Category: Nails
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Review: Sephora Express Nail Polish Remover
One product many beautyblogs have been raving about is the express nail polish remover by Sephora. What it is, is a little pot with a sponge inside that should make cleaning up polish from your finger nails a breeze. After reading some reviews about this product online I thought I’d give it a shot and…
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NOTW: Strictly Cookies & Cream
This week I wanted to try something clean and simple. I love Ciaté’s Cookies & Cream nail polish as it’s a great neutral shade. I decided to pair it with a stripe of Ciaté’s Strictly legal as I thought the dark purple with subtle golden glitter would be a good contract with the creamy beige…
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NOTW: A little bit of this…
… and a little bit of that. Finally my nails have started to grow out again so I think I can do some fun nail creations again some time soon. As for right now, my nails are covered in 5 different colors. I simply couldn’t choose and didn’t think any of these colors special enough…
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NOTW: Pink & Sunshine
I have been so lazy regarding my nails lately. First it was because they all started breaking on me. It was as if my nails had suddenly become more brittle than usual. The problem: my new nail polish remover. And now, I’m just too lazy to look into cute nail designs and what not. So…
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NOTW: Vampire Black
This week I spent on the couch watching True Blood Season 4 for the most part. I was feeling under the weather and I had yet to watch the latest season and lo and behold what I picked up when I sat to do my nails? Yep two black polishes that in hind-see are very…
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NOTW: Sparkly New Year’s Nails
When deciding on what nail polish to wear, I quickly grabbed two of my new glitter polishes. I especially think the duochrome polish is very suitable for celebrating the new year. It reminds me of fireworks! I am wearing the turquoise glitter polish on my thumb and pinky. My other nails are covered in a…
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Some new nail polish: walking in a GLITTER wonderland
I’m always looking for new nail polish to try out and especially when it’s cheap I’m always curious to see what it does. I bought these polishes in a 2 for €5 euro deal at my local budget store. Glitter nail polishes are difficult to get right: they usually take a gazillion layers before they…
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NOTW: Festive green nail art creation
I suddenly had this idea for making a new nail art creation. Again, it’s something very simple nor is it super fancy, but I think it’s cute and the colors are a perfect match to the time of year.This is the result: As you can see I went with a seafoam green base coat, added…
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NOTW: Strictly Legal
Last week, I logged onto Facebook and found a very nice surprise in my inbox: I had won a free nail polish by nail polish brand Ciaté. I was allowed to pick whichever color I liked from their current range of colors. I ended up picking a color called Strictly Legal: a deep plum/ purple…
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NOTW: Blue toned french manicure
Another week, another new nail look. I decided to play around with a current trend: french manicures with a twist and this is what I came up with: It’s my first time painting a french manicure on my nails and my ring finger is one hot mess, but I think it looks cool. It’s certainly…
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New Rimmel I Love Lasting Finish Nail Polish
A while ago I read on many beauty blogs that Rimmel would be releasing some new polishes in funky colors. I finally found them in my local drug store and brought home two of the polishes. This is my review of these polishes and a quick nail of the day/ week. In the picture above…
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NOTW: Sparkling rose
I thought it would be fun to do a nail creation with some of my new polishes that I showed you the other day. This is what I came up with: I simply love these simple stripy designs and you can do them with so many different colors! The possibilities are endless. My hand wasn’t…
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NOTW: Purple & Gold
For some reason I felt like painting my nails in a dark purple color. However, once I had that on my nails I thought it looked rather boring. I was wrecking my brain trying to come up with a fun color to match the purple. Suddenly ‘gold’ popped into my head and this is what…
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NOTW: Pumpkin Spice
Another autumn inspired post. As I’m totally digging fall colors right now, and I made pumpkin soup the other day, I thought it would be apt to have a pumpkin inspired color on my nails. This is the result: Products used: – Etos nail hardener extra strong – China Glaze Life Preserver – Catrice Rusty…
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NOTW: Cranberry Sparkle
Another short but sweet post, but tell me how could I keep this fun and sparkly autumn nail look from you all? Products used: Etos nail hardener extra strong E.L.F. nail polish in cranberry Essence nail art special effect topper in circus confetti Seche vite fast drying topcoat The best part? This fun, sparkly nail…
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Mini update: nail polish collection
I acquired some new nail polishes over the past few months and therefore I thought it would be appropriate to show you which ones I’ve bought. These are only my recent purchases. I got a few other ones, not featured in my earlier posts on my nail polish collection, but I don’t remember exactly when…
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NOTW: I’m feeling blue
Since the past few days have proven to be lovely Indian summer days, I thought it was time to wear a pretty summery color on my nails again. Just one last time, before the days become actual dark and gloomy and I take to wearing dark greens, blacks, browns and glitters again. My favorite summer…
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NOTW: Sweet like candy
Another new nail look. This really reminded me of bubblegum, cotton candy and Dutch marsh mellows (spekkies), hence the name. It’s very simply, but I liked the pink a lot on its own, so I didn’t want to ruin it by adding too many distracting factors. I hope you like it. – base coat: Etos…
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NOTW: All striped out!
The other day I decided it was time to take out my nail art striper brushes again. Here’s what I made: On nails: – base coat – China Glaze For Audrey – Essence Choose Me (glittery blue stripe) – Essence Be Optimistic (rust colored stripes) – Seche Vite Top Coat It’s a bit shaky and…
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NOTW: Bella & Edward sitting in a tree…
K-I-S-S-I-N-G… Oh well something like that anyway. I thought the title would be apt, as I’ve used my new Essence nail polishes on my nails this week. On Saturday you could read about my recent haul, where I bought a few Essence nail polishes. These polishes were just added to the line and I hadn’t…
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NOTW: A little bit of this and a little bit of that
I found this fun and subtle nail look on Noelle’s blog and decided to give it a go! Excuse the blurry picture, but this is the best the camera on my phone came up with. It didn’t want to focus at all! – base coat – one coat of Diamond Cosmetics Sparkling Sherry – one…
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NOTW: Ladybug Nails!
My first serious attempt at nail art you could say. I already made bumblebee nails a few months ago, but that was tooth picks and what not. I just recently purchased some nail art supplies from Ebay, such as small brushes, liner brushes and nail dotting tools. These things really didn’t cost me that much…
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NOTW: My first attempt at nail art
I decided to get a bit more creative with my nail polish looks. I ordered some nail art stuff from Ebay a few weeks ago and this is my first attempt at using a nail art liner: As you can tell, I’ve used colors that are quite similar to one another. Since it’s my first…
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NOTW: Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy!
I blogged earlier today about going to a beach party and so I thought I’d do my nails in a nice, bright summery kind of color.This is what they look like: What I am wearing: – Etos extra strong nail hardener (base coat) – 3 coats of China Glaze Lemon Fizz (pale yellow) – 3…
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NOTW: Perfectly Pastel
I decided to do another Nail of the Week post. I enjoy doing them, but since I put this blog on nail polish overload in April writing about all of my different nail polishes, I decided against posting about this as well.Here’s what I’m currently wearing on my nails. All three polishes are by Ciaté.…
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New Nail Polishes
I know, I know. I wasn’t gonna buy any new nail polishes, but honestly how could you resist these colors?: From left to right: Catrice Just Berried Catrice Raspberry Fields Forever Catrice Apropos Apricot Catrice Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Catrice Up in the Air Catrice Lavenderlicious Essence King of Mints Bourjois So Laque Tangerine Fatal…
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Nail Polish Collection Part 5 – Swatches
Nail polishes don’t always come out looking like the colors in the bottle once you put them on your nails. To see what that polishes would look like on my nails, and to have a color overview of my collection, I swatched all the colors I have. Below are the pictures of my nail wheels,…
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Nail Polish Collection Part 4: Diamond Cosmetics, E.L.F. & Random Polishes
This post is the last one show casing the actual polishes. My next post on my nail polish collection will feature swatches of all the bottles you’ve seen so far. This post features the following brands: Diamond Cosmetics, E.L.F., HEMA, Miss Sporty and a bunch of randoms, including Koh, Sally Hansen and Gosh. Diamond Cosmetics…
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Nail Polish Collection Part 3: Bourjois, Catrice, Maybelline & more
Another round of nail polishes. I promise there aren’t that much more to come. We’re almost there. This post will focus on some cheaper/ drug store/ more commonly available brands: Bourjois, Chanel, Catrice, Collection 2000, Cosmetica Fanatica & Maybelline. Swatches will be featured in the last nail polish collection post. Bourjois & Chanel (f.l.t.r.): 1…
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Nail Polish Collection Part 2: China Glaze, Sephora, Hérôme, Eyeko
Another day, another blog post. This time it’s part 2 of my nail polish collection, featuring: China Glaze, Sephora, Hérôme and Eyeko. I will devote a post on my favorite polishes some time in the future. Swatches of these polishes will be posted in the last nail polish collection post. China Glaze (f.l.t.r.): Sugar Plums,…