My new favorite basic: Essence Rebel at Heart (The Metals)

*English below*

Een paar weken terug was ik een heerlijk weekend met mijn schoonzus in Scheveningen.

Ergens tussen het proosten door (drank vloeide rijkelijk die dag) liepen we door een Kruitvat en kocht ik Esence Rebel at Heart. Hij glimde prachtig en de dronken ekster in mij moest deze lak hebben.

Nou ben ik eigenlijk normaal niet zo gek op de lakken van Essence, ik krijg er meestal niet meer dan 2 dagen (als ik mazzel heb) goede draagtijd van. Als werkende moeder wil ik op werkdagen mijn nagels niet tussendoor hoeven bijwerken of overnieuw moeten lakken, dus kies ik meestal voor een meer high end merk zodat ik zeker weten perfect gelakte nagels heb op werk.

Je snapt dat ik dus verbaasd was toen deze mooie lak na dag 1 nog perfect zat

Na dag 2 zat deze lak ook nog prachtig

Aan het einde van dag 3 had ik lichte slijtage, niet meer dan bij een duur merk en dat voor een bedrag van € 1,89

Ik ben dus erg enthousiast over hoe goed deze lak blijft zitten. Mag ik nog even doorgaan met enthousiast zijn? Want deze lak dekt ook waanzinnig goed! Je kan wegkomen met 1 laag, maar we weten allemaal dat als je het écht perfect wil hebben dat je er dan altijd twee doet, zelfs als het niet echt nodig is. Het geeft meer kleur en diepte. Maak je niet druk over de droogtijd, die is super snel!

Het borsteltje en de dikte van de lak zorgden er ook voor dat ik keurig kon lakken zonder dat er veel lak buiten de lijntjes kwam.

De kleur van de lak is super glimmend en is perfect voor alle gelegenheden en type personen. Chique, stoer, werk, festivals, jong, oud...  Super alleen óf als basis voor nailart met stencils ofzo. Het lijkt wel of ik betaald word om dit te zeggen, maar dat is helaas niet zo :-)
Het is echt een geweldige lak en ik heb al een backup gekocht!

Dus als je € 1,89 kan missen en je vindt dit een mooie lak, dan raad ik 'm heel erg aan.

Fijn weekend allemaal!!!!

*English*

This is a one coat wonder, but I did two because a true nailaholic knows how much more joy an extra layer of polish gives you. It adds more color, depth and weartime.
About the weartime; awesome! 

Usually I'm a snob about budget brands because they just don't last as long on me as most of their more expensive collegues, but this polish lasted 3 days without losing it's magic.

The polish and brush are perfect for an flawless result, if you are careful you almost don't need cleanup round the edges.

The cost of this beauty: 1,89 euro (2,1 Dollar) at my local drugstore, So it's a real steal!

Thank you for watching and have a great weekend!!!

Liefs, Inge (PolishSis)

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Twinkled T Nail Vinyls

While looking at all the amazing nails on Instagram I found the perfect nail vinyls: Twinkled T's Cyclone vinyls. I fell in love and found out they were available for a reasonable price via their Etsy shop. So a few minutes later I had placed my order. I added some stripes and chevrons too, because, you know how that goes, you just can't just buy one product.

They arrived quickly and I couldn't wait to try the cyclones out, so I used them over the nail polish I was wearing.

Products used:
Black: Orly Liquid Vinyl
Glitter: Orly Gold Prism
Gold: OPI My Favorite Ornament
Nail Vinyls in Cyclone and Chevron

This was just a little testrun on the vinyls, but I liked the result so much that I took some pictures to show it to you.

Using the cyclone vinyls took me some practice and patience, especially patience. These vinyls are very sticky. The first two vinyls got stuck on eachother when I tried to pick one off the sheet, The third got stuck on itself, it spiraled back after removing it from the sheet and when I tried to fix it I only made it worse and couldn't use it anymore.
Placing it back on my nail also required an insane amount of patience and a steady hand to get them in the right place and with the right spacing between the spirals, but the results are very much worth it!

Have you ever tried these cyclones? If you have, do you have any tips on placing them that might make it a bit easier? I used tweezers as they suggested, but it still took me some time to get it right.
If you haven't used them before and you want to try them, check out their website HERE  (worldwide shipping only $2)

Thank you so much for watching!

Have a great weekend :-)

Love, Inge (Polishsis)

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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)

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

Instagram: http://instagram.com/smart_nails_stencils

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/smartnails/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSmartnails/videos

Twitter: @smart_nails 

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***

 >>>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

Instagram: http://instagram.com/smart_nails_stencils

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/smartnails/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSmartnails/videos

Twitter: @smart_nails 

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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

Instagram: http://instagram.com/smart_nails_stencils

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/smartnails/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSmartnails/videos

Twitter: @smart_nails 

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OPI - Can't Find My Czechbook with Essence glitter gradient

OPI Can't Find My Czeckbook is the perfect light blue creme, it applies like a dream and it looks so smooth and glossy!!! I really like this polish!

I wore it as a full mani with a glitter gradient with Essence Not Punky Nor Funky, which is my favorite glitter polish by Essence ever, it was a limited edition though, sorry!

Can't Find My Czechbook wears like iron, 5 days without a single chip, another big plus for this polish! As if it wasn't already perfect. 

Thank you so much for visiting my blog!

Have a great day and I hope to see you here again :-)

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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W7 - Meteorite with distressed nails / brush stroke manicure

The distressed nails aka brush stroke manicures have been on the blogs for quite a while, but this is my first attempt.
I chose colors that matched W7 Meteorite: metallic gold, kobalt blue + black and white for the distressed effect.

W7 Meteorite is gold shimmer with kobalt blue holographic glitter. On the pictures you see more visible nail line than in real life. This is 3 thin easy coats.

The distressed nails / brush stroke nails are so much easier to do than I expected! You just watch the tutorial by Chalkboard Nails and that is all you need to get started. I used the same polishes on each distressed nail: creme blue, metallic gold, creme white, creme black. For my middle finger I used the creme blue for the basecolor and for my ringfinger I used the metallic gold as basecolor.

Picture above does not do the W7 meteorite justice. In real life the VNL was not that much visible. I chose to show you this picture because the distressed nails / brush stroke mani showed up very well on this picture.

Thank you so much for watching!

Have a great day! :-)

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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Pretty & Polished - I'm Wonka for Willy! (color changing thermal nail polish)

Shame on me for leaving this polish between the untrieds for sooo long! I bought this polish a year ago and only yesterday I took these pictures to show you this colorful thermal nail polish.

Ofcourse the polish is just as lovely as it was a year ago, but now I'm just being mean by showing it to you, because it is sold out now. Sorry about that.

This is Pretty & Polished - I'm Wonka for Willy! A thermal that changes from purple (cold) to light grey (warm) and it has alot of bright yellow and purple hex glitter in it.

Unfortunalely I couldn't get my hands to warm up, so I made a nice warm cup of tea and held my nails above the hot tea so I could show you how this polish looks in its warm state. 

The polish looks at it's best in the transitional state, there are so many colors between purple and grey, I didn't expect that! There is some, blue, periwinkle and teal, really pretty!!! 

Application was a bit tricky. The polish is a bit thin and the glitter drags to the tips of your nails. You have to do some serious glitter placement for the first two coats. I did 4 thin coats for complete coverage topped with 2 coats topcoat to make it look smooth and glossy. 

The color changes easily and watching it change is pure entertainment! Who needs Netflix if you got thermal nail polish ;-)

I have used other thermals from Pretty and Polished (Tomboyish and May Flowers) and all of them change quickly with the slightest change of temperature.

I hope you enjoyed watching this fun thermal. And don't you just love the name????

This polish is sold out, but Pretty & Polished has many more gorgeous polishes in their shop!

Thank you so much for watching!

Have a great day :-)

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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Golden Oldie Thursday with Jindie Nails beTrixed

So after not participating in the GOT Polish Challenge for over 2 months (due to a broken laptop) I'm finally posting again and just in time for the Indie theme! Yesss!

This is a mani I did with Jindie Nails beTrixed: tiny matte lime and turquoise glitter with a little bit bigger pink and black glitter. It's so pretty!
First time I wore this, my friends commented how it reminded them of Monet's waterlilies.

I'm wearing two coats of beTrixed over a bright blue creme base.

Because the GOT Polish Challenge is all about nailart, I decided to add a dotticure on two nails, using colors that match the lovely beTrixed. But to be honest: this polish is best on it's own.

I hope you enjoyed watching this lovely Indie!

Next weeks theme is 'Ignored for too long' and I have another indie for that, can't wait to wear it for the first time! Come back next week to find out wich indie has been ignored by me!

Check out more this weeks GOT Polish Challenge by clicking on the links below:

   

    An InLinkz Link-up
   

Thank you for watching!

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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OPI - You Are So Outta Lime! + Yes Love Glow In The Dark glitter topcoat

This is the last day of my 2 week vacation. During my vacation I decided to wear really bright nail polishes, just because, you know...vacation!!!!!!
This was the mani during the first week of our vacation. As you can probably see there is some minor tipwear, these pictures are taken after 4 full days of wear (looks still pretty good don't you think? Gotta love OPI!)

OPI You Are So Outta Lime! is an amazing neon green. Not too neon though, it has a hint of creamy pastel in it. But without being chalky or streaky. And the color is just lovely.
The application surprised me: OPI advises you to wear the polish over a white base, but why should you do that if you get perfect coverage in just two coats?

This is the first Yes Love I've ever tried, it is supposed to be glow in the dark, but I didn't see any of that. Not even after holding my nails under a really bright light. Besides that, it has very pretty neon glitters in it so no biggie, I'm not sleeping with my eyes open anyway.

Thank you so much for watching and I wish you a lovely Sunday! 

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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Golden Oldie Thursday - Rescue Beauty Lounge "Look Rich, Be Cheap"

Oh how I love the name of this polish!
In 2009 Rescue Beauty Lounge released a small collection of three glitter polishes, "Look Rich, be Cheap", "Locavore" and "Frugalista". I immediately fell head over heels in love with them and paid a small fortune to get these gems and have them shipped to Holland.
This might seem weird to you now, but in 2009 a multicolored glitter polish with full coverage was a rare thing! And besides that, they were just gorgeous.

So for this weeks Golden Oldie Thursday 'With Bling', I'm showing you Look Rich, be Cheap.

RBL Look Rich Be Cheap is a mix of gold and purple glitter, this is two coats.
Very shiny and perfect for a party or to brighten up a gloomy day :-)

Now when I look at the pictures I made, I feel like a fool to add those huge purple rhinestones to my accentnail, they do not match the polish at all. The polish is much too classy for that.

With al the colorful crazy glitter polishes the indies offer us, we are hard to impress nowadays with just any glitter polish. I don't think if this collection would have been released in 2014, i would have paid the big bucks for it. But it's a nice little collection for my stash :-)

If you want to see the other ladies' take on GOT "with bling", check out the links below!

   

    An InLinkz Link-up
   

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Party-nails with Jindie Nails - 'Eclectric' (glitter gradient over pink)

This week I used Misa 'Party in the Masquerade' for the Golden Oldie Thursday Polish Challenge. On Friday my friends and I went to a party (called '30-Something' in Tivoli Utrecht) and I decided to use this bright color topped with Jindie Nails 'Eclectric' for my colorful party nails!

Jindie Nails Eclectric is a clear-based confetti topper. It is very densely packed with every size, shape and color matte glitter. Round, hexe, square, bars, moons, stars...and many more.
Just look at the bottle in the picture above to see how much fun this polish is!

Jindie Nails is one of my favorite Indie brands, Jen has a creative mind wich results in some very special polishes!

I just dabbed on the glitter near my cuticles and placed some of the glitter with the brush. After that I did a second coat which I pushed a bit down the nail to get the gradient look.
Finished with a small neon yellow stud at the tip of my nails.

This is how my nails looked at the party!!!

Okay, this is a cellphone shot while dancing with my friends, so not the best quality, but look at the bright neon and how the glitter glows in the blue light! It is safe to say that Jindie nails Eclectric is one great partypolish! 

And a picture of the '30- Something' party in Tivoli so you can see where I took my nails out dancing :-)

Thank you very much for watching my party-nails :-)

Enjoy this Easter Sunday!

XXX Inge (PolishSis)

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Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge - Coral

While scrolling through all the beautiful pictures on Instagram I noticed someone mentioning a GOT Polish Challenge (can't remember on whose IG account I've seen this), which means Golden Oldie Thursday Polish Challenge. Hmmmm, interesting, what does it mean????

After a few clicks I found out this is a weekly nailart challenge in wich you are supposed to use your 'golden oldies' (polishes over a year old, preferably worn before). Well HELLO, have you seen my helmer? Drawers full of polishes that fit this 'golden oldie' label! 

Only trouble is... I suck at nailart, big time.

But I found out, it doesn't have to be very complicated, it is all for fun and to get to wear those old polishes again (or dust off the old untrieds).

Sooooooooo here is my first contribution to the Golden Oldie Thursday Polish Challenge

April 10th - Coral

Coral. Hmmm, I used Wikipedia to help me find a coral polish from my stash, because I didn't know exactly which of my polishes are officially called coral. 

My good old Herôme - Marrakech (from 2011) matched what wiki says is the color coral.

My 'elaborate' nailart (winkwink) is done by placing glitter and stars on some nails.

Because Wiki also said that the complementary color of coral is teal, I decided to use teal as the accent color in this mani.

So I really like this challenge, it's only once a week and it does not have difficult themes like: 'paint a Van Gogh' on your nails. They just give you a color or a theme and you can do anything you like with that as long as your polish is over a year old. 

Want to know what is coming in the next weeks? Check out this picture:

The GOT Polish Challenge came from the creative mind of Debbie 'the Crumpet': http://www.the-crumpet.com/2014/01/got-polish-new-challenge-for-2014.html 

I'm going to use this great Challenge to make myself blogging more and get to know some of the amazing bloggers thate are also participating in this GOT Polish Challenge.

These are the other bloggers that are doing this weekly challenge:

An InLinkz Link-up

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Jindie Nails - Quit Staring at my Melons

Look what I found on my PC, old pictures in a folder I didn´t knew there were still unposted pictures in!
What a shame I didn´t post these earlier, because now I´m showing you one of the prettiest glitter polishes I own and it´s no longer available. Sorry....

This is Jindie Nails - Quit Staring at my Melons!

How amazing is this polish? I layered it over China Glaze - Sun of a Peach, best neon I own so far (and I own more than I should).

Quit Staring at my Melons is a mix of all sizes matte and holographic circle glitter in the colors pink, green, black, white and i might have overlokked some, but this is so pretty!
For budget-reasons I bought a mini, but I wish I could have bought a full size so I could wear it all the time and over every color I own.

I'm sorry if this made you want this polish badly, because it's probably sold out now.
Do check out Jindie Nails' website, she has so much amazing polishes, you won't be disappointed:  http://jindienails.com/

Thank you for checking out these old swatches.

I leave you with a gorgeous picture of my hometown:

Picture of Utrecht (city in The Netherlands), by Donker Utrecht

Have a great weekend!

XOXOXO

Inge (PolishSis)

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