My ten favourites from this year

It is not easy. So many polishes, so many favourites. One day I am loving a red one, the next a blue. Another day I need a creme, some days later I am craving glitter.
It is not easy too choose favourites but since this year is coming to an end I am listing my ten favourites from new collections 2011. Polishes I have tried, painted and is coming back to.

My favourites are (in no particular order because that would be way to difficult):

OPI Animal-istic

Orly Sweet peacock

Essie Size matters

Essie Bobbing for baubles

Butter London Knees up

Cult nails Unicorn puke

China glaze Skyskraper



Orly Flirty



OPI Grape...set...match



OPI Rainbow connection



China glaze Haunting

Yesterday evening I was all dressed in black. Black dress, a ring with a black stone (best ever christmas present from my man) and black nailpolish. Black always works. We were off to diner at some friends celebrating new years early since one of our friends is working on new years eve, so yes, I am a bit tired today.

The polish on my nails was Haunting from China glaze Halloween collection from 2011. It is a black polish with lots of silver glitter. I really like it. It is black and cool but something more if you understand what I mean. It may not be unique, but I don't care, this is one of my favourites right now.

The formula was great. Easy to work with and two coats were enough to get opacity.

My love for nailpolish

I have been painting my nails for so long. I started when I was 14. Almost every night I repainted my nails. At first it looked terrible, but I redid a nail if I didn't was satisfied. I wanted my nails to look perfect. Then I wore a lot of red and winered. One of my favorites was a redwine polish from Esté Lauder.

About six years ago I got my first OPI polish, a friend of mine in Canada sent me the pink Kinky in Helsinki. And I fell in love. And bought more, from OPI and other brands.

Now I feel naked if I am not wearing polish. I like looking down on my fingers and see a vibrant color. It makes me happy. When I go to a party, to an important meeting or just wants to feel good I paint my nails. Matching with clothes and details. Or not. I wear any color to work, glitter, black, pink, green. It all works.

Painting my nails is a moment for me. Life is busy, when I sit down to paint my I do it for me. I slow down, relax and afterwards I am forced to do nothing to let the polish dry.

Twentyone years later I am really good at painting my nails. I know how to do it. And I still think it is fun.
Painted nails is me.

Essie School of hard rocks

There are greens and there are greens. Some are just terrible and not suitable for the nails. But the there are the ones that looks so cool. Like Essie School of hard rocks.

This is a dirty kind of green. It is mild tealgreen and with a grey tone which gives it that smudgy look. To me the color is sophisticated but with an edge. This color rocks!

Essies creams are always easy to work with and this was no exception.The formula was great and two coats were enough for opacity.

For those extra fancy feets

At this time of the year it's not many who gets to see my feet. Despite that I do a pedicure once a week and make sure my toenails are nicely polished. Sometimes with a lot of glitter.

So when I saw this pedicure you can get at Nails inc in the UK I sighed. I love it.
But I don't love the price though, £ 120. That is a lot of money for a pedicure, even if it involves hundreds of Swarowski crystals.

Lucky I don't live in the UK.

My kind of nail art

I am not much for nail art, simply because I am not good at hit. I admire everyone who is capable of turning there nails in to small masterpieces but I am not steady enough. But, the other day I was playing around the other day and did this kind of leopard nails. Nothing fancy, just simple.

To do them I used Sweet peacock from Orly as a base. Then I used a nail art pen from Models own to do the spots and filled them in with the glitter Star sparkle from Nubar.

Collistar Melograno Lacco

Time for some red. This is Melograno Lacco from the Italian brand Collistars winter collection. A warm orange toned red jelly.

To me a jelly feels a bit more like summer, but the color is beautiful also in winter. It shines on the nail although this orangered might not be unique. I have seen this shade before.

The formula though was terrible. It was harde to control the polish and I had to do a lot of cleaning up. I used three coats, but still had visible nail line then but that it is okey since it is a jelly I think.

Mavala Racing green

Okey, this is a little bit Christmas like at least. This polish is part of a winter collection from Mavala, and well, it is not red, but green. Soft, dark green. Like a Christmas tree.

Racing green is a green creme polish that is dark but not so dark that it turns black. I like that. I mean if I want black I have lots of black polishes to satisfy that, so if I paint green I want green.
Maybe it is not the most interesting polish out there, but I like it.

The formula was good, smooth and nice to work with and I needed two coats for opacity.