MAC Nailpolish Swatches!

Heeeey guys!!

Ok, I know I've been MIA for a long time.... BUT... it's mostly because I've been soo busy!!

Since November 18th I've started my nail business at a local salon right were I live :D yeeey!

So I do acrylic nails, gelnails and gelpolish etc for a living more frequently now :)

That's the main reason for my MIA.... But when I moved my business to that salon I moved some of my equipment too... therefore it's been a little hard to do what I did before.. I need to fix that :)

But here are swatches from MAC polishes!

I got sent a carepackage from the Nordic PR for MAC a while back and here are my swatches.

All of these colors are in the permanent selection :) So no limited editions here.. you WILL be able to find these if you would find any you like ;)

Also check out my swatch video talking about the polishes and their texture.. formula, opacity etc :)

I like to compare colors.. if I have dupes.. or colors close to being dupes...

So enjoy! :D

Soiree : Frost

Love this rose gold kind of color.

It really reminds me of OPI's "Designer de better!" but the last spoken is colder in it's tone and a little bit more "big chunk sparkle"

Below is a comparison between MAC - Soiree to the left and OPI Designer de better! to the right

Girl about town : Creme finish with WONDERFUL opacity. I LOOVE this color! A gorgeous hot pink to die for!

I did a comparison with this color from MAC and OPI's "Kiss me on my tulips"

Morange - Cream finish. Gorgeous! Also wonderful opacity.

Generally the creme polishes are great in their opactiy.

A complete DUPE to this color is OPI's "A good man-darin is hard to find"

Love love love! One of my favorite orange ones :)

Here's a comparison with OPI's "A good man-darin is hard to find"

Can you tell the difference;) ?

Anti-fashion : Frost

A very interesting color..purpleish greyish..taupe... ish :)

It's kinda cool! The second coat makes HUGE difference!

Here's a comparison with OPI's "The color to watch"

Not even a close dupe.. at first I really thought they would be :)but NOPE... ;)

Nightfall - a frost
A beautiful deep gunmetal grey.
A close color but not close enough to be called a dupe is OPI's "Peace & Love & OPI"
The second one spoken has a more green touch ..they're in the same family but not close to be twins ;)

Comparison
OPI's Peace & Love & OPI to the left, MAC - Nightfall to the right

Formidable! - Pearl
A cool, special color.. it reminds me of a pigment I own from MAC named "Bluebrown"
On one thin coat it looks brown.. with coat nr 2 it looks deeper brown with tons of blueish shimmer.
GORGE!

That was it! Thanks for reading, watching! ;) Hope you enjoyed these pictures and that you watched my video :D Stay tuned for more!

XOXO Miriam
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Playing with textures

Aloha peeeps!! 

Hope you're all great :)
Here's a simple nail tutorial I made today inspired by mixing textures.

Check out my tutorial for this design :D

Love you all!

Take care! XOXO Miriam

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My Top 10 Favorite China glaze polishes with swatches :)

Hello sweetiepies!!

How's fall treating ya?? Great I hope :) ;)

Today I'll be sharing my top 10 favorite China glaze polishes.

When I uploaded my top 10 favorite OPI polishes it was really popular and a lot of people asked for more videos like that with other brands.. so here is my china glaze top 10 :D yeeey!!!

Hope you likey ;)

"Re-fresh mint"

A beautiful mint, fresh as dew ;)

"Aquadelic"

A gorgeous aqua, turquoise blueish green. VERY similar to "For Audrey"

"Highlight of my summer"

A gorgeous pistachio neon minty green. LOVE IT!!

"Peachy keen"

Aaaaa... gotta love this peachy orange!! 

"Strawberry fields"

Who wouldnt love a field of strawberries in the sun.. yummers!!

And the glints of gold makes it even B-E-T-T-E-R!!

"Flip flop fantasy"

OMG... this color is THE BEST!!! On tan skin.. (GORGEOUS!!) on pale skin (you look more tan!!!:O )

"Celtic sun (neon)"

Love me my neons :) Neon yellow.. what could go wrong???

"Below deck"

A greyish, purple taupe.. Perfect for those more "neutral days" :)

"Ray-diant"

Perfect covering multi colored glitter! Gorge!

 "It's a trap-eze!"

How cool isnt this? It's just so different with it's milky white base and multicolored glitters!!

Thank you so much for watching my lovelies!

Don't forget to check out my video to hear me talk a little about each polish.. you don't wanna miss ;) (hehehe)

Here's a treat for you.. a picture taken from my balcony with the beautiful fallcolors :)

Take care! Talk to you soon again ;)

Love you all!!

XOXO Miriam

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Easy glitter removal - tutorial -

Hello my loves!!

Many of you have requested a video showing you how to easy remove glitter.

So here it is! A lot of people have been doing tutorials like this but here's my take on it :)

Hope you enjoy!!

Check out my video for the tutorial! <3 p="">

Love you all!!

XOXO Miriam

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Easy flower design on a glitter bed ;)

Helloooo ladies!

Happy friday!!! 

I havent done a nail tutorial in quite some time so that's what I want to share with you today.

A super simple flower design on a glitter base.

I know I didnt execute the flowers as well as I could've.. I need to get some better brushes..

Anyway.. hope you like it :)

And here's to see the color indoors and in daylight...

A hot pink from the OPI Designer Series called "Bold"

Check out my tutorial on Youtube!! :)

Have a lovely weekend!

Love you all!!

XOXO Miriam

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OPI - Winter/Christmas collection 2013 "Mariah Carey" -Live swatches-

Helloooo there!

Now, this is a much anticipated post/video!!

OPI's winter christmas collection for 2013, a collab with Mariah Carey! (once more, yes I know :) )

12 regular polishes and 6 liquid sands.. now, can you believe! 18 polishes!!!
Crazy big collection! ( LOVE IT! ) :)

Now these are a mix of glitters, shimmers, cremes and liquid sands...

I have a couple of favorites already ;) 

"All I want for Christmas is OPI"
A beautiful deep, redish maroon.

"In my santa suit"

The typical "christmas red" in my opinion. Love all the shimmers in it!

"Underneath the mistletoe"

A deep spicy, candy apple red. Whooah :)

"Cute little vixen"

A deep, red violet tone.. with a touch of pink :)

"Sleighride for two"

A very interesting color.. greyish, brownish, hot chocolate color.

"Visions of love"

A beautiful, creamy rich burgundy...

"Ski slope sweetie"
One of my faves.. this gorgeous golden shimmery pearl color.
LOVELY on top of any color or gorgeous on it's own with 2 coats.

"My favorite ornament"

Love this champagne silvery glitter!!!

"Wonderous star"

A silvery shimmer with black glitters and gold flecks.

"All sparkly and gold"

Very approperiat name... goldy and sparkly :) with a hint of brown in the  clear polish:)

"Warm me up"

A spicy, greyish coffe color

"I snow you love me"
Disco light confetti in a clear base. Hard to apply but gorgeous when you get it right :) I placed the confettis with a toothpick for best result.

"It's frosty outside"
A silver liquid sand with tons of shimmer. Gorge!

"Silent stars go by"

A pale blush, pink liquid sand.. up for neutrals? This might be your thing ;)

"Make him mine"

This is a slightly darker version of Silent stars go by.. also a blush, little darker toned pink liquid sand.

"Baby please come home"
Violet purple liquid sand.. Shimmer away!

"Kiss me at midnight"

I really like this cool frosty blue liquid sand :)

"Emotions"
A black liquid sand with black glimmers inside..

Now that was all for this time.. pheew that was a lot of colors to go through :)
But I had fun doing it! Thank you so much for reading, watching.. commenting :D

Don't forget to check out my video for the live swatches with application and my view of these polishes:)

Have a lovely fall!!

XOXO Miriam
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OPI - Designer Series 2 new colors for fall 2013

Hellooooo ya'll!

Excited about fall approaching?

For me, I have mixed emotions... I miss being able to walk around in flip flops and a little dress...

But it's also nice to snuggle up in a big blanket, lighting some candles and sipping on tea.

Today I'll show you 2 new polishes from OPI and their "Designer Series" polishes.

Did you know that the DS polishes contain diamondpowder? Actual diamonds??

How cool is that! I didnt know that and got to learn it recently. These kind of polishes are really expensive, but now I know why :)

First up is a cold toned purple, truly sparkly.

Drying to a semi matte finish so if you want it really shiny, don't forget to apply a good top coat :)

"DS Lapis"

Second is a cool toned, gunmetal pewter.

This also dries to a semi-matte finish so on with your top coat and you're good to sparkle away.

"DS Pewter"

So these where the polishes for this time :)

Don't forget to check out my video to see how they apply with my live swatches!

Have a sparkly weekend all of you my loved ones :)

Mwacks!

Miriam

MirLidNailArt