Swap Swatches: Essie

* * * Make sure to check out my birthday giveaway here * * *

There are a few brands here that are hard to get for me here in the Netherlands. Sometimes not that hard to get, but I happen to live in a country where everything is expensive. Essie is one of those brands where I can get my hands on, but they are ridiculously expensive. The cheapest price is € 9,95, just a little $13,35. The most expensive is € 12,95, which is around $17,38.

In a swap a while back with Nory I received the gorgeous School Of Hard Rocks, but in my last swap with Iris I could add 3 more Essie's to my stash.

The first one is In Stitches. The color will look different in some lightnings. It looked like a brick color at first, but it's actually a kind of old pink color. Really nice!

Tart Deco. This one was on my wishlist for a long time! For some reason I expected it to be more pink, but it was actually more of an orange color. A really nice color orange :)

Last but not least: Sand Tropez. I remember seeing this one on Tumblr and on the girl it looked like a lovely nude color. I guess the girl was pale, because on me it's far from a nude color :P On swatches on Google it looks a bit sandy, but on me it doesn't. Still a pretty color though and I would definitely wear it!

From these 3 colors Tart Deco was the most pigmented. I did wear 2 coats, just like In Stitches. I'm super happy Iris gave me these Essie's :)

Did you notice my pics aren't square anymore? I like it better this was :)

Have a nice day!

xoxo Ingie

Birthday Giveaway! [CLOSED!]

Today I went to check if I could get some polishes from the Catrice and/or Essence Limited Edition polishes. Of course when I get there everything is gone... But when I was there I was like; why not buy some polishes for my giveaway? And here you go. 2 of them I had in my stash already, the rest I bought for myself too :P

I went for glitters, because I just love it the last week of December :) Christmas, my birthday and New Years. My birthday is December 27th, but the giveaway closes December 31st.

Essence Soft Touch - Essence It's Purplicious - Essence Hello Holo

Essence Blue Addicted - Etos Effect Nails 07-08 - Essence Time For Romance

Miss Sporty Crack Me Up (no names, but black and blue)

So what do you have to do to win these polishes?
1. You must be a GFC follower. EDIT DECEMBER 27: I have a new blog, fyeahilovenails.blogspot.com so you don't have to follow this blog anymore. You will automatically get this one extra entry. I hope to announce the winner on my new blog January 7th.
2. Leave a comment you're entering.
This will be 1 entry.

What you can do to get more entries:
1. Follow me on Bloglovin' (+2)
2. Like on Bloglovin' (+1)
3. Write a blog post on your blog (+2)
4. Mention this giveaway in your sidebar (+1)

In total you can be entered 7 times!

Try to tell me in just one comment that you're entering, following and that you wrote/mentioned this giveaway on your blog. This is easier for me.

Giveaway ends December 31st!

Untrieds Day 22: Hema - Nailpolish 08

When I woke up today I was in a sad mood. I don't know why, but I felt so depressed. I was like; now I have to write for my blog tonight and I don't feel like it anymore. I want to quit this blog. I don't want to do this and that. I have no idea what that was. Later the doorbell rang and me and my brother escaped to our rooms, because we thought it was our neighbour... :P It was the postman! With, a package for me with nail polish! I got them from Iris in a swap. Later I thought to myself; was that depressing mood because I hardly bought any polish this month? And then I have nothing to show you?
Sad, but maybe the truth xD I also lost my Konad scraper a few weeks ago, so I still can't show stamping stuff. I'm convinced that when I order a new scraper I will find the old one xD

Anyway... Today I wore Hema's 08 nail polish and I love it! This blue polish is so gorgeous! It's not a royal blue, but close to it. It's more pretty than a royal blue in my opinion xD

And look what happened to my nail yesterday... My nails keep breaking, even though I think I take good care of it. But my job is really killing my nails, so I have to accept it xD

Check out the other girls in this month of Untrieds :)

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Alyssa at Always Polished
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted To The Allure Of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Make-Up and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Rachel at Top Coat It
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

xoxo Ingie

Untrieds Day 21: China Glaze - Urban Night

Picture fai, I guess :P

3 weeks into the Untrieds month! :D Today I'm wearing China Glaze's Urban Night. I once bought it because I thought I needed it... :P I didn't need it, but the color is okay. In real life it looks black in some lightnings. You can see some bald spots in there, but you don't see them in real life. I'm wearing 2 coats.

I almost wanted to ask what you were going to do for the weekend... It's MONDAY! xD

Oh, and in the post for Untrieds Day 9-19 I showed you Essences Blue Addicted. I said it wasn't a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Across The Universe, but I was wrong. It IS a dupe! :)

Check out the other girls in this month of Untrieds :)

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Alyssa at Always Polished
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted To The Allure Of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Make-Up and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Rachel at Top Coat It
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

xoxo Ingie

Untrieds Day 20: Catrice - Sing: Hey, Dirty-Lilah!

Brand: Catrice
Name: Sing: Hey, Dirty-Lilah!
Finish: Creme
Yay or nay: Yay!

I love grey polishes! This one is with a lilac undertone and it reminds me of Essence's Got A Secret. They don't look that much a like though.

Check out the other girls in this month of Untrieds :)

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Alyssa at Always Polished
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted To The Allure Of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Make-Up and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Rachel at Top Coat It
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

xoxo Ingie

Untrieds Day 9 -19

As promised, but too late, my Untrieds that I wore on the days that my internet died. I found some new loves, but also polishes I wouldn't want to be seen with ever again!

I keep my Untrieds in a plastic bag in my polish stash and randomly pick out a polish. Since I deleted the pics by accident I now swatched them so you could see what I wore the past week. I didn't really take the time to clean up :P But enjoy! :)

Day 9

Brand: China Glaze
Name: Ahoy!
Finish: Shimmer
Yay or nay: Yay!

I never wore this one, because I thought it was just another pink. But it's not. It has a gorgeous orange shimmer in it!

Day 10

Brand: Essence
Name: Hard To Resist
Finish: Shimmer
Yay or nay: Nay!

I liked the color of this one, but the application was pretty hard. The brush of it is kinda messed up. I have a dupe for it; Catrice's Blues Brother Vol. II.

Day 11

Brand: Essence
Name: Blue Addicted [layered over Hard To Resist]
Finish: Jelly
Yay or nay: Yay!

I once layered this one over another polish, but the combination was not the right combination. This IS the right combination and it made me love Blue Addicted! It's not a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Across The Universe. It's a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Across The Universe! :)

Day 12

Brand: Sinful Colors
Name: Hottie
Finish: Glitter
Yay or nay: Yay and nay!

This is a really pretty glitter polish. It's even a really, really, really close dupe for O.P.I.'s Last Friday Night. The reason for the nay is because it's a pain in the ass to remove! It took me forever! I got this one in a swap with Nory :)

Day 13

Brand: Sally Hansen
Name: Bubblegum Pink
Finish: Creme
Yay or nay: Yay!

Again a pink where I thought it would be OR just another pink OR not a pink I would wear. In the bottle it looked almost a little bit frosty. In real life this color is beautiful! I couldn't capture it's true color. To me it looked nice with my skin tone and I think this one would look amazing with the Gosh matte topcoat. I got this one in a swap with Nory :)

Day 14

Brand: Catrice
Name: Be My Millionaire
Finish: Metallic/Foil?
Yay or nay: Nay!

This one is blegh! I hated it so much! I believe it is a nice one for stamping though, but just wearing it like this, on it's own; never again!

Day 15

Brand: Sally Hansen
Name: Plum Power
Finish: Creme/Shimmer
Yay or nay: Nay!

This is just not my color.. I don't have a lot to say about it :P I do want to tell that Sally Hansen is available in my country, but they're € 7,99 which is almost $11... So sad... xD I got this one in a swap with Nory :)

Day 16

Brand: O.P.I
Name: Black Cherry Chutney
Finish: Shimmer
Yay or nay: Yay!

I wish I grabbed this one the first day of the Untrieds! Or even before I started with the Untrieds. It's a really nice and vampy color. I think this would be great for this season. I got this one in a swap with Nory :)

Day 17

Brand: China Glaze
Name: Mummy May I
Finish: Glitter
Yay or nay: Nay!

I wanted to have this one so bad and when I got it I never put it on, because it didn't look like I expected it to be. With the first stroke it reminded me of Revlon's Facets Of Fuchsia, but that one is so much more nicer! This is just a fail :P

Day 18

Brand: Catrice
Name: From Dusk To Dawn
Finish: Creme/Shimmer
Yay or nay: Yay!

I've had From Dusk To Dawn in my Untrieds before, but this is the new version. I believe it's out since September, but never bought it because the color seemed so not me. Wrong! LOVE IT! It has a gorgeous pink shimmer in it, but you can only see it in some lightnings. On multiple blogs I read that the old version from From Dusk To Dawn is really hard to find, but... at work I found a bottle of the old one! :)

Day 19

Brand: Sinful Colors
Name: Why Not
Finish: Creme
Yay or nay: Yay!

I loved this one! Not a color I would pick myself. I wouldn't wear this one in the winter time, but for summer it would be amazing! Again, I got this one in a swap with Nory :)

Check out the other girls in this month of Untrieds :)

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Alyssa at Always Polished
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted To The Allure Of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Make-Up and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Rachel at Top Coat It
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

xoxo Ingie

Guess Who's Back?

Me! Why was I gone for a while? No internet connection! :(

No internet isn't the end of the world, but I did notice how much I actually use it. Anyway, I did continue with my Untrieds. There are some polishes I never wore, because I thought I hated them, but wearing them changed my mind!

When I wanted to put them on my laptop I THOUGHT I dragged them to a folder and deleted them. But instead I didn't drag anything to the folder and deleted the pictures. When I found out it was too late already. So I'm gonna swatch them and show you what I wore this past week. I hope to post that tomorrow :)

Also, my birthday giveaway is coming soon! So keep checking in once in a while to see if I posted it already.

xoxo Ingie

Untrieds Day 8: Revlon - Facets Of Fuchsia

Surprise surprise! Another polish I got from Nory! :P

My first and only Revlon nail polish. I did see swatches of this one,. I liked them, but not in a way that I wanted to have it. When I put this on my nails it was a different story. Again I liked a polish better when I had it on my nails! I wore only 2 coats, but 3 would be much, much better! I'll be wearing this one more often :)

Check out the other lovely ladies in this Untrieds Month :)


Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Alyssa at Always Polished
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted To The Allure Of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Make-Up and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Rachel at Top Coat It
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

xoxo Ingie

And the winner is...

* drum roll * more drum roll PAH-LEASE!

Okay, hold it. First I want to thank all the people who joined this giveaway. Don't be sad if you didn't win, my birthday is next month so there is another giveaway on it's way! Maybe with more winners, but I'm not sure yet. I first have to think about the price. But it's gonna be a mix between Catrice, Essence, Hema, Etos and I could maybe even throw a GOSH in there :) So keep checking in to see if you didn't miss a post about a new giveaway!

Anyway... the winner is;

Number 187! And who is number 187?

Lana D! I will email you right after I posted this :) Congrats to you and I hope you'll enjoy your polishes!

xoxo Ingie

Untrieds Day 7: Catrice - From Dusk To Dawn (old version)

We reached day 7 of the Untrieds month! :) I haven't shown you a untried Catrice polish yet, so here it is! This is actually the first nail polish, together with London's Weather Forecast, I bought. Not really the first ones that I bought, but it was the beginning of the addiction.

So yeah, a little over a year ago I bought this and never wore it, because I thought it was the most ugly polish on this world. Wearing it changed my mind. This is one of the nicest colors I have I think! This is the old version of From Dusk To Dawn and I'm going to buy the new version as well.

Oh hello there old nail polish! I didn't see you there!

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Alyssa at Always Polished
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted To The Allure Of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Make-Up and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Rachel at Top Coat It
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

xoxo Ingie

Untrieds Day 6: Sinful Colors - Cream Pink

 Another polish I got from Nory! Sinful Colors' Cream Pink.

It's kinda neon so it doesn't dry shiny. The picture below is without a topcoat. I should have take pictures with the topcoat too, so you can see the difference.

When I first saw this in the bottle I saw the orange shimmer and knew I don't have anything like this! So, yay! :P

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Alyssa at Always Polished
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted To The Allure Of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Make-Up and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Rachel at Top Coat It
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

xoxo Ingie

Pink Stripes [100th post!]

95 days, 99 posts, ±230 comments and 245 followers later I present to you... my 100th post!

It was easier to get to 100 posts than I expected and those days fly by! When I hit 25 followers I was so happy! To thank everybody I had a giveaway, not thinking so many people would start following me!

I wanted this post to be more than just a simple swatch for the Untrieds month, so here I have something I did with the color I wore today. You will find out what color pink this is later tonight in my Untrieds post.

I don't have anything on my middle finger because the nail broke a few days ago and it would look weird next to the others :P But it's nice as an accent nail. My thumb is just pink too :)

I'm going for the next 100 posts! Keep me motivated with comments, because I love comments! :)

Anyone else watching the EMA's right now? It's still the red carpet show, but when the main show comes on I'll be switching back and forth between the EMA's and another show :P

xoxo Ingie

Untrieds Day 5: Miss Sporty - nr. 346

Hello and sorry for the late post of today. We're on day 5 of the Untrieds month and I picked a Miss Sporty polish I bought a while ago. The pictures aren't color accurate, but I really couldn't capture it with my camera.

Nr. 346 is actually green. It reminded me of Christmas when I had it on my nails, but it's not a Christmas green. In the bottle it looks completely different! I do not like this one at all, just because of the color. I do like the shimmer in it a lot, though.

Miss Sporty nail polishes are my fave when it comes to the brush. It's just the most amazing and easiest thing to work with. Maybe I'll show you some different brands next to each other :)


The other girls that are participating in this challenge:

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Alyssa at Always Polished
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted To The Allure Of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Make-Up and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

Do you have any Miss Sporty polishes and which one is your fave?

xoxo Ingie

Fail Art Friday!

Hahah! Nail art is not my best thing and now that I lost my scraper a few days ago I decided to try something with striping tape again. The idea for this one randomly popped up in my head during my lunch break at work 2 weeks ago, but instead of white I had grey in mind. White seemed to go better with it.

I really thought it would work out, but I was wrong :P I had the tape too long or too tight on my nails, so it pulled the other nail polish and it just turned out to be a disaster! Because it's Friday and this nail art turned into a fail, Fail Art Friday would be a nice name for this xD Maybe it will turn back weekly... :)

Enjoy the fail!

I just noticed how free-handed this looks :P

xoxo Ingie

Untrieds Day 4: China Glaze - Crimson

* * * My giveaway ends in 1 hour. Make sure to enter! * * *

I once swatched Crimson, but I was totally confused with some polishes and things got mixed up so I deleted that post, but later discovered it wasn't needed :P But just a swatch is not wearing it, right? So today I actually wore Crimson.

Crimson is like a deep, deep, deep purple. Almost black. And I could bore you right now with different angles of this polish, but it wouldn't get any different.

That's why I put Golden Rose Scale Effect #15 over it. In the Golden Rose flakie post from a few days ago the true colors didn't really show. I'm actually talking about the interesting blue in it. I did had to use 2 coats of it to make it look noticeable.

The other girls that are participating in this challenge (for the Untrieds Month the only ones featured in my blog roll):

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Alyssa at Always Polished
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted To The Allure Of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Make-Up and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

xoxo Ingie

Untrieds Day 3: Sinful Colors - Mercury Rising

* * * Tomorrow my giveaway ends. Make sure to check it out! * * *

AGAIN a polish I got from Nory and I can't promise tomorrow's polish won't be :P Sinful Colors is not easy to get for me, so it's a pretty big deal for me to have certain brands. Anyway, my weekend finally started :D It's almost midnight here and I'm tired after 3 days of almost 10 hour shifts!


Mercury Rising... When I first saw the color of this I didn't know if I would like it, because it was brown and I don't wear brown. Last night I put it on and I felt in love, kinda. It's a gorgeous color and I actually really like it on me :)

In real life it's brown/orange and not brown/red like you see in these pictures.

And I don't know if this is because I use Trind's Nail Repair or recently used Herôme's Nail Hardener, but this one and the polishes from Untrieds Day 1 and Untrieds Day 2 did not really chip. Usually half of my nail polish is gone after work and now all 3 polishes survived! Only a bit of tipwear, but I also blame my topcoat for that.



The other girls that are participating in this challenge:

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Alyssa at Always Polished
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted To The Allure Of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Make-Up and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

Do you have any plans for the upcoming weekend? :)

xoxo Ingie