Stars on Holo Skies Manicure

For today's Nail Art Sunday I've got pretty silver stars on dark blue holo skies for you :)

The base is the magically beautiful Dream from Zoya and the stars are made with Essie No Place Like Chrome and MoYou London plate Princess Collection-14. For extra sparkle I added one coat of INM Northern Lights Hologram Top Coat "Silver".

I'm very happy with the result! If you want to see Zoya Dream on its own click here.

How do you like this manicure?

Zoya Dream - swatches and review

Time for Holothon 2.0! This time with a real showstopper! So beautiful you just want to cry, well almost ;)

Really just weak scattered hologlitter in a dark blue jelly base but never the less soooo stunning!! On top of this it has a great formula too.

Three pics today of Dream in three different lightings and it's wonderful in every single one! This polish goes on my top ten list - ever!

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Holographic.

Number of coats: Two.

Formula: Very good! So easy to control!

Brush: Thin straight cut brush.

Top Coat: Yes. 

Grade: 5++++++++++++++++++++++++++++/5

How do you like Dream?

This is what the other ladies are showing today:

An InLinkz Link-up

New arrivals!

Due to a swop, an arrived llarowe parcel and boyfriend-went-to-London I got some new arrivals this week :)

Picture Polish Chillax

Picture Polish Swagger

Zoya Yara

Illamasqua Facet

Jade Holografico Sunset

No7 (names or numbers unknown)

I've already tried one of these ;) but I can't wait to try the rest!
Guess which one I tried first…? :)

Holo Waterfall Manicure

The theme for today's Nail Art Sunday is "Red" and the possibilities were endless! In the end I chose to do a waterfall manicure. I've been wanting to try this technique for a long time.

It was both harder and easier than I thought. Easier on the clean-up. Not much mess at all. Harder to get a nice finish of the brushstrokes and to get the right proportions. I'm not that happy with the proportions on this manicure. They are sort of in no mans land. Next time I'll do them either shorter or longer.

The gorgeous holo base is Smitten Polish Just in Cases from the Love Actually Collection. The waterfalls are made with Misa Lovely Lychee (pink), Zoya Posh (red) and Orly Dazzle (silver).

I'm also joining Valentine Polish Week with this manicure - last day today :/

In shade.

How do you like this manicure?

Have you tried this technique?

Valentine Love Letter Nail Art

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you!

As a florist I'm working my a-- of today so this is a scheduled post. At work this is a totally crazy but fun day. I think it's touching that so many people want to buy flowers for their near and dear ones today! <3

I've got a special Valentine manicure to show you today! Of course ;) I call it Love Letter Nail Art because in my head this stamp is a steaming love letter and I have enhanced that by stamping on a bunch of red hearts too ;) This is actually my first layering stamping! I think it turned out pretty well actually.

The base is Rimmel Barmy Blue (loooooove it!!!). The letter stamp is from Moyou Princess Collection-11 and I've used Essie Blue Rhapsody. The small hearts are made with Konad plate m3 and Zoya Posh.

I'm joining both Valentine Polish Week and and Polish Alcoholic's Valentine's Day Nail Art Contest with this manicure. Click on the links to see the others participants!

How do you like this nail art?

How are you spending your Valentine's Day?

Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts Candy Nails

Today's theme for the Halloween Challenge I'm doing is "Trick or Treat". I decided to go for treat and did these candy inspired nails.

In the candy mix called Bassets Liquorice Allsorts there are yellow and pink wheels. The outside tastes of coconut and the middle is a sweet liquorice filling. I love eating only the yellow and pink pieces and give the black middle to my boyfriend ;) Lol!

Anyway, the base is a fantastic purple-grey polish from Rimmel called Punk Rock and the wheels are made with dotting tools. The yellow is China Glaze Happy Go Lucky and the pink is Zoya Lo. The black is Illamasqua Boosh.

My inspiration :)

How do you like this candy manicure?

Have you tried Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts?

Vintage Challenge: French Bow Nails - swatches

Today on the last day of this Vintage Challenge I've got a simple but beautiful nail art to show you.

There was no theme for this nail art challenge. The only rule was to use only polishes I've showed you earlier this week. I chose the gorgeous red Zoya Posh and and the stunning plum holo China Glaze Visit Me in Prism.

This type of nail art has different names but I've chosen to call it "French Bows" because if you look at the plum tip it looks like the upper half of a bow :)

I did not use any striping tape or such. I did them by free hand. That's why they look crooked. Lol!

They did turn out a bit X-massy, but I still like the result. Fast and easy if you want to spice up your nails quickly. Maybe I'll do them again for X-mas but with white bows instead of plum ones :)

How do you like my French Bow Nails?

What would you call this type of nail art?

Vintage Challenge: Zoya Posh (Matte) - swatches and review

Today's theme for the Vintage Challenge is "Red" and I've got a gorgeous limited edition polish to show you! This is Zoya Posh (Matte) from Zoya's Limited Edition Matte Velvet Collection which was released during autumn of 2009.

I actually got my hands on this polish via Swedish e-bay and I paid almost nothing for it. It wasn't until years after the purchase I googled it and understood what a rare gem I owned! What a happy surprise that was!

For you who didn't read yesterday's post I can tell you that this week is Vintage Challenge week! My lovely blog friend Christine from Polished Marvels and I have decided to only show vintage polishes this week and you can join us if you want to! Just add the links to your posts in the link gadget below! For more information regarding this challenge and to get the code for the inlinkz gadget click here.

Zoya Posh with a top coat.

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Matte shimmer.

Color: A dark red with lots of bright red shimmer.

Number of coats: Two coats, but you can easily get away with one coat!

Formula: Perfect formula. Easy to control and very self leveling. No streaks in spite of all that shimmer! Dries very fast too.

Brush: Very nice! No complaints at all.

Top Coat: No. It dries matte and it looks like you've got velvet on your nails! <3

Color accuracy in pictures: Accurate.

Grade: 5/5

I opened this bottle over four years ago and the formula is just as perfect today as for four years ago! Amazing! This polish is also great for stamping and it looks wonderful both as matte and shiny!

How do you like Posh?
Do you prefer it matte or shiny?

Zoya Posh with Caviar Heart - swatches

Since Valentine's Day is coming up next week I thought I'd show you a Valentine's manicure :) This manicure in inspired by the wonderful blogger Natalia at Polished Polyglots.

The red polish is Zoya Posh which is a gorgeous matte red shimmer polish. Posh has an amazing formula and is a dream to apply!

As an accent nail I made a little heart out of silver caviar pearls and filled it with Orly Torrid. It was a bit fiddly, I must admit ;) but I drew the outline of the heart with a thin brush and a top coat and then I filled that line with the silver caviar pearls. After that I filled the heart with Torrid also using a thin brush.

As I said to Natalia when she made her caviar heart, I think this is the best use of caviar pearls EVER! ;)

Do you like Zoya Posh?

Do you have other ideas for using caviar pearls?

Comparison nude polishes

Today I have done a small comparison of three nude polishes to show you.

I have a favourite... ;)

Which one is your favourite nude polish?

From left to right: Nails Inc Kate, Zoya Avery, H&M Nerd

From left to right: Nails Inc Kate, Zoya Avery, H&M Nerd

 They are all two coats.

They are all very shiny.

They are all creams.

Nerd and Avery have the best formulas.

Kate is the most expensive.

Nerd is the cheapest.

Avery gives you 15 ml, Kate 10 ml and Nerd 9 ml.

To me the winner is.....

NERD!!!!! :D

Nicest colour, cheap and good formula and opacity.

You can see more of Nerd here.

Here's a picture of the bottles:

Nerd, Avery, Kate

Kate has a beautiful crystal cap!

Louboutin nails with Zoya Robyn and Essie Geranium

Today I'll show you the so called Louboutin manicure!
It's so fun to try something different!! And I'm not alone ;) Both Adele and Rihanna have been seen with it lately. Ladies of good taste ;)

Blue on top, red under :)

I love the combination of red and blue/turquoise!

Close up! Isn't this a fun manicure?!?! :D

My inspiration! A Louboutin shoe with the signature red sole :)

Beautiful Zoya Robyn!!!

Full hand picture in daylight

Polishes used: Zoya Robyn and Essie Geranium

A robin's eggs, the same colour as Zoya Robyn! :D

This manicure is not hard to pull off at all!

Start with the red under the nails.

Clear up the mess under and on the nails :)

Apply the blue on top of the nails and finish off with a top coat.

Done! :D

Apparently the signature red sole of Louboutin was born when  Mr. Louboutin himself was bored one day and painted the sole on one of his shoes red with a red nail polish...
True or not...? What do you think?

Will you try this manicure?


GOOD TO KNOW ABOUT ZOYA ROBYN:

Type of polish: Cream.

Colour: Sky blue with a hint of turquoise. The same colour as a robin's egg! :)

Opacity: Excellent! This is two coats.

Drying time: Normal.

Formula: Good. Maybe a tiny bit thick but not disturbingly thick :)

Brush: Small but lovely! You feel you have total control.

Durability: Excellent! As most Zoyas.

Shine: It has a nice shine without a top coat but I've got one coat of Seche Vite in these pictures.

Accurate colour, photo vs IRL: Zoya Robyn is a tiny bit brighter IRL but Essie Geranium is just about right.

Grade: 4/5 for the Louboutin nails (maybe because I'm not used to it yet...?)
5/5 for Zoya Robyn

Converse nail art feat. Zoya Lo

I just had to do these cute Converse nails!

Aren't they cute!?

I know they're not perfect but you have to admit they're fun! :)

Polishes used are:

Zoya Lo (pink)

Barry M Matte White

Depend silver

Depend black

I used a thin brush for the laces and a dotting tool for the dots.

I did them in this order:

Base coat

Zoya Lo

Barry M to do the white tips

Big dots in silver

White laces

Small dots in black

Seche Vite top coat

Grade: 5/5!!! :D

Nya lack beställda: Robyn och Ick-A-Bod-Y!!! :-D

Idag har jag beställt två lack som jag har suktat efter länge....

.... nämligen Zoya Robyn, ett ljusturkost krämlack, soooo me! :)

....samt China Glaze Ick-A-Bod-y, ett glitterlack med massor av orange glitter i en mörkgrågrön bas....

Sååå läckert, men säkert ett rent h-vete att få bort sen.... :/

Tur att Dottie lärt mig ett knep! :)

Vill ha dom nuuuuuu så jag kan prova dom!!!! :)


English: Two new polishes ordered! Zoya Robyn and China Glaze Ick-A-Bod-Y.