Essence - Black Out and Constance Carroll - Flashing Silver

Even though I drastically shortened my nails again (because I can't type with long nails...), they're still sort of yellow or greenish, because i was lazy the other day and didn't use a base coat. I know I know, should have known better... I was in a real hurry yesterday, so I had to put a polish on that was a one coater. I remembered reading about this Essence one from their new trend edition - I was lucky and Santa brought it to me:) It's a semi matte, plastic sort of finish polish.

One coat was enough for medium coverage, the sort that you can get away with, but are annoyed by the balder spots:) So when I came home, I put another coat on my pinky finger - you can see that it does look much better. I also put a matte top coat on my middle finger, to show you the difference between matte and "soft touch finish" as Essence calls it.







I've been in a shimmery/blingy phase for some time now, so of course having matte black nails is not acceptable:) I put a layer of Constance Carroll's Flashing Silver on top, and two layers on my ring finger, sort of like an accent nail. I really like this polish, it's cheap and makes any dull polish liven up just enough, so it's still wearable but blingy.

BeautyLine Deluxe - Nr.2

I looked at my calendar this morning and it hit me - it's only 4 days to Christmas, and I'm not feeling it at all! So I had to at least put something christmasy on my nails. I remembered a gold foil polish I bought last week, dug it up and put it on. I was shocked, it's THE perfect gold foil! It's a cheapass polish from KIK (a textile discount store), but it's great! It's a one coater, and it's not all gold, it's got tiny silver and copper stuff in it too, just to liven it up. I really love it! In the pics it's without top coat (because I ran out of SV:( ).









See the macro shot? Amazing!


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China Glaze - For Audrey

Yes, finally I managed to take pics of my nails and post them:)

China Glaze - For Audrey was a long long time lemming for me, and I finally got it a month or so back. I totally forgot I even had it until I randomly stumbled upon it in my drawer. Of course I put it on immediately:) It took three coats to even out, I suspect it was my fault and it usually takes two:) I topped it with China Glaze Fast Forward - I'm testing it to see if it could replace Seche Vite, because it is much more easily accesible to me than SV. A terrible thing has happened you see - I ran out of Seche. That totally has a part in my lack of manicures:(

Anyway, enough crying. Pics (after three days of wearing, so not bad at all):

What I've been up to

Believe it or not, last week I only painted my nails once! I went nekkid for three days, and then I wore Dusky Mauve for four days. I took pics, but they're crappy, sorry.

I want to show you, what I've been up to.

I'm opening my web shop thingy sometime next week, so I've been making jewellery like crazy. Rings and necklaces mostly. Preview? :)

Catz :)

I'm not going to apologise for not posting, hell, it happens to everyone.

Instead of an apology I have an adorable pics for you:) Gal, sleeping. One of the rare times he's still enough so I can take a picture.



And this is his idea of helping;) I'm begining a new "project" and was trying to take pics. I wasn't successful:)



Oh, and see the new design? It's still a work in progress, but isn't it amazing? I love it! Thanks to Laura from EightDayDesigns, who totally rocks:)

Barry M - Pure Torquise & Crackle

If anybody asks me what my favourite colour is, I say torquise. So this is the nailpolish that catches that colour in a bottle perfectly. Two coats, no TC.








I couldn't resist and put a coat of Barry M's Instant nail effects over it (aka cracle polish). It's soooo cool:) It dries matte, and if you put a thin layer on, the pieces of cracked polish are small, if you put a thicker coat on, the pieces are bigger. I'm going to wear this over everything now:)







Thanks Maja from licila.si for the torquise one ;)

China Glaze - Ruby Pumps

I'm not going to waste time praising this, I guess you all know it's gorgeous.







I made a collage of pics under artificial light - it's for a competition. So you need to click this to make it big, it's the only way you'll see the gorgeousness:)