Friday, March 16, 2012

Guest Post : Jeanette from The-Swatchahol​ic.com literally sent me to nail polish heaven with her layering

Hi girls! Today, let me present to you no less than the Queen of swatching!
Jeanette from The-Swatchahol​ic.com has been one of the very first bloggers I followed and, when I started blogging, I was secretly hoping that one day I'd reach the very high standard she had set with the perfection of her pictures.



Hello everyone! My name is Jeanette and I am a Sam fangirl. :D
When Sam contacted me and asked if I would write a guest post for her I was a little shaking. Sam is one of my biggest nail crushes and writing a guest post for her fabulous blog is a true honor. She is one of my favorite nail bloggers and a true sweetheart. With every new post from her my heart melts a little. I just love her nails, her personality and her passion for nail polish.

I wanted to create a special manicure for Sam and I hope I succeeded. One of my favorite ways to play and experiment with nail polish are layerings. When I started blogging I often made layered manicures with layering two stampings but since a while I discovered my love for layered nail polishes. I hope soon I can experiment with layered stampings again though. :)

To create something special for Sam and to make baby steps back into konading I decided to do a combination of both: Layered nail polishes with Konad on top and also different textures.






For this look I started with two coats of one of my favorite blue nail polishes: OPI Swimsuit...Nailed IT. To add sparkles and more texture I layered one coat of the gold glitter side of the (sadly limited edition) Colour³ Essence Circus Circus nail polishes called My Sparkling Acrobat on top. To darken the look up a bit I added one coat of New York Summer Hot Purple - a sheer purple jelly.

Because I wanted to experiment more with different textures and finishes I mattified the manicure with one coat of Essie Matte About You. Lately I just love mattified glitter layerings. :)
As a special extra I wanted to add a shiny stamping on top. For the stripes I used the Konad image plate S6 and a dark indigo nail polish (with no name) with a subtle shimmer by Basic - a German drugstore brand.

I hope you all like this manicure and thank you so much Sam for the possibility to write a guest post for your fantastic blog. ♥



So, What did I say? Everything is perfect about these pictures : the mani, the swatching technique, everything! Jeanette thank you so much for sharing your creation with us, it's a pure nail polish work of art♥
To visit The-Swatchahol​ic, you can either follow the link or click on the image below. Thank you for visiting girls!


37 comments:

  1. O dear Lord, this is pure perfection! Amazing, really!

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  2. I'm speechless! this is so beautiful. I could stare at it for hours! I didn't know that those essence glitters were that gorgeous! it looks amazing with the purple jelly on top!
    really amazing! <3

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  3. Thank you so so much for the honor of writing a guest post for you and for your kind words. You made me blush so badly! ♥ Mwah! :)

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  4. @the-swatchaholic no thank YOU! Could you please come and paint my nails, I need this mani like yesterday ;-)

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  5. Jeanette, I think you may have succeeded in actually killing me this time, this is just so amazing!!! And thank you Sam for having Jeanette here, you two are just awesome ((group hug))

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  6. Oh wow Jeanette & Sam this is an awesome manicure!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it, the touch with the stamping is so pretty!

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  7. omg it looks soooooo great!beautyful!!!

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  8. So gorgeous, absolutely love this mani!

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  9. Beauuuutifuly done!! Such perfect details! :D

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  10. wow...this is absolutely gorgeous!

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  11. Doesn't get better than this: Jeanette and her incredible skills (not to mention gorgeous swatches) and Sam's uber-creative (and equally stunning) blog posts..........sigh..........this is like nail polish overload for a beauty love like me! Beautiful job, Jeanette!

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  12. This is INCREDIBLE! I'm definitely going to try something like this... it'll never be as awesome as this though! x

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  13. I cannot even come up with decent comments - just WOW! I am blown away with this.

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  14. WOW! this is amazing!!! you did a great jo Jeanette!

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  15. I am seriously swooning over this mani! Absolutely stunning! Seriously... just wow! really I can't stop staring at it!

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  16. This is just EPIC. Jeanette, I think this is one of your best manicures EVER! You and Sam are ladies of perfection!

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  17. Wow! Just breathtaking! I now want all the polished used.

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  18. ¡Qué bonita! Me ha dejado sin palabras...

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  19. This is so awesome manicure!!! She really is the best in layering, I like to read her blog too :)

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  20. Absoulutely ingenious mani as we can expect from Jeanette! Love from a very big fan! <3

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  21. Such a beautiful manicure! Jeanette is seriously amazing with her manis!

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  22. This is so pretty! Jeanette has some of the best manis out there! They are always so creative and gorgeous. :]

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  23. Amazing :)
    That is all I can say really... :)

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  24. Thank you so so much everyone! ♥ :)

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  25. WOW, so freakin' cool! Perfection! :-D

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  26. Her mani's are always inspiring and this is NO exception!

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