ABC Challenge - B

Hello! Let's continue with my ABC Challenge. Today - letter B. Actually I used two different polishes with letter B today. For this mani, I used Guga's Blueberries and Color Club's Backstage Pass.

I'm actually really disappointed with Color Club's nail polishes. I have read so many positive comments and I decided to buy two collections: Back to Boho and Backstage Pass Collections. In Back to Boho, the nail polish last less than one day with proper base and top coats and in Backstage Pass... Jesus, I don't even know where to start. This Backstage Pass is the worst. The glitters are very large purple and silver hexagons in a clear base. Sounds good, doesn't it? The problem is that the most of the glitters are... curved, like U-shape so it. There's a same problem with another polish from same collection, It's A Hit which is only large purple hexagons in a clear base. I don't think there is anything I can do with this problem... After these two collections, I'm pretty sure I won't buy any Color Clubs again. The quality is just so bad. Such a big disappointment it is. I was so excited when I bought my first Color Clubs. Also in Back to Boho, you need at least 3 layers to cover my nails. Who has time for that?!

Well, at least the top coat which I got when I bought the collections (now I have two of these..) is good. 

Does anyone else has problems with Color Clubs or is it only me? Or is it just these two collections which are bad quality? 

P.s. Today we're celebrating mid-summer in Finland! It's the nightless night here today (well, I live in south so we have a couple of hours of dusk during the night) and we have another excuse to get drunk.

However, I'm heading to Stockholm, Sweden with my bff today! Let's hope there are some shops open there, I guess Swedes celebrate midsummer as well.

ABC Challenge - A

So, I told you I'm in Finland again with all my nail polishes I missed so much during the last 9 months, but I have a really bad habit always to use the same colors. When I came home I counted my precious babies (aka nail polish bottles). I guess you are curious to know how many do I have? Yep. I have 267 bottles of nail polish. That is SICK, I know. After counting I organised my bottles in alphabetical order and I got an idea. There has been this challenge in several blogs lately: ABC challenge. The rules are simple. First you nail polish which starts with A, then one with B, one with C and so on. Since there are so many bottles without name or only with number, I'll use them after my challenge or I will use them as a second color in my ABC manicures like I did today! I will also try to use different kind of manners to decorate my nails; stamping, glitter, painting, water marbling, skittles, ombre... We will see.

So, let's start! First polish in my ABC challenge is Big Universo's Ácqua. Stampings with Depend's metalic purple, which isn't really good for stamping if you want really strong, metallic result, but for this manicure, it was perfect color! Image plate was Konad's m57.

Sorry about the picture, I took it with my phone, since my camera ran out of battery.

Colorful!

Hey! Already the second post in June! I'm making progress! Anyway, like I said in last post, I absolutely love 17's Monochrome. First I wanted to make skittles with stamping, but I was kind of lazy so I ended up to monochrome again. But black and white glitters look amazing with neon colors! 

Nail polishes I used:

Wild&Crazy-Lemon

Wild&Crazy-Neon Melon

Wild&Crazy-Orange

Depend- Neon red (I can't read the number anymore)

Model's Own- Purple Passion

17-Monochrome

monochrome

Ladies... My apologies... It's been 3 months again... But now I'm in Finland again (at least until next year) with all my nail polishes and stuff, so now I swear (again, I know...) that I'll post more often. I'll challenge myself (more about this in a couple of days) to make sure that I will post for sure.

Anyway, back to business. I bought kind of a lot nail polishes on my last weeks in Ireland, just because they are cheaper there and because there's better assortment. One of the polishes I bought is 17's Monochrome. Seriously, this polish makes every manicure interesting. It's so easy way to make your nails look fabulous! Another polish I bought is Essence's L.O.L which is really weird green, but I do like it. I'm not a big fan of green nail polish, but I absolutely love this one!

Another thing, as you can see, my cuticles are horrible again. Can anyone recommend something very effective cuticle oil/cream which works well and preferably fast too? It would be awesome if it's possible to buy online since it's almost impossible to find good brands in Finland...  (tai jos joku osaa suositella jonkun suomalaisen merkin hyvää kynsinauhaöljyä niin sekin käy!)

St.Paddy's Nails

Long time no see! Last Sunday whole Ireland was literally green (well, it is green always anyway) because of St.Patrick's Day. Of course, I had theme nails!

For this mani I used Angelica's Emerald Isle (what a coincidence...) and Rimmel's Cocktail Colour in A Flash -collections shade no. 120 Shirley Temple.Clover is from Bundle Monster M71 using Konad White.

Water marbling, try 23756

I already thought that I was able to do it properly but no... Look what happened to my middle finger. No good. Otherwise I'm kind of happy with this. Well, it's not perfect yet, but at least this time there is no bubbles! Yeey, victory! I used Color Club's Shabby Drab and Rad Nomad. 

By the way. I have question. Suddenly, I have A LOT of visitors from States... How did you find your way here?

Newbies

Or well, not so newbies anymore. I just realized that I haven't posted here my latest purchases, so here we go. From TKMaxx I bought Color Clubs Back to Boho Fall 2011 Collection, which includes next polishes (from left to right): Topcoat, Earthy Angel, New Bohemian, Shabby Drab, Rad Nomad, Nomadic in Nude and Red-Ical Gypsy.

Besides TKMaxx, I've spent way too much time in Penneys (or well, rest of the Europe knows it as Primark...) Anyway, from Penneys I've bought my first magnetic polish which either doesn't work very well or I can't use it... Whatever. I also bought Essence's Nail Art Express Dry Drops. I'm usually using Orly's Flash Dry Drops and I prefer it, because Essence is too oily and sticky. 

As you can see, I have a glitter mania going on. I'm in love with glitter polishes. There something wrong with me because I still can't do proper glitter sandwich mani... Well, practice makes perfect... But yeah, from left to right: Mrs and Mr Glitter, Gold Fever and one from Claire's without name. 

Stay tuned, swetches are coming!

And then... Finally... Without taking a stance on the whole conversation about caviar manicures, caviar manicure set from Penneys. Ehh... Well... What can I say... I tried it once and after 5 minutes, half of my mani was gone...

Comeback... again

I'm terribly sorry again! It's been a while since I posted here last time, but well... I'm back in Ireland again and most of my nail stuff are in Finland, so you see the problem? Anyway, these nails I actually made on Christmas holiday when I was back home... Very Christmassy I would say... 

For these nails I used:

OPI Natural Nail Base Coat
Models Own: Lemon Meringue
China Glaze:Peacy Keen

Konad M29 and Black Special Polish

Tunnustus

Sain muutama päivä sitten Misify'silta tunnustuksen kommenttiboksiin. Hurjasti kiitoksia tästä!

Tunnustuksen säännöt:

- Kiitä antajaa ja linkitä bloggaaja, joka antoi tunnustuksen sinulle
- Valitse 5 ihanaa blogia ( joilla on alle 200 lukijaa) ja kerro se heille jättämällä kommentti heidän blogiinsa
- Toivo, että ihmiset joille jätit tunnustuksen antavat sen eteenpäin

Itse annan tunnuksen seuraaville blogeille:

Pilvihattaraa blogin Emmille ja Ellulle

Turhamainen kynsiä myöten blogin Wheaterille

Just Nails by Tyun Tyulle

Masterpiece Pinkin Amoenalle

Today my favorite polish is... blogin Suryalle

P.s. Myönnän että taas on vähän tullut taukoa postauksista, hups. Mut koitan palata linjoille jo heti huomenna!

Splatter

Hello and happy new year everyone! I hope you had blast last night, I definitely had!

A couple of days ago I tried for first time to do a splatter mani... It didn't go so well... First, I used way too much nail polish. Also the straw was way too far from the nails, so there was nail polish everywhere else except the nails... Anyway, I was happy with the thumb, ring finger and pinky in the right hand...

...and index finger, middle finger and ring finger in the left hand.

Nail polishes I used:

OPI: Natural Nail Base Coat

Wild and Crazy: Polar Bear

Models Own: Purple Passion

Wild and Crazy: Neon Melon

Wild and Crazy:Lemon

Wild and Crazy:Orange

I wanna be an aztec

Yesterday I tried to do an aztec manicure, but.... Well, I'm not good when it comes to hand painting, so the result ain't that good... Especially the right hand was quite horrible... I used Depend's golden nail polish and two way nail art pen. I was happy only with right hand's thumb and ring finger. But it's only the first time I tried this mani, so maybe practice makes perfect...

It's been a while...

Yeaah well... It's been almost 4 months now since I posted last time... I actually have a good excuse; I've lived in Ireland for last 4 months and most of my nail polishes are in Finland. You see the problem? Now I'm in Finland again and soooo excited to see all my dear nail polishes again! (Ok, it's only temporary, I'm going back to Ireland in one week...) Anyway, here is my first manicure for a while. It's really crappy, but I'm so excited to be back so I decided to publish it anyway. 

Nail polishes I used:
OPI Natural Nail Base Coat

Primark: Glo Baby Glo!

Ana Hickmann:Hit

OPI:Chop Sticking To My Story

OPI: Rapidry Top Coat

Plates I used:

BM02

BM06

BM20

Yeaah well, I think my New Year's resolution for year 2013 is that I'll post more often (Well, that doesn't take that much, this is my 25th post in 2012... Ooops...) and take better pictures (with clean cuticles hahah sorry, I know that some bloggers have nightmares when they see my cuticles...)

Starships are meant to fly

Hey! For this manicure I used Orly's Viridian Vinyl. Stampings from Bundle Monster plate no. BM21 with Konad's black special polish.

Green!

Hey! I don't know why, but I really like this manicure. I used Depend's no.196. Stampings are from Konad's plate no. M57 with Konad's white special polish.

FAILURE

Big Universo's Acqua with stamping from Bundle Monster plate no. BM20 with Konad's blue Special polish.

Sinful Colors' Let's Meet with stamping from Konad M57.

Boo. In my last days in Finland, I used my old Konad's topcoat with stampings and I have to say, that Konad's own topcoat really sucks! Look at these nails! It's a mess! I don't know why it happens, but it doesn't look very nice, right?

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Yes. I'm in love. Usually I don't even like neon polishes, it's always kind of difficult to use them, because you need so many layers and blaah blaah blaah, but this time I really liked this manicure! I used Wild and Crazy's  Orange. For stamping I used Konad's white and black special polishes with plates no. S4 and m66. 

What do you think? Hot or not?

P.s. I'm in Ireland and love this place! Cork is so pretty! I'm sure I'll enjoy my stay here! If you want to read more about my stay in Ireland, check out my blog! (At the moment, it's only in Finnish, but maybe I can start to write in English too if you want :)

Fade

I haven't done fade nails for looong time, so I decided to try it a couple of days ago. I used nails polish that my Brazilian friend gave me, I'm not sure about the name and the brand, the bottle says: "Eliana Super Pérola, Fashion, Estilo, Cremoso" Does anyone know what is the name of the brand and what is the name of nailspolish? Thankss!

I also used Mavala's London and Astor's color no.17.

Water Decals

Make Up Store's Siw and water decals which I got from Viva La Nails.

Ugh, my cuticles are horrible! Uughg...

Rock!?

Ana Hickmann's Rock, stampings from Bundle Monster plate BM19 with Make Up Store's Siw.

...

Ugh, tomorrow will be my last day in Finland for 9 months, so I'm a bit stressed right now, so I try to find something else to think about, so I guess this is good moment to post rest of the nails I've done in last weeks. Like I have already said, I can take only a couple of nail polishes with me to Ireland, so I'm no sure how often I'll update my blog in future, but we will see... Soo...

I made these nails a couple of weeks ago, but I wasn't sure if I want to publish them or not, but now I decided to publish them anyway. I used OPI's Suzi Says Feng Shui and I covered it with Gosh's Rainbow.