Amazing nailmail!

YEEESSSSSS! I got my Zoyas the other day! And they are just as pretty as I had hoped they would be.

I got 12 all in all, and I have not worn a single one of them yet, but they are absolutely beautiful!

Here they are with names. Might be a little hard to read, but I tried my best. And I just noticed that they are in a different order down here. Oops.

Zoya haul

From left to right they are:  London, Godiva, Arabella, Dahlia, Nyx, Cosmo, Lux, Monet, Rue, Harley, Dream and Payton.


I am looking SO much forward to using them. Yayy!

Speckled Eggs and a horrible mess

About a month ago I got the three Models Own polishes I'd been wanting ever since seeing them for the first time. I was so happy! I got two of them on Boots since the last one was sold out, and then I got the last one from Asos when they first started selling them there. Here they are - All are pretty pastels with black glitters in two sizes.

Models Own - Swan, Dove and Duck

When I lined them up to take photos, I noticed the crooked lids. Swan and Dove both have crooked lids which I found odd. I tried to screw them off and on a couple of times, but nothing worked, so I guess that's just how they are made.

Here is a plain manicure with Duck which I wore about 4 or 5 days - It still looks great and I had no problems with chipping. Here are 3 coats with a layer of Poshé. It had a really long drying time even with top coat. I could still see tiny dents after 2 hours. They would even out, but I had to be careful so it wouldn't smudge. That was really disappointing. And then the application was a mess! I've written a bit about it after the mani picture.
 

I actually started with Swan. When I put it on one night, I was sick and home alone, so I was just laying on the couch watching Netflix. I took my time and let the polish dry before doing anything. After having washed my hands, I of course dried them. This is what happened:

I had let them dry for 3 hours and they seemed fine, but they just weren't dry underneath it all. Man, I was mad. I had been fighting with a bad formula and horrible application, so I was mad that I had wasted so much time on this, when most of the nails were ruined.

About the horrible formula, here is what the polish looked like after the second coat. It started being stringey and goopey, which gave a horrible application. It was so thick and almost impossible to put on. I thought it was just Swan that was horrible, so when I tried Duck the next day, I was really dissapointed. And that's when I decided to take a couple of photos of it.

It's a bit hard to see in this photo, but there is a tiny string hanging from the brush. And look at the bottle neck - it looks horrible! I might be a little slow putting on the polish, but I've never tried this before. And it had never been used before!

Here is just a final photo of the same problem. Here the stringey "effect" is very obvious, and the goopey neck is also very easy to see here. I have kind of given up on these for now. Also I think they are very Eastery, so I'll probably just put in the drawer to shame them till next year.

Stamping plate haul!!

I have gotten a lot of plates since the last time I wrote anything here. They are all pretty and I've used them a couple of times. I've written a bit about them:


The MoYou plates are soooo pretty!

Here they are in the sleeves. I have one plate which I ordered from Amazon, and there was no sleeve with that one. They are really pretty and they protect the plate quite well, but I don't really know if I'll be using them while storing. I use normal plastic sleeves to store them in a binder, but I need to buy some of those that fit 6 of these plates in one. Unfortunately I cannot get them in Denmark, so I have to buy them from eBay.

Princess collection - 04 is pretty. I first fell for the teddybear and rubber duck, but then I noticed all the other cute things. I just needed it.

Pro collection - 04 is also really pretty. Several motives with flowers and the bird. I've already used the bird a couple of times, but I've found out that the motives aren't big enought for my thumb. That's pretty annoying.

Back to the 90's - I love Pac Man - so this was also a must have. Tetris, Mario and gameboys - Yup, I'm a 90's kid.

Explorer collection - 10- This one I had to have because of the savannah, I just really love it.

Rebel collection - 02. I believe most of these are made by Banksy - and I just had to have them for my nails!

Kitty collection . 11. I really don't like cats, so I got it for the birds and the other stuff. I've used it a couple of times now - it stamps great.





And then here are the ones from Vivid Lacquer.

I love these hearts - they are so freakin' pretty. I've already used it, but it the two colors were too close, so it didn't really show up that well.

This one was just really cute with the birds and the script - and then the alphabet is very useful. But I did notice in the first alphabet with the big letters - that there is no x, but just two z's. Pretty funny - I have been eyeing the plate for quite a while, and I've never noticed before. Luckily x is not the letter I use the most, so it's not that bad.



A couple of weeks ago I also got a couple of plates from Messy Mansion. I had bought MM14, and when I had gotten that one, I suddenly received another package two days later. I was very confused, because I had not ordered anything else from Messy Mansion - If I had, I would have done it in one order. Lucky for me, it was a mistake, and it was not the same plate as I had already gotten. And when I wrote them, they said, I could just keep it. It would have been expensive to send to Australia anyways, so I happily obliged.

Here is MM14 - Unfortunately it was a tiny bit bent, but it works just fine. It was a bit hard to get a good picture, so some of it is blurry.

And here is MM12 - I think the chevrons are pretty nice, and I'll probably use them some day.

And then there was a sale on this plate from Rica. I had already been looking at it and thought about bying it, but the reduced price did it. I love the Monroe-one and I think I'll do a Warhol-design some day.

And last but not least are the ones from BornPrettyStore - They have cheap plates, so I thought I would try it out. I bought these four:

I love cherry blossoms, so I thought I would just try this one out, since it was also cheap. A rip off of Konad, but it was cheap, so I'd try it out.

I have always liked the hearts on those straws, so I bought it even though it is a knock off of Konad.

This one I bought because they are all pretty cute and it was cheap.

This one I bought primarily because of Easter. The little chicken-bird-thingie is pretty cute and I could probably use the bows someday.

Polish Fairy!

On Facebook I joined in on this cool Santa-exchange. Except it is not exactly Christmas, so we ended up just calling it Polish fairies in stead of Santas.

I got my package the other day and at first I didn't get what I could have gotten from Norway, but when I opened it, I saw the card, where my fairy had written my a little note.
As we had written a like/dislike-list, these polishes are spot on.

There were five polishes in the box, a cute pendant for a necklace made with nail polish, a lot of studs and candy. The five polishes are:

This brand I actually do not know, but I really like the polish. It is a magenta base with lots of holographic glitter. It is really pretty, and applies a bit sheer, so I will probably be using it over a creme or in a jelly sandwich. tIt reminds me a bit of Teenage Dream, just with a darker base.

New York Summer - Hot purple
A  dark lilac color. It is impossible to catch the real color in a photo, but here is a bottle shot anyways. It looks really dark in the bottle, but it applies like a jelly, so I am looking forward to seeing how it looks on the nail.

Illamasqua - Faux Pas
Also a pretty lilac. It is lighter than the other one, and according to the googling I have done, it has a "rubbery" finish, which I am looking forward to trying.
It is also my first Illamasqua, so that is pretty neat. I've had my eyes on some before, but never actually gotten around to buying them.

Lavshuca - PK-5
Here is another glittery polish. It has a pink base and silver glitters in different sizes. It looks really pretty in the bottle, so I expect it to look pretty on the nail as well. I will probably wait till I get a peel off base to try it.

TL Design - Bolivia
A greenish grey with lots of glitter. There is a lot of shimmer and little square silver glitters. I really like the glittery finish of this one, and I am looking forward to trying it.

Different sizes of studs in different colors. I actually dont use studs that much, because my nails are so curved that big studs end up sticking out too much for it to be fixed with top coat. But there are several here which are small enough for me to use, so I will probably try it out soon.

Here is the little pendant from the box. It was really hard to capture all the colors. My fairy wrote that it is made from "Met on the internet" and "Luxe and lush". It is beautiful and I love the flakie effect with all the colors. I need to find a chain that I can use this with.


All in all I am very happy. It is fun to try something totally new - I love all the new polishes and I am looking forward to trying them all.
It was pretty fun to try this thing with secret polish fairies. I will definitely join again, if the opportunity comes.