I am back :)

Hi Everyone,

I feel so sad for neglecting my blog. I have been pretty active on instagram and facebook though but still this small little space online deserves attention too ;)

So I promise to write here again. Part of the reason I did not blogged was that my laptop is very old and slow...just starting it and trying to type took a while that I stopped trying. I downloaded the app but keep getting an error while posting a new post. But I will figure it out and try to blog from my phone.

Here is a mani I did yesterday for a tone on tone challenge in one of the FB groups.

A pastel blue and pink base. A little wonky ;) but I stamped the lines 5 times with 5 different pink tones and blue tones ( MdU and Konad stamping polishes). The lines are from Nailways Back to Basics - Lines.

Thank you all for reading. I hope I still some readers left haha :)

Xoxox

Diana

Sorry for being MIA for months + some random mani's

Hi Everyone,

Not sure how many of you still follow my blog since I've neglected it for months. In february I became very sick for at least 8 weeks and later I just did not feel like blogging. Won't bore you with the long long story ;) You can read more about on my fb page and IG. I have been posting on FB and IG lately. But I'll promise to blog regular too now.

I have lot's of mani's that I haven't show her also even Christmas and Easter ones, but won't share those now. 

Here just some mani's I did the last few months.

 Sponged a radial gradient with MdU neon blue, neon green and neon yellow over a silver base, stamped with Konad black and MJ XXV (tester plate).

Base Color Club What a Drag stamped with BP-L015 and MdU Neon blue and added light and dark blue rhinestones.

Red and gold challenge for #whencolourscollide ...could not photograph (not with camera or phone) somehow this phone snapshot turned out best...but still sucks ;)  P2 Eternal stamped with Essence A piece of forever and MoYou Nails 401. Thought it was fun to use a full nail image a little different.

Another one I did for the Red and Gold challenge #whencolourscollide. I liked this one better then my other one that was impossible to photograph.   Base a gold holo from BK and the red is Jade Vermelho Surreal. Stamped with Konad red and MoYou Nails 412.

A frog and leaves on my nubs. Essence 11 kiss under the mistletoe from my Essence advent calendar. Stamped with BP-L029. Added the frog from Konad M30 for another challenge. Stamping polish Born Pretty 12 fluor green.

Base Impala Audrey stamped branches with Moyou London Suki 10 the leaves are from Moyou London Mother Nature 02. The owl is from MoYou Nails 411. Used Konad and Born Pretty stamping polishes.

And for a 3D facebook challenge..my owl is sitting in real forest :P   I stuck some tiny real leaves on my nail.

Thank you all for checking my blog again.

xoxox

Valentines Day 2016: Heart Balloons

Hi Everyone,

Here a mani I've done earlier for another IG challenge I had to recreate one mani and here is my creation of a mani done by the amazing @secretjewelgarden. I adore her work so this was fun to do.

I even glued 2 rhinestones to gold rings and painted them with the matching nailpolish too match her rings and tried her hand pose hahaha :)I looked through all my plates and had to improvise.

Base Only You 015 pink party (Dutch drugstore brand. Stamped with Konad white the roses from FUN13, the "cloud" from BM404, the word love from Pueen43 and created the heart balloons with parts from Nailways Spring Time - Love is in the Air.

Here you can see mine next to the original mani.

This was so fun to do and make sure to check out her instagram too.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Valentines Day 2016: Love Letters

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for not blogging for a while, lots have been going on. But I have been doing my nails ofcourse :) maybe not as much as before. I have a lot to catch up but I'll start with my most recent mani. Will post my older ones later too.

I did these for a Valentines contest on IG and the theme was Love Letters. With on my ring finger a love letter and on the rest of my nails birds delivering the letters, roses and hearts. 

Base Sixteen matte 646 did a saran wrap with Konad white MdU 25 and 55. And on my ringfinger I used a little grey too Catrice C01 Pebble Beach. Stamped with Catrice Rock-O-Co C01 L'Ombre A Sanssouci, BPS black, MdU 55, 8, 32 and Konad white. Plates MoYou London Scholar 02 (writing and feathered pen), Suki 03 (the letters and small hearts), Mother Nature 01 (hearts and birds) and Mother Nature 05 (roses, leaves, branches, birds and fountain).

I later made it matte with China Glaze Magic matte.

I think I liked it better matte what do you think?

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Nani the dog nails with MoYou Nails 405 and 408

Hi Everbody,

Remember in my review about the new MoYou Nails Square plates I showed you these doggy nails and I promised to write a blog post about it too. They/we are still so busy at home with the new bathroom and everything got delayed again :( I have been doing my nails, just not as often. 

But I did these nails about 2 weeks ago when we went to pick up our adoption doggy Nani.

Base a gradient with  China Glaze Tickle my Triangle and How About a Tumble, stamped the paw prints from MoYou Nails 405 using Konad and MdU polish. The puppy is from 408. The letters come from Nailways Back to Basics - 123ABC.

Nani is 11 months old and from Spain, she was dumped as a small pup in the fields to die :( But since August she was in a Spanish shelter and November 8th she arrived here in Holland and stayed with a foster mom. We decided to adopt her. We already showed interest in her when we saw her "adopt me" poster on facebook and we filled in the application.  They liked us and we were allowed to contact her foster mom. When we called we heard she ran away in the forest when she was with her foster mom and got scared from 2 bigger dogs. So the next day we helped search for her. And I was the one who actually found her.

 Her first night with us and she met her "niece" Yoshi the red wired hair Dachshund.

This were my nails for good luck when we helped searching for her. And you see me with her when we just found her. Then it was not even sure we would be her adoption parents but who could resist that cute little face. I was so happy we found her. 

Base is Essence Happy Girls are Pretty LE 02 Happy Girls Rock. Stamped the paws with HB 37 and the dog is from MoYou Nails 66.

We are so happy to have this sweet little girl with us.

Thank you for reading.

xoxox

Jack Skellington

Hi Everyone,

Here another mani I did around Halloween, but it is something I would also wear on my nails normally not just for a holiday.

Base Catrice Rock-O-Co C01 L'Ombre A Sanssouci stamped with FUN7 and Jack is from Marianne Nails No 61.

And I also took a cute pic together with my sis her Jacks :)

Thank you al for reading!

xoxox

Halloween 2015: Mummies

Hello Hello,

Here is another Halloween mani, I done it for a stamping challenge I don't have a mummy stamp so I improvised ;)  

Base Essence 49 The only chance! Stamped with a mix of Konad polishes to make an off white color and BM409. Then painted the black and stamped the teeth (used the shrinking method) from BM H06 and placed red dots and stamped the eyes over it with BM H06 also :)

Thanks for reading :)

xoxox

Halloween 2015: Horror Movies The Grudge

Hi Everyone,

One of the themes of the BM challenge was Horror Movies. It made me think of The Grudge so I used the movie poster as my inspiration.

This is not the first time I used my own hair for nail art hahaha :)

Base Catrice Rock-O-Co C01 L´Ombre À Sanssouci. Freehanded the eye and eyebrow and added my own hair on it to make it look like the movie poster of The Grudge. And stamped the other nails with Sinful Colors Black on Black and BM301...no topcoat.

This was really fun to do :)

Thanks for reading and sorry for just posting a lot of short blogs.

xoxox

Halloween 2015: Witchy Woman

Hi Everyone,

Here another Halloween mani I did for the Bundle Monster challenge. The theme was Witchy Woman. 

Dry brush base with many blue polishes from Seventeen and also MdU stamping polishes. Painted the moon and stars with MdU Yellow. Stamped with MdU black the witch is from Bundle Monster BM13 and the trees are from BM407.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Halloween 2015 Autumn Ghosts

Hi Everyone,

For now I have to show you some Autumn Ghosts.  I did so many Halloween themed mani's the last weeks that I just post them without typing too much ;)

The ghosts are from Marianne plates no 61, the Autumn leavesa are from Konad M31 stamped with Mdu white, mustard, avocado, neon orange and tulip.  The base is Essence The Nudes 12 It's Nude, Dude!

Thanks for reading. 

xoxox

Halloween 2015 FreakShow

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to the Bundle Monster Freakshow. Their cute monster is turning into a devil and growing horns. There is also a 2 headed cat and a skeleton with 4 arms.  

Base Sinful Colors Black on Black. Sponged with a nude and stamped the wooden floor with BM309. The monster is from BM409 (I gave him horns). The cat with 2 heads I made from BM412. The skeleton BM413. The skulls BM H07. The letters are from Nailways Back to Basics - 123 ABC plate and the curtains are made with W209. Stamped using Konad and MdU polishes.

Just a short post today, But will post some more Halloween mani's,

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Halloween 2015: Bones and Skulls

Hi Everyone,

Here another Halloween mani I did for the Bundle Monster challenge. I am trying to catch up with their challenge and ofcourse rocking my new shorties ;)

Base I made a sort of radial gradient base with NailNation3000 Awesome Sauce and Color Club Revvvolution. Stamped with BM225 and on my ring finger with Konad M28.

Here also a picture of just the radial gradient base.

Thanks for visiting. I hope you like it that I post a lot again :)

And like I said I post a lot more on instagram so make sure to follow me there too ;)

xoxox

Parrot Polish with lace stamping from my first Marianne nails plate

Hi everyone,

I recently got my first Marianne nails plates so ofcourse I had to try them out. I love trying new stamping brands. I also had one of my untrieds Parrot Polishes so it was time to use that pretty one too.

I did not wanted to cover up a lot of this pretty polish so I used this amazing lace stamp that still shows a lot of the base.

 Parrot Polish Anne Cormac a beautiful duochorome or maybe even multi chrome holographic polish. Stamped with Konad SN black and Marianne Nails no 27.

Also a swatch of this gorgeous polish.

It is such a pretty polish..I am in love.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Amsterdam

Hi Everyone,

A few weeks ago I went to Amsterdam with my sister and her boyfriend. We had such a fun day, visiting all the vintage shops at the canals (we were looking for some Rock 'n' Roll stuff).

Ofcoure I had to go in style.

Base Essence Wild White Ways stamped with Konad Black and MoYou London Tourist 15.

Also took some pictures of my nails in Amsterdam and at the beach in Zandvoort.

Thought it was fun took take a pic with a van Gogh painting since he was also on my nails.

Ofcourse we also had to go to the Yankee Candle store and scored some amazing goodies in the sale :) 

 Thank you all for reading.

xoxox

Gradient stamped butterflies

Hello Everyone,

For one of the facebook groups the challenge was gradient stamping and also the theme was butterflies, so I thought why not combine those 2.

Base Essie Coat Azure stamped with Mundo 5,24 and 42 using FUN-WON for the big butterflies and FUN15 for the smaller ones.

And a swatch of this pretty blue polish.

I also used it on my toes with will share that in me pedi blog post.

Thanks for reading have a nice weekend!

xoxox

Rock 'n' Roll music notes

Hi Everyone,

Here my mani and pedi I had last weekend. There was a music festival in my home town and it was Rock 'n' Roll themed. I love that so ofcourse had to do a mani and pedi.

Base Purple Professional Summer Sugar collection 82 On Fire! (it's a textured polish that is why you see little specks in the stamps ;)) Stamped with MoYou Nails 300 the full nail images of the stars and music notes and later edited my accent nail and stamped with MoYou London Back to the 50's 01 the small music notes, Rock 'n' Roll and the black music record. 

Also did a matching pedi ofcourse

Here just a quick phone picture before I editted the accent nail.

MoYou London is currently having a pedi contest on IG, you all know how much I love pedi's so this is soooo me :) You have to be creative with the picture too and include stuff that fits your pedi...so much to do :)

Also a swatch of my base before adding topcoat so you can really see how it looks like.

Don't forget with with code: Diana you'll get 20% off on MoYou Nails their .com and their .us site. These are the round plates so not the rectangular that is MoYou London.

I have done many more pedi's for this IG contest so you'll be seeing an all pedi post soon too.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Holo roses

Hi Everyone,

Here a mani I've done a few weeks ago. I just took some quick phone pictures. I wanted to use the special FUN-WON plate again and my OPI mini sheer tints I got a few months ago from my sweet friend from the US.

Base Color Club Harp on it. Stamped with the roses from the FUN-WON plate and colored them with the OPI mini sheer tints.

Also did a matching pedi.

For the smaller toes I just used the inside part of the rose stamp.

Thanks for reading :)

Have a nice day!

xoxox

Lace with Born Pretty BP-L020

Hi Everyone,

Here my mani from last week. I just did something quick and it stayed on my nails for a week. Was busy with other stuff.

I love all the Born Pretty plates I own they are amazing, the quality is great and they stamp perfectly.

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 Essence Nails in Style LE 03 Style me love, stamped with Konad White and BP-L020.

Here also a swatch of the polish, it was a LE some years ago. It covers in almost one coat and dries really quick.

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