Beauty Blogazon Weekly Roundup

Hello lovelies,

for the first time I'm posting a link roundup to spread the blog love and share with you interesting blog posts for the past week. There are not only nail polish blogs but beauty blogs too so you'll have plenty to browse through :)

Mama Fashionista- In the on going quest to perfect her skin care routine, Mama Fashionista discovered a match made in heaven: LUSH's Angels on Bare Skin and the Clarisonic Mia!

My Newest Addiction Beauty Blog- Laura reviewed and swatched the Romantic Eye Shadow Collection from Too Faced.

Ishah x Beauty-What's on Ishah x Beauty's menu? A Glitter Sandwich! Lovely layers of shimmer, glitter and flakies.

Lucy's Stash-Parrot nail art manicure - Scarlet Macaw in the jungle painted with acrylic colours

Liquor, Lube and Lipstick- I See Rainbows Everywhere! - Would you go to work with bright eye makeup? I did!

Confessions of a Sarcastic Mom- Milani browns are in the spotlight.

Adore-a-Polish- A little Colorstay for your day with this Revlon Colorstay Top Coat review.

Captivating Claws- Shows you an amazing green sparkly Zoya gradient

Cosmetics Aficionado -This Minnie Mouse Manicure is not only super cute and super easy, but it is short nail friendly!

Phyrra -Phyrra is in love with the cult product inspired by beauty balm creams, Illamasqua Skin Base!

Dorothy's Little Wonderland - What I brought with me during my travel adventure

Beauty Product Review- A shiny face isn't pretty, check out what makeup product I used to get rid of shiny face!

Tolmu Rull tells all -Have you ever bought anything big and been insanely happy about it? Tolmu Rull's biggest beauty buy ever comes from Poland and weighs 12,5 kgs!

Shades of Beauty, Inc.- Klout Perk...Essie Mojito Madness

Emily Hudspeth, hair design and makeup artist - BB Cream. I found my favorite one and I want to share!

The Stepford Witch- Who doesn't love makeup that's meant to make our beauty routine simpler? Now let's see if Speed Brow is the right eyebrow product for the job!

The Polished Zombie -No need to call a medic, It's Just A Flesh Wound.

The Beauty Delicacy - Go Pastelle this Summer.

Beauty by Miss L -Do you want to know what was in this month´s Estonian monthly subscription box called Glambox?

ChalkBoard Nails - Sarah's amazing must-see manicure!

Nailed It - All About Nailed It Color

Underneath the stars with Chanel Night Sky - Summer Challenge Day 24

Hello lovelies!


Today's topic of Summer Challenge is Underneath the stars. I've seen Kim post an awesome Galaxy nails on her blog so make sure you check it out!

I chose to do a very simple manicure using the stunning Chanel Night Sky and white acrylic paint. I'm not happy with the stars as my brush wasn't small enough but it will have to do ;)

Devilish Polishes Ann, Denise and Erin - review and swatches

Hello lovelies!

I've got here three polishes from new Devilish Polish brand. It's a new indie brand that comes up with three shimmer shades. Kelly says about her polishes: "These 3 colors are based on three of my family members. My aunt, my mother in law and grand mother in law. My next line will probably be dedicated to my mom".

Devilish Polish Ann - lovely rose pink. The finish is shimmery but also shiny, foil-like. I've experience little streaks but nothing bad as you can see. I needed two thicker coats for full coverage. It also dried very fast.

Devilish Polish Denise - vibrant grape purple shimmer. This is my favourite colour from the three, it's really pretty purple with tiny blue and magenta specks. Almost no streaks and it dried quite fast; I'm wearing two coats. This is the only swatch I've applied topcoat to. Check this polish in a nail art manicure here.

Devilish Polish Erin - sky blue foil shimmer. A lovely, lovely shade of blue, quite bright and shiny. It's little bit streaky and dries fast. It applied slightly better than the previous two shades. I've wearing two coats and no topcoat. I've done a nail art dotticure with this shade, check it out here.

All three polishes had thicker formula but the application was easy. Erin has slightly better formula. They all dry fast and have shimmer in them. I know that shimmer polishes are not exactly unique but especially the purple one looks gorgeous.

Kelly now offers just these three shades but she plans to do glitter polishes in the future too. Can't wait! If you'll like them, you can purchase them at devilishpolishstore.blogspot.com and you can follow that blog for updates on new polishes coming out. Kelly also has a personal blog devilish-polish.com

So what do you think?

*These were sent to me for a review

"Virtual Nail Salon" for the iPhone and iPad by ModiFace

Hi everybody!

I've been sent an intersting info about a new "Virtual Nail Salon" for the iPhone and iPad application which allows users to paint actual nail polish shades on a photo of their hand.

This application has recently launched and incorporates brand new features that are very unique. Some of these features include photo-realistic 3D visualization, over 100 actual nail polish products, the ability to upload a photo of your own hand, the ability to create your very own customized shades/textures and try on rings.

You can check out a video of the application here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHRKZpvJd0w&feature=youtu.be

I just thought I would share this in case some of you might be interested ;)

Blue, aqua and green dotticure for Summer Challenge

Hello lovelies!

Today I have another dotticure, this time dotted circles :) I should have used different to make the circles stand out more but too late now.

I've done this look for Summer Chalange: Blue + aqua + green mani. -I''ve used Devilish Polish Erin as a base colour and then KIKO 343, A England Excalibur and China Glaze Aquadelic for the dots.

Wimbledon nail art tape manicure - Summer Challenge Day 22

Hello lovelies!

Today's post is all about Wimbledon. I don't care much about tennis but Wimbledon is today's topic of Summer Challenge so I caved in and created Wimbledon mani :)

This manicure is inspired by Wimbledon logo which has green, purple and white colours. I've used purple Devilish Polish Denise as a base colour. The I've applied two strips of tape diagonally on the nail. I've painted the tip of the nail in green (KIKO 343) and small gap in between the tape strips in white (OPI Alpine Snow). Simple and done!

And this was my inspiration - Wimbledon logo:

And these are the other ladies participating in the Summer challenge:

Gold and holo teal 'Diagonals' tape manicure with tutorial! Feat. China Glaze Passion and HITS Hera

Hello lovelies!

So after a weekend break from blogging I'm back with another tape mani but also with tutorial of how to create it! It's very easy 'diagonals design' which has endless potential for colour combinations. I chose to use HITS Hera, holographic green teal and China Glaze Passion, metallic gold.

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Parrot nail art manicure for Summer Challenge - Scarlet Macaw in the jungle

Hello lovelies!

Thanks to the Summer Challenge I participate in (Thank you for putting it together Debbie!) I take on 'projects' I wouldn't normally do and it pushes me to do very elaborate and creative manicures. Like today's one!

The topic for today's Summer Challenge is Jungle mani or Parrots and I chose to paint my favourite parrot - Scarlet Macaw (Ara Macao). Macaws are magnificent birds and I love them! My first ever boyfriend had 24(!) of them so I've spend years in their company, could admire them and sometimes even touch them. Don't get me wrong, they can be very angry, aggressive and dangerous birds but they are beautiful. They could snap your finger in half if you'd just give them a chance :D

I used to paint and draw macaws so this mani wasn't as hard for me. Firstly I've used KIKO 343 and CND Urban Oasis to create the jungle background. I dipped dots of CND into the wet KIKO polish and dragged the needle through it to create two-colour background. Then I started to paint the macaw with acrylic colours.

Hope you like it and hope you'll share it to spread the love :)

Aren't they just beautiful?

Other lovely ladies that participate in Summer Challenge:

HITS No Olimpo Hera - Review and swatches

Hi everybody!

Today I have something very special to show you. I got my paws on Hera from HITS No Olimpo thanks to my Brazilian swap buddy Luciana.

Hera - green teal holographic shade. This is absolutely amazing and rich shade! It reminds me of an A England Saint George but it's like on holo steroids :D  It had much better formula than the Afrodite shade, quite nice actually. I'm wearing one coats over Illamasqua Rampage and it was enough for a reasonable coverage. It didn't apply very well because of the huge brush :( I was struggling a bit. Also I'm really disappointed with the 6ml that come in the bottle. That's like using the polish 3 times and that's it!

Ice Cream Sundae nail art manicure with tutorial! Part of Summer Challenge, Day 19

Hello lovelies!

It's a lovely sunny day and that requires holographic polishes or at least holo topcoat ;) It's also Day 19 of the Summer Challenge and the theme is Ice Cream Sundae.

For this manicure I've used Models Own Lemon Meringue, Nails Inc. Warwick Avenue and topped it up with INM Northern Lights Silver holo topcoat. Then I painted the Ice Cream Sundae on the ring finger using acrylic paint colours.

This was the base manicure before I started to paint the ring finger. i wanted to show it to you too because it was cute colour combination :)

And here's how I painted the Ice Cream Sundae :) Please don't forget to give a credit if you recreate this mani, it's a very nice thing to do ;)

Other lovely ladies that participate in Summer Challenge: