Be rich, be bold, be gold!

Hi guys, for today's post I'd like to show you a very fast and festive mani with two China Glaze polishes. It's a real party look that takes less then 5 minutes to create. I used one-coater 2030, which practically dries with the speed of light! On top is also just one coat of Golddigger, a clear polish with small and pretty dense champagne-gold glitters. I think the result is fun, very bling and even elegant with the right dress ;) Top it off with fastdrying topcoat and you're good to go!

My Favorite Jeans goes lightning bolt

Hi everyone! Hope you're having a great day. The mani for today's post is an update of the second lightning bolt French I did, it was turquoise with black tips. The day I was wearing that mani I found a polish that I wanted for so long but since it's discontinued I didn't think I would find it again. I'm talking about H&M's My Favorite Jeans. Lately I've been obsessed with foils, especially if they're blue, and that's exactly what My Favorite Jeans is. The first time I had it in my hands, I wasn't that much into nailpolish yet, I thought both color and finish were weird, so I put it back. I can slap myself now for doing that! So fortunately I found one last lonely bottle of it on the bottom shelf of an H&M! My favorite Jeans is a foil with a grey-ish blue base, kind of like jeans, with bolder blue flecks. The flecks are subtle but make the polish less dull. I love it :) And it was also the perfect polish to add some shimmer to the lightnig bolt design I was wearing. I just applied tape again the way I always do for the lightning bolt, only this time I placed the tape a bit more towards the tip, covering up a little part of the black. So that after adding My Favorite Jeans and removing the tape, there's still a line of black visible. Finally I added a layer of matt topcoat, the one I use is from Essence.

I like how the mani came out and that it only takes little effort to achieve the look. If you want to recreate it and could use some help, just check out the tutorial by clicking here or in the tab at the top.
Thanks for reading guys!

Before Mr. Matt

Before My Favoroite Jeans

My personal Gemma!

Hi guys! I'm so excited about this post, because I was able to find a layering combo to imitate Zoya's Gemma. I really love all the colors Zoya has released in the last couple of months, want many of them, but here comes the bummer: Zoya isn't available in Holland. It is on Ebay, but the prices are a bit too high for my taste, especially since Zoya bottles aren't that big either. So I still don't own a single bottle of Zoya, talk about frustration! So Gemma is one of their pretties I hope to own someday. Until then I'll have to do it with this combo you're looking at right now. The base color is H&M Hunt Me Down, which I've posted about before and I only used one coat! I layered it with a blue shimmer polish which was part of a set nameless minis I bought over ten years ago. It was very cheap and smells so bad, but hey, it still works. And I was even lucky to find another bottle of it on Queensday! The result of the two polishes combined probably isn't a Gemma-dupe, but it's close enough for me to love it. So unfortunately I don't have a real recipe for fellow Gemma-lovers-but-not-owners, but the good thing is that any light blue shimmer over any army green will look gorgeous in my opinion, Gemma-dupe or not.

In the shade

Comeback of the laser mani

Hi guys, it's been a while since I did my last laser mani. Guess its moment got stolen by the mummy and the lightning bolt design, haha. Anyway, it was great to do this design again. It's probably my favorite tape pattern, because it's so simple and easy to achieve. Today I used OPI Big Apple Red for my base color and China Glaze For Audrey on top of it. Everytime I use For Audrey as top color, it amazes me how opaque it is. Because it's a pretty light color, you'd think it could be sheer, but as you can see it prefectly covered Big Apple Red. The color combination of the red and turquoise blue is pretty odd, yet I'm very attracted to it. I don't know why, but it just works.

So if you feel like doing a laser mani yourself after reading this post, just check out the tutorial if you haven't already, it might be useful ;) Cheers!

Muted skittle

Hello readers! For this post I'd like to show you a skittle mani I did recently. I was actually just swatching a few of my new polishes when I noticed they matched some polishes on my desk. These are the colors I used, starting with the one I used on my thumb.

OPI - Mrs O'Leary's BBQ
Hema - #82
H&M - Dazzling Jade
Essence - Let Me In Pink
Rimmel - Fancy Fuchsia

And this is where the magic happens, haha. Lately I've been hooked on the glitter topcoats from the Essence Nail Art Twins, I already posted about Blair and Edward. So here I layered Blair over my muted skittle, I think it really adds something special. What I love about Blair is the different sized glitter and also the fact those glitters aren't "plain" silver, but dark silver/grey, which I don't see that often.

And some of you might have already expected the following... ;) Matte topcoat!
Thanks for visiting :)

Essie - Bordeaux

Hello everyone :) You're looking at a swatch of Essie Bordeaux, a classic bordeaux red, obviously. I don't own many Essie polishes, only four at the moment! But I'm very satisfied with the ones I do have. And like the others this one does not disappoint at all. Pictured is only one coat! One coat of red, glossy, opaque polish. No topcoat needed. I was lucky to find this bottle at the free market on Queensday together with a few other polishes. The lady who was selling them only asked 1 euro for all of them, good bargain or what :) (In the Netherlands Essie can only be found online for €13 a bottle!) Okay, so this bottle was only half full, but the polish inside was still in perfect condition, Essie-win!

Frenching with Edward

Hi guys, first of all: lol at the title! It was inevitable, haha.
So a few days ago I showed you pretty Edward, layered over Rimmel Fancy Fuchsia, which I'd mattified afterwards. Eventhough I really was enjoying my mani - gosh, I love mattified glitter, I kept feeling the need to add something extra, so that's what I did the next day. For my blue tips I used Essence's Just Rock It, it's a nice dark blue with a tad of purple and I think it suits the rest nicely. So hope you like it too! And have an awesome day :)

G.I. Jane

Hi guys! Today I showed you H&M's Hunt Me Down, a nice muted, army green. To complete the military look I added some black crackle. The one I used is Black Magic (#311) from Barry M Nail Effects, which is the only crackle polish I own! But I'm really starting to like crackle polishes more and more, so next crackle on the wishlist is probably OPI's Silver Shatter...

Anyhow, I like the way this mani turned out, it's fun and edgy and so easy to make. Hunt Me Down just needed one coat and if you've worked with crackles before, you know they dry right in front of your eyes. Of course I could've applied crackle on the whole nail, but I chose to do half only (by taping off the other half.) That way I could still see lots of the beautiful green :) And that's pretty much it, thanks for stopping by!