Let it Snow! Challenge 16: Late St. Patrick's Day

Hey everyone~

With this final post for the Let it Snow! challenge, I'll be done! :D Then, I can finally catch up with everyone else!

So without much further do, here's my "St. Patrick's Day" mani. I was a bit at loss for this one. I just felt like wearing the green polish from the essence Fruity LE from last spring. I think it was called kiwi something? So I went with that and just added a couple of dots and clovers with p2 green palm tree. Dots seemed to be appropriate because of the glitters in the base polish.

Nothing spectacular, really. It was too green for me after one day, so I removed it for another untried. But I wore the kiwi polish ;) It's just kind of sad that my camera was so shy picking up those glitters. They were a lot more prominent in real life.

And two pictures of the polish on its own. I remembered taking them before continuing, haha.

So, with this, I'm finally done with the winter challenge. I basically only finished it 3 weeks late, but oh well. On to the next~ pastels~

Thanks for reading!

Let it Snow! Challenge 15: Longing for Summer

Hello~

after showing you the beautiful and summery p2 green palm tree yesterday, I'm going to continue with the second to last Let it Snow! challenge manicure. And this one is probably the first manicure that's out of season, hehe.

Longing for Summer was the theme to work on and I had a couple of ideas. I wanted to do something colorful, but not too bright. I ended up using a couple of neons, but combined them with a French to make it more wearable at work.

I started with four coats of Catrice Cotton Candy At Eiffel Tower. Ridiculous, but that's the closest to the perfect soft white I'm still looking for. The polish behaved very well though! I applied it at night and continued the next day to make sure it's really dry.

I freehanded the tips with a couple of Woo neon polishes I got from my colleague who went to Turkey last year. They are a bit sheer, so the tips got a little thick, but I think that makes those polishes promising for neon jelly sandwiches.

On my middle finger, I used the same neons and a piece of saran wrap (Klarsichtfolie) to create the marbled nail. I placed a couple of dots and lines of each color on the nail and smudged them together by placing the saran wrap on top of the still wet polish. Since the polishes are so sheer, I had to do that three times to achieve what you see. Sadly, the green doesn't really show up. Too weak ;)

That mani was kind of fun to wear. It was so colorful and yet not too much for work. At least at my workplace. What do you think? Could you have worn this to work?

Thanks for reading today as well~

p2 - green palm tree (Summer Attack)

Good morning!

I'm not continuing with the two manicures left for the Let it Snow! challenge, but with a simple swatch. I was so fascinated by this color over the past weekend, that I just have to share it first!

The polish I want to show you today is p2 green palm tree and it belongs to the current Summer Attack collection. In case you don't know, p2 is an in-house cosmectics brand by German drugstore chain dm. p2 hasn't really been on my radar in the past months, but with the last rearrangement of their core line, they introduced a couple of nice polishes. I'll have to show those to you too!4

The Summer Attack collection consists of various cosmetics. Among them are five polishes of which I got two (so far). One of them is the aforementioned green palm tree. It was the only polish I knew I really wanted to buy when p2 published press information about this collection. ^^ I really like the color, so here's a little bit of pic spam (compared to my last 10 or so posts).

indirect sunlight

 

sunlight

Green palm tree applies very nicely and is surpsingly opaque. This is three coats, but you only need two for coverage. I applied the third to make it more shiny, because I took pictures on day 2 and hadn't applied any topcoat. Drying time is what I expect from p2. They're not exactly fast, but not slow either. I didn't dent my right hand after painting, even though I forgot to take care of it after a little while.

Green palm tree seems to have two sides. In the sunlight, it's a really rich grass green polish with golden shimmer. In indirect sunlight/indoors, the golden shimmer takes over and the green looks more yellow and slightly lighter. It also looks a lot more like a foil indoors. But whether in- or outdoors, it's a bright glowing green that caught a lot of people's attention while I was wearing it.

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In another swatch post for this polish, I saw it compared to Zoya Ivanka. I don't own that one, but I'd love to know how it's compared to Zoya Apple from their summer collection 2011. Apple has been on my wishlist ever since! I just love its sisters Faye, Rica and Tancy!

What do you think of green palm tree?

The Summer Attack collection will be available in dm stores until August. The polishes contain 8 ml and cost 2,25€ per piece.

Thanks for reading!

Let it Snow! Challenge 14: Winter Blues

Hi everyone,

until last week I sure had the Winter Blues, namesake for Let it Snow! week 14. But this past week, spring finally has arrived here in Germany. Every day, when I take my dog for a walk it's becoming more and more evident to me. Finally!

But well, there's three Let it Snow! manicures left to show and I'd like to make it one less by showing your my Winter Blues mani. I wanted to do something in wintery colors, but not exactly winter themed. I really liked the concept of the pastel check mani I did past fall and decided to use that as the base. But instead of three colors, I only used a single one.

I used Anny Sporty Snowflake as my base. It's a shimmery grey polish, rather sheer, but thus delicate enough. Then, I picked essie Bikini so Teeny and painted stripes in one direction, waited a little bit and continued with painting the crossing stripes. Bikini so Teeny is quite sheer as well, but once you add a second coat, it builds up nicely. So it's a lot darker where the stripes cross each other. Using Catrice Nautica, I added the halfmoons, dots and thin stripes. I finished with a thick coat of essie good to go and placing a couple of rhinestones.

I liked this design quite a lot and even got nice comments from my family who's still not very fond of my hobby. I just wish my nails had been a bit longer... but they're even shorter now, so I shouldn't complain.

If you look closely, you might notice a little mistake I made on my index. I was rather impatient in doing my right hand and ended up denting my left index nail. I even ended up doing that nail a total of four times. When I noticed my mistake, I just didn't feel like doing it again... Well, for one of the strokes, I seem to have grabbed the other light blue I had picked, essie Lapiz of Luxury. That mistake is a first for me. ^^;

What do you think?
Thank you for reading~