Ten nail polish picks // Spring 2014

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For the spring I love pastels and pink, despite not being a pink kind of girl. Soft colours to gently lure in the summer. I also really enjoy putting on a plain white nail polish, it just looks nice and clean!

Names of the polishes shown:

Barry M - Mint Green
Barry M - Lemon Ice Cream
Barry M - Peach Melba
Essie - Off the Shoulder
Essie - Mint Candy Apple
Essie - Bikini So Teeny
OPI - Nothin' Mousie 'Bout It
OPI - Alpine Snow
Revlon - Charming
Revlon - Popular

What's on my nails? 15/01/2014

Essie - Maximillian Strasse Her

Christmas nail art

The cute:

The classic:

The simple:

On my nails:

Used OPI - Designer...de better! as a base colour. 

I love Christmas. And I especially love Christmas nail art. Last year I wore the second of the reindeer designs constantly, and I got complimented in shops and generally by people who spotted my fabulous manicure (ego moment) and it generally makes people in a better mood seeing small things like this. So I put together some old and new designs I've seen a bit all over the internet.

And of course you can customise background colours and such. But these are just some examples. I used dotting tools to all of them and they are very easy to do. I'm not the best at nail art so if I can do it, I'm sure some of you can to! Oh and the pug is a nail sticker I got off eBay. 

I also had a post about Christmas nail art last year. You can check it out here

List of nail polishes I used:

Barry M - Foil Effects (silver)

Barry M - Lemon I/C 

Barry M - Mushroom

Barry M - Navy

Essie - Beyond Cozy

Essie - Mojito Madness

Gosh - Gold

Gosh - Nero

Saffron London - N.04

Saffron London - N.09

Wet n' Wild - French White Cream

Wet n' Wild - I Red a Good Book

Wet n' Wild - Sugar Coat

What's on my nails? 13/11/2013

OPI - Designer...de Better! // OPI - Peace & Love & OPI // Sally Hansen Double Duty base and top coat

Peace & Love & OPI is an oil slick kind of colour.

Looks purple in some lights and in others a bright teal.

Early Christmas shopping

I'm a person who likes to be prepared. And don't worry, I'm only showing the things I got for people who don't even known I have a blog or can get access to it!

Let's start with what I've (well it's from both my brother and me) ordered for my mum.

Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue 100 ml gift set. Can be found here.

Hedgehog pendant on 18" chain. Can be found here.

When you order online, please order early. Ask or look for the option to return even though Christmas is a bit away, just in case. Because mailing things during December is insane. I KNOW my mum will love these things, so a return will not be needed.

For my grandmother I got:

These adorable tea light houses were a steal from Rema 1000. If you're fast, you can still get them, but in my lokal one they sold out during the first 2 days. The big ones cost 49 kr and the small 39 kr. There's 2 different designs in the big ones and only one design for the small. I would personally love to have these, but my mormor deserve them more than I do!

I also got something for my cousin, my friend Noe (hi baba if you're reading, you'll love what I got your cute arse :i) and Sean, but I don't want to put anything in here because I'm sure at least 2 of them look at my blog!

Now to myself... hihi

Cat make up bag 20 kr, penguin storage box 30 kr (both from Tiger). "Peace, Love and OPI" and "Alpine Snow" 125 kr each, but there's a 3 for 2 offer in Matas at the moment! And then some glittery hair ties arrived today. Can be found here.

I still need to figure out what I'm giving my uncles, aunt, cousins and brother. But good Christmas is still a bit away ;-)

Are you like me, an early shopper? Or are you last minute? Tell me in the comments!

My Favourite Autumn/Winter Polishes

From left: Miss Grey (classic dark grey) // Purple Heart (petrol like) // Nero (pure black)

From left: Navy (dark navy with lighter blue shimmer) // Copper (copper shimmer, kinda looks like autumn leaves)

From left: Nein! Nein! Nein! Ok fine! (dark greyish green) // Devilish (almost black wine red)

From left: Miss Fancy Pants (classic gregie) // Stylenomics (very dark forest green) // Avenue Maintain (parisian blue)

From left: Malaga Wine (deep wine red) // Germani-cure (red-black-orange shimmer) // The World Is Not Enough (blue grey shimmer with green and pink reflects)

From left: Every Month Is Octoberfest (deep purple with orangy red specks) // On Her Majesty's Secret Service (blue base with green, gold and pinkish specks) // Lincoln Park After Park (almost black purple)

I will admit, autumn/winter nail polishes and colours are my favourite. I've always been drawn to dark and deep colours. Especially the almost black colours. And for a bit of extra sassiness, you can always add a glitter top coat!

I did think of including my favourite Christmas/holiday polishes too, but I think I'll wait a bit with that ;-)

Hope you had a safe and fun Halloween!

DIY: How to remove glitter nail polish

YOU NEED:

 THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT:

Hope this will help you and spare you a lot of time. And will encourage you to put extra sparkly in your life!