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 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 2: China Glaze - Traffic Jam

Today's untried is another one from Nory. I almost bought this one myself, but I succeeded in not ordering polishes before I got Nory's package.

This polish is quite interesting... At first I was like; Oh, that's a nice darker pink polish! Until I went to the kitchen later at night to find out the color completely changed. It now was some kind of pink/purple and totally not looking like it looks in the picture. 22

This was just one coat and really messy! :P

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

xoxo Ingie

Day 12 - A Polish From A Brand I Hate

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I have another pink for you! I know you must be sick of those... :P

I don't really hate any brand, but why I choose Hema nr.12 is because whenever I go to the nail polishes at Hema they never have anything interesting to offer. They never seem to change the whole stuff once in a while. I only own 3 polishes from Hema and you probably have seen the other ones before.

I love this kind of pink! The picture isn't 100% accurate, but the pink is going towards a peachy pink. I'm wearing two coats of this one :)

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie

Day 10 - A Polish That I Think Is Boring [Color Club - Earthy Angel]

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Just a really quick post. I've been kinda busy lately, so that's why I have nothing interesting to show you :P But for this post I actually had another polish to show you, but it was nowhere to find, so I picked Color Club's Earthy Angel.

It's not that boring, but I also don't find it that interesting. It was on my wishlist and when I had it, I was kinda disappointed. It's darker than a nude color, but it's not brown. It's hard to describe... I will probably find some use for this polish sometime and I will probably just wear it.

Sorry for the boring post, but thanks for reading! :)

xoxo Ingie

Day 7 - A Polish That I Wear Often [Miss Sporty - 360] [+ Pink Wednesday]

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Make it 'used to wear often'. Since my nail polish stash got bigger and bigger I wear so many different colors. But this used to be my favorite and I even have a back up of it. This is Miss Sporty Lasting Colour: 360.

I'm horrible at describing colors, but I would say this is a warm pale pink I guess :P Especially when you compare it with Something Sweet from China Glaze.

And excuse me for the white dry fingers... When I swatched this polish it was like 3 am or something :P I removed my old polish, with a remover without acetone, and it makes my fingers so dry. Next time I'll just use the one with acetone again.

Here is a comparison with Something Sweet. See how warm 360 looks next to Something Sweet? That's why I love it! :)
 

Do you have any Miss Sporty polishes? These are probably my favorite when it comes to applying nail polish :)

xoxo Ingie

Day 4 - A Polish That Is ''So Me'' [Hema - 91]

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For this one I didn't really know what to pick, so I picked this pink one from Hema. Hema polishes don't have names, but numbers and this is number 91. I don't really have a story why it's ''so me''. I bought this about a year ago at Hema at the train station and I loved it when I put it on.

I worked in a bookstore at the time and I wore this one so many times and every single time my friend/colleague was like; OMG, I can't find this one! It's so pretty!

I got her hooked on the polish and one time I came to work she was like; Look, I thought it was the same color, but it's not! She bought a Rimmel polish I believe :P I decided to buy her a bottle and she was so happy xD

In the picture I'm wearing 2 coats of this polish.

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

Love Nails

Hey! I just wanted to see the stamping quality of some polishes so I can make a list of what polishes are good for stamping. I kinda liked the way this turned out, so I decided to show you here.

The black one is Black from Color Club. It does a great job at stamping! For painting my nails I only needed one coat.

The mauve metallic one is Let's Mauve On (new version) from Catrice. Yesterday I showed you the swatch and I said it might be great for stamping. It is!

The pink one is Heli-Yum from China Glaze. I needed one coat on my nail and it stamps great on Let's Mauve On, but is hardly visible on the black. So I don't know yet if I'll add it to my list.

xoxo Ingie

China Glaze - Urban-Night ft. Carnival Lights

First; Thank you all so much for following me! :) I've reached 20 followers today which motivates me more and more to keep doing this. I've even been thinking about a give away... So I've decided I'll do one when I reach 50 followers :)

On to the post! :)

I'm making myself crazy these days! A few days ago I posted about China Glaze's Crimson, deleted it later, mentioned in another post I said it was Crimson while it was Urban-Night to figure out a few minutes ago I DID post Crimson :P So I'll post that one tomorrow I guess.

So here is Urban-Night! A nice deep purple color. It seemed very pigmented, but it actually wasn't.. In the pictures I'm wearing 2 coats, but I obviously needed 3 :P It's not that much of an interesting color, but I don't have a lot of purple polishes so that's why I do like it.

I also bought Carnival Lights, swatched it, but that was a fail. Like I forgot I applied nail polish and just lived 'normal'. You can not live normal when you just applied nail polish a second ago :P So that's why I decided to see what it looks like over another polish. I like it! It made Urban-Night a little less boring xD

Carnival Lights could be worn on it's own and will be opaque in 4/5 coats. That's probably the reason why my swatch failed. This polish also doesn't dry fast and is pretty sticky when it's drying, so I don't think I'll ever wear this on it's own.

A blurry picture, so you can see the pretty rainbow sparkles :)

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie

China Glaze - Something Sweet

Hello!

If you read my last post from yesterday you know I had 'picture day' at work today :P It was so awkward! I just had to let you know!

Anyways... Today just a random swatch from an old China Glaze collection. I don't own a lot of China Glaze's, only 5, but I just love this one (too)! It's Something Sweet from the Up & Away collection.

Something sweet it is! This lovely color! It's a pale pink color with a hint of lilac I guess. Never thought I would like that, but I do! I absolutely love it. Hopefully I still feel appropriate wearing this in fall and winter :P

Today I wanted to order nail polishes again, but I've managed to keep myself back. First of all because it's just so much money and sometimes I just feel bad buying so many xD But I shouldn't! So I still want to order ASAP, but I'm trying to wait until next week!

Btw, I think I get to know my camera a little better :P

xoxo Ingie

China Glaze - Heli-Yum

Hello lovelies!

When I started this blog I had a post with a picture of nails I would wear to the Dutch Gay Pride. I got my camera the same day I posted it and had no idea how to use it. I still don't know, but I'm getting better :P Anyhow, in that post the base color of my nails was Heli-Yum from China Glaze. The color on the picture was so off I decided I could make a new post.

Pretty color, isn't it? It's not exactly the way it looks like in real life, but to me it comes really close. You could say a pink trying to become a red... Do you get what I mean? xD

Heli-Yum could be worn with just one coat, but if you have longer nails you will need two. I found that this color was really nice and easy to apply and it wasn't thick at all, even though I've worn it a few times before.

I also wanted to mention something else. I know I'm not really swatching like newer polishes from new collections, but that is because I can't order from like transdesign or nailsupplies (yet). And if I can, I'm only able to order 9 polishes. In Dutch stores I can buy Catrice and Essence, but if you're from a country that doesn't have those brands this blog is pretty much pointless. I suck at nail art and all that, so I don't know what to do yet :P I did started my blog in Dutch too, where I will be swatching Catrice, Essence and more. So fellow Dutchies (or if you're from Belgium) click here :)

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie

Jade Is Not My Name vs. I Sea You!

As you might know already Catrice came out with new nail polishes and of course I had to have those. Old polishes had to make room for the new ones and got discontinued, including I Sea You. But lucky enough I had that one already.

At work I was changing the whole Catrice display (I love to be around it ;p) my eye caught this new color that didn't look that much like I Sea You, but came close enough to be a fresher version of the color.

On the left: I Sea You!
On the right: Jade Is Not My Name

 Next to each other they look pretty different. I Sea You is more green and Jade Is Not My Name is more blue. Since I kinda swatched I Sea You! once already (even though that was just one 1 one nail, but who cares? xD) I'll just swatch Jade Is Not My Name.

Ain't it pretty?! :D Now check out this last picture. Do you see a big difference? I don't. You won't even see the difference in real life at all! So bottom line: I didn't need to buy Jade Is Not My Name. However, I love the name so much it's just worth it to be in it! :P

Pointer: Jade Is Not My Name
Middle: I Sea You!
Ring: Jade Is Not My Name
Pinky: I Sea You!

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie

Zoya - Dana

A swatch of my first Zoya polish! First off; I love this polish! I don't know why... And I'm not only talking about the color, but also just the polish by it self. The quality is great! So sad it's pretty expensive :( I wish I could order from their site! :P Much cheaper!

Zoya about Dana: "Dana can be best described as an All-American rose cream. Now this is a signature shade!" They also say this is opaque in 5 coats! I believe I'm wearing 2 coats in the pictures.

I'm not so sure about the 'signature shade', because I don't find it that special of a color. I think everybody has a similar color to this one.

I'm definitely planning to get myself some more Zoya's, but the only Dutch site that I know that sells Zoya doesn't have that many interesting colors.

I find this an awkward picture :P

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie

Day 3 - Yellow Nails

Day 3 of the challenge!! :) Yellow, a color I like to see on others, but wouldn't wear myself. I only have 2 yellows and this is one of them. Essence's Yellow Mellow. The color of a cute little chickie!

Just to change it up a little I wanted to try one of the polishes I bought today. This is a metallic gold from Casuelle. I'm not familiar with this brand, but the polish is okay. Opaque in 2 coats and not streaky.
This combo is a bit of a fail though :P Those colors just do not match!

xoxo Ingie

Day 1 - Red Nails

A few days ago the lovely Rebecca started with the challenge. I don't know who started it, but apparently this challenge has been around for a while. Some days I just live in Bikini Bottom and have no idea what's going on on the internet :P Today I read on Laura's blog it's a challenge for the month of September, so I figured I would finally start it xD I don't know yet if I'm gonna finish it, but I'll try my best!

My fingers look extremely white... :P

Todays nails; Red. This pretty red is from Catrice and listens to the name Bloody Mary To Go. This is actually the only red nail polish I own! When my nail polish addiction started (October 2010) Catrice and Essence were the only brands I knew. I went on the hunt for a red polish and found this one. I'm still looking for the perfect red and I think Essie's Aperitif comes close to it.

Tomorrows nails; Orange

xoxo Ingie

Color Club - Incognito

Incognito... When I first saw the bottle in real life I thought it was too dark. It looks like a light brown color and just not so nice. But then I applied it. The first layer was pretty sheer so then I was really disappointed! I applied a second coat and a smile got on my face. It was not so sheer and it needed a 3rd coat to complete the whole thing. This is just a perfect nude nail polish for me. I absolutely love it!

Incognito... Toen ik het flesje voor het eerst in het echt zag vond ik het te donker. Het ziet eruit als een licht bruine kleur en gewoon niet zo leuk. Maar toen lakte ik het eerste laagje erop. Die was behoorlijk doorzichtig en ik was echt teleurgesteld! Ik bracht een tweede laagje aan en een glimlach verscheen. Het was niet zo doorzichtig meer en een 3de laagje was nodig om het geheel compleet te maken. Dit is de perfecte nude nagellak voor mij. Ik vind 'm geweldig!

1 more thing that has nothing to do with this post, but I would love it if you'd follow me with GFC and/or Bloglovin' :)

Nog 1 ding die niks met deze post te maken heeft, maar ik zou het geweldig vinden als je me zou volgen met GFC en/of Bloglovin' :)

xoxo Ingie