Valentine themed week - Blue monday

Hey cuties,

This week Gelic' nail art and Traces of polish have arranged a Valentine themed week. I'm super excited, hope you are as well! I'm going to try to make the ordinary themed days work with my V-day manis. Such as blue Monday, red Tuesday and so on :) The green one is going to be tricky though.

First out is a pretty simple mani. IMO you can make any polish look stunning with a few rhinestones. Therefore I used heart shaped rhinestones to add a bit of a valentine feel to this mani. You can buy the hearts here. The blue polish is Peacock from IsaDora. A dark royal blue polish with shimmer. It's not matte though, the suede effect is thanks to a matte TC from OPI.  Peacock's formula was average. Not bad but not great either. It was a bit runny for my taste but I managed. On my ring finger I added some shimmer from Pop Culture Cosmetics on the free edge. The shimmer polish is called Magical wedding which I found very appropriate.

On my index and pinkie I added one of my favourite white-ish glitters of all time. Care bear stare from Darling Diva Polish. Care bare stare has heart, star, hex and circle shaped glitters. I used a make-up sponge when applying the glitter. I find that very helpful as it helps to avoid the glitter from getting to thick. Another tip is to wait until the polish is kinda tacky and gently dab the polish to flatten it out.

That's all for now. If you wan't to participate on this theme week here's a link to the InLinkz codes :)

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

An InLinkz Link-up

IsaDora - Wine crush

Number one thing I do when I should sleep: swatch nail polish!

This is Wine crush from IsaDora. It's a reddish brown texture polish with gold and copper shimmer. It's the perfect winter polish. At least if you live in the southern part of Sweden. No beautiful snow flakes softly falling from the sky. We get rain, and dark grey clouds :P

Anyway back to Wine crush :) As most texture polishes the formula was great. Two coats was enough to achieve full coverage. I dried really fast, which is a big plus. I really like texture polishes and Wine crush is no exception.

The poll is open until 10 am, don't forget to vote on your favourite nail polish brand :)

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

Haul

Hey guys!
I'm super excited because I got some great nail mail today! The best part is that before I went to the postal office I did some IRL-shopping. So the amount of untried beauties has increased. Let's start with the ones I ordered from nailsupplies.

First out is China Glaze, from left to right.

Ahoy, Cranberry Splash and Running in Circles.

These where all $2.50 each.

Now it's time for OPI.

It's My Year, This Gown Needs A Crown and Matte Top Coat.

The matte TC was $6.80 and the other two where $4.99 each.

This is a new brand for me, Lechat.

Night at the Cinema and Ready for my Close Up.

These where $3.00 each.

Now time for the ones I bought at Åhléns. Three out of five polishes where on sale, that's pretty good right!? I was surprised because I didn't expect that there would be such a large amount of polishes on sale left. So that was a great way to start the weekend, lol.

The first two are from IsaDora. 

I personally think that these polishes are a bit overpriced so I try to buy them when they are on sale. 

Peacock and Black Amethyst.

These where 29 SEK each, which is approximately $4.00.

This is one of my favourite polish brands, Lumene.

Twilight and Small Island.

My old bottle of Small Island is almost empty(!) so I had to get another one. I bought the first one after my absolute favourite blogger Killer Colours posted a picture of it on her Instagram and I'm so glad that she did. It's my all-time favourite nude. Twilight is another polish that I got thanks to Killer Colours. I'm really looking forward to try it out. These where 69 SEK each which is like $10.00. Super pricy I know, but I had to get them.

Finally this little cutie. This is also Lumene but another nail polish collection. The collection is called Natural Code and the polish is Party on. It was only 19 SEK, $3.00 so that wasn't to bad. 

That's all for now :)

Until next time, take care!

/Christina