Pastel skittle with flowers - Artsy Wednesday

 

 

 

The theme in this Artsy Wednesday is pastels…
The colors I used are all Models Own. Thumb: Beth’s Blue from the “Ice Cream Sundae” collection, the rest is from the scented collection “Fruit Pastels” index: Banana Split, middle: Apple Pie, ring: Blueberry Muffin, little: Grape Juice.

I painted flower vines in pink and white using craft acrylic paints. The top coat is Seche Vite.

Check out the other girls Artsy Wednesday mani's: 
Michelle - Lab Muffin 
Melanie - Nail & Polish 
Jessica - Beauty Gnome 
Emily - An Accent Nail
Catrine - Unnakednails 
Ameerah - Valiantly Varnished
Wendy - M.A.S.P.O.O.A.S.E.

Nailstation Gomme, Menthe and Vanille swatches

Today I have 3 gorgeous pastel polishes from Nailstation "Pastel Palette coll.", sent to me from NORWAY NAILS for review - and I had to do a silly little happy polish dance, when I saw them - they are SO much me....
Please remember that the code MARIA10 gives a 10% discount, when you shop...

 

 

First we have Gomme - and I have fallen especially much in love the this pastel blue shade. It is so clear and exactly like I love a pastel blue. This is 2 coats, no top coat - perfect application and dry time.

 

 

Next we have Menthe - a very delicate mint with a lot of white in it - so pretty, and I should have worn 2 coats of ridge filler base coat - but you can see the color nonetheless. This is 2 coats, no top coat - perfect application and dry time.

 

Finally we have a gorgeous and PERFECT pastel yellow (did I ever tell you I love those, nah, probably not, but I do ;) - it is Vanille, and I love it. This is 2 coats, no top coat - perfect application and dry time.

I have done nail art on all 3 of them, and I look forward to showing them to you!!!

Hiding in pastels

 

 

In my series of hiding in X, I have reached the pastels. First I painted 2 coats of the following colors: thumbs Julie G Fairytale, index Nails Inc. Sumner Place, middle Color Club Blue Ming, ring Essie Bikini so Teeny and pinkie Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream. With a dotting tool I created the camouflage pattern using the same colors, but the Strawberry Ice Cream was a bit too subdued, so I dotted Essie Lovie Dovie over those spots. Finally I top coated with Seche Vite.

I min serie Hiding in x er jeg nået til pastellerne. Først lagde jeg to lag af de følgende lakker: tommel Julie G Fairytale, pege Nails Inc. Sumner Place, langefinger Color Club Blue Ming, ringfinger Essie Bikini so Teeny og lillefinger Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream. Med et dotting tool lavede jeg et kamuflagemønster med de same farver, men Strawberry Ice Cream var lidt for blev I farven, så jeg lagde et lag Essie Lovie Dovie over de pletter. Til slut topcoatede jeg med Seche Vite.

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.
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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).

Floral pale yellow ombre – or is it prize rosettes…?

 

 

For this pastel/light yellow ombre I used the following colors goring from thumb to pinkie: China Glaze Sunshine pop, Barry M Lemon Ice Cream, Nails Inc. Notting Hill Carnival, Nails Inc. Sumner Place and Essence Mellow Yellow. 

I painted my one-stroke flowers in acrylic paint, and cannot decide if they look too much like a prize rosette LOL

Til denne lysegule ombre brugte jeg følgende farver startende fra tomlen: China Glaze Sunshine pop, Barry M Lemon Ice Cream, Nails Inc. Notting Hill Carnival, Nails Inc. Sumner Place og Essence Mellow Yellow.  

Jeg malede one-stroke blomsterne med akrylfarve, og jeg kan ikke rigtigt finde ud af, om de mest af alt ligner præmie rosetter ;)

Pastel in pastel in pastel in.....

This post comes with a pastel overload warning. You need to be in a pastel mood to fully enjoy this post LOL
Dette indlæg postes med en pastel overdosis advarsel. Du bør være i pastel humør for at kunne nyde det ;)

 

 

 

I was in a pastel mood, and I was looking forward to trying two Sinful colors, the lovely pastel yellow: Unicorn and the pastel blue with lovely flecks: Cinderella, both from my swap with Lydia!

I couldn’t decide, so Cinderella became my accent nail. They both needed 3 coats, and the dry time was a bit slow. I decided to paint flowers with pastel acrylic colors and one was a perfect match for Cinderella – and well, let the photos speak for themselves.

I enjoyed this mani when I wore it, now, well... – what do you think?

Jeg var i totalt pastel humør, og jeg glædede mig til at afprøve to Sinful lakker, den lækre pastel gule: Unicorn og den pastel blå med de smukke flakes: Cinderella – begge fra mit bytte med Lydia!

Jeg kunne ikke beslutte, så jeg brugte Cinderella som accent på ringfingeren. Jeg var nødt til at lægge 3 lag af hver, og jeg var ikke imponeret over tørretiden. Jeg besluttede at malte blomster i pastel farver, og en var i samme nuance som Cinderella – og ja, billederne taler for sig selv.

Jeg kunne godt li’ denne mani da jeg havde den på, men nu, ja... – hvad synes du?

Yellow tulips on pastel yellow

OBS – I have removed my blog list because some blogs on it seems to be infected, and it apparently spreads through them. Readers using Chrome might have gotten warnings on my blog because those blogs on my list – but it’s safe, FireFox and Internet Explorer have no problem with it :)

OBS – jeg har fjernet min blogliste fordi flere blogge på den tilsyneladende var inficeret – og derfor kunne bruger af Chrome browseren opleve advarsler mod min blog fordi den linkede. Men min blog er sikker, FireFox og Internet Explorer har ikke problemer med den :)

 

The base color is Essence Banana Joe from the Fruity Collection. I was very excited to try on a pale yellow polish, and it didn’t look as terrible as I thought it would. In fact it released a huge craving for pastel yellow – which is reflected in my recent polish buys LOL

But I liked it even better with the leaves, vegetation and yellow tulips! I used acrylic color for the decoration and Seche Vite is the top coat.

What do you think of yellow on yellow?

Grundfarven er Essence Banana Joe fra Fruity kollektionen. Jeg glædede mig til at prøve en pastel gul farve, og den så slet ikke hæslig ud på mig, som jeg havde frygtet. Faktisk udløste den en stor trang til pastel gul, hvilket kan ses på hylden hvor de uafprøvede lakker står :)

Men jeg kunne trods alt li’ den endnu bedre med blade, vegetation of gule tulipaner! Jeg brugte akrylfarve og sluttede af med Seche Vite toplak.

Mint pastel flowers - Pastel mint blomster

 

I could have given the flowers something to grow on, but after a longer discussion with myself I agreed on this: The tiny flowers with should just lay there, but in kind of a pattern, and a few dots were invited to join the party ;)

OK – boring facts: base color is Essie Mint Candy Apple and the rest is acrylic colors, the top coat is my faithful Seche Vit.

Jeg kunne have givet blomsterne noget at vokse på, men efter en længere diskussion med mig selv blev jeg enig om at: De små blomster skulle bare ligge der, men i en slags mønster, og et par få prikker blev også inviteret med til festen ;)

OK, de kedelige facts: Grundfarven er Essie Mint Candy Apple, og resten er malet med akrylfarve, og toplakken er min trofaste Seche Vite.

Pastel wallpaper from the waste bin - pastel tapet fra papirkurven

Please read: I love to have many prepared manicures/posts ready, but the less interesting manis tend to slowly get older and sink to “the bottom of the pile”. So this mani from the end of March, was one of three that barely was rescued from the delete button! I’ll sneak in the other two over the next two weeks…

Læs venligst: Jeg elsker at være foran med forberedte indlæg/designs, og de mindre interessant ting har det med at blive ældre og synke ned i bunden af ”stakken”. Så denne mani fra slutningen af marts var en af tre, der med nød og næppe undgik delete knappen, men her er den! Jeg vil liste de andre to ind i løbet af de to næste uger…

 

The base color is Essie Neo Whimsical, and with a striper I freehanded the light blue stripes with Nubar Blue Hydrangea. The flowers I dotted with China Glaze Sunshine Pop and the center is a dot of Essie Mesmerize. Finally I top coated. 

Personally I prefer stronger colors, as they are better for me, but I like to try out all my ideas, and this mani will look cute on someone else :)

Grundfarven er Essie Neo Whimsical, og jeg malede de tynde striber med en striper og Nubar Blue Hydrangea. Blomsterne prikkede jeg på med et dotting tool og China Glaze Sunshine Pop, og midten af blomsterne er en plet af Essie Mesmerize. Til slut lagde jeg Seche Vite toplak som sædvanligt.

Personligt foretrækker jeg mere knald på farverne, det klæder mig bedre, men jeg kan godt li' at afprøve alle mine ideer, og denne mani vil se sød ud på mange andre end mig :)