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 Lights

Hi all!

Christmas is only a couple of nights away so here's another Christmas manicure! I didn't come up with this myself: I saw someone do this on MUA - I forgot your name, so sorry! Let me know if you read this, so I can give you the credits :) It's another easy, yet festive mani.


Christmas lights! To do this, you'll only have to do a few simple steps. First, paint your nails in a green color. I chose to do Nfu Oh 056 over China Glaze Holly Jolly, because I wanted a flakey tree. You can also go with a creme (like Orly Enchanted Forest or RBL Recycle) of a shimmer or glassflecked polish (like Orly Meet Me Under The Mistletoe or China Glaze Emerald Sparkle).

What you want to do next, is get a black polish and a striper brush. I used China Glaze Ink, which is technically not even really black, but it would work just as good. I drew some lines over my nails. I didn't want the lines to match: I wanted them to look 'random', like you see them in the trees.


When you've done that, it's time to take out your light bulb colors. I picked Barielle Glammed Out Garnet (red), China Glaze Lemon Fizz (yellow) and China Glaze Coconut Kiss (purple), but really, you can pick any color you'd like. I 'wiped' the brush of at the neck of the bottle, keeping just enough polish on the brush to create a bulb. I just put the brush on my nail to create a little oval drop and that's it! I think you could also use a dotting tool and pull it a little toward the light cord, so you get a somewhat teardrop shape to your colors.

I did that three times on all of my nails, so I had three different colors of lights. You can use as much colors as you'd like: I was aiming at a subtle yet colorful look, but I think I could have put another color there - like a pale lilac or something.

That's it! Easy, right? Even I could do it and my hands are nowhere near steady. Thanks for stopping by!

Nfu Oh 558

Hi all,

How are you all doing? Have you done all your Christmas shopping yet? I still have some presents to get my family so I guess I'll have to go shopping later this week. I could think of things less fun ;)

Today I have Nfu Oh 558 for you. I didn't know this was a jelly/jellylike creme until I put it on.. Ah well. Here she is!


Nfu Oh 558, three coats in daylight. It's a little darker than my pic shows it, but just a tad. 558 is a blue jelly. I'm not really fond of jellies to be honest, so it was a bit of a disappointment when I found out the finish on this one lol. I thought it was a creme!

I always have application problems with jellies somehow.. It might be just me but it's all runny and floods my cuticles *cue sigh*. The color is beautiful though. I wish I could find a blue exactly this color, but with a creme finish. Hey, I just thought of a new mission hehe!

Good luck to those of you that haven't done your Christmas shopping!

Impression Beauty Salon Dimension 2010

Hi all,

How was your weekend? I hope it was good. I got out of the house again and this time I went to pick up Michèle from lacquerized to go to the Beauty Salon Dimension Fair that is being held at the Jaarbeurs Utrecht. In this post I put a TON of pictures to give you an idea of the fair. I can't post about every stand we've seen since it would just be too much. Warning: VERY VERY pic heavy!

Hmm... Bottle pics! OPI had a wonderful big stand that displayed all of their products, so of course all their polishes were there. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to buy any polishes since we're not professionals, but it was nice to drool all over the bottles and pretty colors.


The other side of the OPI polish display. There were SO many bottles, it was awesome.


The latest collection in The Netherlands; OPI Swiss. The Netherlands are a bit behind on collections so no Burlesques yet.


Their core of DS polishes. The two next polishes were there as well and I've added Magic to my wishlist (although it looked a lot like Michèle's mani - Lunar Eclipse).


Swatches of the Go Goth mini's. I love love love Sanguine. It looks a bit flat tho on this swatch, but I still want it.


The stand of Magnetics. Now, this was a brand I hadn't heard of before. They had quite a big stand with a ton of stuff for acrylics, but they also had a wide arrange of nail art products and polishes as you can see. I picked up three polishes - Will show you at the end of this post :)


The China Glaze stand. They had a lot of older polishes (polishes from older collections) so I managed to snatch up three of these babies as well. Again - Will show at the end of this post.


Swatches of the China Glaze Vintage Vixens. They had them all and they had a cute pack of four mini's as well. Too bad that the only two polishes I have, were part of the pack of mini's. Otherwise I would have picked them up. I love how China Glaze calls them mini's, but they're still bigger than the fullsize bottles of some brands.


Another brand I've never heard from before: Hollywood Nails. They had a complete 'wall' with polishes and they had a lot of colors. I only picked up one (which cost only € 0,99!) and it is an amazing duochrome/multichrome in the bottle, so I'm really curious to see how this looks on the nails. Michèle found a near-dupe of Chanel Paradoxal, so be sure to check her comparison pic out!


The new Trind winter colors. I'm so sorry about the crappy lighting, but there were big ass lamps on some places and small spots on others. Flash washed most of the colors out on my pics.. Anyway, Trind has some pretty colors out for winter. They release four new colors every winter and every summer so I'm gonna keep an eye open for those!


The Nfu Oh stand had a wall filled with tons of polishes. Look at all those Nfu Oh's! I've never seen so many together in my life. It was sooooo awesome to look at them! Well, I really love bottle pr0n ;) (Have you noticed with all these bottle pics?) I added Nfu Oh 055 to my wishlist since I was asking myself why the hell I didn't own that polish already.

We also went to the CND stand and we talked to a very nice lady that told us about an upcoming gorgeous navy polsih.. Can't wait!! We went to look at the Effects - they were awesome. I need more!

Well.. I told you I would show you what I picked up, so here goes.


A present for myself! I got my Spanish homework back on saturday and I got a 9 (nine!)! That's the second 9 I got for my homework so to give myself a little present, I bought this. Can you guess what it is?


Yes! That's the latest CND set with Urban Oasis and Teal Sparkle. Can't wait to try those. But anyway, that's my little present for my good grades. I also picked up three Magnetics: Glamour brown (a brown foilie polish with tons of duochrome shimmer), Shimmering Titanium (charcoal holo) and Powerful Purple (purple holo). Wheeee, holo! I wasn't really a holographic polish kinda person, but I'm kinda digging them atm. At the China Glaze stand I picked up 2Nite, IDK and LOL. I couldn't find LOL for a reasonable price on internet, so I'm really happy that I just walked into it today.

Michèle and I had a great day just looking at all the pretties. We finished it off by eating icecream so I feel tons better (not only because of the icecream, duh). Thanks Michèle for today!

PS: I'm going to try to pick everything up today and tomorrow. I will try to answer my emails first, but it's a lot so it may take a day or two. Thank you so much for your comments and emails, you're really the best readers I could wish for.

Quick! Throw On Your Sunglasses!

Hi all!

I have something for you that requires you wearing your sun glasses. Ready? Here we go!

Nfu Oh 064, two coats over Aqua Base Coat in sunlight. Holoooooooooooooooooooo!!! Holy shizz, this is holo! 064 is a lilac-ish holographic polish that's just in your face!

I finally decided to try some after seeing them in person on our vacay in August, since I was curious - I didn't think I would like them on me. And to be honest, it's truly stunning, but I still don't know what to think of it. It's so hysterical!


One thing is true though. I couldn't stop staring at it. I just had no other choice - I had to keep looking at it. In some angles I think it's awesome, in some angles I think it's too much. I can't make up my mind!


Application over Aqua Base Coat was alright. I still had some issues with it since I didn't get all the polish on my nails smoothly, but it was way better than the application of GOSH Holographic (which was horrible). Drying time was really quick so that was a big plus!

If you don't own the Aqua Base Coat, I'd recommend trying it or buying the GOSH Fix basecoat. Michèle wrote an article about it and it's just as good as the Nfu Oh basecoat.


After all these pictures and staring at it for so long, I'm still undecided. I love the rainbows, but I just can't get past the fact that they're just so insanely holographic. I have to say, Nfu Oh really knows how to make holo's, you gotta give 'em that!

What do you think of the Nfu Oh holo's? Let me know!

Nfu Oh 059 Over Chanel Gondola

Hi all!

A quicky today since I'm not feeling too well while I'm writing this (I'm sure I will be alright tomorrow when you read this). I wanted to show you my notd: Nfu Oh 059 over Chanel Gondola. I was wearing Gondola since thursday or friday, I'm not sure, but I thought she could do with a little twist. The idea just came to me while I was looking at my Nfu Oh's hehe.

Nfu Oh 059, one coat, over two coats of Chanel Gondola. I *love* Gondola. It was my first Chanel and it's just a great shade of red. Anyway, Nfu Oh 059 is a sheer red jelly base filled with flakies. It's not packed with them like 058, but there is still enough flakies going around! Please believe me that my pictures just do not do this justice *at all*. It's so much prettier irl, but it freaked out my camera so I had to settle with this.

Nfu Oh 059 makes Gondola a deeper, velvety shade of red and it also brings amazing depth to the polish. I can't stop staring at my nails!

Thank you for all your responses on yesterdays post about the Stampabilities! I really appreciate it. I will make the Stampabilities a weekly feature!