Back in Business

Hi everyone!

My laptop is finally fixed, yay! Unfortunately my harddisc was replaced so I lost everything nailpolish related (spreadsheet, wishlist, swatches, blogpictures, …). Its too bad, but life goes on!

I already have a mani to show you guys! I created a line manicure with Catrice – Lucky in Lilac and Hi-tek from China Glaze. It took me quit some time to finish this manicure. I first put on two coats of Lucky In Lilac. After that, I used tape to create the lines. I cut little strips, placed them on my nail and applied a coat of Hi-tek.

This is how it looks like with a coat of Seche Vite!

I’m going to London in February and wondered if there are nail polish brands that I should keep my eye on. Do you have some suggestions?

Thanks for stopping by and until next time,

Christina

Catrice swatches PART 2

Here is the second part of my Catrice swatches (finally!). My nails are very short at the moment because of my summer job. I'll take more care of them when I finish, I promise!

Lucky in Lilac - a lilac creme



Londen's Weather Forecast - a dark grey - leaning towards blue - creme with a subtle shimmer.



Just Married - a sheer pink with shimmer (3 coats on photograph)



From Dusk to Dawn - a taupe (supposed to be a dupe for Particuliere from Chanel)



Clayton-My-Hero - a muddy gold with a subtle shimmer



And last but not least,

Sold Out Forever - a mint with subtle shimmer (dupe for Chanels Jade)



I'm planning on getting some other Catrice's too, so there will be a part 3 someday!


Have a nice day and thanks for stopping by

Emerald en golden stars

Hi guys,

I was a little bored today and wanted to do my nails. I really love my Emerald Sparkle manicure, so I didn't want to change that. So I decided to refresh them a little with some Konad! I started with stamping the half of a fullnail design from Konad plate m65. I used Hi-Tek from China Glaze to stamp with.



I liked the result, but the open space was bothering me. So I looked at my plates and thought it would look good to ad a star in the other half. This was a design from a fauxnad plate b09. This is the final result:





I'm pretty pleased with the result. I'm still no artist when it comes to stamping, so the designs are still a little messy, my apologies. What do you guys think?

Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day,
Christina

Vacation Haul

Hi guys, I'm back!

I had a great vacation, spend wonderful time with my family. I'm happy to be back, but also really sad because I'll go back in two years so I'll have to miss most of my family until then. :(

My nails are in a really bad shape right now, I haven't had the time to file and take care of them while I was away, so most of them broke off. I just filed them all short and I will have to wait until they get strong again.

Nail polish is really cheap in Ethiopia (7 birr for one polish, so thats about 0,40 euro or 0,52 dollar), so off course I went on a nail polish hunt. The quality isn't very good, (I don't expect anything more for that kind of money), the formula is a bit on the thick side, but nothing a little thinner can't fix. I presume none of them are B3F.

I'll just show you what I've got! I haven't had the time to make full swatches of everything, so I just swatched everything quickly on 1 finger. I'll be wearing the polishes the coming days so I'll post my NOTDs later!

Here are picture of everything together. I didn't buy very much because the range of colors was very limited.





I also found some nail art pens, unfortunatly they only had black & white and one yellow. After testing these I will probably order some other online if I like them!



Here are the quick swatches of the polishes.

First up are the "True Lover" polishes, they don't have a name, just numbers.


A shimmery - for me - nude polish.


A bloody red creme.


A shimmery gold.

Next up are "F.C.C. Nail Polish" polishes, they also don't have a name.




This is a white creme from FCC Nail Polish. Its opaque in 2 coats, so I wanted to get a back up bottle. I couldn't find the same bottle, but then I stumbled upon a white polish, in a different bottle, but from the same brand.


A bordeaux creme.

"Nail Lexus" polishes, also without names.


A bright red creme.


A bloody dark red creme.


A shimmery pink.

"M Nail Polish" (same brand, different bottles?)


A beautiful blurple. This one is my favorite.


A purple with little silver glitters.

And at last two brands from which I got one of each.


A bright blue, almost neon nail polish.


A mix of purple & silver mini glitters. I thought this one would be great for layering so I layered it over the blurple one from M Nail Polish. This is the result:



Hell I was right! I LOVE this combination!

So thats all folks! Hope you enjoyed to see these polishes!

Thanks for stopping by,
Christina