Isadora - Beetle Green

Beetle Green is from the Trend Nails collection from Isadora.
It's sort of an oceangreen metallic. Really pretty! The name fits very vell, 'cus it does look like the back of a beetle. Only thing it's missing is that purple/red duochrome to really get that beetle feeling. Just like the new Beetlejuice collection has!
Over to the photos:

The application was a little runny and cleanup is very necessary.

#What do you think of Green Beetle?

Adopt a Polish

Every day, thousands of nail polishes are abandoned or abused. They are not sticky or old, they
are fine new polishes, stuck on a shelf because they are forgotten or out of season. All they
desire is to be used, and maybe taken for a night on the town in return.
(And, no, this is not a joke!)
The website Adopt a polish is doing just this! They have pages on wich polishes are out to adoption, like the Orly family. Who have sufferd so much and now only want a peaceful and safe life.


So basically all you have to do is write a comment on why YOU would be a great adopter for them, and they could be yours. Adoptapolish pays for all expenses on shipping

"We have so many polishes who need a good family to take them in" said AdoptAPolish.org executive director Nikki Smith. "All it takes is filling out an application form describing how you can provide a better life for one of our in need nail polishes. We select the best application and take care of all the expenses, delivering your newly adopted polish directly to your door."

It's only intended for Canadian or U.S sitizens, but I guess it wouldn't be a problem to try to adopt if you have contacts in the U.S! So my best advice is be creative when writing why you should adopt a polish.
I think the concept is really funny, I just love it!

Kleancolor - Chunky Holo Clover

Sophie showed Kleancolor - Chunky holo Funchsia on her blog the other day. And that reminded me that I hadn't tried all my Kleancolors yet. More important, I hadn't tried the one I was looking the most forward too. Chunky Holo Clover.

It's a very sheer green base with green and orange duochrome glitters. It's very nice, but not Amazing... I wish there had been more shades of green in there. What you are seeing is one coat of Nicole by OPI-One time Lime and two coats of Chunky Clover.

Now green is my absolout favorite polish color! I love almost everythin green, so of course this one became a little lover right away. But remember; Green polishes stains, and it if you don't use a base coat your nails will turn out extremely yellow!

#Do you have any Kleancolors?
#What's your favorite polish color?

China Glaze - Heli-Yum

I realized that I've never showed this on the blog before. I've had the photos for ages, but never put them up...Well here they are!
Heli-yum is from the Up and Away collection from spring 2010. I think this is my all time favorite pink in the nail polish world! It's sort of a light rasberry color. Not to dark, but not dolly pink either. And it's very sexy!
Two coats

Not much more to say really...It dries almost a little rubbery, but I like the effect. If you don't want that it's no problem to use a top coat!

Pink and silver stripes

I got some new nailstickers for my birthday and decided to try them with some stripes. I wanted the stripes to match the colors on the flowers so I used OPI-Be a Dahlia won't you and Ory-dazzle.
Well, the problem is that these colors not only match, they are exactly the same! So you can hardly see the flowerstickers...Oh well.

My base color is Orly-Ingenue. I think it turned out okey even though you can hardly see the stickers, the stripes are cool at least.

#What do you think?

Orly - Ingenue

This is my third polish from the Soiree collection by Orly, see my others Here. I wasn't actually going to get it, but it came from a birthday present, and boy am I glad it did.
This has the same golden shimmer as Oui, only Oui has a purple undertone and this one is pink.

I got one of the limited bottles with a nailfile!

The color goes from pink to gold to orange to cobber. I even see some hint of green in there! So pretty. Other blogers have been saying that there are tons of dupes out there, like OPI Rally Pretty Pink or Zoya Faye. But if you don't have those then you definitely need this one! I used 2/3 coats with Linda Johansen speedy top coat over.

And for those of you who don't know it, and Ingenue is a character in theather, film or books who is a girl or a young woman who is endearingly innocent and wholesome. And when that is said, I really don't associate this color with innocence

#What do you think of this color?

#Do you have any dupes to it?

Orly - Sweet Peacock

This is my second polish from the Birds of a feather collection. My other is Fowl Play.
It's a electrick blue and silver foil color. I love wearing it, it really sparks up my nails! Blue is a very attention seeking polish color so I wouldn't wear it if you want something mellow and toned down!

Nice application and opaque on two coats. It dried very quick, I use Linda Johansens Speedy top coat, But I still think the actual nail polish has a lot to say for the drying time.

I decorated with some yellow fimo flowers

When removing it the blue disappears first and leaves most of the silver, kinda cool:

This is after removing some of the polish and peeling of the fimoflower

#What do you think about this color?

#Do you like wearing blue nail polsh?

Isadora - Forest

This Isadora polish is from the Forest Groove collection a while back. I got Forest and Bronze Platina from the collection.
Now I must say that I was really really excited about Forest, I just heard the name and saw a bottle picture and imagined brown flakies with loads of green glitter and pure beauty. To my disappointment there were almost no green at all. Soo bummed out.

But it still is very pretty! It's sort of a flakieish brown with some cobber color to it, and a tiny bit of green. Even though it didn't turn out the way I hoped I still love it. And the application was super smooth.



Daylight

Direct light

Now what do you do when you want to add some extra green to something that is already beautiful? You make it more beautiful, by adding China Glaze - It's alive! A super packed green glitter!

There you go! Now that's green, and glitter, and brown, and awesome!

#Do you have Forest or It's alive?

# How do you like this combo?

Isadora - Silver flicks(and galaxies)

For my birthday celebration these were my nails. And I know what you are thinking now "Jeez, more crackles?" And I agree, we are all fedd up with the crackle trend. Despite that I did buy this new silver crackle from Isadora, I regret that I didn't but the one called Pink Flame though(see swatches of them all here).
Anyway... The base is from Isadoras Holiday collection Red Rush and is called Black Galaxy. Black with multicolored glitters.

I got some new nailpolish for my birthday and I'll be showing it as soon as I get the chance!
#What do you think of this combo?

Birthday Nails

Yup, it's my birthday today... And that means birthday nails! I'm not celebrating intil friday so I'll save the nail art for then. But ofcourse I had to have something today to, and what other color than green shoud I choose?
 This is two layers of  Essence - Chose me and one layer of the green/brown duochrome from Depend #109. A very pretty combo if you ask me!

Essence - Choose me!

I bought this little sweetie in Italy and I'm so glad I did it!
It's a sheer dark blue base packed with blue, golden and green glitter! The green and gold glitters doesn't come out good in the pictures, but it's much stronger irl.

This is the first essense I ever tried and so far I'm pretty happy with the brand. Had some minor application problems, the polish totally flooded my cuticles. But with some cleanup it all went back to good!

 #How do you like essence and this color?

Make up store - Britta

Just a quick post on the amazing pink holo, Britta! A tried to put some blue flakes from Nfu Oh on top, but they didn't really show, to bad... Oh well, it's amazing by itself as well!

Two coats over on coat of Aqua fix by makeupstore, with Linda Johansen top coat

Butterfly wings

Butterfly nails are one of the best nail designs to make if you ask me! There are no limit to colorchoice, you can use a sponge, dotting tool, thin brush, anything really. And it's fun to make! I really need to make more butterfly wings... Anyway, here are todays nails:

My technique was spongin three different tones of a color and then making the black decorations(?), is that the right word? And last making white dots with...You guessed it! A dotting tool.

I've used tons of different colors, and if anyone are interested here they are:
Thumb(Pink) - Hm-Spoiled Beauty, Isadora-Pink Lemonade, China Glaze-Heli-yum
Index(Green) - Orly-Mint mojito, OPI-Green-wich village, Revlon-Emerland city
Middle(Purple) - OPI-Planks a lot, Sinful colors - Purple diamond, Hm-Purple
Ring(Orange) - Isadora-Mellow Yellow, China Glaze-Papaya punch, Isadora - Glorious orange
Pinky(Blue) - Sephora by OPI-Havana dreams, Hm-Peppermint fusion, Orly - It's up to blue

#Have you made butterfly nails before? If you have I'd love to see them, so leave a link!

Comparison: China Glaze - Ruby Pumps VS. Color Club - Ruby Slippers

I've got tons of polishes I want to compare right now, but I just can't find the time to fit it in anywhere...But here is at least the first one, of hopefuly many more to come!

Besides from sharing almost the same name, these two lacquers are very close in both color and formula. I've chosen to call them Rp(for China glaze-Ruby Pumps) and Rs(for Color Club-Ruby slippers). I guess the distinct difference I can see is that Rp has a little less glitter than Rs. Rs is totally packed, but in Rp I can see some of the sheer red base.

These are very close to being dupes, and you definitely don't need both in your collection! They don't just look the same, they behave the same when it comes to drying and removal.

My Cc-Rs is a mini and if my Rp runs out I can use it as a backup, 'cus this is a color I want a backup for! It's amazing, love it! See full swatch of Cg-Rp HERE

# Do you like this sparkling red color?

Let it burn

Todays nails are flames! I really like the idea of making flames, but I'm 100% happy with my result. So this is definitely something I'll practice on making more! This design can be made in so many different ways, black outline, blue flames and on it goes.
This was my inspiration picture:

And here is the result of my first try:

The colors I used: Base is Linda Johansen - Ballerina, Flames are Isadora - Mellow yellow, CG - papaya punch, markwins - red, Color club - ruby slippers, Orly - Mint mojito

# Have you made flame nails before?

# What do you think of mine?

Linda Johansen - Ballerina

Another Linda Johansen I got for review. Here is my post about Linda Johansen and the polish  Pumpkin Pie.

Now you know I'm not a nudepolish fan, well I actually never wear nude colors. But for the girls(and guys) who do, this will be a great choice.

It's sort of a fudge color with a slight hint of silver shimmer. The application is great, just like butter! If you use Linda Johansen top coat over it will get a pretty shine and drie quicker, but it dries very fast on its own too.



Closeup



I think this nude is a prefect match for my skin tone, very pale. And it would be a great way to hide my yellow nails if I don't feel like wearing a color one day, haha!

                                          # Do you wear nude polish?