Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Snow Much Fun




After Snow Flaking Way another winter polish by KBShimmer: Snow Much Fun (Winter 2013 Collection), created by Victoria - the Manicurator 





"Victoria wanted a polish that represented the first snow, and what better way than with snowflake glitter!  This light blue jelly sparkles with light blue holo glitter, white glitters in several sizes and finishes, a sprinkling of micro holographic glitter, and of course, white snowflake glitter."
(Souce: KBShimmer)

I used three rather thick coats, as Snow Much Fun is quite sheer. No issues with application, even the snowflakes came out of the bottle willingly, but with all the coats (I added one coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food and one coat of Rica Glossy Glam for a smooth finish) it dried pretty slowly.














KBShimmer polishes are sold on their website (US only) and at Harlow & Co.

Monday, February 24, 2014

A Box, Indied - Cupid Is Stupid







The last polish of the february "A Box, Indied" is Different Dimension Cupid Is Stupid




Cupid Is Stupid is a raspberry leaning hot pink jelly with small blue shimmering iridescent gitters. As a jelly, Cupid Is Stupid is pretty sheer, after three coats my nail line was still visible.








Hot pink is so not my color, so I used a England Jane Eyre (already shown here), a black base with red shimmer, and some striping tape to make it more wearable for me. One coat of Rica Glossy Glam topcoat finished this mani.

















Different Dimension polishes can be found on Etsy, at Mei Mei's Signatures or at Llarowe. Cupid Is Stupid was exclusive to the february "A Box, Indied". The box with five polishes is available at Llarowe as a one month only box or as subscription (50$ per box).




a England polishes are available at various places, you'll find a complete list of retailers here.



Saturday, February 22, 2014

A Box, Indied - Yo, Cupid, Take A Hike





Number four of the february "A Box, Indied" is Colors By Llarowe Yo, Cupid, Take A Hike





I started with three coats of Essence Sleepy (Snow White Trend Edition), a pastel blue with an extremely subtle blue shimmer that was just impossible to catch on picture.





As soon as Sleepy was completely dry, I used lightning bolts nail vinyls before I added one thick coat of Yo, Cupid, Take A Hike. YCTAH is a royal blue linear holo with just a slight hint of teal. Application was very easy and opacity after one coat was perfect, too. To wear it alone, I propose using two coats, though. One coat of Rica Glossy Glam topcoat was the last step.

Like thursday's chevrons, I had problems with removing the nail vinyls, they tore during removal (all of them). Most of them I could remove easily in two pieces, but some tore a second time and I had to fiddle with tweezers to get the last bit of sticker off of my nails. I only realised after taking the pictures, that the lightning bolt on my index finger is the orhter way round. Let's call it an accent nail, shall we? ;-)










Direct lamp light


Colors By Llarowe are available at Llarowe and at Harlow & Co. Yo, Cupid, Take A Hike was exclusive to the february "A Box, Indied". The box with five polishes is available at Llarowe as a one month only box or as subscription (50$ per box).


Friday, February 21, 2014

A Box, Indied - Heart Breaker





The next february "A Box, Indied" polish is Dollish Polish Heart Breaker





I started with a base of Essie Carry On (Fall 2011 Collection), a deep oxblood red creme. The formula is very pleasing, a little thin but not runny, and opaque with two thin coats. Carry On dries extremely glossy, no topcoat used in the picture below.





Then I dabbed on one coat of Dollish Polish Heart Breaker, a clear base filled with tons of glitters in various shades of pink and red in (almost) all existing forms, some of them holographic. There are hexes, squares, dots, bars, shards, hearts and butterflies (or are they bows? Can't really tell, it's the "thing" on the lower right of my thumb nail anyway). One coat of Rica Glossy Glam provided a smooth finish.




To be honest, I liked Heart Breaker much better than I expected. As you probably know, I'm not really into red and pink polish, but I was quite happy with how these two polishes looked together (and they matched the day I was wearing them pretty good, this was my actual V-day mani).













Dollish Polish are available at their store, at Llarowe and at Overall Beauty. Heart Breaker was exclusive to the february"A Box, Indied". The box with five polishes is available at Llarowe as a one month only box or as subscription (50$ per box).

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Golden Oldie Thursday - Day 7 - Chevron








The theme for round seven of the Golden Oldie Thursday is chevron.





For this mani I used a black base (one coat of a England Camelot), single chevron nail vinyls and one coat of Enchanted Polish Ciao Milano. Ciao Milano has a clear base filled with small multichrome hexes shifting from yellow over copper, pink, purple, blue to green. One coat provided a nice coverage over black, I'm sure it could be built up to opacity on it's own with about three coats.




This time I had some issues with my nail vinyls, but this was probably user error. I applied them on the complete hand at once, added Ciao Milano on all five fingers and started to remove the vinyls, but during removal they tore in the middle and took the black base with them, so I had to re-apply the black polish with a nail art brush at the chevron. So it seems the nail vinyls don't like to be soaked in polish for more than a few seconds (or was this a one time only problem? The next use will show).





















Underwater shot

Enchanted Polish are pretty hard to get nowadays (as you can see me bottle is an old one, when they weren't as htg) but if you're lucky they're available at Mei Mei's Signatures, Pshiiit and Big Cartel.
I'd recommend to follow the brand on Facebook or Twitter to get updates on restocks.


 More chevron manis below

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Buchrezension "Die Schakkeline ist voll hochbegabt, ey!"



Today's post is a review of a german book. For those of you who don't speak german (or are not interested in books), don't worry, I'll be back tomorrow with more nail polish :-)


Die Schakkeline ist voll hochbegabt, ey!



Bildquelle: Amazon


Normalerweise rezensiere ich hier nur Bücher, die ich zu ebendiesem Zweck zur Verfügung gestellt erhalten habe. Heute möchte ich ausnahmsweise ein Buch vorstellen, das ich mir selber gekauft habe und so toll fand, dass ich es euch nicht vorenthalten möchte:

Sophie Seebergs "Die Schakkeline ist voll hochbegabt, ey!"

Entdeckt habe ich das Buch durch die Empfehlung von Tommy Krappweis (erinnert sich noch jemand an RTL Samstag Nacht?).


Inhalt

"Sophie Seeberg kriegt es hautnah mit, das Leben, denn die Psychologin begutachtet Familien fürs Gericht. Sie erlebt dabei schockierende und traurige, aber auch komische und skurrile Geschichten. Wenn zum Beispiel der Vater nicht zum Termin erscheint, weil er betrunken auf der Straße eingeschlafen ist – neben dem Bollerwagen voller Diebesgut. Oder wenn die Mutter ihren erwachsenen Sohn behandelt, als wäre er ein Kleinkind. Seeberg zeigt uns den ganz normalen Familienwahnsinn und behält dabei immer einen unnachahmlichen Sinn für Humor."
(Quelle: Amazon)
  • Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
  • Verlag: Knaur TB (2. Dezember 2013)
  • Sprache: Deutsch
  • ISBN-10: 3426786036
  • ISBN-13: 978-3426786031
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 18,8 x 12,4 x 2,2 cm

Gekauft habe ich mir das Buch bei Amazon (auch für den Kindle zu haben), es sollte aber auch in jeder andern Buchhandlung erhältlich sein.



Mein Fazit



Mit viel Humor, der meistens aus der Absurdität der Situation selbst ensteht und nicht nur die Autorin, sondern auch den Leser vor dem Verzweifeln schützen möchte, aber auch dem nötigen Ernst schildert Sophie Seeberg in ihrem Buch mehrere Anekdoten aus ihrem Berufsalltag als Gerichtsgutachterin in Familienrechtssachen. Dabei erzählt sie so detailgetreu und lebensecht, dass ich durchgehend das Gefühl hatte, mit ihr zusammen bei den besuchten Familien auf dem Sofa zu sitzen und den betreffenden Personen zuzuhören – nicht immer eine sehr appetitliche und manchmal auch eine richtiggehend beängstigende Vorstellung. 

Entgegen der Erwartung, die der Titel wohl erweckt, macht sich Frau Seeberg jedoch nie über die besuchten Familien lustig und vergisst auch nicht, die Tragik und den Schmerz, die hinter jedem dieser Fälle stecken, klarzustellen.Während eines grossen Teils des Buchs hatte ich Tränen in den Augen, sei es vor Lachen, vor Rührung und teilweise auch einfach vor Wut und Unverständnis. Ich gebe ja zu, ich bin grundsätzlich sehr nahe am Wasser gebaut, aber wen diese Lektüre kalt lässt, der hat einfach kein Herz. Ich bin Frau Seeberg aber dankbar, dass sie sich zur Niederschrift nur solche Fälle ausgesucht hat, die für das Kind oder die Kinder ein gutes Ende nahmen. Ich bin sicher, es gibt bei jeder Gutachterin auch Fälle, bei denen der Richter schlussendlich nach Ansicht der Fachperson „falsch“ entscheidet, aber die wären für das Laienpublikum, das schlussendlich mit diesem Buch angesprochen werden soll, wohl zu deprimierend und unverständlich. So konnte ich mich bei jedem Fall über das gute Ende freuen, das manchmal die Form einer Fremdplatzierung annahm, in anderen Fällen aber auch „nur“ in einem Wechsel an eine Schule mit weniger engstirnigem Lehrpersonal bestand. 

Einen Kritikpunkt möchte ich zuletzt aber doch noch anbringen: das Buch ist viel zu kurz! Ich habe die rund 250 Seiten in einem Rutsch durchgelesen und hätte gerne noch stundenlang so weitergemacht, ich konnte es einfach nicht mehr aus der Hand legen. Frau Seeberg, ich will mehr!



Diese Rezension erscheint auch auf Aglayabooks

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

A Box, Indied - He Loves Me Not





The next polish of the february "A Box, Indied" is Black Cat Lacquer He Loves me Not





He Loves me Not is a fuchsia leaning purple jelly with lots of tiny blue glitters. The first coat looked hot pink, with tree coats, like I was wearing, the color turns more purple. He Loves me Not dries to a satin matte finish, but I forgot to take pictures before adding topcoat, sorry about that.





Then I used a England Ophelia (Gothic Beauties Collection, already shown here) and Pueen plate 55 to add this circle/dot pattern. The Gothic Beauties aren't as opaque as all the other a England polishes, so the stamping looked more like a half translucent black, and the purple shimmer of Ophelia wasn't visible at all.














a England polishes are available at various places, you'll find a complete list of retailers here.


Black Cat Lacquer are available at their own store (US and Canada), at MeiMei's Signatures and at Anjo Beauty. He Loves Me Not was exclusive to the february "A Box, Indied". The box with five indie polishes is available at Llarowe as a one month only box or as subscription (50$ per box).

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