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This is a supercute pink nailpolish from OPI - Nice Stems Collection and I have been thinking several times that I should pick it up at the stores. Only thing that kept me from buying this nail polish was my not-so-successful encounter with it's older sister Teenage Dream, this you can read about here. I didn't even bother putting out pictures of the nail polish cause I was so disappointed.

Sooo, this new nail polish is a very nice pink with medium sized flakies in them. Now wait a minute, I have a very cute pink nail polish, aaand a flakie, so why not try them together??

This is my result of layering; OPI - Strawberry Margaritha + Nubar 2010 equals... this;

Nail Polish Delight!! And I finally found a good use for my Nubar 2010 ;-)

Of course this was a supercute manicure, but it just wasn't enough, so I figured I'd try out a Hello Kitty stensil. I cannot remember where I bought these stensils, too bad cause they are supercute! I go on online shopping sprees every now and then... Anyways, this is the results;

An alternative to using a stensil is ordering a plate from Born Pretty Store, that are giving away ten plates per day!! Grab yours here!!

Flakie-time!!

Finally my flakie arrived, and I had to try it on straight away. It is gorgeous in the bottle, but the mix of brown and this as a top-coat really didn't impress me like I thought it would...

It was really dull in the shade;

It was better in sunlight, but too much of the orange I feel;

I love the green and golden glitter, but the orange was usually the only glitter that would show.

Maybe my expectations were too high... Or maybe I should try it on a lighter color. It might just be the lack of sunrays here in Norway so that the color cannot express it self fully. All I know is that I didn't care too much for this manicure unfortunately. Guess it has to sit on the shelf for a while untill I try it again...

While I'm waiting for my flakie

I have been checking out flakies for a while now, but couldn't make up my mind on which one to purchase. I know alot of people swear to Sally Hansen - Hidden Treasure, but it is pretty expensive. There are also some interesting flakies in the NFU series, but there's not alot of swatches of these. So I found a dupe for the Hidden Treasure; NUBAR 2010.

So of course, I ordered it online. Since I am spending the summer back in Norway, I expect the shipping will take a while... I couldn't bear looking at swatches of flakies and decided I had to do something. I had to do a manicure that might in some way resemble the flakie effect...

Now how can one do that... Well I started out with a tweaked version of my Franken nr. 2, the dark purple with the exciting glitters in it. Since it was already a bit sparkly it might help in creating the effect that I wanted. I tweaked it by putting a little bit of white in it to make the glitter stand out a little bit more.

The tweaked Franken was incredible on it's own, but the sparkle is very small and was not enough to satisfy my hunger. I had to have more sparkle!! Since I am running out of my "diamonds" I decided to whip out some old flower stickers with diamonds in the middle. Topped of the tips with some hearts to create more nuance in the base, and topped of the whole thing with some glitter, curtesy of Wal-Marts little Bon Bons- bottles =D

The results was not too bad, and helped a little bit on my Nubar longing;

In artifical light

I figured it wasn't enough glitter, so I went kinda overboard, hehe;

But I am still longing to receive my Nubar 2010...