Layla ~ CE72

Layla ~ CE72

Pale green shimmer

Today’s polish is from my latest vacation to Rome. It’s a lovely green with shimmer. The formula is okay – a bit thin on the first coat but it builds up to full opacity in two coats. The drying time is good.

I stamped purple stripes on it and stuck a black cat onto my ring finger nail. The cat is a nail sticker. The stamp is from Lina’s stamping plate “Feeling Shapely! 01” and I stamped with a dark purple stamping polish from El Corazón.

A layer of topcoat finished my manicure. Look at the final result in the sun:

I like it! I even tagged it Halloween because of the colour scheme :D

This is CE72 on its own, two coats and no topcoat. I love finishes like this one, brush strokes and all.

Layla ~ CE72

Here’s all the stuff I used.

Layla is a great brand. You should try it if you ever get the chance.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Shimmer
Overall impression: Nice colour, lovely finish.

Buy again: Yes

Walking down Memory Lane with Zoya ~ Mimi

Walking down Memory Lane with Zoya ~ Mimi

Purple with colour shifting glass flecks/shimmer

I usually don’t do Halloween manicures. I don’t celebrate Halloween and I usually just forget about it until I see all the spiders, skulls, pumpkins and witches on other blogs. But this year I ordered some really cute stickers and they actually arrived before Halloween! :D

So: I decided to stick them onto a crazy pretty purple polish: Mimi from Zoya. I used two coats for my manicure and the drying time was pretty good. I think I would have added an extra layer of polish if I was going to wear it on its own. I added a layer of glitter instead. I used a mystery glitter from Ooh La Lacquer.

Then I stuck on the little stickers and sealed the whole thing up with topcoat.

Here’s my final Halloween manicure:

I dig this.

Here’s Mimi on its own; two coats and no topcoat. There was a time where I had to get my Zoyas through polish swaps. I kinda miss swapping, it was great to receive polishes from all over the world and to interact with other nail polish addicts like that as well.

Zoya ~ Mimi

These are the things I used today.

I tried to look back and can’t actually see that I blogged about Mimi before. That’s a shame, and it’s nice making up for that now.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Shimmery glass flecks
Overall impression: Great colour and finish, I love it!

Buy again: Yes

The Rest of the Year Challenge 3: Halloween

The Rest of the Year Challenge 3: Halloween

Halloween actually hasn’t been a part of Danish culture since the year 1770, when the number of national holidays was reduced by 9 days. Halloween was one of the holidays the government repealed back then.

In 1998, 228 years later, one of our national newspapers made a huge Halloween event in Copenhagen, with monster movie marathons, scary decorations, witches, spiders, ghosts and prizes for best costume. It became a yearly event, and two years later, our biggest chain of toy stores began to sell Halloween stuff, and in 2006 Tivoli began to have a yearly Halloween event with pumpkins and everything that goes hand in hand with a traditional Halloween party. Today you can’t enter a supermarket in October without facing pumpkins, horrible tasteless Halloween figures, candy and costumes. It’s a little bit weird, since it’s obvious that the shops that are only interested in Halloween because of the money that’s in it – Halloween is still not a national holiday here, and a lot of the so called traditional elements, such as ‘trick or treating’ are unknown. It’s purely a money spinning promotional exercise by, and for, the retailers!

But anyway – so much for the history; now you know why I’m not hugely interested in Halloween. But since the challenge requires it, I’m going to show you my attempt at Halloween nails.

First I painted my nails with Pastel #310. I received that in a swap with sweet Aylin, and I’m hugely impressed that she managed to find an orange that I like! I gave it two coats, even though one was actually enough.

Two coats, no top coat:

My pics aren’t colour accurate. The orange is darker and deeper than my pictures show. 

First I drew a little spider on my ring finger nails and my thumbnails. Then I stamped a black web on my pinkies and my middles, and last I stamped some bats on my indexes. I used a no name black stamping polish, and the big plate K with holiday designs. I topped it all with a layer of Poshé top coat:

Poshé decided to pull a little bit on my design. I don’t know why, because it usually doesn’t do that. Fortunately it doesn’t show much, and it’s not visible in real life at all.

The last pic gives a bit of an impression of how deep the shimmer is in that Pastel polish. It’s really beautiful.

Please check out these other Danish girls’ blogs to see what they came up with for Halloween. Who knows, we might get the national holiday back at some point ;)

http://sundaymanicures.blogspot.dk

www.passion4polishdotcom.blogspot.com

http://nailant.blogspot.com

http://amnegle.blogspot.dk/