Rockjewel's roses are not red but bronze, at least on IsaDora Peacock

Wanted to change polish yesterday evening but it was quite late so I needed to do something quick. Decided to choose one of the new IsaDora polishes, they are often very opaque, they have a wide brush and are fairly easy to apply. 

I picked Peacock, a deep teal polish with intense gloss. It has almost a mirror-like finish. I've been looking at my nails all day. :-)

When I got home I decided that I wanted to do some stamping too. I had an idea but time and patience was not available so the result wasn't really as I wished. But I think it turned out OK.

The wreath is stamped with a light blue Konad and plate Bundle Monster BM-314. The rose is Konad bronze and plate MessyMansion MM07, one of my favorite plates (and plate brands).

I wanted the rose to be a bit more visible and crisp in the shape, and I also wished that I had been a bit more careful placing them on the nails. Next time...

Rockjewel messing up Christmas a bit...

Merry Christmas to you all!!!

As we celebrate Chrismas on the 24th in Sweden we have already opened all gifts, drunk the glögg (almost like mulled wine), eaten the lussebulle (sweetbun with saffron) and pepparkaka (gingerbread). In my family we do all that, but we are not much for going all in when in comes to Christmas. In my sisters home there is no Christmas tree, not much Christmas decoration, and we do not eat the traditional Christmas smorgasbord. Instead we ate a lovely three-course meal yesterday evening. That's all the Christmas I need. :-)
But of course I had to decorate my nails for Christmas!!

I used A-england Perceval as base on all fingers except the middle finger where I used Zoya Tomoko. The little finger got a two-coat top of Dance Legend Red Show 11, a marvellous red glitter polish with not too big glitter flakes. Perfect in my eyes!
I stamped with Perceval on Tomoko and Konad Silver on the rest. The plate used is MoYou London Festive 04

Perceval was a bit tricky to apply. The formula was a bit gooey and difficult to smooth out. Two coats were enough, already one coat was almost opaque hence I dared to use it as stamping polish on Tomoko. Still I think that I actually would like it to be a bit thinner to make the application a bit easier.

It is messy, it is crooked and it is only one phone photo, but here it is:

Rockjewel picks from OPI Mariah Carey Christmas Collection 2013

OK, time to wake this blog up...

When I saw the OPI Mariah Carey Christmas Collection 2013 I was not very impressed.  Too many too similar polishes. But when I took a closer look at them (that happened to coincide with a 30%discount at Kicks) I actually found that most of them are really beautiful. I decided to buy some of them. I have tried two of them so far, Underneath the Mistletoe and Make Him Mine. 

Underneath the Mistletoe is a quite deep red with small silver and red glitter. The base is jelly-ish but two coats was good enough for me since I planned to stamp on it. Might use three coats without stamping. The result is a bit less sparkly than the bottle promises, but nevertheless I think it is a beautiful polish. The glitter seems to sparkle from a depth, in the right light it is stunning!

I had this on for the annual Christmas Smorgasbord this Saturday, stamped with Konad White Pearl, using plate from MoYou London Christmas Collection - 03.

Next in line is Make Him Mine, one of the Liquid Sand polishes in this collection. The colour is somewhere in between rosy and champagne and it is really sparkly. Easy to apply, one coat is sufficient, and it dries pretty fast. Good for a quick mani when time is short. I still applied two coats, even more beautiful!

Some pics:

I could not resist stamping on this too. I love stamped full patterns on structure polish!
For this I used a brown polish from Vylet and the MoYou London plate Sailor Collection - 07.