Hare Asteroid Turf and Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Long time no see my friends. My nails are suffering from a long time winter depression, they keep breaking very badly and whatever I do I can't seem to get the disaster to stop. So nowadays, my blog really just serves as my personal blog list and a convenient way to get to my wish list when I'm not at home.

Since the motto of the blog is All Pleasure - No Pressure, I am not worried. As spring comes, I hope my nails will sprout along with all the greenery and I will surely be back at my usual rate of one post a month ;-)

So, finally to the reason of this post. As I emptied my camera, I found some photos I completely forgot about. They were taken under a very weak december sun, but since I adore this polish I decided to show you any way. 

 This is two easy coats of Hare Asteroid Turf over basecoat and with Seche Vite Top Coat. The first coat looked a little dubious and I really thought it would be hard to get the polish to cover, but it magically evened out on the second coat. 

I just love it, and it must be Irish luck that I found it today of all days. Have a great St. Paddy's Day!

Pure Ice Wild Thing

This summer it has not been easy to find even a minute of sunshine for photography. I'm seriously considering buying a light box even though I'm not an accomplished photographer at all. Until the sun shines again (or I cave in and get some indoor equipment) a notw from May will have to suffice to keep the blog alive.

This is Pure Ice Wild Thing. It really is a perfect polish for spring in the north, the color reminds me of budding birch leaves, so fresh and light. It's a light green creme, leaning a little yellow, keeping the lobster hands at bay. 

I have to excuse myself for the application and state of my cuticles, this is not my best manicure.  :-p

Application was no problem except for one single annoying bubble on my pointer nail. That was probably my fault and not the polish. It went on a bit thick but leveled out reasonable well at the second coat. This is 2 coats, usual base and top coat. I really liked it on my nails and with one little touch-up it stayed put for more than a week.

And at last, just to emphasize how my summer has been so far, I leave you with this picture (source unfortunately unknown, but I couldn't resist):

Santa's Little Helper

So as we all know, there is hard work involved with celebrating christmas. There is food to be cooked, cakes to be baked, presents to be wrapped, house to be cleaned, tree to be dressed, children to be at least modestly cleaned up before santa arrives..

To manage this you need an iron clad manicure. Enter a China Glaze Glitter!

I have very good experience from CG glitters in the past, so as my pre-christmas manicure, I choose CG Mistletoe Kisses.

Amazing, this is two coats only, base coat and SV top coat as usual.
I must point out, this photo is from our winter solstice, when sun is barely creeping up above the horizon. This polish is much brighter in clear light, but it never showed..

The Queen of Green

Last week I got a craving for green. I didn't want to change my manicure since it still held up very well so I thought of an alternative. From my Helmer, I picked up all the green polish I have by BB Couture. I don't think there is another polish company that loves the green color as BB Couture does. I don't have a complete collection, but still, if I did one manicure a week I could wear BB Couture greens on my nails for almost six month. Awesome, right?

First wheel:
(three coats)

1. Dress Rehearsal (BB for men)
2. Kelly's Green
3. Caterpillar
4. Iced Olive
5. Universal Joint (BB for men)
6. Grenade (BB for men)
7. Ceremony (BB for men)
8. Green Goblin
9. Golf Pro (BB for men)
10. Fuel Injector (BB for men)
11. Venom
12. Poison Ivy
13. Frosty Meadow
14. Studio 54
15. Mariner (BB for men)
16. Pipe Bender (BB for men)
17. Redwood Forest
18. Saturday Night Fever




Second Wheel:
(three coats)

1. Tortuga Island
2. Laguna Lagoon
3. Bassins Bleu
4. Bassins Bleu 2


For me BB Couture are really the Queen of Green!

Illamasqua Milf

This will be a short post, I will let the picture talk. This is truly a great polish! (with a cheeky name, something I don't mind at all)

This is three coats over Nubar Foundation base coat, SW on top. Milf is a thick formula and if you're better than me with the brush I'm sure you can get good coverage with two coats. I like the end result though so it was surely worth three coats. Fast setting and durable end result, I'm still wearing this and is on the fifth day of wear without any chipping.

No sun for the last 4 days so the pictures are taken in heavy overcast. Since it is still cold here everything takes on a white, dreamy quality of light. Fairy tale mood, we are all trapped here by the Winter Queen. Beautiful, but a little scary too!

I wish you a great winter day!

Ghetto Girl

I recently spied in one of my favourite blogs (ALU) that Hard Candy is planning a return on the (american) market.

Ever since I found out about this discontinued brand it has been one of my favourite "hunting objects" on e-bay. I love both the colour range and the tounge-in-cheek names. Today I did not have the time to do a proper manicure so I bring one from the vault.

Here is HC Ghetto Girl, wonderful to apply, quite opaque in two thin coats and a little bit smug "catch-me-if-you-can" douchrome!

De första stapplande stegen..

Jag kunde inte hålla mig längre, nu vill jag också försöka mig på det här bloggandet. Det finns så mycket vackra saker att säga om nagellack att mina ord kanske också får plats i bloggosfären. Det här blir en blogg som får växa fram gradvis, jag vill inte känna några krav på att uppdatera ofta utan när jag känner för det. Kanske växer intresset med tiden, precis som mitt lackintresse har växt från ingenting till ett glädjefullt samlande som jag ägnar ganska många timmar åt på bara två år.

Jag börjar med den allra första notd:n jag någonsin fotograferade. Jag hade ingen egen kamera då utan lånade makens, och inte visste jag hur man skulle göra för att ta närbilder heller. Men manikyren tog alldeles andan ur mig och bara krävde att bli fotograferad!

Depend 134 med Nubar Martini över. Bliss!

English:

I can't put this off any longer, I have to start my own blog after all. I don't want this to be a project that just stresses me out, so this will be a blog that grows when it wants to, in its own time and by its own rules. Much like my interest for nail polish which has grown from just about nothing two years ago, to a fountain of joy I spend both some time and money on now.

Anyway, this is the first unsteady steps of a toddler blog, and I will start with the first manicure I ever photographed. Almost two years ago I didn't own a camera so I borrowed my husbands. I had no idea as how to take a macro picture, but I had just put on a manicure that demanded to be photographed, so I had no choice. This is Depend 134 with Nubar Martini Glitter on top. Pure Bliss!