Randoms

Nå nu må det da være tid for alle de her forskellige jeg har. Der er lidt at kigge på 🙂 Det er stort set alle forskellige lakke jeg har fået i swaps og et par enkelte jeg selv har købt 🙂 Og her spørg i bare om navnet, der gider jeg ik skrive dem alle på 😛

All these are polishes I have gotten from swaps. I think there is like 5 of these I have bought my self 🙂

Then & Now… a different NOTD

I saw a similar post on another nail blog some time ago, I’m sorry I cant remember which. And that made me look at some old photos from when I started blogging until today. And I must say i have improved my polishing skills.. quite a bit 😉 I can now make a fresh mani that is not all over my cuticles in about 5-10 minutes.. As to before it took me(If it were to be just a bit nice) about half to a full hour(maybe sometimes even more :o).

So lets see one of the first on the blog

This is if I have to say myself.. awful when i look at it now.. To much of my hand on the picture and polish all over the place.
Although I have never been that bad at putting it on I have never been anywhere near what I see on Scrangie, Vampy Varnish and all the other “pro nailers” out there. Have to be honest I couldn’t even figure out how they could make the manis so nice. Buuut somehow as I’m getting better at putting on polish it stays inside the lines.. so to speak 😉 I also used that trick of putting nailoil around the edges but it didn’t really work for me. So I just got a steadier hand which is nice now 😉

This I did yesterday in about 7-8 mins. (not counting the drying time ofc.)
Barry M – Limited Edition Pink (don’t really have a name I think)

So to conclude.. i guess practice makes perfect or at least better…. 😛
I would love to see some of starter pictures of the nailblogs out there.. Would be fun ;D

Other “fun” facts:

This was my nailcollection in march 2009
Not much there ^^

And this is all my polishes today September 2009
I made a little circle with my Barry M’s 😀 And i guess its not so hard to guess which color is my favorite 😉

And this is where i store them

The small polkadot bag can hold exactly 12 Barry M’s so i usually take that with me if im going somewhere for a longer period.
I know its not the worlds largest collection, but its so hard to find the good brands in Denmark, have to order them home from US and it can be so damn expensive. So i get my more expensive brands through Nailmail.se(this is such a great concept btw, subscription to nailpolish, sent in the mail to you.. whats not to love? :D).

I was a nail biter until very recently. 😮 ye I know shocking aint it? 😛 but somehow when I got more in to polish I just stopped.. have no idea how, guess having some pretty nails was more appealing to me then flossy short nails.

I cut my nail when I think they get to long. I don’t like too long nails… not on me at least.. maybe because I have so chubby fingers.. haha ;D

And I think thats enough with the facts 😛

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Matas shopping

Inden mit bilkøb igår var jeg nede og shoppe lidt i Matas med mit gavekort fra fødselsdagen og her er hvad det blev til, lakkene i hvert fald, købte også en masse andet 😉

Volcanic Red 09
Billedet får den til at se lidt flad postkasserød ud, men det er den absolut ikke. Den har også lidt skær af pink/lilla over sig og den er flot på. Kommer nok et billede op af den når jeg lige får taget mig sammen 😉

Depend nr. 156
Denne er nok bedst til at skulle over en en anden lak, da det er små stykker uhm ja ved ikke rigtig hvad det kaldes men små “flakes” der er i og da jeg prøvede det over en lilla lak i går var der et fedt lysspil, så tror den skal bruges til det fremover

Nilens Jord No. 672

2 lag mener jeg. Jeg prøvede det først oven på en lilla lak jeg har og det så også rigtig fedt ud
Lidt synd de ikke bruger navne til deres produkter, synes ikke rigtig 672 beskriver farven :s ihvert fald ser den kedelig grå ud her, men det er den absolut ikke der er en hel masse farver i glitteret. Det er ikke engang en rigtig glitter lak da stykkerne er så små at det er nemt at få den af, hvilket glitterlak ikke er normalt.
Anede ikke at Nilens Jord lavede lakke og vil sige jeg blev positivt overrasket over at stifte bekendtskab med denne. Den er i øvrigt både parfume og parabenfri.

Ikke købt i Matas, fandt bare billedet på kameraet 😛
Barry M – Baby Pink
Et glemt billede jeg lige fandt. Den skal have ret mange lag før at lakkens farve kommer frem. Tror jeg er oppe på en 3 lag her og der kan man stadig ane det øverste af min negl igennem. Jeg synes dog stadig den er flot ;D

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