Opulent Essences - Fools Gold

Polish was sent for swatching purposes, but the opinions expressed are solely mine,  nothing else to disclaim.

You might have noticed my slight obsession with Opulent Essences lately, and today I am showing you another Opulent Essence polish that landed on my doorstep last week.

As a member of Fantasmic Flakies on Facebook, I thought I would start with a flakie polish.
Opulent Essences - Fools Gold
This is a baby blue polish with a pearl shimmer and golden flakies, in some lights this polish leans a bit teal. This is specially evidently when pairing with black.

Opulent Essences - Fools Gold

Opulent Essences is a Vegan Friendly Nail Polish Maker from the UK. Behind the brand is the duo Sharon and Zoe, if you ever have any questions the girls are lovely to chat with, and as far as I know, don't bite. Hehe.

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Fools Gold 10 ml - 6 £
Fools Gold 5 ml - 3 £

Opulent Essences - Fools Gold

In the swatches above you see the polish when applied in 3 coats. I did not encounter any problems with this polish, it applied nicely, and the pearl shimmer looks fantastic with the gold flakies.

I also think this polish looks great on me. The shade is just the right kind of blue for my skin at the moment. 

On my Youtube channel I also show how this looks applied over black and cobalt blue polish, if you are feeling adventurous and want to layer it over something else. 

The black polish as an undie makes this lean more teal, which I thought was very interesting. 

I could not leave this polish alone and felt the need to try some nail art using this as a base. 

I pulled out Bundlemonster BMXL204 and Moyra - 05 - Vintage. For the stamping I used Barry M - Gelly - Blue Grape and KIKO - Magnetic - 707.

The Lonely Fisherman Nail Art. Using Opulent Essences - Fools Gold, Bundlemonster BMXL204, Moyra - 05 - Vintage, Barry M - Gelly - Blue Grape and KIKO - 707

Polish was sent for swatching purposes, but the opinions expressed are solely mine,  nothing else to disclaim.

Diabetes Awareness

Diabetes is a life-long health condition, and in the UK alone there are 3.3 million people diagnosed with diabetes. It is estimated that almost 600.000 people live with the condition never having been tested for it. It is therefor incredible important to raise awareness for this conditions.

There are two main types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, where as type 1 is the most commen, UK is seeing a rise in the numbers of people with type 2. To explain the differences Diabetes UK has made this illustration.

Different types of Diabetes

When I went to school one of my classmates was diagnosed with diabetes, I remember feeling sad for him when he had to excuse himself from the classroom to take his insulin jab.
Later I would learn that my family has a history of Diabetes, while I am luck to not have the condition myself I know plenty who do.

When Leah asked if I wanted to join in on a Diabetes Awareness link -up I had to say yes.

For those of you who don't know, I donated my blog-income for November month to Pancreatic Research Funds. In total this raised £6.25. Finding a Cure starts with awareness.


Today's prompt with Crumpets Nail Tarts is grey + colour + pattern. My pattern this week is "stamped" so I was very lucky with that.

I started out with 3 coats of China Glaze - Pelican Gray, I stamped over using Ciate - Paint Pots - Vintage with Bundlemonster BM-321 on two nails and BM-315 on the rest.

China Glaze - Pelican Gray

China Glaze - Pelican Gray, stamped with Bundlemonster BM-321 and BM-315 using Ciate - Paint Pots - Vintage

An InLinkz Link-up

An InLinkz Link-up

Carcassonne - nail art

This picture above here, might make you confused, do no fear. This is a nail related post. 

For those of you that follow me regularly, might remember that it was my birthday not long ago. My boyfriend got me a lot of stuff for my birthday (you can read what he got me in this blog-post), one of those things he got me for my birthday was Carcassonne expansions. Carcassonne is a fun little game about building castles and roads, and it's one of my favorite (board)games in the world. Next to Labyrinth, which is without a doubt my favorite. If you are into boardgames you should check it out.

PS: Maybe not get this specific expansion that is shown with the picture below, it's a bit too fiddly, I prefer the other expansions.

Carcassonne - The Princess & the Dragon

Example of Carcassonne in play.

So my boyfriend told me he wanted to do my nails for my birthday. We grabbed some acrylics, and polish and dived into it. This is not the first time he has done my nails, he did a Serenity (movie) manicure . In the previous mani, we did not use any acrylics, and he has been dying to show of his acrylic skills.

First challenge. He wasn't happy with my selection of green polishes. So I had to go ahead and mix them up until we got the shade we wanted. 2 drops of ESSIE - Mojito Madness and 3 drops of ESSIE - Navigate Her seemed to be the shade he wanted.

ESSIE - Mojito Madness and ESSIE - Navigate Her

4 nails on each hand got painted green, and the thumb was painted grey with MISA - Working Hard, Hardly Working. Stamping using Ciaté - Vintage Paint Pots

The backing of the tiles in Carcassonne and the Bundlemonster plate I used for stamping.

Once the nail polish was all dry we got the acrylics out.

I was sneaky and got some pictures while he was busy doing my nails. 

You can see he has placed out the tiles he was recreating next to him. 

After half an hour we had a break. This is what it was all looking like then. You can see the pieces taking form. It was getting dark outside, so sorry for the terrible pictures. 

He wanted to use more time on this, but I had to draw the line somewhere. He was keeping me busy while he was painting by feeding me white wine, and after a while it got nearly impossible to keep the hands still. 

I did dent my nails over night, so sorry for the rough look, but here are some pictures of them finished.

Carcassonne nail art

Carcassonne nail art

Carcassonne nail art

Carcassonne nail art

Carcassonne nail art

What do you think? Would you wear nail art inspired by a game? 

Let me know in the comment section below. 

Crackle over Grey Skittle

Its been a crazy weekend for me. I had to attend to a seminar few hours away from here. Its actually so far away that I had to take the plain. 1 hour by plain, so that's not so bad.

The plain left at 08am, and its about 1 hour away by train from where I live, so I ended up having to get up at 05 am. Urgh. And I didn't get in bed before 02 pm, cause I was sitting up chatting with friends. 

Tired much!

Saturday ended with a trip to the E.R. a friend of mine lost a tooth, and another one got said tooth in his head, and it wouldn't stop bleeding. Thats what you get when geeks plays Laser-Tag. 

Overly enthusiastic bunch. 

Went back home with the 8 am plain, and had to go for a RPG-session, and make dinner for the RPG-group. (It was my turn). Now its Monday, and I feel like I have been running enough for a week.

Essie - School of Hard Rocks
Ciate - Vintage
FNUG - Runway
China Glaze - Recycle
Kicks - Metro Grey

Whats where:
  Pinky - Kicks - Metro Grey,  ring finger - China Glaze - Recycle, middle finger - FNUG - Runaway,  index finger - Ciate - Vintage, Thumb - ESSIE - School of Hard Rocks.

Hombre Skittle Grey for Five

Today I got my Grey-polishes out. And lets just say, that I have a few. Lets just say.. this is not all of them.

Essie - School of Hard Rocks
Ciate - Vintage
FNUG - Runway
China Glaze - Recycle
Kicks - Metro Grey

I wore this all day; did some laundry, and scrubbed the bathroom, and you know what? They all held pretty good!

And hubby wanted to help out, and took some pictures showing all the nails.

What do you think about the position of the hands there?

Whats where:
R Thumb / L Pinky - Kicks - Metro Grey, R index finger / L ring finger - China Glaze - Recycle, R & L middle finger - FNUG - Runaway, R ring finger / L index finger - Ciate - Vintage, R pinky/ L Thumb - ESSIE - School of Hard Rocks.

Just another haul

After reading about Ciate`s behavior towards bloggers, regarding their copyrighted products, I didn`t want to support a company like that with buying their polishes. But I`m not that idealistic, and I have a weak mind for pretty polishes.
I just got one, thou.. If that counts for anything.

I love the bow on the bottle, its so cute. This grey has a more green tone to it, that, ex. China Glaze - Recycle.

And I bought three H&M polishes, cause I have been seeing them a lot on blogs, and they look really pretty.

Purple Flash, Fantasy Ocean, Deep Deep Water

Thats Purple Flash, Fantasy Ocean and Deep Deep Water. Love the shades. 

Let me know if you want a swatch.