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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Nails Inc. swatches Sumner Place and Royal Botanical Gardens

In this post you can meet two random pastels from Nails Inc.

Nails Inc Sumner Place is a beautiful pastel yellow cream. The formula has a good self-leveling ability and it is easy to work with, and 2-3 coats are enough. This is 3 coats without a top coat.

Royal Botanical Gardens:

Nails Inc Royal Botanical Gardens is a light sky blue cream. The formula has a good self-leveling ability and it is easy to work with. This is 2 coats without a top coat.

I cannot choose which is the prettiest - fortunately have them both and love them ;)
How do you feel about them, any favorite?

Braided/fishtail manicure - Artsy Wednesday

 

This week’s challenge in Artsy Wednesday is braided – I thought it would be so difficult, but it wasn’t really, only a little time consuming and an awful lot of layers of polish.

But it was fun to try, and I did like the look of it, even though it could have been more perfect.

The base color is Nails Inc. Sumner Place (the yellow) and the pink is Essie Lovie Dovie and the blue is Essie Bikini So Teeny – and the top coat is Seche Vite.
CutePolish has a very helpful tutorial HERE

Check out what the other girls in Artsy Wednesday did in this weeks challenge: 
Michelle - Lab Muffin,  Alanna - Pretty Purple Polish, Tif - Polished Genious, (not this week: Lyndsey - Nails by Ms. Lizard), Catrine - Unnakednails, Melanie - Nail & Polish, Jessica - Beauty Gnome, Kamen - Kaka Beauty Blog, Emily - An Accent Nail,

Denne uges udfordring i Artsy Wednesday er en flettet manicure – jeg troede det ville være svært, men det var faktisk ikke så slemt, dog var det lidt tidskrævende og man ender op med mange lag lak.

Men det var sjovt at prøve, og jeg var tilfreds med resultatet, selvom det naturligvis godt kunne have været mere perfekt. Grundfarven er den gule Nails Inc. Sumner Place, de to andre er fra Essie, den lyserøde Lovie Dovie og den lyseblå Bikini So Teeny – toplakken er Seche Vite.
CutePolish har en rigtigt fin vejledning HER

The flowers on Notting Hill

 

The base color is the gorgeous, gorgeous yellow Nails Inc. Notting Hill Carnival, and it calls for purple/pink flowers. As usual I painted the flowers with acrylic colors and top coated with Seche Vite.
Stay tuned for my  giveaway tomorrow, Internationally open for my GFC readersfollowers...

Grundfarven er den smukke, smukke pastel gule Nails Inc. Notting Hill Carnival, og den bad om lilla/lyserøde blomster malet i akrylfarve, og toplakken er Seche Vite.
I morgen starter min giveaway, der er åben for alle der er læsere/følger mig via GFC (Google Friend Connect).

Nationality - Artsy Wednesday

 

 

The theme in our Artsy Wednesday is this week Independence Day – and my interpretation is my national background - I have chosen to paint flags a little twist.

I live in Denmark and am a Danish citizen – thus my index.

My parents both were from Finland – thus my middle finger.

I was born in Sweden – thus my ring finger.

My surname from birth is German and still is. My grandfather moved as a young man from Germany to Finland – so I painted the German flag on my pinkie.

Check out what the other girls in Artsy Wednesday did in this weeks challenge: 
Michelle - Lab Muffin,  Alanna - Pretty Purple Polish, Holly - Hooked, Tif - Polished Genious, Lyndsey - Nails by Ms. Lizard, Catrine - Unnakednails, Melanie - Nail & Polish, Jessica - Beauty Gnome, Kamen - Kaka Beauty Blog 
 

Temaet i Artsy Wednesday i denne uge er Independence Day, hvilket bl.a. også kan fortolkes som nationalfølelse – og jeg har malet flag med et lille twist.

Jeg bor i Danmark og er dansk statsborger – min pegefinger.

Mine forældre kom fra Finland – min langemand.

Jeg blev født i Sverige – min ringfinger.

Mit efternavn er og har altid været tysk, idet min farfar som ung flyttede fra Tyskland til Finland – derfor har jeg det tyske flag på lillefingeren.

Used colors/brugte farver: China Glaze Hey Sailor, OPI Alpine Snow, Nails Inc. Baker Street, acrylic color.