Swatch and NOTW - Cute as a Button

   

 Here are swatches of one of the polishes from the

shop.llarowe haul post that I promised to show you.

This is one coat of Glitter Gal - Fuchsia layered

over 3 thin coats of e.l.f - Royal Purple nail polish.

One coat of Glitter Gal - Fuchsia 3D Holo layered over e.l.f - Royal Purple

I want to insert a jumb brake here because it's a lot of photos.

At the end of this post I have pictures of Glitter Gal - Fuchsia on its own.

ELF Nail Polish Swatch

Well what a hard color to photograph right. The most accurate color
is the one with the name in the caption.The first and fourth
photos are too blue and the second and fifth pics are too red.

Royal Purple is one of the better e.l.f nail polishes. You get good covarage

with 2 coats. If you are good at making one thick coat then you can get away

with that. I did two thin coats. And then added a third coat for photos. But

of course I ended up with a dent on my ringfinger. But hey I'm going to fix that.

e,l.f - Royal Purple (no top coat)

 If you want to know how it turned out when I fixed the little dent

in the polish on my ringfinger - I'll post the result in an other post.

So stay tuned. I promise you, you don't want to miss that!

I think I will scedule that to post later today

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ELF Nail Polish swatch + Layering Konadicure

ELF - Burgundy

I was supposed to post this earlier but then I started the

10 Day challenge and kinda forgot. So I am posting this now.

2 coats of e.l.f - Burgundy

ELF - Burgundy

I did not want to leave it at that so I took out

my Nubar - 2010 and applied a coat of that.

I was still did not feel done so I did a leaf print

from BM04 (old plates) using Stargazer - 237

 I like how this turned out as the colors go really well together.

The Nubar flakies looks like fall leaves scatered all over.

We still don't have any snow here in Sweden and it feels like fall.

So I don't know if I should post fall or winter manicures...

Or just post what comes in mind no matter what season.

What do you think?

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Day 1 of 10 Day Challenge

Day 1

Pink Nails

 I used 3 coats of ELF - Pearl Pink

and I just had to add my glitter franken to the tips.

Not bothering with top coat tho.

New mani tomorrow anyways.

I will be doing this challenge with
Carinae over at: Carinae L'etoile's polish stash,

Tamira at: Naudii Beautii 
and with
Lizzie at: Do It Yourself, Lady...

And as we live in different parts of the world the posts will pop up during the day.

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ELF - Light Red - Konadicure

Sally Hansen - Nail Quencher as base.

2 coats of ELF - Light Red

1 coat of Seche Vite - Dry Fast Top Coat

I really do not like the elf brushes. They are so uneven.

One coat of this polish would have been enought. But the

brush was impossible to work with. So I used a second

coat to smooth things out.

ELF - Light Red

I wanted to add a print to my nails.

But not have it look christmasy.

I think I did a good job.

 Print with Konad Special Polish - Black Pearl using Konad Image Plate M8.

China Glaze - Hi-Tek using one of the "old" Bundle Monster Plate BM02.

ELF - Light Red, China Glaze - Hi-Tek and Konad - Black Pearl

Did you know you can click the pictures in my blog to view them bigger,

without having to leave the page, because the pictures will opened in an overlay?

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Special Occasion NOTW

La Femme Beauty - White, Sally Hanse - Vanilla Bean
and ELF - Glitter Glam

This is actually a manicure I sported for 3 -Yes, Three - weeks during summer. I was not feeling well at all. And I was so tired I could not even bother changing my Nail Polish. And the pictures are taken after a "few" days of wear.

Products used:

Sally Hansen - Nail Quencher (Base)

La Femme Beauty - White (French)

Sally Hansen - Vanilla Bean

ELF - Glitter Glam

Seche Vite - Dry Fast Top Coat.

Was it the Sally Hansen HARD as NAILS Xtreme Wear nail polish that made it last for 3 weeks?

I did not even re-apply any top coat.

Would you wear this to a "Special Occasion"?

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ELF - Nail Polish Swatches

ELF Nail Polish - Cranberry and Rosy Raisin

Cranberry and Rosy Raisin - Outdoors

About time to post these pictures. Swatches are done in the summer - HELLO!

Busy summer it seems.

I absolutely love Cranberry.

Oh la laa!

Rosy Raisin is not so much me.

Teal I cant get enough of. And the copper is a great color for fall. Used it in this POST

Cranberry and Rosy Raisin

Cranberry and Rosy Raisin

ELF Nail Polish - Teal (On the bottle it says Teal Blue).

Unfortunately in most cases the ELF brushes are wonky.

ELF Nail Polish - Copper

All swatches are 2 coats. No base coat. No top coat.

I have all the ELF Nail Polishes. Got them at 50% off.

 If there is one you want to see swatched just leave a comment.

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ELF - Lips

 ELF - Luscious Liquid Lipstick

Cherry Tart
Strawberry

 The Luscious Liquid Lipstick
applicator looks like this.

I don't know why they are called lipstick
when they clearly are lip gloss.

Cherry Tart
Strawberry

ELF - Plumping Lip Glaze

 I can't use the plumper cause that stings/tingles too much.

The applicator on the Plumping Lip Glaze
looks like this.

Ruby Kiss
Plumping Gloss
Oasis 

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Block Color NOTW Inspired by Shoes

I found this shoe picture in the news paper a while a go.

Somehow it inspired me to do a Manicure.

 I used e.l.f Desert Haze and China Glaze - Riveter Rouge

to create a block color manicure.

 I started off with Sally Hansen Nail Quecher as base and applied

2-3 coats of e.l.f Desert Haze on top of that. When it had dried I applied

China Glaze - Riveter Rouge. Alternating the pattern between

the tip and the base of the nails. This might have worked better

if I had used tape. So I did on the thumb and pinky. But somehow

I still managed to mess it up. And if that was not enough - I did not

wait long enough for the polish to dry so there was a bit of smudging.

China Glaze - Riveter Rouge

e.l.f - Desert Haze

This is a really simple design to do. And usefull

as somethimes I can feel that a red nail (or any dark color)

might be a bit too much to wear on long nails.

Yay for fall - this is a time when the darker polishes

come out to play. I have to use this color combo again.

What is your go-to color for fall nails?

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