Fancy Friday #60: Skittlette

Today's Fancy Friday challenge is Skittlette. The term was coined almost a year and a half ago by the wonderful Marta Warmuz over at ChitChatNails.

For this one I chose some of my most recently acquired polishes. I am part of an international nail polish swap group on facebook where we do swaps four times a year. Our partner is secret so we don't know who will be sending to us until we get our lovelies.

This time around the lovely Spencer got stuff for me, and she really did spoil me. Amongst other polishes she sent two Milani cremes that are so me: Vivid Violet and Power Periwinkle - and a wonderful Zoya glitter polish that I unfortunately don't know the name of since the sticker never arrived with the package.

And this is what I ended up creating:

Vivid Violet turned out shy with its violetness when photographed...

I did a sponge gradient on my index and middle finger with the two cremes - and tried for some swirl nail art on the ring finger with Elevation Polish Vinson which wasn't too advanced :D

And the sun was out so I had to get a pic of it in the lovely bright summer light ;)

The iridescent glitters almost looks like small pieces of Mother of Pearl!!

The gradient is a bit on the sheer side but despite that I think this looks quite good.

Make sure you check out the rest of the Fancy Friday girls manicures - they are extremely amazing!!!

Så blev det tid til Skittlette i Fælles Fredag udfordringen. Jeg tror jeg laver skittletter hver 3. gang jeg lægger neglelak, det er en fantastisk måde at få brugt flere lakker på - og få testet forskellige nail art teknikker. Her har jeg brugt nogle Milani lakker som jeg har fået via en lakbyttegruppe jeg er en del af på Facebook.

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Fancy Friday #3: Water Marble

Things have been hectic here, so this week's FF mani is being posted a day late. The challenge is Water Marble, and I am really no good at it, haha.

I used Milani Orchidia as base and three Revlons: Ecclectic, Dreamer and Trendy.

Hope you enjoy it anyway, here it is for your entertainment and viewing pleasure :D

I had HUGE bubble issues, just look at the ring, middle, and index finger:

 Apologies for the state of my cuticles they don't take well to the acetone these days, not even when I slather them with Cutie Balm before clean up or removal.

 

 

 And bubbles galore on my thumb as well:

So this was my sad attempt, you would do yourself a favour if you also check the rest of the manis from my fellow Fancy Friday Bloggers.

Fancy Friday # 1: Blue Me Away

Welcome to Fancy Friday! If you want to know a little more about the background take a look at yesterday's blog post.

I am very excited about this and hopefully I  will be able to keep up with the challenge this time.

As you might have guessed today's theme is blue which I am so happy about, as I love blue nail polish :D

For this mani I chose a jelly sandwich made from FeverLacquer Easter Dress and Milani Teal. They look stunning together.

I've never been a fan of jellies, but they are Amazing when it comes to this:

I love that jellies are so shiny.

I am so happy with this look, it is definitely not the last time I am wearing this particular combo.

I can highly recommend looking at the other challenge bloggers Blue Manis, they are beautiful.


Velkommen til Fælles Fredag og ugens challenge, Blåt er Godt. Denne uges mani er en jelly sandwich bestående af FeverLacquer Easter Dress og Milani Teal. Jeg elsker blå neglelak så jeg har nydt denne uges challenge i fulde drag. Jeg er godt nok ikke så vild med jelly lakker, men det her er de fantastiske til - og så er de noget så dejligt skinnnende, selv uden top lak.

Challenge Weeks 8 and 9: Corset and Vintage mani - picture heavy

I finally got my transfer cables for my dslr - which means I can finally get these up and running.

I was excited to see I was supposed to do a corset mani - I love corsets and think they can look absolute stunning. So I searched a bit to find some great tutorials and found nihrida's tutorial that makes this a very easy nail art challenge to master:

I did it at little bit different though, since I wanted it to be a bit more colourful. The colours I used were

Milani Totally Cool
a-england Camelot
Essence Stamp Me!! Silver

I made some mistakes but I still liked how it turned out:

I decided to do four lace holes which is not to be recommended when you have rather short nails

The crosses tend to get cramped together and do not look like crosses AT ALL

The one that looks like a Southern Whore has gotten her sh**faced punter to do her up

Though a very dark pic it actually captures the purple shimmery goodness of the Milani polish

These were taken on one of the first sunny days in a long time here in Denmark - and still it was hard to catch the right purple shade, it comes off slightly more blue than in person.

Now on to the Vintage Mani of Week 8 - and I am certain I was not the only one that had to do a google search for this particular nail style :D.

Basically, back in...back in olden days (I love me some Eddie Izzard!!) nail polish was a luxury commodity and if you owned it you were more than likely going to try to get it to last a very long time. In order to do that it was not uncommon to leave the tips and moons bare. And since red was the name of the game your nails would have looked something like this:

Courtesy of Brook Owens

And here is a short tutorial by Super Kawaii Mama:


http://vimeo.com/3950676


And now on to my Vitage Mani. Since I don't have really opaque moons and my nails are peeling like there is no tomorrow, I decided to do a slight variation on the theme and came up with something I have been really happy about.

Recently I got Josie from Glitter, Glam, Sparkle, Shine to pick up a Lucky Dip from nails inc. (you pay a ridiculously low amount of greenies, they pick your polish colours) for me and I decided to take two of them for a spin.

Two colours that I usually won't fall for, but these two are beautiful - montrose place is a blue toned pink that flashes blue clearly in sunshine and flash light, and the awesome gold foil that is westminster abbey

This looks coral but you will soon see this is an in-your-face pink shade

And now to the nails - please marvel at the pink-blue gorgeousness that is montrose place:

And it is even more awesome in person!!!

I actually did this in free hand, Yay me!! If you have read my ealier posts you will know I suck monkeys balls when it comes to anything where I have to apply my free hand skills - but this was actually quite easy to work with, I blame it on the polish which was nothing but perfection regarding application and opacity.

Well this is it from me for now, hopefully I will get back on track with the blogging.