Picture Polish Festival

Jag var som sagt lite lat i Costa Rica, så då passade det bra att bara smäcka på ett flaklack. Picture Polish Festival är ett lite kaotiskt lack eftersom det innehåller flakglitter i så många olika färger, men det är riktigt fint och blir inte så ”in-your-face” när det väl är på naglarna som man skulle kunna tro. Jag bar det över ett svart krämlack (A-England Camelot), för att få glittret att synas ordentligt. Jag har två lager av vardera lagret, och de hade båda bra egenskaper. Glittret var lite tjockt, men inte omöjligt att få jämnt. Det höll också väldigt bra – jag hade det i sex dagar, tror jag. Hela resan hem från Costa Rica i alla fall!

Picture Polish Denim

Det här lacket trodde jag inte att jag skulle vara så sugen på när jag fick hem det, men efter att ha haft Ozotic Pro Mish Mash 531 på naglarna (det får ni se senare) i några dagar var jag sugen på något mer dämpat lack. Och jag gillar verkligen det här lacket! Det är en mjuk och dammig blågrå färg som är vilsam för ögonen, men absolut inte tråkig! Det har ett ljust glitter, som inte glittrar så mycket som ger djup och liv åt lacket. Jag tror också att det finns fint lilarosa glitter i det, men det är svårt att se. Det var lite knepigt att lacka med eftersom glittret gjorde det lite klumpigt, men det täckte på två lager och var ändå helt ok att lacka med.

Dekoren blev försök nr 2 med mina nya nail art-penslar, den här gången gick det bättre och jag är hyggligt nöjd. Jag inspirerades av den här tutorialen från Tartofraises på YouTube. Hon gör det ju förstås mycket snyggare, men vad tusan, jag har inte övat så mycket!

Utomhus i halvdassigt novemberrusk:

Picture Polish Denim is a lovely, dusty blue-grey polish with some light glitter that more brings depth and life to it than actually glitters. It is really very nice and I like it a lot! It was a little tricky to apply since the glitter made it a little chunky, but not badly. It was opaque in two coats.

My second try at painting with my new nail art brushes was more successful than the first. I was inspired by this tutorial by Tartofraises on YouTube. Of course, her manicure is much nicer, but I still think that mine was good enough for a second try. I hope I will get better with more practise (and when I get better paints).

piCture pOlish blog fest: piCture pOlish Rouge

This is my contribution to the piCture pOlish blog fest, that will take place all over the world today. The idea is that the girls at piCture pOlish have sent bottles of all their polishes to bloggers around the world and that they will all be reviewed today, creating a nice virtual library of swatches. It is a clever way for them to see to it that there are available swatches of their polishes. Also it was the first time I got a polish to review, which feels a little surreal but nice. (”Gratis är gott”… ) I doubt that it will happen that often in the future, though…

Well, to the polish – I got Rouge, which is very suitably named. It is a nice basic red colour, slightly yellow-toned, but a fairly straightforward vampy red. I actually didn’t have any red of the same nuance before, so it kind of filled a gap in the collection. However, I am not exactly excited about the colour, it is just not very unique. If you do not have a basic red before, it is a nice polish, though.

The formula was really nice. It was easy to apply and took only two coats to be opaque. I had it on for four days and it could have stayed on longer if I didn’t have to take it off to go to the Swedish mountains for some wildlife adventures. A week in a tent is not really compatble with nice, long, polished nails… (In fact, most of my nails broke during the week and are cut really short at he moment.) It did not chip during this time and I barely even had any tipwear after four days, so nothing to complain about there!

I decorated it with a transparent nail art foil with gold crackles that I really like but have not used in a while. Since I was supposed to review the polish, I didn’t want to cover the base colour up with too much decoration. It was a nice foil, easily handled and I think the end result was quite nice.

It was actually a littly tricky to get my camera to show the colour properly. It turned out too yellowish and too light, it is really a little deeper than in my pictures. (Just a little bit though, there is not a huge difference.)

After two days I was a little fed up with it, so I slapped on some China Glaze Matte Magic to mattify it. I really liked it better this way. It made the gold crackle show better and it also made the base colour a little darker.

Outdoors in the sun:

Inside under my desk light: