Nailpolish trends in 2012

Hi girls!

Voilá; 10 new nailpolish collections from the new season...

Below you'll see 10 different brands in a row with their new collections. This spring there are lots of pastel colors and very bright colors as well...

Let's take a look at the Springcolors of 2012:

CHANEL

Delicious, these three. And like we're used from Chanel Le Vernis, they're high on the wanna have-list of many nailpolish-lovers. These beauties were named after the months April (darkred like wild berries), May (intense pink; a universal tint of luck) and June (pastelapricot, a fortaste to the summer). 

Extra kudo’s: Hello, Chanel? Need we say more?

Availability: Now. For € 22.

ESSIE

With the polishes from Essie's Springcollection you're really at your best! With colorblock-colors like fuchsia pink, bright orange, matte mintgreen or subtle lilac.
Extra kudo’s: Extremely suitable for a colorful french manicure.
Availability: Now. For € 13.

OPI

O.P.I. loves Holland. The polishes from this season are inspired by The Netherlands. So they're Orange, Red, White and Blue? No... fortunately not! Our tulips, countryside and denimjeans determined the colorpallette. Think about: bright red, light pink, fuchsia, but also mintgreen and denimblue.

Extra kudo’s: Funny names like Kiss me on my Tulips and Thanks a Windmillion. Ha!

Availability: February (at least in NL!). For € 13,95.

DIOR
The so called Garden Party-set from Dior contains two new colors: Forget Me Not (lilac) and Waterlily (pistache).
Extra kudo’s: At the moment you've put on these pastel-lovelies, a scent of roses will appear. Deliciousness!
Availability: Now. For € 24,95.

LANCÔME

Mintgreen is one of THE colors this summer. Lancôme discovered this early and brought out the most greenest make-up collection of them all. Including this stunning nailpolish. 

Extra kudo’s: We fall into repetition, but also these names are making you wanna buy them. Lancôme named their polishes after macarons! Rose Macaron, Rose Tangerine en Green Almond, welcome to our dressingtables.

Availability: Now. For € 14,99.

L'ORÉAL PARIS
L'Oréal Paris Color Riche Vernis is a collection with 32 colors in mini's, so you can buy more than you would normally do. These polishes are stunning because of a perfect mix from pearlescent-particles, pigments and optical effects.
Extra kudo’s: The brush from these polishes are 3 times (!) patented. For the design of the stick, de quantity of the brushhairs and the shape of the brush. This all for the perfect dose. A liquid gelbase prevents the polish being to thin and flooding, or -also annoying- dripping while polishing.
Availability: Now. For € 5,99.

YVES SAINT LAURENT

Go for green fingers with the newest nailpolish from the Yves Saint Laurent Candy Face make-up collection.

The brown one is extra, so there are interesting nailcombinaties waiting for us! You like sweeter than sweet?

Throw the orange and candy pink in the mix!

Extra kudo’s: These duo's are limited available. So they're extra exclusive. 

Availability: Now. For € 32,50.

ORLY

The Orly Cool Romance-collection for this summer contains 6 soft pastelcolors with hysteric 'romantic' names like Prelude for Kiss, Faint of Heart, Jealous Much and You’re Blushing.

Extra kudo’s: Orly also has cute little travel/giftsets, called Mani Mini, which contains 4 colors. 

Together € 24,95.

Availability: Now. For € 4,95.

COLLISTAR

Meet MintMilk (mintgreen), Marc (violet), Ivy (chique green) en Papaya (warm orange). Or: the warm summercolors from Collistar, inspired on the island Capri, just like the rest from their new make-up collection. 

Extra kudo's: For Marc. Because oh, that violet-color.

Availability: Now. For € 13,90.

DEBORAH LIPMANN

Three fresh, new colors in the Deborah Lippmann-family this spring. Babypink and babyblue, which is called 'On the Beach', perfect to finish a pastelcolored outfit with. And the color Mermaids Dream, for those who want to stand out a bit more, and dare to wear a mermaid-shine.

Extra kudo’s: A lot of celebs swear by Deborah Lippmann-polishes. Just so you know.

Availability: Now. For € 19,95.

Source: Elle

Well.. What do you say about these new collections? Which one do you particularly like? Or not?

Thanks for stopping by!

160 followers Giveaway! CLOSED

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Dear readers,

Today I've got 160 followers! Wow... Thank you so much, girls!

I would like to show my grattitude to you guys and arranged a little (and my first!) giveaway!

On to the prize:

You can win 4 Essence Colour & Go polishes

(and you'll get to choose your favorite colors!)

Go to the Essence website to check out the colors and let me know which ones you like!
In case your favorite colors are sold out (not all colors are in stock!) please give me the names of 6 colors you like, so I can get you another color of your choice!

Ofcourse this giveaway is open internationally! Use the Rafflecopter-thingy below this post...

For more information or questions you can mail me at: kimskiesnails@live.nl.

Good luck everyone!

a Rafflecopter giveaway
*Disclaimer: The polishes in this giveaway have been provided by me, are brand new and bought with my own money. I will package the prizes carefully, however, I am not responsible for loss, damage of duty/taxes (to foreign countries) once the packages have been shipped out.

My great budget-polishes score... (and some snow-pics)

Hi girls,

I've got my hands on some great polishes for really budget prices!

Let's take a look at the polishes...

From left to right:
♥ H&M Vivid Nails Duo - 10 ml for € 1,45 (on sale)
♥ Essence Colour & Go Be Optimistic! - 5 ml for € 1,29
♥ Essence Colour & Go Fame Fatal - 5 ml for € 1,29
♥ H&M Purple In Paris - 15 ml for € 1,45 (on sale)
♥ H&M Pink Pearl, Grey Pearl, Mother of Pearl - 4,4 ml for € 1,95 (trio, on sale)

This is a Duo Nail Polish bottle with 10 ml of a coral pink and a tomato red polish. Always welcome in my stash, can't have enough of this colors, and for this price!?

Essence Colour & Go Fame Fatal, a beautiful bright red and Essence Colour & Go Be Optimistic! is a metallic orange. This last one probably isn't a color I would wear on its own, but a while ago I saw this combination from Deborah that decided to buy this polish.

This is a Pearl trio: Pink Pearl, Mother of Pearl and Grey Pearl. I'm actually not really into pearl finishes, but these colors looked too cute to not buy them...

Look at the pearl effect!

Great score, huh?

And now some pictures I would like to show you about the weather in The Netherlands...

This is the view from our livingroom, isn't it beautiful?

My precious 2-year old who wanted to taste the snow... :)

(she didn't like it, haha!)

And our view from another angle, somewhat later in the evening...

How is the weather in your country??

Have a nice weekend!

Shopping: eBay summery january

Hi girls!

It has only been a couple of weeks ago when I showed you a eBay summery of november/december (here) but I have already found so much stuff I wanted to have, that I've made a summery of januari...

Here it is (click the image to enlarge):

These are the items I have already received and ♥ :

I received this bag today, it's great! I really ♥ this one!

$19,99 (free shipping)

China Glaze Aquadelic (from the Electropop collection)

$3,49 (+ $4,50 shipping)

Nubar Black Polkadot

$7,50 (+ $1,50 shipping)

Knock Off YSL Artyring (I got two of these: in pink -not showed here- and the first from the 1st row)

$6,99 (free shipping)

BioSilk Silk Therapy Duo Pack 2x50 ml (original) 

This serum smells heavenly and makes your hair feel like silk!

$25 (free shipping)

See anything you like? Do you buy from eBay too? If so, what are your 'best buys'?

Thanks for stopping by!

I Love Your Blog-award...

Hi girls!

Wow... I received my 6th award already!
Shannara from Nails and Stuff gave me this award. Thank you so much, it's so sweet of you!

Here are the rules:


1) Add the logo of your award to your blog.
2) Add a link to the person who awarded it to you.
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4) Add links to those blogs on your blog.
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.


The questions:

What is your favorite fashion magazine?
- Grazia, a Dutch magazine.

Who is your favorite singer/band?
- Hard to pick one, but I really like Adele at the moment...

Who is your favorite YouTube guru?
- Hmmm... I follow a lot of guru's but I'm really enjoying the Pixiwoo-sisters!

What is your favorite makeup product?
- Mascara and foundation.

Where would you like to live?
- Italy or France.

What is your favorite film?
- Wow... I can't choose 1, but I'll just go for the Saw-movies. They're awesome!

How many pairs of shoes do you own?Nailed it
- Pfff... I just own too much shoes, slippers, heels, boots. I just lost count...
It must be over 60 or so...?

What is your favorite color?
- Pinkblack (sorry, can't choose between those two!)

I nominate the following blogs in random order:

• Love. Varnish, chocolate and more... (Deborah's nails are stunning!)
• Chalkboard Nails (Sarah has such beautiful, long nailbeds!)

• Makeup your Jangsara (beautiful make up and handy tutorials)

• Ritterbraten (one of the prettiest set of nails in blogland!)

• Nailed it. (love Katy's cute nails!)

• Steffels. (very beautiful nailarts!)

• Nailderella (very pretty nailarts!)

Please take a moment of your time to visit these lovely blogs (if you aren't already a follower).
It's now up to you to pass this award on...

Thanks for stopping by!

OPI Pink Friday

Hi girls,

It's been a while ago since I posted some pictures, but here I am again...

I've bought a lot of polishes lately, so I'm planning to swatch a lot of them soon!

Now on to today's swatch...

I would like to show you my newest OPI from the Nicki Minaj Collection:

Pink Friday

Pink Friday is a very pretty baby pink crème...

Because I thought there was already a pink like this one (or more) in my stash, I didn't bought a normal bottle but a mini. A normal bottle contains 15 ml and a mini 3,75 ml. 

So it's VERY mini! :)

Maybe it's me, but I've had the hardest time applying this polish!
And not because of the consistency of this polish... No... That was just fine...

See how tiny the bottle is?

Because of the small annoying brush and the little cap! I could hardly hold this tiny thing!
And yeah.. Maybe it's me, but I really like OPI's wide brushes. I just ♥ them!

And ofcourse this little bottle didn't have that wide brush, but a very small and narrow brush.
That causes a lot of brushstripes which really annoyed me. Luckily they disappeared after two coats and two coats of topcoat (my favorite: Essence Nail Art Sealing Topcoat and for a bit more shine: one last coat of Seche Vite on top of that).

Ofcourse right after the application I didn't have time to take some pictures, so this is after 2 days of wearing...

I think I'm convinced about this color and I think I don't have this color in my stash yet.
So I'm planning to buy a 15 ml bottle of this polish. I don't want to experience this bad application again, so this was the first and last time I got myself a mini from OPI.

Have you ever experienced application difficulties with OPI's mini's?
I'd love to hear!

Thanks for reading!

Cute Blog Award...

WHOOHOOO!!


This must be my lucky (blog) year! I got another blog award... The Cute Blog Award this time :)


Bunny Nails and Tip-Top-Nails gave me this award. Thank you both so very much, ladies! 

I'm honored !

For this award you:

1. Link back to the person who awarded you
2. Answer the award questions
3. Tell something about yourself that you haven't told anyone on your blog yet
4. Award as many blogs as you think are worthy of this award
5. Make sure to let those you gave this award to know that you awarded them.

The Award Questions:

1. What is your go to makeup product?
My favorite foundation ever: Oriflame (you need SO little from this stuff!), my favorite bronzer from W7, my favorite mascara from l'Oreal (Voluminous Million Lashes), a wing of black eyeliner (not everyday) and a spray of MAC Fix+ all over my face... 

2. What was your favorite fashion trend of 2011?
I don't know exactly, but I think I'll choose the Skinny Jeans!

3. What is your favorite dessert?
Yoghurt with strawberries

4. Favourite color?
Black, goes with everything!

5. What is your middle name?
I don't have a middle name... 

6. What was the last song that you listened to?
Birdy - Skinny Love (such a cute song!)

7. Cats or dogs?
Hmmm... this is a hard one... I used to have a dog... She died several years ago. And a couple of years later I got a little kitten (which I also don't have anymore). So... I actually love both!

Something about myself that you don't know: 

I'm almost 33... (sssttt)

Now, I will pass this award to:

♥ Spektor's Nails

♥ Frippery Digits

♥ Gotham Polish

♥ Goose's Glitter

♥ Glitterm - You Nailed It!

♥ All You Desire

♥ Charming Nails

♥ Confessions Of A Polishaholic

♥ Cutesville

♥ Did Someone Say Nailpolish?

Please take a moment of your time to visite these lovely blogs! 

It's now up to you to pass this award on!

Thanks for stopping by!