Archive for March, 2010
I really must stop wearing dark polishes 
But I can’t get out of my skin.
So here is Essie Midnight Cami. I spiced it a little bit with adding Sinful colors Starlight
on the ring finger.
Starlight are the holo stripes glitter in clear base. It looks great on dark base 
This mani is more appropriate for New Year’s eve 
And here is another common spring flower. Purple Violet is in my language ‘vijolica‘
As a little girl I used to pick them for my mother.
Which is you favourite spring flower?
*Kisses – Lyra*
Another dark violet polish, but this one is with blue and violet shimmer.
It looks really pretty on my nails. The shimmer makes it so special.
The application was not the problem, and it took two coats for full coverage.
I’m not familiar with this brand, but I got this one from Gani and I’m happy that she sent it
to me, beacuse it’s a really nice polish.
Vollare Roxy 353:
I added a design from Essence Image Plate with China Glaze – Millenium.
Do you like it?
Bonus photo!
As I promised I will show you another photo of spring flowers
This is a spring primrose. In Slovenia we call it ‘trobentica‘. Is one of my favourite spring flowers.
There are tons of them where I live 
Be nice!
Lyra*
Hy!
I know I’m a little late with posting, but my inspiration left me again :S
If you have any sugestion what I shoud wear don’t hesitate to tell me
I should probably wear more bright colors, beacuse is spring, but when I don’t know
what to put on my nails I allways go with dark shades, beacuse I know I love them
and they suit me.
I took the photos of this manicure, after two days of wearing it so is already visible
white tip.
Essence HoHoHo is one of the polishes from “All I Want” collection, which was available
in December 2009.
Over HoHoHo I stamped the pattern from Konad image plate m66 and dragonfly from m5. I love
pictures of dragonflies but I hate them in real life. They scare me, beacuse they move so rapidly
The polish I used for stamping is S-he 333. I stamped only the thumb and ring fingers
Bonus photo!!
Yesterday was a nice and sunny day, so I went for a walk and I took some nice
pictures of flowers. Here is one of them
In Slovenia we call this plant ‘spomladanska resa’, in English it’s cald ‘Winter heath’ or
‘Spring heath’. I really like this plant and I think it’s look gorgeous.
I will show you the rest of the pictures in the next posts
Have a great day!
*Lyra*
Hy everyone!!
How are you?
Today I will show you an awsome polish by Nubar.
It’s called Jewel. I got it from my dear friend Gani
Jewel is a dark taupe base with a lot of holo glitter mixed in.
Depending on the light it sometimes looks more cool brown, while other times it is more golden brown.
It’s not like the usaul holos, it is pretty unique. It has big and chunky particles,
but the holo effect is still insane!
I think I found a new favourite holo polish
Aplication is flaweles and it’s opaque in two coats.
Nubar Jewel:
It’s time for spring manicure!
Finally it feels like spring spring. Before I was just waiting for
more snow. I’m not the sun person, but I like watching how the nature is waking up
and turning green.
So I dressed my nails in yellow. I chose China Glaze Lemon Fizz, beacuse this
one has the greatest formula of all the yellows I own.
Lemon Fizz is pale daffodil-yellow. It’s pastel, but there’s a little warm tone in it.
The first layer is streaky, but the second one hides all imperfections.
China Glaze-Lemon Fizz:
Then I took Konad plate m60 and with Konad Special Polish – Yellow stamped dots.
And then with Konad Special polish – Black Pearl on the ring nail I added flowers
from the same plate.
I forgot that g2g smudges dark Konad polishes so the flowers are not perfect :/
But anyway, I think it still looks good
I hope tomorrow will be a sunny day, so that I can take some spring flower photos
So, everyone enjoy the spring time
Have a nice springy day!
*LYRA*
Hello everyone!!
Today I was so happy, beacuse I got my first Orly polishes.
For the first time I decided to buy the entire Sweet Colection, beacuse latley
i really like creme pastel colors.
Each of these polishes came with a mini lipgloss in a matching color and each one
smels different too
As a first time Orly user I must tell you that I’m impresed.
The formula is really good, I had trouble only with one shade, but I manage it.
I really like the colors in that collection. I think it goes right after China Glaze’s
Up & Away. This is the second one, the third one is from Essie.
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Lemonade:
Lemonade is light pastel yellow. When I put it on my nails, it reminds me of China Glaze-Lemon Fizz.
I will do the comparison of all the yellows I own soon.
I have a little trouble with this one, beacuse it’s a little bit sticky and streaky.
This is after two coats.
Cotton Candy:
Cotton candy is a light peachy pink. Verry cute color. Aplication was nice and smooth.
This is after two coats.
Pixy Stix:
Pixy Stick is bright medium pink creme. The formula of this one is fabolous! It was
like a butter. This is also after two coats.
Lollipop:
Lollipop is creme lavender color wit a splash of pink. This one is very pigmented and I
could almost have gotten away with one coat, but I used two.
Gumdrop:
Gumdrop is medium turqoise creme. This one isn’t minty. It’s more green than blue.
This is after two coats.
Snowcone:
Snowcone is really nice cornflower blue creme. I like this one the most. This one is very opaque
and it need only one coat! And it’s not streaky at all.
Wich one is your favorite?
Hy everyone!!
Today I will show you another Ciate polish.
Sharp Tailoring is just so unique and gorgeous. It’s cross between gray and beige,
and I just L-O-V-E that kind of color
It also has silver shimer in it, that makes it even more special.
Aplication is good. It’s little sheer, but it’s totaly opaque in two coats.
Ciate – Sharp Tailoring:
I was also playing with the Konad again, so I chose lace pattern from m71. I really love this design.
I think that this is one of the patterns which goes well with any color of polish.
For stamping I used OPI – You Don’t Konow Jacques SUEDE.
By-By!
Lyra*
I’m proud to anounce, that my first givaway is over!
A big thank you to everyone who participated. There was around 300 contesters but as you know, there can be only one winner. I entered all the applicant names into “The Hat” program and let it randomly choose one.
Congratiulations …….
Tann from chechetan.blogspot.com
Here is a screenchot, of the Hat program showing the choice it made.
Tann I already sent you an e-mail
For everyone else, I’m sure that this is not the my last giveaway, so good luck for the next time
Have a nice day to everyone!!!
*Lyra*
Today I’m wearing Ciate Refresher, wich is creme light blue color. The application
was a bit tricky. The first layer was not the problem, but I had truble with the second one.
The brush kept sticking on the second coat application.
Ciate Refresher:
Today I fell more creative, so I did some Konad
I didn’t know wich pattern I shoul use, so I went trough all my image plates.
I saw this patern on m69 and I realized, thad I have never used it before. So I gave it a chance
I chose the white color for stamping, but it looked so empty, so I stamped over again with dark blue color.
The polishes I used for stamping: Konad special Polish-White and Essie-Midnight Cami.
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Today was the last day to entering the giveaway, so in the next post I will anounce the winner!
Good luck to everyone!!
¤*Lyra*¤
I really don’t have any inspiration these days 
So I made some comparisson photos of the different polishes.
I noticed that Agent Lavender and Refresher look almost the same in the bottles.
But when I put them on the nails together, they look completley different.
China Glaze Agent Laveder is light creme purple lavender color.
Refresher is creme light baby blue color. Verry nice
They are both beautifull, but if I must choose I will reather wear Refresher
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Here are some pink polishes:
Nubar-Hotel Baby Pink/China Glaze-Something Sweet/Essence-Not Just Cute
Hotel baby pink has more white in it, than Something Sweet. But if I compare them in
application SS is waaaay better. HBP is verry sticky and streaky, it needs 2-3 coats
for full coverage. SS neds only two thin coats and it’s not streaky at all.
Not Just Cute is more bubble gum pink and it’s more jelly looking. It’s opaque in two coats.
Something Sweet is my favourite, Noty Just Cute is second
~ Only two days until the end of the givaway I’m so exited!! ~
*Lyra*