Kicks New Year Sky - swatches and review

This is a great Swedish budget polish with surprisingly beautiful depth and glow. Kicks is a Swedish beauty retail store chain and online shop. I bought this on their sale last year.

The polish really does the name justice. This looks like a night sky!

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Shimmer.

Number of coats: Three.

Formula: A tiny bit thin but still very easy to apply.

Brush: On the thinner side and straight cut.

Top Coat: Yes. 

Color accuracy in pictures: Accurate. 

Grade: 4/5

A great polish for great price! I rest my case! ;)

How do you like New Year Sky?

Reindeer Nail Art

I've been so lazy and not done any blogging or reading any blogs the last couple of days and I soooo needed that. All the hard work before Christmas was really exhausting. Instead I've been in Linkoping visiting family and then I've done a clear out at home and even bought some new furniture :)

Today it's this years last Nail Art Sunday and I'm going our with a bang! ;) Well, at least with reindeers and trees in snow :) Lol!

The base for this nail art is a blue shimmer polish from Swedish Kicks called New Year Sky, very suitable ;) The silvery white polish is a stamping polish from Swedish Depend, #6703. The reindeer is from Bundle Monster plate BM-214 and the tree is from BM-205.

First I did the base. Then I stamped on the reindeers and trees. After that I used a sponge to do the snow on the ground and then I did the falling snow with a small dotting tool. I sealed it all with one coat of Seche Vite.

How do you like my reindeer nails?

New arrivals!

I couldn't believe my luck some time ago when I got hold of some Takko polishes!! I was like a hawk on the launch day and I got not one, not two, but three Takko's!! :D They sure look great in the bottles!

I also got two more textured polishes from the Swedish brand Kicks when they had a sale. Oh! I got a Picture Polish too when I got the Takko's :)

Takko Lacquer Electric Apple and Nirvana

Picture Polish Imperial and Takko Kaleidoscope Eyes

Kicks Watermelon Crush and Dirty Chalk

Which one are you most curious of?

Cameo Nails

I think we need a little nail art here at LMNP! :) This is a nail art I did a while ago and it turned out fairly good. It's a bit crocked but I like the overall look. Cameos remind me of my beloved grandma who I miss every day.

The base is a textured glitter polish from Swedish Kicks and called Black Diamond. Then I've stamped the cameo pattern with Depend's white stamping polish #6700 and MoYou plate Pro Collection-07.

How do you like these cameo nails?

Comparison Isadora Wine Crush and Kicks Black Diamond

Recently two Swedish nail polish brands released a similar textured shade - a glittery maroon. Isadora released their Wine Crush and Kicks their Black Diamond. I wanted to see how similar they were so I did a comparison.

In the bottles they are very similar. A maroon base with loads of gold glitters.

On the nails you can actually see a tiny difference. Isadora's Wine Crush has a tiny bit darker base but they both have the same amount of red and gold glitters. The bases are actually dark purples but the glitters make them look maroon.

In my pictures I wear two coats of each and drying time is about the same for both of them, about 15 minutes for touch dryness.

The price is 79 SEK for each, but Isadora holds only 6 ml whereas Kicks holds 10 ml.

The wide brush is better on Isadora Wine Crush but Kicks Black Diamond holds more polish for the same money and has a smaller cap underneath the big one which is more comfortable to grip than the Isadora cap.

In my opinion they are so similar that you don't need both. However, they are not dupes either. Based on my comparison my choice is Kicks Black Diamond :)

Middle finger and pinkie - Kicks Black Diamond

Pointer and ring finger - Isadora Wine Crush

Isadora to the left, Kicks to the right

Which one of these two would you prefer?

Kicks Black Diamond - swatches and review

I have a plan. A textured plan ;) Today Swedish Kicks' Black Diamond, tomorrow a textured comparison and the day after that a textured skittle. How does that sound?

This is the Swedish perfumery shop Kicks' own textured polish. They have released a range of their own textured polishes. This is the first one I have tried and I am impressed!

Excellent formula and touch dry in 15 minutes.

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Textured glitter.

Number of coats: One!

Formula: Excellent! It's so easy to apply!

Brush: Very good perhaps a bit thin for my likening but I like my brushes wiiiiiiide ;)

Top Coat: No. 

Color accuracy in pictures: Accurate. More glittering live though.

Grade: 4/5

This is a fantastic polish formula wise and color wise! However, it brought out the red in my skin and that is the only reason I gave it a lower grade.

It can also be good to know that there is a smaller round cap underneath the big square one, just like on the Illamasqua bottles. As I said it's touch in 15 minutes but to get it complete dry takes about 30 minutes.

How do you like Black Diamond?

Kicks Pink Flamingo gradient - Guestpost by Lacky Corner!

This week is all about pink swatches in order to raising money for breast cancer research! (For more info click here.)

One person who is helping out with this is my next guest blogger Helena! She also has her own blog called Lacky Corner.
Helena has made a cool pink gradient manicure!




Helena writes:
"For this I have used a polish from the Swedish Brand Kicks named Pink Flamingo as a base. I'm not a pink person but this polish is one of the few pinks that I really like. To make it even better I applied a thin line of Models Own Disco Mix on the top of the nail and used the brush to drag it down to make some sort of gradient!"

Thank you so much for joining Helena!
Visit her great blog Lacky Corner here!