Polishing the nails!

I am so exited to finally having my next giveaway and the blog’s birthday cant be a better occasion :D

So what I am giving away… I guess most of you are interested in that :P

1 winner will receive all these lovely polishes :D

So fill out the form below and you will be entered :) Remember to read the rules, just ask if you have any questions and please write me if I have forgotten anything :P Pictures in this post are free to be used if you want to blog about the giveaway :)

Giveaway will end the 21st of March at midnight. so this means CET +1 ;) And you have 2 weeks to get your entries in.
Thanks for reading and good luck to all who enters :D

Tuli’s Nails shares her festivities during Purim with us and creates a colorful manicure that’s perfect for the celebration.

Chromatic Misadventures brings us a host of Models Own swatches this week in an array of colors

Phresh Mentality found a little inspiration in Rihanna’s Rude Boy video for the phresh design she’s brought us this week.

Have nail issues or questions you’d like to discuss with a nail specialist? Well get your questions ready because polishSWATCHES is starting a new blog series called “Nail Talk”… with celebrity manicurist Tashina, from Poochiez Nail Studio in Atlanta. Submit your questions by using the contact form at the top of the blog page.

Naive Nails channels the orient to bring us a a very pretty konadicure she’s called the Jaded Tiger.

The Swatchaholic was able to get her hands on the Essence Cute as Hell collection and brings us some wonderful swatches of all the pretty pastel colors.

Travel with Euridice is sharing a Color Club Color that you absolutely have to get your hands on this spring. Or should I say on your hands?! :)

Polish Galore is showing off some hologram goodness. Hint: This color is sure to have you LOL. ;)

Manicure Mommas shed a little light on the new fun and quirky polish brand called Cheeky Monkey.

and Polish Freak is showing off a color that has set the polish world on fire.

Helen’s Nice Things wants you to know they have a brand spanking new site AND a new web address at…. Just Nice Things! So have a visit and change your blogrolls accordingly from http://www.helensheenie.wordpress.com/ to http://www.just-nice-things.co.uk/

And now…..Giveaways!!!

Check out…

The Konadomania Giveaway in honor of her gaining 100 blog followers

and

The Chromatic Misadventures Giveaway in honor of her gaining 300 blog followers

Congratulations Ladies!!!

Wohoo the sun was out today, so I can finally take some pictures :D This polish was part of the China Glaze Romantique Spring 2009 collection and must say even though this is the only one of them I got, this is definitely my favorite! I love the color it has. Only thing there is to say on the negative side is the brush strokes can be somewhat visible but I don’t think it matters that much :) Its gorgeous and I love it :D Btw, do you like it when I have the full sized(as in filling out the entire column) pictures or do you prefer them at bit smaller like these in this post? Let me know in the comments :) Thanks for reading! <3

Hi there! If you live in Scandinavia and you are just as crazy about nail polish as me, you can join a club, where polishes will be sent straight to your door every month! The polishes chosen are mostly brands that is not that easy to come about in Scandinavia and the prices are always reasonable and the customer service is great! So with out much further ado I present this months nailpolish from Nailmail.se which are from Orly. You can choose from the following collections:

I don’t know if you remember but I have tried some of these already. See these links for Sweet collection and Bloom collection. So I think I am getting some of those I need from the collections and going for Blushing Bud from Bloom and Cotton Candy from Sweet and then Iron Butterfly from the Metal Chic collection. You can also order some of Orly’s treatments, like Wont Chip, Bonder or any of the other they have. I can really recommend Sec’n Dry, I made a post here about it :) And remember if you mention my customer no. which is 147 you can get 10% discount on your first month in this fabulous exclusive club for us Scandinavians ;) Be sure to join head over to Nailmail.se and check for further details and prices  :)

This is one of the infamous NfuOh’s, it seems to be quite a lemming in the nail community. And I understand why :P I bought them a while ago but haven’t really had time to try them on other than a quick swatch on each finger. So here is a quick post with the first of them.This is the original color, I haven’t used a base color. So this is how it actually looks :) I have seen a lot of pictures with a black as a base and that looks great to, I mean flakies can make anything look good! :D

For those of you not familiar with this polish I took some pictures of the bottle :) As you can see its shaped like a dress, I think its absolutely gorgoues and the best idea for a polish ever :) Nfuoh’s slogan is: “When NfuOh began All of the worlds nailart trend was changed” And who is to argue with them? :P NfuOh’s own blog can be found here and I bought mine at Fabuloustreet.com

I have been sick, hence the silence here. Most of you would probably have guessed this from reading my last post. I am doing pretty fine now and had time to do a mani Friday before going out with my work. As you can see on the bottom picture this is a holo when the light hits it and a when there’s non on it, its just a gorgeous purple :D Sorry about the messy cuticles, tried to brush it up a bit. And in other news I found some more stuff for my blogs birthday giveaway, so be sure to check back soon :D

I was reading the danish magazine Costume last night and I saw a commercial for a semi-new danish makeup brand, it was actually released last autumn but I haven’t seen it anywhere so guess he is trying to do a comeback with it now. The well known danish hairdresser/stylist/makeupartist Dennis Knudsen have made his own beauty product line and within this also some nailpolishes. The picture is taken from his website that you can see here http://www.dennisknudsen.dk

Not the most exiting colors, but looks like he chose to do some of the colors that are trendy right now and some of the more basic colors. The one that I might invest in when I at some point get of my no-buy or get a gift card could be the one on the picture, Top Glitter. I am guessing it might be some kind of a topcoat. I think this post is more interesting for the danish/scandinavian readers but I kept in English so all would understand it ;)

Click to see it in a bigger version

I don’t know why I haven’t seen this brand before since it should be out in the stores I usually go look for nailpolish and makeup, but maybe now that it has been “relaunched” I will see it at some point. Anyone out there tried them or even seen these in Magasin, Matas, Salling, Estetique or Bahne?

This is weird.. a spelling error… hmm…
When I removed this label a more recognizable China Glaze label was underneath, but it’s odd that this one was on top.. Anyone seen this before?

Anyways on to the swatching :p this is a purple shimmering/glittering color. I tried getting a close up picture to show it, but again with no sun out and with a normal lamp its even harder to capture. So hope this will do it for you. I have about 4½-5 coats on here. Its a really sheer polish but it was easy to apply :)

Reason for my afk’ness these last few days is my internet is not working very well. So its a pain even to browse any websites :( So I don’t know if I will be able to do any more updates before my ISP have fixed the problem. So hope you can understand why there is so little/none updates :) I try to go on my mail and twitter, but still working so slow so have given up on trying to respond to messages or emails.

I don’t know why, but this entire collection gets me thinking of bags from Mulberry, must be the colors ;) Once again the small pictures is Depend’s own PR pics and thanks again to Star PR for sending me these to review :)

First up is No. 185 which I actually put on when I took pictures for my last post, but never got a picture of because of the light. So this is after wearing it since Saturday, 6 days and this is without a topcoat. So the chipping has been very limited and the wear ability is quite good :) I think this might be my first orange color and it took some days before I was use to it. But I actually quite like it. About 1½-2 coats to have full coverage.

No. 186 is a deep chocolate brown. The color really looks like real chocolate, hard to resist not tasting it haha :P
Really good coverage with only one coat.

No. 187 this is one of the colors that makes me think of Mulberry.
It was hard to capture the real color since the sun was setting here :( But its a nice neutral color that covers with 2 coats.

No. 188 one more of the Mulberry colors :) Think this might be a easy alternative for the much hyped
Chanel – Particulière, although this is a bit darker than the Chanel is. I am gonna do a comparison of these in another post :) This had good coverage with only one coat

No. 189 a brown/red color that gets me thinking about the dessert with red dirt on the ground, cowboy movies with native Americans and horses and gunfights. Maybe my mind is floating a bit here but that’s what I think of when I tried this color :P
I have a vivid imagination might one say :P Good coverage with 1½ coat.

No. 191 is maybe not a spring color when I look at it.. I am thinking Christmas more than spring and that’s only because of the shimmer. I think if it has been without that shimmer and just a full creme it would have been more in the springy colors.  Needed a good 2 coats for full coverage.

No. 192 last one of the bunch and I almost ran out of sun here. Thinking that’s why it differs so much from the bottle picture. When I had it on it looked a lot more flesh toned than on the picture. I really like this color, very very neutral color almost Mannequin hand like. But only almost :P

To conclude, great collection with some very nice colors in it. Good alternatives for the trends of this seasons more expensive colors :) Any questions, just leave a comment and I will do my best to answer it :)
Thanks for reading and/or looking ;)

I was gonna do all of these in one post, but do to unforeseen circumstances (the weather = no sun), I had to split it up in 2-3 posts. So starting out with the first 3 in this one :D The little pictures is Depend’s own pr-pics and a big thanks to Star PR for sending me these polishes for review :)

First up is no. 158, great creamy pink, needed a good 2-3 coats for the best coverage, Depends picture differs a very tiny bit, this is a shot in full sun so I guess why the difference is so big.

Then we have no. 184. Great lilac/grayish color. Love the dusty look on it :D Have really good coverage with 1½-2 coats and sorry for not having a sun picture of this :( Ran out of sun late in the afternoon :( If you want me to re-swatch this when theres some sun out, please write a comment, so I know if there’s anyone needing it ;)

No. 190. This is a really hard color to capture. because of its shimmer, it needed around 4 coats for this much coverage, but if you are looking for a sheer polish this is perfect. If I stopped with 1-2 coats it didn’t do much for my yellowish nails underneath, so at least 3½-4 coats for nails like mine :)