Essence Sugar Tonight & Isadora Graffiti Pink Fame

Hi dear readers !

I don't know if I already mentionned it here, but with my friends, we often go to Germany to track nail polish ! Essence and Catrice are available in Belgium, but we don't have all limited editions and almost no nail art stuff from those brands. Germany is a kind of goldmine for us :D

That's also a good opportunity to get some brands we don't have at all here, like Isadora, BeYu, ... That's how I discovered the crackle top coat I'll introduce you today :)

 This is Isadora Graffiti Pink Fame over Essence Sugar Tonight (Re-Mix Your Style LE).
Sugar Tonight is a pale pink with shimmer. Very pretty in the bottle, but horrible on me, it just doesn't suit me at all on it's own !
So I decided to "hide" it with that pretty pink crackle with holo glitters, and I loved the result !

Isn't that Isadora crackle a beauty ? They also have the same kind of holo glitter filled crackle in blue, I can't wait to try it :)

Do you like that simple style ?

Thanks for reading and commenting :)

Have a nice day ^^

Guest Post: Lakeisha

Hi dear readers !

As every wednesday in February on Sweet Sugar, today there's a guest post :)

Please welcome Lakeisha from Refined and Polished ! I've been following her lovely blog for a while, and I especially like her idea to add a picture with some clothes and accessories matching her swatches or nail arts ... I'm not really into fashion but I like to see how she mixes stuff :) That's a cute idea !

Hi Sweet Sugar readers! 

I was so excited and almost a little in shock when Gwenn asked me to provide a guest post. I’ve been following this blog for some time, so it’s a big deal to showcase my nails here. Since Valentine’s Day just passed, I wanted to do something soft and girly. Zoya Happi is the epitome of that! Happi is a soft pink that is filled with golden shimmer. The formula was easy to work with and I applied three thin coats for opacity.

The golden shimmer makes Happi amazing. I’m literally smiling as I type this because it’s so pretty! 

Now I couldn’t just provide a simple mani when Gwenn is so awesome at nail art. I’ve been in love with striping tape lately, so I added an accent using two coats Zoya Gaia. Gaia, a soft white, compliments Happi so well because it has the same golden shimmer. To tie the colors together, I added several small dots.

I just love how soft and feminine this is! I hope you all enjoyed as well. Many thanks again to Gwenn for allowing me to guest post!

Thank you a lot Lakeisha !

As I already said in Nihrida's guest post, I absolutely love pink shades with gold shimmer, those colors compliment each other so well !

I also love the accent nail, it's soft and cute :) As I have tried tape manicures, I haven't done one with striping tape yet ... I really should try :) 

So, did you like it as much as I did ?

Have a nice day :) 

Valentine Nails: Garden of Hearts

Hi dear readers !

Tomorrow's Valentine day ... Do you do something special for that occasion ?
My husband and I don't do something special for that day ... Oh we ate a cute little heart-shaped cake saturday but that's all :) I don't really like the commercial part in that celebration ... But isn't it a good reason to make cute nails with hearts ? :p

This is what i did for this week Adventures in Stamping challenge, the theme was obviously Valentine Day :)

To get this result, I first used one coat of Catrice Rock Barock, a sheer nude pink with a very slight shimmer.
Then I sponged from the tips through half of the nail with China Glaze Phat Santa, and sponged again with China Glaze Ruby Pumps, only on the tips for a bling.
Finally I stamped the hearts with Konad plate m83 and special polish in white. Doens't this design look like little flower with hearts on top ?

Unfortunately, the glitter from Ruby Pumps don't show on my pics :( They are more present in real life.

What do you think of my V-day nails ? :)

I plan on doing another V-Day design as I'd like to try an idea I had ... Well, I won't tell more, in case I fail lol ^^

Will you paint your nails with something special for tomorrow ? If so, feel free to add the link in your comments, I'd love to see them :)

Have a nice day ^^

Koh - Blue Universe

Hi dear readers !

How is your weekend ? Mine is fine, I'm starting a big project that will surely take a while ... I have received my nails wheels from BornPrettyStore and I want to swatch all my pretties by color just like Karen from Frazzle & Aniploish did. I hesitated a lot to do it by brand, but sorting them by color talks more to me, and it will help me to avoid dupes as my collection is getting really big ... Perhaps a bit too much ;)
My plan is to swatch my collection, remove the dupes or the colors that look very  bad on me (corals for exemple) and start a blog sale when I'm done :)

Today's polish was a long time lemming of mine ... I wanted Koh Blue Universe as soon as I saw it, almost one year ago. I searched in Belgian shops that sell Koh and also in Douglas stores in the Netherlands, but I never found it, they only had the more classic colors from the brands.
Finally I ordered it on Koh's online store and got my precious !

 Blue Universe is a dark blue polish with flakes that change color from green to orange ... How pretty !
As you can see in the pics below, it's also filled with a thin shimmer. Do you understand why I wanted it so bad, now ? ;)

 I couldn't resist to add that pic with a cute owl ring I found on Ebay (thanks to Nihrida, as I found it while searching the angel wings ring she has ^^)

So, what do you think of Koh Blue Universe ? I

I love it and I'm glad I finally bought it. The least part of this polish is it's price. 14,95€ (19$) is a bit pricey for a polish imo and I'm not used to spend that much on a polish, except for one Lippmann (the others I own were gifts). I had to be really unique for me to pay this price :)

If you want to know more on how to get Koh polishes, then you can read Witoxicity's Guideline on Where to Buy Koh Nail Polish :)

Have a nice day :)

Guest Post: Very Emily

Hi dear readers !

Are you ready for another guest post ?
This week I'm glad to welcome Emily from the blog Very Emily ! When I discovered her blog, I immediatl loved her style. She does a lot of freehand with inpiration from flowers, cloth prints, nature ... But my fave style from her are those cute vintage flowers she does so well ... And guess what ? That's what she does for her guest post, she even made it to match my blog color scheme :)


Hello Gwenn's lovely readers! 

When Gwenn asked me guest post for her I felt so honoured and excited! I immediately thought of doing something inspired by her blog's colour scheme. I ended up doing flowers since Gwenn mentioned she liked my floral prints so this is what I came up with! 

I really love doing flowers, they always look really pretty but are very easy to create. I used thin nail art brushes and stripers.

And the polishes I used were:
Barry M Berry Ice Cream
Barry M Bright Purple
China Glaze VIII
China Glaze Electric Pineapple
China Glaze Starboard
Models Own Nail Art Pens

I really hope you like them! I also would like to thank Gwenn for this amazing opportunity, I had so much fun creating these and I was really happy that you asked me to do a guest post. Thank you so much!

Thank you Emily ! 

Aren't these vintage flowers too cute ? I just love everything about them :) I'd like to learn to create them but my tries were unsuccessful for the moment ^^ 

Emily's blog talks about nail polish and nail art but not only ! You'll also find make up, reviews, great pictures ... She also makes a lot of reviews for Born Pretty Store and shares nice advices !

Did I mention she's from Belgium, like me ? We can moan together about belgian shops that don't have the same stuff than in Germany or Netherlands and our difficulties to find certain brands, lol ;)

Please visit Emily's blog here: http://www.emilydenisephotography.com/blog/

You'll even find tutorials to create cute flowers !

I hope you liked her guest post as much as I did :)

Have a nice day !