Lolita Nails

July 17, 2010   Iris   0

Goodmorning everyone :)

Last night I have been busy with making two entries for the Betsey Johnson’s fashion challenge of Polish Hoarder Disorder. Today I want to show you one of them.

There were loads and I mean LOADS of cute dresses to choose from but decided to go for a very colorful one and a dark one.

And this is my entry:

Last but not least: as requested by Iris:

  1. What celebrity in all the world would you most want to meet?: Keanu Reeves, Alexi Laiho, Jackson Rathbone..they are hawt!
  2. What is your favorite kind of animal?: Guinae Pig, their sounds crack me up!
  3. Your favorite place to buy clothes?: Amsterdam
  4. Your favorite grocery store?: Our local one
  5. Your favorite sport?: Skating, swimming, fitness
  6. If you could do anything in the world for 24 hours, (it would still have happened after the 24 hours) what would it be ?: Travel around the world
  7. If you could have any three things at all in your own backyard what would it be?: A festival with all my fav bands, a helmer with all nailpolishes in the world, my own Ben & Jerry’s factory..nomnom
  8. Favorite Soy/Ice Cream flavor?: Banana and Pistache
  9. Favorite tv show(s)?: The X-Files (hopelessly addicted since I was a kid), House, Lost, Prison Break, 24, That 70′s Show, Supernatural, Family Guy, South Park, Simpsons, American Dad, Dexter, Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty etc etc etc!
  10. How old do you like your people? : As in bf? He has to be older than me :-)

Enjoy your day!

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World Cup Mani: Go Holland Go!

July 11, 2010   Iris   0
GO HOLLAND! GO HOLLAND!

How exiting! Tonight’s soccermatch with decide if Holland is gonna be world champion,…or not! Soccer fans in Spain were partying Friday after an octopus called Paul predicted the European nation will win the World Cup. Paul has correctly forecast who will win every World Cup game so far!

Well…lets hope he is wrong this time :/For the most exiting vid ever (read: sarcasm) …look at Paul here: CLICK. Enjoy the match everyone!!!

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Improve Blogger picture quality

July 10, 2010   Iris   0

The problem I’ve been having since I started this blog is the following..

When uploading a picture from your computer with the Blogger Uploader it never shows up in
the original size you wanted it to be.

You can then use the following options when clicking on your picture:

This gives you the opportunity to resize you picture to Small / Normal / Large / Extra Large.
Personally I never used this way since I always manually adjust the size in the HTML.

The problem with Blogger Uploader is that when I upload photos in the posts, no matter what size I upload them as, the quality is pretty poor. I was always wondering if I was doing something wrong.

I fixed this problem by uploading the pictures somewhere else and then ‘Link from web’ when uploading with Blogger. This did the job too but the problem is that there will be no pictures displayed on blogrolls when you make a new post..aargh!

Check below for the difference in quality..weird right?!

BEFORE

AFTER

SOLUTION:

Apparently the poor quality is due to a high compression ratio used to create the thumbnail.  Edit the post HTML and look for <img src=… .   The string following is the thumbnail URL.  Check to see if there something like /s320 in the URL.  If there is, delete it and publish the post.  The browser will now display a scaled image with higher definition.

Voila! Badass quality just like the original, whohooooo!

Even if you were pretty satisfied with the way your pictures look in Blogger when uploaded I recommend trying this solution anyway, who know if it gets better for you too :)

Hope this was helpful!

~Iris

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Nubar 2010: wow flakies!

July 10, 2010   Iris   0

Yesterday evening I tried out my Nubar 2010 for the first time after I received it last week.

The flakies of this polish are small and have more red/orange/yellow colors than green.
That’s what makes it special in my opinion.

I tried layering it over Catrice’s I Scream Peach! (which I totally love for the summer).

Check it out:

Love it? Hate it? Dunno?! Let me know ;-)

Enjoy your day..

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Catrice Caramé: Bronzed Brown

July 07, 2010   Iris   0

 


Hi guys!


Today I want to show you this lovely (read: LOVELY lovely) Bronzed Brown from
Catrice’s new collection Caramé!

It’s a medium brown with golden shimmer. I am going to wear this a lot, I’m sure of it.
It’s not too light, and not too dark for summery days. Just perfect <3

I also bought the other colors from Caramé so more swatches incoming soon :-)

Enjoy your day!






















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