PolishAlcoholic - Keep S'myelin (an MS awareness nailpolish)

Warning: I bought this polish last May, it was limited edition and if you like what you see, I'm very sorry; you can't get it anymore. But do check out the PolishAlcoholic's shop, because she has a nice red holo that could be this polish sexy sister. More info below.

In the sun

About Keep S'myelin: This is an orange holo, a portion of the sales goes to the MS National Foundation. 

The name "Keep S'myelin" is brilliantly chosen, let's all give Sabrina PolishAlcoholic an applause for that. This name means 2 things: 

1) Keep myelin = the material in your body that makes sure your nervous system works as it should .
     When you have MS, your body attacks it's own myelin, that results in a loss of myelin and therefore damage to the nervous system. You want to keep that myelin!!!

2) Keep smiling = the only thing you can do when you have MS, because being a sad grumpy person     does not make you better and only makes you a not-fun person to be around. There will be bad days, but there will also be good days. So keep smiling (and have some wine occasionally).

In the sun

Okay let me be honest here: I don't really like orange. If it wasn't for the MS Foundation and to show my support to PolishAlcoholic (who also has MS), I would have never bought this polish, that happens to be orange because that is the MS support color. 

I do like holo (are there people who don't like holo????) so I actually like this polish because it looks lovely in the sun with that holo sparkle in it.

In the shade

This is two coats, it went on a little sheer, but as you can see it covers well with just two coats. 

After two days of wear I had enough of all the oange (as I said: I don't really like orange) and decided to add pink to it. Orange and pink is a great combination. I added a sheer OPI Sorbet called Do You Think I'm Tex-y, which is super glossy and sheer so you can see some of the holo shining through.

In the shade, no sun that day :-(

If you like this polish and you are super sad it is all sold out, please check the PolishAlcoholic for more awesome polishes:

Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PolishAlcoholic?ref=shopsection_shophome_leftnav

Website/blog: http://polishalcoholic.com/ 

Thank you so much for watching.

Have a great weekend!!!!

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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OPI 'Amazon...Amazoff' with added holo goodness.

This is what I wore last weekend. I like to use the 52 week challenge as inspiration for my manicures and this weeks prompt was 'Holo' (of 'Film', but that sounded like way too much work). The challenge helps me to come up with something a little bit more creative and step out of my comfortzone.

I started with painting al my nails with the green OPI 'Amazon...Amazoff'. I really love this polish!. The intention was to stamp with a silver holo over the green, but I failed miserably at the stamping so I removed the green from two fingers and just painted them with silver holo and added a design with 'Amazon...Amazoff' over the silver holo. On the green nails I placed small round holographic glitters to add a little more holo.

Products used:

- Green: OPI 'Amazon...Amazoff' 

   This is almost a onecoater, a dream to apply, it has an almost invisible shimmer that gives a soft          glow to the polish. Only bad thing: she stains like a b*tch, but I love her anyway.

- Silver holo: Nfu Oh 61

- Silver glitter

- Nailstencil by smART Nails

Thank you very much for watching.

I'm off to bed now with my BFF called Netflix.

I'm watching season 3 of The Killing, the name is appropriate: the suspense and drama is killing me!!!!

While I'm watching netflix, you can watch the other girls who did something holo today:

   

    An InLinkz Link-up

   

Love, Inge (Polishsis)

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Magnet design from smART Nails + Giveaway -Part 6

This design from smART Nails is called "magnet", I don't know why it's called like that, but it does look amazing! I wanted to do something fun with this design and then I found this picture by Liana's Nails and I knew these were the colors I wanted to use.

I really love how this turned out, not as nice as the mani I was inspired by, but the colors work really well together!

I'm really tired, so I'm keeping it short today, here is another picture of this mani, this one is taken without sunlight (pictures above are taken in the sunlight):

no sunlight

One day left to enter the giveaway, fill in the rafflecopter below:

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I have a lovely surprise for you: the creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers! 

The 3 winners each get to choose 5 designs that will be sent to them free of any charge.

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

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Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

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Thank you for watching!
Have a great day!

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Orly 'Miss Conduct' with golden chevrons by smART nails + giveaway - Part 5

I call these my Wonder Woman nails! I'm aware the logo of Wonder Woman looks different, she doesn't wear pink and certainly no glitter, but still this reminds me of Wonder Woman. I really like the old cartoon Wonder Woman, with the muscles and all, she's so bad-ass. Not at all as the pictures I've seen with Megan Fox as Wonder Woman, who doesn't look muscular and strong at all.

Products used:
Magenta: Orly 'Miss Conduct'
Gold: Orly 'Luxe'
Chevrons made with SmART Nails nailstencils.

Miss Conduct is a lovely magenta with amazing holographic sparkles. The holo is not the strongest one out there, but even when the holo doesn''t show up, you still get a nice sparkle from it.
This is also almost a one-coater, so lots of reasons to buy this polish if you come across it.

Even without sunlight, this is stull a lovely sparkly magenta polish.

Have I already told you how easy the stencils are? You just stick them on your nail, paint over them, peel the stencil off and *Boom* there are your fabulous nails!

The smART Nail stencil before adding the polish.

If you like the quick and easy chevron design I did, please check out the SmART nails website and/or enter the giveaway below.

***GIVEAWAY***

 >>>EUROPE, USA, CANADA, UK AND AUSTRALIA ONLY!!!<<<

The creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers!

Yesss, it's giveaway time ladies and gentlemen!

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

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Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

Website: http://www.smart-nails.com/shop-online?refc=11

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Thank you so much for watching

Lot's of love, Inge (PolishSis)

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Holographic nails with FUN Lacquer and SmART Nails + GIVEAWAY - part 3

Happy Sunday everybody! Tonight I went to see to see the musical Dreamgirls in StdsschouwburgUtrecht (theatre in city Holland), so I'm keeping it short and sweet for today's manicure with SmART Nails, because it's time to go to bed!

I did a lovely manicure with green, black and silver and a pointy nail stencil:

Product used
Green holo - FUN Lacquer 'Margarita Cocktail'
Black holo: Color Club 'Revvvolution'
Silver holo glitter (pinky) - FUN Lacquer '24K (H)'
Plain silver (index) - L'Oréal
Smart Nails Big Teeth stencil

Don't you just love the FUN Lacquer holo's? Margarita Cocktail is a lime green holo that needs at least 2 coats, but i did three, It looks amazing in sunlight (much beter than under the lamp I had to use because it was so cloudy)

24K (H) is the holo glitter on my pinky, it is very dense and can be worn on it's own in just 2 coats. There  are amazing silver glitter + holographic pigments in it! I wish the lamplight showed the holo better. Since I bought the 24K (H) this summer, FUN Lacquer killed me by releasing more insanely pretty holo glitters, I really hope to be able to buy some more real soon!

This is how the Big Teeth stencil looks in the package.

***GIVEAWAY***

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Now I have a lovely surprise for you: the creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers!

Yesss, it's giveaway time ladies and gentlemen!

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

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Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

Website: http://www.smart-nails.com/shop-online?refc=11

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Colorful diamonds on white and glitter-gradient background. SmART Nails + GIVEAWAY - part 2

The nice people of SmART Nails offered to send me some of their stencils to try them out and give my honest review. I didn't have to think twice about their offer, because I already bought their product once and really loved how easy it was to use.

For this mani I decided to keep the background light and use a variety of neons over the stencil to make the design really pop.

Products used:

White: Misa 'Suited Perfectly'

Silver glitter: FUN Lacquer '24Karat (H)'

Different neons by different brands (I forgot which ones I used, sorry)

I drybrushed the holographic glitter over the semi sheer white background to get the gradient. I finished with a quickdry topcoat, waited a few minutes untill it was very very dry and then I used the stencil, a small brush and an assortment of neons.

This is how the stencils look in the packaging

This is how the stencil looks if you use it on your nail

***GIVEAWAY***

 >>>EUROPE, USA, CANADA, UK AND AUSTRALIA ONLY!!!!<<<

Now I have a lovely surprise for you: the creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers!

Yesss, it's giveaway time ladies and gentlemen!

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

Website: http://www.smart-nails.com/shop-online?refc=11

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smARTnails.Stencils?fref=ts

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Twitter: @smart_nails 

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Jade - Mystic Gold ( Holográfico)

A simple and quick mani I did last week: Jade Mystic gold with a small pink neon stud.
I didn't want to spend alot of time on polishing and doing cleanup, so I chose a polish that kind of matches my skin, dries quickly and added a fun pink stud so it looked like I made an effort (but we know I really didn't) :-)

Color
A darker gold with pretty holographic particles.
I made most of the pictures in direct sunlight so the color might seem brighter than it really is, because of the sunlight and the bright holo.

Application
The polish is very thin, but builds up nicely after the second coat.
If you aren't going to make pictures with macroshot, you probably only need two coats.

I received alot of compliments on this quick and easy mani.
And I only spent 10 minutes on doing my nails! So I might try this mani again and again with different colors :-)

This brand Jade can be bought from Llarowe, I believe it is a permanent collection (but I don't know for sure). The next one on my wishlist is a yellow holographic Jade, wich I hope to buy real soon!

Thank you for watching!

I hope you have a great day! 

Love,

Inge (PolishSis)

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HEMA Holographic Collection

HEMA was altijd al mijn favoriete Nederlandse warenhuis. Sinds ik ruim 8 maanden geleden moeder ben geworden is die liefde alleen maar sterker geworden omdat hun assortiment babykleding en benodigdheden echt geweldig is. Maar begin april dit jaar heeft HEMA mij toch weer weten te verrassen: ze kwamen met 3 nieuwe collecties nagellak, waarvan 1 collectie met 6 glitters, 1 collectie met 6 duochromes en...1 collectie met 6 holografische lakjes! Holo's in je eigen oer-Hollandse HEMA, jeeejjj!!!!

HEMA has always been my favorite Dutch departmentstore. Since I became a mother a little over 8 months ago this love has grown alot because of the great baby clothing and babyproducts they sell. At the beginning of last April HEMA has surprised me with three new nail polish collections: 1 collection with 6 glitters, 1 collection with 6 duochromes and 1 collection with 6 holographic polishes! Holo's at our own Dutch HEMA, jayyy!!!

With topcoat / Met topcoat

Deze 4 holografische lakken heb ik getest. 

Alle foto's zijn gemaakt in de volle zon zodat het holografische effect het beste tot zijn recht komt.

Zonder zon zien deze lakken eruit als metallic shimmer lakken.

These are the four holographic polishes I tested.
All pictures are made in direct sunlight to show the holographic effect at it's best
Without the sunlight they look like metallic shimmer polishes.

With topcoat / Met topcoat

Deze lakken hebben hebben van zichzelf geen hoogglans afwerking, dus wil je ze lekker glossy hebben dan moet je wel een topcoat gebruiken. De topcoat maakt het holografische effect niet minder.

These polishes dry slightly matte, if you want the finish to be glossy you need a topcoat. Topcoat doesn't make the holographic effect less.

Without topcoat / Geen topcoat

Kleur:

HEMA 54 Holographic Pink is een licht roze lakje. Het is een koele tint, maar wel zacht en lief. Niets voor mij dus, ik hou van een wat meer spetterende kleur op mijn nagels. Het holografische effect is subtiel, maar in de zon wel goed te zien.

Color
HEMA 51 Holographic Pink is a light pink polish. It's a cool tone of pink, but very soft and cute. Not my style, I prefer a brighter color on my nails. The holographic effect is subtle, but very pretty in the sunlight.

Without topcoat / Geen topcoat

Applicatie Holographic Pink:

Op deze foto draag ik 3 laagjes over een basecoat. De eerste laag dekt niet zo goed, de tweede laag wordt licht streperig, met de derde laag was het perfect. Droogt SUPER snel!

Application Holographic Pink:
In these pictures I'm wearing three coats of polish over a basecoat. The first coat doesn't cover well, the second coat is slightly steaky, the third coat makes it all perfect. The drytime is awesone, super quick drying!

Without topcoat / Geen topcoat

Kleur:

HEMA 53 Holographic Blue is een licht blauwe lak. Ook weer een hele koele (bijna ijzige) tint dit, ik zou dit zelf dragen in de winter, als het vriest en sneeuwt. Maar dat is mijn smaak, ik denk dat dit een populaire kleur gaat zijn op gebruinde handen en voeten deze zomer. Ook weer een subtiel holografish effect, maar in de zon zeker niet te missen.

Color:
HEMA 53 Holographic Blue is a light blue polish. A very cool toned polish (almost gives me the chills ;-)), I personally would wear this mid winter when it's freezing and snowing. But that is my opinion, I can see this polish being used on lot's of tanned hands and feet this summer. Again a subtle holographic effect, but very noticable in sunlight.

Without topcoat / Geen topcoat

Applicatie Holographic Blue:

Dit zijn drie dunne sneldrogende laagjes over een basecoat. De tweede laag was een beetje streperig, maar de derde laag maakte het mooi egaal en dekkend. Je ziet op deze foto's niet zo goed dat de lak wat matte opdroogt, maar in het echt wil je vast wel een topcoat gebruiken.

Application Holographic Blue:
I used three thin fast drying coats over a basecoat. The second layer showed some streaks, but the third made it all look even. On these pictures you can't see how the polish dries a bit matte, but in real life you might want to use your topcoat.

Without topcoat / Geen topcoat

Kleur:

HEMA 51 Holographic Green is een lichtgroene lak. Ik ben gek op groen! Het enige beter dan groen is donker turquoise, maar groen is altijd goed. Dit is een hele zachte kleur groen, deze kleur is heel lente-achtig. Van mij had de kleur wel iets feller mogen zijn, maar dat het een holografische lak is maakt dat voor mij weer goed. Zoals je ziet op de foto komen de holografische kleurtjes mooi uit in deze kleur.

Color:
HEMA 51 Holographic Green is a light green polish. I love green! The only thing better then green is teal, but green is always good. This is a very soft color green, very spring-y. I would have liked it better if the color was a bit brighter, but it being holographic makes up for that. As you can see in the pictures the subtle rainbow looks very nice against the green.

Without topcoat / Geen topcoat

Applicatie Holographic Green:

Weer 3 lagen lak hier over een basecoat. Ik raad aan om tussen iedere laag twee minuutjes te wachten tot de lak gedroogd is, dan streept de lak bijna niet.

Application Holographic Green:

Again three coats over a basecoat. I advise you to wait two minutes between each coat to let the polish dry, you hardly get streaks that way.

Without topcoat / Geen topcoat

Kleur:

HEMA 55 Holographic Purple is in mijn ogen het pronkstuk van deze Holographic collectie. De klapper. Het kersje op de taart. De kroon op de collectie. Pièce de Resistance. Etc, etc, etc...
Een prachtige heldere paarse kleur. Deze kleur spat van je nagels af! Ik vond deze kleur echt heel mooi staan bij mezelf, dus ik ga 'm heel snel als een volledige manicure dragen.

Color:
HEMA 55 Holographic Purple is my personal favorite of this collection. The cherry on the cake. Pièce the Resistance, etc, etc etc

A beautiful bright purple color. Now this is my kind of color! I really liked how this polish looked on me, so I'll be wearing this as a full mani as soon as possible.

With topcoat / Met topcoat

Applicatie Holographic Purple:

Deze lak is heel erg gepigmenteerd en dekt in één laag, maar ik draag er twee omdat ik dat mooier vind. Geen strepen, droogt super snel. Heeft wel weer een matte finish, maar dat lost een laagje topcoat gelijk op. Als je blut bent en maar 1 lakje kan kopen, koop dan deze!

Applicatie Holographic Purple:
This polish is very pigmented and covers in one coat, but I'm wearing two because I prefer that. No streaks at all, super fast drying. Again that matte finish, so grab your topcoat.
If you are broke and can only buy one of these holographics, buy this one!

Goed gedaan hoor HEMA! Het zijn naar mijn smaak wat brave kleurtjes, maar ik denk dat ze een brede doelgroep aanspreken en dat deze uit de schappen zullen vliegen. Wie wil er nou geen regenboog op haar nagels deze zomer?
De enige min-puntjes:

1) deze collectie is tijdelijk verkrijgbaar (ik denk tot in de herfst), dus stel je aankopen niet te lang uit.
2) totaal inspiratieloze titels van de lakken die ook lastig te googelen zijn als je foto's zoekt. Mijn suggestie: neem een voorbeeld aan Zoya. Geef je lakje een naam, super simpel en hartstikke handig. Daarnaast ook leuk als er een lakje komt met jouw naam. Of de naam van je vriend. Of kind. Suggesties voor de bovenstaande lakjes: Pink Patricia, Blue Bella, Green Ginger, Violet Valery. 

Kijk, dat kostte geen minuut en dat staat toch al gezelliger dan : "54. Holographic Pink"

Well done HEMA! The colors are a bit too light for my taste, but I guess there will be alot of people interested in these light colors. I have no doubt these will fly off the shelves in no time. Who doesn't want a rainbow on her nails this summer?

Two little points of criticism:
1) This is a temporary collection (probably available untill fall)
2) The titles are just boring and they make it difficult to google for swatches. I suggest to take an example of Zoya. Give the polish a name, quick and easy. And isn't it nice if there is a polish with your name on it? Or your boyfriend's. Or your child's. I suggest the following names for the polishes I swatched: Pink Patricia, Blue Bella, Green Ginger, Violet Valery. 

See, takes less than a minute and it looks better then: "54. Holographic Pink"

Hierboven een foto van de gehele Holographic collectie van HEMA.

De eerste van links (donker roze) en de derde van links (goud) heb ik niet.

De lakjes kosten € 3,75 per stuk en zijn nu bij de HEMA te koop!

Above a picture of the entire HEMA Holographic collection.
I don't have the dark pink or the gold polish.
These go for € 3,75 and are available in HEMA stores now!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog!

XOXOXOXOXOX
PolishSis

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China Glaze - Liquid Crystal (over my previous mani with a blurple Misa)

Yesterday I showed you my mani with Misa Throw Me Something Purple. After wearing that mani for four days my love 'Eppie' and I went to a restaurant for the first time since our son was born. For that occasion I decided I wanted a new mani, something glamorous, but I didn't have the time to do a whole new mani. So I decided to layer my current mani with a coat of sparkly duochrome China Glaze Liquid Crystal and I was surprised how amazing it looked!

Gisteren liet ik je mijn mani met Misa Throw Me Something Purple zien. Toen ik dit al 4 dagen droeg gingen mijn lief 'Eppie' en ik voor het eerst uit eten sinds onze zoon geboren is. Dat vond ik natuurlijk een speciale gelegenheid en daarom wilde ik een nieuwe mani, iets heel feestelijks, maar ik had geen tijd om een nieuwe mani te doen. Dus ik koos ervoor om een extra laag aan mijn mani toe te voegen met de glitterende duochrome China Glaze Liquid Crystal en ik was echt verbaasd hoe geweldig het eruit zag!

On the picture above you can see on the pinky and in the bottle how the polish flashes a bright teal!

Color
Liquid Crystal is a glitter polish, a whole bunch of glitter in a clear base that completely covers your nail almost in one coat. The glitters are in various shapes, sizes and colors. It looks like a silvery turquoiseblue glitter with purple duochrome and some colored confetti-glitter sprinkeled through it all. More sparkly and more duochrome than you can see on my pictures.

Kleur
Liquid Crystal is een glitterlak, een heleboel glitters in een transparante basis die vrijwel je hele nagel bedekken in één laag. De glitters hebben allemaal verschillende vormen, maten en groottes. Het ziet eruit als een zilverachtige aquablauwe lak met paarse duochrome en wat gekleurde cofetti-glitters er doorheen. Nog glimmender en meer duochrome dan mijn fotos laten zien.

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On the sides of the nail you see the purple and on the pinky the bright teal.
And check the color of the polish in the bottle.

Application
The polish goes on evenly and you get an even amount of glitter on the entire nail. It's a little bit thick, but not so much that it's annoying.

Applicatie
De lak brengt mooi gelijkmatig aan en de glitters zijn gelijk verspreid over je nagel. De lak is een beetje dik, maar niet zo erg dat het irritant is.

So this is how I wore my mani for a full week without getting bored with it. Just slapped on this awesome glitter polish and enjoyed it for three more days!
Oh and by the way: we had a lovely dinner that night in the restaurant.

Dus zo kwam het het ik een volle week lol had van mijn mani zonder 'm zat te zijn. Ik heb er gewoon deze super mooie glitterlak overheen gedaan en heb er nog 3 dagen van genoten.
Oh en we hadden het trouwens heel leuk in het restaurant die avond.

Thank you so much for watching.

Hope you will have a wonderful week.

XOXOXOXOXOXOX

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Misa - Throw Me Something Purple stamped with A England Ascalon

This is the mani I wore two weeks ago. I wanted a colorful basecolor with subtle stamping and I think it turned out pretty nice

Deze mani droeg ik twee weken geleden. Ik wilde een kleurrijke basislak met wat subtiele stempels en ik denk dat het best leuk geworden is.

daylight

flash

Color
Misa Throw Me Something Purple is a bright blue tinted purple aka Blurple. I really like this color!
A England Ascalon is a grey subtle holographic polish with lilac duocrome effect.

Kleur
Misa Throw Me Something Purple is een felle blauwgetinte paarse lak, dit noemen ze in het Engels ook wel eens voor de grap Blurple. Het is echt een mooie kleur!
A England Ascalon is een grijze subtiel holografische lak met een lila duochrome effect

daylight

flash

Application
Throw Me Something Purple is a creamy onecoater, perfect!
The only trouble I had was that the brush kept falling out of the cap, so I used some Seche Vite to temporarily glue it back.

Applicatie
Throw Me Something Purple is een crèmige lak die in één laag dekt, perfect!
Het enige probleem dat ik had, was dat het kwastje steeds uit de dop viel, dus met wat Seche Vite heb ik het kwastje weer tijdelijk vastgelijmd.

Daylight & flash

Thank you so much for watching

I hope you enjoy your Sunday!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

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NOTD: Saint George is Wild at Heart

My baby is 8 weeks old now and I'm painting my nails again! The first 6 weeks I didn't have time to paint them because I was busy figuring out how all the baby-stuff worked. But after those first 6 weeks I got that 'itch' again so when the baby was taking his afternoon nap I painted my nails. I was staring and smiling at my nails like it was the first time ever I wore nailpolish.
The first week I wore NfuOh 65, a light blue holographic polish and the week after that China Glaze Techno Teal, also a holo. I chose holographic polishes because they dry super fast which is important for me in case baby Tyler wakes up.
When I had an hour for myself last Friday evening I used it to do a new mani. I chose Color Club Wild at Heart, which I absolutely love. I also received my bottle of A England Saint George that week so I had to use that one also in the mani.

Mijn baby is nu 8 weken oud en ik lak mijn nagels weer! De eerste 6 weken had ik geen tijd om mijn nagels te lakken omdat ik nog aan het uitzoeken was hoe alle babydingen werkten. Na de 6 weken kreeg ik die 'kriebel' weer en toen de baby 's middags op bed lag ben ik lekker mijn nagels gaan lakken. Ik heb de hele tijd naar mijn nagels zitten staren en lachen alsof het de eerste ker ooit was dat ik nagellak droeg.
De eerste week droeg ik NfuOh 65, een lichtblauwe holografische lak, de week daarna droeg ik China Glaze Techno Teal, ook een holo. Ik heb nu de voorkeur voor holografische lakjes omdat die sneller drogen en dat is belangrijk voor me omdat ik niet een natte mani wil beschadigen als baby Tyler wakker wordt.
Toen ik afgelopen vrijdagavond een uurtje voor mezelf had ben ik dus weer lekker mijn nagels gaan lakken. Ik heb gekozen voor Color Club Wild at Heart, ik ben gek op deze lak. Ik had ook die week mijn flesje A England Saint George ontvangen, dus die moest ik ook gebruiken in de mani.

Picture taken after two days wear.

Color
Purple: Color Club Wild at Heart is a purple scattered holo and you get a true rainbow in it.
Teal: A England Saint George is a teal scattered holographic polish. The holo is much more subtle and does not show a rainbow of colors, but a green/blue rainbow. Never seen anything like this, the holo goes from  bright goldengreen to the brightest blue, VERY pretty.

Kleur
Paars: Color Club Wild at Heart is een paarse lak met verspreide holo en je ziet er een prachtige regenboog in.
Blauwgroen: A England Saint George is een blauwgroene lak met ook verspreide holo. Deze holo is veel subtieler en je ziet geen complete regenboog erin, maar een regenboog die bestaat uit alle kleuren groen en blauw. Ik heb echt nog nooit zoiets gezien, de regenboog gaat van licht goudgroen naar fel blauw. ONWIJS mooi!

Application
Both polishes are onecoaters.
Wild at Heart is an older polish and my bottle could use some thinner as it has gotten a bit too thick and goopy. When it was new it applied just perfect.
Saint George is brand new bottle and I almost got a bit emotional when applying it: this polish is a dream come true. Not only do I adore this color, it is soooo incredibly creamy and it evens out in a second leaving a perfect smooth and glossy polished nail. Did I say it is a onecoater? Love love love. Need multiple backups.

Applicatie
Beide lakjes dekken in één laag.
Wild at Heart is een wat ouder lakje en mijn flesje mag eigenlijk wel wat verdund worden, want hij is echt een beetje dik en klodderig geworden. Maar toen het een nieuw flesje was, was alles helemaal perfect.
Saint George is een nieuw flesje en ik werd er bijna een beetje emotioneel van toen ik 'm opdeed: deze lak is een droom die waarheid is geworden. Niet alleen is de kleur waanzinnig mooi, het is ook nog eens een perfect bijna creme-achtig lakje dat zalig lakt, en je nagels zien er direct perfect glad en streeploos gelakt uit. In één laagje dus! Liefde op het eerste gezicht. Meerdere backups zijn noodzakelijk!

Shade & sunlight picture

I know my cuticles have looked better, but I'm working on getting them more healthy again

And a week or two ago I accidentally found a bottle of Gosh Holographic! Say whaaat??? Yes I didn't know Gosh temporarily re-released their most coveted polish as a Limited Edition so my jaw dropped when I found it. Ofcourse there was only one bottle left or I would have bought a few more. But I'm now the happy owner of a bottle Gosh Holographic. I hope rumours are true and in 2013 it will become part of the core collection, but I'm not sure it that's true.

Een week of twee geleden vond ik onverwacht een flesje Gosh Holographic! Waaaaatttt???? Ja het is echt waar, ik wist helemaal niet dat Gosh deze opnieuw uitbracht als Limited Edition dus mijn mond klapte open toen ik deze zag staan. Natuurlijk was er nog maar 1 flesje, anders had ik er zeker meer gekocht. Maar ik ben nu dus de gelukkige eigenaar van een flesje Gosh Holographic! Hopelijk zijn de geruchten waar en wordt deze lak in 2013 onderdeel van de vaste collectie, maar ik weet dus niet zeker of dat waar is.

And here is another picture of me and my cute little boy. He is growing so fast! Today we had the check ups at the health center and at 2 months he now weighs 6,7 kilo (approx 14,5 pound) and 63 centimeters long (approx 25 inch) . Which means that he is a big baby boy :-) So happy dat he is healthy and growing well!

En hier is nog een foto van mij en mijn lieve kleine jongen. Hij groeit zo snel! Vandaag hadden we controles bij het consultatiebureau en met twee maanden weegt hij nu 6,7 kilo en hij is 63 centimeter lang. Dat betekent dat hij een klein reusje is :-) Ik ben erg blij dat hij gezond is en goed groeit!

smiling in his sleep

Thank you all for watching!

I hope you have a wonderful day :-)

XOXOXOXOX

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