A Romantic Manicure

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Today I have a really simple, cute and (in my opinion) romantic manicure. It's pretty wearable with the pink flowers and I actually got compliments on it. Happy! :D I love it when people randomly tell me they like my nails :P

This was really simple, although it took me a few times to get it right. The white polish just wouldn't dry enough so I was able to stamp over it and the China Glaze Quick Fast Freeze Spray (or whatever it's called) would make the stamper slip off my nails...

For my base color I used Snow Motion from Catrice and for the flowers I used Catrice's newer version of Let's Mauve On. The image plate is Konad m65.

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie

Christmas Manicure: Red & Green Glitter

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I've been trying to get my nails into Christmas spirit today. I've been trying different manicures and this was one of them.

As my base color I used Catrice's I Wear My Sunglasses At Night, because it has red and green glitters in it. Over that I tried to only apply Wet 'N Wild's Party Of Five Glitters at the base of my nail (I mean from my cuticle's towards the tip)

In the pictures it looks like there's purple in it as well, but that's not the case.

Excuse the skin around my middle finger. Probably the cold weather.

I always take my pictures with the flash, because without it's hard to capture true colors. But because it would show a lot of purple with the flash I took some pictures without the flash as well.

So, are you in a Christmas mood already?


xoxo Ingie

Dupe Or No Dupe? Punk Purple vs. Wrapped Around My Finger

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Another "Dupe Or No Dupe?"! :) I bought this Catrice polish at work last week and it actually never really stood out for me. I guess because the color is pinkish and I thought this was another polish I already had. Last week I was in the need to buy a polish at work again and since I own most Catrice polishes I just picked this one :P

E.L.F. - Punk Purple and Catrice - Wrapped Around My Finger

On the picture these 2 don't really look the same, but in real life they do. The colors aren't really color accurate either, but I bet you can find swatches online. I've used Punk Purple in my Punk Princess Nails post before.

You can see the difference between them. Punk Purple is a bit more purple and Wrapped Around My Finger is more pink. That's what you'll see in real life as well. If you own one of these you don't need the other polish, because nobody would notice it's another polish.

Thanks for reading! :)

xoxo Ingie

Wham! Pow! Warhol is Almost Famous!

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Well, hello there!

Now that my nail polishes are finally hanging on the wall, it's a little easier to find polishes I want to use for a little nail art.

The title pretty much gives away what polishes I used for this. I started with a white base color from Catrice, Snow Motion. I only wanted neon pink tips, so used Color Club's Warhol for that. I decided I'd like some orange with it and used Wham! Pow! for that. I wanted to see if you could stamp with Almost Famous and I find that it worked. It didn't really keep it's own color, but it does fit nice if you ask me :P I used image plate m65 for the stamp.

Of course the topcoat made it all streak again, while I waited for a really long time to apply it. I used O.P.I. topcoat that the sweet Nory got me :)

I think I might have found the setting on my camera where it shows a bit more color, perfect for neons. This isn't really color accurate, but it's way better than the washed out colors.

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

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

Galaxy Nails!

You may have seen this mani on Vampy Varnish (thank you so much!) but now I'm showing you here. I was so excited about these, I just couldn't wait to post them here!

The first time I tried galaxy nails was August 19th to be exact :P I did these October 11th and I think I improved if I may say so.

Of course a matte look again. I love everything matte with my Gosh matte topcoat :P

I love how you can still see the glitters when it's matte.

Here's a list of the polishes I used:
- Essence Multi Dimension - Midnight Rocker
- Miss Sporty Lasting Color - nr. 30
- Etos Effect Nails - nr. 09
- China Glaze - Ahoy!
- Catrice - Blues Brother Vol. II
- Catrice - Forget Me Not
- Catrice - Lucky In Lilac
- China Glaze - Fairy Dust

I actually have no idea why I am holding a bottle of China Glaze (I think it's it Crimson)

Do you like these galaxy nails, or even in general? And have you ever tried them? Let me know! :)

xoxo Ingie

Pink Wednesday: Not So Pink

Today some little bit of nail art again. It's really easy, but I kinda failed a bit as usual.

I painted my middle finger black and put striping tape in the middle of my nail. I put 2 more pieces on the left and 2 more on the right. Then I applied some pink and purples. To stay in these colors I randomly painted my other finger nails in the colors I used on my middle finger.

For this nail art I was inspired by the wall in front of me :P

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie

Bloody Hell nails

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This is just something random I did like a week ago. I wanted to try out this fan nail art brush :P I still don't know the use of it xD

I painted my nails with a dark grey, Miss Sporty Lasting Colour nr. 420. Over that I sponged Catrice's ASHley and Color Club's Black. I put some red nail polish on a paper, China Glaze's City Siren, dipped the fan brush in it and dragged it over my nails :P This is the result.

I have to say I kinda dig it... xD I wanted to see what it looked like matte, so used the Matte Effect top coat from Gosh.

Which one do you like better? The shiny or matte one?

xoxo Ingie

Day 5 - A Polish That Reminds Me Of A Special Day [Catrice - Apropos Apricot]

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I don't have much special days in my life I guess, so I had to think again :P A few months ago I had a drink with my 2 best friends. I showed the friend that sat next to me my nail polish and mentioned the story that a few years go we went to the drugstore after college to buy bright orange nail polish, because of the World Cup. The days the Dutch team would play all 3 of us should wear the orange nail polish to college. But me and my other friend were always so insecure, we didn't wear the bright orange nail polish.

It was a special day to me, because we don't see each other that much and one of them is actually not really a friend anymore to me and the other friend. Not in a mean way, she didn't do anything to us. But it's just how life goes.

Anywho, enough with the non polish talk. This is another Catrice polish and it's named Apropos Apricot. When I applied it I noticed what an awful color it is xD I'm wearing 3 coats of this ugly one :P

xoxo Ingie

Cupcake nails + How To

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It's not my birthday yet, that's in 2 months, but I did want to try cupcake nails. I've been wanting to try these since forever! Yesterday I ordered some dotting tools at dashicabeautyshop.nl and I got them today, so decided to give it a try!

Usually when I see cupcake nail art I see no base color. I didn't want that so I painted my nails black with a red and green glitter in it. This is Catrice - I Wear My Sunglasses At Night. The pink tips are Gosh - Neon Baby and the purple tip is Catrice - Lucky In Lilac.

It's up to you what colors you want to use for it of course :)

Let the tips dry and add some stripes to the tip color. I used China Glaze - Something Sweet on the pink tips and used Neon Baby again for the purple tip.

For the icing I didn't want to use just a plain white so I went for Color Club - Coastal Creme which I thought was perfect for it!

I had no idea what to use for the sprinkles so I almost applied some glitter over it until I decided to see if my dotting tool could grab the big glitters from Essence - Time For Romance. It worked! So I used those for the sprinkles.

That's it! It was so easy! I actually thought it was going to be really hard to do, but it wasn't.

Oh, I like comments, so please leave something :)

xoxo Ingie

Day 2 - My Least Favorite Polish [Catrice - Just Married]

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I knew I had a hated polish somewhere in my stash, but which one was it? I went looking through my stash and found it! Catrice - Just Married. As much as I like the name, I don't like the polish. I remember even trying to like it just because of the name. Not working.

Here I'm wearing 2 coats of Just Married. A light pink almost peachy color with silver micro shimmers. This is actually the polish that made me think I hated polishes with shimmers in it... Damn this polish!

I knew I bought another polish a few months ago and when I came home and applied it anger just came up. Not really, but you know what I mean. It was like a déjà vu... I'm talking about Dance Like A Prima Ballerina from the Ultimate Nudes collection.

Dance Like A Prima Ballerina, Just Married, Dance Like A Prima Ballerina, Just Married

Just Married and Dance Like A Prima Ballerina are exact dupes, but DLAPB needed 3 coats and was a bit more streaky. I don't understand why they even had them both in the collection for a while. Just Married got discontinued in September, so if you like it just get Dance Like A Prima Ballerina :)

xoxo Ingie

Day 1 - My Favorite Nail Polish [Catrice - London's Weather Forecast]

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I was thinking; what is my favorite nail polish? Could be something pink, but I didn't want a pink one to be my favorite. After almost picking a pink polish as my favorite I remembered that another polish is my favorite! :O
Catrice - London's Weather Forecast! In October 2010 is when my nail polish addicted started and this was the first polish I picked when buying my first polishes. I've loved it ever since. And when my nail polish stash wasn't as ''big'' as it is now this was one I came back to a lot.

Since September London's Weather Forecast got discontinued and a new grey polish came into the collection; ASHley. I've heard it was similar to London's Weather Forecast.

ASHley, London's Weather Forecast, ASHley, London's Weather Forecast

No. Not the same. London's Weather Forecast is a dark grey polish with silver and a few red and blue shimmers. ASHley is a lighter creme grey polish. I like it, but I have another grey polish that I love better :P

In all pictures I'm wearing 2 coats of polish.

Well, I completed day 1 of this challenge and I am convinced I will end this challenge :P

xoxo Ingie