Another giveaway!

Zigi is having a awesome giveaway and I want it so bad! Here is a link to it and below you can see a pic of the prize!

Lemme show you my collection

Good day everyone!

I got 10 swatch discs from Mimax last week and decided that now is the time ot swatch all my polishes onto them. I decided to swatch them according to their colour which wasn't a really good idea as I think of it because now when I get new colours they can't be put on the right disc. Oh well, then I asked from another blogger how she does it and I think I'll copy her. She just swatches then when she gets them, so not in any particular order.

So as I was swatching the colours I noticed that even though OPI "Kyoto Pearl" and Malava "Silver" do look totally different colours in the bottles, they look dubes to each other on the disc. On the right is OPI and on the left is Mavala.

Here, in the daylight, you can see even better that there is no difference between the two. Upper one is OPI.

So, then I went to buy Depend for the stamping and here you can see the difference between the two silvers. Now I also get how so many people have recommendet Depend for stamping. Isn't it obvious?

But here is my whole collection a few days ago. Now I have gotten 10 polishes more. :D I'll show them to you later!

Last but not least, my China Glaze "Buy 2 get 1 for free" package came today! I love all of them, can't wait to get to test them!

New finds

I spent last month at home in Oulu and before I left of course I needed to go for the one last shopping spree for the summer there. The plan was not to buy too many polishes but then again, how much is too many? :D

Here they are, I don't think that's too many, do you?

In Myyrmäki, we don't have Gina Tricot in Myyrmanni so of course I had to take advantage of the sale of 3 polishes for 9,95 EUR. This time I bought "Alexis" "Luxurious" and matte top coat. I wanted the top coat because I wanted to find a nice matte polish from Seppälä's sale and I am glad I found one because it's now one of my favourite polishes. It's the Golden Rose "Matte velvet, 107". Someone was selling Models Own "Blooming Pink" in Facebook's Kynsikoristekirppis and when I saw it in sale for 1 EUR I had to have it, it's so pretty pink!

In Seppälä, Flormar polishes were also in sale 2 for 5 EUR but there wasn't much variety so I had to take these two, don't get me wrong, I love these as well but of course I had hoped for a bigger variety to choose from. The pink one is 443 and the shimmer reddish purple is U26. I wanted to find out if H&M really had nice polishes so we went there as well. I found this duo package and immediately fell in love with the glitter polish, it looks amazingly pretty in sun light, doens't it? It was named "Zoo" and the pink creme one was named "City".

The other day I finally decided that I want to learn how to use my konad equipment. I haven't been really succesful with them, don't know yet if it's because of my technique or the polish I am using. Once I have managed to put the whole picture on my nail but that's it. Here you can see that it is very pale. Therefore, I searched through Kynsikoristelut group and found out that Depend has really good polishes for stamping, so I went to Cubus and bought two, 39 and 223. Let the stamping begin!

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Blue Simplicity

I have spent the last month collecting more and more polish bottles. I have gotten about 2/3 more than I had in the beginning of the summer. Also I have bought tons of new decorating things like different sized and shaped rhinestones, Fimos and pearl halfs. I feel like I have too many of them at the monent because I can't try all of them at once! :D

Anyways, new nails here. I did these to my friend. I had a light blue jelly polish from Golden Rose in the "to-be-tested" box and also one pink glitter polish also, so I desided that now would be a great time to test them since they wouldn't be staying long on her nails because she was doing a play and her nails couldn't be polished.

I am not a big fan of black but somehow I felt like these needed black rhinestones to give them a little edge and not leave them looking too baby blueish. :D

BTW, I also tested the matte velvet polish and it was lovely! I don't have pictures of it since I forgot to take them before the polish had worn out from the tips. I used Gina Tricot matte top coat on them and with it they managed to stay matte for about 5 days. In the best shape they were for the first 3 days and after that they started to lose the matte finish. Although they didn't stay matte that long, it was fine for me since I usually do my nails about every four days or so.

What do you think about the "baby blue" nails? And what kind of experiences do you have with matte/matte velvet polishes?

Acetone and Old Lacquer: Cute explosion - Japanese style nails

Acetone and Old Lacquer: Cute explosion - Japanese style nails

Look at these! Isn't she talented? I hope to become at least very close to her talent someday...

Dilemma

You guys, I have a problem! Went shopping today with my friend and of course I had to visit every store I could think of that sells nail polishes and as it happens the annual end of summer sale is going on. So I fould many pretty polishes including my very first matte velvet polish from Golden Rose and of course I needed matte top coat to go with that so I got one from Gina Tricot and again I took advantage of the deal of 3 polishes with 9.95 EUR.

So now the problem is that, I really really really bad want to try that matte polish but I also really really really like what I have on right now. I'll show you tomorrow what I have on right now since I haven't made a post about them yet.

So what do you think I should do?

Sentimentality and gradient

This time, as I already had tested how to do gradient, I wanted to know if a different technique would change the result and leave the polish to be more even. I found a video tutorial from Youtube in which three different techniques were introduced. I had tried the first one already, so I thought that maybe technique number 2 would be better with the make-up sponge.

The polishes that I used where, Models Own "Peaches & Cream" and Essie "Navigate Her". This Essie is from Spring 2012 collection. Also I added a few rhinestones to my thumbs and ring fingers, then I wanted to try my new nail stikers so the rest of the fingers I decorated with them.

Then the disaster hit. I applied the top coat as usual and let it try. Added another layer because of the rhinestones. Then I realised that the top coat started bubbling. Anyways, here is a picture of the design.

I think that somehow, the colors were too bland together. What do you think?