so glittery, so green – deal with it!

In the nail polish world, most questions are black and white, as a counterpart to all the nail polish colors. One of the black and white questions is, are you a Cultie, or are you not. I myself do love some Cult Nails polishes, but I can’t really picture myself as a Cultie of any kind of Cult. I much prefer to say that I am a fan of Cult Nails nailpolishes, and especially this one. deal with it. (pun intended)

I actually ordered this polish from Cult Nails and also received it in a swap from my friend M., who knows my weakness for a pretty green, especially with a golden shimmer. I’m wearing this polish on my toes, constantly, without tipwear, for over a month now (I should change it, I know, but my feet are just so far away…!).

It is, by far, the most amazing green I own.  That’s actually not true. Let me rephrase. It is the most amazing green of this tone of green that I own. Deal with it is almost neon, that’s how vibrant it is. Application wise was this the best Cult Nails polish I have. The first coat is disappointingly sheer, but the second coat reassures you, that this is a great polish.  The shimmer transfers very well from the bottle to the nail, maybe Chanel should take some lessons in polish making from Maria (the owner of Cult Nails)? 

As I wore this on the weekend, I was free to add as many glitters as I felt like. I recently re-discovered my love for glitter gradients, so I decided to go for that.  I just loosely painted over Deal with it, starting from the cuticle area, and dabbing on more glitter closer to the cuticle area, fading out towards the middle of the nail. I used Cult Nails Happy Ending, a shredded glitter (there’s a dupe from ICING, which bled like crazy!), China Glaze Marry a Millionaire (bar glitter) and China Glaze Snowglobe, which is iridiscent glitter, so I put it on last. 

I love the look of it – it reminds me of an overly happy flowerbed on a super green lawn. What do you think?

How I wore it: Sephora my favorite jeans & PUPA M202 & KIKO 230

When we spent the weekend in Amsterdam this summer, I found a duo of nail polishes by PUPA. One of them seemed perfect to enhance the life span of Sephora My favourite jeans, which I had been wearing previously.

I decided to layer one coat of PUPA M202 over My favourite jeans (a dark blue jelly). PUPA M202 is a dark blue very sheer jelly polish, interspersed with holographic particles that glitz and glisten at your every move.

Over the tips I loosely applied KIKO 230 (Sparkle Touch Rainbow Glitter) so the whole manicure looked a bit like a gradient.

I love glitter gradients, and I wear them too seldom. A little glitter makes my day much happier

In fact, when I was waiting for my picture to be taken (the one below in particular), I realised a huge spider on the back leg of the chair so I decided to move to the front and look away - ready to get up in case the spider decided to come my way. I hate spiders, they really creep me out. Snakes too and other animals that have too long legs in my opinion.

The garden looks enchanted though in these pictures – it rarely is so overly green and full of blossoming plants but this year, both spring and summer have been good to the pants.

The ring I’m wearing is from H&M, it shows two birds sitting on it. I have it in a golden color too, and I think it’s so cute!

The dress is from Nümph. I’ve had it for a long time now, but the skirt part of it is very short, so I only wear it for going out or with thick, non-transparent tights.

Let me know what you think in the comments!

How I wore it: The blue to pink metallic gradient

I have to admit it, ever since I tried out the gradient tutorial from The Nailasaurus, I have been addicted to gradients. They all look awesome if you ask me, no matter if it’s a subtle one or one with more colors than two – I’m a happy gradient-a.

Today I am showing you one I made with Sephora Shrim Cocktail, a very sweet metallic pink, and H&M Deep Deep Water, which is a metallic cobalt blue. I applied one coat of Shrimp Cocktail and after that dried I sponged the gradient on with Shrimp Cocktail and Deep Deep Water.

It was really an easy one, and while I tried out more gradients this summer, there is one thing I learned: it doesn’t work using a grey creme and a dark, vampy shimmer. Looks horrible.

I wore the whole thing with a blue-purple pullover from Etam, which has a super cute bow tie in the back. The pullover is also from Paris, where I bought it during sale. It was hard to believe that noone else had taken it before me – it’s super soft and cute. Yeah, I kinda like it.

 

How I wore it: The yellow to orange gradient

 

Happy Friday everyone!

If you follow me on instagram (@goodlacknail) or if you read my blog regularly, you will be well aware that I spent my summer in the city of love and the smell of urine, Paris! Honestly, I was amazed by the fact that people, mostly men though, pee almost everywhere, anytime. Apparently that’s a prejudice of the Parisians that I was utterly unaware of, so if you ever visit Paris, make sure you find a stench-free corner to nibble on your macaroons!

I made my friend E. take pictures of me wearing nail polish. It was a tiring process, but mostly because I am a totally untalented model! I usually just looked the wrong way, or down or just plain stupid and unattractive. So what I present to you over the next few weeks are the fruits of E’s hard work!

I’m wearing a gradient manicure here. The yellow is KIKO 355, a medium yellow creme, and the orange is essie braziliant, one of the few essies I own, but absolutely adore.

This is my knee. It is a bit more photogenic than the rest of me.

La Grande Arche! We couldn’t go up, that part was closed.

If you’re wondering what I’m doing there,  I’m trying to have La grande Arche on my head. It is much more funny in German, because the word “Arche” sounds like the equivalent of the English word ass, whereas I would be trying to have an ass on my heat. This is btw not my vacation humor, this is my alltime humor. I just mostly don’t share that, because it makes people doubt my intelligence (and, whith reason, if I might add). 

The gradient itself was easy to make. KIKO 355 applies flawlessly and covers in two coats. Essie braziliant is a very well pigmented orange shimmer and hence it is easy to make a gradient with the two of them.

Here you can see how awesome my nailpolish fits to my shoes! The shoes are a Paris Sale purchase – I got them from Gallerie Lafayette – and I absolutely adore them!

Clearly there is also a fountain, and I love fountains! La Defense (that’s the area called in which you find La Grande Arche) is a newer area of Paris, and you can take the Metro to get there or the faster train called RER. It is worth a visit, because it offers a welcome change to Paris’ busy streets, plus it is a very green area, which I enjoyed quite a bit!

On this picture you can’t see my nail polish but I wanted to include it because I look so awesome. Actually, I’m wearing the same blouse just now, it was one of the best purchases this summer. It’s from H&M and it was only 9,99€! The Cardigan is from GAP, also acquired during the sale. It is from brushed wool, which sound super fancy. The pants are grey jeans from Kookai and the bag if from Freitag. Freitag bags are pretty much the only bags I like.

Again, my more photogenic knee in the pedestrian zone between (mostly) L’Arc de Triomphe and La Grande Arche. It’s a fun place to be at lunch, because all the working people walk around suited up between the big skyscrapers. It is also a pretty windy place, so if you visit, wear pants!

And last,  a horrible picture for you to start you into the weekend with a big laugh.

Blogger Challenge PINK: Day 4 – Glitter & Ice

Nail Polish Blogger Challenge

Good morning, dear readers!

After several more layering attempts, I decided that OPI Do you think I’m Tex-y? is a great layering polish, and I can show you several more layering options for this polish, but it would be boring after a while – so I’d like to show you something that even somebody as untalented for miniture painting (what else is it what you do on your nails!) as I can easily achieve. Gee, that was a long sentence! In short: I’d like to show you my favourite nail art, sponging.

I started off with 2 coats of Do you think I’m Tex-y? , “my” challenge polish. You’ll want to wait until your base colour is dry, because you have to use a small bit of a make up sponge to dab the other colour(s) on your nail. If you dab at your nail and the base colour isn’t dry, you’ll have everything sticking to your sponge instead of the nail!

Here is the first layer I did; I used OPI Cozu-melted in the sun for the first gradient sponging.

After I let 2 coats of Cozu-melted in the sun dry, I used OPI Teenage Dream for some glitter at the tiops. I find it hard to sponge Teenage Dream, and next time I’ll use another glitter polish for the tipps (I have used sucessfully so far: SOPI What’s your Poison?, butter LONDON Rosie Lee and China Glaze Shooting Stars)!

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Luckily I only made way too many pictures of this! I wanted to wear this much longer, but I had to come up with some more ways to wear Do you think I’m Tex-y?, so I had to remove this awesome manicure. I’ll wear this again soon, because I really loved it – it reminded me of sugar icing and winter on my finger tipps.

Do you like sponge nail art? Have you ever tried?

Have you seen how creative the other ladies are??

Inge from Polish Sis uses Hema nr 84
Sarah from Lucky Lacquers uses W7 Shocking Pink
Maestra from parokeets uses essie knockout pink
Rebecca from Rebecca Likes Nails uses Color Club Peppermint Twist
Ulmiel from Did someone say nail polish? uses Finger Paints Give Pink A Chance
Gejba from  parokeets uses essence Love This City
Leslie from Polish Art Addiction uses China Glaze Laced Up
Sidrah from beauteous blog uses sally hansen pink blink