Colors by Llarowe - OABTRAD (Orchids Are Better Than Roses Any Day)

Hey cuties!

Guess what, today isn't any regular Thursday. It's Pink Thursday's birthday! I love pink so I try to participate as often as I can :) Princess Emma has decided that our manicures should be heart themed and who am I to say no to that!?

I decided to go for a pretty simple design. I used OABTRAD as the base colour and did a glitter gradient with Heart breaker from Dollish Polish. Since OABTRAD is so gorgeous on it's own I added a couple of pictures without the glitter gradient as well.

The formula of OABTRAD was classic Llarowe, nothing to complain about there. It dried fast and two coats was enough to get it opaque. Heart breaker is such a cute polish, it's packed with white, pink and red glitters shaped as circles, bows and hearts among others. I didn't have any problems with heart breaker, it was easy to get different glitter shapes on the brush. When I did the glitter gradient I applied Heart breaker on a make-up sponge and dabbed it on the nail. This is a really great technique to apply glitters. Do you guys have any special plans for Valentines day tomorrow?

That's all for now :)

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

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China Glaze - Sea goddess gradient

Hey lovelies,

Hope that you're having a great day this far :) My parents dogs are at my place for a couple of days so the three of us are relaxing, taking walks and enjoying life. 

Todays mani is a texture gradient. I have used two polishes from China Glaze Sea goddess collection. The darker pink is Shell we dance and the lighter one is Wish on a starfish. I love the names, there so funny. I love texture gradients, the are so easy to do and it looks really cool. This is how I do my gradients. First off I apply the colour closest to the cuticle over the entire nail. For this gradient I ended up with two coats of each colour to achieve full opacity. After that I gently dab the other colour on with a make-up sponge. I repeat the dabbing until I have a smooth transition. I think this gradient turned out great and I'm rely pleased with the final result. 

I know that not everybody enjoys texture polishes as much as I do, but they really are amazing for gradients. If your not a big fan of the gritty finish I have a tip for you. Most texture polishes require a lot of TC to get smooth. But if you take a nail file and buff the polish to even it out, all you will need is one coat of TC to get a super shiny finish and a really pretty gradient :)

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

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Colors by Llarowe - Bless your wicked little heart

Hey guys,

I've got a pretty red to show you today. I was planning to do some nail art today but I didn't have the time. I'll give it a new try tomorrow. So todays contribution to Valentine Polish Week is nail art free. 

Bless your wicked little heart is part of the valentine collection from CbL. It's a deep red jelly with red and golden shimmer. The golden shimmer is only visible in extreme angles, you can really see it well in the second picture. I have three coats of BYWLH and one coat of SV. I doesn't dry as gritty as I thought it would which was a nice surprise. The polished applied smoothly, the formula was problem free. 

If you want to enjoy more red manis click here! 

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

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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

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