Giveaway winner, a few unposted manicures and a very late guest post!

Hey everyone!

Yes, I'm still alive...even though I went through some crappy stuff these past few months, I'm still here. Sorry for the long absence and for leaving in the middle of a giveaway, but I really had a tough time and even had to move twice in less than a month. But I won't bore you with my problems and I'll just stick to the nails and nail polish.

But first, let me just announce the winner of the last giveaway:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Congrats to Diana! I warned her as soon as the giveaway ended, and she already has her prize! I left the blog for a while, but I didn't keep the polishes to myself. :P

Now, I didn't do much on my nails these past 2 months, always a plain colour when I had the time, and didn't take any photos of my nails, until recently, so I'll just show you a couple of photos I took before all the craziness happened, and a couple from this past week, when I started getting back into the nail stuff. Hope you like them!

Dance Legend Optical Illusion and Purple Professional #62, stamped with Moyou Pro #8

Claire's 55171 and Kiko Mirror #616, stamped with Moyou Pro #2 and topped with Kiko 3 in 1 Mat

Purple Professional #63 on index and thump

 Zoya Arizona on pinky

White on middle and ring finger is Flormar P103 and the triangles were made with both the previous colours and also China Glaze Strawberry Fields and Innisfree #65

Layering experiment with O.P.I Every Month is Oktoberfest, Nubar 2010 and Max Factor Fantasy Fire.

Ah! Also, I made a guest post for Cristina a while back, that never saw the light of day here, on my blog. Shame on me...

Click on the image to go to Cristina's blog and find out more!

Aaaaaaand that is it for now! Have a good night, everyone. ^^

Who knew...

...that Barielle Elle's Spell could be layered over black? I surely didn't and I would have never thought of it if it wasn't for a post at PAA! Skye (hi, Skye!! xD), brought this to everyone's attention and I just had to try it!

I used 2 coats of my favourite black (Andreia 19, just because it's so easy to clean up), and dabbed Elle's Spell on my tips, with the exception of my ring finger that shows 2 coats of it over the black. Once again, I finished it all with Kiko's matte top coat. I just love me some matte flakies! :P

Oh Baby!

After taking photos of the Purple Professional #52, I felt like adding something on top of that and a quick look through my stash brought Pure Ice Oh Baby! to my attention, so I layered 2 coats of it over Purple's beautiful green and finished it with a coat of Kiko's matte top coat.

Here's what came out of that experience:

I've got Pure Ice Oh Baby! since May, but I never got around to actually using it until now...Why didn't I try it sooner? I have no idea, but I'm in love!

As you can see from the photos, it shifts from blue (a bit more on the green side over this colour) to purple depending on the light, and I can't really tell if these are really small flakies or something else...If anyone knows, please, enlighten me! xD

My nail polish is Grumpy with all the flakies

Hello everyone! I'm back with another manicure to show you, this time I'll show you a nail polish from the coveted Snow White collection by Essence. I only wanted 3 from the entire collection and I was able to order mine online on the spanish site http://www.maquillalia.com/. Today, I'll show you Grumpy.

Grumpy is the most beautiful royal blue, seriously, it's just so pretty! On top of that, its formula is truly amazing. You can get a perfect coverage with just one coat (I still used two), it was really easy to clean up and it didn't stain my nails or skin when I removed it, which is something hard to find in this kind of blue.

I felt like doing some layering and so, I applied Hits Valsa on top of it.

My photos are kind of crappy this time, I like to take them at sunset or before 4pm, between 4pm and 7pm it is hard for me to take the photos and not have weird shadows, but these were taken at 5pm that day, as I had to go out and I was only coming back at night...oh well, this is the best I could do.

Did all of you get your favourite dwarves, or are you still searching for it? If you still don't have yours try the website I linked above, I know they ship worldwide!

Expocosmética 2012

Yesterday I went to the Expocosmética 2012 and it was crazy in there! D: So many different brands of nail polish, hair stuff and everything related to beauty. It was awesome and I had a really nice time hunting for nail polishes while still trying to not blow my budget! xD I think I did ok, only spent 20€ and brought home with me all this:

• a new nail file;
• Peggy Sage nail stickers;
• 3 Orly mini - Lucky Duck, Androgynie and Terracotta;
• Coral Prosilk #156;
• 2 Ludurana flakies - Trovão and Relâmpago;
• Golden Rose Holografic #141
• Essence #78 Blue Addicted (famous DL Across the Universe Dupe)
• 3 tiny pots with micro beads so I can try a caviar mani sometime. 

Gray and flakies

Last week I received some nail mail, 3 Nubar (Reclaim, Elegant Indigo and 2010) and 1 Orly (Fowl Play). Some of them I already showed to you guys and today I'll be showing another one, Nubar 2010. This one is a flakie topcoat and it's absolutely gorgeous! I think I'm in love with it.

I wanted to layer it over some dark nail polish, so I could see the different colours of the flakies, but didn't know which one to choose. I tried it over black, blue, dark teal, green and gray, loved all the combinations but went with the gray this time.

Here are some pictures (pictures were taken in artificial light, no flash):

 Here you can see all the different colours the flakies reflect

 

Nail polishes used: Nubar - 2010 and Risqué - New York

Once again, the Nubar's formula was excelent, easy application and the flakies were evenly distributed without any struggle, like in some glitters. In other hand, Risqué's formula was awful! It was too tick and goopy making it impossible to apply the polish in thin layers.

I really loved this manicure and I got some nice compliments for it yesterday, that was a first! xD I went to the usual take out place to get some food and the lady taking care of my order asked to see my nails and I just showed her my hand, all proud, and then she called all the other girls that work there to take a look too. It was pretty funny. Unfortunately it started peeling last night...it didn't last for long, just 2 days...and I blame you, Risqué!! ಠ_ಠ