The North Pole Is A Real Place

Hello hello!
Hope everyone's week is going ok so far, wednesday is almost over and that means there is only 2 more days for the weekend! Woohoo!! xD

There's something new on the blog today, I've got an indie to show you guys!! How exciting, I finally have my first indie. :3 (Already have 3 new ones that got here from Brazil yesterday and another one from Llarowe on it's way.)
I won this one at a giveway hosted by Charlotte, creator of WellNails, around Christmas time and it got to me the day after my birthday. It was the perfect birthday gift!

I didn't wait long to wear it, even though I had a bit of a hard time choosing my undies. I've seen it mostly over white, but I wanted the white glitter to be really visible, so that was a no no for me. I finally went with a light gray, however, I ended up regretting it...I don't think it complements my skin very well and it makes me feel like I have lobster hands. xD 

The North Pole is a real place is a gorgeous white glitter polish in a milky white base. It has 3 different shapes of glitter (at least to my eye), big hexes, small hexes and squares around the same size as the bigger hexes. Oh, and to make it even more special, it glows in the dark! I wore 2 coats of it over 2 coats of Risqué Arábia. 

Ora viva, minha gente!
Espero que a vossa semana esteja a correr bem até agora, a quarta feira está quase quase a acabar e isto significa, que daqui a 2 dias já é fim de semana novamemente!! Weeeee!! xD

Tenho algo de novo para vos mostrar hoje, um indie!! Que alegria, finalmente tenho o meu primeiro indie. :3 (Agora já tenho mais 3 que chegaram do Brasil ontem e tenho outro da Llarowe a caminho.)

Este ganhei num giveaway, pela altura do Natal, feito pela Charlotte, criadora da marca WellNails, e chegou às minhas mãozinhas no dia a seguir ao meu aniversário. Foi um presente perfeito! 

Não esperei muito para usá-lo, apesar de ter tido alguma dificuldade em escolher a minha cor de base. Já o tinha visto várias vezes sobre branco, mas queria que o glitter branco ficasse realmente visível, por isso pus de parte esta opção. Acabei por escolher um cinza clarinho e, infelizmente, acabei por me arrepender desta escolha...não acho que a cor favoreça o meu tom de pele e faz parecer com que tenha mãos de lagosta. xD

The North Pole is a real Place é um lindo verniz de glitter branco, numa base branca e leitosa. Tem 3 formatos de glitter diferentes (pelo menos são os que consigo distinguir), hexágonos grandes, hexágonos pequenos e quadrados do mesmo tamanho dos hexágonos maiores. Ah, e para torná-lo mais especial, ele brilha no escuro! Usei 2 camadas do glitter sobre 2 camadas do Arábia da Risqué.

 

The formula was surprisingly good (I had no idea of what to expect from an indie xD), I had no trouble applying it, the glitters were very manageable and were evenly distributed on the nail, no need to dab around for a good placement.

You can buy this, and several other awesome polishes, here at Charlotte's shop, and if you're a How I Met Your Mother fan like me, please go check it out, her collections are mostly inspired by the show and the polishes have the cutest names!

Now tell me, what was your favourite indie? The one that made you want to try some more? And if you don't have one, which one do you want the most?

A fórmula é surpreendentemente boa (não fazia a mínima ideia do que esperar de um indie xD), não tive qualquer problema em aplicá-lo e os glitters são muito fáceis de manusear e ficaram uniformemente distribuídos pela unha, sem ser preciso malabarismo algum para ficarem bem colocados.

Podem comprar este, e vários outros magníficos vernizes, aqui na loja da Charlotte, e se forem fãs da série How I Met Your Mother (ou Foi Assim Que Aconteceu como é chamada por cá) tal como eu, por favor dêem uma espreitadela! A maior parte das colecções dela são inspiradas na série e têm os nomes mais fofos!

Agora digam-me, qual foi o vosso primeiro indie? Aquele que vos fez querer experimentar mais? E se ainda não têm nenhum, qual o que mais desejam? 

Saturday Spam

Hi!
I'm still here! I've been a very bad blogger lately, so thanks to all of you who stuck with me.

Today I won't be showing you one polish or some nail art I did, I'm going t be showing you lots! One of the reasons I don't post as much is that I've become overwhelmed with the amount of old swatches and manicures I've done, that never saw the light of day this in the blog, I find it hard to not post the new stuff I do, but then I end up not posting at all because I know that I have lots of old photos that still need some editing and posting...So, today, I finally decided that I should just post them all (or almost all, saved some reviews and manis I thought deserved more than just one photo).

Here they are:

Olá!
Ainda ando por aqui! Tenho sido uma péssima blogger ultimamente, por isso agradeço a todas as que continuam deste lado a ler-me.

Hoje não vos vou mostrar apenas um verniz ou nail art, mas sim vários! Uma das razões por que não tenho postado ultimamente, é precisamente por ter muita coisa atrasada e por isso fico sem saber para onde me virar. Fica dificil postar as manicures mais recentes sabendo que tenho tantas fotos por editar e que nunca viram a luz do dia neste blog...Assim, hoje decidi postar tudo (salvo algumas reviews e manicures que achei merecerem mais de uma foto) de uma vez só.

Aqui estão elas:

2 coats of Ozotic 532 over black (lightbox)

2 coats of Ozotic 532 over black (shade)

2 coats of Revlon Royal Cloak 

2 coats of Claire's no number 

3 coats of H&M Take Me Tangerine

3 coats Flormar 444 (notice how the colour looks 

completely different from the bottle)

2 coats of Hits Powerful

4 coats of Up Colors Cromoterapia

(didn't layer it over black)

2 coats of Yes Love K034 stamped with Kiko 399

(DRK-B plate)

1 coat of Cliché Madona over black

The red glitter is from Marylins 117 nail polish

2 coats of Essence Hazelnut Cream Pie,

stamped with Kiss nail art striper in black (DRK-B plate)

New Year's Eve/my birthday mani

2 coat's of Claire's matte black

1 coat of Essence Julia on the middle finger

Kiss nail art striper in white

Risqué Arábia on the cupcake base

Stamped with Essence Stampy Silver and plates DRK-B and CK-04

Ok, now I'm more up to date and I think I can manage the blogging better from now on. :P

Let me know what's your favourite look/nail polish on me. ^^

Ok, agora isto já fica mais actualizado e fica mais fácil para mim escolher o que postar a seguir. :P

Digam-me qual o vosso "look" preferido em mim! ^^

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

31 Day Challenge #1 - Red Nails

I've started another challenge! Some bloggers and I got together on Facebook and decided to take this challenge, so for the next 30 days, for better or worse, we're stuck with each other! It's going to be a long and fun journey. :P

We start with red and this is what I used:

I started with a coat of Risqué Carmim, this one looks like a jelly but it covers with just one coat, then I applied a coat of Barielle Elle's Spell and, finally, stamped with my DRK-B using Kiss Nail Art Paint in Black. I didn't want all my nails to look the same, so I stamped random parts of the image on random places of my nails. 

My stamping is far from perfect (I'm still trying to get the hang of it), it turned out okay on some nails, not so great on the others, but overall, I'm quite happy with this look (even though I was considering it a fail last night), and Barielle Elle's Spell is so stunning!