Golden Oldie Thursday #10: Purple

Yay, one of my favourite colours is part of this GOT polish post. I love purple nail polish and we've had some amazing weather here the past week. So I decided to do some holo nail art.

One of my favourite Boutique Brand polishes is a-england. Adina creates amazing polishes with flawless application and buttery formula. They are one coaters and dries amazingly fast - you see why I love them? Lady of the Lake was part of my very first purchase from a-england back in february 2011 and I haven't worn it since I tried it the first day I got it.

Another Boutique Brand I love is RBL and I have a lot of them. Some of them can be problematic to apply, but the two beauties I chose for this mani applied like butter - they are Purple Haze and Insouciant.

Then I thought I'd spice it all up a bit. I applied Girly Bits Twitterpated on Lady of the Lake. It is not meant to be a french tip  but I realise it looks like a failed attempt at that :D. Then I decided to stamp roses on Purple Haze using Hits no Olimpo Dionisio.

Here is an example of how different polishes react differently with the same top coat. It is THE FIRST time I've had shrinkage with my Dior gel top coat - apparently some RBL's don't like it. I'm wearing RBL Insouciant on my index and RBL Purple Haze on my pinkie and thumb. The shrinkage on Insouciant is out of this world, I have NEVER had this much shrinkage with any top coat within less than 24 hours. Though I must say I was at the bottom of my bottle of gel coat and it was somewhat thicker than normal. But still...I do know that RBL can be fickle with top and base coat, I can't use Dior ridge filler either, they will NEVER dry. Hmm, maybe it is a Dior/RBL conflict...

Like I said the shrinkage is out of this world:

The stamped roses didn't really pop, but I don't mind they looked lovely anyway ;)

Insouciant                  Purple Haze                 Dionisio     Lady of the Lake    Twitterpated

I hope you all enjoyed these purple beauties, I really loved getting them back on my fingers :)

Fancy Friday #26: Saran Wrap

It's quite amazing how weather changes here at the moment, one day it is warm and humid, then it rains like there's no tomorrow and then suddenly the temperature drops with 5 degrees Celsius!!

So Autumn is really like it normally is here, though it does feel strange it hasn't been snowing yet...but come early November that'll probably happen. I somehow feel that these colours here suits the weather quite nicely.

So the challenge this week is Saran Wrap mani and I got inspired by this awesome tutorial that Jacki from Adventures in Acetone did a couple of weeks ago - minus the butterfly wings ;) :

So I painted a base of RBL 360 and then dotted Teal, Purple Haze and Poco á Poco randomly on top of it:

Then I had five small balls of scrunched cling film I dapped on top of the polish blobs - and ended up with this marbled look:

RBL 360

RBL Poco á Poco

RBL Purple Haze

RBL Teal

And here again the finished result, a bit sharper this time. I really like the marbled look the nails get when you use several different colours and this is definitely not my last Saran Wrap mani

Endnu en uge er gået, det er fredag og så er det tid til at være fælles :D - ugens udfordring er Saran Wrap mani, som er en teknik hvor man lægger en basefarve som man lader tørre helt, hvorefter man putter en eller flere farver på og dupper med en sammenkrammet kugle af husholdningsfilm, hvorefter man får denne marmoreffekt som i kan se her.

Jeg har ladet mig inspirere af en tutorial som Jacki fra Adventures in Acetone lavede for et par uger siden. Den er super smuk og jeg elsker den marmoreffekt hun har fået - og jeg er selv udmærket tilfreds med min version af den. Havde også lyst til at få brugt nogle af mine RBL'er som er ret oversete for tiden...