March Snow

Guess what? It's snowing in St. Peters! And not just a couple of snowflakes, but myriads of them falling heavily. Well, hello spring, I saw snow in May as well ;) This time the weather affected my choice of polish: instead of picking one of the pastels and corals that I prepared for wearing in the next days/weeks, I decided to put on this snowy thing - El Corazón Confetti 531a.

El Corazón Confetti 531a is white tiny glitter floating in a clear base. As simple as that. But how damn unique, no? I personally don't remember of any similar polish. If China Glaze There's Snow One Like You looks as a gross snowdrift, Confetti 531a rather reminds a thin layer of tiny snowflakes.

Be aware of the application though: it's not easy. It took me some time to figure out that this polish does not need a 3rd coat, neither a top coat. On the pictures you see 2 thin coats - they dry neither glossy nor matte, smth inbetween :) Oh, and about drying time - you'll have to be patient. To shorten the time and to smooth out the look, you'll have to apply thin coats. 

As much as I liked the "snow look", the next day I decided to upgrade it somehow, and thought that one of the best suiting options for white is gold. So I sponged some Essence Make It Golden on the tips.

I remember the times when there was a huge hype over Essence Make It Golden, both because it's a great polish and because it's a good substitute of Deborah Lippmann Boom Boom Pow. It's such a pity that Essence is discontinued... and my tiny bottle is half-empty.

Anyway, I loved both looks. How about you? :)
*The nail polish was kindly provided by El Corazón company for my consideration. In this post I expressed my honest and unbiased opinion about the product.

Yellow Mess

It all started with a simple desire to wear yellow. See, I don't have a lot of yellow shades in my stash, so choosing did not take a lot of time - I opted for Essence My Yellow Fellow. After enjoying it for a day, I decided to add up some stamping, and here I was pondering a lot. I ended up with a random lines stamping... and I called this manicure "a yellow mess" : ) 

The stamping was not any complicated: I used a BM-316 plate and triple-stamped the lines using Konad white polish, China Glaze 2030 and Orly Hook Up. I was just placing the stamper in a random order, so that the lines are not stamped one over the other. As simple as that.

And now I'll do something I've never done before in this blog - I'm posting a pic of my full hand! So that you can laugh at my curvy and bony fingers : )

I hope you enjoyed the yellow mess, because I actually did. And the people in the public transport did as well : ) 

DIY Black Sand Nails

When the "sand nails" trend was just emerging, I was not quite sure if I'm gonna be "in" or "out". Finally I thought: "okay, I'm not overexcited, but I'll try once for sure". But before buying a sand texture nail polish I decided to create hardcore sand nails myself. What I got looks rather like wet gritty asphalt, or like volcanic sand - you judge! 

Making this black gritty mess was quite simple: all I needed is a black creme base and a jar of loose black glitter. Let's start with the base colour...

Using the chance, I'd like to show the swatches of Essence Black Out, a black creme with satin finish - 1 out of 2 black cremes I own :) To be honest, the satin finish sucks, it's just half-matte and streaky, I didn't even want to make pics. What you see is all covered with top coat. Otherwise, the polish is quite goopy, but with a lil patience you can layer it with 1 coat. 

When I had my black base colour ready, I just applied a layer of top coat on each nail and dipped into the glitter jar, working with one nail at a time - as easy as that! :) By the way, the glitter I got from lovely Dulce among other cool nail art supplies.. thank you, dear! :)

And the "sandy" result I got: 

Close-ups.. looks not very "cute", rather brutal, I know ^^ 

Surface: was supper gritty!!! Although all the glitter particles were nicely stuck and none falling off, I could barely touch my face. But it was a great feeling to scratch smth with a surface of a nail :D :D Like your bf's back XD Needless to say, sand nails were getting a lot of attention from people around me :)

Surely, someone looking at this might say: "Oh holy sh#$^%!!! That's gross!!!". But then again, just read the name of my blog and don't take stuff any seriously :) :)

So, what do you think? :)

Bloom-A-Loom

Hellow! : )

No worries, I'm still alive, just pretty busy.. During the last weeks I've travelled so many km within Germany, that Deutsche Bahn has to grant me BahnCard 150 1st Class+ or something like that. Fuf. 

Anyways, I never gave up painting my nails, neither blogging, so here I am with a new post. Today's post is in a way a tribute to one polish I like very much - Essence Bloom-A-Loom, as well as the whole collection it stems from, Blossoms Etc LE. I bought all five, and it was the only time that I bought am entire collection. Actually, I already showed Bloom-A-Loom stamped, and within a duo-manicure, but now it's gonna shine alone : )   

Essence Bloom-A-Loom is a very simple lavender creme, with a hidden shimmer which is only (and barely) visible in the bottle. The polish is opaque, but thick, I had to be careful to layer the 2d coat carefully. Otherwise it's nice. But of course not unique. 

There's nothing much to add, besides that I like this polish. So I just let the photos speak for themselves : )

Forget-Me-Not

A blast from the past. The manicure I was wearing last December. Either the time goes very fast, or I am very slow in posting.. : ) Regardless, the polish is still pretty, a periwinkle shade by Essence - Forget-Me-Not. 

Essence Blossoms Etc. was the only collection (limited edition, actually) which I bought whole, as it was. I still don't regret about it - those pastels are so pretty. Essence Forget-Me-Not was a part of that collection - slightly dusty periwinkle creme with blue nanoshimmer, which is not any visible in reality but still makes the colour less flat. No issues with application, 2 easy coats.

And some stamping I did back then using Konad white polish and m63 plate..

Flowery Stamping

Haven't posted any stamping for a while.. here we go: a springy colour combination : )

Used products: 

Base colour: Essence Bloom-A-Loom [2 coats]

Stamping plate: SdP B18

Stamping polish: Finger Paints Heavenly Hydrangeas

What I can add is that the base colour - Essence Bloom-A-Loom is absolutely gorgeous!! Initially I wanted to post its swatches too, but they deserve a separate post : ) 

Cooperative Dotting

A common result of creative cooperation during the weekend : )

Materials used: 

Base colour: Essence Skyscraper (Urban Messages LE) x 3 coats

Dotting: Essence Berlin Story (I Love Berlin LE)

Camera

2 pairs of hands :)

The second pair of "helping hands" was assisting me not only in shooting the photos, but also in drawing the dots. So I'm sorry for some imperfections : )

I'll tell you only one thing: we had fun : )