Claire´s Magnetix Blue

Hi ladies!

Sorry for being absent for so long, but sometimes I just can´t find time to blog.

Todays polish is one I wanted for a long time. Well, I actually wanted the Icing one. But then I saw this in the newly opened Claire´s just a few steps from my home and decided it must be the same.

This is just 1 coat. The dark blue is actually leaning much more purple in real life which makes this magnetic polish so cool!

I just wish this picture was a bit better so you can see why I love this so much.

Thanks for stopping by!

Foil duochrome layering experiment

Hello ladies!

Today I´ve got a layering experiment. And it worked out quite well if I may say so.

I was always wondering what happened if you layer 2 duochromes. Are there more colors visible? Or do they mix and give different colors? Well, a little bit of both I guess.

First I used 2 coats of Claire´s Poison Apple and then 2 coats of Orly Space Cadet. The result? A lighter version of Space Cadet, haha. It seems like the purple of Space Cadet and the pink of Poison Apple blended a little and you also you can see some orange from Poison Apple through the gold of Space Cadet. I think it´s pretty awesome.

Sorry for the smudge on my middle finger, ooooppss.

Gorgeous! Well, that´s my opinion. But what do you think? Is it a nice combination or what?

Thanks for stopping by!

Nfu Oh 51 over Claire´s Magic: Mirannie´s Nails 1 year blog-anniversary

Goodmorning ladies!

It´s my 1 year blog-anniversay!! Yay! I never guessed I would have kept doing this for such a long time. Well, for me it´s a long time :-P And I have to say I really enjoy doing it too! It has been hard the past few months, since my laptop had died a little and so I had to do all my posts from my phone. And I can tell you, it´s not that easy. But my laptop is back to life so I´m good to go again! And about at the same time my laptop was working again, my phone crashed. So now I´m using my old phone again for the pictures.

Anyway, I thought it would be a good idea to show you my favorite polish again, since we´ve got something to celebrate. So I pulled out Nfu Oh 51. I layered 1 coat over 2 coats of Claire´s Magic which is the perfect combination. It´s even more beautiful than using 51 on its own. I can´t keep my eyes of my nails, so pretty!!

Of course I should do something like a giveaway for my anniversary, but I´m still working on that. It is coming soon, I promise!

Ok, one bonus pic of Claire's Magic on its own (should have made a better one :S)

Thanks for stopping by! And a special thanks to all my followers over the past year!!

Claire´s Poison Apple

Hi ladies!

How are you all doing?

Today´s polish is Claire´s Poison Apple. Eventhough it has colors I usually don´t wear at all, I really like this one! It´s probably because it is a duochrome and a foil, 2 finishes I really love.
Poison Apple shifts from red to orange and magenta. Well, it just is quite awesome!

It is quite sheer though. After the first coat I wasn´t sure it would become opaque at all. But after the second layer it got a lot better already. And with 3 coats it was totally opaque. I think you can also use this as a layering polish.
Application was just fine, Claire´s isn´t that bad.

On to the pics.

What do you say guys, hot or not?

Thanks for stopping by!

GIVEAWAY

Claire´s Twinkle Twinkle

Hello ladies!

Claire´s Twinkle Twinkle is a blue jelly with blue glitter. Application was nice and it needed 3 coats. The color in the picture isn´t totally color accurate, it´s actually a bit brighter, even towards neon blue. Since I don´t really like too bright colors, I think I might add some dark blue to this or something, not sure yet.

Let´s have a look to find out what you think.

Strange, I had 4 pictures of this one, but can´t seem to find the other 2 on my computer anymore.

It´s actually a pretty nice color, don´t you agree? But it just isn´t me...

Have a nice day!

GIVEAWAY

Claire´s Emerald City

Hello ladies!

Another Claire´s polish today. It´s green and it´s metallic, yay! This polish dried really fast, I was surprised. I didn´t wear this yet, only swatched this. After painting 4 nails, the first one was already dry! So if you´re not fond of always using quick dry topcoat, this is a perfect polish for you.

This is 1 coat of Emerald City

I especially like how it looks in the first picture (artificial light).

That´s all for now, hope to see you back here tomorrow!

Claire´s mini glitter polishes

Hi ladies!

Recently I went to Amsterdam and found a Claire´s shop. Nice! I did find out that they didn´t have the gorgeous polishes that american ladies buy at their Claire´s, but they did have some nice stuff. I bought a mini set of glitter polishes, all without a name. Last week I swatched them for you.

These are all 3 coats.
First up the purple, red, blue and pink.

The red and pink were pretty opaque after 3 coats, but the blue and especially the purple could have used a 4th coat. The colors are pretty nice though!

Next up the gold and silver.

I think I even like these more than the colors.


All together I think this is a nice set of 6 mini polishes. But I just wish Claire´s would sell the same stuff as they do in the US.


Have a nice weekend!

Claire's Venomous

Hello!

When I received this polish and looked at the bottle I thougt: Oh no, not another dupe for Orly Space Cadet. But when I put it on a wheel I saw it was more sheer and more glitter, so I thought it would be better for layering.

For the base I used 1 coat of China Glaze Little Drummer Boy, but you can also use a dark green, dark purple or black.
I added 2 coats of Venomous and it is beautiful!

If you don't want to use this as a layering polish, you will need about 4 coats. Will try to make a comparison with Space Cadet soon.

Enjoy your day!

And for my dutch readers: Vergeten jullie niet te bieden als jullie kans willen maken op dat geweldige nagellak pakket!! http://miranniesnails.blogspot.com/2011/02/special-edition-dutch-readers-only.html

Claire's Rockstar

Goodmorning!

We're approaching the end of the year. It's already november, can you believe it?! It just goes so fast. I remember spending Christmas and New Years in the mountains of Austria last year like it was last week, and now we're only 2 months away from celebrating 2011.

Today I have a foil polish to show you. This one was sent to me by Elaine from LacquerLaine.blogspot.com as an extra surprise in a swap. Thanks Elaine! I had never even seen swatches of it before, but it's actually a very pretty polish. It's a brown, maybe even dark taupe foil by de name of Claire's Rockstar.

Here are the pictures. This is 2 coats plus topcoat.

Pretty nice don't you think? Well, I was positively surprised on how much I liked it!

Hope to see you all back here tomorrow!

Take care,
Miranda

Claire´s mood polish Calm/Wild

Hello!

Today I´m showing you a polish I swatched for the purple week. But I forgot to post it, haha.

This is Claire´s Calm/Wild which is a mood polish. The mood changing stuff didn´t really show up on my nails. I don´t know, maybe my nails are too short or something. Or my hands are always cold. Which is actually true.

I used 2 coats + topcoat, since the mood polishes dry matte, which I don´t like. This has a sort of glitter in it, which no other mood polish from Claire´s has. I like that little extra!

First picture was taken in daylight, the other in artificial light. The color you see in the second picture is the color you usually see when that part of the nails gets warm.

In these pics you can actually see how fast my nails grow. Comparing these pictures to the ones I posted yesterday, you can see a huge difference, while there´s like 10 days between them. The nails on my right hand grow even faster.

Do you like the mood polishes? Which one is your favorite?

Take care,
Miranda

Claire´s Magic

Hi ladies!

I´ve got another polish from my swap with KarenD to show you. It´s purple and it has a gorgeous pink shimmer. It looks a bit like some other purples I already have (like Collistar viola glitter and Zoya mimi), but they have microglitter in it and this is really a shimmer.
And you´ll see my short nails for the first time. I think they don´t look to good on camera LOL. But next week this time they will be a lot longer again.

To give it just a little extra I did one accent nail. On my ringvinger I applied 2 coats of Nina Ultra Pro purple xing over Claire´s magic. I think Purple Xing looks a lot better on its own. It´s a purple with holographic glitter (which you hardly see in the pictures). I´ll show you that some other day.

So here´s the pretty Claire´s magic. It only needed one coat. Application wasn´t perfect, will add some thinner to it. Then it might need two coats, but that´s ok.
Three pictures in different light.

Isn´t this beautiful? I like it very much!! This won´t come as a surprise since I am a purple lover.

Take care,
Miranda

Moodpolish

Goodmorning!

Today I´m showing you Claire´s moodpolish peaceful/confident. A moodpolish doesn´t really react on your mood, but it does react on temperature.
I´ve got 4 moodpolishes, here you see them in a quick swatch I made about 6 weeks ago.

Left to right: calm/wild, flirty/shy, peaceful/confident, happy/earthy

all topped with SV

Since I had not used a moodpolish as a full mani I thought why not now? So I chose peaceful/confident which is green. Drying time was amazing! But it did dry matte and very streaky. Also the formula wasn´t my cup of tea. A little too thick. So maybe I should put some thinner in it.

Of course I put a topcoat over it, since I always do that and I don´t really like matte finish either.

 

As you can see, my tips are darker than the rest. That´s because the part of the nail that is attached to your skin is obviously warmer and so you can see the effect of the moodpolish.

Since my hands are almost always cold, the effect wasn´t that visible with me, so I used a nice glitter on top. Here it is with Sinful Colors Nail Junkie. It is very subtle, but gives it just a little bit extra.

What do you think of this polish? You like the effect?

Have a great day!

Miranda

Swapping is so much fun!

Hi guys!

It´s sunday already, that means that for some of you the weekend is almost over.

Today I want to show you all some swaps I did recently.
First up is my first huge international swap. The lovely Trista who I met at MUA was so kind to buy all the polishes I asked her to. How great is that!! All kinds of polish that are almost impossible to get when you don´t live the USA.

Here are the pictures of the package. Sit back and relax :P

Looks very nice right! Almost like it´s your birhtday!

These are all the lovelies together

Left to right (all Milani): Purple outline, HD, Dot com, Totally cool

Left to right: Claire´s calm/wild, Chameleon blue sky, Sally Hansen garnet lapis, Massini purple medallion, Claire´s flirty/shy

Since I read it was 2 for 1 for the Sinful Colors at that moment, I asked Trista to get me some surprises as well. The 4 on the right is what she got me. Great!

Left to right (all Sinful Colors): Shausha, Nail junkie, Hottie, Gorgeous, I miss you

And the last picture is CQ mint green (never heard of that brand, was also a surprise from Trista, but not my kind of color), LA Girl alkaline blue and NYX graffiti (which was completely different from the swatches I saw at Lextard, but that´s ok, still nice)

Also she put some candy, a nice card and nailfiles which looks like matches in the box.

I did some swapping before, but never as big as this one. Thanks again Trista for all the hard work you did for me. Hope you´ll receive my surprise package soon.

Yesterday I received my swap package from Cat, who I also met on MUA. Cat contacted me after reading how difficult it is to get some of the greatest polishes when you live in Europe. She told me she only had one wish: a polish of Koh. As most of you know, Koh is quite expensive. And unavailable if you live in the US. So we could help eachother. GREAT!! Cat was able to get the polishes I liked very cheap. In the end she got me 8 (!!) polishes for just 1 Koh. I feel so guilty, but she insisted doing this. So very very very nice of her!
Here are the pics.

These are the ones I asked for. Left to right: Nubar knight´s armor, Sally Hansen purple pizzazz, Sally Hansen DVD, Sally Hansen grape going, Chelsea kaleidoscope, Chelsea topic of cancer

And this is what she got me as a surprise. Color Club rev´d up and Kleancolor holo chrome and also a nice card. The Kleancolor is just awesome!!!

Thanks again Cat! This was great!

Dear readers, what do you think, is this great or what? Hope I´ll be able to show them to you as soon as possible.

I hope you enjoyed reading this, since I had such a great time unwrapping the packages, so I thought it would be nice to share that with you.

Enjoy whatever is left of your weekend!!

Miranda