Deborah Lippmann - Do the mermaid

I'ms so tired tonight. Work has been super duper hectic and I fell like a zombie. I'm glad that I took these pictures yesterday. I'm not sure that I could have managed to take the pictures tonight. Just the thought of lifting the camera is exhausting.  

Anyway time for todays polish. I've had this polish for such a long time but for some reason I haven't used it until now. Do the mermaid, as it's called, is a wonderful lilac polish with gold shimmer and purple micro glitters. I ended up with two coats and added some matte top coat. I really like the matte finish, it helped the golden shimmer pop.   

The butterflies are from Born pretty store. I think they look really cute and applying stuff like these butterfly is simple way to add something extra to a regular polish.

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

Haul

One mustn't buy nail polish... 

... Who am I kidding!? New babies to show you. Some of these are actually christmas gifts that just arrived. The first five are from PhoenixBeautyLounge. I ordered them on the 25th and received them today. I ordered from Nailsupplies the same day and they arrived earlier but since it's been during the holidays I don't think it's that long of a wait. 

First out: China Glaze - Bizarre Blurple

I think this name speaks very well for itself. If not, you could glance at the picture and you will probably get at good idea of what it looks like :P 

OPI - Swimsuit... Nailed it! and Every Month Is Oktoberfest

OPI - Russian Navy and Underneath The Mistletoe

Next up is some IRL shopping. My mother and I went to Emporia in Malmö. I love Emporia, mostly because they have Sephora there. The sale was still going strong and the Spiderman box was 99 SEK approximately 14 USD. The ones from Nails inc where 65 SEK each which is approximately 14 USD.  

From the top left to the lower right:

OPI - Into The Night, Number One Nemesis, 

Just Spotted The Lizard! and Your Web Or Mine?

Nails inc - Primrose Park and Cheyne Walk

I read about these Mont Bleu files over at Lucy's Stash and with the 30% discount she mentioned I decided to order a few. Let's hope I don't sit on these, a problem I usually have with my glas files lol xD

Link to the purple files

Link to the file with Swarovski details

And finally got a 75 SEK discount code from Nelly for my birthday so I decided to get a DL polish. 

Deborah Lippmann - Stronger

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

Deborah Lippmann - Mermaid's dream

Time for a must have polish... At least in my opinon. Iv'e been wanting Mermaid's dream for a long time but I try to only buy polishes from DL when I have coupon codes and such. They are kind of pricy after all. Mermaid's Dream has a minty golden green shimmer base with small blue glitters. I think it's wonderful and I'm really glad that I finally got it. 

I'm wearing two thin coats in the pictures. The application was flawless and the formula likewise. It dried pretty fast but it didn't dry smooth. I needed three coats of TC but it didn't feel thick or so.    

If you love green as much as I do go over to Karin's blog for more green polishes. 

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

Deborah Lippmann - Mermaid's kiss

Hey guys!

The battery has finally arrived and I'm super excited! 

Today I have a gorgeous polish for you all. It's Mermaid's kiss from DL. The base is a soft varm pink color packed with tons of golden shimmer. If that wasn't enough they also added pink and magenta glitter. It sounds crazy but it has i calm feel to it that I really enjoy. The application was super, but I did need three coats and it took a while for it to dry completely. Even with SV, so you need a good half an hour to make sure it's completely dry :)

Just realised that it's Pink thursday today :) If you want to see more lovely pink manicures, check out Emma's blog :)

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

FIRST!

So, after about a year of escalating polish love I've decided that it's time... 

I give you another polish blog. Since there are so few, hehe. I hope you will enjoy it. I hope _I_ will enjoy it as well. A blog for me to use as a gallery for all the lovely polishes that I truly love. Please let me know if there is anything in particular that you want to read about and I will do my best to make it happen! 

The first post is not about a specific polish but more about my nails. What they looked like when i started using nail polish on a daily basis and what they look like now. So approximately one year has past since i took the first photos. Hopefully you will be able to see a small difference. 

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First out is a picture from January this year. Deborah Lippmann - Candy Shop, a pink jellybased polish with tons of glitter i different colours and sizes. I love this polish, but as you can see i also loved biting on my nails when this photo was taken.

As you guys can see the biting continued during February. But I remember feeling really bad when i was biting. So i continued painting my nails and when I bit, I just repainted them. Trying to make them look as pretty as possible. By doing so it became harder and harder to chew 'em up.

During March something happened, I'm not sure how but the nails where actually getting longer! No chewed up cuticles and I think that my nails are looking kinda' nice on this picture. Except for the awkward claw pose and reddish skin tone, lol.

And once again something has happened. These pictures are from April andI feel so proud when i look at them. I mean, look at the photo from January and compare it to the these ones. It's a really big difference. There where quite a few relapses during this time. Cuticles where bitten and my nails did get attacked by my teeth a couple of times but still! 

I'm not going to show you pictures from every month. That would take for ever, but I am going to show you two more pictures. Pictures showing what my nails look like now.

This is the wonderful "The man in the suit" from CbL's Christmas/Hanukkah collection. It's a gorgeous raspberry red  colour that i absolutely love. I have been having a hard time with the holographic polishes but something has changed. I _LOVE_ the effect now. Anyhow great application, this is two thin coats. I used Trind nail repair as base coat and finished it of with one coat of Ciaté - speed coat. That's all for now. I hope you will enjoy reading my blog!

/Christina