What a girl wants...

Hi Everyone,

Today a colorful mani with all kinds of stuff a girl wants or likes ;) Or so people say :) Cosmetica, perfume, nail polish, fashion/shoes, jewelry/diamonds, love and sweets (macarons). Born Pretty Store is having a contest on their blog and the rules were to use specific products of them that were listed. It is a pretty long list so enough options to choose from. One of these products were these water decals. So I made a mani with them. The decals have so many pastel colors so I wanted to do a base with those colors too. And some holo glitter and stamping. I always love to combine things in this case: painting, stamping, glitter, sponging and using water decals.

Base China Glaze Lemon Fizz. Stamped a full nail with M57 and Konad SN white. And sponged colorful tips over that. I made a sideways sort of gradient using Konad SN pastel green, a self made pastel orange mix, SN pastel blue, SN pastel violet, SN pastel pink. Added a layer of Catrice Million Styles C08 Have an Icy Day (a holo glitter topcoat) And used the Born Pretty Store water decals with all the girly stuff.

And a picture before the decals so you can see the stamping better.

And also before I added the topcoat.

And some more pictures of this mani in different light. It was hard to capture all the colors and the glitter and stamping.

All these colors remind me of Spring and also Easter but then instead of the girly stuff it had to be Easter eggs ;) I do love all these girly things but never ate a macaron in my life...do want too try them they always look yummy :) 

I believe the entries will be on the Born Pretty blog in a few days.

They also have some great new nail art wheels.

You can see them here. I really like the candy colored one. If you want to buy them, don't forget to use the coupon code BPSL91 to get a 10% discount!  

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

The Lion King

Hi everyone,

In a FB nail group they were talking about the Lion King and that made me think of this mani :) I made in in Janaury 2010 but have never showed it on my blog before...don't know why...LOL But like I said several times I still have a lot of oldies to show you. I know I was really happy with these when I've made them, I love Disney :)

Base is OPI Sand in my suit stamped with Konad SN brown and SN gold brown and Konad imageplates M10, M42, M57 and M69. Selfmade water decals of the Lion King characters :)

Another picture.

And a swatch of the OPI Sand in my suit base.

Do you like Disney too? I would love to go to Disney (Paris, US, Japan).

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Fashion Inspired: black gradient with zebra stripes

Hi Everyone,

Today I'll show you something I made in the beginning of this week for Wacky Laki's Fashion Inspired contest. I had so much fun doing my first Fashion inspired nails, that I did another (Christmas) one today but that is a bit of a fail ;) But of course I will show them later this week too ;)

Here are my first Fashion Inspired nails :) I am not really the animal print kind of girl, but my BF really liked this dress and said I should do these. And I was like well it is the perfect way for me to use animal prints again :) And in the end I was happy with the final result.

Base a black/gray/white gradient with China Glaze Snow, Catrice C01 Pebbles Beach and Beauty UK Midnight Minx black. And stamped with Konad M57 and SN black.

The dress... I would actually wear this despite the fact I don't really like animal print. I think this one is pretty :) You can buy it here at Simplydresses.

 Another picture of my nails.

 Again :)

And some swatches of just the black and white gradient base.

I believe you can see all the entries tomorrow on Wacky Laki and vote for your favorite then :)

I really had so much fun and think I will do Fashion Inspired nails more often :) Like I said did some today on a red base but that was a fail, but will show those next week ;)

Thanks for reading.

And have a nice weekend!

xoxox

Nfu Oh 65 with nail art made in 2009

This weekend I had Nfu Oh 63 on my nails a beautiful light pink holographic polish, I will show you this later this week. I thought lets show Nfu Oh 65 first, that I had on my nails in July 2009. Nfu Oh 65 is a gorgeous light blue holo polish....I love Nfu Oh holo's. First I'll show you my nail art on it, later the swatches.

Base Nfu Oh 65 stamped with Konad SN Blue pearl and Golden Rose Paris magic 313 imageplate M57.

Without flash or sun light, you can see the stamps better ;)

Photo in sun light.

I love to match my hands and feet :)

With flash.

A bit blurry :( without flash.

And here some swatches of this beautiful nail polish.

Photo with flash.

Daylight without sun or flash.

Sorry for my cuticles I did not had Lemony Flutter or some nail oil back then ;)

xoxox

Green and Glitter nails + Liebster Blog award

Ever since I bought the glitter Essence Twin duo 06 Edward I was thinking that it would look great over China Glaze Four Leaf Clover (that looks a bit like Essence Bella that belongs with Edward). So last week I decided to try that out.

Base China Glaze Refresh-mint and a french of China Glaze Four Leaf Clover. On top of the french Essence Twins duo 06 Edward. I stamped with China Glaze Four Leaf Clover and Konad imageplate M57. On my ring finger Istamped a flower from M31 also with China Glaze Four Leaf Clover, in the middle a silver rhinestone.

My camera had a bit of trouble to take a photo of the true color of Four Leaf Clover. The french and stamps really looked the same color in real life ;)

Photo without flash in natural daylight.

I received the Liebster Blog again, I know I already got it but I feel so honored so I would love to mention it again. And I thought I is also a great opportunity to give it away to 3 other bloggers too, because there are a lot of lovely blog out there who deserve more attention ;)

This time a got my Liebster Blog award from the lovely Yasmin from Oh What Fun you should really check out her blog! She has a really nice blog and deserves more followers ;)

The Liebster Award is designed to bring well deserved additional recognition to those bloggers with less than 300 followers. If you receive the award you link back to the blogger that nominated you and nominate 3 more blogs.

Like I said I already got it but I would love to give it to these 3 other blogs:

• Sugar Styles a beauty blog about all different kinds of trends and goodies. They also anounce which sales there are at local Dutch drugstores. It is written in Dutch but has the translate option.
• Obsessed a nail blog she is very creative and makes lovely nail art. Written in English
• Purrrpolish a nail blog from a young Dutch girl, written in English.

Thanks again to Yasmin from Oh What Fun  everytime someone gives me an award I feel sooo happy :)