Acorn Nails

It's Green Wednesday again and today I'm showing a green nail art :)

The base is a show-stopper-beautiful textured polish from Kiko called #643 Spring Green. Then I've used MoYou plate Mother Nature Collection-03 and Essie Good As Gold to stamp the acorns.

I love acorns! They are so beautifully shaped and they make me think of squirrels who are so cute!

However, stamping on a textured polish makes the pattern a bit blurry. It's best to use really bold patterns and not as delicate as this one. You can only see they are acorns if you look closely. I still think it looks alright though and bright green and gold is a fun color combination.

How do you like my acorn nails?

Kiko Sugar Mat #643 Spring Green - swatches and review

Today I've got an amazing textured polish to show you! Totally unique in my collection with its super bright green glittery texture! I love it and almost didn't want to remove it ;) Perfect for Green Wednesday!

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Textured with glitter.

Number of coats: Two. One coat is probably enough because second coat made no difference.

Formula: Perfect formula! So easy to control and dries fast.

Brush: A super nice wide straight cut brush!

Top Coat: No. 

Color accuracy in pictures: Accurate. Third pic most accurate. I love taking pics on underground tube stations! The light is amazing for showing off nail polish colors! I get many strange looks though… haha!

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

This is my favorite textured polish so far ever! Great color! Great glitter effect! Great formula! I will wear this many times! Kiko is nowadays delivering to Sweden and many other countries.

How do you like Spring Green?
Are you tired of the textured trend yet?

Wisteria Nails

It's been a while since I did a dotticure and a loooooong while since I was so pleased about one ;)

I've named this manicure Wisteria Nails but due to the color I guess you could also call it Grape Nails ;) However, since I'm a florist and not a wine maker (lol!) I prefer to call them Wisteria Nails. Wisteria is a such a beautiful plant (Blåregn in Swedish).

The base for this manicure is Bourjois Perle Illusion. The Wisteria is made with dotting tools and Color Club Wild At Heart and Kiko #428 River Green.

And oh! It's Nail Art Sunday today ;)

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How do you like my Wisteria Nails?

Green Reptile Nail Art

For today's Green Wednesday I've got a reptile nail art for you! Especially dedicated to my blog friend Nageldraken and her Katla :)

Not much to say really except that I love how it came out and that I wore it for a whole week! :D

The base is the wonderful H&M Amazon. The pattern is from MoYou plate Pro Collection-05 and I've used Kiko Mirror #626 Lawn Green.

How do you like this reptile manicure?

Italian Nail Mail!

Yesterday I got an amazing nail mail from my dear friend Tanja at Raggio di Luna Nails! She lives in Italy and she sent me six gorgeous beauties from Kiko, Pupa, Deborah Milano and Maybelline. From the bottom of my heart: Tanja - mille grazie cara!! <3

Tanja and I share a deep and long lasting love for blue polishes which you can see reflects well in this fantastic nail mail ;) I can't wait to try these and I bet the ones from Kiko are good for stamping! :D Just look at the duo chrome one!! It makes me drool ;)

Which one would you like me to try first? :)

French Nail Mail!

A couple of weeks ago I got an amazing mail mail from my French instagram friend Caroline! I've already shown a group picture on my instagram but here are individual portraits of each one of them :)

Kiko #440 Electron Blue

Kiko #441 Illusion Green

Kiko #439 Cyber Red

Kiko #437 Intuitive Pink

Kiko #436 Strong Chocolate

Models Own Amethyst

Rimmel Luna Love

Bourjois In the Navy 

Bourjois Stellar Plum 

Alessandro #383

Which ones are you most curious of? :)

Kiko #343 Spring Greene - swatches and review

This wonderful green Kiko polish has quickly become one of my favorite greens! This was the base for my peacock nails I did a while ago. Click here to see them again.

You can't see the name of the Kiko polishes on their bottles, only the number, but if you go to their website you can look up their names. The name of this Kiko #343 is Spring Green and it's a bright medium green with a drop of blue in it. I've seen some bloggers call it a jelly but it gets opaque so I call it a creme. I might agree on a crelly because of the glossiness of it ;)

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Creme.

Number of coats: Two.

Formula: Excellent! Perfect! No complaints at all.

Brush: Ok. Perhaps a bit soft and and straggly.

Top Coat: Yes. One coat. But it's very shiny even without a top coat.

Color accuracy in pictures: Quite accurate. It's a bit brighter live. Not dusky as my pictures show it. It was hard to capture the right shade of this beauty.

Grade: 5+/5

This is a gorgeous green polish with an excellent formula and good opacity.
I thought it might be a dupe to China Glaze Four Leaf Clover but it's not! Kiko is darker. So yes, I need both! ;)

How do you like Kiko #343?
What is your favorite green polish?

Dancing Stars on Green Nail Art - swatches

For this Green Wednesday I'm going to give you green nails filled with golden stars and dots! The dots are supposed to give an illusion that the stars are dancing around on the nails :)

The beautiful green base is Kiko #428 River Greene. More swatches of that one here. The stars are from a Bundle Monster plate called BM-204 and the gold polish is Orly Luxe.

How do you like this green this manicure?

Girly Sailor Suit Nails - swatches

Two things inspired me to do this sailor suit nail art. The first one was some ultra cute bows I received in an amazing mail mail from my dear friend Christine from Polished Marvels. I'll show you everything in this nail mail later this week! The second thing was picture of a Japanese girl's sailor suit. I have included that picture below and I've done an inverted version of it.

In these pictures you will also be able to see how the textured Kiko polish I wore the other day looks like with a top coat on. Click here to see it without a top coat. It's a total stunner with a top coat!

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How do you like my sailor suit nails?

Kiko #644 Sea Blue - swatches and review

Today I'm doing my first planned twinsy with my wonderful friend Christine from Polished Marvels. A twinsy is when two or more bloggers show the same polish at the same day. Be sure to check out her pictures and thoughts on this polish too!

The main character of this twinsy is a wonderful textured blue Kiko polish called #644 or Sea Blue. It's a denim blue polish with a hint of purple in it and it's packed with blue and silver glitters. It dries to a matt, textured, glittery surface, not rough like the first OPI Liquid Sands, but more smooth textured like Isadora's Sugar Crush or Depend's Rough Sparkle.

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Textured.

Number of coats: Two.

Formula: Very good! At first I though it was on the thin side but after I while I discovered I took too little polish on the brush. You have to maximize the amount of polish on the brush for this one. But no worries, it's still easy to control and the formula is impeccable!

Brush: Excellent! A bit wider than the older Kiko's. The cap is also a bit rubbey for this collection which gives you a nice firm grip.

Top Coat: No. 

Color accuracy in pictures: Accurate. Perhaps half a shade darker blue live.

Grade: 4++/5

The first coat dried very fast and the second was completely dry in about half on hour. Pretty ok to me. I have no other textured polishes in this particular blue shade so find it beautiful and unique!

How do you like #644 Sea Blue?
Which is your favourite brand for textured polishes?

Kiko #428 River Green - swatches and review

For this Green Wednesday I've got a wonderful Kiko polish for you! This beauty comes straight from Barcelona thanks to my boss. It's part of the "Sun Pearl Collection" which is limited edition.

Kiko is unfortunately not available in Sweden and they don't ship here either but I've heard that Kiko will start selling in the USA soon so maybe we Swedes can get our Kiko fix from there soon! :D

This is a forrest green polish absolutely packed with tiny gold flecks!

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Glass flecks.

Number of coats: Two.

Formula: Excellent! Applies like a breeze!

Brush: Excellent! No complaints at all!

Top Coat: Yes, one coat. 

Color accuracy in pictures: Accurate. 

Grade: 4/5

I'm really glad I own this polish especially since it's a limited edition! It is really beautiful and I wore it for three whole days - a long time for me ;)
However it didn't melt my heart completely and I can't really put my finger on why not... But hey, 4 out of 5 is not bad and it's definitely worth a 4!

How do you like River Green?
Do you have any other polish from this collection?

Peacock Nails - swatches

If I could only wear three polishes for the rest of my life it's fully possible that I could choose the three polishes that I've used for today's Nail Art Sunday! I love that blue Baker Street and that green Kiko polish! And you can do soooo much fun with that fantastic pale gold Luxe!

For example you can do these peacock nails! I've used the Kiko polish as base and then I've stamped on a sort of peacock pattern with Orly Luxe and Bundler Monster plate BM-212. To get that extra peacock feeling I did small blue dots in the eye of each feather. Finally one coat of Seche Vite to seal the manicure.

I'm very pleased with the result actually! The colors look great together and there's definitely a peacock feeling to them. I hope you like them too!

Here is a picture without the blue dots.

Kiko #343, Orly Luxe, Nails Inc Baker Street

How do you like my peacock nails?

Did you like the version with or without the blue dots best?