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:*

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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:*

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no flash

with flash

no flash

All images are clickable:)

Swap with Tuli - swatches:) and Skin MD giveaway winner

My camera finally agreed to cooperate with me:) So here are the promised swatches from yesterday's post on my swap with Tuli.  

But first I would like to tell you who won one bottle of Skin MD natural shielding lotion. 19 followers took part in the giveaway and I've written down your names in the order you've written comments, then I asked my BF  to name a number between  1 and 19 and he chose 17. So a bottle goes to May. Congratulations! I'll send you an email, answer me within 48 hours with your shipping adress so I can send it to Skin MD directly.

On to the pics:P

From left to right:

Chic 268 (very dark almost black creme purple, eggplant colour), Careline 335 (bright timeless classic red), Careline 355 (burgundy red colour with copper shimmer), Careline 309 (very light pink-lilac with silver glitter), Jade 315 (bright red with gold, pink shimmer), Jade 352 (berry cream), Jade 361 (I think it's duochrome dusty shimmery pink and taupe, mauve, don't know how to describe it), Jade 356 (amazing dark purple with purple and pink shimmer), Andrea 15 (gorgeous lilac colour).

1 coat, lightbox

2 coats, a bit of sun:)

2 coats, lightbox

2 coats, lightbox, no flash, blurred

 All the images are clickable:)

Swap with Tuli, lots and lots of polishes:)

Not so long ago, my fellow blogger and dear friend Tuli from Tuli's Nail Polishes&stuff  and I decided to do a polish exchange or just swap:) Check her post on the swap;) I have to say that was also my very first swap, have never done it before, so I was super excited about it.

We agreed to swap 5 polishes and some other goods. So imagine how I was surprized when I received a large or better to say huge package from her. She sent me 9, omg couldn't believe my eyes when I've opened the package, different polishes. Everything she sent me was packed in the cutest box on Earth, Betty Boop, see it under the post.

The second picture gives you all the stuff she sent me, from nail care accesories, eye shadow, and of course sweets and other goodies from her country. No sweets are left, I must admit, my BF and I ate everything, and it was delicious:P

On to the polishes; Tuli sent me as I said whole 9 polishes, wow! The polishes on the 3rd picture are from left to right  Andrea 15 (gorgeous lilac colour), Jade 356 (amazing dark purple with purple and pink shimmer, reminds me a bit of Essie Sexy divide), Jade 361 (I think it's duochrome dusty shimmery pink and taupe, mauve, don't know how to describe it, as it's so great!), Chic 268 (very dark almost black  creme purple, eggplant colour).

On the last pictures there are Careline 309 (very light pink with silver glitter), Careline 355 (burgundy red colour with copper shimmer), Careline 335 (bright timeless classic red), Jade 352 (berry cream), and Jade 315 (bright red with gold, pink shimmer).

Tuli has chosen just the right colours for me, as though I would have done it myself. Thank you so much, you're a true sweetheart and I'm looking forward to doing another swap:*

All of the colours look simply amazing! I'll post the swatches tomorrow, as my camera and I weren't on good terms today:)

I would also like to inform you, if you don't know yet, she is having a GREAT Valentine giveaway going on. Check her blog for more details:) Prizes are to die for<3

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E.L.F. swatches and pinky starry french KOTD

I got some color wheels from my nail polish ''supplier'' Anchek, thank you so much:* What else could I do if not swatch yesterday's haul with e.l.f. nail polishes, as I have to admit the swatches on the paper were a bit crappy indeed:) First two pictures were taken under artificial light but no flash, the second two in natural light and flash, there was just no sun today; from left to right (from bottom to the top in the 2nd pic) there are: Sunset, Berry pink, Burgundy and Dark navy. All swatches are made with 2 coats All images can be enlarged to see the details;)

The konadicure I have for you today is made with 1 coat of Nailtek f.2, then 1 coat of Oriflame French manicure in Morning dew, the tips were painted with Opi Strawberry margharita and stamped with Konad special nail polish in white and image plate m44. There is no top coat in the pictures. What do you think of it? Do you like it? Thank you dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished day:*

Pinky starry french KOTD

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