I'm back al clean and fresh

Hi everyone!

I took a superlong hiatus. But never stopped doing nails. I just got tired of blogging.
In the mean time I've got my license as a make up artist, and tbh my love for make up has outgrown my love for polish a bit.
But I still love having gorgeous nails and looking at beautiful tallons. Around the time that I started slacking, a lot of drama was going on in the blogging/facebookgroup world and that just wasn't my scene and my motivation got a bit lost.

I started another blog, in Dutch together with my best friend. Comedy is the main theme, decorated with fashion and beauty.

Als je Nederland spreekt en leest, altijd welkom om te komen piepen bij Jelly Much.

Anyways, My manicure I'm wearing now is very clean and grown up for my doing, besides the touch of glitter ;) Oh, I also added a pictogram of a diamond, to 'man' it up a bit.

I used a black acrylic paint, Essence Marshmellow and China Glaze Techno.

Hope you like the fact that I'm back.

Big kiss

Jolien x

Glittergradient

Hi everyone!

Here I used china glaze Running around in circles, my favourite green colour! It's just such a deep dimensional colour. And on the tips is China Glaze Angel Wings glittering and being gorgeous!

I hop you like it!

x Jolien

Swatch: Action liquid lip color

Hi everyone!

I got these one month ago, but I completely forgot to upload these swatches. These lipcolor cost me less than 1 euro for 2 of them. I grabbed the pink and the orangyred duo.

I was pleasantly surprised. They are sure not longlasting, but pigmentation (3 out of 4) is good and they do not dry out my lips. I don't like the darkest pink colour :( But big hellz yeah for the others!

I hope you like them too :)

x Jolien

Chevron my way

Hi everyone!

I absolutely adore crazy chevron nail art, but oh god, it takes soooo much time! I only got myself to do one nail each hand. The other nails got a coat of Barry M's Princess. Just can't get enough of liquidsandpolishes!

x Jolien

Bearbear

Hi everyone!

Today on the nails; my favourite animal :D BEARS and a bit of spring too with my skittlenails!

Temperature is rising a bit, and the sun peeps through the clouds from time to time... I just can't wait 'till summer starts so I can swith from my onesie to my shorts!

x Jolien

A very bad marbler

Hi everyone!

Like everyone in the nailpolishblogosphere, I truly amazed by O.P.I.'s Spotted. But I'm a cheap ass and still waiting for a good dupe to show up. In the mean time I'm trying to recreate the effect with watermarbling and hairspray. Too bad I just can't seem to make watermarbling work. So, behold my first attempt!

Big kiss

x Jolien

Is it a unicorn?

Hi everyone!

I'm soooo superexcited about this manicure! I saw a supercute unicorn manicure at Pause for Polish and fell head over heel in love with it! I could not not recreate this one!

Look how cute! (And I just realise my unicorn looks a bit sad :( )

X Jolien

FOTD4

Hi everyone!

I'm a true eyeliner girl. I find it so hard to get a good eyelook without a good cateyeliner. But I think I did quiet a good job with this one: a simple brown-golden smokey eye.

Big kiss

Jolien x

Strawberry nails

Hi everyone!

The weather in Belgium is the strangest lately! It just doesn't get cold and it feels like spring is just around the corner, but knowing the oh so joyful weather, winter will come!

But with a very much springfeeling I dug out my neons and gave myself a strawberry manicure!

I hope you like it :)

x Jolien

In a straight line

Hi everyone!

I purchased striping tapes about a year ago, but never felt lke using it. And god I know why. I'm just incapable of taping in a straight line. I suck so hard in things like that. Nevertheless I love this chique and simple manicure. Almost looks sophisticated! I should do more of these clean manicures.

Big kis 

x Jolien

FOTD3

Hi everyone!

I watched a awesome smokey eye tutorial from JulieG and just felt like trying it! I think it looks amazing and it's very simple... And contains only one colour (and a tiny bit of black)!

I hope you'll try this one out too ;)

x Jolien

And a dark lip added

New Catrice crushed crystals: Oysters & Champagne and Stardust

Hi everyone!

In Düsseldorf I stumbled on a LE that held a couple of the polishes and lipstains that go into the new february collection. I've put the polishes over a peel off base, so I can't tell anything about removal.

Oyster & Champagne has a sheer champagne base  with loads of golden glitters and chunkier gold rose to pink glitters. It 's soooo pretty, but too bad that it doesn't cover completely...

And this is Stardust. Not so interesting in the bottle (looks like a plain black), but gorgeous on the nail. Stardust has a deep dark brown base stuffed with silver glitter. Cover in one to two layers.

Which one do you like the best?

x Jolien

Stamping hawaï

Hi everyone!

I received these stamping plates a long time ago from KK center, but I never managed to 'master' the skill of stamping, but I think that I did wel this time!

The flowers en the pineapple are my favourite! What are yours?

x Jolien

FOTD 2

Hi everyone!

This is my 'no inspiration but still wanna do make-up look'look. What probably doesn't make sense. A simple neutral in the crease, a winged liner and green (or purple) eyeliner! And because I'm lazy and an occasional lip biter... No lipsticks or gloss, maybe a smack of lipbalm.

Hope you like it ;)

X Jolien

Wannabe Pug nails

Hi everyone!

I'm not really a peculiar pugfan, but having one on my nails sounded cute. Even when they look more like bear... The base is Trendsetter by China glaze, can't help it but I looooove that colour! And the glitters are a Essence LE (Be loud!) topcoat grafitti topper!

Big kiss

x Jolien

FOTD 1

Hi everyone !

I just love using blue eyeshadow, that reason alone makes me want to have pretty blue eyes!
I just suck at taking selfies for showing my make-up to you, but I hope that'll progress.

Kisses
x Jolien

ps: Give some love to that unicorn pushed in that corner!

My oh so late christmas nails

Hi everyone!

The holiday season is my favourite time of the year! (Minus the exam part of course)
I hope you made it through okay, and that you had a splendid time!

My nails are showing off China Glaze's Running around in Circles from te Cirque du soleil collection. I'm totally obsessed with this green. It just screams Christmas!

As you can see, the placement of my weird deer did not work out... There was no room left for the antler. Very sad. I hope you guys rocked a better deer and looked fabulous at christmas :D

x Jolien

New in & swatched : Essence mono eyeshadows & bronzer

Hi everyone!

A while ago I shopped some eyeshadows from Essence because it was a buy3pay2 kind of thing and whilst looking around I decided to finally pick up bronzer and starting to use that in my make-up routine.

 

I love the off-white and the bronze eyeshadow. The off-white became my go-to browbone colour and the bronze has such a beautiful and warm colour, great for a quick bronzy smokey eye.

But I'm not such a fan of the minty green one. The colour payoff isn't great and the shadow hardly shows up on the eye. But I kind of expected that from a €1,29 eyeshadow. Though I must say I like the new packaging! They're opening way more easier and no worries breaking or damaging your manicure! (*first world problems!*)

I've been using the bronzer for a while now, and I like it, but it's still that tad to warm for my skintone... I can't really say much about it since I've never used other bronzers!

Swatch : Don't touch my mosserati! - Catrice mono eyeshadow

Hi everyone!

I always try to stay away from mono eyeshadows in stores, because I get so easily tempted to buy colours that I already have. But I saw this one caught my eye and I just had to had it! It is soooo pretty! It's the perfect mossy green with golden shimmer. I absolutely love it!
And it ws Catrice, so didn't cost me a fortune, €2,89 to be exactly.

Look at my ring, my ring is amazing!

Hi everyone!

I'm just crazy about colourshifting things! Check out this nail polish ring! Puurretty!