1st gradient attempt

Hello ladies,

What's up ? What are you plans for this weekend ? Do share ! I hope you guys are going to have more fun than me... I'll probably be staying at home watching TV during this rainy weekend...

After seing a lot of gradient mani all over the internet I thought I had to give it a try although I'm not that good at nail art. For this 1st attempt I used Essence - Trust In Fashion which is a dark green creme (pretty similar to Jade Is The New Black as I can recall). I only needed 2 coats, the application was amazing.

Then, I sponged the edge of my tips with another Essence: Can't Cheat On Me, a (very discrete) silver holo. Finally, I added a coat of Essence - Space Queen (which is a clear based polish with holo glitters) on the silver sponging.

Here is what I ended up with:

And here are the polishes I used for this mani:

Trust In Fashion - Can't Chear On Me - Space Queen

I have to say I'm pretty happy with the result. I will have to try some other combos really soon. Any cool color ideas ? Have you ever tried the gradient mani ? Any tips on how to emprove my mani ?

Thanks for stopping by,

xxx

Check This Out !

Hey lovelies,

Almost the end of the week. What are your plans for the week-end ? Do share ! ;) There's an outdoor festival in Montreux so I'll probably be there having a few drinks and enjoying the last day of that festival. 

I'm all into bright colors for summer and I wanted to wear a green polish so here it is: Essence  Colour & Go in Check Me Out. I would describe it as a grass green creme polish. It has a great formula, opaque in 2 coats. Those Essence polishes are quite good and so affordable. Which ones are your favorites ?

Indoors - with flash
(sorry about the dry skin. I should have put some hand cream on before taking pictures)

Indoors - with flash

Indoors - with flash

Are you into green polish ? This one is pretty but I think I prefer weird colors like OPI - Who The Shrek Are You ? Or American Apparel - Neon Green which you'll see some swatches of here soon ;)

Have a nice evening/day !

Take care

xoxo

Pimp My mani #3

Hey there,

Just a quick post before going to bed to show you guys Orly - Pixie Dust layered with one coat of Essence Special Effect Topper in Mystic Mermaid. The application was flawless.

Let me just say this combo is GORGEOUS ! There's some pink and blue shimmer. Feel free to enlarge the pics to see it.

Take a look:

I'm sure it will look great layered over a dark polish. I really have to try other combos. Any suggestion ?

Going to bed now.

xoxo

Suprise !

Just a little, fast, post for my sister (who's working hard while I'm doing that !)

I was missing my leopard manicure, so ... Here it is !

I used China Glaze - Lemon Fizz and Milani - Gold Glitz.

To do the leopard "skin", I used the best "nail art novice tool" ever created ! The Essence - Nail Art Pen ! For the girls who don't know this, it's like a paint pen but with polish, except that it is not polish, it's better ! It looks like polish but it's water soluble !!! No more mistake on your "just done" nails !

It is LEGEND ... wait for it ... DARY !

XOXO to my sister, who , I know, is gonna check the blog before I tell her to do it ;)

Pimp My mani #2

Hey there !

I hope everyone is enjoying their week-end ! Just a quick post to show you what I added to my previous mani which was starting to chip: yes it's PMM time ! ;)

I added some OPI - Black Shatter over 2 coats of Milani - Hi Res. Then I applied one coat of Essence - Space Queen, a multi colored glitters top coat.

Yes I've finally got my own bottle of Black Shatter. It was about time !

What do you think ? (Please forgive my very dry hands and cuticles)

Oudoors - no flash

Outdoors - with flash

Outdoors - with flash

Close-up

Thanks for reading guys ! I wish you all a very nice week-end !

Take care

xoxo

Pimp My mani #1

Good morning dear followers !

First of all, royal_cyd and I would like to thank you all for being such great followers ! We can't believe we've reached 31 followers ! We're trilled, thank you so much ! ;)

Now the polish... for those of you who come here often you know that I get bored easily with a manicure and that I often try to renew my mani with layering or stampings. That's what I did today once again... and so I thought I could make a regular post of it. I've decided to call those posts Pimp My mani (lame I know...lol). Do you think it's a good idea ? Are you interested in such posts ?

I was rocking two coats of China Glaze - Frostbite and when I saw this on Nidhira's blog I knew I have to give it a try. I had Essence - Glisten Up! for so long and never tried it so it was about time...

I added two coat of Glisten Up! on my current mani and voila, today's PMM:

Outdoors - direct sunlight

Outdoors - direct sunlight

Close-up

It's really pretty and shiny, the green/teal flakies add a mermaid look to Frostbite that I love. Today it's sunny out there so the combo can really reveal itself, can't wait to get out of the house but for now I have to start my thesis in order to get my Master of Law. Exciting, right ?! :s

Let me know what you think about this combo and about the PMM posts ! I can't wait to hear your thoughts, ideas and comments.

Thanks for stopping by ! Have a nice sunday.

Xoxo

Caribbean Blue

Hey ladies !

Hope everyone is enjoying the end of the week ! Today I have for you a great blue polish: China Glaze - Caribbean Blue... AND a comparison.... AND a little nail art ! ;)

Let's start with the polish itself, shall we ? It's a pretty baby blue with silver shimmers. The application was flawless and it covered great in two coats.

Outdoors with flash

Pretty right ? Do you see the shimmers ? Here's a close-up:

And my sister was kind enough to do a little nail art on my tumbs:

How cute is that little panda ? I don't usually wear nail art but I can't resist this one ! Love it.

And as far as the comparison is concerned, I found out Essence - Pool Party in my stash and thought that it looks pretty similar to CB. I used two coats of each one and no base coat nor top coat.

From left to right: CB, PP, CB, PP

From left to right: CB, PP, CB, PP

Both Carribean Blue and Pool Party have the same silver shimmers but I think it's more apparent on PP because it's slightly darker than CB. PP also seems more teal than PP but they're still pretty similar though. Which one do you guys prefer ? I would say my favourite is PP 'cause it's more flashy than CB who looks more gray beside PP (does that make any sense for you ? lol).

Thank you for stopping by !

Older Nail Art

Pink Tartan

Large pink stripes - Rouge Baiser - Rose Dragé

Double thin stripes - Nail Polish by H&M - Blue My Mind

Thin Stripes - Rouge Baiser - Fushia Ardent

Wierd Flowers

I tried to reproduce a nail art that I saw on http://nail.art.over-blog.com/ but I'm not as good as the girl who's done it ... I only kept it approximatly 5 minutes !

French - China Glaze - Peachy Keen

Flower - Misa - Heaven White

Claire's - Two Way Nail Art - Black

Claire's - Two Way Nail Art - Pink

Leaf - Essence - Check Me Out

Blue Tartan

OPI- Toga-ta Get This Blue !

Nail Polish by H&M - Blue My Mind

Essence - Sundancer

Misa - Heaven White

Pink Strawberry

Rouge Baiser - Rose Dragé

Essence - Check Me Out

OPI - Fiercely Fiona

Misa - Heaven White

Here's some of my old Nail arts

Pink & Stripes


- Rouge Baiser - Rose Dragé
- Misa - Heaven White
- A black liner
A nail art dedicated to Barney Stinson - Suit Up !

- Misa - White Heaven
- OPI - Suzi Says Feng Shui
- OPI - A Grape Fit!
- OPI - Dim Sum Plum
- OPI - Hot & Spicy
- Essie - Shorty Pants
- A two way black nail art pen and bruch (I used the pen)
- A white liner


Pink Dominos

- China Glaze - Pink Voltage (Neon)
- A silver liner






Striped Skittles

- Essence - Underwater
- Essence - Break Through
- Essence - Ultimate Pink
- Essence - Get The Fever
- Essence - Sundancer
- A white liner