Zoya - Gemma

Zoya is one of the best brands I know. They usually have very pretty wearable polishes that have a little something extra and the wear is amazing. The brand is not available in stores here Holland, but there are some webshops here that sell this brand. Fortunately I have friends that travel alot and that's how I got this beauty.

Zoya is één van de beste merken die ik ken. Ze hebben meestal mooie draagbare kleurtjes die iets bijzonders hebben en ze blijven erg lang zitten. Dit merk is in Nederland niet in de winkels te koo, maar er zijn wel wat webshops waar je het merk kan kopen. Gelukkig voor mij heb ik vrienden die graag reizen en zo ben ik in het bezit gekomen van deze schoonheid.

Color
A light army green with a blue shimmer. Or is it a lilac shimmer? I can't decide.
Very subtle but gorgeous polish.

Kleur
een lichte legergroen met blauwe shimmer. Of is het een lila shimmer? Ik ben er nog niet uit.
Erg mooi subtiel lakje.

Application
Great ofcourse, it's Zoya. Good in two coats, I did three because I can.

Applicatie
Ja geweldig natuurlijk, het is Zoya. Ziet er mooi uit met twee laagjes, ik draag hier 3 laagjes, gewoon omdat het kan.

Stamped a nice design from a SdP plate on it. Forgot wich one, but they are all awesome.
I used China Glaze Metallic Muse as stamping polish

Ik heb gestempeld met een SdP plate. Ik weet niet meer welke, maar ze zijn allemaal goed.
De stempellak is Chona Glaze Metallic Muse.

Thank you so much for watching!

I wish you all an amazing day

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Nail Polish Bloggers Challenge, Day 4: Pink Petals

This is day 4 of the challenge. Posting every day is not easy for me, I just don't have the time for it, so I prepared all the posts weeks before the challenge and posted less regular posts. Usually I'm not that well organised, so this is a double-challenge for me!

Dit is dag 4 van de challenge. Iedere dag een bericht posten is niet makkelijk voor me, ik heb er gewoon geen tijd voor, dus ik ben al weken geleden begonnen met het voorbereiden voor deze challenge en heb wat minder gewone posts geplaatst. Normaal gesproken ben ik nietzo goed voorbereid, dus dit is een dubbele uitdaging voor me!

I wanted to try some stamping layering for this mani without it being over the top. For that I used colors that match well together and used a matte topcoat in between to minimise the shine of the metallic pink that I used for the flowers. I also didn't use any topcoat because of that.

Ik wilde wat verschillende stempels over elkaar gebruiken voor deze mani zonder dat het over de top zou zijn. Daarom heb ik voor kleuren gekozen die goed bij elkaar passen en heb tussendoor een matte topcoat gebruikt om de glas van de metallic roze van de bloemen wat minder te maken. Ik heb dus ook geen topcoat gebruikt.

The imageplates I used for this mani are all SdP-plates from Dashica Beautyshop. I'm really impressed with these, the images are a bit longer and wider than the Konad plates, so the full nail images actually fit on your whole nail. Besides that, the quality of this plates is good and they give nice clear stamps. The owner of Dashica Beautyshop is a Dutch beauty blogger and she designs the imageplates herself. So I'll add a little blog-love here: Dashica Beautyshop / Dashicabeautyblog

De imageplates die ik voor deze mani heb gebruikt zijn allebei SdP-plates van Dashica Beautyshop. Ik ben erg onder de infruk van deze plates, de afbeeldingen zijn wat langer en breder dan die van Konad dus de afbeeldingen die je hele nagel zouden moeten bedekken doen dat bij de Sdp-plates dus ook echt. Naast dat komen de afbeeldingen ook mooi scherp over op je nagel. De eigenaresse van Dashica Beautyshop is een Nederlandse beautyblogger and ze ontwerpt haar eigen imageplates. Dus daarom wat blog-love voor haar: Dashica Beautyshop / DashicaBeautyblog

Looking at these pictures I'm thinking I could have added a matte topcoat to finish this mani. On these pictures you can see it's not a perfectly smooth mani. I didn't want to do that when I did the mani because I was afraid it would dull the purple and teal color. But I'm nitpicking now, in the end this mani turned out to be better then I hoped it would.

Nu ik naar deze foto's kijk zie ik dat ik eigenlijk best nog een extra laagje matte topcoat had kunnen gebruiken om de mani helemaal mee af te maken. Op de foto's kan je zien dat het eindresultaat niet volledig glad is. Ik wilde het niet doen toen ik de mani opdeed omdat ik bang was dat het de kleur van het paars en blauw zou vervagen. Maar dit is wel een beetje mierenneuken, uiteindelijk is het namelijk wel beter geworden dan ik had gehoopt.

I've said it before this week, but I must try this mani again later with a basecolor that I like better. Light pink is not something I would wear volontarily ;-)

Ik heb het deze week al eens eerder gezegd, maar ik moet deze mani echt nog een keer proberen met ander kleurtje als basis dat ik wat leuker vind. Licht roze is niet iets dat ik vrijwillig zou dragen ;-)

Products used. L-R:  round plate SdP 14 | China Glaze 'Emotion' | China Glaze 'Techno Teal' | Hema 84 | Color Club 'Wild at Heart' | Hema Matte Topcoat |  XL SdP plate 4

Thank you for watching :-)))

Don't forget to check out the other girls participating in this challenge!!!:

http://www.emeraldsparkled.com/

http://goodlacknail.wordpress.com/

http://www.polishartaddiction.blogspot.com/

http://rebeccalikesnails.blogspot.com/

http://ulmiel.blogspot.com/

http://www.parokeets.com/

http://www.beauteousblog.blogspot.com/

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My arabic inspired mani with Cult Nails Get It On basecoat & Wicked Fast topcoat / Herôme - Marrakech / SdP XL plate 4

Most friends, family and co-workers are used to me wearing colorful mani's, so I don't get comments on them very often. This mani somehow did got alot of positive attention, everybody liked the color and the stamping. I did too even though I'm not into orange, but the color is just very flattering.
I tried alot of new nailstuff for this mani and I'm going to review them all for you today, there will be alot of text, so no Dutch translations this time. I guess most of you don't need them anyway :-)

Cult Nails - Get It On perfecting basecoat
Ofcourse my mani started with a basecoat. I used Get It On from Cult Nails that Maria, the owner of Cult Nails, so graceously sent to me for review. Maria was a blogger an nail-a-holic before she started her own line of nailpolish, that makes me trust her nailpolishes more because she's 'one of us' and knows what 'we' need: a great looking mani in zero time that lasts a long time. So I had high hopes for these basics!
I always use the same basecoat so it felt weird to use a different one, but it applied nicely. I don't know how to review a basecoat because it's like underwear: you are not supposed to see of feel it, but if it's good it makes everything you put over it look even better. This is a good piece of nail-lingerie

This is not the final bottle design, the 'real' ones look better ;-)

Cult Nail - Wicked Fast  speed dry topcoat
I was very excited to try Wicked Fast, the Cult nails topcoat. Month's back Maria mentioned her new topcoat on her blog R3 Daily and spoke about how even she was surprised how fast it dried her mani. That already made me want to try it and see if it's as good as my go-to topcoat. And I can tell you: Wicked Fast really dries..ehhh..wicked fast!!!! Within 2 minutes my mani ( 3 thick coats of polish ) was dry to the touch, but not completely hardened. After that I didn't keep track of the time, but within half an hour I was washing & drying my hands and getting myself a drink without getting any dents. This topcoat is not thick and very easy to apply. It also doesn't smell as strong as my other topcoats. I think I've used it about 4 times now in the past 2 weeks and I can highly recommend it to everyone.
Read more about Cult Nails base and topcoat HERE on R3 Daily ( nice read, do check it out )

Herôme - Marrakech
It's a warm orange/coral color with a subtle reddish shimmer. Herôme always gets their inspiration for colors from cities all over the world. This polish was part of the summer collection inspired by Marocco. The polish is a bit thick, next time I'll add a few drops of thinner. It looks good with 2 coats, I did three because there was a little nailline showing through, not much, but I wanted it perfect for the pictures. Got alot of compliments on this color!

An extreme close up picture above to show the shimmer in the polish ánd to show how glossy and smooth Cult Nails Wicked Fast topcoat is.

Dashica XL SdP image plate
When I wore this mani ( a week ago ) I just received the SdP stampingplates I ordered from Dashica Beauty Shop so ofcourse I wanted to use them right away.
I'm not good at stamping, I often have to remove the stamped image carefully without damaging the basecolor and try it again. This time I didn't, I don't say I did a perfect job, but the plate works great!
What I like most about these plates ( besides they have very nice images on them ) is that the full nail designs actually fit my nail. I don't have long nails and I have a wide nailbed, the Konad designs often don't cover the entire length and width, only if I just cropped my nails and am very precise where I place the stamp. The SdP full nail images are a little bit longer and wider and make application easy for me.

I used the top left image from plate XL SdP 4
Picture used from Dashica Beauty Shop

If you are not familiar with Dashica Beauty Shop and you do like stamping, please check it out, Shirley (the owner) creates her own plates and the images are very different and pretty. Shirley was already a nailpolishblogger before she started her own line of nailart so she knows what we need and want. She spends alot of effort in providing high quality products for a very reasonable price.

And just to make this post complete I show you my right hand. That's something you don't see here often. This picture was taken in a different light and you can see how much less orange and more coral the polish looks here.

So this was a long post with alot of different products in them to review.

If you made it all the way through I wish you an amazing weekend!

Thank you so much for watching and don't forget to check out

Cult Nails and Dashica Beauty Shop!

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