China Glaze Magnetix and Glitter Crackle Collections

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China Glaze will come out with a new collection; Magnetix. With a magnet that comes with the polish you can make different designs on your nails. I know Essence has magnetic polishes, but I have never tried those.

This collection will come out in the Netherlands in March 2012, but I don't know when it will come out in other countries.

Another collection that will come out are glitter crackles. I don't know when these will come out.

Are you looking out for these collections? Are you gonna buy these polishes? I'm not sure about the Magnetix polishes, but I do think I might check out the new crackles.

xoxo Ingie

Draggy Magic Crackle

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I've been wearing this manicure since Tuesday night. And I'm wearing it until at least tomorrow night :P Not because it's that special, but because I'm too tired to actually change it. Last night when I wanted to go to bed my younger brother had an accident with his bike and I had to take him to the hospital, in another city, on my scooter, in the freezing cold weather! We got lost and I drove around for almost 2 hours! He didn't break anything, but probably has to go back tomorrow because it still hurts.

(For some reason I like to share that with those who read :P)

Anyhow, I know most people aren't into the crackle anymore, but in my country and definitely my city a lot of people want to know where to get these crackle polishes :P

This is a Miss Sporty crackle and it also comes in blue (you can win them in my giveaway). I first put it on a nail wheel over polishes that were on there and the crackle looked really nice. I even put on a second coat of crackle which made it look even nicer! So I finally know that it's best to let your nail polish dry completely and THEN apply a crackle polish.

If you're actually reading this post and wonder what colors I used, here a short list:
Base color: Color Club - What A Drag
Glitter: Color Club - Magic Attraction


Crackle: Miss Sporty

Thanks for reading! This weekend I'm going to try to finally read everyones posts again and leave comments :)

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!

Swimsuit... Cracked It!

This was something I wanted to try for a pretty long time! Another polish going diagonal over my manicure. I finally did! :P

After wearing O.P.I.'s Swimsuit... Nailed It! for almost 2 days I had some tipwear, so decided I could give it a try :)

I put striping type diagonal over my nails. Then I painted the top part black. Over that I put Carnival Lights from China Glaze and over that I put Essence Crack Me! Silver. I took the striping tape off and then I applied new pieces of striping tape under the diagonal part.

Have you ever done something with striping tape? Let me know! :)

xoxo Ingie

Diamond Cosmetics - Gold Foil

Hello lovely people! :)

Today's swatch is a fun color to me. It's gold! I think this is my first and actually only gold nail polish that I own, so this sentence doesn't really make sense I guess. Just blame the fact that it's past midnight... (usually I start living at that time :P)

This is a nail polish from Diamond Cosmetics and let me tell you it's great! The brush reminds me of China Glaze, which I really had to get used to when I got my first CG, but to me it just painted a little bit more smoother than CG.

Gold Foil is a metallic gorgeous gold color. For these pictures I used 2 coats to get it opaque, but you might even get away with just one. You know how some polishes are very pigmented, but you still need 2 or 3 coats to make it opaque? This is one of them.

The formula is kinda thin, but great to work with! It's not flowing away like water :P In the picture below you can see the micro glitters just sitting there being pretty.. Love it!

And lastly I decided to put the silver Essence crackle polish over it, since I hadn't show you yet. This one crackles so much different than the white one I showed once. I like this one way better!

In the Netherlands you can get Diamond Cosmetics at boozyshop.nl. In America you can order them online at diamondcosmetics.com for only $ 2,50! I believe they only ship in America, so that sucks for the rest... :(

And lastly I wanted to thank Steph from imperfectlypainted for sharing one of my posts in her recent post :)

Thanks for reading,

xoxo Ingie

Essence Crackle Polish

[cheesy greeting]

I don't know for how long crackle polishes have been IN, but I do know that I wanted to own one when I heard of crackle nail polish a few months ago. In Dutch online shops they were always sold out and in the only drugstore in the Netherlands the whole Essence shelf was almost empty! But finally I got one! When I came home I realized I should've gotten the black one too, it was even there, since all the make-up was 50% off.

Ik weet niet hoe lang crackle nagellak nu IN is, maar ik weet wel dat ik er 1 wilde hebben toen ik er voor het eerst over hoorde, een paar maanden geleden. In de Nederlandse webshops waren ze altijd uitverkocht en bij Kruidvat was het hele Essence schap bijna leef! Maar eindelijk had ik er 1! Toen ik thuiskwam realiseerde ik me dat ik de zwarte ook had moeten kopen, die stond er gewoon ook, want het was toen 50% korting op alle make-up.

I first painted my nails in different colors. I like the effect better and it's less boring to me.

Ik lakte mijn nagels eerst in verschillende kleuren. Ik vind het effect leuker en het is minder saai.

Snow Motion, I Wear My Sunglasses At Night,
Lucky In Lilac, Snow Motion, Hot Or Not?

 I painted a matte topcoat over the white nails to maybe get that same effect as my Black on Black nails.

Ik lakte een matte topcoat over de witte nagels om zo misschien hetzelfde effect te krijgen als m'n Black on Black nails.

On my thumb the crackle didn't really show up that well, as you can see in this last picture. Kinda weird, since my nail polish wasn't really thick there and I only put a thin layer of the crackle over it.

Op m'n duim werkte de crackle niet echt, zoals je in de laatste foto kan zien. Best raar, want de nagellak was niet dik opgelakt en lakte maar een dun laagje crackle lak erover.

xoxo Ingie