Holo ombre once again!

Hey lovelies!

How are all of you today? I have for you something special. I loved the holo mani I did for Breast Cancer Awareness week which you can see here, so I recreated it with a few different colors.

As before, I used shades from 2012 Depend Holographic Collection. From left to right, the polishes are: #2030 Plum, #2031 Lavender, #2032 Denim Blue and #2033 Ocean Blue.

What do you think of this mani? I think Depends Holographic Collection is very nice consider their holo is visible enough + they stay pretty in shade!

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts. 

United In Pink - part 3.

Hello my lovely readers!

Today I have for you yet another manicure that is all about pink. Im not sure if you have noticed but I dont own so many pinks but Ive found some holographic pinks & pink-ish shades in my stash. Let me show you:

All the shades are from 2012 Depend Holographic Collection. I used (left to right): #2027 Raspberry, #2029 Charm Pink, #2030 Plum and #2031 Lavender. This is so beautiful, I wish it was sunny so that I could flash my nails into peoples faces and go "YOU SEE? YOU SEE HOW PRETTY THEY ARE?!"

 Here is a bonus out-of-focus picture for your pleasure:

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

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My first ever roses!

Hey there!

Im very excited to show you my first attempt at doing some roses on my fingers! I always loved how they look like on nails and today I finally tried. Without further babbling from me, here they are:

In the beginning I thought I went a little overboard with those, I mean, I could have gone for an accent nail or something but they grew on me. I enjoy this mani so badly. My roses could have ended up a bit better but Im pleased nonetheless. 

I started off with Nordic Cap NP06 a beautiful nude with silver shimmer. Then I painted roses with China Glaze Grape PoP and Gina Tricot Bright Peach using a dotting tool then petals with brighter shades of the same colors: China Glaze Tart-y For The Party and Depend #347. Leaves are done with acrylic paint.

So what do you think lovelies? Would you wear this or similar mani yourselves? Let me know!

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

Stripes!

Hey ladies!

Today is going to be one of those days that I have lots to do yet too little time for it all. That being said I may proceed to the post now :)

As you can see this is a very quick mani - thats how much I had time for. I started off with 2 coats of OPI My Vampire Is Buff, added striped tape and followed with 2 coats of Depend #347.

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts

Watercolor nails + black glitter.

Hello ladies!

Lately Ive been awed by all those beautiful watercolor manis so I decided I will do one myself. I dont own many pastels but I was able to pick a few brights that looked well together. Onto the mani then:

For the base I used Essie Blanc to make the color stand out more. For the watercolor design I sponged randomly blobs of Sally Hansen Yellow Kitty (yellow), Depend 347 (peach), Depend 354 (pink-ish), China Glaze Tart-y For The Party (purple), Color Club Take Me To your Chateau (blue) and Essie Wheres My Chauffeur (teal). When this was dry I used 2 coats of Nubar Black Polka Dot.

Do you like it? For me this mani is very summery and I just love it, dont know how am I going to bring myself to take this off :)

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts

Happy Easter! & manicure :)

Happy Easter everyone!

I love easter, Im crazy about rabbits so there is no surprise in me loving a time of year when there is lots of stuff bunny-themed :) That said, we can proceed to my Easter mani.

I was originally going for the painted eggs as my mani with Easter Bunny accent nail - or something in that alley but I kind of felt for something else. Still pastel toned, I went for a dotticure!

I couldnt get more crisp picture, no idea why. My camera just freaked out I guess.

For this mani I used OPI My Vampire Is Buff as a base and China Glaze Tart-y For The Party, Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau and Depend #347 for the dots.

I love this mani and I dont plan on taking it off anytime soon :) Do you like something different for Easter or just good old painted egg nails? 

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts

Depend nr 347, 353 and 354 - swatches and review!

Hello lovelies!

Like I said in my last post, I would show you swatches of Depend polishes for Spring I used for the gradient (you can see the mani here). So todays post will be exactly that: swatches! Lets start!

First of the bunch is Depend #347 a light peachy pink. It comes off more pink on those pictures that it really is, just imagine the shade with a bit more of peach in it :)

The formula on this one was very thin and runny, I had trouble to get it somehow even, this is 4 thin coats and its still patchy. I did try to paint my nails using thin or thick coats etc nothing helped this polish. Such a shame cause #347 is really pretty. Drying time was nor here nor there but it may be caused by my 4 coats.

Next in the line is Depend #353, a very beautiful electric indigo blurple. Yes, its somehow in between indigo blue and purple but leans more towards purple. Again those pictures shows #353 a bit too blue. 

This was very opaque, completely different from #347. I even tried to stamp with this polish and it stamps, SCORE! 2 easy coats in this swatch. Formula was amazing, like I said, very opaque and vivid - thats how I like my blurples! 

Last shade is Depend #354. Delicate lilac, just perfect for the Spring time :)

I know my cuticles are very red here, I have no clue what happened but it may be caused by lots of swatching I did that day so excuse me. This lilac has green shimmer in it! I was so excited to try this shade and when I finally did I was so disappointed. The shimmer is very strong in the bottle but doesnt transfer onto the nail. I mean not AT ALL :( Dont get me wrong here #354 is still a pretty color on its own its just such a shame there is not shimmer in it!

Formula of #354 was like in case of #347 runny. Somewhat more workable but still patchy. 3 coats in this swatch and you can still see the flaws of the polish. I know people can say it was my being sloppy but I really wasnt!

Overall Im pleasantly surprised with the range of the colors. I cant say about the whole collection but the shades I got are well.. at most acceptable. I got one more shade from this collection but the one deserves its own post. The formula on these was, like I wrote, different with each shade. 

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

Spring? Yes, please!

Hey ladies!

Todays quick post features some of the new Spring shades from Depend. I know its just middle of February but Im pretty sick of the winter already and I want the Spring to come early!

I did feel for a gradient (what a surprise huh?) so I used 3 of my 4 picks from the Spring collection.

For the gradient I used Depend nr 347 (peach), 353 (blue) and 354 (lilac in the middle). I topped it all with Black Polka Dot by Nubar (my newest addition to the collection). I just love black glitter and Black Polka Dot is just what this gradient needed :)

How about you, are you tired of the winter yet?

Ill post swatches of those Depend shades soon so stay tuned!

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

Nude dotticure - more or less.

Hey ladies! 

Todays extremely quick post features my first-ever, big-time dotticure! I love them so much! :) Onto the nails:

I started off with 2 coats of Nordic Cap NP06 then added dots with China Glaze Below Deck, H&M Honey I'm Home and Depend nr 321.

I could have waited a bit longer before I added a top coat, saw it after I actually took the pictures :(

 I hope you enjoyed this mani just as much as I did!

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

Jombre?

Hello ladies!

You may be asking yourselves what in the world is jombre.. Well its just ombre but today is day that I was suppose to post my J mani for the ABC challenge and I completely forgot to do one. My ombre had to do for today so thats how Jombre came to life :)

Polishes I used were (from thumb to pinky): KICKS Philosophy, mixture of Philosophy and Depend 321, Depend 321, H&M Honey Im Home, mixture of Honey Im Home and a drop of black nail polish.

I hope you like it!

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

Gradient, oh it's been a while?

Hello ladies!

I apologize for my very long absence but today Im back and I intend staying here with all of ya!

So.. Gradient, yes! I finally brought myself around to do another simple gradient, this time with Nordic Cap NP06, Depend 321 and China Glaze Below Deck. Here is the result:

As you can see the lightest color (Nordic Cap NP06) has silver shimmer in it! You have no idea how pretty this looks in real life!

I did try to capture a bir of the shimmer:

See it now? :) I hope you liked it, have a great day ladies!

Thanks for stopping by! :) xx

Depend Fall/Winter collection 2012 - swatches of my picks.

Hello lovelies!

I want to show you some little gems I found in Depend Collection for Fall/Winter 2012. Here is the promo picture (taken from their official FB page):

As you can see they have everything for this cold season! I was so excited about this collection until they actually came to the stores.. I picked 3 shades out of 19. They glitters kind of disappointed me. Some of them were fun but nothing that unique. Anways, here are those 3 that I picked:

Three numbers: 321, 324 and 326. I did want my polishes to actually be great for fall and I hope I succeeded.

First comes number 321:

A grey-ish purple. Dusty purple, what do you call those colors? I dont know but this is such a perfect fall shade! Im completely in love with this one, formula was a bit tricky but workable. 

2 coats for full opacity, drying time wasnt as long as I thought it would be! Could have been shorter though.

Next in the line is number 324:

Another beautiful creme but darker than it shows on the picture. Again I did something so the picture looks like this eh.. Ill never learn :< Deep, deep shade of just perfect blue. Formula was great and easy to apply.

324 needs 3 coats for full opacity but its alrighty, the color speaks to you in ways that drying time is the last thing that you have on your mind! (I have no clue what am I talking about, really.)

And the last is my absolute favorite of the whole bunch, number 326:

What could I possibly say about this polish? It speaks for itself. Is it a dark teal or blue based dark green? Not sure but its amazing. It also looks so squishy and jummy and everything but its a creme. Or a jelly? Its something kind of between. 2 coats on the picture, could try 3 though.

Formula was great, as was drying time.

So ladies, how did you like those shades? Would you buy any yourselves?

Thanks for stopping by! :) xx

Splatter! With Depend 313 and Choose me by Essence

Hello ladies!

Today I have for you a spatter mani! I liked the last one I made so I did it again! :)

For this mani I used my own franken Bowl of Cereal which you can see here and 2 other polishes: nr 313 by Depend ( which you can see here ) and Choose Me by Essence. I think white polish with purple glitter was a good base for this color combo. And those shimmers mmm.. Im in love with this mani!

I did clean up a bit badly as you can see on my index finger but shhh! :)

Thanks for stopping by! :) xx

Depend 2031 Lavender - Pic heavy!

Today I have for you a swatch of my first holographic nail polish! I purchased 2 of them and both are Depend. I wasnt sure I liked how the other holo's look in the shadow and here in Sweden we do have sun shining but I cant say its often xD Or well.. it kind of it and it isnt at the same time. Weather changes really fast (I live at the sea) so yeah :) Check out Lavender from Depend:

This polish is very pigmented! Although its kind of sheer, needed 3 coats for full opacity. Formula was very good, with every coat you could easily build up this very cute holo :)

 Yes, these pictures are almost identical but who cares, I cant stop staring at my holo <3

Those pictures were taken while it was kind of cloudy but still a bit of shining sun came onto my finger nails. Pictures Im about to show you are taken in full sun but my camera sucks so hard so it doesnt show this awesome little rainbow well :( Anyways, here they are:

Did what I could with the pictures, couldnt really capture the holo of this polish.

If you were bored enough and read what I wrote in the beginning of my post, you remember that I said I didnt buy holo's before cause I didnt like how dull they looked when it isnt sunny outside. Im going to show you the reason why I bought Lavender and .... I wont say, can not spoil the suprise! ;D

Isnt it so, so, so pretty??? Of course it is! I took this picture when it just stopped to rain so no sunny weather but still this polish rocks! Look how gorgeously this shines! Like it has sh*t loads of kind-of-silver shimmer in it! Whoops, pardon my french :)

If I was to give it a grade from 1 to 10 this polish would get 10. This one has absolutely no cons for me. I suppose there are holo's that shimmers really pretty in the sun and more than this one but I wanted polish that will be pretty when Im indoors as well :)