Models own Red alert

I hade planned to do something fun and creative with my nails yesterday evening, but time was not on my side so I decided to pull out a safe card and paint them red. Red is never wrong. So I used a polish I forgot to show you in my haul from Scotland, Red Alert from Models own.

Well, this I bought on a sale for only 1 pound at Heathrow airport. Very well spent money I think. It is a regular red polish, bright and with a slight orange tone, with a jelly finish. It looks good, I like the jelly finish. It is not a wow polish though, but still I think I will wear this a lot. I like wearing red (and my man likes it too. What is it with men and red nails?)

The fomula was a bit thin and runny, but still easy to work with. I used three coats, but I think two coats are enough on short nails.

And remember, when I hit 200 followers I will announce a giveaway, so please become a follower!

How I do the clean up.

I got a question from one of my blog readers the other day about how I do the clean up after painting my nails.
Well, I don't usually have to do so much clean up, but it goes like this:

If I totally mess up a nail, I start over. Remove it and paint again. That simple.
But if I just get a little that goes up on the cuticle I take my wooden cuticle pen and remove the polish. It usually works.
If it is a little more polish I use my corrector pen from Boots. It works good.
If the polish on the cuticle isn't connected with the polish on the nail, I usually wait until it is dry and I am in the shower. Then I can just scrape it off.

Planning a giveaway

I am getting close to 200 followers which I am so happy about! I remember when it was just my man (who is NOT interested in nailpolish, but I forced him) that was my follower when I started this blog. Today you are 182 who follow me. Lovely!

To celebrate this I decided to host a giveaway that will become reality when I hit 200 followers.

When I have 200 followers I will post more about it but I can tell you now that you will have to be a follower to enter, it is international and the stuff I will send out will be Swedish.

How about it?

Rimmel Disco ball

Okey, let spice things up. I took yesterdays manicure with Depends purple polish number 261 and added a bit of sparkle with the help of Disco ball from Rimmel, another polish I bought in Scotland.

Disco ball has a clear base, some small silver glitter and some medium sized light purple and blue glitter. Perfect for layering. So I took just one layer of Disco ball of my creme polish, and it got a lot more fun, even though I didn't expect so much out f it. Hmm, really must be in some glitter period right now.

Depend 261

Purple is one of my favourite colors to wear on my nails. Along with silver, pink, red, blue...and some more.

The polish 261 from Depends fall collection is a bright light purple creme polish that I like even though I am not superimpressed by it. It is a normal purple creme.

The formula was smooth and two layers was enough to get opacity. That is good.

Barry M Shocking pink

It is time for another pink. This time Shocking pink by Barry M that I bought when I were in Scotland this summer. It is my first Barry M polish that I am trying.

The polish is a fuchsia creme polish, a color that I must love because I have several of this kind from different brands. I keep on buying them, forgetting that I have something similar at home. Well, well, it is a good color though, strong but still a bit satuarated. It was hard to catch the actual color with my camera, it is brighter in real life.

The formula really good, smooth, and it covers in just two layers.

A good pink.

China glaze Blue iguana

It's fall but I am wearing a polish from China glaze summer collection Island escapes, the blue Blue Iguana.

This is a beautiful blue foil polish that is dochrome. Love that! It sparkles a lot because it is filled with lots of small, small glassflekes and now and then it flashes in to purple. So cool! To bad I didn't get around to it until now, would have loved this on my toes during the summer.

The formula was a bit thin, but I settled with three layers although I still could see som visible nail line.

Oh my holo!

I played with my nails a little bit yesterday. First I painted them with the silver holo Greta from Make up store. I love that polish. But then I wanted to ad a little more sparkle, make them really blingy. So on Greta I added three layers of  Disco ball  sparkle from OPI, it has a clear base and then small silver glitter and bigger hex holo glitter.

I love the result, it looks a bit icy.

So what am I doing with these party nails today? First work, then I am having dinner with my wonderful man and all the children, then we are hitting the sauna. Great for the cuticles! Haha.