Awards!!!

Hello everyone,

I'm very late with the awards I've been given. So, excuses to my friends who tagged me. But now I have some time to catch up with everything ;D

These awards were given to me by Liz from Liquid Jelly and Kristyn from Paint That Nail!!! Thank you so much girls!!!
They are amongs my best blog friends and I really enjoy reading their blogs and admiring their creations every day! They are both incredibly talented and super nice people. Love them both! <3
So, don't forget to take a tour on their blogs!

The Rules:

1. Link back to the person who awarded this award to you

2. Share 7 Random things about yourself

3. Answer the following questions
4. Award 15 blogs

Seven Things About Me:

1. My favourite flowers are roses: pink and white.
2. I was born in Bucarest, Romania.  

3. I love the sea (I think I've already told you that, but this is very important to me. I'm really better and healthier when I'm close to the sea).
4. I don't have any brothers and sisters (I would've loved to have plenty!), but I've got a few lifetime friends and that makes me happy.
5. I like to cook for people, but not for myself.
6. I don't have a car (anymore), but I dream of having one, one day.
7. I'm worried about this new financial crisis.

 

I've already answered the following questions on a previous award. As nothing changed since then, I'll just copy/paste the questionnaire :)

 

Questions: 
Name your favourite color – Blue, Pink, Orange, Red.

Name your favourite song – (Everything I do) I do it For You (Brian Adams)
Name your favourite dessert – Tiramisu.
What is pissing you off? – arrogance and jealousy.
When you’re upset, you? – don't speak, I'm gloomy, and I get annoyed with little stuff
Your favourite pet – Ghitzou, my Rabbit and Titi, my parotlet
Black or White? – White, always.
Your biggest fear? – loneliness, airplanes and earthquakes.
My best feature is – My eyes and my attitude
Everyday attitude – friendly, confident, always ready to cheer up and give a hand ;)

What is perfection – wild, untouched nature
Guilty pleasure – Beer :) (and I gotta say I'm feeling very guilty since my vacation started LOL ;D)

The 15 blogs I'm passing the award to, are:

1. Une Ruxi à Paris
2. So Nailed

3. Super Cute Super Easy

4. The Nail Polish n00b

5. Milan and Vanaily 

6. Polish Fixation

7. Cherry Glam Girl

8. Chalkboard Nails

9. Polished to the Nines

10. Love Bean Girl

11. The Color Belt

12. My Polish Addiction

13. Happy Nails

14. Bottle of Happiness

15.  geez

 

Thank you for reading!

 

See ya soon! ;)

Hugs everyone!  

 

Deborah Lippmann - Glitter In the Air

Hello everyone,

My first Deborah Lippmann ever!!!
It took me some time before I've found out a way to buy a Deborah Lippmann at a normal price and to be shipped internationally ;) I'm happy ;)

The polish in the bottle was exactly how imagined it would be. The funny part is that I would've never guessed that the bottle was actually a cube! I thought it was way flatter than it actually is ;D LOL
But on the nail... that's another problem.
It looks cute, I really like it. BUT, the next time I'll be wearing this polish, it will be over an opaque nude base.
See, in the pics bellow I'm wearing 5 (five) coats, and still got major VNL, and the sweet blue colour I saw on other blogs is not there... The drying time was however surprisingly good.

 So, here I'm wearing 5 coats of Deborah Lippmann - Glitter In the Air, no top coat:

I still think it's cute! And I'll try again with other Deborah Lippmann polishes. On my list there are Razzle dazzle and Lara's Theme... ;)

See ya soon!
BIG HUGS!!!

Giveaway Round up

Hello everyone,

I have decided that now and then I shall do a grouped post about the giveaways I'm participating to. I cannot call it "weekly", because I cannot be sure I'm going to be able to this every week... But, for the moment, here they are 7 of them.
I've only selected the ones which are open internationally:

I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous's
MY 100 FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY!!!!
Ends the 9th of August


The Trace Face Philes's 

The Trace Face Philes 900 Followers Giveaway!
Ends the 12th of August


Cel's Deconails'   
Let's celebrate summer giveaway!
Ends the 15th of August

Rebecca Likes Nails'   
piCture pOlish giveaway!
Ends the 16th of August

Vettelicious Nail Blog's  

Picture Polish Giveaway!
Ends the 24th of August


Sara Hassan's Blog's  

Mineralissima Giveaway Contest!
Ends the 4th of September


Polish Infatuated's  

Giveaway: Polish Infatuated turns ONE!
Ends the 18th of September


Thank you for watching!

See ya soon!
Big hugs!

OPI - Sparrow Me the Drama + another pirate face ;)

Hello everyone,

Aah... It's sooo good to be on vacation!  ;D I don't have any alarm set on my clock, I do whatever I want! Yaaaaay!!!! ;D

Today I'll be showing you the 4th polish of the Pirates of the Caribbean collection: Sparrow Me the Drama.
Cute, cute, cute pink! I really love this shade. It is not bright at all, I could even call it dusty, and I also think it has a touch of lilac in it. The application was very good, in spite of the watery formula, a general characteristic of the entire collection. It is opaque in 2 coats and the drying time was OK.

So here I'm wearing 2 coats of OPI Sparrow Me the Drama + 1 coat of Seche Vite:

And finally, the pirate dedicated to this polish ( again, I used a Peggy Sage black nail art pencil):

Thank you, everyone, for watching!

See ya soon!!!
Big hugs!!!

Zoya Christinna

Hello everyone,

Yes! A polish with my name!!!  ;) I had to have this one ;) It's Stephanie from So Nailed who inspired me into buying this polish as she had her own.. and, on a coincidence, she swatched her Stephanie polish tonight too!

But, I really don't get the double "n" in the name.  I don't know any Christina to spell her name like this... oh well.

When I first saw it in her bottle, I was almost disappointed. After one coat I was extremely disappointed because it is very sheer. Needed 4 coats to obtain what you're seeing in the pics. But after all the 4 coats, the finish is indeed amazing. Pure satin! I've never seen anything like it. This polish is nothing about colour. (it's white, and white is not a colour LOL! ). No. It's all about the finish. Pure satin. I beleive it was especially created for brides. I cannot see any othe polish that can go better with a satin (of taffetas) white wedding dress! Just gorgeous.

However, my advice would be to get this applied by a professional if you decide to wear this for your wedding, beacuse the application is a bit tricky and needs 4 coats. Also, the drying time is a misery because of the 4 coats, so, to be done the event's eve.

So, as I was saying, here I'm wearing 4 coats of Zoya Christinna, no top coat:

Sorry about the bump on my middle, but I really didn't wat to start all over with all the 4 coats and everything...

And something blue ;) I applied one coat of OPI Last Friday Night over the ring (very symbolic, right? :)):

And with other glitters, in case you want pink instead (one coat of OPI Teenage Dream on my middle) or something more daring like OPI Simmer and Shimmer  (on my index):

Now I have to ask the same question as Stéphanie: do you already have a polish with your name? :D

Thank you for watching!

See ya soo!
Hugs!!!

Zoya Areej

Hello everyone,

I'm on holiday!!! Yaaay!!! :D I've been to the seaside on these past 2 days, and it was sooo great! :D Too bad here in Toulouse there's a storm going on right now and the sky was and will be gray all the weekend...
BUT, my holidays are not over yet, they've just beagun ;D On Monday I'll be going to my country to see my parents and I'll be there until the 24th of August ;) But that doesn't mean no posts: I'll be having my camera with me, some nice and new nail polishes and Internet access... and up we go ;)

Today I have for you the last of the 4 Zoyas from the Summertime collection 2011: Zoya Areej.
Like her sisters from the collection, this too applied excellently, and I can say that is almost a one coater. Excellent formula, great shiny finish! I also love the colour, which is a dusty fuchsia, more purple than pink. Great shade, in my opinion!

Here I applied 2 coats of Zoya Areej, no top coat (great shine, humm? :))

And for an accent finger I tried to put a coat of Zoya Faye on my ring:

Thank you, everyone, for watching!

See ya soon!!!
HUGS!!!

OPI - Stranger Tides + pirate face ;)

Hello everyone,

I'd like to start with a BIG THANK YOU, to all of you who participated to my first giveaway! It was a real pleasure for me and I had great fun! I'm used to work with Excel so, it was not so much time consuming after all ;) I got to see so many different blogs and to know  lot of people. I'm surely going to do this again.

Today I've got for you a 3rd polish from the Pirates Of the Caribbean collection: OPI Stranger Tides. From the moment I've seen the add for the fist time, this has been a great lemming! I thought it was going to be my favourite of the collection... And it really is a very, very nice colour, but it looks so "meh" on me! Really not flattering with my skin tone. A lot of colours suit me, but not this one... I'm disappointed.
Yet, the colour is GREAT! (however, Essie Da Bush is a perfect dupe for this one)
The formula is good, but a bit watery, but that is the same for all the polishes in this collection. The application is OK too, and is opaque in two coats.

Here I'm wearing 2 coats of OPI Stranger Tides, no top coat:

And now, here is the little pirate dedicated to this polish! Again, I used Paggy Sage's nail art pen (black) and for the bandanna I used Misa - Like It Like That.

Thank you so much for watching!

See ya soon!
Hugs!!!