Freehand Fairies with 3D wings

Hi Everyone,

I did this mani about 3 months ago for a freehand contest. I made a Fairy Forest with flowers, a little creek, cute bunny, mushrooms (or should I say Fairy houses ;)) fairies with 3D wings and little fire flies.  We all know I am not a freehand artist (not even close haha :P) but I do occasionally freehand some details or once in while do a freehand scenery. I did these for #Chele_EnchantedMani I liked the enchanted theme and always like a challenge just to have some fun :) 

I was inspired by one of a stamping scenery mani but in this case I freehanded everything (I am a little proud of my fairy wings :)) Randomly painted Color Club Pucci-licious, China Glaze That's Shore Bright, China Glaze Neon & On & On and China Glaze Too Yacht to Handle for the base. Also put a glitter holo topcoat from Catrice on top.  I also like to do some fun 3D art so I painted the wings on a ziplock bag colored them with Color Club Harp on it..topcoated cut them paste one wing on my nail and the other wing only part of it so the fairies have 3D wings.

Thanks for stopping by.

xoxox

Sorry for not blogging much...

Hi Everyone,

I am so sorry for not blogging for a while, I have been so busy at home. Painting the outside wood work, new roof gutters and now we are getting a new bathroom and toilet. So I have been living in a mess for a while...and it is not over yet. But the end will be great I hope.

I haven't even posted all my Halloween mani's that I did but I guess I'll just post them all now. I have been doing my nails once or maybe twice a week so still plenty to show you all.

Halloween 2015 scenery. 

A bright gradient base with China Glaze Neon & On & On, China Glaze That's Shore Bright and Color Club Pucci-licious. Everything on my nals is stamped with MoYou Nails 304 plate. Stamped and colored using Konad and Mdu polishes.

Blood drips.

Catherine Arley 806 as a base, stamped the blood drips with MdU Reddish and the skull with Konad White. Both images are from Nailways Monsters- Halloween plate.

Candy and cute ghost.

A gradient with Nailways 132 Spiked and 133 Ponytail stamped with Konad black and BM306 and the cute little Trick or Treating ghost is from Stampaholics ST02.

Gothic graveyard.

 When I thought of this theme the colors red and black popped in my head :)  So I did a red and black gradient base using China Glaze Cranberry Splash and Catherine Arley 805. Stamped with BM13 the bat and crosses, BM409 the creepy trees, BM413 the skeleton, BM H07 the skull and BM224 the creepy house next to the graveyard. Freehanded the moon, the small crosses and all the tiny eyes.

Witch slime.

Just something quick and easy.  Base Barry M 299 Racing Green. Stamped with MdU Avocado and FUN20 and the little witch is from Bunny Nails HD-D. Happy I got to borrow my sis her Bunny plates again.

I promise to post more often.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Halloween 2015: Zombies

Hello  Everyone,

Today a new Halloween mani I did for the BM challenge. The theme that day was Zombies. I love doing Halloween mani's I have so much fun with all the challenges on IG or in FB groups.

 Base a gradient with Nailways 73 Grass and 22 Linear. On top Essence 02 Night in Vegas for the flakies. Stamped the zombies from MyOnline Shop MJ XXV and the zombie hands and bats are from Bundle Monster BM H08, Stamped with Sinful Colors Black on Black and made it all matte with China Glaze Magic Matte.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Halloween 2015: Bloody Gore

Hi Everyone,

Remember I did something similar last year based on a tutorial from PackAPunch Polish for a group challenge. I remember having fun doing it so I thought I'll give it a try this year on my shorties too :) 

Base a red from Colorama, over that a nude from P2 that I've made matte with China Glaze Magic matte. And played with my dotting tool scratching it. Stamped with BM-H06 the blood drops on my skin.

This is so much fun to do.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Halloween 2015: Ghosts

Hi Everyone,

I haven't posted for a while since I was on vacation for a few weeks. And when we came back I busy dealing with stuff at home, not so fun stuff (loosing 2 pets).

But I'll promise to post more and if you follow me on instagram you can see a lot of posts there :)

The last day of my vacation I broke my nail from my middle finger, so I decided to make them all short (not as short cause that is a little sore) but as short as they can without bleeding or hurting ;)

Meet my new shorties.

A gradient base with China Glaze When Stars Collide and Catherine Arley 806, shadow stamped the ghosts and bats with Konad white and black and also mirror stamped one ghost using BM213 and BM223. Colored the eyes with MdU Avocado.

Here also a picture of just the gradient...it looked more orange in real life.

Some pictures like these I took with my phone instead of camera so you might see different kinds of watermarks ;)

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Truckstar 2015

Hi Everyone,

Last weekend was the yearly Truckstar festival, we went there for a day. I do not really care much about trucks but my boyfriend likes it. And I do like the special paint trucks, cause they are great nail art inspiration hahaha.

 

Subtle gradient with Essence Brazil Jungle and China Glaze Kiwi Cool Ada. Stamped with BP-64 the full nail stars Konad​ M3 for the single stars and MyOnline Shop​ MJ XXVII for the Trucks.

I also did a matching pedi for Truckstar, too bad the weather was so bad so I could not wear my flipflops.

Sorry for not blogging much (lot's of stuff going on), I do post a lot of mani's on instagram so you can always follow me there too :)

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

In loving memory of our rat Faith

Hi Everyone,

Last thursday our ratty Faith died. She would have turned 3 in about 4 weeks so she was pretty old. And she even had tumor surgery twice in her life. She was a very strong lady. Now she died very peacefully because of old age and joined her sweet sister Hope who passed away in January.

Ofcourse I had to do a mani to honor her. In the fb group WON we had a chance to submit images for a special WON plate made by Fab Ur Nails ofcourse I had to submit ratties and cheese. I drew the images myself from pictures I saw online. I once submitted these for the BM CYO too but they did not pick them so I was happy they made it on the FUN-WON. The plate also has some Arctic images on it that were my idea and some of them I drew too :) 

Gradient with China Glaze Son of a Peach and Neon & On & On. Stamped the full nail with FUN16 and MdU pastel pink. The word Faith is from FUN17 and the ratties and cheese are the images from the special FUN-WON plate. If you look close you see the one one my thumb has wings too stamped with Konad M90.  I try to color the images to match Faith her colors.

And some more pictures.

Here also one with Faith so you can see her colors.

And the last picture we took about a week before she passed away she was still very active then.

We were at the pet store this weekend to get some food and other supplies and we always look and cuddle the ratties there. But there was one who kept climbing out towards us, she was adorable and she misses part of her ear. We did not plan to get a new ratty, I said 3 were enough but I fell in love. Also because of her ear I was afraid she might become snake food...cause maybe other people would not want her. When we decided she had to come home with us and the employee saw the ear he said half price is fine....that is how little a small animal life is worth. But for us she is perfect.

On instagram there is this tag #mynailsandmyrat so I had to take a picture of our new ritten Scar and my memorial nails for Faith :)

Thanks for reading.

Have a nice weekend!

xoxox

Summer with MoYou Nails 307

Hi Everyone,

It is very hot here in The Netherlands, so I thought it was fun to show some Summer nails I did a few weeks ago. I used the  MoYou Nails Concept Collection for this mani.

I know everbody loves a discount so when you use the code: Diana you will get 20 % off your entire order when shopping online. You can't use this code/ coupon together with any other codes/ coupons. Also valid on their US website, so this is great news for my US readers :)

Base Essence 28 Hello Sunshine and China Glaze Surfin' For Boys. Stamped with Konad SN white the waves and with Konad SN black the letters. I really liked this mani :)

And some pictures of just the gradient.

 And also a swatch of this matte yellow polish from Essence. 

Here you can see all the plates again.

And remember my name Diana is a 20% off discount code for their website valid on the .com and the .us website.

Have a nice weekend.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Sailor Moon mani and pedi

Hi Everyone,

I did this a few months ago when we went to Germany on a short break. I have to confess I just thought this was a cute girl on the moon, until I posted them on fb and several people pointed out that is was Sailor Moon. I never heard of her so I had to google haha.

Gradient with Lime Crime Crema de Limon, Lime Crime Pastelchio and China Glaze Neon & On & On. Stamped with Born Pretty BP-03 and BP-06 and Konad Black.

Also done a matching pedi.

Here a picture taking in the wildlife park. You can see the racoon sitting in the tree cave.

And an underwater picture of my mani/pedi.

And a picture of just the gradient base.

I really love the plates from Born Pretty Store they have such pretty designs and the quality is amazing. If you order from them don't forget to use KONG10 for 10% off not discounted items.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Well, it's one for the money, Two for the show, Three to get ready....

Hi Everyone, 

Sorry for not blogging for a while. I've been busy and I am sick too. But I have been posting on my fb page and on instagram. 

Even though I am sick I had to do the TAG you are it challenge for a Facebook group I only had a week that was almost over ;) I had 3 choices and combined 2 of them so I chose vintage/grunge style and inspired by an old song :)  

"Well, it's one for the money, 

Two for the show, 

Three to get ready, 

Now go, cat, go.  

But don't you step on my blue suede shoes. 

You can do anything but lay off of my Blue suede shoes."  

Base Essence 33 Wilde White Ways and Flormar 47 on ring finger. Added blue flocking powder on my ringfinger to make it look like like a suede shoe haha it sure feels soft ;) Stamped the "shoelace" with parts of Konad M7 and Bundle Monster BM420. Used a grey, white, light blue and darker blue to make the vintage/grunge distressed look. Stamped with BP-47 the music notes, Elvis is from MyOnline Shop MJ XXII and the shoe prints are from Nailways Snowwhite - Traces.  Used Konad stamping polishes and made it all matte with China Glaze Magic matte.

And here the glossy picture.

And the grunge/vintage/distressed base. Later added a little dark blue brush strokes.

I did this really quick but I am pretty happy with how these turned out. It was a fun mani to do and great theme. I still have many more mani's to show you all :)

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

MSMD inspired by Nicky NailsLove

Hi everyone,

The challenge in one of the Facebook groups was Monkey See Monkey Do. I wanted to do a mani from the lovely Nickynailslove I really love her work and she is such a sweet person too. I did not had much time to do a mani so mine version is really quick and not as pretty as hers ;)

I did not used the rhinestones and also did not made it matte. She also used a silver polish, I don't own a silver stamping polish so a used a lavender metallic one.

For the base I used Flormar 47 and on top Orly Royal Navy. I wasn't sure if the Orly polish would be opague enough so did one coat of the Flormar first. Stamped with China Glaze Sci-Fi and used BP-11 for both the images.

Here a close up from just my mani,

And also a swatch picture.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Enchanting Fairytales

Hi Everyone,

I did this mani for a guest blog over at The Beauty Of Nail Polish. You can read the full post there :) I was really honored when Tara invited me.

I did a Fairytale mani a few years ago using Moyou plates. And this mani is inspired by that one,  I really wanted to do another one with Nailways Darker Period – Fairy Tales plate.

For the base I did a gradient with Lime Crime Once in a Blue Mousse, Lime Crime Lavendairy and China Glaze Neon & On & On. On top I did Catrice C08 Have an ice day topcoat for the holo sparkles. I stamped the images from Nailways Darker Period – Fairy Tales plate using Konad black. And the yellow stars are from Konad M34 using Konad pastel yellow. The white stars are from Konad M3 using Born Pretty stamping polish white. Painted the black near my cuticles and the door and path to the castle.

Looking at my nails I really want to go to Disneyland….I have never been there and it is one of my dreams.

Here also some pictures of my gradient base with holo glitters.

Thanks for reading :)

xoxox

Chinese New Year...the year of the goat

Hi Everyone,

Here is one of my Chinese New Year mani's. Just a short post today, did not took much pictures or made swatches cause I already swatched this once..

Base China Glaze Long Kiss, stamped the cherry blossom with black and Vivid Lacquer VL-022 and dotted the white flowers over the black and added holo gold in the middle. The "goat " is from Konad M34 and the numbers are from Nailways Back to Basics -123ABC 

Thanks for reading :)

xoxox

Vintage Love Letter

Hi Everyone,

Today another Valentine's Day mani for you a Vintage Love Letter. A little inspired by Notty Norma and the couple of letter nails she did.

Base China Glaze FYI (a nude holo) stamped with brown and BM301 later dabbed China Glaze FYI on parts over it again. Stamped the hearts with dark red and BMH17 and on top stamped with black and BM311 the "love letters".  

I was happy with how these turned out :) I thought about making it matte later but then forgot and already had it removed.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Leopard nails

Hi everyone,

I did this a few weeks ago, I had to do something really quick. I first did super cute Frozen nails but my self made water decals weren't playing along so those nails were a fail. Already did both hands buy because they were curly I got stuck to everything and had to remove them. It was late in the evening so had to do something quick...so I always grab a holo polish then. They dry so fast. I am not so crazy about animal prints but do have this dark grey sweater with sort of black animal print on it and decided to do matching nails.

China Glaze Let's Do It in 3-D stamped with BM221 (stamped twice) and BM613.

I was tagged on IG to show my righthandmani so here also a picture from my right hand.

Remember when I told you I broke a corner from my ring finger nail on my right hand I could not resist to to file the other corner too. And I posted this picture on IG..most people said nay haha. Well you know I filed them all short as you seen before.

China Glaze Kaleidoscope collection is still one of mt favorite holo collection. I really like this color too, I've used it many times.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Neon Valentine's nails

Hi Everyone,

I did these for the Bundle Monster challenge last week. I felt like doing something bright. But they were really bright, my sis said to me if I thought it was Summer lol.

Gradient with China Glaze Neon On and On, China Glaze That's Shore Bright and Color Club Pucci-licious. Stamped with BM317 and Color Club Pucci-licious.

And some more pictures in different light.

I later added the I heart BM with BM425. Since it was for the Ilovebundlemonster challenge :)

I did really like these bright neon heart nails.

Have a nice day.

Thanks for reading <3

xoxox

Best Wishes for 2015!

Best Wishes for 2015 everyone!

Today my first mani of the year, just something simple to wish you all the best :) 

A subtle gradient base with China Glaze Get Outta My Space and When Stars Collide, stamped the Best Wishes words and the shaking hands from Nailways Snowwhite - New Year plate. The flower swirly images is from Fab Ur Nails FUN14.

And another picture with different light.

The subtle gradient with China Glaze Get Outta My Space and When Stars Collide.

And a swatch of China Glaze Get Outta My Space.

Hope 2015 will be a great year with lots of nail goodies. I already tried my first completely freehanded mani this year will post that soon here.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox