Rose Nail Art

Hello Sweeties!

Today is such a grey day in Munich and I feel like posting a Black and White Manicure. This is one of those rare occasions that I actually am still wearing the polish I blog about. It usually takes me a couple of days to upload everything, but I was working on the blog last night and so here is my manicure for you!

I started with two layers of L'Oreal - Black Swan and then added a stamped rose design to it. I did use white and silver stamping polish for this manicure, but in the pictures it looks like I only used one colour. I still like this manicure a lot. I don't know what it is with my ringfinger, but somehow I always manage to ruin the pattern on one nail. 

As you can see in the pictures it was very sunny yesterday. I don't understand why the silver stamping polish doesn't show in my pictures. Not even in sunlight. Makes me a bit angry that you can not see what I see...

I hope you still like my manicure. I thought it would also look gorgeous for Halloween.

Speaking of Halloween I would like to inform you that I am going to host a nail art contest on my blog in a few weeks to honour the best Halloween Nail Artist. Details will be up this afternoon so please stop by again!

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p2 - Color Victim - be my guy

Hello Sweeties!

Please excuse that todays post is going to be a bit shorter. I caught a cold and had a fever last night and so I am not feeling too good this morning. Today I want to share with you a real beauty from p2. This is be my guy (333) from their Color Victim line.

I love those polishes so much! The 8mL bottles are sold for €1,55 and always come in seasonal colours. They have great formulas. In fact I never came across one with a bad formula.

Be my guy is a dark sapphire blue leaning towards navy blue creme polish with silver microglitter in it. Now that I look at it in the pictures I think it would make a greate base colour for a galaxy manicure. It already remings me of a nightsky full of twinkling stars.

The formula is once more excellent and didn't require any cleanup. With two coats be my guy was perfectly opaque and they both applied evenly. And look how sparkly it is in direct sunlight! I am so glad I bought this polish in my Berlin haul!

As an accent I layered over Revlon - Holographic Pearls on my ringfinger and thumb.

How do you like this blue polish?

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catrice - Rosy One More Time

Hello Lovelies!

How was your weekend so far? Yesterday we had a wonderful sunny day and were visiting family. I made a Sachertorte, an austrian chocolate cake. It was delicious. Today I want to share with you a manicure I did about tow months ago. I still haven't fixed my laptop so no new pics for now. 

This is catrice - Rosy One More Time (21) a peachy creme polish with a lovely shimmer. At first the polish looks like a regular nude, but when you take a closer look it actually is a light peach or apricot colour with a hardly visible silver, pearl shimmer. The formula is excellent and applied smoothly. it is however pretty sheer. I used three coats for these swatches, but there is still a bit of VNL (visible nail line).

Rosy One More Time is a colour you can wear year round. I like it a lot for summer, but it will also look good in autumn and can be easily paired with other autumnal colours like orange, brown or gold. In winter it will just add a touch of colour to a grey outfit or manicure. And in spring it matches with all the sweet blossoms and soft colours out there. I would recomment layering it over a white base though to get perfect coverage and an intense colour.

I am totally in love with this catrice shade. How do you like it?

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flormar Genius Glitter - Roll the Wheel

Hello Everyone!

This afternoon I am going to show you another flormar polish from my recent Shopping Spree. This is Roll The Wheel (GG03) from their Genius Glitter line.

Alice from Nail Art in Wonderland told me that she had some experience with flormar polishes since it is a turkish brand and she lives and blogs from Turkey. Alice mentioned that the glitter polishes are a real pain in the a** when it comes to removal and boy was she right! It took me forever to get that glitter off and even though I washed my hands multiple times there was still glitter around my cuticles for at least a day. Stubborn little things...

Anyway leths talk about the polish itself. It was super easy to apply and had a lovely formula. With two coats it was opaque, but it has a sand finish. I am not really a fan of textured polishes so I applied two layers of topcoat to try and even that out. You still could feel the gritty texture, but it was okay for me to wear it.

Especially because I do like the colour a lot. Roll the Wheel has a mintgreen base packed with silver and turquoise mini hexes. It is quite shimmery and sparkly. I love it!

To add some details I used my stamper and made some rose decals, that I filled in with different reds and a few pearly accents as well as green for the leaves. Once they were dry I placed them on my thumb and ringfinger and sealed them in. Now with three coats of top coat my nails finally were even, but I still didn't do it for my other nails.

I think these accents are super cute and I already painted a few more roses to use when I need to spice up a simple manicure in no time. I keep them stored in plastic foil so they won't dry out completely and break.

How do you like this glitter polish? Do you like my little rose accents?

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Born Pretty Store - Holographics Set

Hello Lovelies!

How was your weekend? Are you ready to start into this new week? A while back I showed you my Born Pretty Store Haul. Unfortunately there were a few items missing. I finally received my set of 12 holographic polishes. They are numbered 1-12.

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12

The first thing I did was naturally to put them on a display to see how the colours look like. Aren't they gorgeous? I can't wait to try them all. They are so damn sparkly.

Here are some more detailed looks at the bottles:

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

silver - pink - baby pink - red

5 - 6 - 7 - 8

orange - apricot - gold - blue

9 -10 - 11 - 12 

purple - light blue - violet - moss-green

How great are these colours? Do you own any of them? Wich one would you like to see on my nails soon?

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Advanced Stamping - Tulips on silver bling

Hello Lovelies!

Today I want to show you a post I recently did using advanced stamping. As a base for this manicure I used Ruby Kisses - Silver Bling. On most of my nails I stamped on different black flower motives, but unfortunately most parts didn't transfer well. At first I wasn't sure if I should share this with you at all, but I like the accent nail so much I decided to go through with it.

To create a decal like the one below is actually quite easy. All you have to do is pick up your desired design on a stamper and let it dry for a minute. Then you can carefully fill it with colour and let it dry completely (approximately 30 mins.). If you already know how you want to place it and are sure you have good aim place it directly on your nail (dry to the touch but still a bit tacky!).

If you are like me and fear you won't get it straight, cover the whole stamper with a thin layer of clear polish and let that dry for an hour or so. Then carefully pull it off the stamper and you'll end up with a round decal. Place it on your nailand gently press down until it sticks. then use your nail or a cuticle pusher to trim off the excess.

Remove any remaining polish from the sides and the tip and seal it in with clear polish. It is a bit time consuming, especially if you want to do a full manicure with this technique, but I think it is worth the while and you can always do this on multiple stampers at once.

If you don't have a stamper you can try to do it tike this: nail decal.

I hope you like my tulips! I know I love them! Have you already mastered the advanced stamping technique?

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Ruby Kisses - Silver Bling

Hello Beauties!

Today I want to show you Silver Bling from Ruby Kisses that I bought a while back in this huge haul. I have used it before in one of my July 4th manicures, but since it is such a gorgeous polish I thought it deserved a blogpost all on its own.

Silver Bling (RNP 112) is a silver metallic polish with a liquid foil finish. It is actually quite hard to take decent pictures of it. When you get too far away it easily blurres and when you're too close it almost looks like a mirror when the flash reflects.

The formula of this polish is fantastic. It applies smoothly and is almost opaque in one single coat even though I usually apply very thin layers. To get that foil like finish I applied two coats. Silver Bling dries very fast and has an even texture even though it looks like it is a bit gritty.

In my opinion Silver Bling is the perfect name for this wonderful polish. I could not describe it any better. If you are looking for a go to silver polish this should be it!

Do you also like a good silver polish?

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July 4th Manicures pt.4

Hello Lovelies!

I just wrote this post, posted anotherone and boom it was gone... I am sorry that there are only pictures for now. I just don't have any more time to rewrite it all again. I have absolutely no clue what happened! Frustrating.

Have a wonderful Independence Day!