Blogger Friendship Award / Premio dell'amicizia Blogger

And while I'm at rewards I've also received an award called the Blogger Friendship Award from Oh No, Not Another Nail Art Blog!. She gave it to me a month ago and I figured that I should do it too while I'm doing rewards.

The rules are simple; Tell 7 things about your self and then nominate 7 blogs (with less than 200 followers).

My 7 things about my self (again today):

1. My first holographic polish ever was from the OMG-collection, and was 2NITE.
2. I think I've told this before but I love drawing, sketching and painting.
3. I did my whole upper secondary school (when being about 16-19, the three years before university) in English (english lectures and books etc) and according to the national standard instead of the regular Swedish system which means that my grades look different to many other's even though they're translatable between each other.
4. I store my polishes in 2 Helmers from IKEA, however all drawers aren't filled and some contain makeup and other random stuff.
5. Lately I've been totally stoked about the houndstooth pattern, both in nail art and clothing. :)
6. I like watching films and tv series in many genres (but I don't like drama/love comedy's as much as other genres). My bf finds it weird that I know all the "geeky" sci-fi film/series references in TBBT..
7. I love avocados!

And I'll actually skip nominating blogs this time since I just nominated 15 bloggers to the other award, however if anyone feels like doing it anyhow please tell me in the comments. :)

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The versatile blogger award :D

During November I've received the The versatile blogger award from La Gazelle , Creativenails4fun and The polished cowgirl!

I'm so happy to receive the award so thank you girls! <3 I also recommend everyone to take a look at their blogs! They all show beautiful nail art's and post nail polish review now and then, the same as I do and they're all worth a visit. <3

 

 Here are the rules:

The Rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated you.
2. Include a link to their blog.
3. Select 15 new blogs/bloggers that you've recently discovered or follow regularly.
4. Nominate those bloggers for a Versatile Blogger Award, leave a link to their page and let them know they've been nominated.
5. Tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself.

 Here are my 15 nominations:

1. http://sannasnaglar.blogspot.se/
2. http://nailorama.blogspot.se/
3. http://allcolouredup.blogspot.se/
4. http://lackert.blogspot.se/
5. http://aliquidblog.blogspot.se/
6. http://love2807.blogspot.se/
7. http://polishedmarvels.blogspot.se
8. http://frokennilssonsfarger.blogspot.se
9. http://lelack.blogspot.se/
10. http://colorbyte.se
11. http://www.ithinitybeauty.com
12. http://lakobotan.blogspot.se/
13. http://honi.blogg.se/
14. http://blogg.fialand.com/
15. http://nerdcolours.blogspot.se/

Here are 7 things about me:

1. My eyes are green.
2. I have no problem traveling all alone across Europe with flight/train (been there done that) etc but for some reason the local buss in my city freaks me out. I prefer walking or talking my bike even though the distance is long.
3. I think I've mentioned this before but I almost never buy/eat hamburgers, pizza or any fast food or pre-prepared food/baked stuff, I'm not that into crisps/chips and I'm not sure the last time I drank soft drink.
4. This has also been mentioned before but I love cooking and baking, from scratch of cause. 
5. My store-bought burden is chocolate and the "pick and mix"-candy which is so popular here in the north of Europe (I just read that Sweden, Finland, Norway and England were in the top of eating this kind of candy).
6. My favorite season is summer (if it's warm) and I'm not that into Christmas, it often feels pretentious with all the business of comparing "price tags" of the gifts.
7. I have a huge fascination of jewelery, not the expensive stuff. My favorite is differents kind of rings. Must show them some time. :)

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Sorry for today's ûber late post but I've been adding stuff to this post all day whilst doing other stuff and now I'm done. LOL. Now I'll go tell everyone on the list I've nominated them. As usual I think it's free and up to you if or when you want to do the whole award or parts of it. :D

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Liebster award 3 & 4

During the past weeks I've recieved two Liebster awards and even though I've done two of them before I figured that it has been some time since the last one so I decided to combine my two given awards and make them as one. So get prepared for some reading. The pink one I got from HG nail design and the green one from the Beauty Case.

 The rules are:

• Link back to the blogger who nominated you.
• Answer the eleven questions given to you by the blogger who nominated you.
• Nominate eleven (11) others bloggers whit less than 200 followers.
• Go to the blogs you nominated and notify them of your nomination.
• Give your nominees 11 questions to answer. 
• Another thing on one of the Liebster awards is to share 11 facts about your self; I'll cheat so you can look here and here for my previous fun random facts.

Beauty Cases questions;

1. Why do you have a nail blog ?
   I liked reading other peoples nail blogs, because I realized that swatches was good to see what polishes I wanted to purchase and nail art inspired me to do more stuff my self. Before starting my blog I had already started to photograph my nails so I figured that I might as well show them, and if no one would read I would have an archive with nail art's for the future.
2. What your family thinks about your hobby ? If they're aware of it, of course…
   I don't think I've been talking so much about my polishes to others, most people have prejudges about it and then I don't bother telling them I got 10-20 times the amount of polishes they think I've got. Many people know I paint my nails though. My parents and especially my mum thinks my collecting is fun and encourage it.  Only my BF knows about my blog or well, I might have mentioned the blog to some friend as well, but I don't think they read. I know my BF think I spend to much time with nail related things even though he thinks it's fun that I have an interest.
3. Which kind of finish do you love the most ?
   I like variety but for nail art cremes are generally the best and for regular manicures without nail art I think I prefer duochromes.
4.  What’s your favorite nail polish ?
   I've got too many.. I do like Ninja Polish - Humble bee and W7 - Salt n Pepper a lot.
5.  You are cast away on an island, and only 3 things survive to the shipwreck. What they are ?
   Oh, what a hard question.. I'm not shallow so I don't need polish when being shipwrecked... For the island I'd have water, some snacks (for the waiting time) and a cellphone so I can call for help asap. lol. My shipwreck would be an oppurtunity for a tiny vacation on an tropical island.
6. Who’s the strongest: The Thing (it's clobberin' time)or The Hulk (Hulk smash tiny humans)?
   I'm not a fan of either of them, Hm, Hulk?
7. When you blog ? There’s a specific moment in your day, or not ?
   Well, not really. But mostly late at night or when I get up, I mostly schedule my posts so it really doesn't show when I write my posts.
8. Do you love tea ?
   Yes, I'm a serious tea lover, I definitely prefer it over coffee.
9. How many languages do you currently (and properly) speak ?
   I speak swedish and english the best. I'm could get around speaking french too. And like most sweds I understand danish and norwegian too. I guess I can understand the majority of italian and spanish in written text , because there's so many words shared with the franch language.
10. Do you like join challenges ?
    Yes, I just finished the 31 day challenge and I'm currently doing the Where In The World-challenge and will join the United In Pink week 42. :)
11. What do you think about my blog (The beauty case)?
    I like it! I think it's fun to follow many different nationalities on nail blogs because new/unknown brands are shown and it's also fun to communciate with other no matter where there from.

HG Nail Design's questions;

1. What is your favorite polish?
   Oh, easy this time since I answered it above; Ninja Polish - Humble bee and W7 - Salt n Pepper.
2. What is your favorite technique to use?
   Hm, I guess free handing is the favorite..
3. What mani are you planning for the next holiday?
   I have no idea yet, I don't wear special manicures for holidays and just improvise each manicure. However I've done a list of different nail art's I'll do for the future, if I don't know what to do one day.
4. What is your favorite top coat?
   Seche Vite is the only one I use now days.
5. What is your favorite tool to use when doing freehand nail design?
   Hm, I prefer using fine liner polishes and have a bottle for each color, dotting tools are a great compliment too.
6. What time of day do you do your mani's?
   All times of the day, I try to plan them though so I can photograph them in day light.
7. What technique have you not tried yet that you would like to?
   Hm, I've tried a lot of techniques.. water decals and nail foil are two things I haven't tried yet though. Then there's also smaller techniques within a technique I haven't tried yet, like water marble patterns I haven't tried yet.
8. What is the biggest challenge you've faced writing your blog?
   Having the time to manage the blog properly, writing posts, answer comments and withholding some kind of quality, another thing is to get loyal readers. Having readers is just a plus but it sure is fun getting comments. :)
9. What do you use for your base coat?
   I've used China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat for a period and I repurchased it so I think it's good.
10. What lotion or oil do you use for your cuticle care?
    I'm not that good moisturizing.. Just random hand cremes.
11. How much planning goes into your mani and how much of it is spur of the moment?
    Hard to say, I look at a lot of inspirational images, I have an entire folder in Pinterest just for inspiration so before I make something I know what to do but when I look for images it can take hours. Sometime I just take a bunch of polishes and just do the first thing that comes to me.
12. What polish do you think everyone should have in their collection?
    Probably Seche Vite, it really improved everything for me, it don't smudge nail art, keep the nails stronger and the most important is that it dries the manicure so fast that I never have to bother about bumps in the manicure.

My 11 questions;
1. The classical question; how many polishes do you have in your stash?
2.  Is there an amount of polishes that is enough or is the collecting continuing as long as it makes you happy?
3. What was your first polish bought or given?
4. What kind of nail art technique do you enjoy the most to see/do?
5. When you buy nail polish, do you prefer buying them from a physical shop or an online shop?
6. Which are your favorite physical shop(s) and online shop(s)?
7. Is there any nail polish/ nail art trend/ nail length which really stand out in your country comparing to others?
8. Do you paint your nails anywhere or do you have a special place you always paint them? What place in that case?
9. If your blog wasn't nail related, what would it then be about?
10. Does it happen that you color coordinate your clothing/outfit to your nails or the opposite?
11. Do you think that there's any color or nail art that doesn't fit long/short nails?

My nominees;
Lakobotan/ Приют ЛакоБотана
Lackert
Colorful Cupcake Cat
Miss Love2807
The Polished Cowgirl
Plumeria Painted
Sannas Naglar
Polish and Repeat
Nails On The Beach
Beauty By Bella
Colorbyte
The Bubbly brunette
Oh No, Not Another Nail Art Blog!
Manis by Moore

It's not mandatory to join but it would be fun if you do, often these awards are a great way to get to know new blogs, and also perhaps get more readers. :)

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