Green Watermarble

Green Watermarble

Borghese, Savina, Essence and Out the Door

Do you know the feeling when there’s something you’ve been trying to get to work for a long time, and after many attempt it suddenly just works? That’s me and water marbling! I’m still buzzing over the fact that it actually works, yay!

So I have decided that now that I know how to do it, I’m definitely going to do it once in a while.

Here’s today’s green water marble:

I used three different polishes to marble with:
Lime green: Borghese’s Fantastico Lime

Blue: Essence’s Via Airmail

White: Savina’s Fantasy Files

It’s topped with Out the Door’s Northern Lights, which made it all come really well together.

Here are the polishes.

Today’s attempt wasn’t easy. The Essence acted like a total diva and refused to spread out on the water! Then I found out that the order of the polishes matters too, how weird is that! But anyway, I’m pleased that I could even get it to work with difficult polishes.

I must admit that I had expected the blue to show itself more, but hey, I must admit that I quite liked the result – and my boyfriend loved the colour scheme :D

The Rest of the Year Challenge 4: Movember

The Rest of the Year Challenge 4: Movember

I’m learning a lot from this challenge. Before I started, I hadn’t even heard about the phenomenon “Movember”.

Movember is a portmanteau of moustache and November. It is an annual, month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of prostate cancer and other male cancer initiatives. The goal of Movember is to "change the face of men's health.”

The rules of conduct given on the Movember site are:

• Once registered at movember.com each mo bro must begin the 1st of Movember with a clean shaven face.
• For the entire month of Movember each mo bro must grow and groom a moustache. 
• There is to be no joining of the mo to sideburns. That’s considered a beard. 
• There is to be no joining of the handlebars to chin. That’s considered a goatee. 
• Each mo bro must conduct himself like a true country gentleman.

I obviously can’t grow a moustache, so I’ll paint it onto my nails instead!

I started out with two coats of Borghese “Fantastico Lime”, which is a lime green crème. I don’t like it much, to be honest, but it works for this mani.

Here’s a pic of two coats, no top coat:

Now for the moustaches. I’ve seen a tutorial which make it look ridiculously easy to draw moustaches. It’s basically done by making four dots on your nails with a dotting tool, and then connecting them with either a thin dotting tool or a tooth pick. Let me just say that I found it in no way as easy as it looked, and I ended up being not pleased at all with my little moustaches.

Here there are, sealed up with a layer of Seche Vite top coat:

It’s not very nice, is it? And here’s another pic:

My boyfriend, who is very supportive, thinks it looks a lot like Ned Flanders! LOL 

Check out these other Danish girls’ blogs to see what they came up with for Movember. I know for sure that they did better than me! :)

http://sundaymanicures.blogspot.dk

www.passion4polishdotcom.blogspot.com

http://nailant.blogspot.com

http://amnegle.blogspot.dk/

Music Challenge 5: Firework (Katy Perry)

Music Challenge 5: Firework (Katy Perry)

I’ve been looking forward to this particular challenge, because I almost just bought the perfect two polishes for it. Just wait and see if you don’t agree with me :)

I used Borghese “Stellare Notte” for my background. It’s a dusty dark purple with a slight black duochrome effect in it.

It took two relatively easy coats to reach the desired opacity. Drying time was on the slow side, but still manageable. I didn’t apply a top coat yet, because there is of course more to come.

And from another angle.

I don’t think I’d wear this alone, but it’s a pretty good base for something else.

Now for the two polishes I bought. They’re both from Nails Inc. and are called "Connaught Square" and "Bloomsbury Square". They’re both gorgeous glitters! Connaught Square is a blue glitter with sparse purple glitters in, and Bloomsbury Square is purple with pink glitters in.

I used a dotting tool to create my fireworks. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be, but it’s often like that for me. Things looks so easy, but they aren’t always :D

Here’s what it looks like with one coat of Seche Vite top coat:

Here’s another pic where you can see the fireworks a bit better:

 

I looked at this for an hour, and decided that it wasn’t good enough – it wasn’t quite what I wanted. I grabbed a new glitter I bought in a blog sale recently, namely Orly’s “Shine on Crazy Diamond”. It’s a holographic glitter that can spice up pretty much every mani.

After one coat of that I was very pleased. Now that’s more like it:

Here’s a pic from another angle.

 

I know the glitter takes over a bit, but I don’t mind. I think this is much prettier than without the glitter. But girls, you’re also judges. What do you think? Is it better with or without glitter?

Next challenge up is in three days, and we’re going to have “Smoke on the Water”! It’s not one of the easy challenges, but I can hardly wait!!

Check out the other girls’ blogs to see how they interpreted “Firework":

Aylin: http://poshnailart.blogspot.com

Mette and Lisa: http://neglerier.blogspot.dk

Anne Mette: http://amnegle.blogspot.dk/

Brianna: http://welcometobriannasworld.blogspot.com

Celia: http://neglegejl.blogspot.dk/

Astrid: http://polish-life.blogspot.com

Bonus link to Katy Perry’s Firework:

And as a little extra bonus, here's a picture I took of a caviar mani I had made in Sephora, with Ciatés "beads":

It lasted about 20 full minutes before the beads start falling off!  :/