my swap with Katherine :)

A while ago I got in contact with Katherine from necessary★nails and we made a little agreement about swapping. This week I received her package and boy o boy there were quite a few oeeh's and aaah's going on here. I got spoiled very very much, she's done her upmost best I'm sure cause I love every single polish!!! Just to make you all turn green from envy I thought I'd share it :)

Barielle - Cashmere or loose me & Falling Star
Sally Hansen complete salon manicure - Fedora, Commander in Chic, Pedal to teh Medal & Problem Child
Wet n Wild - Tropicalia
Claire's - Cotton Candy

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Rockstar Pink & Mystic Lilac
Finger Paints - Laugh my Art off & a Heart of Art
SinfulColors - See you Soon, Let Me Go, Glass Pink & Mint Apple

Here's a little quick peek of Mystic Lilac...was a huge lemming of mine. I love this mauvy kind of lilac, it has tiny green shimmers as well which dance upon the light as you use your hands. It's a very soft, cute color. I lub it!!

Last but not least....this is my last post for 2010. For some reason I started this blog as I had so much fun reading other peoples blogs. I never meant to make statements, just share my happy moment and thoughts mostly about beauty products I use. As for I can tell right now I'm way not done with that atm and we'll just see where it all leads to. Thank you all so much for following me, commenting on my posts, giving me advices!!

For tonight; drink some, eat more and party the way it feels good to you :)

Stay true to yourself, enjoy what you do and make 2011 a wonderful year!!!!

c u at my next blog-entry ;)

ArtDeco + Xmas cookies :)

Even if Xmas is gone I still have some photo`s of the cookies I baked and the chocolate hearts I made for desert yumm yumm

On to the polish :) ArtDeco is a brand which is being sold in NL by Douglas shops....but I actually buy most of mine in Germany for some reason. I can never spot a nice color I really wanna own in NL, and in Germany it`s more wooow which ones shall I take out of my basket before I see the huge amount I have to pay at the cashier :S Last time I went there I bought this color, it`s noted to be "Ceramic Nail Colour" no idea what`s so different then others. It just appeals to me cause of the nice shiney foiley color. It reminded me of the MAC Venomous Villains collections. The color has no name, just a number 285, 6ml in the bottle and the price was about 7euros.

I tried to make a close up, as I will adjust my way of taking photo`s a little :) In these pictures I`m wearing a Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails basecoat, 3 this layers of ArtDeco, and topped it with Seche Vite. It`s a rose foil, very seethrough, really needed 3 layers...but I love it!!!!

** Give-Away ** winnerrrrr.....P2 polishes

It took a little longer to come up with the winner of my P2 polishes **Give-Away** then I`d expected, but here it is finally!!

The winner is.....Lalica congratulations!!!

I`ve sent you an email, pls get back to me within 48hrs, or I`ll have to pick someone else :S

Thank you all for participating in the give-away. I`ve had so much fun reading some comments :) No I did not know a giraffes weight at all! hahaha. Some handy tips came along as well; 1 person would love to see some more close ups from my nailpolishes. I certainly gonna try that out!

For now the Catrice **Give-Away** is still running, and after that 2 more will follow. Just make sure to follow through GFC if you wanna join in. :)

Sparkle time!!

With the lovely xmas festive days ahead I needed a little sparkling on my hands!

I started with 2 layers of Skinfood....number 21SY1, which is a rose-gold color. I eceived this bottle with my swap with Fern. I`m very very happy with this color, to me it`s quite unique, the structure is perfect and coverage is awsome!!

Then after a day I thought...hmmm...I`m gonna add some Konading ( well actually i used a BM plate, but still same idea :)  ) As for the moment the only black color I really like to use for stamping, I used the Essence special stamp polish and tried to stamp each nail a wee bit different.

 

Again a day later..I thought what else can I add, not to overdo it, but just add a little more... China Glaze - Fairy Dust was actually the first bottle I picked from the glitzors section in my drawer. I tried to really snap the playfull colors of the tiny tiny glitters. It doesn`t add too much to the whole mani indeed, it`s just a little fun :)

Are you all excited about your xmas presents?? I am!! I really wonder what I will receive, if I`ve been good or bad this year ;)

Snowy Lola + **Give-Away**

Outside looks so fairytale-like :) All is covered with a huge blanket of snow. The idea of walking around in a big coat and fluffy hat and scarf, making a cracking noise just walking over the fresh layer...aahh. But I never want to spoil the big layer in our backgarden. It looks so peaceful and quiet....I wanted to throw my cat in it again, like I do each year. Tiny Lola...well she isn`t that tiny anymore, but still my baby cat, is such a playful thing and up for fun like that. So indeed huge scarf and a warm hat and my Uggs on, camera and Lola we went on our little adventure. After some photos and a little exploring I took her already cause the little spoiled hairball was getting cold, they never get outside really. Only during summer and always in the backgarden so they can`t run away.

Oeehh and I tried out Barry M's crackle polish :) But just don`t take a close look at my awful cuticles...I`ve neglected them a bit :S This cold, gloves on and of, heating etc etc doesn`t really do any good. I`ll give my hands a spoil-treatment tomorrow!

My next **Give-Away**....

The 3 polishes are from Catrice. Names would be; 330 Absolutly Chinchilly!, 350 Hip Queens Wear Blue Jean! and 340 Run Forest Run!

"rules" for this **Give-Away** ;

* to enter the give-away you need to fill in the form, comments made are always apreciated and read.
GFC-name + email are needed ofc and will count as 1 entry, if you blog about my give-away and even place me on you blogroll they can add 1 extra entry each. ( 3 entries total, bigger chance to win )
*  you have to be a follower through GFC, cause I use a rondom-thingy-website for the winner, and I will check every entry, pls note I will not become friends with you on FB just to see you made a blogentry, if the link isn`t showing properly  I`m afraid I won`t count it in.
*  items won cannot be traded for something else in my swap-page.
*  items come from a smoke-free, dog-free, yet cat-full house.
*  items are new, unless described other, if you have problems with that then pls don`t enter give-away.
*  give-away will be open till  8th of January 11.30am(dutch time) and winner will be anounced later that weekend.
*  I will send an email to the winner, if I don`t get a response within 48hours I will pick nr 2 in the list. ( auto message saying you`re on a holiday and will get in contact asap are np at all )
* last but not least, it`s an internationally give-away, feel free to join in :)

This **Give-Away** has ended

Hurray it`s weekend!!!

Wow it`s been such a busy week, I`m exhausted :S But it was nice to see my girls again, and I played WOW so much :) I really enjoyed the cake-decorating workshop!! I got the technique how to cover up a cake with fondant or even otehr products and how to create a very simple picture from a drawing...it had to be Hello Kitty!!

And!!! when I came home, exhausted from work, there was an amazing suprise wating for me. Well actually I knew I had won, but I really enjoyed receiving and opening a package. I won sweet Laura's **Give-Away**. It contained 2 Barry M polishes 1 being the black crackle :), a ring, a necklace, some lovely beauty products and a little glittery bag in which all fitted in perfectly!

And!!! I finally had time to put some polish on my nails..pheeww it was about a week ago I had my last color on, I felt sooo naked through teh entire time :S

This is 2 layers of Sally Hansen's - Violet Sparks 87. I bought it in our locol Kruitvat-shop...I had no idea they would sell some Sally colors as well. they already had some nail thicken polishes and cuticle cream, but they didn`t have these. From what I saw there were about 8 different colors available, since I`m a sucker for pinks and purples I automatically picked out this one, but I`ll return....sooon :)

Quick peek of my fab week :) I`m glad it`s over and the relaxing can start again. Today my last ** Give-Away** has ended, I`ll do my best to announce a winner this weekend, and tomorrow I`ll start a new, 2nd of 4, **Give-Away**

tiny message :)

First of all, welcome new followers!! Enjoy your stay and feel free to join in on the **Give-Aways** :)

This will be a tiny little post ;) Cause I`m having an exceptionally filled week. With work, girly meetings with nice food and movies, a workshop decorating cakes, try relaxing after work ofc!! And...last but not least, and I'm not sure a lot of you have this interest as well, but my game, WOW, had an expantion and especially this week I`m gaming in overtime cause it`s loads of new things to see do and discover :) I don`t even have time to do my nails!! So I'm secretly taking a small week off, preparing for the new **Give-Away** which will begin Sunday 19th and I`m pretty sure I'll have some nice colorful photo`s of a bunch of nails again!

Enjoy the week all!!!

my new OPI haul....and last week for **Give-Away**

My brother came back from his USA trip with his girlfriend and they had picked some OPI colors as a present for my bday :)

Yodel Me On My Cell, Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous, Glitzerland, Take The Stage and Let me Entertain You.

I immediatly tried them out on my toes, so my feet look like a little festival atm :)

I`ve been wearing Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous for a dayin this photo, without a basecoat and just a regular top coat as I wanted to try it out....as you can see massive tipwear, and my middle finger got stuck at a box on work so it`s missing a piece as well :S Really liked the polish, but I defo need to work with proper base- and topcoats :)

And I did a little shopping at Dollupnails cause I had some lemmings I reaallyyy neeed ;)

Suede Lincoln Park After Dark, Suede You Don`t Know Jacques! and Merry Midnight.

Only applyed both suedes on a finger to see what the texture was like, and I`m very glad I bought them ;) Can really recommend them. They`ve added a little tip in the tiny flyer attached to the bottle; do a suede nail with a matching gloss tip O_o...yes!! I`m gonna stamp with a clear polish soon!! I wonder what it`ll look like :)

*** Don`t forget to enter my **Give-Away**, this one is open till 18th of December, after this one 3 more will follow***

Catrice - Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans

One of 3 latest Catrice colors ( other would be; Run Forest Run! and Absolutly Chinchilly! ) and I think this is my favorite for now :) As you can see in the bottle it has a tiny shimmer...but I couldn`t find any on my nail :S Perhaps I need glasses hehe. I do love the color of blue, it`s a bit of a warm blue. I can use it with some Konad on it, or add some glitters ( in the photo below ) or just leave it plain this color. I did apply 2 coats, but if you work it well 1 layer would be sufficient as well, very thick pigmented substance. I like it!!

I added a little layer of China Glaze - Dollhouse to the blue Catrice, to spice it up a bit. I love the pink big glimmer and glamour all over my nails this way. And since they`re rather short it doesn`t look trashy at all :)

Off to some serious cookie-baking now!! I`m going to decorate cookies with a 2,5 year old in 3 hours :) ( she`s not mine btw )

MAC pigment shadows

Yes this is me trying to experiment with pigments...  :) Too bad I couldn`t capture the sexy pinkness of Kitschmas which I tried to spread all over my eye, and I used Deep Blue green as a thick eyeliner. Both pigments were used with Pixie eye color sealer, which I think is a great product!! Not too watery and not too oily, perfect! And yes...I use this amount of mascara each day :S Tons and tons, but I like it haha. To keep my brows a wee bit in shape I used Herome - Brow Gel in a slight light brown color otherwise it will make it all too dark.

So it`s just too bad the right colors weren`t really captured :S I`ll try it with different colors next time ;)

Xmas cosmetics

I did a little cosmetics shopping at All Cosmetics Wholesale for Xmas, I always like to buy some new eyeshadows for festive days :)

Revlon - bedroom eyes/powder liner 675 jaded...oeehh this look very very nice when I applied it on my hand :) I`ll try it on my eye this weekend, and if it`s a succes I`ll place a photo.
Pixi -  eye color sealer, can be used with random loose powder as well to create a liquid eyeliner, I "needed"  this for my next 2 products!! :)
MAC - 2 tiny bottles of loose pigment; Kitschmas and Deep Blue Green. Indeed very very pigmentated products. I love pinks (and purples) and the darker one could just give it an edgy look. Very curious about trying this out!
Laura Mercier - lipstick in color Dark Rose. I checked this website and even Laura Merciers website...but rl look of this color is a bit more red then I had expected. Not 100% sure I like it. I`ll use it with a fresh brush, if it`s not of my likings I can place it on my swap page.
POP - lip smoothie lipgloss 5 Strawberry, very very pigmentated as well. This was a free gift with the purchase, I would have never picked this color by myself :) Can be fun, but I usually go wild with eye colors and having both would make me look like a clown :S

Brandles, yet nais ;)

This is one of the polishes Fern has sent me, to me it`s brandles, yet has a number on the bottom saying "44", no idea if that is useful. It`s a very very dark color which shimmers completly different in diferent lights. here you see it`s moe greenish, this morning it looked more greyish, and at work it looked a bit blue as well. Super pigmented, drieing time was okayish..I did use Seche Vite in the end cause I wanted to go to bed :) I like this color a lot, I think it even looks nice with some stanping on it as well ;)

And...I had a nice piece of candywith teh flavour of Earl Grey mix.Darjeeling..wow that was nais!!! Do any of you know that?

a new look :)

I thought it was time for a new look :) As I do like the "charcoal"  color, my former template was kind of ruined as the images used weren`t ebing uploaded anymore...so many many faulty images :S I tried to save a bit by using the same colors...but it still wasn`t what I was looking for :)

I will adjust this header a wee bit to my likings..but now it`s bedtime ;)

Germany haul + **Give-Away**

I was in Germany again today, with a colleague, and bought some nice stuff :)

When i was in london I saw an add in a magazine about the Neutrogena - Pink Grapefruit fasewash. The add really got my mind trigegred, and i wanted to try it out. We did visit some drugstores but at the time I wasn`t really bothered taking it with me as we had limited space in the suitcase. So i was glad I came acros it today, they even had an exfoiliant type, but I`ll take that next time I visit. they were both about 5euros, taking em both would be a little too much for now :)

I got some cream from Nivea as well, the soft line, I use this mostly for my hands and just some dry spots really. I don`t like this as a facecream. In the background you can see an eye-mask/sleepingmask, I love the angelpicture and the colors made me very happy.

The polishes you see are on the left 3 P2 polishes; 020 Dramatic Green, 030 Sinful Blue and 010 Daring Purple. Really dark intense colors with what it seems foily finish. Next to the Nivea tube a polish by ArtDeco nr 285...it has no name, but it reminded me of the MAC Venomous Villains...only a softer color, yet same shimery effect...love it already!!! Last 2 polishes are P2, I think they`re from springcollection as the sign said they were new collection, and they don`t really look fall/wintery ;) baby green color 044 Dating Time and a baby blue  042 Being In Heaven. The 2 polishes I didn`t mention are 2 crackling polishes by P2, which I will explain under the next photo, as I will be using them for my first **Give-Away** !!!

As you can see I have used both crackling polishes; 010 Black Explosion and 020 Silver Blast...I`ve added P2 matte topcoat, which has been in my posession but has never been used. These 3 bottles will be the price for the **Give-Away**.

"rules" for this **Give-Away** ;

* to enter the give-away you need to fill in the form, comments made are always apreciated and read.
GFC-name + email are needed ofc and will count as 1 entry, if you blog about my give-away and even place me on you blogroll they can add 1 extra entry each. ( 3 entries total, bigger chance to win )
*  you have to be a follower through GFC, cause I use a rondom-thingy-website for the winner, and I will check every entry, pls note I will not become friends with you on FB just to see you made a blogentry, if the link isn`t showing properly  I`m afraid I won`t count it in.
*  items won cannot be traded for something else in my swap-page.
*  items come from a smoke-free, dog-free, yet cat-full house.
*  items are new, unless described other, if you have problems with that then pls don`t enter give-away.
*  give-away will be open till 18th December 11.30am(dutch time) and winner will be anounced later that weekend.
*  I will send an email to the winner, if I don`t get a response within 48hours I will pick nr 2 in the list. ( auto message saying you`re on a holiday and will get in contact asap are np at all )
* last but not least, it`s an internationally give-away, feel free to join in :)

This **Give-Away** has ended

soon....

I`ll be starting some **Give-Aways** soon. Festive days on it`s way, and it always feels good to make someone happy with a prize.On the other hand it`s great to receive goodies right!!

* Gosh holo + Gosh base-coat

* Catrice 3 latest polishes; Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans, Run Forest Run!, Absolutly Chinchilly!

* Essence Metallics; Iron Godess, Copper Rulez!, Steel Me, Nothing Else Metals + magnet.

So check the blog regularly as I will do 3 seperate **Give-Aways**, rules as always; be a follower on my blog, internationally give-away, respond to me within 72hours or I`ll pick someone else...

My swap with Fern!!

I want to show you all my uber swap with Fern from Polished Serenity. I received my package yesterday and I was like wooowww ;) Huge and completly stuffed with amazing and cool stuff :) It took me 2 photos the get all in the picture.  Loads of small and big samples, bracelets, keychain, naildecals, cool purse from TheFaceShop filled with yummy face products and a Hello Kitty bag, candy, polishes from; Skinfood, The FaceShop, Rainbow Face etc.  I`ll be looking forward to swatch the polishes.

Thank you very much sweet Fern, I`m very very happy with everything really!! :)

home-made jewelry :)

I looove to create my own "jewelry". It`s fun to browse shops and even netshops to find the perfect beads, hangers etc etc. I wouldn`t say I have a certain style as I do like a classic look with soft colors, but something more extreme or mixed can be fun as well. Normally I only create items for myself just to wear, but I have made items for colleagues or friends as well. Hmm perhaps one day people are really interested in some and I`ll try to make it a tiny weeny selling business ;)

Wipe It Away part 2

Attempt 2 to use the Koh - Wipe It Away, and it was a very succesful attempt. Wearing the blue mani indeed had 2 toap coats and several layers of polish as well, so it`s was just a too thick layer to get through. This try I had 2 layers of Koh polish on after applyine the Wipe It Away I used a piece of tissue to get it off, which was just 1 try for each nail. The entire polish came off!! This is an excellent product when you`re in a rush or even vacation. Perhaps even on the train!! If leaves no smell like some polish removers can do. The formula is quite thick like a normal polish so no runny liquid. My nails and cuticles didn`t feel dry after using it either...they were just as dry as always :) I had a tiny wound on one of my cuticles and the formula didn`t leave a tingling/biting feeling either.

2 thumbs up for this product!!! Available in the Netherlands with Douglas stores, Koh flagshipstore in Amsterdam and on their webshop. Price is 19,95euros for 10ml.

Koh - Wipe It Away!

I was soooo happy when i got my Koh-kit as a subscription pressie. Really wanted to try it out, but for some reason I sort of forgot the bottle :S until I opend the bottom drawer of my Helmer...tadaaaa there it was.


This was my first try, and i must admit I was a bit disapointed. The leaflet cleared out you needed to apply it just nailpolish, just a layer on top, wait about 10secs. and wipe it off. Now it also cleared out that if you`d used a topcoat it would be more difficult to get off...well results show indeed haha. Ofc I use my Seche Vite, how can I not.

So it was merely first attempt, I wonder what it`ll do if I wear just 2 layers of polish..no fancy topcoat, I`ll show some pics if that happens :)

stamping with Herome plates

Essence - Forever Mine stamped with one of teh "flower" collection/set from herome with Konads white. I used a Claire`s striper in silver to color the inner dot of the flowers...can hardly see it. Topped it with Seche ofc. For some reason Martje and Konad color don`t work very well....I always wait a little before using a topcoat, yet still the colors get a little runny :S A well more excercise!! None the less I like this combo :)

To all the sweet owners of a Helmer :)

As my collection of polishes and jewel-making stuff grew and grew and grew even more...I had to think about a way how to tidy up a bit and get organised. Following some others here in Blog-land I found out Helmer would be the solution to my problems...and indeed they were!! I bought the nice red ones ( yes 2 ) as we already had the red PS closeth from Ikea in the same room, so colors would match nicely. I even added a couple of  that special plactic grip-things to layer each drawer with...but!!! I even got something else special. As the show-model in the Ikea showed one of the drawers had a special plastic deviding tray in it wich fitted in perfectly. They go by the name "Antonius" but you have to check for the right item...as there are many Antonius items available. This is what it looks like;

The costs are 1,50euro a piece ( here in NL the product number is; 50043573 ), they fit 1 Helmer drawer exactly...and I can`t live without anymore, hmm okay that`s a little too much drama, but they really work well for me ( I only have 2 per Helmer ) I stuff these with my nail-dacall/nail art stuff, liners or any other tiny stuff or bottles which can`t stand properly.