Cold as ice

I wanted to do my version of the expression "cold as ice"

But

This mani didn't really turn out the way I wanted it to.

On the pictures i'm wearing 2 coats of Kiko and 1 coat of Gosh and yet another one of Kiko- the flakie.

I didn't expect the polishes to be that see through, though it looked pretty neat in daylight.

Trying to catch the flakie/glimmer on the nails as well as in the bottle.

Really think I need to find a light blue polish for my foundation, and then maybe try again.

Perhaps even a white base would do the work, what do you think?

Sun and polish

This mani is inspired by the sun. 

Using China Glaze Sun Worshiper and Gosh Rainbow, I wanted to do a bright, sparkling mani.

Couldn't quite figure out how to catch the sparkling flakes in the Gosh polish though.

Using the flash it looked like this

It's weird though, I love, love, love the Rainbow in the bottle with all the flakes and glimmer. Just haven't found a polish that's perfect for the foundation in real life yet :) 

Bonus info:

This is icecream-matching mani I was wearing in Barcelona

Shopping my ass off! :)

Mr. Boyfriend now officially thinks i'm a freak.

I don't really care, cause see what I've got!!

Shopping from Spain and Portugal, I bought

From the right:

Essie

Maybelline

Love yes nail art pens

Kiko

Essence

Basic

Casuelle

Mavala

Easy Paris Cosmetics

Cliché

Further info beneath the pictures, enjoy! :)

Essie we (hopefully) all know, these are 

Protein Base Coat 

Topcoat -Good To Go! 

and the holographic Carnival

These were 10,25 for the Good To Go, the two others were 8,80 € each

Maybelline, I bought these two (same color I think) because I had an idea for a summer mani with- and without shimmer

These are as you can see

Peach Cocktail

Urban Coral

These were 3,60 € each

Got these 3 in a chinese store in Barcelona with insanely much stuff! Everything low priced and looking discount-like.

46

11

4

I don't really remember, but think I paid about 1 € for each one.

Kiko is a italian brand, sold various places in Europe, including Spain (were I got it) Germany, France, Portugal and Italy

I got these in a Kiko store, the concept is a lot like ELF, cool cosmetics on a very affordable budget!

I could only find theis website in italian, so bare with the names that follow :)

270 - Palliettes Acqua Sparkle T.

247 - Fuchsia Microglitter

246 - Mirtillo Rosso Scuro Microglitter

269 - Giallo Microglitter

298 - Turchese Microglitter

342 - Verde Acqua

343 - Verde Primavera

Each 2,50 €  

This one from Casuelle, no. 16 I primary bought because of the barbiedoll like bottle. I think it's SO cute! I bought this one in a store called Ale-Hop in Lossabon, kind of like the danish Tiger storechain. Budget stuff all over! :)

-Think this was about 1,50 €

These I bought in a small supermarket, thought they were nice!

The brand is from the german company Interco Cosmetics.

About 1 € each, don't remember the exact price

Can't find out what these are called, maybe 33 and 52..? 

Aaah, essence there you were!

Found a beautystore called Júlia, loaded with essence products, smiling all the way to the cashier!

The top ones are their new nail art pens, called

 09- Mysterious Black 

10 - More than Silver

04 - Pink !

76 - Cool and the Gang

11 - Catwalk Pink

01 - It's Purplicious

07 - Blair

06 - Edward

nail art pens each 1,99 €

polishes each 2,49 € 

Bet you all know about Mavala, I personally love their nail care products! 

126 - Electric Green

171 - Blue Curacao

 5 € each

These I found in Lissabon, tiny chinese store with everything from hats, makeup, food and tools.

The brand is called Easy Paris Cosmetics and these polishes are filled with confetti! It sparkles and glitters, I can't wait to try them on!

124

123

139

Each about 1 €

Cliché is also a brand I found in Lissabon, never heard of it before!

The colors are

Cfu Fstrflad (doesnt make any sense to me, but that is what it says on the bottle)

Camuflado

Oliva

Khaki

Hippie

Jade

Each 1,50 € 

Here are the additional stuff I bought on out trip, some essence nail fashion stickers, nail art stickers and some stuff for a perfect french mani.

And of course a image plate!

Am not sure if it is from Konad, it's called m32 and looks like the one from Konad. 

Got to test it some day when I get back to Copenhagen :)

So a lot of polishes, but also insanely cheap polishes!

Have so far tested the Clichés and some of the Kiko's and thought the qualty were just fine.

Love traveling and new stuff!

Did you buy any "foregin" polishes this summer?

Shopping!!

Hi you guys!!

Just wanting to drop in to tell you that i've found lots of polishes to show you here in Barcelona, pictures are already taken, info waiting to be collected and transformed into a post.

In the mean time you can enjoy this, Mr. Boyfriend got us icecream in a park just across La Segrada Familia - Gaudís half finished church -and it matched totally up with my mani! How cool is that! :)

- The polish is China Glaze - Sun Worshiper

Stay tuned ! :)

Konad and me -Night out

Yesterday I was going to a friends birthday party at a bar, so I wanted to do a dark party mani.

For the base I used Rosie & Roses no. 402, did 2 coats.

Then I Konad'et it with imageplate no. 78, I used my white and yellow Konad special polish for this.

Then I added 2 coats of China Glaze Techno on my tips, and I was ready to go ! :)

-It's amazing how many comments you get when you're out, wearing Konad, even from strangers.

If in a bad mood, wear Konad and get ready for some comments ! ;)

By the way, I literally think a holo mani can save your day, especially if the glitter is in different sizes. 

I think i'm in love!

Green Hawaii Rainbow

Yeah, it sounds good :b
I found out that it looks very lovely with Gosh - Rainbow(or any other warm coloured flakie) on top of Gosh - Green Hawaii.
This adds even more glitter and colours to the manicure and it sparkles so very very pretty. You can only see the flakes in the shadow and in light you just get more colourful glitter :) it's great!

It must be time for my debut post on this blog :)

So, you must have heard the exiting news of Stines' and my blog getting together for a period.
So I think it's time for my first post on Stines' blog. This post has been a few days delayed because of laziness(it must be the sun and holiday) but here it is ;)
On Sunday I was shopping and I accidentally unintentionally bought 5 lacquers, uups.
Anyway, they were really cheap so I thought it was okay.

From left to right: H&M - Blue Wave, H&M - Sea Pearl, H&M - Ocean Sand, Gosh - 548 Green Hawaii, Gosh - 546 Rainbow

The H&M lacquers contain 11 mL and I got them for only 10 kr each(about £1,2 or $1,9) and I got the Gosh for only 15 kr each(about £1,8 or $2,8) and I'm very happy about that. I also bought Rainbow for Stine :)
Blue Wave is a baby blue lacquer with shimmer in blue and purple, Sea Pearl also contains shimmer. It's hard to see if it's holographic or just pink/peach, I'm gonna have to find out when I try it on. Ocean Sand is a brown base with silver shimmer. Green Hawaii is a fresh green with holo glitter in all of the rainbows' colours and at last but not least Rainbow is a flakie which shines mostly in orange nuances.

Blurry photo of Green Hawaii to see some of the amazing glitter

 I had to try Green Hawaii out immediately :)

Again blurry to see the effect

With matte top coat on my ring finger and pinkie

I hope you are enjoying your holiday :D

Gosh Holographic

This polish makes me think of this amazing song by the beatles. 

Listen to it while you're reading this post, it'll do you good :)

This polish really doesn't need any introduction. Get ready to be picture- spammed! <3

Unfortunatly I think it's rather difficult to apply, one coat often ruin the other when applying.

What are your experiences with this polish, share! :)

And the winner is.....!

Am almost out the door for my trip to Barcelona and Lissabon, but thought I would finish my theme thing first :)

Please do notice that I didn't get to test the wet n' wild polishes in the middle of the image below, just couldn't find the time, sorry.

And the nominees are....:

 Depend - nr. 134: 5

 Depend - nr. 009: 2

Depend - nr. 162: 5 

 

Depend - nr. 47: 4

 

La Femme Beauty - Beige: 4

La Femme Beauty- Ultra Green: 4

La Femme Beauty - Gul: 4

La Femme Beauty - Lilla: 4

 

La Femme Beauty - Bal: 2

La Femme Beauty - Orange: 5 

Milani - #1Hottest Pink: 5

Milani - #19 Breezy: 4

Rosie & Roses - nr. 406: 4

Rosie & Roses - nr. 409: 4

 Rosie & Roses - Nr. 402: 5

Tiger - nr. 22: 4

Tiger nr. 03: 3

Tiger - nr. 29: 3

All in all this makes Milani the winner!

Milani	4 5	/2	4,5
Rosie	5 4 4	/3	4,3
Depend	5 5 2 4	/4	4
La femme	4 4 4 4 2 5	/6	3,8
Tiger	3 3 4	/3	3,3

I know I haven't got that many discount polishes, but this theme-thing is a start, and could might help someone to find out whether to go for the discount,- or high quality polishes.

This theme definitely shows that Tigers (the danish stores) are awful. They might look pretty hanging there in the store, but smells horrific!

Well, good vibes from now, i'm off to packing my suitcase for the holidays ! <3 :)