New Years Eve Idea

Hi Everyone,

Here a mani I did yesterday. I wanted do make this New Years Eve mani, it won't stay on my nails till then, but I just wanted to make it anyway :)

Base Essence a Piece of Forever and on my tips Sinful Colors Snow me Whote. Stamped the white full nail with BM310, the golden lace on my tips is Konad M71, the bows are from Konad M59 (used the shrinking method for my pinkie) and the glasses are from BM-H22. 

Inspired by a picture I saw from Universo das Unhas.

Thanks for stopping by.

xoxox

World Cup 2014

Hi Everyone,

Here my World Cup nails for this year. Will do more ofcourse so hopefully we make it passed the first round ;) I did these earlier last week before I cut my nails. I needed them long to do this ;) And that night the Dutch team was playing their last friendly practise game, so it was fun to watch with orange nails :) Now I won't have much time to do my nails.

Base a gradient with China Glaze Son of a Peach and Impala Tech. Made some stamping decals and layered the stamping decals and stamping too. World Cup from MJ XXIV test plate stamping using multiple colors and layered it over a white image, cause otherwise the colors would not show up well. The Dutch flag is stamped with Konad M44 stamped all the lines seperately. The stadium, Rio and the Brazil flag heart are from Moyou Tourist 14. The smaller ball and World Cup from Konad M49 and the bigger soccer ball is from Konad M52. Used Konad SN black, white, red, blue, yellow and green.

And some more pictures.

It was really hard to scrape and not blend the colors on the world cup and the grass in the stadium and later adding a stamping decal of the little ball on top, but at the end I really liked this soccer/footbal mani.

And some pictures of the gradient base.

I really liked this orange gradient base.

Are you making World Cup nails? If you want to see more you can always search here for previous World Cup/ European Cup nails.

Tonight our Dutch team will play against Spain..so we need all the luck we can get haha.

Have a great weekend!

xoxo

V-day 2013 pastel gradient with hearts and kisses

Hi Everyone,

Today a V-day creation I've made today :) I was inspired by something I've made in 2009 but back then I used loose glitter over the sponging instead of a glitter topcoat and also used a different purple. Also had more hearts and no kisses see this post.

Sponged the base with Konad SN pastel pink, SN white and SN pastel violet, holo glitter topcoat from INM Nothern Lights. Stamped with M2, M3, M4, M18, M59, M84 Konad SN magenta and Catrice Forget me not.

Some more pictures.

And some pictures of the sponges base with the holo glitter topcoat.

I also made something like this (or more like the one I've made in 2009) last year with different colors and made my first and only video of it last year see this post.

I've entered these in a Valentines Contest from Konad if you like them you can "like"  my picture to vote and ofcourse see all the other pretty nails and like the ones you like too ;) Some have over 300 likes I know I won't make that, but that is okay I just love making themed nails for contest/challenges and like I always say having fun is most important :) 

Thanks for reading.

Enjoy your day :)

xoxox

V-day 2013 pink, holo, gradient, love nails ♥

Hi everyone,

Like I said I love to make V-day or love mani's :) So today I have another one for you. These nails were a bit inspired by something I've made in 2011 these purple holo V-day nails.

China Glaze How about a Tumble with China Glaze Tickly my Triangle gradient base. Stamped with Konad SN white, SN pastel pink, SN magenta, SN dark red and PSN cool red. Imageplates: M2, M3, M4, M13, M18, M34, M43, M59, M76, M84 and M90.

Some more pictures with different lighting.

And some swacthes of the gradient base with these 2 colors from the Kaleidoscope collection. This really is my favorite nail polish collection :)

I have some more Valentine's Day nails planned...at least 2 or maybe 3 ;)

Thanks for reading.

Have a nice day.

xoxox

Fire and Ice from 2009

Hi Everyone,

The challenge this week on AIS was using tape and stamping, but I am sick so I don't feel like doing my nails. Maybe if I feel better I will do a tape mani later this week, because I finally have some striping tape and love to use it. 

So today I'll show you a really old tape mani I made in January 2009 for a fire and ice themed contest. The red representing the fire and the white the ice, I also took pics in the snow with fire in the background ;) It is not very neat, but I remember that I was really proud of this back then :) I used normal tape for this and I remember it being really hard to do..lol :)

I am not sure what polishes I've used I think the white was from P2 and the red I know for sure was from Catrice (don't know name or numbers) Stamped with Konad imageplate M59 and half of the image with SN white and the other half with SN red.

And a collage with the fire in the backgorund :)

This was my contest entry in January 2009...lol :)

Thanks for reading, hope I feel better soon I have the same nails now for more then a week ;)

xoxox

Christmas nails 2011: Forever Friends Reindeer

Hi Everyone,

 

As I told you I still have some Christmas nails to show you from last year while I had a blogging break because of my mom's disease. I also have some more from before I started blogging. So in between my new mani's I'll will show all of these too.

 

I made these in December last year.

 

Base China Glaze Touch of Glamour. Stamped with Konad SN red and imageplate M59 (big snowflakes) and HB23 smaller red snowflakes. The golden snowflakes are stamped with China Glaze 2030 and Konad M11. The Forever Friends Reindeer are self made water decals. Later added a layer of China Glaze Wireless holographic topcoat, the flash and light made the effect stronger then it really was. In real life you only saw some glitter sometimes.

 

 With different light.

 

Without the holo topcoat, you see the decals better. But like I said in real life the decals were very clear with the topcoat too, it was the flash and light that made it soo holo ;)

 

Some swatches of China Glaze Touch of Glamour.

 

 

I know it is not even December yet, but I have some more Christmas nails to show you, so that is why I already start with it now ;)

Thanks for reading.

 

xoxox

A Romance in Paris ♥

Today some cute lovely nails I made this for a contest on Konad Ireland facebook. The theme was to make romantic nails, and she was going to Paris because of her 10 years anniversary.

As you all know I really like contests/challanges with or without prizes ;) especially since my mom died. I just love making something in a specific theme :) Doing me nails is still one of the things I like to do and it gives me distraction. When I am busy thinking of a creation or painting and stamping I just finally think of something else then missing my mom (and pets).

I thought of a Romance in Paris with kisses, the Eiffel tower, love, diamonds (jewelry) and a good glass of wine *cheers* and ofcourse lots of roses ;)

The Eiffel tower is a self made water decal, the rest is all stamped with M3, M4, M14, M18, M35, M38, M53, M59 even the word Paris is stamped from the patent and copyright letters that are engraved at the bottom of the big Konad demo plate :)

(I still can't print new decals (printer is broken) but I made these for over a year ago and they came in handy now ;))

For stamping I used Konad SN black and SN white, Opi Rosy-mistletoe-sies for the hearts and kisses and stuff and China Glaze TMI for the subtle holo pink roses.

The base is Orly Cotton Candy, see swatch below:

It still looks a bit sheer on some spots but that wasn't really the case in real life.

Have a nice week :) I still have a lot to show you guys so I think a might blog more often ;)

xoxox

Sponge love nails + movie tutorial

I made these nails in february for a Valentine/ love themed competition on the facebook site of the OC. It was required to make a movie haha, I never done that before but it was scary and fun :) I really needed the distraction so making my first movie was really nice to do.

Base is sponged with 3 colors Konad special nail polish PSN Cool Red, SN white and SN pink pearl, also used some rainbow glitter. I stamped with SN dark red, SN white, SN pastel pink and imageplates M59, M3 and M2.

 Also made kind of matching toes ;)

Here is just the 3 colored base with the glitter.

I really don't like to hear my voice especially in English but here you can see my video ;) shame shame shame :P

Have a nice week!

xoxox

Ice Crystals on P2 Blue's Time

A  couple of weeks ago it was really cold here in Holland and we also had some snow :) So I made icy nails back then.

Base is P2 531 Blue's Time stamped with imageplates Konad M59 and HB23. Used Essence stampy silver, SN white and SN pastel blue.

Some swatches of this very pretty color (is almost a 100% dupe of Essie Coat Azure)

I really like this kind of blue shade with a bit of shimmer in it, used 2 coats.

I'm not in the mood the write long blog posts but I do want to show you guys some nails so this is just a quick post again ;)

xoxox

Valentine's Day ideas part 4

Let's go back to the love, that is so much nicer then the fuss in my previous blog ;) (thanks everyone for the sweet words ♥ ) For today another love creation this time a purple one with lots of hearts.

As a base I'm wearing China Glaze LOL from the OMG collection, a lovely purple holo. Stamped with Konad SN pastel violet, pastel pink, pastel blue and white. Used imageplates: M2, M3, M4, M18, M34, M42, M47, M59 en BM02. Cupid is pointing his arrow to a purple fabric heart. Photo with flash under artificial light.

Photo without flash under artificial light.

Photo with flash.

And something else saturday I visited a couple of my nail friends. In the morning I went shopping with my boyfriend and in the afternoon I visited Giuditta's lovely home (with her two sweet cats) and Henny and Esther were there too :) We had so much fun, here is a picture of the four of us ♥

More pictures you can see on Giuditta's blog.

Valentine's Day ideas part 3

Today I have an older creation to show you, although this is from February 2009 I still like it. This was the first time I used Konad Sponge nail art.

I sponged the base with Konad SN pastel pink, white and pastel Violet. On top of the sponging I did some rainbow glitter.  I've used imageplates M2, M3 and M59. Stamped with Konad SN violet pearl, pink pearl and an old  dark pink polish with no name. On my middle finger I have some pink heartshaped rhinestones.

Photo without the rhinestones.

Here a photo of just the sponged base with glitter.

Will you vote for me at Parokeets for the this photo?

Christmas nails Metallic Green

Here again some Christmas nails :) I love making Christmas nails. I already have new Christmas nails at the moment but I still had to post this creation.

As a base I'm wearing HEMA metallic green (swatches see previous blog ad below) on top some Christmas decals. I did not make these decals myself, but I bought them. Self made decals don't have white in them, because a regular printer doesn't have white inkt. (yeah I know I still have to make a blog about how to make your own water decals) I stamped with Konad SN Green M59 and SN white M11.

Photo without flash under artificial light, here you can see the cute decals better.

 

 

 

 

I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year with lots of nailpolish and nailart ;)

PS: you can still enter my Giveaway

Disney Piglet week 1: winter

I still have my Winter Wonderland creation on my nails, and now it is snowing outside :) Ofcourse I have to post something new so I decided to show some older creation that I made. I'm a Disney fan and I really like Piglet so I often made Piglet nails, this week I'll show you them.

First Piglet's Winter, I made this in the winter of 2009.

 

As a base I'm wearing OPI Suzi and the lifeguard. I used self made water decals of Piglet. Stamped with Konad SN white and SN pink imageplate M11 and M59. On my ringfinger 2 rhinestones.

A photo with one of mine cute Piglet stuffed animals :)

Here s swatch of OPI Suzi and the lifeguard

 

Later this week I'll show you Piglet with flowers and Piglet with love (Valentines day)