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.

Neon + nude.

Hello there!

Wow, its been a while! Sorry for that :( Ive had some probs with my health then I just needed time to recovery and get some energy to keep blogging so thats why Ive been absent from here.

Now that it has been said, Im back! Like full time and I couldnt be happier. 

So todays post will be another neon mani of my neon week. Neon and nude. Ive seen lots of beautiful manis where those two were combined so I decided to make one myself, thats how it ended up:

On my index finger and pinky I made the "reverse gradient" that has been inspired by Adventures In Acetone, if you dont already go follow her! Shes absolutely amazing :) Middle finger and ring finger are all in polka dots - neon ones! 

It looks adorable! As my base color I used Nordic Cap NP06 and the neon polish is Shiney Coral by HOTmakeup.

Do you like it? Would you try the nude + neon combo yourself? 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.

Nude base + a jelly sandwich, with stars!

Hey ladies!

I recently purchased a few polishes from (new to me at least) Swedish company called HOTmakeup that makes all kinds of cosmetics and of course nail polish too. One of the polishes I bought was a true beauty. A glitter bomb in a clear base. You may be thinking why is this so unique? Well let me show you:

Now, I layered Stars and Dots (that is the name of the glitter) by HOTmakeup over Nordic Cap NP06 (nude) to show you this amazing, fine copper glitter. Probably there is plenty polishes with copper glitter but I havent seen any yet so when I saw this I knew I had to buy it! In the Stars and Dots there are also blue small hexes and small holographic stars. I totally love it! The blue glitter is bright and it complements the copper glitter beautifully. Stars are always welcome :)

So this is the beauty, I totally fell for it when I saw it so there it is :) Do you like Stars and Dots?

This wasnt a real review of it but I really wanted to share this with you! I didnt get paid by the company to do this so no mistakes there.

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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Striped gradient!

Hey there!

Todays mani is pretty simple yet effective. At least thats what Ive been going for :)

For base I used Nordic Cap NP06 and Miss Selene 202 + Gina Tricot Bright Peach for gradient. Easy!

Do you like striped manis? 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

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.

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:

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

Puzzle, puzzle me!

Hello sweeties out there!

Today I have a little nail art for you to see :) Curious? Its puzzle design! I've seen so many puzzle designs out there and I was amazed! I like kind of funky manis so this one struck me deep. I thought it would be hard to make cause it looks kinda complicated but its not at all. You can imagine how happy Im now that I see how easy and stunning it is. 

I checked youtube around for a tutorial but I cant really bring up one that inspired me, many ladies do it differently so all I got from the videos I've seen was idea that you dont really need to free-hand it!

This is what I ended up with:

This is actually my second attempt at this kind of design. I did one today earlier but the polishes I picked for it didnt match at all nor they showed the puzzle effect well :< So I re-did it with China Glaze Grape PoP and Nordic Cap NP07.

Basically what I did for my index and middle fingers was that I did paint them orange (would be hard for the orange to show well over the purple), cut a few of squares from my scotch tape, put them on my fingernail the way so that I get 2 "free from scotch tape" squares on my nails (opposite ends of my nail bed), paint there purple, pull off the tape and add dots with my dotting tool (orange dots on the purple squares and opposite) so that it looks like puzzle! It isnt hard at all, is it? :) 

Did you try this design yet? :) Thanks for stopping by! xx

Day 51 - Summer Needle Drag!

Aww how much I like this technique! Im so happy needle dragging was one of the themes that we were suppose to do! ;D Ah, no more of my babbling, lets get to the mani :)

Im so sorry for my black cuticles but I've been playing with a black polish for so long that even acetone wasnt enough to clean them up :)

So yeah, like I said, I love needle drag technique! :)

Polishes I used were:

Nordic Cap NP12 - black

Nordic Cap NP07 - greenish

Did you like it? Will you be trying out needle drag tecnique?

You my lovely readers should check out list of girls taking part in Summer Challenge - maybe
not every day, but definitely participating! I made a post with all the links to their blogs,
you can find all of the links in a page "Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge" in the top right corner
of my blog! :) Come on, go head and check them out, they are doing amazing manis as you read this!

Turquoise, aqua or jade - summer challenge!

Hello ladies, sorry for my absence but I've been like crazy busy >.< But I missed you so Im back ;D

Im late with this challenge but here it is nonetheless:

Last time when I was using my turquoise polishes I used them with a purple - Grape pop by China Glaze and a blue - Surfers Paradise by IsaDora (in a water marble here). I really liked the combo of the colors so I did use them again but instead of Ocean Dive I used Nordic Cap NP07.

I used one coat of Grape Pop on all of my nails and while it was drying I painted pieces of scotch tape with blue, aqua and turquoise polishes. After everything was dry I just cut the tape into little stripes and stuck them on my nails! This technique I've learned from this awesome girl that has so much fantasy in doing her nails! Here you can check out the post that she used the technique with scotch tape: CLICK.

I wanted to make an accent nail so I went for good old glitter in purple and green :)

I know it all isnt perfect but well :)

Polishes I used were:

China Glaze Gape Pop

Jessica King Tut's Gem

IsaDora Ocean Dive

Nordic Cap NP07

Miss Selene Mini nr 173

+ top coat

You my lovely readers should check out list of girls taking part in Summer Challenge - maybe
not every day, but definitely participating! I made a post with all the links to their blogs,
you can find all of the links in a page "Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge" in the top right corner
of my blog! :) Come on, go head and check them out, they are doing amazing manis as you read this!

Day 39 - Orange + yellow mani

Late but Im very busy lately :( Well.. Here is my mani:

I really hated the result :( The yellow polish is old and very very thick, barely could make it even - I didnt even succeed! My ring finger is my first attempt at braided nails. Its definitely not perfect but well :)

Polishes I used were:

Viva la Diva 26

China Glaze Hey Sailor

Nordic Cap NP07

Nordic Cap NP12

+ top coat (Matte About You by Essie)

Im going to be busy but Ill do what I can with the summer challenge, hope Im excused :) xx

You my lovely readers should check out list of girls taking part in Summer Challenge - maybe
not every day, but definitely participating! I made a post with all the links to their blogs,
you can find all of the links in a page "Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge" in the top right corner
of my blog! :) Come on, go head and check them out, they are doing amazing manis as you read this!

Day 32 - Get those embarrassing toes out!

Soooo.. Day of the challenge I'd love to skip if you ask me but what the hell! Time to get my toes out!

Tadah! Well, nothing to be proud of. I did a delicate dotticure with some nude color for base that has no name but I know is from Depend and Nordic Cap NP07 which you can see here. Of course the dots are.. clumsy haha :) We ladies know how strange positions we find ourselves in when it comes to fix a pedicure! (and I mean when we do it ourselves) Not to babble more here are the polishes I used.

Polishes I used were:

Nordic Cap NP07

Depend ?? (the number went off so I cant say)

+ top coat

I know this isnt much but well. Felt so lazy when I did this that I cant complain how it turned out :)

You my lovely readers should check out list of girls taking part in Summer Challenge - maybe
not every day, but definitely participating! I made a post with all the links to their blogs,
you can find all of the links in a page "Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge" in the top right corner
of my blog! :) Come on, go head and check them out, they are doing amazing manis as you read this!

Summer Challenge day 26 and nail art!

Euro 2012 football nails! Since Ive done this mani before and you can check it out here if you wish to, I swacthed one of the Nordic Cap nail polishes I bought before. Today you are going to see this gorgeously bright orange! I also did some nail art with it so just keep on scrolling down the page :)

The formula is very weird, its good to work with - not too streaky, not too thick but it absolutely doesnt remind me of nail polish! Its a bit like some sort of a oily paint :D Not sure why it is this way but its really easy to work with on the nail plus its fully opaque in one coat. So far I tried a bit all of my Nordic Cap polishes and every single one of them has this strange formula. They are nice at all.

What could I say more about this polish? Its very hard to capture its true color in the camera. Its a bit of neon-ish on the nail although its darker than my true neon orange. Its like something between neon and normal, bright orange creme. 

On this picture you can see for yourselves how bright and strong pigmented this polish is. I have to say the price is also very suitable - read cheap! I dont think its available outside Sweden.

Onto the nail art then! 

Since I wont be doing Independence day mani I did one I wanted to try since I first saw this kind of thing! I completely dont know how to call this mani (Id like to add a label for anybody that would like to check it out and find it easly) so I came up with "almost reggae nails" yes its ridiculous but I suck so badly at finding names for things and animals :|

Although its not made with strict red, yellow and green polish it kind of reminds me of reggae colors. Its was my first attempt at doing this kind of mani.. Whats the name of it? Chevron? Not sure really so please excuse me. Yes, I is crazy.

Polishes I used were:

Nordic Cap NP07

Nordic Cap NP08

Orly mini Lemonade

+ top coat

How did you like it?

You my lovely readers should check out list of girls taking part in Summer Challenge - maybe
not every day, but definitely participating! I made a post with all the links to their blogs,
you can find all of the links in a page "Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge" in the top right corner
of my blog! :) Come on, go head and check them out, they are doing amazing manis as you read this!

Black over black!

Yes, you read it right :) I thought a bit about idea of different texture mani and came up with that:

I liked the idea of using matte top coat to create something different, yes I know, Im not the first one to try :)

Nonetheless this is my mani and Im really happy with it! You can clearly see that this is just all black nails - except ring finger - but when you get closer you see more than just black polish!

I was thinking what to do with my ring finger cause I wanted to make an accent nail and I did dots (Aw, those simple dots..) but I put them there on the matte top coat! I could actually do whole mani like this: matte base and stripes/dots glittering in the sun :) So fancy!

Polishes I used were:

Nordic Cap NP12

Nordic Cap NP07

IsaDora Black Galaxy 

Essie Matte About You

Mavala Minute Quick-Finish top coat

Today is monday and I really like that this special mani is with me when this week starts! :)

Did you guys like it? Would you consider trying to play around a little bit with your matte top coat?

Aw and would you like me to do a tutorial on it?

Summer Challenge day 14 - Gardening

Yes, I skipped day 13 cause I felt very uncreative. Im still feeling this way even though I came up with a pretty nice nail art for today. (read yesterday cause Im late with it) No more babbling, here is my design:

My boyfriend said that those remind him of passion fruit but I dont know, I kind of went for flowers but either way it suits the theme :) I tried one stroke technique and I like it. Simple and the effect is gorgeous!

Its my first ever attempt at one stroke nail art so its not prefect! Im just going to keep on practicing and it will be ok :)

Polishes I used were:

Nordic Cap NP07

Nordic Cap NP11

(both yet to swatch)

Mavala 49 White

Broadway NailArt Paint black

+ top coat

Did you like the design I came up with? 

You my lovely readers should check out list of girls taking part in Summer Challenge - maybe

not every day, but definitely participating! I made a post with all the links to their blogs,
you can find all of the links in a page "Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge" in the top right corner
of my blog! :) Come on, go head and check them out, they are doing amazing manis as you read this!