China Glaze Holly-Day. No, it's not christmas time in Sweden - we have fullblown summer. But there's always time for a good green creme.
This product was purchased with own funds.
Monday, June 17, 2013
In need of a Holly-Day
Yes, I am still alive! Here's some nail polish:
China Glaze Holly-Day. No, it's not christmas time in Sweden - we have fullblown summer. But there's always time for a good green creme.
China Glaze Holly-Day. No, it's not christmas time in Sweden - we have fullblown summer. But there's always time for a good green creme.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Flirting with both sun and shade
This is a real two-timing shade! Carrie of Darling Diva Polish surely knows how to satisfy one's needs for effect in all situations, and Flirt is one of her representatives of just that.
Flirting with the sun....
...and the shade.
What we have here is a pale green linear holographic shimmer that makes soft rainbow babies with the sun, and iridescent glitters that spark in the dark. Any returning readers know I'm not your average holo lover, but my desires for iridescence and duochrome properties are pretty grand. Whereas the glitters may be added bonus to most lovers of holographic effects, the holo is bonus for me. And give me a complex polish and I'll hold it and cradle it as if was my love child.
Darling Diva Polish has a whole range of these two-timing bitches in their stables, so check them all out!
Flirting with the sun....
...and the shade.
What we have here is a pale green linear holographic shimmer that makes soft rainbow babies with the sun, and iridescent glitters that spark in the dark. Any returning readers know I'm not your average holo lover, but my desires for iridescence and duochrome properties are pretty grand. Whereas the glitters may be added bonus to most lovers of holographic effects, the holo is bonus for me. And give me a complex polish and I'll hold it and cradle it as if was my love child.
Darling Diva Polish has a whole range of these two-timing bitches in their stables, so check them all out!
This product was a personal gift.
Swedish word of the day:
flirt -noun flirt
That simple.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Purple pond
Have you seen these pond manicures? All one needs is a good jelly polish, a contrasting polish in for example white, and dotting tools. Below is my attempt.
I used New York Summer Hot Purple, and a random white creme that could definitely have used some thinner beforehand. The idea is that one should add flowers between each coat of colored jelly, to create the effect of some flowers being more below the surface than others. It's actually a very neat idea, but my sloppy dotting leaves at least some to desire. However, this was fun enough to try again and again, whenever there's time for such detailed work.
Here's an instagram picture, just because I can.
As if jellies weren't already difficult enough to get accurate on photo, adding the color purple to that makes it pretty much impossible. But as this manicure was in total four coats of the purple, the color depth was definitely more grave than in the top photo. The instagram pic is just a tad too dark.
Have you tried this technique yet?
I used New York Summer Hot Purple, and a random white creme that could definitely have used some thinner beforehand. The idea is that one should add flowers between each coat of colored jelly, to create the effect of some flowers being more below the surface than others. It's actually a very neat idea, but my sloppy dotting leaves at least some to desire. However, this was fun enough to try again and again, whenever there's time for such detailed work.
Here's an instagram picture, just because I can.
As if jellies weren't already difficult enough to get accurate on photo, adding the color purple to that makes it pretty much impossible. But as this manicure was in total four coats of the purple, the color depth was definitely more grave than in the top photo. The instagram pic is just a tad too dark.
Have you tried this technique yet?
All products were purchased with own funds.
Swedish word of the day:
damm -noun I pond II dust
The latter being something completely different.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Depend's better half
This is not a post on the marital status of a Swedish nail care company, but simply one showing off about half of their summer collection in the form of skittles. Yes, I felt like skittles, for almost several minutes after this manicure was finished.
Did you miss my trademark sideshots? Only my compact camera can manage them.
This instagram picture is actually the fiercest one.
Did you miss the entire nail community's claw pose of the later part of this century's first decade?
So, to sum this up, and to make my point: like so often, Depend uses a recurring finish throughout a large bulk of the collection, and for summer, that is duochrome glassfleck shimmer, woohoo! There are five colored jelly polishes with the afore mentioned finish, as seen in the above photos, and to help all us crazy duochrome ho bitches out there, 1/12 of the collection is a clear layering polish with the same shimmer. Technically, it's multichrome, but mostly visible is the blue to pink range. One may argue, though, that the direct angle color is more aqua, and then moves all the way to golden, via blue, purple, pink and copper. But you'll have to be very forgiving, or very nerdy, to find all that. And most of all, some of the spectrum is buried in the colored bases.
Do these make me a happy alizarine? Of course they do. And unlike all of Depend's specialty collections as of late, these are all regular collection colors, so they retail for the standard price of 25 SEK.
For data purposes, the shades shown above are, from thumb to pinky: 372, 368, 361, 366, and 367. The number of the layering shimmer is 363 - surely you could just snatch that one instead of all the above ones, though I have to say I like the base colors of these also. Very summery, except perhaps for the grey 372, which would perhaps be more fitting on a rainy day (also, the formula of this particular one was a bit icky).
If you're wondering about the rest of the collection, because yes, there are six more polishes, they aren't as exciting and probably won't make it onto photos in the near future. Among others, there is a re-release of a terrible white frost with utter streakiness (no. 38), that I can not for the life of me figure why the Depend peeps would bring back. Then, there are cremes in the spectrum of berry, orange-red, coral, yellow and a sorta 60's semi-pastel green, but less appealing than it sounds. You'll probably be able to find those elsewhere.
Did you miss my trademark sideshots? Only my compact camera can manage them.
This instagram picture is actually the fiercest one.
Did you miss the entire nail community's claw pose of the later part of this century's first decade?
So, to sum this up, and to make my point: like so often, Depend uses a recurring finish throughout a large bulk of the collection, and for summer, that is duochrome glassfleck shimmer, woohoo! There are five colored jelly polishes with the afore mentioned finish, as seen in the above photos, and to help all us crazy duochrome ho bitches out there, 1/12 of the collection is a clear layering polish with the same shimmer. Technically, it's multichrome, but mostly visible is the blue to pink range. One may argue, though, that the direct angle color is more aqua, and then moves all the way to golden, via blue, purple, pink and copper. But you'll have to be very forgiving, or very nerdy, to find all that. And most of all, some of the spectrum is buried in the colored bases.
Do these make me a happy alizarine? Of course they do. And unlike all of Depend's specialty collections as of late, these are all regular collection colors, so they retail for the standard price of 25 SEK.
For data purposes, the shades shown above are, from thumb to pinky: 372, 368, 361, 366, and 367. The number of the layering shimmer is 363 - surely you could just snatch that one instead of all the above ones, though I have to say I like the base colors of these also. Very summery, except perhaps for the grey 372, which would perhaps be more fitting on a rainy day (also, the formula of this particular one was a bit icky).
If you're wondering about the rest of the collection, because yes, there are six more polishes, they aren't as exciting and probably won't make it onto photos in the near future. Among others, there is a re-release of a terrible white frost with utter streakiness (no. 38), that I can not for the life of me figure why the Depend peeps would bring back. Then, there are cremes in the spectrum of berry, orange-red, coral, yellow and a sorta 60's semi-pastel green, but less appealing than it sounds. You'll probably be able to find those elsewhere.
These products were sent for review.
Swedish word of the day:
sommarregn -noun summer rain
Not that bad after all.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Enjoy the silence
The silence has been so long, that I'm just going to leave this post here to announce that I'm still alive.
It's one of those posts where I'll just puke out a series of photos that didn't get their own posts, mostly due to lack of decent photos - sometimes only one good comes out of an entire session.
Hare Polish Ancient Affairs.
Polish Revolution Coffeeshop Politics over Kiko 336.
Orly Elation Generation - yes, that is actually holographic glitter.
Darling Diva Polish Pendragon over OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow Suede. Pendragon is in turn mattified with such a topcoat.
Smitten Polish Pink Goes Good With Green!
Essence Princessorize.
Gina Tricot Python Green.
Hope you enjoyed. Promise to be back with somewhat decent posts soon-ish - I have plenty of material!
It's one of those posts where I'll just puke out a series of photos that didn't get their own posts, mostly due to lack of decent photos - sometimes only one good comes out of an entire session.
Hare Polish Ancient Affairs.
Polish Revolution Coffeeshop Politics over Kiko 336.
Orly Elation Generation - yes, that is actually holographic glitter.
Darling Diva Polish Pendragon over OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow Suede. Pendragon is in turn mattified with such a topcoat.
Smitten Polish Pink Goes Good With Green!
Essence Princessorize.
Gina Tricot Python Green.
Hope you enjoyed. Promise to be back with somewhat decent posts soon-ish - I have plenty of material!
Swedish word of the day:
tystnad -noun silence
Lots of it lately.
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