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If you follow me on Instagram, you already saw this picture and know what I was doing last week:
The Biathlon world cup competitions were held near here at Kontiolahti last week and of course I had to go and see them and cheer for Kaisa and Mari. We had the tickets for all three days and I really couldn't go there without a proper cheer manicure, right?! Even if everyone else couldn't really see my mani too much as I had my mittens on pretty much all the time.
Because I'm a finn rooting for those two amazing Finnish competitors, I had to go with white and blue like our flag. I didn't had too much time to do the mani, so I went with an easy blue and white gradient. As the Finnish flag has more white than blue in it, I wanted to do the gradient in a way where the blue is mainly on the tips and majority of the nails are covered in white. I used I Love Nail Polish Down Comforter and Too Fancy Lacquer Set Fire To The Rain for the gradient.
Down Comforter isn't really a clean white, it looks a bit more like a really light grey, but I still wanted to use it for this mani as I was using Set Fire To The Rain which is holographic one too. Eventhough I used two holographic ones for the gradient, I thought there weren't enough sparkle in the manicure, so I finally topped it with China Glaze Fairy Dust.
I think my nails were a success as Kaisa was truly amazing and won all three races and also wonderfully enough Mari finished the first sprint in third place! It was truly amazing! Well, maybe it wasn't due to my nails after all, but I really have to say that I had a blast cheering. Hopefully everything will go well for Kaisa in those two last races and she will win the overall world cup. I surely will be cheering for her in front of the tv today and tomorrow.
Here are all the polishes I used for this mani:
Do you guys follow any winter sports? Or even biathlon?
Instagramin puolella vilauttelinkin jo tuoreeltaan paria kuvaa ampumahiihdon maailmancupin kisoista täältä Joensuun naapurista Kontiolahdelta viime viikolla. Kisat oli niin lähellä, että pakkohan siellä oli käydä Kaisaa ja Maria kannustamassa, ja päädyttiinkin ostamaan liput ihan jokaiselle kolmelle kisapäivälle. Tietenkään kisoja ei voinut lähteä seuraamaan ilman kunnon kannustusmanikyyriä, vaikka eihän se tietysti sieltä lapasten alta kauheasti näkynyt muille.
Kannustusmani piti tottakai tehdä Suomen väreissä ja kun kynsien lakkaamiseen ei kaikilta kiireiltä jäänyt hirveästi aikaa, päätin tehdä pikaisen liukuvärjäyksen I Love Nail Polishin Down Comforterilla ja Too Fancy Lacquerin Set Fire To The Rainilla. Vaikka molemmat holoja ovatkin, ei kimmellystä kynsillä ollut mielestäni vielä tarpeeksi, joten päällystin lakkauksen vielä China Glazen Fairy Dustilla.
Kynnet olivat ilmeisen onnistuneet, kun Kaisalla meni ihan super upeasti ja Marikin ylti yhdessä kisassa parhainpaansa ikinä. Kaisahan tietysti vei kaikki kolme kisaa ja voitte varmasti uskoa jos sanon, että meillä oli varsin hauskaa kannustaessa katsomossa. Todellakin ainakin saatiin vastinetta rahoillemme! Vaikka luotto Kaisaan onkin meidän taloudessa perinteisesti ihan kohdillaan, niin ehkä kolmea voittoa emme silti mekään ihan ennakoineet, mutta ei todellakaan laitettu pahaksemme. Ja ehkä se nyt ei ihan näistä minun kynsistä ollut kiinni, mutta ei niistä nyt varmasti haittaa ollut ainakaan!
Löytyykö teistä kovia penkkiurheilijoita? Tuleeko seurattua ampumahiihtoa?
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Labels: blue, China Glaze, China Glaze Fairy Dust, gradient, holographic, I Love Nail Polish, I Love Nail Polish Down Comforter, Too Fancy Lacquer, Too Fancy Lacquer Set Fire To The Rain, white
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I have a Nail Polish Battle post for you guys today and I actually, once again, have two battle pairs to share with you guys. In the first battle you're going to see two quite pretty Essie coral reds fight each other and the second battle is between two dark blue ones also from Essie and OPI. But without further ado, let's start those battles!
First battle pair is Essie Sunday Funday vs. Essie Cute As A Button!
As you can see here, these two are quite similar, but there are still some differences. Cute As A Button is a creme whereas Sunday Funday has some shimmer in it. The shimmer is more visible in the bottle than on nail, but you can still see a bit of it on nail too. Cute As A Button is also a tad cooler toned compared to Sunday Funday. The color difference isn't really big, but it's still noticable.
Both of these have quite similar formula and they cover pretty well with two coats, though you might need a third coat for longer nails or if you have a highly visible nail line. I don't really think that you'll need both of these as they are so similar, so it pretty much comes down to the question if you like that subtle shimmer or not and also maybe, if you like the slightly cooler or warmer toned color.
Final verdict: I prefer the slightly warmer toned color of Sunday Funday and the shimmer also really wins it for me, so Sunday Funday stays and Cute As A Button has to go.
Second battle pair is Essie After School Boy Blazer vs. OPI I Saw...U Saw...We Saw...Warsaw!
The difference between these two is already visible judging only from the bottles, but I still wanted to pair these two as I feel like I'm not going to need two dark blue lacquers and I wanted to see which one I would keep. OPI's name monster Warsaw is clearly lighter whereas Essie's School Boy looks almost like black. Both of these dry a bit darker than they look in the bottle, which is a bit shame if you ask me. I'd say the color of After School Boy Blazer would be just perfect for me, if it looked as it looks in the bottle. Now Warsaw is just a bit too light and School Boy too dark.
The Essie one is really pigmented, so it's pretty much a one coater, OPI one need two coats for full coverage. I also prefer the wide Essie brush over the OPI brush. I do have OPI's Dating a Royal also, which is more lighter dark blue than these two. So eventhough I have always said that I don't like polishes that look black, I think I could have more use for the Essie one (it works well for water marbling for example!). Also, I just hate the name of that Warsaw polish so much, it's just so stupid!
Final verdict: I'm keeping After School Boy Blazer and the polish with the awful name gets to go.
Kynsilakkataistot jatkuvat ja tänään vuorossa kaksi korallista kaunokaista ja kaksi tummansinistä.
Essien Cute As A Button ja Sunday Funday ovat hyvin lähellä toisiaan, sävyeroa on vain hieman Cute As A Buttonin ollessa aavistuksen kylmempi Sunday Fundayhin verrattuna. Sunday Fundayssa on myös hienoista shimmeriä lakan joukossa Cuten ollessa ihan tavallinen creme. Molemmat peittävät kohtuullisesti kahdella kerroksella, pidempiin kynsiin kolmekin voi olla tarpeen. Näistä oma suosikkini on ehdottomasti Sunday Funday, koska sävy on enemmän mieleeni ja tietysti tykkään myös tuosta hienoisesta shimmeristä.
Tummansininen parissa lakat ovat selkeästi eri sävyisiä Essien After School Boy Blazerin näyttäessä lähes mustalta ja OPIn Warsawn ollessa selkeästi taistelupariaan vaaleampi. Essie peittää yhdellä kerroksella, OPIa tarvitsee kaksi. Minulta löytyy jo myös OPIn Dating a Royal, joka on selkeästi hieman vaaleampi tummansininen kuin Warsaw, joten tämän taisteluparin väliltä valinta osuu nyt Essien lakkaan, sillä aavistelen minulla olevan sille hieman enemmän käyttöä (se todistetusti toimii mainiosti esim. vesimarmoroinnissa). Essien suti on myös enemmän mieleeni kuin OPIn ja lisäksi en vain pääse yli Warsaw -lakan nimihirviöstä. Se on aivan karsea, jos minulta kysytään!
Mitkä näistä olivat teidän suosikkinne?
Labels: blue, coral, creme, Essie, Essie After School Boy Blazer, Essie Cute As A Button, Essie Sunday Funday, Nail Polish Battle, OPI, OPI I Saw U Saw We Saw Warsaw, red, shimmer
I got these really bright and fun colored studs for review from Born Pretty Store and I wanted do somekind of light and springlike manicure with them as the colors were so spring appropriate. I also haven't done a french manicure for a while and it was clearly time to do one, so I have a minty spring french to share with you guys today.
I started this mani with two coats of L'Oreal BB Perfect Pastel Coat, then I did the french tips with two coats of Zoya Neely. After that I dabbed some gold glitter over the polish line and I used I Love Nail Polish All Gold Everything for this. Finally I added two studs for each nail and sealed them with a coat of top coat (Essie Good To Go).
This was a fairly simple look, but I really liked it. Unfortunately my nails look a bit yellow in these pictures, but they didn't look as yellow in real life. Still, I probably need to buff them a bit more next time. Strangely enough, I do have quite few minty polishes, but I didn't have anything that would have been excactly the same color as those studs. All my minty polishes were too blue tones and even Zoya Neely looks blue toned compared to the studs. But it's close enough and it really didn't even need to be exact match.
Here are all the products I used for this manicure:
I also wanted to say just couple thing about this stud wheel. Like I said, I got this for review from BPS and they have four different color variations from this same wheel (mine is 3#). I chose this one mainly because of those minty ones that I already used in this manicure, but I think the other two colors in this wheel are pretty great too.
There are three different shapes of those studs in the wheel and also two different sizes of that square one, so total of four different kind of ones from each color. The studs are pretty flat, so even I can handle them (I don't like decorations that stick out too much). I really like these kind of colored studs and they are a fun way to decorate your nails. You can use a top coat with these just fine, it doesn't damage the color whatsoever. These are right now on sale at BPS, only $2.59 per wheel. I think I'm going to get myself another one with different colors, I just have to figure out which one!
*I have gotten the studs for review. For more information see my disclosure policy.
Born Pretty Storelta saaduista raikkaan värisistä niiteistä innostuneena päädyin tällä kertaa tekemään yksinkertaisen keväiset ranskikset. Hassua kyllä, vaikka minttuisia lakkoja kokoelmista löytyykin, juuri täysin niittejä vastaavaa sävyä minulta ei löytynyt, sillä kaikki näyttivät niihin verrattuna ennemminkin sinisiltä. Valitsin lopulta kynsien kärkiin sävyksi Zoyan Neelyn, joka nyt oli ehkä kaikista lähinnä tuota niittien sävyä ja varsin kivaltahan tuokin yhdistelmä näytti. Ei haitannut yhtään, vaikka eivät ihan sävy sävyyn olleetkaan!
Neelyn ja L'Oreal BB Perfect Pastel Coatin lisäksi käytin kynsiin myös I Love Nail Polishin kultaista glittertopperia All Gold Evertyhingiä, tietysti niitä BPS:n niittejä ja Essien Good To Go -päällilakkaa. Näistä tuli kyllä varsin simppelit, mutta kivan keväiset eli tykkäsin kyllä.
Näitä niittejä löytyy BPS:stä yhteensä neljää erilaista värisekoitusta ja nämä ovat itse asiassa juuri tällä hetkellä alennuksessa. Taidankin tilata itselleni vielä ainakin toisen setin, kunhan vain osaisin päättää sävyn.
*Niitit on saatu arvioitaviksi.
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Labels: creme, Essie, french manicure, glitter, gold, green, I Love Nail Polish, I Love Nail Polish All Gold Everything, L'Oreal, L'Oreal BB Perfect Pastel Coat, mint, nail studs, Zoya, Zoya Neely
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