Shimmer Polish - Alice

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Hello everyone,

Wanna see another Shimmer Polish beauty?! Let me introduce you to Alice!

Alice is a clear base polish with loads of holographic silver hexes in many sizes and holographic silver stars. The stars are hard to find in the mix and may require some fishing though. It's not vey noticeable, but there's a star on my middle finger and one on my pinky in the swatch above.

Shimmer Polish can be purchased directly through Shimmer's website or through her Etsy store. Each Shimmer Polish shade sells for $12 a bottle + shipping. Worldwide shipping is available.

 Thanks for reading!

Shimmer Polish - Tracy

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Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones! So now, let's get back to nail polish! :)

Today's Shimmer beauty is Tracy:

Tracy is a tarnished gold glitter mix in a clear base. It contains mainly gold hex glitter but also some gold bars. If you look close enough, you see some rose gold and some red hexes. 

Shimmer Polish can be purchased directly through Shimmer's website or through her Etsy store. Each Shimmer Polish shade sells for $12 a bottle + shipping. Worldwide shipping is available.

 Thanks for reading!

Shimmer Polish - Elsa

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Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! 

Today I'd like to introduce you to Elsa.

Elsa is a mix of turquoise, red and gold glitters in a clear base. As you can see in the macro shot below, Elsa consists of different sizes of hex, small square glitters and lots of micro glitters. A very pretty combo!

Shimmer Polish can be purchased directly through Shimmer's website or through her Etsy store. Each Shimmer Polish shade sells for $12 a bottle + shipping. Worldwide shipping is available.

Thanks for reading!

KIKO - Dark Chocolate

Hi everybody,

I'd like to share with you today a very simple and easy mani to do, and yet very elegant! 

As you can see in the photo above, there's not much to it. It's a plain dark brown nail polish with a golden striping tape as an accent. 

This is a perfect combo for fall/winter, don't you think? :)

Shimmer - Strength

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Hello everyone,

September is the month for PCOS Awareness month, so today I'd like to show you this gorgeous polish: Shimmer Strength. Strength was inspired by Nory of Fierce Makeup and Nails and donations will be made to charity with each sale of Shimmer Strength.

Polish used: Orly Gumdrop

Strength has mainly teal glitter with some silver micro glitter and some large silver hex and hearts. In the swatch above I applied 1 generous coat of Strength over Orly Gumdrop. For the index and pinkie fingers I applied white striping tape. 

This polish is really beautiful, it's just too bad that the larger silver hex and the hearts are really hard to get. After several attempts, I only managed to pick one heart with the brush and hardly any silver hex.

Shimmer Polish can be purchased directly through Shimmer's website or through her Etsy store. Each Shimmer Polish shade sells for $12 a bottle + shipping. Worldwide shipping is available.

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Shimmer - Julie

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Hello again!

Today I want to introduce you to Shimmer Julie.

Julie is a colorful mix of glitters in different sizes and shapes in a clear base. This one is a true glitter bomb! Julie is such a beautiful and fun polish. It's like a rainbow in a bottle! The swatch above shows 2 coats of Julie over Illamasqua Prosperity.

I'll repeat myself again, because this applies to all Shimmer shades I've tried so far: Application is effortless and the glitter is easily and evenly distributed with each brush stroke. The glitters lay flat on the nail and they dry to a relatively smooth surface. It's not as gritty or rough as most glitter polishes of the same kind.

Shimmer Polish can be purchased directly through Shimmer's website or through her Etsy store. Each Shimmer Polish shade sells for $12 a bottle + shipping. Worldwide shipping is available.

Thanks for reading!

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Mix & Match: Denim, Gradient and Leopard Print

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share with you another denim mani I did for a contest on IG. 

For this mani I applied that same denim technique I showed you before in this tutorial. And here's the tutorial for the gradient nails and leopard print:

1. Paint your nails with a white polish and let it fully dry;

2. Apply striping tape diagonally (or any way you like) to your nails;

3. Apply the pastel nail polishes directly onto the sponge. The polishes I used are Lime Crime Once in a Blue Mousse, Crema de Limon and Parfait Day;

4. Dab the sponge over your nails.

5. Remove the striping tape and let your gradient dry and add some dots of neon polish on one of the sides of the stripes. The dots don't have to be perfect. The polishes used here are China Glaze Towel Boy Toy, Kiwi Cool-ada and Pool Party;

6. With the brush and the black acrylic paint, outline the neon dots to create the leopard print. Apply top coat and voilà! 

Thanks for reading!

Easter Bunny

Hello everyone,

it's almost Easter and I already have my nails ready for the holiday. :-)

I wanted to paint a bunny, so this is what it became:

I was in doubt whether to leave the other nails blank or to make colorful easter egg patterns. So I opted for the latter and with the help of scrapbooking scissors, I cut some scotch tape and painted some random patterns. 

This is the image I used for inspiration.

Source: ThePaperShelter

Polishes used:
Catrice - Who Are Blue (base color)
Kiko - 389 (aqua)
Lime Crime - Parfait Day (pink)
Lime Crime - Crema de Limón (yellow)
Acrylic paint (bunny)

I wish you all a Happy Easter in advance and thanks for reading!

Vintage Roses

Hello my dear readers,

I've already said good-bye to winter and I'm pretty much in the spring mood right now, even though it's still chilly outside.

Last time I showed you this beautiful mint green shade by Essence. So I translated my spring mood into my nails by adding some vintage roses to my accent nail.

I first applied white striping tape on my nail, then painted the roses with acrylic paint. Very easy and not time consuming at all!

Thanks for reading!

Pink Argyle

Hi everyone,

it's finally spring time in the northern hemisphere! I know it doesn't feel like spring for everyone yet, but we can finally say good-bye to winter!!!

These nails were done a while ago when it was still winter, and only now I realize I never posted it. I thought today was quite a nice day to post this, as we can finally lock our thick sweaters in the closet!

Good-bye winter!!!! Welcome spring!!!

Polishes used:
Kiko - #376
OPI - Alpine Snow
Orly - Liquid Vinyl 

OPI Live and Let Die

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a great week! TGIF!

Today I'll be short and quick, just like the mani I have for today's post. I didn't have much time to do it, so it was just a simple and quick mani.

If I had used golden striping tape, it could have been a St. Patrick's Day mani. But well, that wasn't really my idea anyway. I wanted something quick and not just a plain mani. So, striping tape and rhinestones it was! Simple, easy and fast! :)

I hope you liked it! Thanks for reading!