Neon Sunset Summer nails :)

Hi Everyone,

I made this last week and I am soooo happy with them. I love these kind of nails. So when I saw the new plates from Nailways I just had to have them. I love scenery /landscape nails and I just love Summer time. 

Also I am sick again :( I am really sick of being sick, my snotty cold was finally away for a week. But now it's back really bad, hopefully it will go away soon. I was in the hospital Monday for something else and later that day I felt really bad, snotty, sneezing, glowing red cheeks :( Maybe I got something from the hospital, anyway I hope it will be gone soon.

I still have this on my nails today, cause I was sooo happy with them :)

Base China Glaze Snow, sponged with CG Towel Boy Toy, CG Splish Splash, CG Sun Kissed, CG Orange you Hot?, CG Love's a Beach and Color Club Puccilicious. A Spectraflair topcoat. Stamped with Konad SN black and the new images plates from Nailways: A-NW00010 Vive La Vie - Beach Baby, A-NW00011 Vive La Vie - On the Water and A-NW00012 Vive La Vie - Vacation (for the little plane on my thumb) The waves are stamped with Sally Hansen Blue it and also from those plates. Also colored the light from the lighthouse with Snow and Sun Kissed.

Another picture (this is actually the first a took the rest I took a few days later)

The sort of gradient sunset base.

Another picture without flash.

A picture of both my hands, my friend Judith made this of my nails when I was at her place to show some of her friends :)

And playing with a little UV light, I love it how bright neons look with UV light :)

I was sooo happy with this mani, these kind of nails are so my thing (not all the time cause I do like simple nails too but I just love making these every now and then) And in the hospital I got lost of compliments that was soo fun cause I hardly get any compliments in real life :)

I also got the Sunshine award from the lovely Mishka (Michelle) from Lacquer or Leave Her! I always feel soooo honored to receive an award, I already got this a while ago so not gonna do everything again (part of me wants too, the other part just feels too sick :( ) But I did want to mention her and her awesome blog, so you should all check it out if you haven't already.

Thanks for reading

xoxox

Hello Kitty with Cherries from 2010

Hi Everyone,

Today a short post. This is something I've made in 2010 but never posted on my blog (like many more mani's ;))

Base China Glaze White on White with a layer of Golden Rose magic 301. Self made water decals of Hello Kitty and her bunny friend with cherries on them :) Stamped with Konad PSN cool red and SN green using M48 for the little cherries and B02 for the big ones.

Thanks for reading :)

xoxox

Greece 2012: Caretta Caretta sea turtles

Hi everyone,

 

I still haven't showed all my creations from my vacation last month to Greece. So lets go back to the Summer instead of Fall and rain :) Today I'll show you my Caretta Caretta nails, I made those in my 2nd week on Zakynthos. The Caretta Caretta turles are an endangered spieces and one of the places they live and where they lay their eggs is Zakynthos. Many beaches there are protected because of all the nesting places.

 

This is again a post with lotsss of pictures :) From my nails with beautiful backgrounds, but also some holiday pics and pics of real Caretta Caretta's that I saw there...they are sooo sweet and big :) The local people really loved my turtle nails :) And I was joking that I could offer to make turtles on customers from touring agencies who organize turtle spotting trips...like book now a turtle trip and get turtle nail art for 5 euros or something :) ....oh wow really doing something like that in the main season will be a gold mine ;) and sooo much fun :) A girl can dream right? ;)

 

Let's start with a pretty blue ocean picture :) In the back you see "Turtle Island" it is called that way because it is shaped like a turtle and also the beach there is one of the nesting beaches.

 

The base is a lime yellow holo franken made with many polishes and Spectraflair. Stamped with Konad SN green and imageplate HB016, the bubbles are from H20. The word Caretta Caretta are self made water decals.

 

 The view from our balcony.

 

 In Zante town harbour.

 

Of course I had to make a matching pedi. The word Zakynthos is also a self made water decal, the turtle is from HB016 and the turtle shells are from BM313.

 

 Turtle island in the back..it really does look like a turtle :)

 

My thumb.

 

 A view from above.

 

 Enjoying the pretty blue water :)

 

The decals aren't that pretty anymore (had it on my nails for a week ;)) but this was during a boat trip to spot the Caretta Caretta's unfortunatelly we did not see any during this trip, so I took a pic of my hand above the gorgeous blue water.

 

 My turtles swimming under water ;)

 

Of course some swatches of my lime yellow franken. I really don't know what polishes I used but they were a lot ;)

 

In the sun.

 

Some holiday pictures.

 

 Dave and I with Turtle Island in the back....pfff it was soooo hot that day.

 

 Cooling down in the shadow with some water sitting on the rocks watching the ocean.

 

 Walking to a rocky beach with Turtle Island and my dad in the back ;)

 

 One of the many churches.

 

 I am on the top of the world...uhh brigde ;)

 

My own cave man climbing the white rocks...these were really weird and broke very easily. It looked like salt with sand or something.

 

 Some more turtle sand "castles" that I made haha lol :)

 

 From the boat, there are a lot of caves around the island.

 

We stoppped here for a swimming stop.

 

 Dave and I on the turtle trip boat.

 

 During sunset and the moon is rising above the mountain.

 

Feeding the cats and kitties on our balcony in the evening after a beach day.

 

Early in the morning in Agios Sostis harbour to visit Cameo Island and the Caretta Caretta that is spotted around the harbour/island every morning.

 

 There she is....isn't she cute? And really big about 80 cm.

 

 Look at those eyes <3

 

Having a drink with my dad (and Dave but he took the pic) at Cameo Island.

 

The view from Cameo Island with Turtle Island in the back.

 

 Enjoying my ice cold peachy ice tea.

 

The wooden bridge to Cameo Island, which had 2 bars one on top (where you can spot the turtles) and one at the beach on the other side. And in the main season there are lots of parties there.

Thank you al for watching/reading :) Hope you liked this post about the Caretta Caretta, the Greek island Zakynthos and a peek in my holiday pics too ;)

 

xoxox

 

 

 

Greece 2012: I am back from Zakynthos

Hi my lovely readers,

 

The last couple of weeks I've been showing you only older manis, that was because I planned those blog posts before I went on vacation with my dad and boyfriend. As many of you know I love Greece, my boyfriend and I visit another island every year. This year my dad went with us because he wanted to go on holiday too, his first time after my moms death.. it was really hard. Zakynthos wasn't one of the prettiest islands I've seen, but did really loved the boot trips we did. The prettiest things were on the outside of the island like some beaches and a lot of caves.

Zakynthos is "famous" for the Caretta Caretta turtle who swims in the bay of Laganas and lays eggs on the beaches there. So all my manis had something with turtles on it. I will show them to you the next couple of weeks. I also always try to take some holiday nail pictures, so I have a lot of pictures I had this on my nails more then a week so some pics you see a bit of tipwear ;)

 

Let's start with a nice sunset behind the mountains.

 

Here the picture I took before I left.

It's a gradient base with white from P2 and China Glaze Towel Boy Toy, China Glaze Splish Splash and a blue shimmer from a very old LE from Catrice over all of it. Self made water decals of the shape of the island with the Greek flag on it, the word Zakynthos and Caretta Caretta turtles. Stamped the Greek Meandros sign with Konad SN White and image plate S6.

 

Zakynthos (Zante) town in the back.

 On the beach we often went to. You could only lie a few meters from the ocean because in the soft sand there we Caretta Caretta turtles nests who still needed to hatch.

 My toesies over looking the sea and a small island.

My nails with some of my Caretta Caretta sand castles I've made on the beach :) LOL She had a shell shield and also here baby ;)

 

Here a picture of me with my piece of sand art ;)

 

I also saw some starfish while I was snorkeling, ofcourse after taking a picture I brought them back in the ocean where I found them :)

My toes again, made before we left,

 

Me holding "turtle island" it is called this way because it is shaped a bit as a turtle. And also the Caretta Caretta turtles nest on the beach on that island.

 

Here a pic of only the decals.

 

 Also one of just the gradient base.

 

Also some more holiday pics :)

 

Shipwreck beach...you can only get there by boat. Or look from above like this.

 

 Some rocks in the sea and a lot of sea weed.

 

 I had my own cruises there hahahahah lol :)

 

 Under a palm tree in Zante town.

 

 Dave and me in Zante town in the morning.

 Me swimming to a secluded beach (you see me waving above to rock corner on the right).

 

Here you see the beach I was swimming to.

 

I also have some pics from the Caretta Caretta turtles and from the outside of the island but will show those with my other turtle manis I made during my vacation.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

xoxox