Fancy Friday #61: Texture

A texture challenge...we had it more than a year ago and it is a testament to the texture trend that it is still here - with nail polish brands still launching them both as entire collections and as one-shots. I have grown to like the Sand polishes a lot and have quite a few in my collection.

For this I have chosen two of my favourite texture brands: P2 and Sinful Colors. Instead of just painting my nails I decided to do some zig-zags with my soon-to-run-out-of Nail Vinyls *note to self: must buy more soon*

I used Elevation Polish Mount McKinley as base - a wonderful lilac creme that glides on like melted butter, self levels and is just plain lacquer awesomeness.

P2 Sand Style - 080 Lovely

As you can see there is quite the difference in the two textures. Where P2 make their sand style polishes crazy bling style, Sinful is doing some wonderful colour combinations with the different shimmers. I love both types :D.

Sinful Colors Crystal Crush - I got a Blush on You

Do remember to check the rest of the Fancy Friday bloggers out - we have some new ladies with us this week ;)

Tekstur, hurra!!! Siden jeg prøvede min første teksturlak sidste år da vi havde det som udfordring, er jeg blevet fan af den her type lak. Der er et eller andet ved det rå, blingede look jeg er helt forelsket i. Her har jeg valgt to meget forskellige teksturlakker for at vise hvor stor spændvidde der især er i glitterteksturerne.

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Fancy Friday #30: Galaxy Nails

Oooooh, I've been looking forward to this I haven't done one since last year when I - somewhat irregularly - did the 52 week nail art challenge.

I know my nail art skills have vastly improved since then but really these are very easy to do and as you can see in this picture it is very hard to fail at this, these are from August 2012:

There are tons of tutorials out there but still I totally forgot to do a step-by-step of this one even though I'd thought about it. Silly me, right?

Once again I've chosen Cult Nails Time Traveller as my base - beware it is HIGHLY pigmented which means it's a one coater but also that it is a TOTAL mess to remove. Strangely enough it didn't stain my nails but boy did I have Smurf fingers while removing it!!

Direct lighting

I picked small pieces off a make up sponge and used a pair of tweezers to apply the polish. I started off with a yellow and did random patterns on each nail - and then I simply had four other polishes that I played around with

A dark purple creme: RBL MisMas

A green shimmer: Ninja Polish Shillelagh

A peacock green-leaning blue: P2 lost in paradise

Glitter: Nfu Oh GS3

 

Indirect light

When I'd sponged the purple, green and peacock, I took a dotting tool and dotted with the smallest I had - these were done where I thought it would look good :)

With flash

Then I made the stars with white nail polish, the small ones with my shortest striper brush and the bigger with a big dot as base and then drew the spikes with that striper again.

Lastly I took the Nfu Oh glitter and applied one coat. This glitter is AWESOME for galaxy manis since it is holographic and has a lot of different sizes of hex glitters in it.

I had no idea there was some lint on my thumb until I saw it here :D

I hope you liked this one - and you will probably see another galaxy mani on saturday when me and a whole bunch of other bloggers are going to celebrate The Day of the Doctor *dances around excitedly*

Make sure you check out the other girls' galaxy manis, they all do gorgeous nail art.

Så er det galaksedag her og det har jeg godt nok glædet mig til - sådan en har jeg ikke lavet siden august sidste år :D. Galaksenegle er ret ligetil og der er et hav af turorials derude. Hvis du er nybegynder når det kommer til nail art er det her nok en af de bedste typer at starte med, fordi der ikke skal så meget til før du får et godt resultat. 

I morgen lørdag vil der også være galakser når jeg sammen med en bunke andre neglebloggere fejrer 50-året for Doctor Who!

Fancy Friday #7: Texture

Back again with this week's Fancy Friday manicure. Today the theme is texture - which I guess could cover all sorts: Caviar, velvet, liquid sand.

Luckily for me I received this P2 Sand Style nail polish a couple of months ago, it was gifted to me by the wonderful Nailant. I never got around trying it so I pulled it out of the Helmer for this challenge.

It is a navy blue polish with gray undertones called Confidential and it has a rainbow of small glitter particles - a real beauty. I've actually been on the fence about this trend but now that I've tried it I must say I'm a believer. I love the fact that it dries quickly and wears like iron.

This is deliberately out of focus to show you the colours that is in the micro glitters - makes it gorgeous to look at. And it really looks much more textured in these pics than in person.

And the sun makes those small particles glisten - deliberately unfocused to highlight the sparkle:

Fælles Fredag i denne uge er tekstur. Jeg har en enkelt Liquid Sand i min samling, fra det tyske mærke P2. Den hedder Confidential og er så smuk, synes jeg. Den har ihvertfald overbevist mig om at teksturlakker er fantastiske, for jeg  har været rigtig meget i tvivl om det var en stil for mig.