Happy Thanksgiving :)

Hi Everyone,

I want to wish all my US readers a Happy Thanksgiving :) So today I have a Fall/Autumn Thanksgiving mani for you all :) I call this another episode from my Children's book :) cause someone once commented on a mani that it reminded her of children's book illustrations :) And with my Fairytale nails I also wrote a little story....the story on my nails lol :) So this time it is a thanksgiving episode in the forest with all kinds of cute animals. I love doing scenery/ landscape nails :)

Base a subtle gradient with Different Dimension Tubular and Born Pretty Store holo no 5. Stamped with Moyou Suki 01 (branches), Moyou Biker 08 (leaves), Moyou Back to the 60's 01 (mushroom), Winstonia W115 (owl), Winstonia W119 (turkey), Bundle Monster BM H11 (pumpkin), HB28 (spider), H21 (squirrel). Using Konad brown, black, white, yellow, green, red, orange, pastel orange and mixed some. From some images I made stamping decals, some I double stamped and the rest is just normal stamping :)

Here a pic of the sublte holo gradient.

I entered these in a Fall/Thanksgiving contest :)

Hope you all have a great thanksgiving for those who celebrate :) The rest hope you all just have a great day too :)

I am really happy with how these turned out.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

A Fairytale ♥

Hi Everyone,

When I saw some of the Moyou plates this Summer I knew I wanted to make certain mani's with them. One of them was the cherry blossom with owls I showed you some months ago. Another one was the mani I'll show you today :) I just had to have this plate to do this mani. But somehow I waited a few month to actually do it hahaha. I did these last week. And was happy with how they turned out. The challenge last Sunday in AIS was I am in the mood for....well I was in the mood for fairytales and happy endings ;) When I posted this mani friday in another nail group I also wrote a little story with them. Someone once said on one of my mani's it reminded her of  children books illustrations :), so was a bit crazy and thought let's write the story too haha. It is the story on my nails:

It is a beautiful starry night in WONvillage*. The moon is full and 1000 of stars shine bright. The fairy is watching over the castle and keeps an eye on the princess when the king and queen leave in their carriage with horses. The evil witch is already on her way to the castle to kidnap the princess but pegasus makes sure she won't come closer :)  So the princess will get a goodnight sleep and she will never know of the danger lurking outside the castle walls. Cause her magical friends will protect her <3 

*WON is the name of the group

Gradient with Color Club Puccilicious, Hits Frapê 416 and Hits Edicao Limitada 205. China Glaze Fairy Dust on top. Stamped with Konad SN black and Moyou London Princess 07 (fairy, castle, carriage, horses, witch) And Moyou Princess 04 (pegasus). Stamped the stars with Konad SN pastel yellow and Moyou Princess 07. Twinkle stars with Color Club Worth the Risque and Moyou Festive (aka Christmas) 01 but those aren't showing very well on the pic. Also stamped the rein (?) from the carriage and the horses with parts of the necklace image on Princess 07.

Some more picture of the mani.

I went swimming this weekend and in the pool you can dive and see aquaria undewater, so I had to take a pic of my nails too (love playing with our underwater camera). Too bad the fishes wouldn't show up while I took the pics ;)

 In the right corner you can see a yellow fish.

Here a better pic of the fishes.

And a picture of just the gradient base.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

2 Halloween mani's with Nailways Halloween plate

Hi Everyone,

Today I have two mani's to show you :) I have so many images I want to use that last week I decided to make different mani's on my left and right hand :)

Let's start with my left hand.

Base a gradient with 3 holo's a light green franken, Nubar Reclaim and Color Club Revvvolution. Stamped with Konad SN black and SN dark orange (and SN yellow for the dots). Plate Nailways Darker Period- Halloween A-NW00016.

Here some pics of just the gradient.

 I really liked how this gradient turned out :)

And now my right hand, the hand I always have trouble with to photograph or hold my fingers normal haha. So these pics aren't great but you can see the mani (most of it) ;)

Base a gradient with 2 Jade holo's Hypnose and Fascinio Violeta. Stamped with Klean color metallic black (Konad SN yellow for the dots) and all images are from the Nailways Darker Period- Halloween A-NW00016 plate.

Here also some pics of the gradient base.

I had my nails like this for a few days haha. I really like Nailways plates :) They now have 16 of their own plates, divided in 4 sets see their website.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

There is a dead man hanging in the tree

Hi everyone,

I hope you aren't getting bored with all my Halloween mani's yet, cause I have still plenty to show you. Already did 12 halloween mani's this year, and plan on doing 2 or 3 more ;) Today another one made with new StampAholics plate ST02 :) This was actually my first mani I've made with this awesome plate (that explains why my nails are long again haha) I was just so in love with the hanging person in the tree haha. And for people who don't like that idea, you could just say it is a huge bat hanging upside down or something like that ;)

Base Color Club Revvvolution, shadow stamped the tree with Color Club Worth the Risque (also made the moon with that) and stamped over that with Konad SN black. Stamped the pumpkins first with Konad SN yellow and colored them then went over it with Konad SN orange pearl. Stamped the bats with Konad SN black. All images are from the Stampaholics ST02 plate.

Here a funny pic with a Halloween lollipop ;)

In case you missed my 2 previous posts here again some quick paper swatches of this plate.

More info about the StampAholics plates see my previous post.

Thanks for reading :)

Have a nice weekend!

xoxox

A witching time at night when everything might bite

Hi everyone,

Today I'll show you my Bundlemonster contest entry :) I've made 2 weeks ago and I could not choose which one I wanted to enter in the contest, this one or the The trees get eyes when the moon begins to rise so I posted it in a nail group and the lovely members helped me choose by voting on which one they liked best. And this mani had more votes :)

You can see all the entries of this Halloween contest here. You can vote on all the entries you like and you can vote every day till October 23rd. If you like mine I am on page 10 ;) They are in the order of how they were submitted (I believe) so on page 11 the first entries and page 1 the last entries.

You also had to give it a title so I called them "A witching time at night when everything might bite".   During Halloween everything might be haunted and can get freaky even the cutest things like a bunny. So I made a Halloween scenery where everything is freaky and haunted even a cute bunny that is now "evil".

Sponged the base with 4 Konad stamping polishes SN pastel blue, SN sky pearl, SN blue and SN royal purple, painted the sky (with different colored brush strokes)  the moon, tree trunks and the little cross. Stamped with BM04 (cat), parts of BM12 (leaves, branches), BM13 (cross, bats, witch), BM20 (stars), BM302 (devil bunny haha) and BM305 (pumpkins, house and the part of the devil to make the bunny evil) colored some images and dotted yellow eyes.

I only have the first and 3rd BM set so I had to get creative with the images :)

Here is the direct link to my entry A witching time at night when everything might bite  but you can always look mine up on page 10 :) Remember to vote for all you like (I am also voting for my fellow nail friends who entered) and you can vote every day.

If you are on a phone and it doesn't work try this:  http://www.bundlemonster.com/cirquedufreakcontestentry I am on page 10.

Thank you so much for reading (and maybe voting too) :)

xoxox

The trees get eyes when the moon begins to rise!

Hi Everyone,

Today I'll show my first Halloween nails of this year. I love Halloween even though it isn't really celebrated here. I've made these last week together with another Halloween mani, and I could not choose which one to enter in the Halloween contest, so I asked members of a FB group they chose the other one (will show them later this week or next week).

"The trees get eyes when the moon begins to rise"

Sponged base (Konad pastel orange yellow, dark orange, cool red and added some brush strokes to get a sky effect and a little foggy around the trees) colored the moon, drew the tree trunks and stamped the branches and leaves with parts of BM12 with Konad SN black and added some yellow dots as eyes. The Jack O on the moon is from BM305. I was a little proud of myself that I drew the tree trunks and moon haha cause I hardly freehand stuff (I know it were just lines but still, lines are hard for me too :P )

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

xoxox 

Fall / Autumn scenery with Moyou plates ♥

Hey Everyone,

Today something I've made this week :) I know I am behind with posting older mani's but I wanted to share this new one today. Because Fall has begun, and last sunday's challenge in AIS was Autumn themed. And also this months color palette project in WON had Fall colors. So I combined those 2 challenges :)

A gradient base with Impala Pier, Risque Menta and P2 Your Wild Side matte 010 Vibrant Green. Stamped with Konad SN brown, SN yellow, SN green, SN dark orange, SN black mixed with brown, SN red, SN white, PSN jungle green and PSN cool red. Using Moyou London Suki 01 (leaves and branches), Back to the 60's 01 (mushrooms) and Princess 04 (squirrel, snail, hedgehog).

Another different picture with the WON monthly palette project colors attached.

For the WON MPP it was required to use some sort of dotting so I dotted the dots on the mushrooms and the eyes of the animals.

The same picture without the palette.

And the unusual (at least to me) not so pretty gradient base ;)

 I did like this base for this Autumn mani, not the kind of colors I usually use for gradients.

The colors for my gradient base.

I am in love with all the Moyou London plates :) For those of you who don't know them yet, you can buy the plates here  They have a lotttt of great plates to choose from.

Thanks for reading have a nice Autumn day ;)

xoxox

Sea nails on JOSS Holographic Caribbean Holiday ♥

Hi Everyone,

I was on holiday the last 2 weeks and did not wanted to make pre planned blogposts, wasn't and still am not really feeling like blogging much. Anyway the trip to Terschelling was fun will post those nails and pics later :)

Today something I've made a month ago, I just loveeeee this base polish sooo much. The stamping wasn't great cause I double stamped everything, but overall I still liked this mani :)

Base JOSS holographic Caribbean Holiday. Stamped every sea creature twice for more brighter colors (or with different colors and colored them in) so it isn't perfect but it is okay :) ) LLC5 (love this plate) for the sea creatures ♥ with different Konad pastel stamping colors, M16 for the blue bubbles using Sally Hansen Blue it, H29 for the seaweed in bright shimmer green (a Flormar polish) and dark green (Konad SN green) to give it aome depth.

Also made a matching pedi :)

 Same base color, turtle from LLC5 and blue bubbles from M16.

And a pic of both my feet.

Ofcourse also some swatches. I really love blue polish and holo, so this could be one of my favorite polishes ever :)

I bought this polish and the LLC5 plate at Llarowe I was so happy to had won a giftcard (empowering woman contest from Lacquer or Leave Her ) a while ago so I could finally buy some of the amazing polishes and plates they sell there.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

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

Traces in the Snow

Hi everyone,

Today something I've madebefore the weekend, it was snowing again so I thought let's make another Winter mani :) And I have wanted to do this for a while now, ever since I got that Traces plate :)

Base Kiko 401 (a gorgeous blue holo, I am in love with it :)) Stamped with Konad SN white and SN black. The snow at my cuticles is stamped with the sort of gradient image from BM301 (it's perfect for stuff like this :)), the little snowflakes are from HB23, the tree is from Cheeky XL L, the traces and wolf/fox are from Nailways Snowwhite-Traces A-NW00003, the snow dots are made with a dotting tool.

And here of course a lot of swatches of this pretty base color.

I really love this color, as you know I just have a thing for blue polish :)

Thanks for reading, enjoy your day.

xoxox

My sad gray Mommy memorial Christmas nails :(

Hi Everyone,

Today it's been exactly a year that my mom died...it was 2nd Christmas day 2011. So I decided to make some less happy Christmas nails for Christmas. I've been making happy nails for a couple of weeks already and I really wanted to make these now for my mommy, cause I don't feel happy at all. And as you know I love doing my nails for special things/themes/occasions. And I really like making sort of landscape/scenery nails too.

I did a black, gray, white gradient for my zebra fashion nails and I really like that, so I decided to do it again but then the other way around, so black tips instead of black at the cuticles. It gives the whole scene a bit of dramatic, sad feeling, but to make a little more sparkly for Christmas I added a holographic topcoat.

Base a gradient of Essence 50's girls reloaded 01 Ahoy, Catrice 01 Pebbles Beach and Beauty UK Midnight Minx black. Added a layer of Chine Glaze Wireless holographic topcoat. All the snowflakes (bigger and little) are from HB23 stamped with Konad SN white. The rest is stamped with Konad SN black.

Pinkie: trees from Nailways Snowwhite Christmas A-NW00002 plate.
Ring finger: cross from Konad S2, tree from HB33, cute snow bunny from HB38.
Middle finger: big tree HB012, small tree HB33.
Index: snowman from BM318 (I gave him a sad face), tree HB33.
Thumb: the sort of tombstone is actually the slot machine from Konad M48 that I colored in and painted a little cross on top, tree is from HB33 and the word mom and 2011 are made with the numbers and letters on the side of Konad M20 and M11.

Here another picture.

And some swatches of the gradient base.

I like this gradient.

And also a picture of Danbo in my mommy's memorial corner.

With the funeral thank you card (where she is watching the endless sunset in Greece), my little urn with Greek signs, her picture and the funeral card we designed our selves (she took this picture herself on Santorini).

Hope you all have a great Christmas.

xoxox

It's a snowy day!

Hi Everyone,

 

I made these nails last week, before I I made them a bit shorter ;) I realy love making themed nails. They predicted snow this weekend so I decided to make an ice cold winter snowy day on my nails.

 

Base Essence 50's girls reloaded 01 Ahoy with a gradient of Essence You Rock 05 Speed of light blue, China Glaze Towel Boy Toy and China Glaze Splish Splash. Topcoat Catrice C06 Godfather of pearl for the blue shimmer/glitter. Stamped with XL O (it's a dupe from XL K), Nailways' own Christmas plate (snowwhite collection) A-NW00002, BM318, BM319, HB012, HB23, M11 and M12. Stamped with Konad SN white and Nfu Oh 65 (light blue holo).

 

Different light.

 

And some pictures of the gradient base. I really liked this gradient :)

 

 

 

 

I really like blue :)

 

This weekend I went to Germany to a Christmas Fair with my sis and my boyfriend. I got some nice cheap polishes for Christmas already :) 3 Flormars and one holo from Kiko...I was soo happy loveee holo.

 

It was already nine o'clock in the evening. But the shops and the market were open until 10.

 

Me and my sis at the Christmas fair/market or how you call it ;)

 

Here you see a crazy pic of me at the Christmas fair with my Chococat nails. It was snowing really hard, it was wet snow but did stayed on my hair and sleeve.

 

If you look closely you see the snow falling. It was sooo cold and we were soaked, so went inside the shopping mall again for some hot choco ;)

 

I got this cute warm microwave stuffed animal from boyfriend. If you put it in the microwave it becomes really warm...perfect for cold days. They had many kinds but I loved the black sheep...I sometimes also feel like a black sheep ;)

 

Me and my black sheep after the long cold snowy Christmas market shopping day.

 

 

Thanks for reading.

xoxox