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

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

China Glaze Tantalize me with stars from 2009

Hi Everyone,

This challenge this sunday on AIS was to stamp over a lilac base, but since we celebrated Liberation Day I did not had time to do something new. But I had this never showed lilac mani from 2009, so I thought let's post that one. Even though I've made italmost 4 years ago, I still like these a lot :)

Base China Glaze Tantalize me. Stamped with Konad M45 the tips using SN violet pearl. Put a bit of topcoat over the stamping and then added glitter over it. Stamped with M3 the stars using SN violet pearl and SN pastel blue. And a hexagon star thingy on my ring finger ;)

I also did a matching pedi, stamped with the same plate M3 (also used the other star images on that) and a Hello Kitty decal I'd bought. But the decal had no outlines so she really disappeared on my big toe ;)

 Here you see the decal without any outlines. 

And another picture of my hand.

And of course a swatch of this pretty lilac color with blue shimmer.

Did you guys notice the bottle says 19ml...that is soo weird. The China Glaze bottles are all the same size (except mini's) but they are never 19 ml...LOL.

Thank for reading :)

xoxox

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

Christmas 2011: Winnie the Pooh cuties

Hello Everyone,

 

Today something from 2011 again. These nails were very special to me I made them while my mom was in the hospital and had surgery. We did not know back then she would never wake up again :( We left the hospital very late that evening and my current nails weren't pretty at all any more and I felt weird standing beside her bed with chipped nails. She wouldn't expect that of me, so really late in the evening I did my nails really quick. When I need to do something quick I always choose a holo polish. I did not bring much nail stuff to my parents place but I did had some decals and plates.

 

My mom knew I really like Disney so I used these Disney cuties water decals that I made and designed myself. I made them Christmassy adding the stocking, hat, tree, present, candy cane etc.

 

Seeing these nails makes me sad again, because she never saw them anymore. And I used to love showing my nails every week to my mom. And with these nails I spent a week until 2nd Christmas (the day she died) living in the hospital. We also slept there (well tried to sleep there was one extra bed so we took shifts) and  we only left sometimes to get some food and feed our pets. But my mom and dad's place is only 5 minutes by bike from the hospital. My dad never left and even showered there, the moment she did really died I wasn't there (I was just at home to take a shower) and I blame myself and it makes me mad. Because my sister slept a couple of nights at home because she couldn't leave her dog alone so many nights and nothing happened. And I just left 5 minutes after staying with her all the time and she died and I missed that :( it still feel so bad :( Some people say that maybe she wanted to spare me that final moment of turning really white with blue finger nails, but to me it feels like I let her down and I wasn't there for her and that feeling sucks.

So these nails really remind me of that period :( and are very special to me.

 

Base China Glaze Sexagon (my favorite silver holo). Self made and designed water decals of the Winnie the Pooh cuties. And stamped the stars from Konad M3 with SN red.

Also something weird, we did decorated the trees at my mom and dad's place and at my boyfriend place while she was in the hospital, because after the first surgery it went well and they were saying that maybe she could be home with Christmas...unfortunately that never happened. The Christmas decorations at my parent's place are always silver and at me and my boyfriends place they are red. So I realized later that these nails represent both colors of both my homes (I offically still live with my parents ;)) and I often decorate my nail room with Disney Christmas stuff.

But this year I decorated the door of out living room with Winnie the Pooh :)

 

 

Thanks for reading.
 

xoxox sad me :(

Christmas trees from 2008 :)

Hi everyone,

Today I have a real oldie for you haha, I made during Christmas time in 2008. I also like sharing my oldies with you, I wasn't very good in clean up back then..did not had a brush. But I don't mind sharing them. This was in me first year of stamping and I like looking at my oldies too :)

Not really sure why I took pics of my right hand?? I guess I had a broken nail on my left hand back then ;)

Base a pink pearl polish (don't know the brand any more but I suspect Catrice since I did not had many polishes back then) with a white french. Stamped with Konad M3, M12 and M35 and SN green, SN yellow, SN red, SN white and PSN chocolate brown. On my index a blue star glitter or rhinestone or something.

This was the original photo when you saw part of the Christmas tree, but I zoomed a bit so you could see the nails better.

Hope you like seeing my oldies too?

xoxox

Nail art inspired by my new Havaianas on Orly Fiesta

I got some new Havaianas this weekend, and I was inspired by them to make a nail art creation. Using matching colors and hearts and skulls, because the pattern of my flipflops looks like hearts and heartshaped skulls. So I used hearts and a stamp that looks to me like some sort of skull (with 3 tiny skulls underneath) too ;)

Base Orly Fiesta with Spectraflair 14 topcoat. Stamped with Konad SN black and imageplate BM310 and Konad SN pastel pink and imageplate M3.

Some picture os just my hand.

A swatch of Orly Fiesta with Spectraflair 14 topcoat.

And some swatches of just Orly Fiesta.

I like getting inspiration from thing I see or happen to me, this time it were my new flip flops :)

Have a nice day!

xoxox

Olympic nails

Hello,

I made these nails friday, I was hoping that we would win some more medals this weekend. And we did...our small country won some more medals :) Even won more today.

I went for a gold holographic base and used the colors of the Olympic flag for stamping.To stay in the Olympic theme I used a circle full nail stamp and stars for the french tips.

Golden Rose Paris Holographic 104. Stamped with Konad SN yellow, SN blue, SN black, SN red and SN green. Imageplate M85 and M44.

Also a bit of matching toes. Just some stars in the Olympic colors on my big toe.

Stamped with the same colors used imageplate M3.

 Here some swatches of this golden holo.

 With flash.

A bit blurry.

I really like watching all kinds of sport with the Olympics but I love gymnastics. (I did that when I was younger for more then 10 years, but I was a bit tooo tall ;))

Have a nice evening.

xoxox

Soccer/Football month: Dutch Lions against Brazil (Wold Cup 2010)

These nails I made in 2010 for the World Cup match against Brazil. We really were convinced that we were doomed to loose that match, but we won :)

Base Impala Rocket (a polish from Brazil to keep everything balanced ;)) Sponged orange tips with Konad SN orange and some orange neon glitter on top. Self made water decal of lions with a football (lions are a Dutch symbol from many years ago and now days also used to support our country in soccer/football matches) Stamped stars from Konad M3 using SN red, white and blue.

Using a Brazilian polish as a base brought us luck 2 years ago because we won and we never expected that. Our next match is against Germany....shall I use a German polish as a base this time? I was thinking P2 because that is unlike Essence and Catrice (who are also German brands) only sold in Germany I believe.

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

Removed blog - now only Catherine Arley 670 swatches

I had to remove these nails I got an email which said:

Please remove these listings as the items listed are an infringement of our images, our images and trademark are copyright protects and the listed items are not genuine Me to You products.

There was more in the email I don't really understand it all but okay :) Although I love Tatty Teddy I won't be posting my nails with them on it....but I don't really know why you can't make something on your own nails as hobby inspired on something that you like. But I guess it also has something to do with copyright on the name and maybe I should have named my blog post differently. 

Some swatches of Catherine Arley 670:

I hope you will have a lovely V-day ♥

I sure do miss my mom, we used to give eachother a small present on V-day :(

xoxox

Christmas would never be the same…. Mommy died :(

I was planning to show you many Christmas nail creations these last few weeks but things did not turned out the way they should. On 2nd Christmas day my mom died :(

My sweet lovely mom R.I.P.

I REMOVED TO WHOLE STORY ABOUT MY MOMS LAST DAYS AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPEND, I GUESS WRITING AND SHARING PERSONAL STUFF ONLINE IS A WEIRD THING TO DO........SO I READ. FOR ME IT WAS A WAY TO DEAL WITH EVERYTHING AND WRITE IT DOWN AS SORT OF A JOURNAL/MEMORY (THAT WON'T GET LOST) BUT ANYWAY I REMOVED IT BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE THAT KIND OF GOSSIP AND STUFF :(

I really miss my mom, she was my best friend and I did a lot of things with her. She was the sweetest mom ever ♥ Don’t really know how to live without her, there are so many thing I want to share and do with her. It makes me sooooo sad she won’t be there If I ever get married or maybe have children on my own.

Mommy I love you ♥ Sagapo (I love you in Greek) like we often said or texted to eachother. Words can’t describe how much we all miss you!

xoxox very sad Diana

Various Older Bright Neon Summer Nails

Today I'll show you some older neon creations that I all made in July 2010. I love bright colors especially in the summer :)

The first one is a bright pink star creation.

Base China Glaze Pink Voltage. Stamped with Color Club Wild at heart and imageplate M15, and some Konad SN pastel violet stars from M3.

And ofcourse I also wanted to match my toes again ;)

Here a swatch of China Glaze Pink Voltage.

I really love this color ♥

For this second creation I was inspired by an entry of the summer sponging challenge on Polish Hoarder Disorder it was made by Emerald Sparkled I totally loved the bright colors she used and the pineapples. I also had to make matching toes :)

Base on my hands and toes is OPI Alpine Snow and China Glaze Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. On my big toe I stamped with Konad SN dark orange and SN green imageplate M29.

My hands base OPI Alpine Snow with China Glaze Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Sponged with China Glaze Sun Worshipper, Konad SN white and on top that China Glaze Kiwi Cool-ade and China Glaze Turned up turquoise. Stamped with Konad SN Black and image plate M29.

This third creation is a neon with flowers.

 Base China Glaze Turned up turquoise. Stamped with Konad SN pastel green and imageplate M75. With a dotting I made some SN pastel violet and pastel blue dots in the flowers. On my ring finger 2 green flower fabrics.

Here a swatch of China Glaze Turned up turquoise.

This is also a color that I really like.

I thought let's do a nice happy neon summer post today because I need some happiness. And from looking outside I don't get happy, yesterday the weather here was nice and sunny but today it was a really cloudy day :(

xoxox