Nail Art Friendly Blog!

Although I'm not so good at nail art and you haven't seen it a lot on my blog, the sweet Shannara from Nails And Stuff decide to give me this award not too long ago. Thank you for that! :)

It's really hard for me to nominate others, especially now I'm really late with this and I've seen so many people have been nominated already that I'm nominating everybody who reads this and has some nail art on their blog. Maybe a lazy way to do it, but it's just so hard :P

Thanks again Shannara! :)

xoxo Ingie

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

Nail Mail!

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An extra post today! :D

When I come home after work a package was waiting for me. I'm still waiting for 2 more things; Color Club's Alias and China Glaze Fast Freeze Quick Dry Spray. But I did got some really nice polishes today.

Other than nail polish I also ordered nail wheels, because I want to try out some nail art. And another Konad image plate; m65

First I got some holographic polishes and from left to right you see;
- Color Club - Revvvolution
- Color Club - Wild At Heart
- Color Club - Worth The Risque

Believe it or not, but these are my first neon polishes (I think... :P)
- Color Club - Almost Famous
- Color Club - Pucci-licous
- Color Club - Warhol
- Color Club - Wham! Pow!

Some glitters:
- Color Club - Ultra-Astral
- Color Club - Ruby Slippers

Some loners:
- Color Club - Overboard
- Golden Rose - Holographic 110
- China Glaze - Pool Party

And here the pinks next to each other:
- China Glaze - Pool Party
- Color Club - Warhol
- Color Club - Ultra-Astral
- Color Club - Overboard

The neons are hard to capture, but the last picture is the best I could get :P

Do you have any of these polishes? If not, which one do you think you would buy yourself? Let me know, down below :)

xoxo Ingie

Inspired On Tumblr; Zebra Nails

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As you might know; I use Tumblr. Depending on what kind of stuff you're interested in you can follow tumblelogs that like these things too. I'm interested in anything that has to do with nail polish, so I follow nail polish/nail art and that kind of stuff blogs :P

For this mani I was inspired by this picture.  I didn't want to go for an all nude polish so I went for a little bit of holo with Color Club's Love 'Em Leave 'Em. Over that I stamped with the zebra image from image plate m57. (is it a zebra or tiger print? I still don't know... :P)

When that dried I applied a piece of striping tape and painted the left side black. I immediately took off the striping tape, because applying a topcoat or just waiting for it to dry will pull up the sides and maybe take of your polish under it.

Overall I'm kinda happy with how it looked. I'm looking forward to try more stuff that I've seen on Tumblr :)

If you have a Tumblr, please follow me at fyeahilovenails.tumblr.com :)

xoxo Ingie

Pink Wednesday; Swap Swatches

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A few weeks ago I did a swap with Iris from PolishAmor. Thank the lord she got the package, so a weight fell off my shoulders :P Like seriously, when I see these programs on TV where they check packages at the airport I'm scared they will do it to my package too. Since I'm still not really sure if it's legal to send nail polish... :P

Anywho.. She got me some pink polishes too. I don't have the box with polishes close to me at the moment, so I can't tell if these were the only three xD

This first one is Sinful Colors - Folly. This picture isn't really color accurate, but I can tell you it's gorgeous!

When I wrapped this second one open I was like; my mom is gonna love this bottle. My mom came into the room, looked at the polishes I already opened and she was like; Ooh, I like that bottle!
I didn't say anything :P This is Naby in the color (I believe) Rose. I never heard of this brand before, but it is a really nice polish! And of course the color is gorgeous too! I wore this one for like 3 days.

This third one is Wet 'N Wild's Tickled Pink. I don't really know why this one was on my witslist. I have a few pinks like this already. Still I like this kind of pink!

Which of these 3 is your favorite? Let me know in the comments! :)

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?

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

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

Dots & Bows

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Obviously I haven't been posting frequently anymore. Working all day makes me feel so blegh in a way that I just don't do anything with my nails. I walk around with the same nail polish for 3 days :P But a change is coming. Today I decided to put my nails on an at least 2 week 'diet'. I filed them down, got rid of the ugly cuticles, took care of my cuticles and nails and put a nail hardener on. There are still 6 nails that have a break too far down to clip them off, so maybe I have to extend my nail diet.

But in the past week and today I did do some things with my nails which will be good for at least 1 post everyday this week :) So some days my nails may be shorter or longer.

I lost my Konad scraper for a few weeks and did not want to buy a new scraper, knowing that when I get the new scraper I will find my old one. Finally I bought 2 new scrapers and there my old scraper came out saying 'Peek-a-boo!' But I have 3 scrapers now and I can finally use my image plates again.

For this manicure I painted my nails in a lovely pink called Folly from Sinful Colors that I got from Iris. I used image plate m79 for the dots and image plate m59 for the bows. This manicure failed every single time I tried it, so this is the best I could make out of it :P

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie

The Versatile Blogger Award!

A few weeks ago Nory from Fierce Make Up & Nails gave me The Versatile Blogger award. It's about time to do something with it! :P So thank you Nory! :)

 

There are two rules you have to follow:
1. List 7 things about you.
2. Pass this along to 15 other bloggers that deserve this award.

Okay, so here are 7 things about me!

1. I'm addicted to milk! I can not live one day without it. I actually drink too much of it :P
2. I love 'Awkward' on MTV
3. When I go to sleep I listen to my iPod until I'm ready to go to sleep. If I don't listen to it it's hard to fall asleep.
4. In my head I always plan to clean my room and do this and that, but when it comes to it I don't do it.
5. When somebody gets hurt instead of comforting them I'm just standing there awkwardly smiling. It's the nerves I've been told xD
6. I love pictures of famous cities!
7. I have a really bad eye sight. Without my contact lenses/glasses I can barely see. Almost 3 years ago my sight was only 45%

I nominate these 15 lovely bloggers:
Adventures In Acetone
All That Is Gorgeous
Caitlins Creative Corner
Drugstore And Bargain Lover
Dutch Nail Polish
Good Lack, Nail
My Polish Stash
My Nailtopia
Nailderella Nails
Nailed To The T
Nail Polish Is My Crack
Okay Now Joy
Pretty 'N Polish
Pudgy Nails
Swatch And Learn

xoxo Ingie