Nails Inc. Chelsea Physic Garden + Hyde Park Gate, LCN Mint Green Easter + Blue Candy – Swatch Spam

As promised last Friday, here is the first September Friday swatch spam post: two pastels from Nails Inc. and two from LCN.

Chelsea Physic Garden:

Nails Inc. Chelsea Physic Garden (spring/summer 2013) is an adorable baby blue cream. It is well pigmented and easy to work with, and you see it in two easy coats with a top coat.

Hyde Park Gate:

Nails Inc. Hyde Park Gate was an LE in 2012 I believe. It’s a really pretty pastel green cream, and for normal use two easy coats is enough, but for these photos I added an extra but no top coat.

Mint Green Easter:

LCN Mint Green Easter is a slightly dusty mint cream, I prefer them brighter. This is 2 coats with a top coat.

Blue Candy:

LCN Blue Candy is a gorgeous light blue with a subtle shimmer not visible to the naked eye. It’s shown in 2 coats with a top coat.

Do you like them, I like them all except the dusty mint LCN...

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Dry brush stroke summer clouds nail art on cat clouds

The base color is LCN Daniela Katzenberger 130 Cat Clouds, see swatches HERE. The white is created with OPI Alpine Snow using the well wiped bottle brush and I did a bit of blurring with a small nail art brush and acetone before I top coated.

Do you like my summery sky with clouds..?

LCN Daniela Katzenberger swatches: Blue Lily Cat and Cat Clouds

LCN produce a row of makeup products for Daniela Katzenberger, and I came across these two in a German perfumery a year ago. Of course I needed them – I love cats, the perfect excuse to buy two more polishes ;) 

140 Blue Lily Cat is a beautiful medium blue with a wonderful formula, so easy to work with and with a good dry time. This is two easy coats without a top coat.

Cat Clouds:

130 Cat Clouds is a beautiful sky blue with a very subtle shimmer, just like I prefer them. The formula is perfect and easy to work with and the dry time is good. This is two easy coats without a top coat.

My favorite is Cat Clouds - which is yours..?

LCN Blossom Sorbet coll. 2013 swatches: Soft Daisy, Lilac Blossom, I Love Mint and Vintage Rose

The LCN Blossom Sorbet coll. comes in this cute little cube, that suggests that the bottles are a little larger than 8ml. But the moment I saw it online, I knew I had to have it....

Left to right: Soft Daisy, Lilac Blossom, I Love Mint and Vintage Rose.
In the below photos they are shown in two easy coats - without a top coat, but they have a very nice and glossy finish. Dry time is good.

Again left to right on all photos: Soft Daisy, Lilac Blossom, I Love Mint and Vintage Rose.
Soft Daisy has a very shy golden shimmer, Lilac Blossom has a subtle, almost fleck like shimmer, and I Love Mint and Vintage Rose are both cream polishes.

 

 

Do you like this collection - and is Soft Daisy, Lilac Blossom, I Love Mint or Vintage Rose your favorite?

The Never Ending Haul Story - part 1

Today there is no Micro Painting Monday - and I'm still not over my flue...
I have promised myself to get better at taking photos when I get new polishes, because many of you love haul posts. Some might think they are lazy posts, but I really enjoy reading other bloggers haul posts - so here is my first "recent" haul post, and that typically means within the last few months - that way I don't have to feel to embarrassed if/when I get a bit too enthusiastic... ;)

CLICK on the photos to enlarge...!

In April my dear friend from Rainbowify Me shopped these for me in London, but I never postet about it - and these polishes are SO lovely that I need to, thanks my friend :)

 These beauties arrived from Pretty Polish in Holland - actually it was a wile back...

 

This lovely bunch arrived from Maquillalia in Spain, they ship world wide and have both Catrice and Essence at a slightly more expensive price than the shops I visit in Germany, and unfortunately their shipping is expensive... But if you didn't find Catrice and Essence, that you really wanted, it's a good place to search. I also bought my first Hean and Accessorize - and in the parcel was a free nail polish, samples and candy!
The Close ups are of the  polishes I haven't yet swatched, Snow Jam you find HERE, and Catrice Candy Shock coll you find HERE.

By the Danish shop essenze.dk I found these 3 Ciate's from my wish list at a discount price, I don't know if I were lucky, but two days later they were at a normal price...

I bought my first 3 Gina Tricot from Gina Tricot - mostly known for their fashion range, but they also have beauty products, and I have a pair of Gina Tricot glasses too...

I fell in love with the Nars Collobaration with Pierre Hardy collection and bouth the set Sharks, and 2 others jumped in the shopping chart basically without my knowledge ;)

I was lucky to find two lovely MAC polishes, my very first - I found them both on Ebay at a reasonable price, actually Mischieveous Mint was very inexpensive, only $6.50...

 

 

I had fallen in love with the LCN Blossom Sorbet set, the first 4 from the left - and I think we have a dupe on our hands when looking at #4-5 ;)
I shopped in a to me new shop - Beauty Lounge in Germany, a bit expensive in many ways. I also bought my first Alessandro's and Malu Wilz - in the parcel there also were candy and free samples not shown of the photo...

Will "The Never Ending Haul Story" continue? Will Maria buy more polish? Have she bought more polish? Does she have enough - or doesn't she? What's wrong with her? Are you confused?
You won't be after the next episode of The Never Ending Haul Story....;)

My German haul - and a hint for the soon ending Guessing giveaway....

As a little hint for the Guessing giveaway that ends in 6 days - I can tell you that the below polishes all are in this bowl.
It is possible to change your guess in the Rafflecopter widget ;)
AND I added an ADDITIONAL giveaway on the same page, it's now possible to win a 300DKK gift card for my shop at Micro Paintings by Maria....

So here they are, the polishes that I bought for myself during my week en the southern parts of Germany.... Polish in Denmark is incredibly expensive, so I tend to shop like a mad woman when I go to Germany, there I said it myself ;)

From Manhattan I was lucky to find the 3 from the Pastel Pretties LE coll. that I wanted: 001, 004, 003, (see swatches HERE) and the other 3 are: 26S, 18S and from the retired LE coll. Lollipop Alpenrock I found 02 - oh I wish they had real names, not just numbers...

I had to own these new and absolutely gorgeous P2 Volume Gloss polishes:100 heavenly girl, 130 fresh sister, 030 sweet darling and 090 red lady

More P2: 030 Sweet harmony (Let's Rock coll.), 620 artful, 650 fever, 570 so cool! and 030 tangerine twist from the Summer Attack coll.

I found two Essence from the Floral Grunge coll that I hoped to find: 03 Grunge Me Tender "The Suede" and 02 Lily Bloom "The Pearl", I also found the Essence Nail Art Twins that I hoped to find: Edward & Bella - and finally I had to grab 149 Hello Marshmellow!

Two new brands in my collection: Beyu 246 and 516 - Misslyn 753 Star Dust top coat and 674

LCN is also a new brand in my collection these two pretty blue's are Cat Clouds and Blue Lily Cat. Astor Fashion Studio 240 Yellow Buttercup is my first Astor - and finally Maybelline 615 Mint For Life.

I only found two from the Catrice Candy Shock coll., (swatches on Saturday) if anyone can help me with the pastel purple I Scream: Ice Cream - I would be happy? They are C02 Play It Blue, C04 Vanilla Love and the 2 Isadora polishes: Miami Blue and Meadow.

Catrice: 15 Denim More, 13 Shopping Day At Bluemingdales, 13 Even More Heavy Metallilac, 05 Earnie & Birdie and 32 The Dark Knight

Finally a few polishes that I haven't really decided whether to keep or swap...
Essence 146 That's what I mint, 150 upper green side and 138 L.O.L., Manhattan 78C, P2 940 Never 2 much, You Star 06 and 05....