Sale Tip - Barry M Nail polish set!

Hello lovelies!
I hope all of you have had a lovely christmas if you celebrate it, otherwise I hope you've had a lovely weekend =)

I just wanted to give you guys a little sale tip. At ASOS you can get a set of 4 bestselling nail polishes from Barry M for just £6. The set includes my favourite Raspberry, Indigo, Mushroom and Bright Red. The colours are just as they sound. I placed my order for this set yesterday =)

You can find it HERE

And just so you guys know..
My camera has gone cray cray atm so I can't take any pictures =( Hopefully my boyfriend can figure out the problem soon but until then there will be no NOTD or FOTD =( But of course I'm sure you'll live ;P I have some other posts lined up instead..

NOTD - Depend nr 115 + lilac glitter

So for my birthday i got a few of the mini polishes from Depend ( a nailbrand here in Sweden ) from a friend. I got a really cool bright mint green, a very bright coral red, a white nailart polish (with a very fine brush) and this dark purple colour.

Now since it's winter (even though the snow hasn't come yet) I decided that the purple one was the one to go for first. I love this purple. It's dark but you can still see that it is a purple and not a black. i have a few dark purples that are so so dark that if you're not in direct sunlight they look black. So I absolutely love this colour. And of course I couldn't resist using som glitter on my ring fingers ;P I went for a lilac one that I think looks great with the polish =)

NOTD - O.P.I Blue my mind + Glitter Michigan

I've been completely obsessed with blues and glitters lately so today I went Aaall in hehe =) One of my Favorite royal blues is O.P.Is Blue my mind, it's sooo pretty. The only negative thing about it is that it's a bit sheer so you need 3 layers =/ It's a really old colour so the formula wasn't as great as O.P.I polishes today I guess (I have a few others from that time that I have the same problem with)..

Anyways, I used Emite Glitter in Michigan (my makeup school's glitter) on my ringfingers to ad some sparkle =)

I just love the look of deep royal blue on my (and anyones) nails, soooo pretty!

NOTD - Reflects Pearl Glitter

I've gotten more and more into glitter nails recently, it's so easy and fun and I actually get to use my many loose glitters =) One glitter I'm particularly in love with atm is MACs Reflects Pearl. It's a gorgeous white/pearl glitter, very finely milled and looks awesome on the nails. Because it is so finely milled it's a lot easier to work with than other glitters I think (at least on the nails).

When you use it on the nails it really creates a clean sofisticated look but still fun as it softly sparkles. I love this look and if you have Reflects Pearl inyour collection  really suggest you try it out on your nails =)

Loose glitter on nails...

I have quite a few cosmetics glitters at home just beacause I'm always drawn to them, they're so pretty, but when I buy them and get them home I use them maybe once or twice. So I thought I needed another way to use my glitters. ON MY NAILS!

Said and done =)

(Because I'm awful at being careful with my nails they have worn down a bit, I took a shower almost right after I was done with them = bad idea)

FACE Stockholm glitter in Galaxy

I went for a simple way to use the glitter, on my tips. So the first thing I did was paint my nails with a sheer nude colour just to get a prettier base than my normal pinky shiny brittle nails ^^

When that had dried completely I took a top coat and painted my tips. Starting with the thumb, than I dipped my thumb upsidedown in the glitter - then, gently padded down the glitter so it really stuck on the top coat, then on to the next finger. After the top coat and the glitter had dried I gently brushed away access glitter and then painted 2 coats of top coat over all my nails =)

I love the look of glitter tips. makes me feel like I've had them done by a proffesional but I haven't.

So If you're like me have loose glitters at home you just don't use that often, try using them on your nails =)

  

(make sure you let every layer of polish and topcoat dry, maybe let them dry even for an hour just to be safe)

NOTD - Starry sky

So lazy sunday, sundays are usually the days when I paint my nails cuz I just don't have the time or energy to do it other days.. And today I felt like doing some nail art (if you can call a gradient, art) with some blues and some glitter. I wanted my nails to look like a starry sky =) this is how it turned out:

I USED

O.P.I's Azure for Supre (light aqua blue)

China Glaze's Awaken (gunmetal grey) & Shooting stars (multicolour glitter)

Make up Store's Raven (dark dark blue) I think this one is actually discontinued =/

NOTD - OPI Flashbulb Fuchsia

So I wanted to paint my nails today after I cleaned the apartment.. You know, to relax myself and feel a bit more pretty (I usually feel quite disgusting after cleaning haha) but I had no idea of what colour I wanted.. So when I looked in my collection I found an old fave of mine, a bright bright fuchsia pink with some blue shimmer.. I haven't used it in probably a year so I though it was time now =)

Isn't it pretty?? It looks a little softer in the picture than it does in real life though =)

Dupe alert - MAC Misschievous Mint vs. H&M Mint Green polish

Ever since I got the MAC Misschievous mint polish from the Quite Cute collection it has been a fave of mine. A true companion I would say ^^ Now, when I got the Summer nails minis kit from H&M about a week ago and I wore the Light Blue one and then the Mint Green one I found myself thinking "wow this polish reminds me of my MAC one" about both of them. So I thought I would compare them today. And seriously I found a 100% dupe for my LE MAC polish that I love sooooo much.

I mean, just look!

MAC Misschievous Mint - H&M Mint Green - H&M Light Blue

MAC Misschievous Mint - H&M Mint Green - H&M Light Blue

The Light Blue one is way more light blue (as the name suggests) than the other two and doesn't have any hint of green in it (yes in the pictures it's quite similar but trust me it's not). But the other two are exact spot on dupes! SO if you missed out on the Quite Cute collection from MAC and have been wanting the super duper awesome Misschievous mint polish I suggest you go out to an H&M store and see if they have the little Summer nails Kit (4 mini polishes for 39.90 SEK = £3.88 = $6-26). Maybe they even have it as a normal sized polish? I'm not sure..

Both MAC and H&M polishes has great formulations and they are set with just 2 coats. They are both smooth and easy to work with. I'm so happy I found a dupe of my beloved MAC one, cuz now I don't have to be careful of how much I use it ^^ 

What do you guys think? Do you like mint polishes? =)

NOTD - MAC Mischievous Mint + polka dots

So first of all... I've hit the 100 follower "milestone" =) Thank you all of you! I've tried blogging so many times before but never really enjoyed it as much as I do now.. I'm really loving it =) I probably wouldn't as much if I didn't get as much nice feedback as I've been getting from you guys so thank you =)

Anyways.. On to my NOTD =)

This is one of my fave colours of all time allready and I've only had it for a few months.. But I was bored yesterday so i decided to do something a little extra with my nails but nothing too hard or extravagant =) So i decided to do polka dots on my ring fingers.. It's sooo easy to do.. just take a hair pin/tooth pick something small and pointy, and then pick up some polish and dot away =)

How to do perfect French manicure nails at home!

1. Apply a basecoat to protects your nails from discolouring
and the glue from the tejp sticking on to you actual nails.

2. Take a piece of tape and use it to trace you "nail-tip-line".

3. Now paint your white colour on your tips,
as messy as you like =)

4. When it's dried a little bit (not all the way) remove the tape.

5. When the white polish har dried all the way, use a sheer
nude/pink colour and paint a layer of that right over the entire nail.
I used a sheer shimmery pink. O.P.I Princess.

6. Finish with a top coat and you're all done =)