And the winner is...

Juana G, who has been contacted.

Thank you all for participating - I really enjoyed this and hope you did too :)

And may I just say here...Ninja Polish Color Changing Garnet and Zultanite are beyond gorgeous!! Swatches will be coming soon.

Challenge Week 39: Dry Water Marble Mani

This challenge was fairly easy for me since I have been making decals for quite some time - I tend to make them when I realise how hard I will fail on free hand nail art :D

I poured a couple of drops of each of the following polishes on a zip-lock bag: RBL IKB:2012, China Glaze Dorothy Who?, GOSH Blue Ballon and...I really need to start writing notes on my swatches, I can't remember what the fourth polish is.

Then I took a needle and made spiraling patterns in the wet polish, let it dry for a couple of hours, and peeled the piece off. I then took my nail scissors and cut it in pieces that fit my nails - and lo and behold: Dry Water Marble nails ;)

Challenge Week 38: Magnetic/Metallic

So what you guys are gonna see here is TOTAL nail fail. I tell you me and magnetic nail polish don't play well...I definitely blame the magnet!!

Just take a look at this:

The magnet took bites off my pinkie and index finger - and decided NOT to work on my middle.

Pardon the slightly blurred pics here - I could not get my camera to play nice either...

Essence Pixie Dust and Magic Wand

I think the only reason why my thumb got a better pattern than the rest was because I accidentally put a layer of the gold magnetic polish on top of the lavender.

So have you tried magnetic nail polish yet? Did it work for you?

My newest addition...

...is the long awaited light tent:

Dark times are on the way here in Denmark and that makes photographing a bit of a challenge since day light is sparse already. So I discovered a light tent is a must...and boy does it make things easier for me. I usually swatch at night and take pictures the following day. With this set-up I will be able to do swatch parties after the girls have gone to bed - YAY!!

You will be able to see the results later on :)

Nostalgic Lacquer As If!

I finally found a solution to my frustrations...letting my hubby teach me how to use Gimp :D

One of the earliest indie polish brands to emerge was Nostalgic Nail Lacquers. Erin, the mastermind behind it is a woman after my liking, all sorts of cool 80's and 90's movies and tv shows are her inspirations.

Way back in May I got in on a preorder of Nostalgics and here is the first of the seven I ordered.

As If! is part of the Totally Buggin' Collection and is a clear base glitter polish with white, two shades of pink and black hexes in different sizes, white and black bar glitter and if my eyes are not deceiving me...white shreds.

It is a bit thick but that is to be expected to get proper suspension and you do need to work a little to get a nice even layer. I used the dabble method that kitties from More Nail Polish uses (scroll down to the end of the post for the video tutorial) though I used a lighter hand to get the result you see here - and still some of the glitters seemed to stick together. But you know what? I really don't care 'cause I think this looks awesome!

With flash

For this I used YSL no 39 Gris Orage/Stormy Gray as base colour and I think As If! looks gorgeous this way.

I've been experimenting with my watermark and I'm still not quite satisfied...I changed it after I'd edited these pictures.

 You know I'm not a fan of pink polish but this really is amazeballs.

And by the way if you haven't seen Clueless yet, you need to watch it IMMEDIATELY, not only is it a way funny movie but also one cool Jane Austen adaptation. I will be sure to post some more of my Nostalgics, but hopefully my next post will be something Challenge related ;)

Editing failures...

The reason for the silence here on the blog: these pictures took me more than two hours to edit and I only had to crop and watermark them...I am not a happy camper!!

Elevation Polish Ama Dablam over YSL 142 Electric Orange and Leighton Denny Plush Pink

Elevation Polish Ama Dablam over Leighton Denny Plush Pink and YSL 142 Electric Orange

I am having an awful lot of problems with scripts running on google that messes with my computer all the time, so I need to look into other photo editing options than Picasa - and since it is starting to react this way on blogger as well I have even more problems than I used to have. Have to post this now, scripts are running all over the place!

And the winner is...

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Congratulations to Aralyn who has been contacted and has 48 hours to respond.

Oh by the way: Istanbul is so well worth the while, it was absolutely amazing to be there!!!