Toe flirting

I'll try not to repeat myself much more than this: it's now fall in Sweden. My toes are tucked away in closed shoes, and therefore my toe nails are slightly shorter to fit into them without discomfort. But I'll still dare myself to show you my current pedicure.

This is Pure Ice Flirt Alert, as chosen by my crazy-about-all-things-pink daughter, with two coats of Nfu Oh 40 on top. A little less dramatic in contrast than I had been hoping for, but still rather pretty.

Swedish word of the day:
sko -noun shoe
Because they're "back in style"... Sorta.

Ruling in purple

This is seriously one of the most beautiful purples I have ever seen. And it's a cheapo Pure Ice - Purple Reign.

Three coats. So beautiful you just want to wear it for the rest of your life.

I believe I first saw this over at the nailboard on Makeup Alley. It instantly created such a strong craving I felt I just had to have it. And somehow, someone read my mind, and not much later I received it as an extra in a swap. It took me some time before I put it on, but when the time was right, I sure enjoyed it hella lot.

Swedish word of the day:
regera -verb reign, rule
Some sure do.

In The Mood...

...for craptastic pictures? Then you've come to the right place! This is another lovely polish I got from my dear friend nihrida.


Pure Ice In The Mood. It's lovely. I just did an incredibly lousy job here. I slapped it on just to try, and even though I knew it's a sheer one, I slapped on coat after coat to try to see if it would even out. This is three coats. My nails look like shit, my manicure looks like shit, but at least the polish is purrty! I have been thinking about which polish to layer this one over, and decided it would probably fully blossom on top of one that is close in color. I need to try that some day. Just not that day.

Swedish word of the day:
slarv -noun sloppiness
Because this sure was.

Applish greens

And a quick comparison of the green Depend no. 196 i showed you recently. Apple green, says the manufacturer, apple green, says the Feline.

Closest in my collection is Pure Ice Wild Thing and Skin Food Apple Green.

And check 'em out...

Wild Thing, 196, Apple Green.

Wild Thing is more yellow, and Apple Green is a tad, but only a tad, darker. So now, Lisa, you know how to get that apple green you thought you could only dream of. And there is a close one both for my Asian and American readers!

Swedish word of the day:
äppelpaj -noun apple pie
Because I'm out of ideas.

Saturday night green eye candy

Do we love greens? Let me hear ya. Come on! Do we love greens?

Well, I, for one, do.

I had an entire wheel with green cremes, that I was going to show you. Then I realized my collection had grown much bigger since I made it. Luckily, I'm never shy when it comes down to painting up new wheels! But first, here is a group shot of my babies.


All my green cremes would no longer fit on one single wheel, so I had to do some grouping. Here are 18 of my non-brownish, non-neon green cremes.


Actually, I lied. That last statement wasn't correct. First, a couple really bright, almost neon-y polishes snuck into this line. Second, the lineup in the photo holds an imposter. She was later sent off to be replaced by the individual with the rightful owner of that spot.

But now... Drumroll, please!

Ladies and ladies, may I present to you... After a long, hard birth... The wheel of green cremes!

1. Pure Ice Wild Thing
2. Misa Green With Envy
3. Orly Mint Mojito
4. Essence Check Me Out
5. OPI Green-wich Village
6. Orgasm I Dare You!
7. OPI Jade is the New Black
8. Rescue Beauty Lounge Orbis Non Sufficit
9. BB Couture Poison Ivy
10. Nubar Forest
11. Illamasqua Rampage
12. BB Couture Green Goblin
13. Orly Enchanted Forest
14. American Apparel Hunter
15. Nfu Oh 569
16. Zoya Envy
17. OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow
18. Sephora by OPI Dark Room

I had to shoot this wheel in the sun, since the last few colors are so dark, they tend to look black in most light. This way, we can actually tell they are greens. Though, I have found before that Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow and Envy are dupes, and Enchanted Forest and Hunter are exact dupes. Among the rest, there are differences, even though they may be small and if you are not as big a fan of green cremes as I am, you won't need them all.

In the darker part of the wheel, you will find my absolute favourite pedicure colors. My top two pedis of all time are, in no particular order, Green Goblin and Enchanted Forest. Not only do I think creme is the most flattering pedi finish, these green cremes are flattering among the flattering.



Some time ago, a member of the Makeupalley nail board asked me where I do my shots, what light is beneficial and how I do it during the winter. The answers are: in my bedroom window, about 10 to 20 centimeters from the actual glass, where the light spreads fairly evenly. My window is my lightbox. Even when the skies are heavy with fallish clouds, I sometimes manage to shoot my NOTDs in a reasonably fast shutter speed.

This is how the light came flooding in this morning! Sunbeams honoured me with their presence, which is of course great for shooting shimmer polishes.

Not too rarely, I'm accompanied by one of the kids, namely the four-legged, furry one. Here on his way up to... Where?

The exact same spot where I take my photos, is also one of his absolute favourite spots to hang around, watching the hood. So, a bit of competition there, and definitely a reason why my pictures often contain cat hair...

On yur bedrum dressirs, playsing mai hair on yur nail care prodects

Please note that my bedroom walls are almost You Don't Know Jacques! colored. I would like to point out two things about that. 1. I picked the color before my nail polish obsessing days. 2. This was fall '08, simultaneously with the release of OPIs La Collection de France. How great is my sense for color trends?! Just bragging a bit. ;)

Swedish word of the day:
svartvit -adjective black and white
Because Stöj is.