Inspired mani SSK

Hi guys!
Last Tuesday the swimming season started where Stine and I work, so we decided to do a mani for the occasion.
Our swimming clubs' colours are bright orange and black.

The base colour is Depend - 133, a neon orange that dries matteish. 

Thumb: the logo of the swimming club, index: SSK, short for Solrød SvømmeKlub(Solrød (the citys' name) Swimming Club), middle: a man swimming crawl, ring: a head dive and little: Solrød

  For the water: Barry M - Indigo

Geeky Math Camp nails

Today I did a mani inspired by fractals, a topic we learned about on a Math Camp - one week just before I went to Milan :)
This is the first mani I've done with a small brush, not just the one from the lacquers. The brush is a single-use brush, the ones that's used when you can get a make-up in a store. I think it was actually for eye liner, but who cares, it worked brilliantly ;)

With thumb mattified 

For those who can't see or don't know what it' supposed to look like: the thumb is Kochs' snowflake, index is pi, middle is the Sierpinski triangle, ring is the Mandelbrot set and the pinkie contains Greek letters: alpha, beta, omega, lambda and rho.

Before the ring finger got extra effects ;)

I think I tried with 'a step' too much on this one, if you understand what I mean. I tried to make spikes so it would be like step four on the background paper, but I think I should have stopped at step three. Sadly I didn't get a picture before I ruined it.

Probably the prettiest pi sign I've ever made. Normally I just screw it up. Proud ;)

A simplified version of the Sierpinski triangle

Before I filled it out :)

A simplified version of the Mandelbrot set with colour effects ;)

Comparison with 'the real deal'

Pinkie with alpha, beta, omega, lambda and rho next to the Mandelbrot set before colour effects

The stuff I used to make this mani: my mixing palette aka my calender, a small brush, nail polish thinner so the polish was easier to work with on the brush and didn't get too thick too fast and polishes: Kiko: no. 333, 235, 240 & 296, Depend: no. unknown(the red one), 34 & 247(I think), Gosh: 600 Matt Effect Top Coat & Special Edition 001 Lavender Love, Barry M: 302 Fuchia, Rival de Loop: no. 30 & La Femme Beauty: 133 Ultra Magents

While I was doing this mani I managed to break my brand new glass nail file :'(

Anyway, what do you think?
And of course, enjoy your holiday :)

Hello frenchie. Long time no see

Today I did a classic french mani and I can't even remember why, but I think it turned out pretty cute.

I might keep this mani for some days ;)
I used Depend - no. 31 and Rimmel - Lycra French Manicure 442 French Rose

I also did my toes today. 

Barry M - Berry Ice Cream and H&M Blue Wave
Because of the sheerness of Blue Wave it is on top of Berry Ice Cream, which is a pastel pinky purple. Now it's purple without the extra pink. Even though Blue Wave is so sheer, it really has lots of lots of shimmer in it - blue and purple shimmer. Adorable.
The shimmer was very hard to 'catch' with the camera but I hope you can see it in the pictures below :)

I have no idea why, but this picture insisted on turning the wrong way -.-'

Enjoy your summer! :)

Lacquers I used yesterday

Hey guys
I lined up the lacquers I used last night to the sponging. Here you can see them :)

The Depend without a visible number is the green to the right

My first sponging + more

Today I came up with this cute design but the tape I used to make straight lines ruined the polish a bit because it wasn't dry enough.
I used the lacquers from Pieces - Soul Petrol, Highland Green & Red Berries and from H&M - White

 Anyway, I ended up removing this mani quite fast and made a mani with stripes and sponging gradient.

 This is my first time to try sponging - at least on nails :b I think it went pretty well except that the neon colours on my pinkie became too dark because there were too many layers of different neon colours.

The colours I used are:
Depend - no. 34, 35, 54, 131, 133, 159, 193, 223, 247, & that green colour again where the number has been worn out
H&M - Purple
Pieces - Red Berries
Models Own - Purple Mystique
Rimmel - Lycra Pro 312 Ultra Violet, 60 Seconds 605 Purple Reign & 60 Seconds 825 Sky High
Kiko - 333
Barry M - 308 Berry Ice Cream
Tiger - no. 17
Sally Hansen - Blue Me Away!
Essie - Turquoise & Caicos
Gosh - 597 Miss Minty
Rival de Loop - 55

Lots of lots of crack polish

I couldn't resist, I had to paint my nails again. It ended up being on top of what I had already.
I found out that it's pretty awesome with crack polish on top of crack polish on top of a colour :)
When you put on more than one crack polish, remember to apply top coat between them or it will just mess up. Another good idea is to pick crack polishes in very different colours, you don't really get the same effect with similar colours 'cuz it will be hard to tell the difference.
I also think it looks nice with crack polish on top of a glitter polish. The crack polish will tone down the BAM!-in-your-face-effect that glitter polish has. An idea could be if you put on a very lovely glitter polish for a party and the next day you can apply crack polish for a more everyday manicure without wasting the lovely glitter manicure.

Depend crack polish - Black on top of Barry M Instant Nail Effects - Blue on top of Barry M - Indigo

 I tried with another coat of the blue crack polish but it might be too much.
One thing is sure, when you apply three coats of crack polish you can really see the depth in the polish.

Barry M Instant Nail Effects - Blue on top of Depend crack polish - Black on top of Barry M Instant Nail Effects - Blue on top of Barry M - Indigo

  Depend crack polish - Purple on top of Barry M Instant Nail Effects - Blue on top of Depend crack polish - Black(only on half the nail) on top of Models Own - Emerald City

  Depend crack polish - Purple on top of Depend crack polish - Black on top of Barry M Instant Nail Effects - Blue on top of Barry M - Berry Ice Cream

Depend crack polish - Purple on top of Barry M Instant Nail Effects - Blue on top of Depend crack polish - Black on top of La Femme Beauty - Ultra Green

I can't really figure out if it's too much with three times crack polish or if it's just for cool enough people :b
What do you think? :)

One thing is sure, the next few days I'm gonna take care of my nails, they really need some strengthening polish. I also really really have to study for my exam on Thursday and it means no more polish until then :(

Testing of my new polishes

Today this Konad mini stamper kit arrived in the mail and I had to try it out with my new polishes.

I couldn't decide which polish to wear first so I made all my nail different and used all polished at the time. 

I must admit, I really adore the glitter lacquers especially Disco Mix from Models Own. It's this lovely mix of blue and pink-purple glitter and is the perfect party polish :)

So which nail/polish do you like the best? ;)

Look what arrived in the mail!

Yesterday some of my packages arrived but nobody was home so I went down to the post office to get them today.
Here's what I got

The colours aren't very good in the picture but I'm too lacy to take a good picture right now :b

From left to right: Barry M: Berry Ice Cream, Indigo, Instant Nail Effects Blue, Models Own: Disco Mix, Purple Mystique, Gun Grey, Emerald City, Evergreen.
And I got a free eyeliner with the Models Own polishes.

The colours look very lovely but the Emerald City looked more turquoise green on modelsownit.com where I got it. It's pretty much just green without the turquoise.

I can't wait to try them out! I will let you know when I do :)

Can't wait to receive my polishes!

So I have sinned.
I have ordered a lot of polishes in different online stores. Here you can see which polishes I'm talking about: 
Models Own:
Disco Mix
Emerald City
Gun Grey
Purple Mystique
Evergreen
Nubar:
Midnight Glory
Nubar 2010 Glitter Top Coat
Reef Green
Barry M:
Instant Nail Effects - Blue
Pastel Collection - Berry Ice Cream
Classic Collection - Indigo
Essie - Turquoise & Caicos

I have also ordered a XL stamping plate and five Stamping lacquers in the colours black, white, gold, silver and blue.

Well that was pretty much polish so I promised myself not to by any polishes in the next period, like a month or so. We'll see :b

I'm looking very much forward to receive these lacquers especially the Nubar 2010 Glitter Top Coat, it's a flakie and it looks so lovely. I'm also excited to get the stamping plate so I can make wild nails in a few minutes :)

I'm hoping that the packages will be in the mail today(if I'm very lucky) or tomorrow. If not I think I'm gonna wait until Monday, that's way too long.
Please be here very soon.

Remember that you can at any time write me a comment with a suggestion of how I should paint my nails next.