My Favorites Of 2010

Hi all,

Today I have my favorites of 2010 for you! It contains the polishes I've loved the most in the past year, so that means they're not necessarily 2010 releases :) I'll link my original post of the polish underneath the picture! I've sneaked in some favorite mani's as well. Be prepared for a lot of pictures and a lot of variety in my nail length!



Deborah Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers
(shown over Chanel Gondola)


Orly Meet Me Under The Mistletoe


China Glaze Party Hearty
(shown over OPI Smitten With Mittens)


China Glaze Rodeo Fanatic


Chanel Paradoxal


Paint Splatters Everywhere


Frankenstein Watermarble


OPI Espresso Your Style!


ManGlaze Matte Is Murder


CND Night Factory Set with
Urban Oasis and Teal Sparkle


RBL Orbis Non Sufficit
(shown with China Glaze Ink stripes)


OPI Merry Midnight
(shown over OPI Funky Dunkey)


OPI Damone Roberts 1968


BB Couture Grenade


Orly It's Not Rocket Science


OPI Smitten With Mittens


Diamond Cosmetics Never So Evergreen


OPI DS Glamour


OCC Blackboard


OPI Catch Me In Your Net


RBL Scrangie


Chanel Gondola


Orly Shine


OPI Mad As A Hatter


OPI DS Extravagance


Lace Illusion


My First Watermarble


Nfu Oh 051 and RBL Bruised


Whew! That's a lot of favorites.. And there's a whole bunch of polishes that I really liked, but *just* didn't make it on the 'list'..

So tell me! What are your favorite polishes of 2010? And what will you be doing in tonight to celebrate the New Year?

Christmas Sweater

Hi all,

First up: I've filed my nails down recently so you may see different lengths of nails in the next couple of weeks, because I still have a ton to post that's not Christmas related. Just so you know my nails don't grow 5 mm a night! This manicure is done with Christmas colors green and gold, but has no holiday design. I think it looks like a Christmas sweater though!


China Glaze 2030 stamped with M60 over Catrice Run Forest Run! (review on this one will come next week :)). 2030 is the perfect gold stamping polish and although I'm not really a big gold fan, I love this for stamping. It gives a crisp and shiny look to the design!


In some angles you can barely see the green underneath the gold! I like this look, but it won't be my Christmas manicure, that's one thing I know for sure. What it will be.. I have no idea yet! And Christmas is so close..

Thanks for stopping by :)

Just Bells..

Hi all,

Quickie today! I wore this on the last two days that I wore OPI Smitten With Mittens and it was Christmassy, so I thought I'd share a subtle Xmas mani :)


China Glaze 2030 stamped with M12 over OPI Smitten With Mittens. It's a really subtle, yes festive mani if you ask me.

I'm still working on sorting out the giveaway entries so please be patient with me! I'll do a post on what you'd like to see on Nailswatches more, too :)

Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Barielle Konad Overload

Hi all,

While I was browsing through my nail folder, I found this overload of stamping with Barielle colors. I like the purple and the green together, but I think the blue blew it all overboard whehehe.


Barielle Grape Escape as a base, stamped with Sweet Addiction, Berry Blue and imageplates M57 and M60. Not my favorite konadicure to say the least, but it was fun to do.

I wish you all a very nice weekend :)


I will be working on the giveaway winner tomorrow - I'll ask my sister to pick a winner from all of the entries after I'm done checking and sorting them :)

Dark and Cloudy Konadicure.. Sort Of

Hi all,

Today I have a Konadicure for you that I did a while back and this one gives me a dark and cloudy feeling..


Catrice Absolutely Chinchilly! stamped with Wet n Wild Black Creme and imageplate M60. The color combination gives me a very sad feeling, like pooring rain out of dark clouds.. I think it's the color combination. It's somehow making me sad! I've never had that before.. Weird, eh?

I don't think this is a konadicure I will redo in the future ;)

The OPI Damone Roberts 1968 giveaway is now closed! The winner will be announced later this week.

It's The Christmas Season!

Hi all!

It's December, which means that it's almost Christmas! I don't know about you, but Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. Last year, I didn't really do Christmas manicures, but I decided to do a couple this year, and this is the first one!


Two coats of H&M Love At First Sight as a base, stamped with China Glaze Ruby Pumps and imageplate M12. Imageplate M12 is the Christmas Konad stamping plate and I love it for this season. It holds a Santa, clocks, candycanes, 'Merry Christmas!" and more. We don't really have Candycanes much here, but I really like the look of them and they always make me think of Christmas..


I put a coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust over it to make it sort of like a snow feel, and I think it turned out pretty nicely! Ruby Pumps is great for stamping, only the color is a bit less intense (which is only logical, since the polish is only one coat).


I like this so much that I might even wear this for Christmas! I'm still undecided, so I guess anything can happen ;)

Are you doing Christmas manicures this month?

PS: Voor al mijn Nederlandse lezers, fijne Sinterklaas vandaag! Niet te veel pepernootjes he ;)

Silver and Black Konad

Hi all,

A quickie today, so many things to do! I'm reorganizing my room a bit, giving it a more "home-y" feel.. I have to sort out a whole box filled with old friendship books (from when I was like, 7?), old agenda's, prizes/certificates that I got from diving and a ton more. I think it's enough to keep me busy all morning ;)

For today I have a konadicure that I did last week and since I really like silver and black combinations, I thought I'd share.


Barielle Night Moves stamped with Wet n Wild Black Creme and imageplate M64. Silver and Black is a golden combination with me, and so is this one. I had a little bit of trouble transferring the stamp good enough to get straight lines, but I still like how it turned out!

My original post about Barielle Night Moves can be found here.

Do you have any 'golden combinations', either in colors or maybe even polishes that you like to combine together? I'm always in for some new inspiration!

Swirled Holographic

Hi all,

So yesterday I went to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and it was awesome! Seriously, I've been sucked in by the movie all 146 mins of it and for someone with a concentration level as I have, that's telling you something. I'm sooo easily distracted. I won't tell you what happens, since it's way better to watch the movie yourself, but if you're in doubt: don't doubt, just go watch it! It's my favorite movie so far, for one because they stuck to the stories in the book and second because it was really a great movie - acting, effects, the whole setting..

Okay, so far the unrelated babbling. Now for something nailrelated: a konadicure that I did a while ago! I thought it looked fun so I want to share it with you :)


China Glaze 2Nite stamped with China Glaze LOL and imageplate M63. LOL dulled a bit after stamping, but 2Nite is still very holographic. I like the effect! It's quite subtle, but still stands out. I know I sound weird lol!


It's even better in daylight and full sunlight, so I snapped some more pictures. You see more of the rainbow irl, but my camera wouldn't capure that unless it faded away all the blue and purple in the polishes. *sigh*


And while I'm posting this, I'm thinking of the summer, when there was still a lot of sunlight.. I notice my mood is better when the sun is out, so that's a bit of a downside when it's November and the sky is mostly grey. It helps to look at these kind of pictures tho!

Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy your Thursday! Thanks for stopping by :)


Don't forget to enter the OPI Damone Roberts 1968 giveaway!
You can read about the details and enter the giveaway here.

Lacey nails!

Hi all,

Last week, I showed you Barielle Get Mauve-ing and today I have the konadicure that I did over it afterwards. I like these colors as a background for konads like this!


Barielle Get Mauve-ing stamped with Wet n Wild Black Creme and imageplate M71. Because Get Mauve-ing is such a soothing color, I really liked the lacey stamping on it. I like those more on the dusty, muted looking polishes somehow.

Barielle Date Night

Hi all,

Today I have one of the Barielles for you that I bought in the sale recently: Date Night.

Barielle Date Night, two coats in direct daylight. Date Night is a gorgeous deep green shimmer that doesn't look black in low lighting (yay!). It's gorgeous and it's really pigmented as well. I used two coats to even my sloppy polishing, but if you work neatly you can call this a onecoater!

As you can see, it's just the slightest bit brush strokey so you want to be careful while applying the polish.

The formula is smooth as butter and practically applied itself :)

In low lights, it looks darker and 'mossier' (is that a word?) so I immediately thought of Slytherin - well hey, I'm a Harry Potter fan! I decided to do an accent nail to wear with this mani.


Barielle Date Night stamped with China Glaze Millennium and imageplate M28 in indirect daylight. The color shifts to a darker shade of green, me likez!

I'm a bit lost for words, I really don't know what to say.. I'm tried and I don't know why. Thank goodness the clock goes back one hour tonight, so that's an extra hour of sleep! Yay! (I'm writing this on Saturday night hehe)

Hope you have a great Halloween!

Silver and Black Houndstooth

Hi all,

A couple of days ago (it might already have been last week - time flies!) I did a pretty nice Konad - if I may say so myself - and I wanted to share! I like the contrast in this one, it really makes it pop.


Color Club What A Drag stamped with Wet n Wild Black Creme and imageplate M63. It pops! And it's so easy to do. I'm gonna keep the color combination in mind; I really like it. And can you believe I had not used this design before? This is the first time! Jeez, gotta grab my plates a little more, cuz it's cool.. *stops rambling*

You can read my original post about What A Drag here.

I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

Rumor Mill Filled With Joy

Hi all,

Today I have a konadicure for you that I did over Hard Candy Rumor Mill, which I showed you a couple of weeks ago. I love Konad - it's a great way to spice up your mani when you're wearing a polish and you want to spice it up for whatever reason. I decided to do one of my new favorite designs; a lacy stamp.

Hard Candy Rumor Mill stamped with China Glaze Joy and imageplate M71, taken in daylight. Joy really compliments the plum in Rumor Mill in my opinion. The lace design is clearly visible, but not really in your face and I like that!


This picture was taken in the shade, so this is what the konadicure looks like most of the time. Pretty, right? The vampy, almost black, plum color might be a bit too dramatic for some people, but the stamping lightens the mani up a bit.

I also took a closeup shot:


You can see how the colors compliment eachother.

I know I will keep doing these kind of konadicures, just because they're fun :) And of course, I really like the designs I use to stamp with :)


A product in this post was sent to me by the manufacturer or their PR company for consideration. For more information, please read my disclaimer.

Pink Ribbon Nails

Hi all,

As you might know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and in this month, there is more attention for this decease. I want to let you know that I don't think that all other illnesses are less important or whatever, so it sometimes makes me a little bit.. Uneasy? (that's the word I guess) that there's a whole month of full attention going towards breast cancer while there are so many deceases and illnesses out there. I do want to point out that I like the initiative of Pink Ribbon has put out to make everyone aware of breast cancer, so that's why I've decided to do Pink Ribbon nails.


I used H&M Love At First Sight as a base and I used Konad stamping polish in pink (I guess, there's no name on my bottle!) for the ribbon and my accentnail. It's a bit thick but it made the perfect pink for this manicure, at least that's what I think.


I freenhanded the ribbon with a nailart brush, so it's not flawless haha.

Have you done something for Breast Cancer Awareness month or are you planning on doing so?

Tomorrow Will Be Better.. Right?!

Hi all,

Another quickie. I know I suck, I have tons to do for the blog and I haven't been around on Twitter either. I need to reply to my emails and comments. I suck. I'm having a bad week and it's not getting better, so hopefully things will turn around tomorrow. Otherwise, I'll probably have to stay in bed all day.

Today is another recent NOTD. I pimped Strawberry Fields with one of my newest plates after wearing this baby for four or five days (so excuse any sign of wear you may notice).

China Glaze Strawberry Fields stamped with China Glaze Awaken and imageplate M71. I love the lacey design! It looks so cute.. I can see a whole lot of konadicures with this one in the future.

Little closeup as bonus

Do you SEE those golden glass flecks? (this one is left bigger so you can click it)

Anyway, I hope you will forgive me for not being as active as I should/would like to. I want you to know that I really love the fact that you all come here to read my little blog and leave comments or send me an email. It means the world to me. But for now, the world is a little too heavy on my shoulders. I'm sorry about that.