November hauls and snowflakes

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November 2012 hauls

Today I'm going to show you what I bought in November. I know it's a little late, and some of the polishes are probably not available any more. But I'll just show you anyway. This might seem like a lot, but this year I tried to make a deal with Santa, so that I could buy my own nail polish presents, and get money for Christmas. Also these are mostly low price polishes in small bottles. So I feel that I got a lot for the money, and I had fun testing them all on nail wheels. I'll start with what you haven't already seen in the first photo! :-)

Messy Mansion:

Messy Mansion stamping plates MM01, A39, my one stroke mani

Christmas stamping plates: MM01 and A39. I love the images, but sadly some of them are for those with larger nailbeds than mine. I chose these plates because of the dromedaries, snowflakes, trees and the lghts, and wish I could use the large images to. Messy Mansion is an Australian brand. The diameter of the plates is 7 cm (and that is bigger than many other well known brands). One more picture to show you the images on A39:

Messy Mansion stamping plate A39

Flakie, Base- & Top Coat:

IsaDora #600 Clear, Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat, Pierre Reneè #11 Transparent French

Pierre Reneè: 

Pierre Reneè #11 Transparent French

Pierre Reneè: #11 Transparent French (orange- green flakies)
I used this flakie in the one stroke mani. I was very curious of this flakie. Then I found out that I didn't need it, and gave it away. (I already own Nubar 2010... and Nfu- Oh #49... I also couldn't find Pierre Reneè on the animal organizations' cruelty- free lists...)

Seche Vite:

Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat

Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat
This is now my favourite top coat. I have been very pleased with it, except for the day I made my one stroke mani, and it made the hobby lacquer I had used crackle. This top coat really is fast drying, and it makes a thick seal.

Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat

IsaDora:

IsaDora #600 Clear base- & top coat

IsaDora #600 Clear extra long lasting quick dry base- & top coat
This is my favourite base coat, although it actually is a top coat too. I love the wide/ double brush, it's easy to apply, and it dries fast. I only wish the bottle was bigger than 6 ml or that the price was lower. Luckily these were on sale before Christmas.

IsaDora #600 Clear base- & top coat

IsaDora #600 Clear base- & top coat

Cala:

Cala nail decoration: Hologram Jewel, my Bling nails

Cala nail decoration: Hologram Jewel. These were easy to apply, because they are like stickers, but they need a top coat to stay on your nails. I bought them for my Bling nails mani.

Hennes & Mauritz (H&M):

Zipper plastic bag with nail clipper, cuticle pusher?, file, and Frangipani fantasia hand cream, which smells good. (I carry this little bag with me everywhere. Together with a little box of nail polish remover pads, it's my emergency nail stuff.)

H&M: Nail polish kit:

H&M Nail polish kit

Metall Me, Purple Potion, Golden Days, Nude Dude, Peacock Green, Purple Sparkle

H&M Nail polish kit

Thank you H&M for naming your mini bottles! These are 5 ml. I fell for the two glitter polishes with holographic glitter on each end of this kit, and also liked the purple.

H&M Nail polish kit: Metall Me, Purple Potion

Red glitter 2- pck:

H&M 2- pck: Super Red, Super Glitter

Super Red (red cream), Super Glitter (clear, with small red glitter that needs a good top coat). These are 6ml bottles, and I guess they are meant to be used together.

Star shaped mini bottles:

H&M: Orange Reddish, Grey Dark, Purple Reddish

Orange Reddish, Grey Dark, Purple Reddish 
These are 4 ml, so they are actually much bigger than they look in real life!

H&M: Je t'aime, Antique Gold, Oh La La, Mon Amie  

Je t'aime, Antique Gold, Oh La La, Mon Amie. These 8 ml bottles are all with gold shimmer.

Did you notice the SNOWFLAKE in the picture above? The snow was full of big visible snowflakes when these photos were taken!!! :-D  It's easier to see it when I zoom in:

H&M nail polish bottles in the snow

Snowflake! :-) and H&M: Antique Gold

Look at the big snowflake above to the right!!!

H&M: Purple sprinkles, H&M: Fabulous Nails Honey

Fabulous Nails Honey (brown) 9 ml bottle

H&M: Purple sprinkles

Purple sprinkles: clear base with lots of small hexagonal purple glitter, holographic string/ bar glitter, and very few big hexagonal blue glitter. Although it looks small, this is a 12 ml bottle :-)

It has a similar length to the Orly (Be Brave) bar glitter, but the H&M bar glitter looks thicker. Each H&M bar is more visible, but the Orly bar glitter is more dense. Over black the bars look mainly silver, and over white they look holographic and can shift to any color of the rainbow when you move the nail wheel. But I think I see green more often than other colors. I tried to capture it in these 4 photos.

H&M: Purple sprinkles

H&M: Purple sprinkles

Gosh:

 GOSH: Nero

Gosh: Nero  I really needed a black creme.

GOSH: Nero

China Glaze: 

Ghina Glaze: Magnetics II magnet

Magnetix II: magnet with 3 designs. I have already used it twice: here and here.

Catrice & Color Club:

Color Club: Cloud Nine, Catrice: Heavy Metallilac

Catrice: #800 Heavy Metallilac is a medium purple metallic with pink shimmer. The bottle is 10 ml.


Color Club #900 Cloud Nine is a light pink strong linear holographic. I have used it on it's own, and for stamping in my new year's eve fireworks mani. I'm very glad that this bottle is 15 ml :-)

Orly:

Orly: Be Brave

Orly: Be Brave: Pink holographic bar/ string glitter in a clear jelly base. This bottle is 18 ml :-) It's my third from the Flash Glam FX Collection.

Gina Tricot: 

I bought two sets with 5 ml minibottles i November, and of course these were on sale in December :-(

This first set is called Nail Polish Pack 2:

Gina Tricot Beauty Nails: Pack 2: Holographic pink, Holographic multi, Holographic blue, Holographic green

Holographic pink, Holographic multi, Holographic blue, Holographic green

I wish this photo was much better. Holographic multi has pink shimmer, and Holographic blue is a little darker, and has green and pink shimmer, and Holographic green looks more green. These look interesting in the bottle IRL, but I found out that the green is slightly linear holographic. The others are not holographic. So, because of the names, I got disappointed.

Nail Polish Pack 3:

Gina Tricot Nail Polish Pack 3: Lilac, Shimmer, 3D, Iris

Lilac, Shimmer, 3D, Iris

A few more photos to show the shimmer in these:

Gina Tricot: 3D, Iris

Gina Tricot: Shimmer, 3D, Iris

I love purple, so of course I bought these. When I applied the first coat of Iris, I could see the blue shimmer. But it disappeared :-( I could see it again when I applied top coat, but the shimmer disappeared again when it dried. But luckily the pink and blue shimmer in Shimmer was visible on the nail.


I don't think I needed all of these, but I love to try new polishes, and I really love some of them, and when I look at some of them I can't understand how I used to survive without them.


Did you buy these nail polishes too? What do you think of them? Do you want to see what I bought in December now, or should I wait a few days?


Lani

H&M Pink bling bling over H&M Pink Macaroon

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H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

This is 1 coat of H&M Pink bling bling layered over 3 coats of  H&M Pink Macaroon. Plus top coat. I haven't felt more girly in a long time.

H&M: Pink Macaroon, H&M: Pink bling bling 

These were both bought in December 2012. I'm not showing you Pink Macaroon on it's own, because I had problems with application. For some reason I still had some small nearly bold spots even after 3 coats, but when I layered H&M Pink bling bling over it, as I had planned, it didn't show at all, and the glitter fixed everything.

H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

Pink Macaroon 

Pink Macaroon is a pastel pink creme nail polish. I have a lot of H&M polishes, and was surprised by the formula, but have heard that it's a common problem with pastels.

H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

Pink bling bling 

Pink bling bling looks different in different light conditions. Although the jelly base looks light pink in the bottle, I couldn't see that it made Pink Macaroon any darker. In daylight it looks like a pale glitter mixed with a little holographic glitter. In the sun or very bright light you can see colors (pink, orange, yellow, silver, and if you magnify it you can also see light blue, purple and very dark glitter) but in the shade the glitter looks more white. Inside in the evening (low light) it looks like small silver and holographic glitter. The holographic glitter is red, green and orange (and blue?). The holographic part of the glitter reminds me of Out The Door Northern Lights. But Northern Lights is more subtle. It has tinier glitter and is much more dense than the H&M glitter. Pink bling bling consists of tiny hexagonal and even tinier round glitter, but you'll have to magnify the photo very much to be able to notice the shape.

H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

Sun:

H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

Shade:

H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

Is this something you would wear for Valentine's Day? Maybe with some hearts on an accent nail?

H&M: Pink bling bling layered over H&M: Pink Macaroon

Lani

Something New -Polish Days January

PAINTED & MAGNETIZED

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Painted & Magnetized

For Polish Days January we are all going to make something new. I have used this technique once before, but this is the first time I use the same pattern on all nails. And this time I use red/ magenta, green and blue/ blurple, and added rhine stones. The pattern is created by first painting a pattern using magnetic nail polishes, and then make a second pattern with the magnet after applying top coat.

Painted & Magnetized

For information about Polish Days, and how you can join in, just click on the badge below, and you will find everything you need, explained by Hannah from Polly Polish. She is the one who started Polish Days and she organizes it.

More photos:

Painted & Magnetized

Painted & Magnetized

Painted & Magnetized

 

Painted & Magnetized

Painted & Magnetized

Painted & Magnetized

Painted & Magnetized

Painted & Magnetized

Painted & Magnetized

I wasn't good at placing the magnet this time. I wish the inner circles were placed in the middle, where the stripes met. I also wish I had managed to make a more smooth surface.

Used:

Tiny brush
Palette
Magnet: China Glaze Magnetix II
Base- and top coat
Magnetic nail polish:
Deborah Lippmann Magnetic Wave: Love is A Battlefield (magenta)
IsaDora Magnetic Nails: 854 Opposites Attract (green)
Prestige: NMM-03 Topaz (blue/ blurple)
Rhine stones (fuchsia)

IsaDora Magnetic Nails 854 Opposites Attract, Deborah Lippman Magnetic Wave Love is A Battlefield, Prestige NMM- 03 Topaz, China Glaze Magnetix II magnet, Used for my Painted & Magnetized mani

China Glaze Magnetix II magnet, bulls eye pattern, Used for my Painted & Magnetized mani

Dotting tool, fuchsia rhine stones, Bundle Monster nail art wheel, Used for my Painted & Magnetized mani

The rhine stones are from one of the 5 nail art wheels I chose when I won a Chit Chat Nails Bundle Monster contest! :-) Link: Nailart Nail Art Glitters Beads Rhinestones Wheel from Bundle Monster. The other thing I chose was the 2012 stamping plates.

Painted & Magnetized, Bundle Monster nail art wheel

Below, you can find thumbnails with links to all the participants' posts.

Lani