Catrice Month: Miss Piggy Reloaded

This first day of May I'm starting with my Catrice Swatch Month. I have over 50 Catrice polishes and I would just like to show you a part of my collection :) So I'm gonna post a swatch of a color each day (I hope I won't fail) and some days I will also show you some nail art. Probably mostly just stamping and gradients :P

Miss Piggy Reloaded is a peachy pink color filled with orange shimmer/micro flakies. While applying this one it reminded me so much of Catrice's Walk On Air. The only difference is that it is orange.

For this swatch I applied 3 coats of polish and didn't use a base- and topcoat.

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xoxo Ingie

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Tutorial; Stamping With A Gradient Background

Hello! How is your Friday the 13th going? :) Mine has been awesome, like always! :)

About a week ago an anon on Tumblr asked me to do a tutorial on the nails I did for day 26 for my 31 day challenge. Since I don't have the equipment to film a tutorial I did a photo tutorial. I hope I did well xD

Since it's not gonna be a gradient from light to dark or dark to light I first started picking 3 colors. I choose 3 pinks and started with the medium color which is Gum Pink from ELF.

Then you want to take a little make-up sponge or whatever sponge works good for you and you dip it in the lightest color you have. I don't like to apply polish on the sponge itself, because I feel like the sponge sucks up the polish more.

It's gonna end up looking something like this.

Then take your darkest color and sponge it over the lightest color. A tip when you haven't sponged before; Don't sponge too hard. The sponge can leave some pieces which are gonna get stuck on your nail and you have to start over.

Then it might look something like this;

Then apply a flakie. I love a green flakie over pinks, but you can do whatever you want. Maybe a glitter or nothing. Then you want to apply a topcoat afterwards. A fast drying is recommended, but if you're not too impatient you can just use a not so fast drying one.

When your manicure is completely dry you want to take your stamping gear. I used the image on Konad plate m60 and I'm using a Konad stamper and scraper. I'm using a white stamping polish.

If you decide to use a white for stamping you really need a white stamping polish or you need to find a really opaque white polish. I believe Sally Hansen has a really opaque one, but a stamping polish is the best.

Then I clean up around my nails with pure acetone and a brush. You can also just use nail polish remover and a q-tip. I find a white stamping polish really hard to remove around my nails as you can obviously see :P

This is really simple to do, but for me it's also a little practice to see how to make a photo tutorial and maybe make other things in the future :)

Thanks for reading and thanks to the anon for the request!

xoxo Ingie

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With A Flakie On Top

Todays manicure is something I really love! Easy and simple, but looking pretty nice. 2 weeks ago I wore Color Club's Warhol, a bright neon that looks so amazing in the sun. I put a green flakie on it and mattified it and I was in love! I tried to capture it on my camera, but it never worked out... A week later again I tried the same, but it just didn't happen.

Yesterday I just grabbed a random polish (just because it's kind of weird for me to stare at my polishes for 30 minutes, pick something and then decided it's not what I want). As my base color I'm wearing Miss Sporty's number 328 from the Clubbing Colours. Somebody please tell me where I can find the names for these polishes! Over that a Golden Rose flakie in number 09.

Just like the combination of Warhol and flakie I wanted this one matte too. It looks really different than when it's shiny, but I don't know how to explain that. I used ELF's matte topcoat for it.

I really like the look of the topcoat, because it's not a shiny matte, but I just looked at my nails and noticed that it's not matte anymore, while a few hours ago it still was matte. So it stayed matte for like 20 hours or something.

I'm sorry for the picture spam, but believe me; I had so much more! xD

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xoxo Ingie

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Day 29: Inspired By The Supernatural

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Today's challenge is weird... I had no idea what to do and it just doesn't seem to fit in the other 'Inspired By...' challenges. But when I think of the supernatural I think of ghosts. So here are my spooky nails! :P

From left to right, meet Awkward Ghost, Just For The Lulz Ghost, Hmm... k Ghost and Henry.

I thought flakies would look nice over them, because usually you'll only see them on black, so it looks kinda glowy ;p I only added them on the 4 gentlemen you see here, not on the black around them. This was Golden Rose Scale Effect #13.

I'm almost finished with this challenge! :D If you know some other fun nail challenges like this, let me know :)

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xoxo Ingie

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Day 26: Inspired By A Pattern

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For today I didn't really have anything in mind. Since image plates have some nice patterns I decided to go for Konad image plate m60. I didn't want to have just 1 boring background color, so I made a gradient.

My base color is Catrice Apropos Apricot. From the base of my nail (where my cuticles are) I used the following colors;
Essie; Tart Deco
Catrice; Apropos Apricot
Sinful Colors; Beautiful Girl
China Glaze; Sugar High

Then I went for Golden Rose flakies in number 09. I think it really adds something... ;p As mentioned before I used image plate m60 and I used a white stamping polish. A coat of Seche Vite and manicure finished! Super simple :)

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xoxo Ingie

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Day 24: Inspired By A Book

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Can you see what book inspired me? The Rainbow Fish! I have no idea what the book was about; it's too long ago. But when I decided to do Rainbow Fish nails I remembered when I was like 7 we had to make the Rainbow Fish out of pieces of fabric. It was so much fun! I only put glue on the beginning of the fabric, so the pieces would hang loose on my paper. Oh, I was so creative! :P

I had no idea where to begin with these nails, so this tutorial helped me :)

A list of colors that I used;
Color Club; What A Drag!
Catrice; The Pinky And The Brain
Catrice; Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy!
Catrice; Pool Party At Night
China Glaze; For Audrey
Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours; 328
Golden Rose Scale Effect; 04

I hope you liked it! :)

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie

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Day 21: Inspired By A Color

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Hello! I'm back with the challenge :)

I didn't really know what to do today. How can I be inspired by a color? I don't get creative from a color. Actually, I'm not really creative at all. At first I wanted to go all ombre again, since I had 2 new pink polishes, but 1 of them looks just like some others. The one that I'm wearing is really awesome though!

I'm wearing 2 coats of Catrice's new 2012 polish Aretha's R•E•S•P•I•N•K. It's almost like a hot pink neon, but it's not neon. It dries shiny and looks amazing. It's like a perfect hot pink.

Over this manicure I applied a coat of Golden Rose flakies in number 15. My favorite flakie! It's really rainbowy and I got a lot of compliments on it at work today :) Compliments make me happy :P

For tomorrow's challenge I'm kind of excited. I have an idea in mind and I hope it all works out well :P

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xoxo Ingie

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Day 12: Stripes

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I can't believe this is day 12 already! It means we're already almost on the half of this month. Time flies when you're having fun. Actually also when you're not having fun.

For today I actually had something different in mind. You probably know that thing where you have something in mind, you work in it and during your little 'project' you change up things and it comes out different than planned. Never the less, I like the way it turned out. Kinda sporty.

I thought it would be better if I make a list of what I used.

• Seche Clear base coat
• 2 coats China Glaze Something Sweet
• 1 coat Golden Rose Scale Effect #15
• Metallic pink striping tape
• O.P.I. top coat

I really liked this flakie. I believe I haven't really wore flakies over other colors than just black or dark colors.

Hope to see you back tomorrow! :)

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xoxo Ingie

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Stamping: Starry Night

I didn't really know what to do for today's post. When going through my image plates I thought I wanted to try the stars. Cause I never did before :P For my base color I used my Franken Underground Candyshop and for the yellow stars I used Almost Famous from Color Club.

I'm still proud of this Franken... :) Almost Famous stamped better over a dark color than expected. Some stars have some gaps, because they some pieces just wouldn't get on the stamper.

While I was doing my nails I kept singing; Catch a falling star and put it in my pocket xD I heard that song for the first time in The Princess Diaries :P

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xoxo Ingie

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Orly - Fowl Play

Happy New Year! I hope everybody is going to have a great new year and be happy and healthy :)

Maybe you're noticing my new layout. I just had to change it, because I like my pictures to be big! I'm always to lazy to click to enlarge on people's blogs, so yeah... xD

A few days ago I ordered my first Orly nail polish. I was surprised that the bottle was pretty big. It has 18ml in it, while I'm used to like 14 or 15ml.

This is Fowl Play. A sheer purple jelly base with yellow, orange and green flakies and some blue glitters here and there. When wearing Fowl Play, you mostly just see an orange yellow flakie. I found that a little bit disappointing, because in the bottle it looks like a rainbow in a bottle.

I managed to capture the other colors of the flakies too. While writing this I'm trying to find out how to see the green flakies by holding my lamp in different angles, but it's not working. I guess you just have to do your thing to maybe see it time to time.

And here you have my uninterested cat. I was trying to capture the flakies while I found myself in the weirdest positions, but as soon as I lied down on my back, my cat was on my belly again :P

Do you have Fowl Play? If so, what do you think of it? All I can say is that I'm happy that it's my first Orly polish and I hope I can get my hands on some more this year :P

Thanks for reading!

xoxo Ingie