No buy...yeah, right!

I was supposed to spend the summer on a "no buy", I thought it would be easy since I was going to my parents house and there are ALMOST no places where I could buy nail polishes around here...but I failed!

I figured this would be my last buy before restricting myself on buying polishes, until october...

Ozotic 532 and Hits Air Glow

A couple of weeks after, I went with a friend to a huge chinese store, as she wanted to buy some cheap stuff for her new house, and what I found there left me stunned...rows and rows filled with all kinds of nail polish that I could never get a hold of in my city! She was buying some for herself and I just couldn't leave empty handed, could I? So I bought 3 magnetic nail polishes for 1,50€ each and 3 glitters for 1€ each.

Love Me 203, 201, 401

Marylins 117, 119, 121

A couple of days later, Kiko releases a new LE collection...HOLOS!! So I asked Ana, from O Meu Maior Vicio to get me the gold/taupe one and the blue/green/whatever one. I sold the blue/green/whatever one as soon as I got it, because it was just like Up Colors Verde 360º (that I had on my nails the day I got the Kiko's package), but kept the other one and fell in love with it. Around the same time, I went with my boyfriend to another chinese store, here near my parent's house and bought a gold nail polish for stamping, and several nail art polishes for stamping too (all for 1€ each).

Kiko 399, Marylins 109

Marylins 23, 17, 14, 20, 18

I shared some of my buys with Cristina, from The Clockwise Nail Polish, and she asked me if I could get her the black glitter like mine, and so I did...And the chinese store had lots of new polishes and I don't even know how I didn't buy more! xD My boyfriend was with me and I kept repeating "Please get me out of here before I buy everyone of these!". He didn't pay much attention to my pleas and I ended up leaving with 4 new polishes for myself and 1 for Cristina... -.-' (again, 1€ each]

Yes Love L006 (already reviewed here), K032, K034, K011

And finally...I was searching for Revlon Royal Cloak for a while now, but whenever I found it online, shipping was always too expensive for my liking, so when I saw that Claudia, from Holographic Hussy, had 1 up for sale, I grabbed it, MINE! It just got here today...Oh, and on my last trip to the chinese store, I picked up another goodie from a portuguese brand...

Revlon Royal Cloak and Cliché Siamês

I think I might have a problem...but then again, it's not like I have too much nail polish, I only have 179 in my stash, that's not too much, right? RIGHT?? So why should I restrict myself from buying what I like and makes me happy? I don't get it...

Well, enough with the "no buy" thing, it clearly doesn't work for me... 

31 Days Challenge #11 - #16

I'm still alive!

Sorry for not posting since last friday, but it has been a crazy week since then! On saturday we had a party at night and I had to do my mom's make-up and nails, my make-up and nails and another friend's nails, no time left for posting...then on sunday I had to help that same friend, as she was in the process of moving. So, my nails have been bare since last sunday. I don't even remember the last time they were naked for so long! xD

As you can imagine, I had a lot to catch up to, and today was literally nails day!

This will be a looooong post, so get ready and don't say I didn't warn you.

#11 Polka Dots

For this I used China Glaze L8R G8R (that I got from Anna's blogsale) and Nubar Reclaim.

#12 Stripes

This was done with Gosh Forest Green, Gosh Early Green and some striping tape.

#13 Animal Print

Uh oh...leopard print again! But this time it was all hand made, no stamping involved. For this, I used Orly Nite Owl, Leticia Well #146 and Kiss Nail Art in black.

#14 Flowers

Flowers aren't really my thing, but I guess I did ok on these. I used Kiko 339 for the base colour, Gosh Bubble Gum and Risqué Pink Fluor for the flowers, and Gosh Forest Floor and Gosh Early Green for the leaves.

#15 Delicate Print

Boy, this one was tough...I didn't really know what to do and this was my 3rd try at this, as I wasn't happy with the other 2. Here I used Essence Modern Romance stamped with Essence Stampy Polish in silver and my DRK-B.

#16 Tribal Print

My favourite ones from today! I had never done any tribal nails, but these were so simple and fun to do and I love the final result.
I used a nude, once again (must be on a nude kind of day), this time it was Essence Hazelnut Cream Pie. The blue stripe is China Glaze For Audrey and the white was all done with Kiss Nail Art in white, obviously. :P

 

Ufff, finally over! It's really a bad idea to fall behind on these challenges, I know I wont be doing it again.  :P

Rainbow Challenge Day 2 - Orange

Oh damn...I only have 1 orange in my entire collection and I posted it not so long ago. What now? Oh well, I'll just try to make it look different, somehow...

So I did! This is Leticia Well #493 (review here) with Hits Hefesto on top of it.

Sorry I couldn't take more photos of it, but my camera decided to die on me... -.-'

This is reeeeeaaaally bright! Can you imagine how a bright holographic neon looks in the sun? I think every one looked at my nails today, they just wouldn't go unnoticed. I don't really like that kind of attention, but I'm sure I'll be rocking this mani again! Maybe when I'll go to the beach. ^^

Once again, here's the list of all the girls taking part of this challenge:

 ~on beauty stuff and what else's...~

9ml universe (you are here)

atlcatsmeow 

Captivating Claws

Fancy Phalanges

Fe's Nails

Follow the Yellow Polish Road

Football and Fingernails

Fresh Air & Fashion

Happy Nails

iHeartPrettyPolish

Jolien's Kingdom of Polish

Kelly's Kolors!

Lacquer Dreams

Lacquer or Leave Her! 

Liesl Loves Pretty Things

Light Your Nails!

Manicurity

My Life In Polish

nailpolish is alive(:

Nail Polish Lane

Nail Pron

Nubbin Nails

Of Color n Music Passion for Polish Polish and Such

Sincerely, Obsessed with Polish

So You Think You Can Paint

The Rantings of a Nail Polish Hoarder 

To Polish or Not?

Holographic gradient

HAH! 2 posts on the same day, bet you weren't expecting that! xD I just couldn't wait to show this gradient I did yesterday.

I broke a nail, on my left pointing finger, really short and I'm not used to having nails this short, so I had no idea of what to do with them...I painted them a light pink at first, but hated the washed out look and took it all off, then I think I spent quite an awful time trying to choose some colours that would look good together, I knew I wanted to do another gradient, but this time I wanted to do it with 2 completely different colours.

I started with 2 coats of Andreia #45 and sponged it with Up Colors Verde 360º, following this tutorial for a smooth transition both of them. Since Andreia #45 isn't holographic, I layered a coat of Hefesto over my gradient.

I really love how this turned out, so sweet and cute and probably one of my favourite manicures I have ever done. What do you all think? Better than my last one, no? xD

Hits Overload!

Today I have another holographic nail polish to show you. The weather here has been quite nice lately and, since I love holographic polishes, this means you'll be seeing a lot of it from now on! But who doesn't love a good holographic nail polish? And I still have so many to try...

Hera is a beautiful teal nail polish from the Hits no Olimpo collection. It has a really nice formula, it's really easy to apply and it only took 2 coats to look this perfect.

On my accent nail I have Docinho and stamped over it with Powerful (both from the Powerpuff Girls collection, also by Hits), using the plate m57 by Konad. On top of this all I applied Hefesto, the holographic top coat by Hits. My stamping didn't turn out so bad this time, I think I'm improving!

Here are some photos, you won't get to see much holography on the first ones, the sun was playing tricks on me and went away before I could take these, but I included one under artificial light and under the sun, from the next day.

Left to right: Hera, Hefesto, Powerful, Docinho

Under artificial light

Under direct sunlight

I was really pleased with how this turned out! So pleased I've been wearing it since monday and it still looks so perfect! No chips, tip wear or whatsoever. Big thumbs up for Hits, not only they make beautiful polishes but they also have quality. I'm now a big fan of them! 

Up Colors Verde 360º with handplaced glitter

Hey everyone!

First of all, I'm so sorry for being away for so long, but with my brazilian friend here we spent all our time travelling around the country and I didn't have a chance to post or even do my nails properly. Hope you girls can forgive me for disappearing on you.

Today I bring you my favourite holographic nail polish so far, I'm in love with this colour and the holo is amazing! Even now, that it's dark here and I'm under a weak lamp, I can still see the holographic effect on it.
This one is really pigmented, it was perfect with 1 coat but I still applied 2, the brush on it was a bit weird though, I felt like it was too long, but I still did ok with it.

For the accent nail, I used some glitter that I bought while visiting Lisbon, it's from Essence and it's a loose glitter for nail art and I handplaced it one by one. This wasn't my idea, I took inspiration on Laura from Polish All the Nails and she has an awesome tutorial on how to achieve this look, I don't know how she does a full manicure with this though, it took me almost 1h to do only one nail and I gave up after that, didn't even do it on my right hand! xD But I do love how it looks, gotta love all the glitter! *-*

My pictures don't really show how much holography this nail polish has, the weather was quite crappy and cloudy when I took these...

And that's it for today!

PS - The giveaway has ended and I already know who's the winner, so expect  a post about that sometime tomorrow. Good night!