Nails by Noir

-"Är det där det nya Sephora-lacket?” frågade maken imorse när jag lagt en snabb morgonmanikyr. Herrejisses vad snopen och imponerad jag blev. Med hakan nere i golvtrakten undrade jag stilla hur jag lyckats hitta en sådan guldklimp…

För övrigt: Sista dagen på giveawayen. Missa inte!!

English
It’s the last day of the giveaway. Don’t miss the chance to win some amazing Nubar nail polishes!!

When I got the Nubar Blue Raspberry polish in the mail for a review I almost laughed out loud. Bright pastells have never ever been my cup of tea. So I thought that the review wasn't going to bee nice reading for anyone.

But hey, I coudn't have been more wrong. In fact I was so hooked on the collection after just one try so I had to go buy the complete collection right away.

And here are some teaser pictures on the whole bunch. This is the Nubar Jellybeans collection and as you can see on the pictures I had a lot of fun shooting these. I lined them up in the garden, crept around in the grass, presumably looking quite ridiculous. So it's now official to my neighbours, I must be a liiitle crazy.





Isn't these nail polishes just pure happiness in a bottle?

Where to buy Nubar nail polish?
I bought these on Ebay from a seller called misssaigon98, the complete collection for $58 (SEK 400), which is $7,25 (SEK 50) per bottle. That was with the shipping included. If you want to buy them in Sweden you find them on swedish Nailshop at the price of SEK 135.

Recently I got a request to make a necklace. And this was a bit out of the ordinary.

I got a call from a man who wanted me to make a necklace for his wife's birthday. She was particularly fond of dragonflies so he wanted me to make something with a pair of dragonflies, in some kind of green colours. I got to choose the colours myself, as long as there was green tones in it.

And then he wanted me to write "For evva" in the necklace. That was their own spelling of "for ever".

Isn't this story just sooooo cute?!? What a thoughtful and loving husband.


So this is what I ended up with. A necklace in green, made out of four different nail polishes, IsaDora Silver Sparkles, Zoya Apple, Misa Like It Like That and Models Own Golden Green Beetle Juice.

I hope you like it!

Yay!!! It's finally time to launch my very first give away. I'm sooooo excited!!!!!!

In this give away you have the chance to win the Nubar Jeans collection, a trio of beautiful blue shades ready to match your jeans, or whatever you choose to wear. Blue is never wrong, that's at least in my opinion.

The Nubar Jeans collection consist of the two darker créme polishes Boyfriend Jeans and Dark Wash Jeans, and last but not least the light blue Faded Jeans with a tiny bit of shimmer.

The polishes are kindly provided by Helen at swedish Nailshop.

The giveaway will be open until the 31st of May, and then I will draw a winner. The winner will have three days to respond. Of course it is open for anyone anywhere. And if you wonder about the name, I thought this was so exciting so I'm planning on more give aways to come. :-)


Good luck!!

Whiiiii, I just got the news that some polishes intended for my first ever give-away are on their way. This is going to be sooo much fun, I can't wait for them to arrive.

The mystery box will be revealed soon. So stay tuned...






The Grej of the Day: My first give-away, need I say more...

The other day I visited my blogging friend Mona's site and I got sooooo inspired. Recently we swapped a couple of beauties and now she showed a gorgeous manicure with a purple base, topped with China Glaze Mistletoe Kisses. Since I got Ch G Skyscraper in the swap I thought I'd try a similar mani, with Scycraper topped over the golden Zoya Jules.



At first I made a funky french, but it looked ridiculously ugly, so instead I made a gradient by using a sponge. Not as awesome as Mona's mani, but I love it anyway. Up close on these pictures it looks a bit sloppy, but on a bit further distance it looks much smoother.

I can also tell you that the turbulence at work has finally settled, and the great news is that I get too keep my job. So I'm feeling great actually. The joy of nail polish and colors is returning, and with them also the urge for blogging.

So, life is great actually, the sun is returning, light is spreading and my precious little Alfons has now learnt to walk. He says hello to you all: :-)


Take care you all!!

As those of you who have been following my blog have seen I don't spend a lot of time here anymore. I thought it was time to give you all an explanation.

In the beginning of december my life turned upside down. I got a call from my boss, saying that the factory I'm spending my working hours at are closing down. Totally!! :-(

So my lazy days on parental leave suddenly shifted into an hectic and turbulent time, filled with worried colleagues, meetings with the union and negotiations. That's what we do in Sweden when it's any changes at work, we negotiate, the union and the company leaders. We negotiate a lot. Really a lot.

If you add to that a one-year-old with a constant cold, and the hectic weeks of christmas you don't get much time left. So, no time left for blogging.

Weeks passed, months passed, and suddenly I realized, I didn't miss it at all. I look at the huge amount of nail polish blogs out there and I feel that I don't have the effort to keep on with mine. I can't keep up. I can't keep up with the flow. I can't keep up with all the new polishes that are launched, with all the extremely perfectly taken photos on perfect cuticles. My cuticles are sad and dry now, I havn't had any interest in them these days.


My joy is in my jewellery right now. So, today I give you the pictures of my latest creations. I don't know if I'll come back, probably not. But you can be sure that I'm still spending my evenings making necklaces and painting my nails from time to time...