Just checkin'

...in. Yeah, let's have some re-instas, while we're waiting for the final results of the Swedish elections.

Smitten Polish A Wedding Dress That Isn't Bright Turquoise

OPI Black Spotted over Int'l Crime Caper

CND Vinylux Steel Gaze

Essence Blue Cara Ciao

H&M Jungle Me


And speaking of H&M, I don't know about you, but the new 5 ml bottle pisses me off. Yes, they lowered the price, but not as much as they lowered the contents. Pfft! Don't piss off lacquerheads, we're proud people.

Re-re-re-insta!

These are the last ones - promise. Well, at least for now...

Finger Paints Twisted over Orly Glow.

Depend 387. Love this finish!

Kill it with fire, pt II: China Glaze Bend Over Backwards with the orange-yellow-green flakie gradient over (I've forgotten which one of all those I used this particular time).

Smitten Polish Electric Lime. Best (neon) green holo ever.

Last days of summer: Essie Boom Boom Room.

Beware of continuations to this type of posts in the future.

Recovered from instagram

As a follow-up to yesterday's post, here are some miscellaneous manicures that never made it onto a decent photo shoot, but got hastily captured with my phone and then published on instagram for my friends to drool over. Far from good, these photos represent manicures that were a lot better in reality.

Pahlish Anticipating and Pacing.

OPI Lost on Lombard.

OPI Alcatraz... Rocks pedicure, big toes have been topcoated.

Smitten Polish Isla de Muerto.

I don't even remember what this was, but the shimmer layered on top is a LE glassfleck from H&M, bought last summer.

Fun one, OPI Haven't the Foggiest with Darling Diva Polish I'm Fwee on top.

Darling Diva Polish Lucky Star.

Fimo butterflies encapsuled in a gel manicure, with slight bits of iridescent glitters. Hell to make, but pretty for work.

Scofflaw Thunderkitty.

OPI Save Me from the Nicki Minaj collection, over some cheap bright pink gel polish from Chinese ebay.

Essie As Gold as it Gets over Color Club Bright Night.

OPI Innie Minnie Mightie Bow.

And again, Essie As Gold as it Gets, this time over China Glaze Sun-Kissed.


Yep, that's pretty much what I've worn lately.

Enjoy the silence

The silence has been so long, that I'm just going to leave this post here to announce that I'm still alive.

It's one of those posts where I'll just puke out a series of photos that didn't get their own posts, mostly due to lack of decent photos - sometimes only one good comes out of an entire session.

Hare Polish Ancient Affairs.

Polish Revolution Coffeeshop Politics over Kiko 336.

Orly Elation Generation - yes, that is actually holographic glitter.

Darling Diva Polish Pendragon over OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow Suede. Pendragon is in turn mattified with such a topcoat.

Smitten Polish Pink Goes Good With Green!

Essence Princessorize.

Gina Tricot Python Green.

Hope you enjoyed. Promise to be back with somewhat decent posts soon-ish - I have plenty of material!

Swedish word of the day:
tystnad -noun silence
Lots of it lately.

Smitten with Green ...sleeves?

Now that Christmas is over, and I finally have some time off from work, I thought I'd get in the spirit and show you one of the special Christmas polishes I got a few weeks ago. It is from Smitten Polish, and is part of a rather large Holiday collection for an indie brand. Here's Greensleeves.

This is one thin coat of Greensleeves over Barry M Racing Green. It's packed with particles, so when used for layering, the outcome is abundant. The base is a bit more on the sheer side though, but all the different flecks in this holly green are gorgeous.

This product was purchased with own funds.

Swedish word of the day:
ärm -noun sleeve
I have no idea how that relates to this polish.

Wicked Smitten

And there I break the silence! What happened? Well, mainly two things: I worked some, and, most of all, Swedish fall blew into full force. That means I should be damn lucky if I ever find sun again. But every once in a while, there's just enough to catch it if I lean out of my bedroom window! That's why you can have a dark and sparkly vampy Halloween glitter today, with a sprinkling of sunshine! Continuing the little venture through my Halloween purchases with one from Smitten Polish, called Wicked, Tricksy, False!

Can you tell from the second photo just how dark and gloomy this corner of the planet is right now? This is two coats of Wicked, Tricksy, False! (but it looks good in one coat also) over, not a black, but dark purple creme, namely a-england Elaine. You can't see Elaine through the Smitten, but it makes the manicure a little less black, which I sometimes prefer. Unfortunately, my topcoat has been playing tricks on me, it seems, so the surface is a little bumpy on some nails in these photos.

You can find Smitten Polish here.

This product was purchased with own funds.

Swedish word of the day:
lurig -adjective tricksy
Are you?

Smitten with Violets

Let's go back to the independent polish market for a while. There are a bunch of ladies mixing their own stuff, selling it on Etsy, and right now I'm trying to pick up at least one of aaall the brands. I therefore acquired a bottle of Smitten Polish, namely You're Turning Violet, Violet. It had caught my eye in the shop, because I really liked the blue glitter in a purple base thing. Check it out.

I did two coats of this glitter bomb, and although you can tell from these photos it has a see through effect, it really wasn't obvious in reality. After the two coats the base color was completely even and I had enough glitter coverage to be more than content with the result. Except for the blue holographic like glitters - I believe they're referred to as "disco glitters" - there is smaller holographic glitter as well. The base is a plum or grape sorta purple, and the overall color effect is somewhere in between the two colors - purple!

Upon application I was really impressed with how easy this was to work with, it went on very smooth and the glitter ended up well distributed over the nail surface without any poking around with the brush. Noelie, the person behind the creation, admitted to me that she's been working really hard on the formula to achieve this.

I'm not sure when or if this particular shade will be restocked in the Smitten Polish Etsy shop, but if you like blue or purple glitters, this is the indie brand shop to hang around.

This product was purchased with personal funds.

Swedish word of the day:
betagen -adjective smitten
Smitten with polish.