Essence Trend Edition Love Letters

Essence says:
"Let's get romantic with the trend edition Love Letters. We're heading towards Valentine's Day and it's all about traditional love letters. These gorgeous products have such a cute love of detail, you're sure to find the right words for beautiful compliments."

This trend edition brings 5 longlasting nail polish colors and a stampy set.

I didn't get the stampy set but I do have the 5 polishes for you.
Here are the swatches:

Essence Love Letters 01 Rosy in love

 

Essence Love Letters 02 I got a crush on blue!

 

 

Essnece Love Letters 03 Grey-headed lovebird

 

 

Essence Love Letters 04 Dear peach!

 

 

Essence Love Letters 05 Inkheart

 

 

All the polishes appear to be very fluid but it tends to get tacky in a short period of time.

Therefore I recommend to apply two thin coats for all the polishes and also wait with the next coat until the first one is completely dry.

I haven't tried it yet but I think these polishes (all of them) could be great for stamping and sugarspun nails.

The colors are very beautiful and have a shiny finish (the stampy one a little less shiny).

They remind me of Vintage colors and ballet.

 

 

Of course I also made a nail art with this trend edition. I did add one other Essence color.

Essence Trend Edition Beaty Beats 04 Groupie at heart

 

 

Index: Hand painted Vintage roses

Middle: Hand painted Love Letters design

Ring: Sponged background+stamping

Pinky: Hand painted hearts

 



Swatches Rimmel Sweetie Crush

Rimmel London just released a new limited edition called "Sweetie Crush".

This collection holds 5 sugary textured polishes in sweet candy colors.

Perfect for Spring, Easter and of course Valentine.

Source: veracamilla.nl

From left to right:

008 Sherbet Sweetheart

009 Candyfloss Cutie

010 Frizzy Applelicious

011 Violet Swizzle

012 Blueberry Whizz

Now, I've been in a lot of stores but could only find 3 of 5 colors.

Some didn't have this edition at all, others just two colors.

I like to make this collection complete especially after my experiences.

Perhaps with the next arrivals?

As soon as I have the other two colors (blue and purple) I will update this post.

 

Here are the swatches of the 3 colors that I did get (all are two coats):

 

008 Sherbet Sweetheart

 

 

009 Candyfloss Cutie

 

010 Frizzy Applelicious

 

 

And of course I made a very sweet nail art for you :D

 

Update

Here are the swatches of the last two colors...I finally could get my hands on them ;D

 

011 Violet Swizzle

 

 

012 Blueberry Whizz

 

 

I am very happy with the Sweetie Crush line by Rimmel London.

Colors are gorgeous. Beautiful sand texture. Two coaters.

Well done!

 

Valentine nail art

Hi lovelies,

I'm trying to find a new balance between getting my driving license, having fun with the kids, spending time with my hubby and doing nails.
It's very hard for me because nails are in my blood right now and it feels I have to choose between many things I love.
I came with a (not yet) satisfying solution: I will be doing nails in the weekend...my hubby likes to sleep in...my kids love that they are free from school and have lots to play with...so nobody really misses me at that time ;D

Meanwhile when I find some extra time I'll be swatching, nail arting and reviewing for you.

Let's start with a swatch of a beautiful Spring color from BeYu.
I totally fell in love with this at the store.
BeYu Long-lasting Nail Lacquer 568

 



Too bad my camera couldn't catch all the beauty of this polish.
On the swatch it just looks like a beautiful shimmery/pearly pink but in real life the polish has a very iridescent effect.
Like oil effect but then with pink and teal like colors. So so pretty!
I've used 3 coats not really because it needed to but I don't like the tip to see through and two coats was just too sheer for me.
One coat would be pretty for the nude look; subtle pink, subtle shimmer.

I also took a picture of the bottle because you can see a little of the effect in the middle on the image.

 

For the nail art I used this image as my inspiration:

And this was the outcome:

 

I'm in desperate need of new nail art brushes.

If you know any good brand and/or webshop where I can get them, please let me know!

I'm looking for a very thin detail brush and am not able to buy from Amazon, eBay or any other which recommends creditcard or PayPal.

 

Valentine nails "Cats love"

I'm super busy with the #sharethelove chain on Facebook.
Within two days I went from 250 to almost 1000 followers.
Something I couldn't achieve during my challenge.

It does feel a bit like spamming and therefore I thought it would be fair to post some nail art as well ;D

But...first things first...
My base color is my new favorite polish.
It's the most gorgeous polish I've seen so far.
Color Club 999 Eternal Beauty
Why?
- It's purple
- It's a holo
- It could easily be a one coater

Here are some swatches:

 

 

 

Can you feel what I feel?!

And here is today's nail art:

Valentine Nails "Follow your heart!"

Okay...up front...this is not my best work.

My arm is okay though. I'm not in any pain anymore and I was able to make a nail art :D
But I am feeling terribly sad about my short nails...if I could only speed up the growth ;D

These Valentine nails are easy to do...especially when you leave the words out.

I started with a white base. Then made a trail of black dots ending with a bright neon pink heart on the pinky. Along the trail I decided to paint the words "Follow your heart" but I think it's not necessary to do this.

Respect to the Bloggers!

This week's challenge on NPQ is "Respect to the Bloggers!"

I found this challenge to be very hard.
I follow as many blogs, vlogs, posts, media as I possibly can.
But this also means that I like a lot and it's hard to choose just one!

I actually have respect for everybody who is doing nails/nail art. Whether it is:
- Because they are so well manicured (perfect nail shape, beautiful hands, neat cuticles)
- Because it looks like crap but they just don't care what other people think or want to get better
- Because of their beautiful art
- Because of their unique ideas
- And so on...

So, who to choose???

For this challenge I decided to go back to the beginning of my journey.
There were 2 artists that really inspired me.

- The lovely +Robin Moses Nail Art 
First I love her spontaneity. She is always talking and making jokes in her video's.
Second I love her video's and how she makes it look very easy.
But, and this is the funny part! Sometimes it feels like I'm watching Bob Ross.
She takes her brush and some paint. Makes a stroke here, stroke there and some other movements and there it is: BEAUTIFUL ART WORK!
So all inspired and convinced by how easy it is. I get started and during this process I remember me attempting Bob Ross his art and I feel equaly lost: why the he** aren't my nails looking like that?!
Haha and at this point I decided to make my own art ;-D
I think Robin has many followers and doesn't need me to remake one of her works but I do have great RESPECT for her!

- And then there is +Radi Dimitrova (or Radi D. on pictures).
She is very talented and nobody can make flowers like her!
I still think flowers are the most feminine art on nails. And therefore not strange that I came along her work.
She is also great with neons and the "Me to you" bears. And of course other art!
Fot this week's challenge I used two of her images for inspiration.
Here are the two images:

- Diagonal French (got to love it!).
- Some holo (do I need to explain more?)
- And hearts (many Valentine nails are passing my sight...already)

And here is my attempt:

 

Polishes:

- Only You White French

- Catrice LE Feathers & Pearls C05 Running Wild

- Etos Long Lasting Polish Pearly light pink

- Catrice 45 Kitch Me If You Can

- BeYu Holographic Nail Lacquer 993

 

 

 

Day 151) Nail art Graffiti

When I was a teenager my wish was to master the art of graffiti.
I was always jealous of the people who could do those awesome graffiti letters.
And I too wanted to secretly paint some graffiti on a wall.
It never happened...
I can still appreciate the art of graffiti, especially the big colorful drawings. Those really color the world!

For today's nail art I tried to translate a graffiti to my nails.
I've used an image for example because I'm still not good at painting graffiti.

Here is the image I've used:

Source: http://kids.flevoland.to/kleuren/valentijn/graffiti-love.shtml

And this is the nail art I've done:

I really like them! Do you?

See you tomorrow. I will announce the winner of my 'remake' give-away!

Day 36) Valentine

Day 34) Nail art Valentine