Fancy Friday #94: Foil

I had some nail art foil lying around and decided to use it on top of my Color Club foil polishes...I am not quite sure about these:

It was my first attempt using nail foil - I am a bit meh about it now that I think about it...

Remember to check out the other Fancy Friday girls and see what they have come up with :).

Neglefolie - mit første forsøg. Havde nogle små ark liggende og brugte dem ovenpå to af mine Color Club foil lakker. Ved ikke helt om jeg synes om det...

Husk at checke de andre Fælles Fredag piger og deres foliemanier :)

Fancy Friday #13: Pattern/Stamping

So we have come to the end of the first three months of Fancy Fridays. But do not despair, we have plenty of more coming up for the coming three months :)

For today's FF I've chosen stamping. Being on holiday as we speak I decided to pull out an older mani I did back in April. Actually it is a close cousin to this mani.

I love Dashica's plates, the patterns are intricate, the images are clear and crisp and Shirley's inspiration seem endless - and she makes plates that caters to different nail sizes, a big bonus.

The plate I've used for this is XL SdP 30 - upper middle image:

Since it is a full nail image and my nails are too small for it I thought it would be cool if I chose different areas of the stamp for each nail - and I think it turned out pretty well.

The base colour is China Glaze Purr-Fect Plum and I used Color Club Cloud Nine from the Halo Hues collection.

I had a middle finger nail that almost broke and I managed to repair it, but only to a certain degree which explains the very wonky looking nail :D

I love that holo polish stamps so well, you get this totally awesome look on your nails as soon as the sun turns up!!

See you again next week for the start of the next three months of Fancy Friday ;)

Så gik der lige tre måneder med Fælles Fredag og i denne uge er der dømt mønster eller stamping. Eftersom jeg nyder en fortjent ferietur til vores hytte i Sverige har jeg været lidt doven og hentet en mani frem jeg lavede tilbage i april måned - sjovt nok her i huset i Sverige, men eftersom den ikke har været offentliggjort endnu, kunne jeg jo så lige så godt præsentere den her. 

Jeg elsker den effekt der kommer når jeg stamper med hololakker, det må jeg få gjort lidt oftere :D - og forresten, i næste uge starter vi op på tre måneder mere, med en Flowers in a Pond mani. Nærmere forklaring følger næste fredag!!

Stamping Saturday...on sunday.

And then it became sunday here in Denmark before this got up :D

I've had this polish combination flowing around in my head for quite some time and during my Easter break in Sweden there was finally a sunny day for the first time in like forever for me and luckily I brought both polishes.

This combo is China Glaze Purr-fect Plum with Color Club Cloud Nine and the plate is Dashica XL SdP 32.

I am really enjoying this stamping thing so I'm considering doing it on a more regular basis which means stamping on random days when I feel like it more than making it a set day for it.

Challenge Week 18: Cartoon Mani

I'm a Marvel girl. Have been since my early teens when I got hold of my younger brother's comics. This was by far my favourite...and these were my favourite caracters:

Colours used:
Base colour:
BarryM Lemon Ice Cream with two coats of YSL Jaune Surrealiste

Storm:
Color Club Lumini-scent & Cold Metal

Cyclops:
China Glaze Phat Santa, Color Club Foil Me Once & Hot Like Lava

(New) Phoenix:
China Glaze Riveting, YSL Jaune Surrealiste

Wolverine:
Dior Tuxedo

Movie Logo:
Dior Tuxedo

Next time I might try these:

http://satwcomic.com/the-circle-of-beer

Thoughts on giveaways and what blog sales can lead to...

It is funny how I always enter giveaways with some disheartening thoughts, never more so when I enter those amazing ones that Traci hosts over at TheTraceFacePhiles.

I think I started following her back in September where she had 1800 followers with a couple of giveaways already running. Within a very short time she hosted giveaways for every new 100 followers. I remember entering most of them up to 2200 and thinking with that many followers chances were very slim to say the least to actually win one of them.

I had almost forgotten which ones I had entered, and what prizes I had chosen in those that had several winners.

And then it turns out that I was one of the winners of her 1900 follower giveaway - and I won the Color Club Foiled set, which made me giddy for several hours. I of course contacted Traci immediately - I wasn't going to loose that lovely prize.

It took some time to get that special package, which is due to the overall awesomeness of Traci. She really is an International Polish Fairy. I'll return to that in a moment.

You see, here in Denmark it can at times be difficult to be a polish addict. We don't have all those great cheap drugstore brands and generally nail polish is expensive, even the cheap ones cost around four times as much as the really cheap ones in America. Besides that, a lot of the e-tailers in America don't ship internationally, so we have to do our shopping at ebay when we want brands like Finger Paints, Santee, Klean Color, Barielle, Jordana and I could go on and on.

So this is where blog sales get interesting for someone like me, because then you don't have to pay extortionate prises for your nail polish :D. Furthermore, you get to know some really great women who really understand your addiction.


Well back to Traci...Prior to my win I had bought some polishes in her blog sale so I thought I could very politely ask if she could do me a favour. I am glitter crazy but that also means I go through top coat like there is no tomorrow. But on several blogs I had read about Gelous and I wanted to try it but it wasn't available internationally. So the favour was for her to purchase a couple of bottles for me to send with my giveaway prize - and she graciously accepted my request!!

So she had to buy these on my behalf before she could ship my prize and then we hit christmas and then USPS had a back log that seemed to last forever. But in early January this was in my mail:

I really look forward to trying all these beauties but with all my haulage lately I might not get around to these right away.