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H&M Spending Cash with Carl

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September 4, 2010

Long time no post, apologies for that one – been too busy having fun with Sophie- a friend who came over from the UK for a week.  I’ll be getting back to normal this week, and hopefully back up to painting speed – though I’ve had some feedback on what people like to see – and so will be using that :)

Kräftor/Crayfish – A tradition I don’t understand, but we ate none-the-less

Så en vecka semester med Sophie – det är jättebra att åka rund stan lite – hoppas att bli normally nästa vecka med mer NoTD action, haha.

Sophie knows I’m a nail polish addict, so understood how excited I got in H&M on seeing this, Razzle Dazzle and Envy Me.  I also picked up Cha Cha finally!


Spending cash with carl is a lovely colour, this is two coats – it’s slightly lighter than in the bottle,, and this is with 2 days wear (which is pretty awesome if you ask me).   What do you think?

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Nail Mail of Joy – Viis.es NoTD

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August 18, 2010

If you follow me on twitter, the you’ll know that I’ve been awaiting a package from an e-tailer in America for over a month now. I waited till it was a month before mailing since I know mail can take time – but I’ve been told to wait another month. Le sigh…. I understand maybe it’ll show up, etc etc, but I obviously got sad that I’m waiting another month before something maybe gets sorted if you see what I mean – though e-tailer wise I totally understand it, just Gemma wise – well it made me a saaaad panda.

So I decided (much to my wallets dismay), to place an order from a store based in Europe  Viis on the recommendation of another nail blogger – Solveig (if you don’t follow her already, then go go, she’s super awesome!)  I ordered on the Thursday evening, and my items were with me on Tuesday – squee I love Europe sometimes!

I ordered:- Nfu.Oh054, 039, 116 and the aqua base

ooooh aren’t they shiiiiinnnnnnny?

Anyways initally I slapped them on to look at over my current mani, but that was pretty rubbish, so it was clear I needed to do something a bit better.  Cue last night playing with China Glaze – Sexy in the City and 054… it didn’t really work.

This is the China Glaze, two coats alone.  It’s a lovely colour but really likes 3 coats for a better opacity.

This is with 039 on my thumb (to be curious), and 054 on my nails.  I really picked a colour too similar to really show of the sparkles. Which made me sad when I realised this morning.

039 – in the daylight to try show of the mass of sparkle.

While at work I had an epithany regarding using  China Glaze – Scroll over the Sexy in the City, to give an almost duo-chrome effect. – this actually worked better than I thought it would (though I failed taking pictures) and I *will* be recreating the look soon so I can show you.

When I got home I decided to add another layer of 054 to see if the flakies were really sad Gem making, or if I just failed the night before.  To my squee joy, they are rather awesome added to this mix – the amount of squee sparkle really can’t be shown in pictures, but hell I’ve tried – just imagine it sparkling and looking duchromey at the same time!

(oooh looks I’ve being a fangirl again <3)

I’m in love with this look, and it’s craziness – what do you think?

I’m also amazed it’s dried since it’s:-

basecoat

sexy in the city x2

nfu-oh 054

topcoat

Stroll

nfu.oh 054

topcoat

Going to be fun to remove. NOT!

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Arockalypse French Manicure NoTD

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August 8, 2010

So from yesterdays Petite Polish I then decided to play french manicure, but with a crackle twist.  This was my apocalypse nature manicure for the PHD weekly challenge and I really like it.

Från igår’s lack tog jag min Isadora grafitti – apocalypse french haha!

This was my attempts at layering for a bark-like effect.  I want to try this again at some point, but with matte top coat.  Personally I think I was trying to add too much :(

And the actual entries.

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Whats your name NoTD

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August 1, 2010

I’m up at 5am this morning, thanks to a bloody wasp crawling up my leg (I’m allergic so it got me out of sleepy land and into awake mode in about 2 seconds… boo!), so I thought I’d bring you one of my latest haul and what I’m wearing today – black like my mood at being woken up so early!

Jag vaknade kl. 5 eftersom det var ett getning på mitt ben (Jag är allergiskt så jag vacknade direckt om 2 sekunder.. ugh), Jag tänkte att skriva lite nu i alla fall….

This is one of my haul from the lovely Nicole of Magic Maid awesomeness (if you don’t already follow her, then seriously do so, she’s ahmazing). What’s your name by Sinful colors.  This is going to be one of my winter favourites for sure – I love the glitter as it’s rather sneaky – you *think* it’s a black, then you catch a glimmer of colour.  The polish took 3 coats to even opacity – but that’s possibly partially my fault – I was on a little bit of a sugar rush shakes time!  The glitter is quite discrete compared to how it sits on the side of the bottle, but rather than be disappointed by that – I’ll be happy that I have a black in my collection now, that is not only black – but has a kick to it!

En annan lack från Nicole – Magic Maid (Du absolute måste kolla på hennes websidan om du inte har redan – hon är jätte-awesome). Lack heter ‘Whats your name’ från Sinful Colors. Jag tycker det ska komma att bli en av min (mitt?) favourit vinter nägellacks – Jag älskar att glitter är inte så stark i läcken – du tror det bara är svärt men det finns blåa glitter…. sneaky! Lack tog tre lager innan opacitet, men det kanske är mitt fel – jag åtit lite för mycket gödis… Nu är jag glad att jag har en fin svärt i mitt kollektion. Yey!

And a close up! So what do you think – interesting, or too simple?

Vad tycker du? Interessant, eller för enkelt?

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Night Party flakies NoTD

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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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Matte le ruff ruff (cherry pie pie pie)

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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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Follow Rainbow, find gold = profit NoTD

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July 19, 2010

So I’m a little ‘meh’ down in the dumps you could say. So what better time than to mess around and make some rainbows to cheer myself back up again?  I thought so anyway!

Using Lacquerized’s technique for ruffians I made these bad boys. Still not sure if they will dry…

  • China Glaze – Cherry Pie
  • China Glaze – 5 Golden Rings (I dont have an orange atm)
  • H&M – Being on the A-list
  • China Glaze – Watermelon rind
  • China Glaze – Sexy in the City
  • China Glaze – Grape Juice (coulda taken another later, but at 6 layers already I wasn’t risking it)
  • Speed Demon Top Coat (good luck drying this lot).

So now trying to do as little as possible before bedtime to give it chance to dry… heh.

Couple of Close-ups :)

What d’ta think? Am I mental for even trying this one, will it dry? Will I keep it on more than 12 hours?

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Watermelon Kitty – NoTD Ruffian

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July 17, 2010

I have a very very sweet spot for green and purple together, and this is no exception.  I *think* this could work better with the two China Glaze rather than with the glittery HK, but stuff it – I fancied some green/purple action.

This is of course H&M HK Cool Summer, and China Glaze Watermelon rind (which is clearly becoming a firm favourite of mine!).  Also showing off  one of my latest aquisitions – Cherry Pie from the same collection – can’t wait to try it out!

So what ya think? You likey leaky, or is my colour sense terrible?

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Poolside watermelon rind – NoTD

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July 10, 2010

I decided to go one further from the strawberry nails I made a few weeks ago, and so this time I went for watermelons!

I used :-

  • China Glaze ridgefiller base,
  • China Glaze – Pool Party,
  • China Glaze – Watermelon Rind (from this lovely lady),
  • A silver glitter nailart pen,
  • H&M Moonless night for the pips.

Left hand – as a leftie I’m pretty proud of myself!

Right hand.

I really enjoyed this mani – was fun to do something a little different to usual, and to work on the watermelon shape a little more.  You could use a flesh tone polish underneath the pink – the reason I didn’t is I have terrible trouble in the heat with bubbles if my polish gets too thick.  You could also add a gradient to a top white to make it more realistic.  What do you think, have I gone completely batty?

Oh I just looked at the date – my giveaway ends on sunday – so if you want to come play and win some Eyeko and H&M goodies then check out the link on the top right :D

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