Stamping Saturday

I think this is going quite well, the fact that I'm able to keep up with this on a VERY regular basis is something that I am quite thrilled about.

Today I have a marvellous new Dior colour called Lilac Colorvision. This is supposed to be a Sephora exclusive and is a re-release of this Japan exclusive. I don't know if Lilac Colorvision will be in the European Sephoras but I am lucky to have some wonderful American polish friends who will shop for me when need be ;)

 

 I have a lovely mint green konad stamping polish that the lovely Karine gave me as part of a birthday gift, that I just knew would look awesome on top of this gorgeous lilac polish. The stamping plate is, again, a Vivid Lacquer plate. These awesome skulls are on the VL plate 001.

Pardon my terribly wrecked cuticles, I totally forgot to moisturise them before I took these pics, that is how excited I was with this mani :D
 

 

 I have tons of fun with this stamping experience, I can highly recommend it :D

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.

Launch note: Fancy Friday

So here I go again with a new project that'll hopefully be as exciting for you as it is for me...

After my ginormous fail on the 52 week nail art challenge last year (I still have manis from it that I haven't blogged about) I have, against all odds, decided to do one again this year. This time it is a collaboration challenge between me and 13 of my fellow Danish nail polish bloggers, and I am so excited about it. We have scheduled the first three months and some of the manis you will see will be these:

Flowers
Water Marble
Animal Print
Inspired by a film/tv series
Texture
Decals
Summer Mani/Pedi

I've made a Fancy Friday page that holds the challenge list and links to each post - for a start just as text links but hopefully there will be pictures as well at some point :D

Untried Sunday: Jessika the Vampire Slayer

So finally my last of the Lacquistry Halloween 2012 polishes I own, and this really is a beauty. I'm not going to say much other than application was ace, dry time fast and it is layered over nails inc. westminster. I loooooove the complexity of this one. It has purple, black and orange hexes in different sizes, orange and black bar glitter, purple squares and loads more!!

Lovely fiery orange glitter - oh how I adore it...

And look at that: purple-teal colour shifting shimmer - an amazing surprise!!!

I am so happy I own this and the others from Lacquistry's Halloween collection, thanks to one of the amazing girls in my awesome birthday group!!!

Stamping Saturday...once again on a sunday

So another week has gone by so it's stamping time. So far I love it and I'm acquiring stamping plates like there is no tomorrow. My latest buy was yesterday when I bought My Online Shop's awesome Disney plate and Dr Who plate (it also got Harry Potter, Mario Bros. and other cool images).

But today features another cool stamping plate brand that is highly recommendable. Besides making polishes, Anni from Vivid Lacquer also makes stamping plates and the images are unusual, awesome and very very thought out. When she released her 007 plate how could I resist, it contained this:





How could I NOT buy it? Especially since I have Rescue Beauty Lounge Orbis Non Sufficit that goes so well with the looking-down-the-barrel-at-007 stamp!!

So I used both in this mani and though there are some VERY obvious faults here just look at how great the stamp in itself is - and I'm actually really pleased with it despite the unevenness of my stamping:

I really enjoy stamping and can highly recommend it :D

Vivid Lacquer plates can be bought in the Etsy shop and there was a restock last night with two new plates. They are awesome and I'm definitely getting these at some point!!

Disclaimer: This plate was bought by me for my own stamping pleasure.

Untried Sunday: Elevation Polish Toubkal

Today is gonna be a busy day. Have to bake cinnamon buns, take the twins to the movies and visit my mother's cousin - and blog as well!! So since I couldn't sleep I might as well spend my time on something useful :D

And I was going to show you Jessika the Vampire Slayer, but I just got an Elevation Polish membership and I felt like celebrating by showing you this here instead.

This post will be very short on words and very filled with pictures.

I love my Elevation polishes and the following is no exception - gorgeousness in a bottle!

Easy application and fast drying time. One of my all time favourite polishes.

 The golden glass fleck shimmer in this one just blew me away!!

 *Dies from glass fleck overload*

 

 

This simply  is beauty bottled. Elevation Polishes can be bought at Lulu's Bigcartel Store and they retail for 8.50 $. Luckily for you it is not sold out if you've fallen in love. Lulu will restock again on May 7, so stay tuned for that.

Stamping Saturday

So next up for Stamping day are Dragons!!! I love dragons and they are awesome creatures. I am a RolePlaying Gamer and one of my characters is a teenage wizard - an 18 year old girl who's mentally connected to a thousands-of-years-old dragon. Even got a custom made tote bag from Haut Totes with two Myka Jelina designs. A fairy that was so close visually to how I saw Aevilja and a marvellous dragon. How could I not get a custom bag made out of those images?

So when I was purchasing some new stamping plates from new-to-me Messy Mansion and saw this plate, I just had to have it.

So which colours to use? One of my nail polish friends was in that awesome RAOK I mentioned here and she sent me a long wanted China Glaze, Flying Dragon. Awesomeness in a bottle!!! Thank you Ana!! So this was a no brainer for base. And what to use to stamp with other than a-england Dragon and St. George. I still need to practice more, but I think these turned out nice.

These are taken in my bathroom under artificial light - so pardon the orangy fingers, and concentrate on the holo magnificense instead ;)

Here comes St. George to slay the dragon:

Look at that beautiful blue and pink shimmer in Flying Dragon!!!! And the dragon stamp is just mindblowingly awesome:

 

This is taken in my light box and shows the base colours of St. George and Dragon - but the holo effect got lost:

Indirect sunlight - and a GINORMOUS chip I hadn't seen until I cropped the picture, but I just love the way Flying Dragon looks here:

 If you don't own Flying Dragon, you need to get it. It is just amazing. And if you stamp you better go buy some from Messy Mansion, her plates are to die for.