Glitter In The Air

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I love glitter on my nails, but I hate to remove it. I'm too impatient for that one technique where you have to sit down with your fingers wrapped in acetone for like 10 minutes.

So yeah, I didn't wear this manicure, I was just trying out to see what that glitter looks like :P (btw, you can also win that glitter in my giveaway. just saying ;p)

This is Essence's Purplelicious and I swear there was another version of it! My bottle dropped on the floor months ago, but I do think I gave Nory one in our swap. Not sure. But if there was another version of it, I used it in this Paint Splatter mani.

Holo molo! (see what I did there?) I do like this one and I wish it was more opaque. That way you could just wear a holographic glitter polish on it's own.

Okay, I'm ready for the weekend and when you read this I've been working for almost 5 hours and still have to go on for 7!

So, what are you going to do for the weekend? :)

xoxo Ingie

Punk Princess Nails

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I've always wanted to show/wear Essence's Time For Romance, but couldn't really find a base color for it. I thought to myself; I need a pinkish, purple polish, do I have that? Because I like to answer my own question, I answered 'no', until my eye fell on an ELF polish.

As my base color I'm wearing ELF's Punk Purple. On top of that I applied 2 coats of Time For Romance. For the stamp I used Konad image plate m79.

I also wanted to show you that Time For Romance seems to have a little bit of a holographic glitter in which you can even see in real life. So another plus for that. This polish is cute and it knows it! :P

Do you have Time For Romance and on what color/polish would you layer it on?

Dupe Or No Dupe? High Hopes vs. Think Pink

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Whenever I get a new polish my mom is always like; "I thought you had something like that already..." I'm always in denial, but I know it's kinda true sometimes... :P That's why I came up with 'Dupe Or No Dupe?'

On the left we have China Glaze's High Hopes and on the right we have Essence's Think Pink. I find these colors pretty orange by the way.

These polishes look pretty much the same in real life. You really can't tell the difference. In this picture you can tell one color is a little bit darker than the other.

If I had to pick one I would go for Think Pink. The Essence polish was really nice to apply while the China Glaze one kept doing it's own thing. It was really annoying. Also, High Hopes was a bit more streaky and less opaque than Think Pink.

Which of these is your favorite?

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 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

Day 14 - A Polish That Is Inexpensive

This one is easy! I found this one like 2 or 3 weeks ago at a drugstore. There is this gross thing with little basket kind of things with make-up and all that jazz that is discontinued. That sentence made no sense, so let's go on. I got this polish for only € 0,50 :D In dollars that's only $ 0,70! :O This is Essence Midnight Rocker.

This is one of my favorite polishes! I love that it's almost black, I love that it's blue. I love it on my nails! :)

If I find more of these, I will buy them! xD I also wanted to see the effect of it matte and love it! I used Gosh's matte topcoat again. I love how it's matte, but still shiny!

And no dark nail polish without flakies. :P Here I used Golden Rose Scale Effect #9.

Do you like almost black colors or do you go for black? Or no dark colors at all? Let me know :)

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie

My first GIVEAWAY! :D [CLOSED]

Ever since I've been thinking about starting a blog I also thought of doing a giveaway. For some reason it's so great to give somebody a little something :)
I've been looking for a good excuse to finally do a giveaway and I think I found one.
25 followers here and 300+ followers on Tumblr! :D That's a pretty big number! I don't have much interesting stuff for the giveaway, but still nice things :)

- Miss Sporty - Disco Tech topcoat
- Catrice - Dirty Berry
- Essence Colour & Go - Think Pink (Almost identical to China Glaze High Hopes)
- Golden Rose - Scale Effect #13
- Essence Colour & Go - Make It Golden
- Essence Colour & Go - Blue Addicted
- Claire's nail file
- Water decals
- Nail foils

Close up of the nail foils

Close up of the water decals.

What to do to win:
1. You must be a GFC follower
2. Leave me a comment below telling me you're entering

How to get extra points:
1. Write a blog post on your blog about this contest (+2)
2. Mention and like this giveaway in your sidebar (+1)
3. Follow me on Twitter (so I can actually use my Twitter account :P) (+1)
I follow back on Twitter, just tweet me.

This giveaway is open internationally and will close Friday November 4th.

I hope you would like to enter, even though I don't have fancy things to give to you :P

xoxo Ingie

Day 5 - Blue nails

We're on day 5 of this so far lovely challenge! After the bit of a failing post of yesterday with just one boring ugly picture, I have 5 for you now! :) (oh and I just found out my camera doesn't always focus on my nails, but the bottles I hold...)

For day 5 I'm showing you some blue nails :P This is Essence's Choose Me! and I think this is one that's been out there for a while. Let me tell you; this polish is gorgeous! When I look at the bottle I see like blue and kind of green and lots of glitters! Besides blue and green glitters it also has silver which I think adds a little something more to this polish.

I applied two coats of polish which in real life looks opaque, but for longer nails you definitely need 3 or maybe even 4 coats!

Later I applied Essence Blue Addicted over it; a very jelly polish. It's a very sheer blue polish and I think Choose Me! is a very nice base color to combine it with.

As you can see it has chunky blue and green glitters. I knew there were green glitters in it, but I don't like this kind of green... So I don't really like this polish to be honest.

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

Haul - September 7th

Hellew!

I'm really excited for this post, because I bought a lot today! :) I went to the drugstore where I can find both Essence and Catrice and I was ready to buy whatever I wanted! xD

That's all I bought today. Yes, other stuff than nail polish is in the picture too, but who cares? :P In total I came home with 17 nail polishes! That's probably the biggest amount I ever bought in one time.

5 new Catrice polishes. These are from the new collection that came in this month. I actually wanted to go for Jade Is Not My Name, but in my excitement I forgot about that one. I'm not sure it was even there though, because some spots were just empty. All Catrice polishes were €2,49 ($3,51) each :)

From left to right:
- 550: Marilyn & Me
- 580: Blues Brother Vol. II
- 610: ASHley
- 630: Sing: Hey, Dirty-Lilah!
- 140: Let's Mauve On!

Don't you just love these names? Catrice already had Let's Mauve On! but I guess they wanted to change that one a little. I happen to have the other version of Let's Mauve On! too, so maybe I'll compare those soon :)

Essence Colour & Go polishes. I only own 5, but today I added 7 more. These were €1,29 ($1,82) each. I believe you can get these polishes in America as well at Ulta for only $ 0,99!

From left to right:
78: Blue Addicted
67: Make It Golden
72: Time For Romance
70: Nude It!
63: Think Pink
76: Hard To Resist
38: Choose Me!

I believe only the last one isn't from the new collection. Not all bottles have the 'new' sticker on it.

Gosh! This is my first Gosh polish. It was in this make-up thingy with all the stuff that is discontinued. The reason why I don't own Gosh polishes is because I find them pretty expensive. I believe like 7 euro's ($9,87)! I got it for €2,40 so that's an amazing deal! This is from a limited edition called Special Edition and this is the color Neon Baby.

I showed you a Essence crackle top coat a while ago and now I added 2 others. I think the blue one is actually new! I thought it was black until I had it in my hands and saw it was blue. That went in my basket! :P
The silver one is called Crack Me! Silver and the blue one Crack Me! Blue. How original... They should've done something fun with that. These were €1,79 ($2,52) each.

These polishes were actually in my basket first. They are not even in the make-up section :P They are just somewhere between the soap and tampons :P I've never had anything of this brand and all the stuff looked like it was for 10 year olds, but when I saw these were metallic I thought I could give it a shot!
The brand is Casuelle and the colors don't have names, but I can forgive them xD These we're €1,39 ($1,96) each.

These are all the polishes that I got. I will show them soon! :) Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie