Polka Dots and Pinstripes Mix and Match

I was supposed to do some swatches and review some polishes that were sent to me by Gosh Cosmetics, but as I was deciding which one I should do first, I was looking at these 2 and thinking they'd look so good together...I also wanted to do some nail art, sometimes I just feel like it. xD

The polishes I used are Miss Minty and Miss Mole. I painted my middle and pointing fingernail with Miss Mole and the rest with Miss Minty on both of my hands. Then I added some dots and stripes on every nail and topped that off with my Kiko matte top coat. My stripes aren't perfect, they were done free hand, but not so bad either. :P

I have to say, I'm really impressed with the quality of these nail polishes, I only owned 1 Gosh and really liked that one, but now I'm starting to think that all polishes from this brand are really worth their money (5,99€ here in Portugal). I used 2 coats on them both, but they were perfect with just one coat, I had minimal clean up to do because its brush is really good (it's a flat brush, but smaller than O.P.I or Catrice ones) and they dried really fast.

Anyone else out there in love with Gosh nail polishes? Now I can't wait to try out the other ones they sent me for review.

(These were sent to me for review)

Rainbow Challenge Day 3 - Yellow

I like yellow on me and I just found this out recently, when I got a neon yellow for review. I used to think it was one of those colours I would never wear and I bought one just to use in nail art.

This is what I had on my nails when I decided to enter this challenge, so I've been saving this photos to post on this day, as I only have one more yellow and it was posted here already.

I did this manicure for one of the portuguese FB groups, the theme for that week was animals and I came up with an owl. xD

This is 3 coats of Mellow Yellow by Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear, topped with another 2 coats of Whimsical by Revlon. That's a lot of coats, but moving on to the photos:

For this I used:
- Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow
- Revlon Whimsical
- Revlon Colorstay Coastal Surf
- Eyeko Rain
- Andreia #19
- Dotting tools
- Head pin
- Nail art brush
- Paper reinforcements

Again, not my style, but I'll admit I have so much fun making stuff like this!

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?

I think I ruined this awesome green...

Because not everything I do turns out looking good, here's some crappy nail art for you!

This took so long to do and I really didn't like it in the end...Need to wear that green again though, it was awesome.

Oh, Cherry Blossoms! ♪

I was going to do some galaxy nails on friday, I even painted my nails a dark base coat, but then I got lost playing Guild Wars 2 Beta Event the entire weekend and by monday, my nails were chipped (probably from playing too much xD). Had no choice but to take it all out and do something else...So I went with cherry blossoms.

This is what I used:

- Risqué Pink Fluor
- Yolizul in white
- Leticia Well #146
- China Glaze For Audrey
- Striping brush
- Dotting tool

And here is the final result:

I think it looks a bit sloppy on my ring finger, it was the first time I did something like this, but I really think it turned out ok on my thumb. Anyone else agrees with me? :P

Rainbows! Rainbows everywhere!

Eeek! What have I done? xD

A while ago I ordered some cheap nail art brushes from Deal Extreme and after 3 weeks of waiting, they finally arrived on friday, but I had no idea of what to do with them at the time. Then, this past sunday, I was bored and saw that one of the FB groups I'm in is having a weekly "contest" and this week's theme was rainbows! I wanted to take part in it and it was also a great excuse to try out my new brushes and also get me out of my confort zone.

After going through my nail polish stash, trying to pick some colours, I realized that, in 109 nail polishes, I didn't have any oranges or a light blue that I could use for the sky! That left me no choice but to mix my own and that was a completely new experiencie for me. It went kind of ok, but the formula of my base colour sucked balls! xD Seriously, it was the hardest thing ever to apply.

Here are all the colours I used:

 For the base colour I mixed:

• Revlon Colorstay #170 Coastal Surf

• Yolizul 164 (used it for the clouds too)

 Yay! I did a rainbow with all 7 colours! xD
Here's what I used (following the colours of the rainbow from red to violet):

• Andreia #40
• The orange was a mix between the previous one with the yellow
• Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear #27 Mellow Yellow
• Sally Hansen Hard as Nails #620 Limestone
• Essence Colour & Go # 55 Let's Get Lost
• Kiko #334 
• Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure #409 Good to Grape

 And here is how my rainbows looked like:

 

It looked cute, turned out better than I expected, but soooooo not my style! Obviously, I took it all out the next day...

Vintage Roses

I really am in a spring mood, all I want on my nails are green-ish colours! So this time I bring you Grape by Miyo (I still dont get why it's called that, makes no sense to me) and some stripes and roses! It's my first time doing both of these things and I'm really proud of how they turned out.

Ok, I have to warn you about this nail polish. It is awful to apply!! It's streaky and the 2nd coat drags the 1st one and because of that I needed 3 coats for it to look presentable. Love the colour, but I don't know if I'll be wearing it again due to it's hard application.

Here's the final result in artificial light, no flash:

 

 Righ hand in detail
(can you guess which rose was my first one?)

 

Left hand in detail

Nail polishes used:
- Miyo Grape
 - Matrix Colors #68 Ravishing  (this nail polish is 15y old!)
- Andreia #45

- Kiss striper in white