Catrice swatches - Be Aztec, From Dusk To Dawn and a Paradoxal dupe comparison and Red Butler

 

Today I again have some random Catrice Swatches for you - all shown in two coats - without a top coat.
Some are retired and/or re-launched with a new name and possibly a slight change...
The first is Be Aztec! - a gorgeous army green with an amazing shimmer....

 

The next is From Dusk To Dawn, and it's one of many Chanel Paradoxal dupe - but gorgeous.

 

My paradoxal dupes left to right: Absolute Nails by Douglas Maria 09, Catrice From Dusk To Dawn and China Glaze Jungle Queen.

 

The final Catrice polish today is Red Butler - I already have show nail art on this color...

All comments will be read when I open my computer again sometime next week!
HERE you can see what I have scheduled to post during my blog absence :)

Micro Painting Monday - 22

 "Finally spring" is the hopeful name of the first set in this Micro Painting Monday #22. It is found in the Available section of my shop.

- and this is what it looks like when the future owner receives it!

 

 "Golden olive abstract" also is found in the Available section...

"Metallic creator" is the final set today - and found in the "for sale" section...

As always see more in my shop Micro Paintings by Maria HERE - and please, please click the Facebook LIKE button to the right next to the first photo in this post - or when you are in my shop, use the button in the left side banner - or go directly to my Facebook page HERE

All comments will be read when I open my computer again sometime next week!
HERE you can see what I have scheduled to post during my blog absence :)

Catrice swatches - It's All I Can Blue, George Blueney, Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans and Hunting Heritage

 

Today I have some swatches of 4 blue random Catrice polishes. All are shown in 2 coats without a top coat. Some are retired and/or re-launched with a new name and possibly a slight change...
First my favorite blue Catrice: All I can Blue - it's gorgeous :)

 

Next we have George Blueney

 

Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans!

 

Hunting Heritage

All comments will be read when I open my computer again sometime next week!
HERE you can see what I have scheduled to post during my blog absence :)

Plan for the next weeks - and a late low-buy February

I'm taking a blog and computer break the next week or so, and that means that....
I will not visit the blogs I normally visit and comment on, so my apologies for that
- and I also will not reply to your comments on my own blog until I'm back
- BUT I have scheduled posts for every single day, so I'm almost here LOL
- and I'm going to miss you all and your sweet comments so much!!!

Here is what I have scheduled, as you can see I will post more swatches than normal, but I have so many in the vault:
April:
28 - Catrice swatches - It's All I Can Blue, George Blueney, Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans and Hunting Heritage
29 - Micro Painting Monday - 22
30 - Catrice swatches - Be Aztec, From Dusk To Dawn and a Paradoxal dupe comparison and Red Butler
May:
01 - A color I usually hate - Artsy Wednesday
02 - Spring Vibe
03 - Essie sping collections 2013 - Madison Ave-Hue and Resort, swatches of my picks
04 - NYX Ink, Jade, Enchanted Forest and Surf - swatches
05 - Ozotic Sugar collection - 901, 902, 903 and 904 - swatches
06 - Micro painting Monday - 23
07 - China Glaze Hologlam Astro-Hot, Infra Red, When Stars Collide, Galactic Gray and OHMG A UFO, swatches and comparison
08 - Sunday funday flowers
09 - Flowers in my cosmos
10 - Viscous vampire daisies
11 - Catrice swatches: No Snow Petrol, Marilyn and Me, Oh My Goldness, The Pinky and The Brain, ACid DC and Pool Party at Night
12 - Priti Nyc swatches: Lungwort, Horned Poppy, Hardy Plumbago and Day Flower

- and as always you can check out my freehand manis  by visiting the folders in the top menu bar...

- and now onto another failure of a low buy month...
Last Saturday I finally could post the last part of my failed low-buy January - see it HERE
So today I give you February...

 Gorgeous polishes from Norway Nails...

 These beauties came from a blog sale...

 A couple of Jessica's

 A "few" Picture Polish'es..... (click to enlarge photo)

 Assorted goodies...

 Some China Glaze's found on a sale...

 My picks from the China Glaze Avant Garden collection - see swatches HERE

And finally my 3 picks from the Butter London Sweetie Shop collection - see my swatches HERE

OK - I'm going to miss you, but I need a little break - see you all sooner or later....

China Glaze Sunsational swatches: Too Yacht To Handle, Bottoms Up, Highlight Of My Summer and That's Shore Bright, comparisons

Today I'm going to show you my picks of the some places not yet released China Glaze Sunsational collection that I was lucky to find at Pretty Polish in Holland....
If you have seen these presented as Neons On The Shore - I think that was a working title - the real name IS Sunsational!

Too Yacht To Handle, Bottoms Up, That's Shore Bright and Highlights Of My Summer

The collection has 6 cremes and 6 jellies, but jellies are not really *my thing* - so here you are all shown over a ridge filler base coat in two coats and without a top coat on my old ridge nails :)

 

First we have the bright turquoise-mint Too Yacht To Handle - the finish is shiny like a normal cream.

I can hear you think - how does it compare to Aquadelic from the Electro Pop coll. 2012?? - good news it doesn't...
Left to right: China Glaze Aquadelic (darker and dustier) and Too Yacht To Handle and finally the brand new BarryM Greenberry, that is ever so slightly darker, but still very close...

 

If there ever was a Barbie cool-toned pink neon - this is it - the name is Bottoms Up, and it dries with a semi matte neon finish...

 

Highlight Of My Summer - OMG it is amazing, and it's safe to say that I have nothing quite like it in my collection. It's bright light green, if anyone is in dobt ;) - and the finish is semi matte neon...

 

That's Shore Bright is a warm-toned medium purple, and it dries with a fairly matte finish on the swatch stick, a little shinier on the nail...

Subtle flower vines for Gomme

 

 

The base color is the gorgeous pastel blue Nailstation Gomme, sent to me by Norway Nails to review, and I have previously shown you swatches. I wanted to stay in subdued pastel colors and ended up painting the above with acrylic craft color, and I top coated with Seche Vite.

Norway Nails gives you a 10% discount if you use the code MARIA10 when you check out...

Grundfarven er den smukke pastel blå Nailstation Gomme, som Norway Nails sendte til mig til anmeldelse, og jeg har i søndags vist swatches af den. Jeg valgte at holde mig i underspillede pastelfarver og jeg malede disse blomsterranker med akrylfarve, og toplakken er Seche Vite.

HUSK at Norway Nails giver 10%, hvis du bruger koden MARIA10
Og til alle danske læsere: desværre virker den afstemnings widget ikke, så jeg har fjernet den, men det lyder som om de fleste gerne vil have vejledninger på dansk i fremtiden, men godt kan nøjes med at andet er på engelsk...?

Flowers in my veins

 

 

 

You didn’t know I have flowers in my aorta or maybe even all my veins did you…?

Hahaha, well my faithful readers knew I’m sure ;)

And today I have flowers on my nails with the gorgeous red Illamasqua Aorta (rubber finish) as the base color!

As usual the flowers are painted with acrylic craft colors and the top coat is Seche Vite.

Vidste du at jeg har blomster i min aorta – eller måske endda i alle mine årer…?

Hahaha, jo, mine faste læsere vidste det nu nok godt ;)

Og i dag har jeg atter engang blomster på neglene med den skønne Illamasqua Aorta (rubber finish) som bundfarven!

Som sædvanlig malede jeg blomsterne med akrylfarve og toplakken er Seche Vite

Destroyed nail art because of a bleeding polish...

Once in a while (rarely) a polish bleeds through your painted nail art when you top coat. Read more in my previous post on the subject HERE

Engang imellem (sjældent) er der neglelakker, der bløder gennem ens håndmalede nail art, når man lægger toplakken. Læs mere om emnet i mit tidligere indlæg HER
Og til alle danske læsere: skal jeg fortsat blogge på såvel engelsk og dansk? - giv din stemme i menuen til højre....

 

Before top coating - fortunately while working I had a hunch that this might happen and took these photos before top coating....
Før toplakken - heldigvis fik jeg en fornemmelse af at de var galt mens jeg arbejdede, så jeg tog disse fotos før jeg lagde toplakken...

 

The base color is Illamasqua Optimist from the Rubber Brights coll. – after the top coat - totally ruined mani. My white-red flowers are very difficult to see and looks pretty ugly...

Grundfarven er Illamasqua Optimist fra Rubber Brights coll. – efter toplakken, en fuldstændigt ødelagt manicure. Mine hvid-røde blomster er svære at se og ser iøvrigt også ret trælse ud...