like water marbling?  What is your trick to making it work?

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Matte le ruff ruff (cherry pie pie pie)

Filed Under: Nail of the Day by Emybloom — 2 Comments
July 23, 2010

I like layering, it’s fun and it adds another day of wear (at least) before I have to get the gawddamn polish off.  I dislike nail varnish remover.  Maybe that’s because I haven’t found the right one for me, maybe it’s because I have a tendency towards glitter, maybe it’s actually because I haven’t found one with the right type of fumes… That aside I think it’s the reason I’m so loathe to do any swatching. That and I don’t want to waste any of my preciouseseseses (unless they have summertime application of dhoom – *cough* older Eyeko *cough*).

Anyways, I decided to take the cherry pie into a look for the polish hoarder disorder’s weekly challenge (please don’t judge me on last weeks nails, I know they were pretty fail – but I really wanted to try).  This week is a greyscale look with a ‘pop’ of colour.  The biggest issue here is that I don’t have anything other than the H&M moonless night and a plain manicure white for the challenge… hmmm it’s going to be simple!

This is the first look I came up with. A simple matte ruffian – I used:- China Glaze- Cherry Pie and Matte Magic, and Moonless Night by H&M.

As you can see here application of the moonless night, wasn’t *perfect* but I tried, haha.

I love ruffians, I think I have an addicion!

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Cherry Pie pie pie NoTD

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July 22, 2010

Another day, another China Glaze!  This one came from a recent blog sale and is from 2009′s summer collection – which I seem to have a wee addiction to.  The name Cherry Pie, and like the others before it (Grape Juice and Watermelon rind) this one has the glass fleck shimmer.

As ever application was fine (I wore this as the first layer in my rainbow mani the other day, and I can say the removal is similar to a glitter :( ). this is with two coats and there is a slight VNL  which 3 coats would I think fix, but I have layering plans, so I stuck with two!

By the window, flash firing (damn clouds)

Close up on a uglee VNL, but yey sparkley

Artificial light and flash

Amusingly as I was removing the rainbow mani, I had some lovely bubbles where I’d layered the 5-6-7th coats, haha oh well!

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The calm before the glitter boi storm EoTD

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July 20, 2010

So, success on the nail front – they dried overnight!  Yey! Now time to take it off to do polish horder disorders weekly challenge okay, maybe not today (I need a grey polish first). But tomorow for sure – before I forget.

It may not have been perfect, but I loves the rainbows.

So on to today, more playing with blue eyeshadow, more fail! Well more realisation that it was one step forward, break for a few months, fall in a pile – this is not what I intended, certainly not when I want to do my own makeup next wedding day!

So here is todays attempt brought to you with:-

  • Fyrinnae – Glitter Boi as a kind of eyeliner
  • Lower eyeline is Benefit – Bad Gal
  • Mascara is just a waterproof bodyshop affair
  • Aromaleigh in Sapphire, Skeleton Key, and Infernal Chaos.

So what do you think? I need to get more even that’s for sure.  I think Sapphire is too bright for a wedding colour though sadly, even though I am going to geek it up in glasses…

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