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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claire's - Splash & Tribal Accent Nail

Hello Beauties!

After showing you the last part of my Berlin Shopping Spree yesterday, I want to share with you one of the shown polishes. This is claire's - Splash.

First let me direct your attention to the tribal accent nail I'm wearing. As you may have noticed I am totally into stamping and accent nails lately and so I decided to use another pattern from the BP - 31 plate. After filling it in with colour and letting it dry over night I applied it to my ringfinger and cut off any excess before I sealed it in with Seche Vite.

I love this colourful pattern! But once I applied the decl I was facing a tiny problem. I could not decide wich colour I should be wearing on the rest of my nails... After a while I made up my mind and went with Splash.

Splash is a gorgeous blueish aqua creme polish with a soft white/silver pearl shimmer and a fantastic formula. It was easy to apply and totally opaque with two coats. The shimmer gives it an almost metallic or liquid foil like appearance, but without the brushstrokes. I think this is a gorgeouse colour for summer.

Even though I was happy with my choice at first I only wore it for a very short time befor I took off the turquoise polish and replaced it with a different colour. Interested in how that turned out? I will show it to you soon!

How do you like Splash? Would you still wear blue in autumn? What would be your choice of colour to go with this accent nail?

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catrice - Minty Memories

Hello Lovelies!

Today I want to show you a polish I bought in Austria a few weeks back. I was asking wich polishes you would like to see and my friend Andera from Colour Your Life was curious about this polish so let me present to you Minty Memories (04) by Catrice Luxury Vintage, with a Satin Matte Effect.

As Andrea mentioned in her lovely comment, the polish looks quite stunning in the bottle wich you can see in the picture above. it has a wonderful blue shimmer to a soft turquouse base and I instantly fell in love with it, when I layed eyes on it. Being on Sale and half price off I simply had to buy it! 

My exaltation was attenuated when I started painting my nails. The first coat went on very streaky, but I thought that might level out with the second one. Once that was dry I painted them again wich caused bubbles and even more streaks. I then did a third coat just to make sure to do everything I could to make it better, but it didn't help much either. I am really disappointed in this polish. In addition to the bad formula I hardly see any of the beautiful shimmer from the bottle on my nails.

I thought my problems with the application may have something to do with the Maybelline base coat I use and so I will give this a second chance with another base coat. Hopefully that will help.

Have you ever had trouble with applying a polish like that?

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OPI - Color Paints & Brushstroke Mani

Hello Lovelies!

Happy Sunday! How is your weekend going so far? I am enjoying the warm weather and also the thunderstorms that bring a bit of chilling most nights these days. I recently purchased the new OPI Color Paints and hat to try them immediately.

The mini set contains the silver base polish and five of the eight available colours:

Silver Canvas Undercoat: A clean-slate silver to illuminate your masterpiece.
Primarily Yellow: Paint some sunshine with this glowing yellow.
Chromatic Orange: This freshly squeezed orange is awash with color.
Pen & Pink: I'm irresistibly drawn to this rosy pink.
Purple Perspective: The depth of this purple is mesmerizing.
Turquoise Aesthetic: Beauty is in the eye of this deep aqua.

First I applied the silver canvas. One coat was enough to get good coverage and it spread smoothly. This metallic silver shows a few brushstrokes, but since it is the base colour that didn't bother me at all.

Then I tried out the colours and did kind  of a skittle manicure with them, because I couldn't wait to see them all.

After the first coat the colours look very shiny and a bit metallic, because the silver is still visible. I really like them this way, but I did apply a second layer. 

With two coats the colours are more intense. The lighter shades didn't change much except for the fact that the silver shine is mostly gone. The two darker shades get very intense and deep. Especially the purple is very dark with two coats. 

Depending on how you want to use it, both - one and two coats - are fantastic. I decided to try a brushstroke manicure on top of the skittle manicure to see how the colours look combined. On the darker colours it is not very well visible, but with the lighter shades as background colours I like it!

And it is so much fun to do a brushstroke mani. You just wipe off any excess polish from your brush and drag it across your nails. Repeat with all desired colours until you are happy and your done.

Have you tried the new Color Paints yet? I need to experiment with them a bit more.

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Accent Nails using Tip Guide Stickers

Hello Lovelies!

I am a bit late with posting today, but my morning was incredibly busy. I only want to show you a quick manicure with some French Nail Tip Guides I recently purchased.

Here they are: The pack contains three different patterns. A rounded one, one V-shaped and one with a drop-like tip. I used the V-shaped Tip Guides for this manicure.

I started off with two coats of essie - cocktails & coconuts and let that dry completely. Then I chose two accent nails and placed my stickers on. Using essence the gel nail polish - prince charming I painted over those two nails twice and then quickly removed the stickers again with some tweezers.

To finish it off I applied a layer of Seche Vite, wich leveled out all the edges.

This is such a fun and easy way to do chevrons. You could also use this technique to spice up a day old manicure so it looks different with hardly any effort!

How do you like the combination? 

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