Gradient, Because One Polish Is Never Enough

Because one polish is never enough, for this manicure I have used 4 plus a top coat :-)

For this gradient manicure I have used the following polishes:

• Wet 'n Wild Shine - Metallica (Nr. 468) --> as the base color. More about this polish in my last post, here. 
• Farmec - Nr. 364
• Farmec - Nr. 29
• Flormar - Nr. M104

Wet 'n Wild Shine - Metallica

The Farmec polishes:

... and my favorite Ice Watch :-)

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Until next time,

Flormar Nr. 429 with Nail Tape Stripes

The time has come to present one of my favorite shades: Flormar Nr. 429.
I have used this polish in an another post too. You can visit the manicure here.

Products I have used:

• 2 coats of Flormar Nr. 429
• 2 blue nail tape strips for every nail (they give an extravagant look to your nails but without a top coat they won't last long on the nails)

TAG: 7 sins of nail polish

This tag is about 7 questions that you have to answer. If you like it, feel free to join!

Let's begin!

Question 1: GREED: What is your most inexpensive nail polish? What is your most expensive one?

Answer 1: My most inexpensive nail polishes are the ones manufactured by Natty and they cost 2,5 RON. That is approximately 0,5 EUR or  0,7 USD. Even though they are so inexpensive, the polishes dry quickly and are applied easily.

This is my Natty haul:

 From left to right: nr. 445 (pink) and nr. 362 (pink gold glitters)

 From left to right: nr. 372 (bordeaux)  and nr. 381 (dark greyish blue )

From left to right: nr. 363 (camouflage green) and nr. 392 (violet)

Challenge 2: Polka Dots

I have been working on this manicure (including the processing of the pictures) for 2 hours! I don't have much experience with polka dots and therefor it was a challenge to come up with a good combination of colors and dots.

What I have used:

• Base coat - Farmec
• Base color in 2 coats - Golden Rose Nr. 110
• Polka dots - Flormar Nail Art Nr. NA12
• Top coat -  OPI
• Home made dotting tool

I was inspired by a see snail I brought last summer in Greece. 

Challenge 1: Red Nails

It is time to present my first manicure this year! This manicure is the first from the 31 Weeks Challenge; this is basically the good old 31 Days Challenge, done weekly. This way it will be easier to come up with the new manicures.

The plan looks like this:

As base color I used a neon pink polish in 2 coats (Brooklin Nr. F2). On top of the pink polish I applied randomly some nail tape and on top of all a layer of red polish (Bourjois Nr. 11 Rouge in style; also used here). As top coat I used the OPI Top Coat.

This is the first time I use these tapes and I am satisfied with the result. I will definitely use them again.

I am doing this challenge along with:

• Josephine's World.  
• Mikaela Ella
• Andreia_vd
• Cristina
• Bby Doll
• Alina

Brooklin - Nr. F2 (unfortunately this is the best picture I could take. In the reality it has a neon pink color)

Bourjois Paris - Nr. 11 Rouge in style

Nail tapes (10 pieces, brought from ebay.com)

The next challenge is Polka Dots and will be posted on Saturday, the 26th of January 2013.

Manicure fail

As I brought the L'Oreal nail polish (nr. 608 Luxembourg Garden) I imagined myself a nice manicure, but finally I ended up with this:

L'Oreal - nr. 608 Luxembourg Garden (base, 2 coats)

Flormar Graffiti - Nr. G05 Yellow (crackle)

Moyra - Top Coat Fast Dry  (1 coat)

This is the second time I used the Flormar Yellor Crackle polish and I am very disappointed. Not because of the formula (that works great) but because of the color. It is...unwearable from my point of view. What color would you associate a yellow crackle with? 

Saturated Moyra (second favorite)

It has been a long time since I last brought some nail polish. To end this "sad"  period I brought a saturated mauve-pink Moyra (Nr. 56), Radiant Professional Nr. 178 and 3 other polishes which will follow in separate posts.

I have to say, that this Moyra is my second favorite polish shade (the first being Rimmel-Urban princess. You can see it here and here).

Moyra - Nr. 56

Radiant Professional - Nr. 178

The Radial polish, the one that I used as a top coat looks really nice on the nails. The only problem is that it dries veeery slow. It's annoying.

Different kind of clond manicure

I saw a tutorial for cloud manicure on Nailside and it seamed so easy!
So I selected 3 shades of purple for the new design and started the "painting".
As base I used a dark purple polish: Rimmel I Love Lasting Finish.

Rimmel - Nr. 180 Purple Pulse

The first set of clouds is made of a light lilac. As you can see here, my cloud is more like a pyramid. :-)

Golden Rose  - Nr. 182

The second set of clouds should have been of a medium mauve color, but it can hardly be seen on the nail.

 Natty Orkide - Nr. 392

The "big" result:

After I finished my first attempt of a cloud manicure I applied Rimmel's Mattifing Top Coat to"hide" the mistakes.

Mini Colorama + Black Shatter

Step 1. Maybelline New York Mini ColoRama Nr. 96 - Party Blue

 Step 2. Apply O.P.I Black Shatter

Note: I never use top coat with my Black Shatter.