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

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

Blue and Purple OPI gradient with golden nail art

Hi everyone,

 

These nails I made for the weekly AIS challenge last Sunday. The challenge was to use gold as a base or stamping color...I chose gold as a stamping color.

 

I also really wanted to try my OPI Ger-minis that I got from the sweet Gosia from Live in Color. Thanks again <3 So I made a gradient base with 2 of the OPI's Suzi And The 7 Dusseldorf and Unfor-greta-bly Blue.

 

I have lots of pictures because we have a new camera and I also used my moms and my bf's phone. Still trying to figure out what works best ;)

 

Base a gradient with OPI Suzi And The 7 Dusseldorf and Unfor-greta-bly Blue.Stamped with Essence a Piece of Forever and Konad M90. A very simple design but I liked it a lot :)

 

Some more pictures with different camera's and settings.

 

 

 

 

Some swatches of just the base OPI Suzi And The 7 Dusseldorf.

 

 

 

 

And some pictures of the OPI Germany gradient.

 

 

 

 

 

My nails with Danbo in the back :)

Those of you who also know me on facebook, know I really like Danbo (the cute cardboard box guy) Now I got a "real" Danbo from my sister so I can make my own Danbo adventures pictures :) On my nail facebook page I have a Danbo album with Danbo's nail and other adventures D.I.A.N.A Danbo. But I will also sometimes post a nail related Danbo picture here :)

 

Here is Danbo with the OPI Ger-minis :)

 

Thanks for reading :)

 

xoxox

Zoya Anastasia with nail art

Hi everyone,

 

Today I'll show you Zoya Anastasia, a amazing color that is hard to describe...it is brown but also looks purple/plum and has golden shimmer in it which often looks like tiny glitter. I made a lot of pictures this time, first I'll show the nail art pics then the swatches. I don't have much Zoya's they are quite expensive here in Holland (around 12 euros that is about $15) I only have 4 that I bought on sale or second hand. But I love all 4 of them.

 

Zoya Anastasia, stamped with Konad PSN dark purple and imageplate M89 a subtle full nail (love Konads new full nail size) And stamped golden roses with M90 and Essence A Piece Of Forever from the new Twillight LE (a gorgeous golden stamping polish).

 

With different light.

 

 Without flash under artificial light.

 

 My entire hand.

 

And also a picture of just the subtle full nail stamp.

 

And of course many swatches with different light: 

 

 

 

 

 4 pictures together so you can see all the different colors this polish is.

 

 A blurry one to show the shimmer does look like glitter sometimes.

 

 

I really like this color and it is also perfect for Fall/ Autumn.

 

Thanks for reading enjoy your weekend!

 

xoxox

Kirby ♥

Hi everyone,

 

The challenge this sunday on AIS was to stamp over a glitter polish. I don't wear glitter polishes often so I had a lot of untrieds to choose from :) This post is a bit late, but I just had to do this challenge even though it wasn't before sunday ;)

 

It's been a while since I used some self made water decals so I thought let's do that too. So I decided to make Kirby nails.

Base Golden Rose Crystal Color 04 over Essence Show Your Feet 15 flamingo rose. Stamped with one of the new Konad plates (which I love mainly because of the new full nail size) M90 with PSN cool red. And self made water decals of Kirby. The bubbles were really subtle but thought that was okay, so Kirby who is a big bubble himself stands out more ;)

 

 

All 5 fingers :)

 

I just had to take some cute pics with the Kirby stuffed animal hahaha.

 

Here some swatches of the base polishes.

 

 Essence Show Your Feet 15 flamingo rose.

 

Golden Rose Crystal Color 04 (pink holographic glitter) over Essence Show Your Feet 15 flamingo rose.

 

And a blurry photo so you can really see the holographic glitter.

Here also a comparison of some full nail plates :) I just love the new Konad full nail size.

 

Thanks for reading :)

 

xoxox