Showing posts with label isadora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label isadora. Show all posts

23 February 2015

That one time ... Watermarvel

I think it is important to report the "not so successful" attempts every now and then.
Specially when you can identify what went wrong in the process.

So this attempt started the same way as all the other:
Polish goes in water, spreads, drag needle over, dry over night.
Yet, it turned out quite different.

IsaDora - 179 - Winter Rose
W7 - 140 - Buff
ESSIE - Little Brown Dress


close up few minutes after it was made

15 h later, it looks like this

I could still make a nice manicure out of it, so it wasn't completely ruined, but it baffled me that it turned out so differently. As I hadn't had any failed attempts at all using this technique I wanted to find out what went wrong.
I asked the girls at Polish-aholics Anonymous on Facebook, and the suggestions ranged from water contamination, to temperature drops, and even air contamination. One suggested it might simply be the polishes I choose.

So I went to the scientific method, and worked on eliminating one and one of these theories.
By using the same polishes in the same order with new water, and with a lid, the problem still occurred. So it could not be air- or water contamination. Though, this was a very good bet.
As I had used the same water all week, there was a possibility that water contamination could be a factor. I would lift the decal out of the water, and make a new one right away, so the water was never changed. However this had not, and continued not to be the problem, so it had to be something else.

I then decided to use the same polishes but to swap out one of them. As I am not the biggest fan of IsaDora - Winter Rose, that was the polish I decided to swap out. This attempt had no errors and can be found following this link:

Vintage Wood - A watermarble adventure

I was twisting and turning on the decal. It wasn't much to work with, and it had gaps here and there. Some of it simply crumbled away when I took it out of the water.



 It's not my best work, hehe, but I made it, kinda, work.



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8 April 2014

Sunflowers - Prado Red - manicure

There is one thing that I want to get better at when it comes to nail art.
Freehand

I took my acrylics out for a test. I'm glad I had plenty of time, cause the stuff I was attempting was a bit harder than I thought. So instead of a one stroke manicure, which was what I attempted first. I went for something a bit easier, and did sunflowers.

My favorite sunflower is the Prado Red. I think they are beautiful. Just look at em!


For this manicure I used Savina - Royalty. This was one of my first nail polishes, and I haven't used it for ages. I felt it was time to give it some love. 
Since I did this manicure long into the night hours, I do not have steps-to-steps pictures on how this manicure was built.

Savina - Royalty needed 3 thin coats to cover all VNL. I added topcoat over Royalty before I proceeded to the acrylic art. I used a deep red acrylic colour for this manicure and a flat brush. I used a stippling motion with the brush to create the petals. For the seeds I used IsaDora - Winter Rose, and a dotting tool. 
I then proceed to the stamping. I used Cheeky - Jumbo plate 3 - European Romance. For stamping polish I used China Glaze - Exotic Encounter. I did a full stamping accent, and isolated some vines on two other nails. This was really tricky, since I wanted the vines to fill in the gaps. I think this was pure luck with how well the stamping came out on the index finger and the ring finger. 








What do you girls think? Do you wanna see more nail art like this?
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21 March 2014

IsaDora Sugar Crush - 108 Wine Crush

I am on a roll on these sugar crush/coat polishes now a days.
Today I bring you Wine Crush by IsaDora. It's purple, pink, brown and golden, it's shiny and sooo pretty!

I  am so glad it's almost weekend, it feels like this week as been going on forever. Luckily, next week is going to be busy busy busy. I got a photoshoot booked, and it's been a year or so since I last did some modeling, so it's great to be back to doing that again. I am also meeting up with some cool people that is going to show me the town I now live in. Time to learn where all the good shops are, where to go dust-hunting for polishes etc.

Back to the world of polishes, here is Wine Crush:

Isadora Wine Crush - blurred picture to show all the colours. 

Isadora Wine Crush in direct sun

Isadora Wine Crush in the shade (indirect sun)



 Isadora is a Scandinavian brand, the polishes costs between NOK 69 to 95 (about £7 - 10).
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2 June 2013

Maybelline - Chalkdust over City Khakis

Happy Blogiversary! My blog is 1 year old now.
Hurrah.

To celebrate I got myself a new nail polish. Maybelline recently launched the polka-dot collection, I picked up Chalkdust and Shooting Star.

First swatch over a holo blue, one coat.
I have forever wanted a polish like Sticks and Stones, and this polish is stilling my lemming. I LOVE it.
I needed this in my life.

First I painted my nails in IsaDora - City Khaki, its a nice shimmering grey colour. Then I added two coat of Maybelline - Chalkdust  on all the nails except for my index finger. On the index finger I finished it off with a fimo sliced heart is white, grey and black.

I instantly fell in love with this manicure.







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27 February 2013

IsaDora - Silk Road

There's been a lot of green and sparkly nail polishes lately, and this one is no exception.
I present to you, Silk Road from IsaDora.
Silk Road  is a part of the autumn collection; Jewel of the Orient. Last week I showed you Oasis, from the same collection. I also bought Polar Nights.


I wore it alone for a day, then I added striper tape, but mid day the ends had lifted just a little bit, so I added some silver between the tape, and pulled them away.
So it will be 2 nail arts in one post!!







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10 February 2013

O is for Oasis by IsaDora

Today I have another "green" polish for you girls. It's IsaDora - Oasis. Oasis is a part of the autumn collection;  Jewel of the Orient. I picked up 3 polishes from this collection on my trip to Norway, around Christmas.

I call  this polish green, cause to me it look like it has a lot of green shimmer to it. I have seen others describing it in a different matter (olivegreen with microglitter, black base with microglitter, brown with golden and blue shimmer etc..), but next to OPI - Live and Let Die, Linda Johansen - Brookside Moss, I feel this polish fits right in with them.
To me Oasis is a blackened green base with green, blue, turquoise, pink and golden shimmer.

Let's take a look. 




What do you think?

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11 August 2012

Summer Challenge - Summer in the Hamptons

When I think of The Hamptons, I think of fashionable ladies in designer outfits, attending theme parties, and playing tennis. I am sure its not like that at all, but I like the idea of it.

The Elitist in my approves.

I was searching for inspiration for it, and I found a dress I liked, the dress is from Stylehive and their "Summer at the Hamptons Dresses"




Sorry for the condition of my cuticles and skin, this week has been hard on them. 

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23 July 2012

IsaDora - Winter Rose

I was actually looking for a plum colour, and though this might be a good one...but its not much of a plum at all. Its more chocolate brown, with a hint of red, than anything.

And I couldn't get a picture where you could see the hint of red in this colour.

Isadora - Winter Rose, I used two coats. And made a bow with a white stiper, for the cuteness.




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3 July 2012

Summer Challenge Independence Day

I happend to have the right  Konad - stamp for this themed mani. The M14.
I wanted to do it cool, but still not having to redo all the nails. So this is my first "recycling mani", I kept the 3 black nails from last night, and painted the two others in white.

So for this mani, I used ESSIE - Licorice, Sinful Color - Snow Me White. I stamped using two images from the M14 konad plate, using H&M - Red Nail, ESSIE - Little Brown Dress ( U.S.A ), and IsaDora - 626 Blue Sky. I could of used a darker blue, but I didn't have a blue that matched.

So I'm still trying to get used to the new camera that I`m borrowing. I swapped the lens, and I am now using a Canon lens, instead of the Sigma lens, that we use when we take pictures of houses. ¨

Don`t mind the paper-cut on my finger, there...

So lets see what we got.



Check out the other girls nail art for today.

Debbie @ The Crumpet - http://thecrumpet.blogspot.co.uk/
Alyssa at Fancy Phalanges - http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com/
Lucie @ Lucy's Stash http://www.lucysstash.com/
Vic @ Glowstars http://glowstars.net/ 
Rychelle @ Colorsplash Nails- http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com/
Missy the Manicured Maniac @ http://melissahenderson95.blogspot.com/
Nayade @ Toxic Vanity http://www.toxicvanity.com/ 
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27 June 2012

Summer challenge: Blue, Aqua, and green mani

Today's Summer Challenge is to make a mani, with the following colours; Blue, Aqua and Green.
I wasn't quite sure what kind of blue, would classify as Aqua, so I found this sheet for reference.


pale aqua(T)148184
pale aqua blue(T)184
pale aqua green(T)148162+
pale blue(R)171184
pale blue(RC)172185
pale blue(S)186232
pale blue(T)184202
pale blue(TC)154264
pale blue-green(R) 148


A dictionary of colours, I am impressed.
The other girls have been doing some amazing manis today, so without further ado, here is my mani.




For this mani, I used 3 coats of Savina - Royalty, stamped using the BM 206 and China Glaze - Jolly Holly, and tipped with IsaDora - 626 - Blue Sky.

What are you wearing today? Send me a link below. :)


List of girls taking part in Summer Challenge -

Debbie @ The Crumpet - http://thecrumpet.blogspot.co.uk/
Alyssa at Fancy Phalanges - http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com/
Lucie @ Lucy's Stash www.lucysstash.com
Vic @ Glowstars http://glowstars.net
Rychelle @ Colorsplash Nails- http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com/
Missy the Manicured Maniac @ http://melissahenderson95.blogspot.com/
Nayade @ Toxic Vanity http://www.toxicvanity.com
Kelly (aka Nail Obsessed) @ http://crazynaillady.blogspot.com


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