H&M newest gems - my picks.

Hey there!

How have you been? Today is Monday but thanks God Im free, had time to play some with my new Moyou plate and do some more nail art :)

Anyways, lately in the H&M stores appeared new nail polish shades from their own line and I have swatches for you:

First we have my personal favorite: H&M Black/White Glitter.

The name is not very fancy but hell, who cares :) As you can see Black/White Glitter is a glitter topper with black micro glitter, small and medium hexes in black and white + white bar glitter. Normally Im not a fan of a bar glitter but the amounts of it here its really not that bad. I actually think this polish would be boring without them. The shade is rather dense, you can see only one coat in my swatches. I love it over bright, summery colors. 

The second and last of my picks is H&M 3D Glitter.

3D Glitter is a flake topper in a clear (it looks milky but it is clear) base. I was very excited when I saw it in the store but couldnt be more disappointed when I came home and swatched it. The flakes are really big and stubborn. They are also hard so they stick out on your nail. The name 3D Glitter suits this one well. It was also hard to fish out any glitter pieces so yeah... Very disappointed.

I guess I cant complain. H&M has tendency to hit & miss their shades so I was prepared for those shades to be miss. I definitely recommend the black and white glitter, its very pretty.

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.

H&M Did I Tell You? - Swatches and review.

Hey there!

Today I have for you a little gem that made its way into my stash a while ago. Its exactly what I was looking for :) Recently H&M came up with a gorgeous idea of changing brushes in their line of nail polishes into much wider ones. Score! Their brushes were terrible! Onto the swatch then:

As you can see Did I Tell You? is a glitter topper. Clear base packed with small and medium sized hexes in rather dark blue shade (the swatches show the glitter a bit too bright) but believe me, its absolutely stunning!

I was afraid that the glitters wont come out of the bottle easily but I was wrong. Application is amazing! This is rather thicker coat of Did I Tell You? over a simple white to light blue gradient.

I also couldnt help myself and added a coat of a matte top coat.. Yummy!

I can really recommend this shade to anybody, its stunning and rather inexpensive.

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 - take two.

Hey ladies!

How are you doing today? Im enjoying a bit of free time and of course doing my nails ^^

Today I have for you mani nr 2 in the United In Pink series. I decided to go for a splatter, its been a while since I did that and it never seem to go wrong. I must say that the mani came out way better than I thought it would consider I did splatter on a black base. Wanna see?

Now let me explain the out-of-order finger pose (hence my index finger). I couldnt get the nails lined up in the same position to get the pictures I wanted. I hate those big, square, chunky H&M bottles. I cant pose with them. The size of my hand isnt really helping. Well at least the new shades have a new bottle which is much easier to pose with.  For me at least. Talk about a big problem for a nail blogger ;)

My base is Orly Liquid Vinyl. I stamped my ring finger with a design from Bundle Monster BM-321 with my LM nail polish that has no name, for the sake of my sanity lets call this one "lavender pink". The rest of the fingers are covered with splat done with LM "lavender pink", IsaDora Power Pink and H&M Dance With Me. What do you think?

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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Neon gradient with a sparkle!

Hello there!

I hope you are having a great Friday! Today I have for you something very bright and shiny, second neon inspired manicure. See for yourselves:

As you can see, my camera went crazy and instead of capturing the brightness of the colors, it hid in the corner and cried, which saddens me lots. I have no clue why the polish on my ring finger came out this way, the polish Im holding is Shiney Coral by HOTmakeup. On the right side of my ring finger nail the color is true. Bottle looks more pink than it really is.

I started off with a white base and mixed my neon-ish colors: (from left to right) Golden Rose Sweet Color 62 (green), Gina Tricot Python Green (yellow),  HOTmakeup Shiney Coral (peach) and IsaDora Power Pink (pink). Since Python Green has a pearly finish I covered the gradient with H&M Jo Is In The House. The holographic particles are kind of big so this picture looks at least weird. Im aware, but boy! So much holo in the sun! The brights looked amazing in the sun.

The picture is taken on purpose, to show you how much it shines in the right lighting. I was photographing the manicure at night so there was no sun to help me get this picture. 

Keep out for the next neon inspired mani :)

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

How do I spice up a soft shade?

Hello ladies!

Todays post features a question I had in mind for a while. How do I spice up a soft shade but kind of office-friendly?

Well, of course theres a jelly sandwich, a bit of glitter on the tips or good old accent nail. Ive been there before and I dont want my nails to be boring so I came up with this:

I picked a soft shade as my base, which is H&M Mon Amie. I wanted my mani to be as little boring as possible so I added colorful stamping. For the stamping I picked this cute image from Bundle Monster plate BM-309. Colors of the stamps are, from lightest to darkest: Accessorize Jewel (golden metallic), Maybelline NY 465 (copper metallic) and H&M Fabulous Nails Honey (burgundy red metallic).

Im not entirely sure of this mani is so office-friendly but I know I would wear it anyways :) Would you?

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.

Gradient again? Yes, because I can!

Hey ladies!

Quick post + gradient again. I know, I know I could have come up with something else but I had 3 polishes lying around while I was doing my homework and they all were pinks (more or less) so of course idea struck me - gradient! Here it is:

I did however try something other than applying polishes straight onto the make up sponge. I sponged them one after another. I used this technique before until I found out that you can actually paint colors directly onto the sponge and the effect is somehow "smoother". That is just for me of course :)

I used OPI My Very First Knockwurst for base, H&M Pink and OPI Casino Royale for the gradient. 

And which technique do you prefer while doing a gradient mani? 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.

Aqua green and blue skittle, say what?!

Hey there! 

Its already late (2 am) and I got to get to school tomorrow but I had some fun nail art to show you! I couldnt wait :) I was wondering what could I possibly do and I came up with this:

On my index finger and pinky I painted 2 coats of H&M Blue, on my thumb (you can not see my thumbs here), middle and ring finger I used Where's My Chauffeur as a base. On my middle finger I sponged some Petrol by GinaTricot and added one coat of Viva La Diva nr 51. On my ring finger I painted animal print with Petrol and a black creme. How do 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.

Fall colored animal print? Yes, please!

Hey guys!

Today I have fall colored animal print to show you :) I had bunch of polishes lying around on my table and I came up with this design:

I used OPI Passion as my base, Jewel by Accessorize and Fabulous Nails Honey by H&M for the print.

I just loved how it turned out! Simple, bold and pretty fall manicure.

And now for the bonus, check out how beautifully this thing shines in direct sunlight:

I hope you liked it! I know 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.

Casino Royale, Stay Golden!

Hey guys!

Todays quick post features Casino Royale from OPI's Skyfall collection and Stay Golden from H&M.

Casino Royale is the perfect plum purple. Easy to work with, used 2 coats here.

Needles to say this became my favorite creme purple! I wanted something extra for this mani so I added one coat of Stay Golden by H&M.

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.

Sat-ART-Day: Vampires!

Hey ladies, it's been a while!

I hope all of you are having a wonderful weekend :) Todays post features Sat-ART-Day challenge, you can check it out here: Sat-ART-Day on facebook.

10th November is for Vampires! Ah, which one of us doesnt like them? Or is it just me? *blushes*

Here is my interpretation of the theme:

So originally I was going for the blood that vampires feed on but Ive been wearing warm colors so I made a teal colored blood with golden flecks, isnt that pretty?

For the base I used H&M Mon Amie then painted the dripping blood with Essence Choose Me. I apologize for the lighting of my pictures, I really need a lightbox now that winter is almost here and theres almost no light for me to photograph my manis for you guys, any help how can I make one myself?

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.

ABC Challenge - H is for Halloween!

Hello ladies!

Im going to show you what I wore for Halloween :)

Im posting for the ABC Challenge today cause I was just too busy yesterday and by the time I was done with my earthly stuff it was around midnight. I couldnt get any good lighting for my pictures so I waited until today morning.

So.. you may say cloud mani for Halloween? Well, think of it as freaky candy! I planned to do something else entirely but I failed. I just wasnt able to paint decent looking pumpkins on my nails! I settled on clouds instead..

As to my ring ringer, this is a jack o' lantern with a kitty curved out :) Kitty didnt come out as evil-ish as I wanted to but this one is cute as well! Ring finger was done with the orange as a base, painted over with Liquid Vinyl (except for the little oval where the lantern was suppose to be), then I mixed bunch of colors to get the "glow of the light" in the lantern. Believe it or not I dont own any yellow polish :( I did mix together Jessica Pure Platinum, some silver glitter striper I found at the bottom of my polish box, a drop of H&M Mustard and a bunch of others I thought would fit into all of this. Then I used a black striper to paint my little cute kitty and top coat! Had to paint about 3 coats to get it evened out, kitty was pretty bumpy!

For the rest of my nails I used: Nordic Cap NP07 as a base color, H&M Je T'Amie (Im obsessed with this polish if you cant tell) and Orly Liquid Vinyl for the clouds. 

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.

Go and check other ladies that are doing amazing manis for the ABC Challenge:

Splatter with H&M!

Hey ladies!

I really wanted to do some nail art for todays post but lately I feel out of inspiration so its extremely hard to come up with something good for you to see. Anyhow I thought why not do splatter? I thought it through and I decided to use gradient as a base!

I know Im not the only one that ever came up with it but I never done it before :) I was kind of lost to what polishes to use but then I thought "Why not the H&M trio I bought last?" So I did:

I took the pictures about 6 in the morning which is really early for me considering that I got about 4 hours of sleep last night but what wouldnt I do to get good pictures of a great mani? :) Today is also a first day in about a month that we get some sun shining for us, love it!

I started off with a coat of white polish then sponged on Mon Amie, Oh La La and Je T’Aime. If you are wondering how I just painted my make up sponge with tripes of each polish next to each other and sponged onto my nails! Pretty huh? :)

You can see now how much  Je T’Aime shines in the sun! Golden flakes in this polish is amazing.

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.

H&M Mon Amie - Swatches & Review! PIC HEAVY

Hello sweeties!

Today Im going to show you last polish from my purchase at H&M. Beware this post is picture heavy :) The nail polish is Mon Amie. I have no clue what it means but here it comes anyway:

This is how this polish looks indoors, so soft and nice. Mon Amie is a off white sheer polish with loads of golden shimmer. Its so sheer that I needed 3 to 4 coats to make it opaque. The amount of golden shimmer makes this polish a bit beige. I love this.

Again no sun so I did my best to show you the shimmer.

After I took all of these pictures an idea came to my mind, why not try artificial lightning? So I did:

WHOA! Look at that! So much of this golden dust in there, so extremely pretty. I'd definitely wear this polish to my wedding. 

All of those 3 polishes from H&M: Mon Amie, Oh La La and  Je T’Aime are extremely pretty. H&M did a great job with picking shades for this collection. Like I said before there is one more shade but I didnt like it at all so I just skipped it. Formulas on all of them were much better than on other polishes of H&M. Brushes are still small and annoying but that is just something I have to put up with. 

Gotta buy back up of all of these :)

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.

H&M Je T’Aime - Swatches & Review!

Hello sweeties out there!

Todays polish is so amazing. Its H&M Je T’Aime (its another one from those 3 I bought, here is the first one I swatched). I could sit here and brag about it but I will show you instead! :)

I have one thing to clarify before I show you the pictures. I live in Sweden and this time of year in the part of Sweden is hard to get some sun shining so my swatches are fixed the way they are to show you, the best I could, color of the nail polish Im swatching and not to make my skin look good. So dont get scared cause my skin looks like a lobster! Check the nail polish instead :)

Je T’Aime is a raspberry red polish packed with gold flecks. In the picture above I've shown exact shade of the red, its very crisp, rich and jummy red. NOM NOM NOM.

Here starts magic ladies, this one shows the gorgeous gold flecks! Je T’Aime is packed with them! I expected long drying time and the polish to be pretty sheer but boy! How wrong was I! First coat covers nicely the nail but second coat is needed to get out the richness of the red shade and of course the gold in it.

Overall Im super happy with Je T’Aime, I wasnt much into reds but something switched in me and now I love them! I mean just look at the gold in this one! Drying time was fast, no problems with removal and the polish doesnt chip as often as some "cheaper brands" can do. Definitely going back for a backup of it, perfect polish for Christmas season! :)

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.