New Giveaway @ A Place for my Nails

Just a quick post to let you know, that Paulina, from A Place for my Nails is hosting a 500 Followers giveaway and you can win a really awesome prize....

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The whole collection of Sensique glitters! Go and check it out!! :D

(the photo belongs to Paulina)

Today´s Swatch: Flormar U33

Hello, my dear readers!

I just wanna say thank you, to all of you, for sticking with me although I'm not posting very much these days! :)

Today I got a beautiful polish for you: Flormar U33. In the bottle it's a gorgeous turquoise-purple-pinkish duochrome, but look for yourself:

Why, oh why, dear nail polish god, do you make polishes that are duochrome in the bottle but not on the nails? Is this just a trick to make us buy the polishes? 

Oh well, it works :P

I used 2 coats and this is how it looks on the nails:

Most of the time it looks blue, leaning towards turquoise and just sometimes you can see a little bit of purple around the edges.

Ok, the purple doesn't show on the pictures at all, but believe me, there is a little bit showing in real life ;) It's still a really gorgeous polish, but I would have loved it even more, if the duochrome would have transfered from the bottle onto the nails. :P 

Do you have polishes like this, that are gorgeous in the bottle, 

but not the same on the nails ? 

Thanks for reading and see ya soon! ;) 

Floral French Design

Hello my lovely readers! 

How are you all? I really miss blogging regularly, but only 2 more weeks left and I'm exam-free and I will have more time :P 

So for today I asked my followers on facebook what design I could do, and Steffi from Me, Myself and Nail Polish said flowers. I wanted to try this french flower design from Copy That, Copy Cat for quite a while and I thought now would be the perfect time ;)  Since she did a tutorial on this one, it was quite easy recreating it, and here it is:

 I am very very pleased with the outcome, although doing the flower was harder than it looked on her video :D That's why I did all nails on my left hand and only an accent finger on my right hand :P 

It looks so pretty and feminine and I'm not used to wear french manicures, but I have to say I like this one :) 

I used:

P2 - Perfectly (base)

O.P.I - Suzi & the Lifeguard (rosé)

Essence - Ahoy! (white)

Bourjois - 21 (red)

Safari (light green)

Catrice - Run Forest Run! (dark green)

Let me know what you think of my recreation :) Did you also try this design? 

Thanks for reading! :-* 

Essence - Waking Up In Vegas . . . or awesomeness in a bottle :)

Sometimes I just don't get me :)) I wanted this polish sooo bad and I didn't even wore it once since I got it back in December. I don't know why, because it's AWESOME!

Attention!

Picture Spam ahead :P 

This is one coat of Essence Waking Up in Vegas over 1 coat of Avon Wicked. Wicked is actually a very dark red polish with shimmer, which inspired me to top it of with the flakies. :)

The Essence flakies are very dense and I had to be careful to apply just a thin coat, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to see the polish underneath :) I also had to add a little bit of thinner to it, because it was a bit thick.

The following pictures show you the color change from green to red:  

Wow!! I have no words for this :P Most of the time the flakies look like on the picture above, mostly red and orange but in daylight they look amazing! Look:

The last picture kinda reminds me of Jamaica, cause of the red, yellow and green :D

This is my very first flakie polish and I'm glad I stressed out my mom to get me this beauty. I think she went to every store in the city to find it and eventually she did. Thank you so much mom!! :))  

Do you like flakies? Which ones are a must-have? :) 

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Today's Swatch in the Snow: Essence - Metal Battle

It finally snowed here! It was just like in a fairytale this morning :) So I thought I'd do some nail photos in the snow ;)

Why is my blog called Red Hair and Black Nail Polish? Because it's my go to color if I don't know what to put on my nails :P Since I don't have time to paint my nails that often anyways these days and my creativity seems to be on vacation, I thought I'd use this lovely polish: Essence Metal Battle.

This is 2 coats with TC and it's a beautiful black polish with very subtle blue and grey shimmer in it. Application was a dream, as always with Essence polishes ;)

What is your go to color, when you have no idea what to wear?

Also here is a bonus pic for you guys :D

Yes it's true, I love each and everyone of you! (ha! a rhyme xD)

Thanks for reading, see ya next time :-*