NCC presents: Summaries for June and July

Hi, as both June and July was a bit stressful for me I still haven't posted the summaries for the NCC. So basically I'll just slam both of them up here in one go. If you want to check out the entire posts, just click the label Nail Challenge Collaborative.

We start with June and Villains & Super Heroes. 

This wasn't my best nail art month..From left to right; Poison Ivy nail art and The hulk nail art, TMNT nail art and an abstract Power Puff nail art.
The only one I feel 100% happy with is the TMNT Turtles nail art actually. I think the rest had potential to be something nice. I just love the matte metallic red glitter gradient on the green, I love the bright purple and green together, and I like the idea of textures and shiny in one mani..

So, onto the July theme which was Travel!
Loooved this theme and I'm actually happy with all four and also I've spent more time to plan these and also in creating them + photographing the properly.

This time I have a hard time choosing my favorite, basically I like the palm trees, the blue stone and the car stamping nail art equally much! XD I like the Eiffel tower nail art too, but not quite as much as the result.

And a "bonus" pic. Just bought some fun stuff from Essence. Couldn't help my self and bought the new Nudes Essence make up palette. Can't wait to try it out! From the same collection I also bought the gray Essence - Rock My World. And from Essence's Fun Fair collection I've grabbed Mint-Blowing, Marshfellow and Ring Around The Rosy, which all three are scented and matte looking. Will show the green one tomorrow. ;)

Let me know which mani's where your favorites from the summaries. Also have you tried the makeup palette or the Fun Fair polishes :D

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P2 mini haul

P2 is a brand I've mentioned a couple of times here, it's sold through a german drog store called DM.

P2 have a bunch of regular polishes, like cremes and shimmers but they also have seasonal LE polishes. Below are their new creme textures in 8 shades. They're reminding a lot about KIKO's cupcake collection, however since I only got the green KIKO I can only compare that one and looking at the bottles they look like dupe´s. Also the pink, and the left orange shade look suspiciously similar when I compare pictures. However, I don't care since this means more chances for cool polishes. :D

Below are the ones I decided to buy from the bunch, the green, the blue, the purple and the yellow. Maybe I'll end up buying the rest too.. the brown is for example so fugly I might end up getting that too.. XD I also picked out some super-LE's from P2 too, which is some matte spring glitter polishes.

And here's some closeups (same order as above) :

What do you think about this creme texture trend? :)

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Canadian Shopping haul

As you know I was in Canada this summer and of course I did some nail polish shopping which I want to show you. It is with mixed feelings I see these bottles, because most of them are in Sweden as we speak..And I can't try them on! XD

Some new brands for me to try on. I'm actually most excited about the polishes from Forever21, didn't know they had their "own" brand, just like HM. Joe's and Pure Ice are also completely new to me. OPI by Nicole, Nails Inc and Sephora are also new brands in my stash.

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Shopping Haul in Köln/Cologne

Today I went on a shopping tour and some gems returned with me from the town (or well, some was bought earlier this week). So many fun new brands to discover.. :D And I'm pretty stoked to try my texture top coat which was surprisingly cheap.

From top to bottom:

Manhattan - 71 (1,8€) Bought at Kaufland.

Essence - I Hol Di Mit'm Traktor AB (0,75€) Essence texture top coat(1,95€), P2 - Dating Time(1,75€). Bought at DM.

Clarie's; Splatter Green (3.99€), Junk (3.5€), Dissy (3.5€), Matte Top coat (3.5€). Bought at Claire's.

KIKO; 656, 235, 324, 815, 855 (2.9€ each). Bought at KIKO store.

I've also bought some nail polish removers, one from Essence and one from KIKO. The one from KIKO was 3.9€ and the one from Essence was probably 2€ or something. I'll give you a review of what I think of each soon. :)

What do you think? Any one you think I should try first? :P

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Shopping haul; polishes and beauty

Shall we look at some nail polish and beauty shopping I've done the last 4 months, all collected in one post? Some lemmings like Alanna Renee - Reptar has been bought and for once I actually feel content polish wise. (Well almost, I still want the whole Salon Perfect Neon Collision Collection but it's not available here in Sweden and at Ebay they are sold at ridiculous prices). Another good thing about feeling content is that I might take a trip abroad pre-summer and saving for that seems like a great idea. ;)

Above: A bunch of Alanna Renee.

 Above:Various indie polishes.

 Above: Some of the China Glaze feather collection; matte string glitter.

 Above: Some of Jordana's "creme" texture polishes.

Above: Some of Jordana's duochrome polishes.

 Above: LA Girl matte glitter polishes and two texture polishes from China Glaze.

 Above: French base material from OPI and China Glaze, fine liners and my first NYX polish.

 Above: Some swedish polishes on sale, Isadora for 10SEK and some cool HM polishes.

Above: The beauty part. Some new make up from Cherry Culture (tossed away half of my makeup stuff, they felt unhygienic and I felt like having some new and fresh things). I've also included a photo of a perfume (EDP) I bought super cheap at HM, 30SEK(3 euro). While waiting for my regular perfume to arrive I tried this one and I was actually quite happy that the scent is really long lasting.

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Shopping and giveaway win

Hi, it was a some time ago since I showed you my latest shopping and I actually also won a bunch of polishes some months ago and here we have it. Since I started making this post I have more stuff to show but lets start with this;

Earlier this year I participated in a nail art contest at Neglelakkmani and I turned out to be one of the lucky winners (my nail art didn't win but I was drawn from the lot for second price kinda,for my contribution click this LINK) and recieved this beautiful package containing 8 polishes from the Linda Johansen brand. AWESOME.

With the help of the fabolous Pene Negler I bought a bunch of brands which aren't so easy to get hold of here in Sweden. She has a pause in her blogging but she is missed.. I had a list of stuff I thought was interesting and also said that pretty much anything duochrome was interesting (I looove duochrome/multichromes) and she did such an awesome job and found a brand I haven't seen before, duochrome of course. Well, awesome AGAIN.

And then I have some shopping I've done at ebay. Miss.Love2807 inspired me to buy some Etude House polishes from their Minnie Collection (Thanks for the tip!). The collection has more polishes but I ended up with these two; The most exciting thing is that the polishes have Mickey mouse(=Minnie mouse) shaped glitter (!) which is one of the reasons I bought this. The second reason was that the glitter is opaque...I just looove opaque glitter in a clear base.

The same seller at ebay (I think) also had other interesting brands and I couldn't help my self so three polishes from Face found their way home to me. Matte glitter again. I can't get enough of black and white glitter and the pink and white glitter has heart shaped glitter and the white glitter polish looked so unique with the color combination and yea.. I had no reason not to buy them.

I've tried some of the polishes shown here but if you're interested in seeing swatches of any of them soon, hear about prices, sellers or names or perhaps have some requests, please comment! :)

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More polish shopping, brands; Claudia and Adena

I realized I had something more to show in the polish shopping category. In the majority of times I buy online but all these below are purchased in a food store.

Claudia: 604, 607, 603, 610, 609, 611

Claudia: 804

Adena: No.18, No.11

The colors are pretty common per ce but all the Claudia in the upper picture retailed for 10SEK (about 1€/£0,9/$1,4). And the almost/perhaps duochrome Claudia in the middle picture was sold for 15SEK, the same as the Adena polishes. I don't think I have any Claudia and I was excited to try them. Adena I have one or two before of and I decided that I wanted more (sadly these above where the only colors available from Adena at the store).

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