Polish bloggers Link Love 27/2

Phresh Mentality paints a few PHRESH mani's in an effort to raise funds to help Haiti



Helen's Nice Things has swatched a Ciate Paint Pot color, but you have to click the link to see which one. :)



Naive Nails has a little Lilly on her tips brought to you from Zoya, of course!



Konadomania is felling a little lot spring like and she is showing it off... on her nails!



The Swatchaholic brings out a lusted over discontinued color from her stash and rallies for the maker to bring the color back. Please be sure to take her poll located in her blogs sidebar and maybe our voices will be heard.



Oh how I love a pretty textured mani and Bright Lights Big Color is showing off just that!



Hot & Spicy are the words to describe Polish Freak's mani. Be sure to leave her a comment on how you feel about the color.



Dying to see some swatches of the new Diamond Cosmetics spring 2010 polishes?! Well, Nail'd & Polish'd has just what you need.



Magic Maid has brought you some beautiful swatches from a well known European brand polish.



Tuli's Nails has on polish that's "as pretty as a picture" thanks to our lovely polish blogger Nicole.



Travels with Euridice also has some Essence swatches. The more the merrier I always say.



Nail-Design is giving us a peek inside her stash and showing us how she stores her polish.



Perfect 10 Beauty has swatched a polish called FABULESS... see if you can guess the brand.



Metallics are deemed to be big for the upcoming season and Manicure Mommas has showed you how to make it look luxe.



polishSWATCHES brings you a closeup of Rihanna's "Pretty Kitty Manicure." What do you think of the design?

Now for the Network Giveaways...

Konadomania is celebrating 300 followers... click her name to see exactly how. It's so worth it!



Travels with Euridice is having a Holla for Holos giveaway to show her followers her appreciation.



Neglelakkmani is having a giveaway that's scheduled to end on Monday, so please enter if you haven't already done so.

Mattified and konaded, could I ask for anything more:)

Hey, you Lovelies:)

And good morning to you all! It's again a beautiful day outside, and I'm waiting for my BF to come home from night shift.

Today's KOTD is yesterday's manicure with Careline 355 which I mattified with China glaze Matte magic and I'm so satisfied with the result I cannot tell:) Love the smoothness and the velvet effect it gives to the polish. This is also my first real matte top coat.

But I did not stop at mattifying, huh:D I had to put a konad over it, what else;) I used konad image plate m73 and China glaze Passion for gold stamping.

The pictures are taken in my lightbox with artificial light.

What do you think of the matte effect and the konadicure? Yay or nay?:)

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished weekend:*

flash

no flash

All images are clickable:)

Swap polishes: Careline 355

Hey,

looking forward to the weekend?:) I surely am!

Today's polish for you is one of the many I got from lovely Tuli in our polish swap. It's Careline 355, burgundy red colour with copper shimmer, which is more evident in the bottle than on the nails, though it's still a gorgeous colour,  but as you know I'm a sucker for reds and purples:)

The application was great, it was really easy to handle the brush, these pictures are not precleaned, I think I applied it quite nicely:) It's a 2 coater over Nailtek f.2, you could get away with only 1 thicker coat, but for extra depth I added the 2nd one. There's also 1 coat of Poshe Fast drying top coat in the pictures. The pictures were taken in my light box with artificial light, with and without flash.

What do you think of the colour?

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished weekend:*

with flash

no flash

with flash

no flash

All images are clickable:)

A rather small konad ip haul and China glaze matte magic

 Hey, Ladies!

How are you? It's a beautiful day, the sun is peaking through the clouds into my room:) What I  have for you today is a rather small konad image plate haul which I haven't shared with you up till now. I've ordered m21 m27, m36 and m36-1. Do you have any of these yourself?

I've also got in my mail box a package from trans design which included a bottle of China glaze Matte magic for me, other things were for a dear friend Anchek:) Thank you, you're a sweety!

Can't wait to try all this new stuff, as you can see I've already pre-cleaned the plates with some pure acetone, just like to do that before I use them:)

Do you have any experiences with CG Matte magic?

Thank you, dear followers and readers, have a nice and polished day:*

ps. GIVEAWAY

300+ GIVEAWAY

There are no words to describe how happy I am to finally introduce you, my dear readers and followers, the promised  300+ giveaway, to show you my love and thanks for staying with me and giving all your wonderful comments to my posts.

Again, I have partnered with amazing Kathleen from OC NAIL ART store who kindly agreed to award the winner with a 25 dollar gift coupon code which you can use in her online store. I think you all agree there simply has to be a konad related prize in a konad related blog;)

On to the second part of the giveaway which includes nail polishes. The winner gets to choose 3 S-he and 3 Essence nail polishes, according to her/his colour choice:)

Then the winner will get 3 sets of nail art decals.

 A bunch of my personal favourite nail care products which will include:

Ebelin nail polish remover without acetone

Essence nail polish corrector pen

Alverde Calendula hand cream

Oriflame Beauty nail tip guides (classic french and V tip)

A set of nail art polishes with fine tip brush from Visions (a brand of Oriflame). They're great, I own the same 3 ones myself. The colours are black, white and silver. This nail art part will also include a package of clear nail art rhinestones in various shapes (circle, star, heart) from the same brand.

Two lipglosses, one from Oriflame Beauty gloss Berries (this one smells really yummy, I have one myself) and the other one is from E.L.F.

The package will also include other yummy goods;)

The winner gets:

25 dollar gift coupon code from OC NAIL ART

3 S-he nail polishes of her colour choice

3 Essence nail polishes of her colour choice

Ebelin nail polish remover without acetone

Essence nail polish remover correction pen

Alverde Calendula hand cream

Oriflame French tip guides

Visions nail art tip polish in silver

Visions nail art tip polish in black

Visions nail art tip polish in white

Package of clear rhinestones in various shapes

Oriflame Beauty Berries gloss

E.L.F. gloss with spf15

+ sweets;)

All the prizes are new and untested! Enlarge the pictures to see them better.

The rules for entering this giveaway:

1. be a follower (I'll have to be able to see that you're following me)

2. For 1 entry write down your name and your email so I'll be able to contact you if you win

3. You get extra entries for each one of the things you do:

     - post about the giveaway include the link to it,  feel free to use the pictures (2 entries)

     - have konadomania on your blogroll (1 entry) (if I'm already there, please remind me:)

     - tell me which of my konadicures you liked the most (1 entry)

    

    In your comment post a link to your post on the giveaway.

4. Include in the comment with how many entries you participate and provide the link:)

5. The giveaway ends 21st of March at 24.00 Slovenia time.

6. The winner will be chosen with the help of random.org number generator.

All my followers are  invited to participate in the giveaway, home and international:)



Good luck to all of you! Hope you like the prizes I got for you:)


That's all for today, have a nice and polished day:*

Lilac and purple KOTD

 I fell so spring-like:) The snow has started to melt around here, and flowers have begun to burst from the ground, it's really getting warmer. I just wonder if there is going to snow again, because I have a feeling the winter is not over yet.

On to today KOTD, over yesterday's NOTD with Andrea 15 I added a konad with m69 and Konad special nail polish in Violet pearl, then I applied 1 coat of INM OutTheDoor top coat.

I really like the colour combination, I'm just a sucker for these 2 colours:)

How about you?

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished day:*

ps. I've already taken pics of some goodies for my 300+ giveaway, I think I will post them tomorrow;)

All images are clickable;)

I'm BACK and the first polish from swap with Tuli

 Just a quick post today, only to tell you I'm back fom my winter holidays (pics are coming, I took a huge amount of them, so prepare to see some winter landscapes and ski slopes). I've missed you, my dear readers and followers, hope you missed me too;)

Here's a manicure I did before I went there. This polish is a part of the swap I did with lovely Tuli. It's Andrea 15 (gorgeous lilac creamy colour) and there are 2 coats over Nailtek f.2, but no top coat. The application was great too. The true colour was again a bit difficult to capture with camera. I simply love the colour, great choice Tuli:*

What about you? Do you like it? Own anything similar to it?

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished beginning of the week:*

All images are clickable:)

My last post and KOTD with CG Cream Puff

 The day finally came for me to go to a long deserved winter holiday. We are going to Austria in an hour or two. I am super excited about this skiing vacation, as I'm in the process of learning how to ski. I'll be away for a week, there's no internet at the appartment, so I won't be able to post any new swatches, NOTD or KOTD. I will answer your comments when I come back, full of energy :) I might post some pictures of ski slopes if you want  me too, just let me know what you think of the idea;)

As I can't go without a konad on my nails, I konaded my yesterday's NOTD China glaze Cream puff with Konad special nail polish in white and im m65. Then I added 1 coat of  Poshe fast drying topcoat. All pictures were taken in my lightboxth artificial light, first two with flash, and the last no flash.

What do you think of KOTD? Yay or nay or something in between;)

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a lovely and polished time:*

All pictures are clickable:)

China glaze Cream puff swatch and NOTD

 Hey,

how are you? Feeling as great as I do?;)

Today's nails of the day are painted with CHina glaze Cream Puff. This polish is a part of their last glitter speciality  collection. It's a peachy beige pinky colour, if that makes sense:D it is filled with small silver glitter and has a foil finish to it. The application was great, 2 coats were enough for full coverage. There's no top coat in the pictures.

The first picture isn't quite true to the colour. It was taken without artificial light and with flash, and it looks too pinky.

The second, third and fourth were taken in lightbox, with artificial light, second no flash, and the third and fourth with flash. The last two pictures also capture the true colour of the polish.

Do you like the colour or not? It could be suitable also for mannequin hands I think.

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished weekend:*

All images are clickable:)

Quick Valentine KOTD

 Hey, lovelies!

As the week is coming to its end I'm feeling more and more relaxed, can't wait for the holidays to come:)

Here's konadicure I did to my future mother-in-law who likes to have her nails done. It's really appropriate or so to say a typical Valentine's manicure. Do you agre?:)

The polish used is S-he 468, swatched HERE. Then I took konad image plate m59 and China glaze Devotion.

What do you think of it?

I also added the Form spring box on the right side of the blog in case you want to ask me a question;) The link to my profile is HERE.

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished day:*

ps. I'm preparing the 300+ giveaway, have already ordered some great nail art stuff;), there's some konad in play too, and I hope to post it as I return from my winter holiday in Austria.

All images are clickable:)

Could you call this a Valentine's KOTD?:)

Quick post today:) The konad im plates used are m66 and s9. The stamping polish is China glaze Millenium.

Hope you like it:)

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished day:* 

All images are clickable:)

Does it look like Midnight passion to you??:)

 Hey,

how was your weekend?? Hope it wasn't as stressful as mine:) Just can't wait for the winter holidays to come, and I hope these days will pass in no time. There's still a lot of school work to do, that's why I did not post during the weekend.

On to the today's NOTD. It's an Oriflame nail polish in Midnight passion. I used to have, actually I still have the same colour from the previous line, though the old one was named Black cherries:) There are 2 coats in the picture without a topcoat. First and second picture were taken with flash and no artificial light, and the last inside my lightbox and with flash and artificial light. I think the last pic captures the colour well. It's a dark brownish red cream which looks a bit dark when there's no light or sun, no appllication problems with it.

What do you think of the colour? Do you like it or not?

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished week:*

Essence HOHOHO konadicure

Another quicky today, as I have so much school work to do, I don't know how to manage it all:) I have to compose 3 different written previews for EFL classes as a part of my apprenticeship, so there's a lot of work to be done:)

On to the konadicure, over yesterday's Essence LE HOHOHO I konadicured the image from konad image plate m65 and China glaze Devotion. There's no topcoat in the pictures which were taken with flash and no artificial light.

Do you like the colour combo? And the chosen motive?

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a relaxed and polished weekend:*

with my all time favourite base coat Nailtek f.2 :)

All images are clickable:)