Fancy Friday #71: Inspired by Autumn

Here we are more than halfway through September and we are almost having an indian summer here in Denmark. Warm, sunny days where wearing more than a t-shirt and shorts will have you brake out in sweat :D.

Which makes this week's Fancy Friday challenge quite funny as it really is nothing like Autumn yet ;). Except from the leaves. Everywhere they have started to curl and change colour so I took my inspiration from that mix of orange, brown and green in varying stages.

The green base colour is Essie Sew Psyched, I love the colour and the formula is great with this one - it's almost a one coater.

This is Halloween, an awesome glitter topper from Dollish Polish

And the ever lovely Crunchy Leaves from Girly Bits. It is exquisite and I love that orangey-dark brown-copperish colour I get with it when I use it without undies. I must say I rarely use polishes if I have to use 3+ layers to get it opaque - but for this (and a couple of others in my collection) I am willing to do almost anything, that's how gorgeous I think it is!!!!

A little stamping on the thumb to give the mani that extra autumnal feel. I used Messy Mansion plate no. 16 and a copper shimmer stamping polish from Dashica.

Oh, and a macro shot of the stamping pattern.

And remember to check out the rest of the Fancy Friday bloggers to see their Autumn inspiration :).

Ugens Fælles Fredag udfordring er inspireret af efterår, hvilket jo godt kan være lidt svært at få inspiration til, når vejret er opfører sig som om det stadig er sommer :D. Jeg ser dog bladene på træer og buske skifte farve i disse dage, så de farver har jeg taget udgangspunkt i denne gang.

Og husk så lige at få kigget på de øvrige efterårsmanier ;)
 

An InLinkz Link-up

Girly Floam vs. Girls Rule Boys Drool

So here is a new type of post that I will do every once in a while. Comparison Posts :D.

Today I am looking at two polishes where the creators actually released promo pictures of their new girly polishes on the same day: Ninja Polish Girly Floam and Dollish Polish Girls Rule, Boys Drool.

Dollish Polish Girls Rule, Boys Drool(GRBD) was a very limited edition with only 400 bottles made that could be acquired through a raffle style sale. You signed up to get a bottle and then Dolly chose radomly who was going to get one. When you got your notification you then had 48 hours to pay your invoice or the polish would be raffled onwards to someone else. And I signed up for the raffle.

But since my life always seem to be very hectic my short term memory is working as bad as Dory's. So when Ninja Polish released their Girly Floam I went ahead and bought it /facepalm. And a week or so later I got confirmation that I had won the right to acquire GRBD - and since I was curious as to whether the two were real dupes I ended up buying it.

So here they are:

Girly Floam and Girls Rule, Boys Drool are filled with pink and dark lavendar matte glitter.

Pinky: Girly Floam, two coats over nails inc. floral street. With top coat.
Ring: GRBD, two coats over nails inc. floral street. With top coat.
Middle: Girly Floam, two coats. No top coat
Index: GRBD two coats. No top coat.

As you can see Girly Floam is way denser than GRBD. I would think you could get Girly Floam opaque in three layers while GRBD would take at least one layer more. 

 

GRBD was thinner than Girly Floam but both seemed to pool the glitters when I applied them. They both behaved better with undies than without.

As mentioned earlier both polishes are with two layers - you'll get the same look from Girly Floam with one layer as two layers of GRBD give you.

They do dry slightly gritty but that can be remedied with either a glitter tamer or an extra layer of top coat. I just thought it would be nice for once to see how a glitter like this looks with only a regular layer of top coat.

If you'd like to get your hands on Girly Floam it is in stock at the Ninjas at the moment and if you're quick you can get it before US shipping rates rises on Sunday.

Wednesday Polish Picture Spam - on a Thursday

So I've gone and got myself a terrible flu which on a positive note means I'm blogging like crazy :D

For this week's picture spam are two indie Halloween polishes:

Dollish Polish I'm the Boogieman

From the Halloween 2012 collection

Lacquistry Heeere's Johnny

These are gorgeous polishes - unfortunately they are both limited editions, so getting them will be hard. But you can go browse their shops for other amazing polish creations. You'll find Lacquistry on Etsy filled with Holiday polishes and Dollish polish on Bigcartel, the site is in maintenance mode right now but it will be back in the new year. A select choice of Dollish can also be found at Overallbeauty.