Green Glitter Gradient

Hello Beauties!

Happy Sunday! Sorry for my absence yesterday. There was just so much to do after a week of being sick, that I didn't have time to write a blogpost. Today I have to show you a beautiful fall manicure that I first intended to wear as an accent nail only but ended up doing on all my nails.

The green polish I used as a base is 210 from trend IT UP. It is from the same line as the apricot polish I swatched for you a few days ago. See the post here. And yes it is very smelly too! I really love the green colour with a hint of blue, but I guess I will not be using it anymore. I can not stand the smell.

It was however the perfect base to create a glitter gradient on. First I added a little bit of Holographic Pearls and then went over it with p2 - start wild!.

I really loved the look of this combination a lot and felt like doing a full glitter manicure.

And here is the result. It reminds me a bit of Christmas with all that sparkle, but I think it also looks great for fall.

I wish you all a happy Sunday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and take care!

Hope you like this glitter gradient. Would you wear it in autumn?

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trend IT UP - Double Volume & Shine 050

Hello Lovelies!

How was your weekend? I hope you had a good one. Today I want to share with you a polish I bought in Berlin. This is trend IT UP Double Volume & Shine - 050. (I also did a little nail art on it so scrol down all the way! ;-D)

050 is a light salmon creme polish with a peachy untertone and a beautiful subtle shimmer that is best visible in direct sunlight, under a flash or any other direct lighting. See the little sparkles in the upper corner of the bottle?

I have tried polishes from the Holo Dimension line of this new brand, but this was my first from the Double Volume & Shine line. I really love this colour and I think it is perfect for autumn, but I am not sure I will ever use it again. This polish stinks! I have smelt a lot of nailpolish and even some with a very "heavy" odour, but this one tops it all. It doesn't have the typical polish smell. It is somehow sweet and tangy - the most repellent stench I've ever smelt in a polish.

The formula is okay. It is a bit on the thinner side, but not too runny. You have to be careful though with the amount of polish you put on your brush. The brush is quite thick and dense and also has some kind of reservoir at the top, where a drop of polish gets cought and runs down the brush when you apply it to your nail. You have to press that out first of your cuticles will be flooded.

I used three coats of 050 to get full coverage.It does take quite some time to dry so I had some trouble with my final coat. It was a bit streaky at the edges. The polish dries to a very glossy finish. But that was to be expected due to the name of the line - Double Volume & Shine. However I wouldn't say thet this polish was extra voluminous. At least not more than any other polish that needs three coats to be opaque.

I then stamped on a purple flower design using Double Volume & Shine 270 and the plate below (B87). (I have to use that Hello Kitty design someday!)

I was not quite happy with how that turned out and the polish was smelly even after it dried. I knew I'd take it off immediately so I decided to try out something different and layered one coat of kiko - Pearly Red (492) over it to add some colour and sparkle.

I didn't do a great job painting the colour on evenly but I still like the result very much with the design shining through the sparkly polish. 

How do you like todays manicure? Have you ever dealt with a polish that had an unbearable smell?

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trend IT UP - Holo Dimension 040 & Autumn Leaves

Hello Sweeties!

Happy Tuesday! How are you today? Finally I am back with a manicure I did recently. This one is actually from last week and I thought I was getting prepared for autumn by doing a Leave Manicure.

First let me show you the polish I used as a base for this manicure. It is one from a brand I've never tried before because it is new. It is called trend IT UP and is a drugstorebrand from dm. (dm is my favourite drugstore and actually is short for Drogerie Markt the german word for drugstore.) I think I already posted a link when I showed you my Berlin haul.

So this is 040 from their Holo Dimension line. 040 is a golden crelly polish with beautiful shimmery flakies in it. I wouldn't say it is a holographic polish, but it is mesmerizing and will have you look at it all the time. 

Even though the golden base colour is really pretty the most amazing thing about this polish is how the colour shifts from a green to a coppery red shimmer with hints of blue in between. I could not capture all of its beauty on camera, but you can see the copper tone in the picture below and some green in the bottle shot above.

I then decided to use different colours of stamping polish that I got in my Born Pretty Store Haul and add a leave design to my nails to give them the autumn look. I first tried making a decal as you can see below, but I ended up with simply stamping directly on my nails wich worked perfectly.

As you can see I used some red and yellow as well as a light and a darker green polish to stamp on my nails. I just applied a few drops of each colour to the pattern and scraped over it a few times. Not too often though or it would all end up in a brown mixture.

I finally sealed them in with Seche Vite to protect my design. I ended up wearing this manicure for four full days with only minor tipwear. The Holo Dimension polish really amazes me. They really did a great job with this new line. I love the formula and the durability.

As far as I'm concerned it's time for fall to come! I love it when the leaves are changing colour.

Are you ready for autumn to arrive? Have you done some fall manicures?
How do you like my stamped leaves?

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Berlin Shopping Spree Summary

Hello Sweeties!

I just wanted to do a quick post with all three parts of my latest haul. I am amazed with all the beautiful polishes I bought for a really reasonable price!

Day - 1:

 Day - 2:

 Day - 3:

I LOVE THEM ALL! :-D

Berlin Shopping Spree - Day 3

Hello Beauties!

Happy Wednesday! Today I want to show you the final part of my Berlin Shopping Spree - Day 3. Check out the first two parts here: Day 1 & Day 2.

I want to start with the claire's polishes. They still had the same deal that I mentioned in my previous post (link above): Buy 3 Pay 2. And additionally all polishes were on sale for only 2€. The green one on the left was even down to 1€.

Cloud - Pastel Neons - Magical Unicorn - Velour - Disco Ball - Splash - Mirror Green

Next up are some new kiko polishes:

Violet Microglitter (255) - Vino Perlato (493) - Pearly Red (492)

I also got these two beauties from p2:

good deal (619) - high five (628)

My favourite drugstore is called dm. dm is short for Drogerie Markt wich means drugstore. Simple name huh? :-D They recently launched the new trend it up line (info in the link in German, but still some gorgeous pics!). I bought one Holo Dimension and three Double Volume & Shine polishes. Sadly they don't have names...

040 - 050 - 270 - 210

I also bought some more flormar polishes. I simply had to go back to the store since we don't have one in Munich and I didn't know when I'll get the chance to lay my hands on them again.

395 -236 - Violet Primrose (415) - 391

Candy Apple (SC01) - Sweet Grape (SC07) - Blueberry Gummy (SC02) -

 072 - Atomic Bomb (GG06)

I am so pleased with all my purchases. What would you want me to try first?

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