LynBDesigns ~ It's Not Against the Law to Hope

LynBDesigns ~ It's Not Against the Law to Hope

Red jelly with rainbow flecks

It's Not Against the Law to Hope is from the "Meet Me at the Abbey" Collection and I received it recently in a swap I had with the sweetest girl from the states.

The formula is good and easy to work with and I used two coats to make it look its best. The drying time between coats is good, no worries there.

Here’s what to coats and a layer of topcoat looks like:

I love the little flecks, they really add something special to the polish.

I added some glitter to the tips. I used an old Daring Digits polish called Ruby Slippers and just sponged a bit of glitter on each of the tips. I finished it all off with another layer of topcoat, and here’s my final mani:

I love the added blinginess!

I don’t think I’ve ever worn this Daring Digits before – and now it’s no longer available, since the girl who made the polish no longer makes polish.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Jelly with flecks
Overall impression: Nice polish, cool flecks!

Buy again: Yes

Red and Black mani with Fantasy Makers ~ Once upon a time

Fantasy Makers ~ Once upon a time  

Blackened base with red multisized glitter

- and five other polishes!

I was in the mood for a black/red mani, and since Fantasy Makers’ “Once Upon a Time” has been sitting and looking at me since I got her, I decided to include her in my mani.

But first – the base colours. I used Essence’s “Black is Back”, a black crème, Isadora’s “Orient Express”, which is a rich shimmery red, and Dare to Wear’s “High Heel Heaven”, which is a silver with microglitter. The red and the black are both one coaters, and the silver required two coats to be opague.

Here’s that step – no top coat yet:

Then I applied the red glitter on the black polish. There’s so much glitter in it, so I only needed one coat to make me happy. I applied a layer of Barry M’s “Burgundy Croc” on the silver, while it was still tacky.

 

I taped the red nails, and painted half of them black, also with the Essence I used earlier. Then I applied a layer of “Silver Dragon” from Daring Digits. It’s a clear base with tiny silver flecks. And then I topped it all with a layer of Poshé top coat, and my mani was done:

And here are the involved polishes:

Essence: Black is Back, Isadora: Orient Express, Dare to Wear: High Heel Heaven,
Fantasy Makers: Once Upon a Time, Barry M: Burgundy Croc, Daring Digits: Silver Dragon

So how’s that? Personally I think it’s awesome! I really like to have my nails in different styles like this, and I absolutely love red and black together.

What do you think? Is this a win or what? :)

Summer Challenge Day 23: Inspired by a movie

Summer Challenge Day 23: Inspired by a movie

I absolutely love movies. I watch a lot of them, and I always have. There are lots of movies that I’d love to be inspired by, but since I totally suck at freehand drawing, I felt as if I had to rely on stamping.

I googled and looked at hundreds of movie posters before I picked which one I’d go for. I ended up letting myself be inspired by “Black Swan”, which is an American psychological thriller from 2010.

I used Flormar’s white crème as my base. It’s called 400 and I used two coats for desired opaqueness. It was easy to work with like all the other Flormar polishes I’ve got. I stamped with Wet n Wild’s “Black Crème”, and I used Bundle Monster stamping plate #214.

Here’s the result:

I was quite pleased with it, but kept feeling that something was missing. I added a coat of Daring Digits’ “Silver Dragon”, which the creator herself describes as a silver “flakie” topper. The silver glitters doesn’t show much in real life, but you can see them here on this pic of the finished mani:

I didn’t add a top coat because “Silver Dragon” dried up completely smooth and shiny. 

Here's the Black Swan trailer in case anyone's interested :) 

 

There are other Danish girls who also did a “inspired by a movie” mani today. I’m very curious about which movies they chose, so let’s check their blogs out:

• Neglelir
• Se min kjole
• Mette
• Life is a fairy tale
• Vicki's Polish

Stay tuned the day after tomorrow - same bat time, same bat channel – for nails inspired by a book!

Summer Challenge Day 22: Inspired by a song

Summer Challenge Day 22: Inspired by a song

It took forever for me to figure out how to overcome this challenge. Before I actually got to it, I thought it would be easy. I mean, I love music and there are so many songs to choose between. But to actually make it match a manicure, that was so much more difficult than I ever imagined.

But after hours and hours of thinking, I picked an old song from 1986, namely Madonna’s “True Blue”. The song is from her third studio album, True Blue, and it deals with the feelings for her then-husband Sean Penn.

I used another Flormar polish for this challenge, namely number 446 which is a shimmery, yet a bit of a dusty blue. I used two layers for full opacity.

Sunshine pic: 

Indoor pic:

And since this is a love song, I added some hearts. I used an indie-polish from Daring Digits called “Love Hurts”, which is a clear base with small blue glitters and larger blue and black hearts.

There was no need to go fishing for the hearts, they were loaded on the brush each time I dipped. I did arrange them a bit on my nails though, since some of them wanted to play on my cuticles. That’s not the polish’s fault though, but mine alone :D

Here’s one coat over the Flormar, and covered with a layer of my all time favourite top coat, Poshé.  

And here’s an indoor pic.

Here’s the official True Blue video. I think it’s so funny to watch videos made in the 1980s.

So that’s my mani inspired by a song. Did you like it? Do you like Madonna?

There are other Danish girls who also did a “inspired by a song” mani today. You should definitely check their blogs out to see what they came up with.  

• Neglelir
• Se min kjole
• Mette
• Life is a fairy tale
• Vicki's Polish

Stay tuned the day after tomorrow - same bat time, same bat channel – for nails inspired by a movie! I’ve begun thinking already!