Glam of Sweden ~ #01

Glam of Sweden ~ #01

Classic red with red and silver microglitter

Red microglitters are my kryptonite! I absolutely love them; I think they’re gorgeous!

Glam of Sweden is a cheap drugstore brand that is sold in a larger Swedish supermarket. I think I paid a little more than a dollar for today’s beauty.

The formula is really good and easy to work with. The drying time is on the slow side though, so hooray for fast drying topcoat :D

The stamp I used is from Lina’s stamping plate “Twirls & Swirls 01”. I stamped with a gorgeous dark purple stamping polish from El Corazón called “Restless Night”.

This is my final manicure including topcoat. The photo is taken in daylight, no sun.

This is the same thing, just photographed in the lightbox to show off the stamping design. Isn’t it lovely?

And this is two coats of #01 on its own. There’s a layer of topcoat involved already.

Glam of Sweden ~ #01

Here are the things I used.

I adore this polish, I think it’s fabulous!

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Slow

Finish: Microglitter
Overall impression: Beautiful polish, great formula, I can live with the slow drying time

Buy again: I would!

Glam of Sweden ~ #92

Glam of Sweden ~ #92

Lavender shimmery texture

I mentioned yesterday that I always buy polish when I visit other countries. Today’s polish is bought in Sweden. It was part of a huge display and all the polishes were super cheap.

The formula is good and easy to work with. I applied two coats for full opacity. The drying time was okay on the first coat but relatively slow on coat number two. Next time I might use three thin coats instead of two “normal” coats.

I added Hello Kitty stickers because I find this girl super girly and so is Hello Kitty.

This is the final manicure including a layer of topcoat.

Here’s #92 on its own. There’s no topcoat involved yet and the polish is only slightly textured. I don’t really think I would have thought of it as textured if it hadn’t said “Crystal Sand” on the bottle. One layer of topcoat eliminated every sign of texture.

This was a good buy! 

Number of coats: 2

Drying time: Normal on the first coat, slow on the second

Finish: Shimmery slightly textured
Overall impression: Pleasant colour and I love the shimmer

Buy again: Yes

Glam of Sweden ~ #77 – with glitter

Glam of Sweden ~ #77 – with glitter

Sea blue shimmer

I bought a bunch of little jars of glitter on Aliexpress recently – because a girl can never have too much glitter. I decided to play with one of the jars today. It’s a mix of circles in silver, blue and purple in various sizes.

Here’s the jar:

I paired the glitter with Glam of Sweden #77, a sea blue (turquoise? Sea green?) shimmer, that I bought in Sweden last time I was there. I used two easy coats for the mani. The drying time was average, which is good in this case, where I placed the glitter in the still wet polish. I topped it with one thick layer of topcoat. Glitter of this size needs two coats though.

Here’s my final glittery mani.

I just placed the glitter randomly. I picked it up with a dotting tool and just placed it on the nails.

I like the result! It’s like bubbles in the ocean! 

It’s going to be so exciting to play with the other colours of glitter.

Number of coats: 2

Drying time: Average

Finish: Shimmer
Overall impression: Nice colour, smell is a bit odd, drying time is only average

Buy again: Yes

Glam of Sweden ~ In a orange, black and white water marble

Glam of Sweden ~ In a orange, black and white water marble

I’m the kind of girl who sometimes buys a polish because of the bottle it’s in. Last time I was in Sweden I bought three skull shaped polishes. I had a feeling that the polishes themselves were not going to be fantastic but the bottles were sooo cute that I bought them anyway.

Today I decided to use them in a water marble. No, I’m not tired of water marbles yet. It took me so long to learn how to actually do it, and I want to do it some more before I quit.

Let me show you what I ended up with.

I actually love the end result here!

Here are the three polishes in skull shaped bottles. They haven’t got names, but numbers. The orange is number 180, the white number 53 and the black number 52.

They weren’t very good for water marbling though. I gave up on the black and the white pretty fast. Then I thinned out the orange and used it with my two faithful China Glazes: White on White and Liquid Leather.

I sealed it all up with a layer of my faithful Out the Door: Northern Lights topcoat.

Here are the polishes I actually used.

I’d love to know if you would buy a polish because of the bottle it’s in :)