Dress Code Happy

This was a haul from p2 limited edition "Dress Code Happy". 040 Green  Garden is lime yellow sand polish with pearly gloss. The matching party are pearls (or caviar pearls).

To feel more summer freshness let's add same citrus slices:

It is Bundle Monster BM-308.

Winter Nature

It's supposed to look like my nails are frozen windows. "Windows glasses" are p2 frosted mint as base, then one coat of China Glaze Isle See You Later.
I painted "frosting" with acrylic white colour and let it without top coat, because the surface of acrylic paint is matt and contrasts the glossy "glass" beneath.

With my warm scarf

A new technique

Day 17 of Laid Back 31 Day Challenge - A new technique

Well, I found water marbling amazing when other people do it on tutorials. But my trial is not that pretty. God knows how much polish I used for experimenting, what colours/ polishes would work and how to create some kind of good patterns... *sigh* The only thing I discovered so far, that among not expensive polishes the best choice would be p2 and misslyn, then some colours by catrice and essence would also work. Metallics and other polishes with glitters are generally bad for water marbling.

So and here is my miserable failure with egg colours since we have Easter today. White is snow-white by misslyn, and yellow polish is p2 Color Victim 790 summer to go!

Easter Eggs

Е-ей! Заўтра будзе каталіцкі Вялікдзень. Куды не паглядзішь, трапіш на зайчыкаў, яйкі і куранятак. Чамусьці ў Эўропе засталіся папулярнымі паганскія сімвалы, можа стацца, што Саус Парк мае рацыю ў сваем тлумачэнні зайцоў на Вялікдзень. Праўда - яна як вядома недзе побач.
Некалькі тыдняў таму я набыла шаблоны серыі "Вясновы час" ад Nailways (галандскі онлайн-шоп). Зараз самы час карыстацца імі!

Yeah, Easter! But the catholic one. There are bunnies and eggs and chickens everywhere...
For some time I got the Spring Time set of stamping plates by Nailways. Today it was a perfect day to use it.

Я зноў ухапілася за лак з "гелевым выглядам" ад p2. Гэтак ён яшчэ зробіцца маім улюбёным лакам... Цёмна-сіні колер добра спалучаецца з залатым (Catrice Goldfinger), які я ўзяла для акцента на безыменным пальцы. Я настэмпіла на сярэдні палец вялікае яйка золатам. Узор сам па сабе вельмі вялікі і не змяшчаецца цалкам на маіх пазногцях. Але большая частка такі змяшчаецца, так што можна лёгка распазнаць "размаляванае" яйка. Безыменны палец я настэмпіла другім узорам (дождж з вялікодных яек) тым жа сінім лакам.

So I resorted once again to the "gel like looking" polish by p2. It combines perfectly with gold (Catrice Goldfinger). I stamped the middle finger nail with a big patterned egg. The pattern itself is too big for my nails, but the most part of it could be still placed on so that you can recognize the EGG. And my ring finger is painted with gold, but stamped with the same blue polish.

Я не задаволена маім фотаапаратам. Тут можно ўбачыць розніцу, калі здымаць пры дзённым святле.

I am not really satisfied with my camera. :( You can see the difference in the daylight.

Incognito!

Who could imagine that? Incognito Nails got their own chewing gums! Look here:

No-no, I didn't lobby the board of directors of Perfetti Van Melle (manufacturer of MENTOS) for creating my special incognito flavour. They just came alone to the idea of incognito. :) Because incognito sounds enigmatic and certainly cool :)
I could not ignore such lucky coincidence and bought it. As well I was eager to create a mani matching the design of incognito bubblegums. First of all I added two polishes to my collection:

They belong to the new stock of polishes by p2. Color Victim is an old polish subline. But the colour 920 up in the air! is new.

And the other one with deep royal blue colour is a new line with the pretension to look like gel nails. I don't know why are they all struggling for "gel look". Is that so desirable? Also Catrice claimed their new stock to be "gel look quality"...

Anyway gel look or not I found this couple to be perfect match for my incognito design.
The royal blue which is called 110 ocean lady. I used it for all nails. For the accent nail I sponged both colour like gradient techniqie.

The question marks are from the stamping plate GALS GA43 (Fairy Set). To get them coloured I used tip from this blog. The idea was to let the pattern dry on your stamper, colour it on stamper, let it dry. Then you paint a top coat over it, let it dry once again and then you can peel it off and use on your nail like a decal. It's easier and funnier then the technique of double stamping, in which I would never succeed. My stamper (just like some Russian saying about bombs is) never hits the exactly same ground twice. :) I used acrylic paints and also polishes for colouring of question marks.

Here you can better see the "gel like look" of the new p2 polish. Isn't it super glossy? You can even see my camera in the reflection on the nails...

And here we are together: incognito nails and incognito bubblegums. :)

I have to say, the flavour of them (I mean the chewing gums) is really difficult to distinguish. There is some mint, but also something fruity what I didn't recognized. :)

Isn't is funny?

Sand Style Polish

I don't know what polish manufacturer started the trend, but first I saw OPI's "liquid sand" from Mariah collection. And the next was the cheap brand p2 with theit new products and among them was a series of "Sand Style Polish", which was instantly and constantly sold out in almost every dm-store.

Well, the German text on the bottle says "Angesagter Effektlack" (like "this effect polish is the flavour of the month"). Whether it's true or the people were affected with this statement... I just don't know.

I bought one of six (?) shades, named "050 confidential", which is blue with mostly silvery sparkles. It's recommended to put two coats and let them dry very well. So I did.
Previously I tried to paint Sand Style over my repair polish which I usually wear as base coat.  Unfortunately the Sand Style polish wouldn't get dry at all or did it so slowly that my patience was already over. I found it not very useful and nail friendly.

As the polish went dry, it got a rough texture like sand and it's glittering was a bit less:

Once more in artificial light:

Obviously the polish contains some hard particles which are glittering and in particular building the effect of sand in dry state. But (and I meant this as unfriendly for nails) while taking off the polish you should take right amount of polish remover. Other way and if you rub you nails too hard these particles could scratch your nail plates.

Overall I find the polish interesting and beautiful, and if you compare the prices it's very reasonable if you want to get fashionable effect like texture on your nails.

Cheer Up Mani

Day13 of Laid Back 31 Day Challenge - Cheer Yourself Up Mani

To cheer up you need something sparkly, funny and bright. So I found a good occasion to use the essence nails design kit "Vintage District" with their big blue glitter:

One of my favourite colours is turquios. So I painted all nails with "boat trip" by p2. Unfortunately my camera doesn't do a good job for some colours like turquios or pink.

My accent nail has stripes of misslyn "heaven on earth", butter LONDON "Victoriana" and Golden Rose matte blue (maybe 10 is a number of that shade, but I'm not sure).

Then I planted a glitter per a stripe so that I've got another stripe across the tricoloured stripes.

Snow Kissed

Today I couldn't help but buy some stuff from the current collection by p2 (the own brand at the dm-drugstores). The prices for p2 products are like the ones of essence. The specials cost a little bit more. So this lovely pearly subtle mint green polish you can get for 2,25€. I also got an lip balm for winter and a compact powder.