Guest Post: Very Emily

Hi dear readers !

Are you ready for another guest post ?
This week I'm glad to welcome Emily from the blog Very Emily ! When I discovered her blog, I immediatl loved her style. She does a lot of freehand with inpiration from flowers, cloth prints, nature ... But my fave style from her are those cute vintage flowers she does so well ... And guess what ? That's what she does for her guest post, she even made it to match my blog color scheme :)


Hello Gwenn's lovely readers! 

When Gwenn asked me guest post for her I felt so honoured and excited! I immediately thought of doing something inspired by her blog's colour scheme. I ended up doing flowers since Gwenn mentioned she liked my floral prints so this is what I came up with! 

I really love doing flowers, they always look really pretty but are very easy to create. I used thin nail art brushes and stripers.

And the polishes I used were:
Barry M Berry Ice Cream
Barry M Bright Purple
China Glaze VIII
China Glaze Electric Pineapple
China Glaze Starboard
Models Own Nail Art Pens

I really hope you like them! I also would like to thank Gwenn for this amazing opportunity, I had so much fun creating these and I was really happy that you asked me to do a guest post. Thank you so much!

Thank you Emily ! 

Aren't these vintage flowers too cute ? I just love everything about them :) I'd like to learn to create them but my tries were unsuccessful for the moment ^^ 

Emily's blog talks about nail polish and nail art but not only ! You'll also find make up, reviews, great pictures ... She also makes a lot of reviews for Born Pretty Store and shares nice advices !

Did I mention she's from Belgium, like me ? We can moan together about belgian shops that don't have the same stuff than in Germany or Netherlands and our difficulties to find certain brands, lol ;)

Please visit Emily's blog here: http://www.emilydenisephotography.com/blog/

You'll even find tutorials to create cute flowers !

I hope you liked her guest post as much as I did :)

Have a nice day !

Blue Stamping with Nfu Oh 65

Hi dear readers :)

Did you notice the new Pin It button at the end of each post ? If you're a Pinterest user, you can now pin my pictures directly from there :) If you're not on Pinterest but want to, let me know in the comments, I'll send you an invite ;)

On to today's nails ! I recently found back my love for stamping. I had hard times doing something right with my stamps but now it seems to go better so I have a lot of fun lately, and I also joinded a Facebook group called Adventures in Stamping ! In this group, you can obviously talk about stamping, share your pics and ask for help, but there is also a weekly themed challenge, and each sunday we post our manicures for the challenge :)

Last week's theme was "All Blue" so here's what I did ...

 I used Nfu Oh 63 as the base and stamped using Bundle Monster plate 208 and Konad Special Polish in blue.

I love Nfu Oh 63 a lot ! It's much more holo in real but there was no sun when I took the pics so I couldn't get better reflects ... I have to wear this again this spring to see you all the linear holo prettyness in it :)

So, what do you think of my blue Konadicure ?
Be sure to see more stamping in the next posts :)

Have a nice day :)

Layering experiment with Beyu 209

Hi again dear readers :)

When I first read about Beyu 209 being a possible dupe for Unicorn pee aka Clarins 230, I totally wanted it. Clarins 230 is impossible to find in my country, and I don't want to pay totally crazy prices for it on Ebay (the cheapest I found today is sold 70$ ...)

So, on my summer trip to Barcelona, I found it at Douglas (we either don't have Douglas in Belgium) and jumped immediatly on it !
For my first use, I wanted to imitate a look I already seen and love, the great layering Jeanette did for her guest post on Also Knows As !

 For this layering, here's what I used ...
- base coat (Gosh base & Top Coat)
- Essence Out of my Mind (2 coats)
- Nfu Oh 54 (1 coat but not really visible on the pics)
- China Glaze Glam (1 coat)
- Beyu 209 (2 coats)
- Seche Vite

That's a total of eight coats of polish lol ... My nails were so thick after all that !

I especially love how the glitters look ! Beyu 209 is a magical shade :)
Now, be ready for some picture spam :p

 

I took m pics with different lights so you can see all the reflects in it ... If you can get your hands on it, don't hesitate, and buy two bottles of it !
It actually costs around 6€ at Douglas stores and last time I went to Germany, it was still available.

Note that there are two versions of it, and one has not all that magical stuff in it. So be sure to read Jeanette's post about it to know which one to buy :)

Do you like it ?

Oh, this morning I've noticed I reached 1k followers on GFC ... Thank you all, my fellow readers :D
Of course, I'll have a giveaway to celebrate it ... But i'm waiting for some novelty from Catrice and Essence for the prize :D

Have a nice day :)

January Collage

Hi dear readers !

I hope you're fine :)
As we thought there wouldn't be a real winter here in Belgium this year, is started to get really cold this week and yesterday we had a lot of snow ... It took me almost 3 hours to drive 50 km ... Now I hope it will melt before I got back to work. Snow is beautiful, but it's soooo annoying to drive in it !

I started to see those pretty little collages on a few blogs lately, and I really loved the idea, so I decided to start mine, too :)
Here's the collage for last month ... I hope you'll like it ^^

If you want to get yours, just go to http://www.shapecollage.com and chose the Online version in the products ... They also have an iPhone app and a Facebook version.

For iPhone freaks like me, I also discovered a nice app called My365 which allows you to post daily pictures and keep a record for each day in the year ... I love the idea and the app is cute :) You'll see some notd's of course, and random pictures of my cats, hauls, travels ... My username there is Gwenn.

Stay tuned, I'll come back later with some nail polish :) 

Guest post: Nihrida

Hi dear readers !

Last sunday, I told there will be a guest post ... Well in fact, there will be guest posts each wednesday in February ! I have contacted five nail addicts who accepted to write a little something for me ... Isn't it great ?

For the first guest post, please welcome Nihrida !
Do I really have to introduce her ? She's a great blogger from Slovenia, and she is one of the first person I followed two years ago when I started my polish madness :)

Here's what she's done for me:


Hi everyone, it's Nihrida! 


Don't worry, I'm not here to stay. ;) Lovely Gwenn asked me to do a guest post
for Sweet Sugar and since I love her blog, I decided to give it a go. After she contacted me my
first thought was: what to write about? A simple 'one polish' manicure wouldn't be in order (in
my opinion), so I went for a layering combo. Hope you like it!

I've always been quite intrigued by the China Glaze Strawberry Fields craze. It got to me

as well and I'm not even a pink lover. Having said that, Strawberry Fields was my main
inspiration for this layering. I used 2 coats of Essence nail polish from the Crazy About Color
trend edition in Think Pink and 2 coats of Alessandro nail polish #907.

It's sunny here in Slovenia and I took advantage of our nice January weather. This manicure
looks way better in natural lighting anyway.


So, what do you think?


Thanks for having me as your guest, Gwenn!

Wow, thank you Sasha ! Your manicure is lovely !
I'm a complete fan of Strawberry Fields or Ahoy, so how could I not love her layering ?
Now I have to try layering my CND 24k Gold Sparkle over a bright pink to get a similar result :p

Did you like the first Guest Post ? :)

Please check Nihrida's blog if you don't know it yet ... She has great pictures, nice non-polish related posts (I love the jewelry she buys and shows !) and also cute kitties ! lol :D

http://www.nihrida.com

Have a nice day ;)