Thursday, December 13, 2012

The Rest of the Year Challenge 6: Winter Wonder(land)



The Rest of the Year Challenge 6: Winter Wonder(land)

I bought a polish specifically for this challenge. I am talking about Isadora’s Polar Nights, which is from their Christmas collection of 2012, “Northern Lights”. There are only three polishes in this collection, “Polar Nights”, which is a dark blue jelly with silver glitter, “Arctic Treasure”, which is a golden glitter, and “North Star”, which is a silver glitter. I bought the blue and the silver.

Anyway! Polar Nights shows a lot more glitter in the bottle than actually transfers to the nails. I hate it when that happens. But since I had nail art in mind for this baby, I didn’t mind so much.

The formula is great, and the brush is wide. It took two easy coats to build up desired opaqueness.

 
I actually really like the colour, even though it doesn’t show as much glitter as I’d like it to. It’s a nice, dark blue, and it can definitely be used for more than just winter and Christmas manis!


The pics show two coats of Polar Nights and one coat of Poshé top coat.

Then I painted on it – large frost flowers on each nail. And behold! I didn’t paint them with polish, but with acrylic paint! This is my first attempt of painting with acrylic paint. And the credit for teaching me this goes to Maria, who was patient enough to let me play in her polish room. Thanks for that, I really appreciate it, Maria! :)


One layer of Poshé top coat finished my Winter Wonder mani.


I am really pleased with this, and actually had some unexpected compliments at work. Like:

Colleague: What’s that on your nails?
Me: Oh, that’s frost flowers I painted on yesterday!
Colleague: You painted them on?
Me: Yes, yesterday.
Colleague: Like, you painted them on yourself?
Me: Yes
Colleague: Whoa…
Me: Thank you! :)

I enjoyed that little conversation! What do you think? Did I do well with the acrylic paint?


Check out these other Danish girls’ blogs to see what they came up with for Winter Wonder(land).


12 comments:

  1. I think you did really well! :-)

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    1. Thank you, I am so pleased you think so, because I must admit that I struggled a bit with it :)

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  2. I think you did so well - and it was fun to have you running loose in my polish room ;)

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    1. Thanks a million! It was fun rummaging about there ;D

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  3. Awwww that Isadora nail varnish looks super pretty!

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    1. It is even prettier in real life. I've become quite fond of my Isadora polishes :)

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  4. You did really well! The Isadora nail polish looks really pretty and it's super kind of Maria for teaching you ;D
    xx

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    1. I am very grateful for Maria's patience with me around, that's for sure! :D And thank you so much for the kind words, I appreciate them! :)

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  5. This turned out so well! Love the snowflakes you did. :-)
    And yay for Maria teaching you!

    ~ Yun

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    1. Maria is the sweetest and it was great fun to play in her polish heaven! :)

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  6. Yes, I think you do really well here!!

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    1. I'm so pleased you like it, thanks. I was afraid it was going to end up like a total mess :)

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