Diwali Festival and Happy B-day Bob

Hi Everyone,

Tomorrow is the Diwali Festival and it is also the birthday of the sweet Roberta over at Bob Plays with Polish. She asked on her blog and facebook if people wanted to join her Birthday Party and do a Diwali mani. I always love learning more about other cultures. So of course I also wanted to do a Diwali mani for her birthday.

Diwali also known as Deepavali and the "festival of lights", is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated in autumn every year.The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair.

I googled images and read about it and this is what I came up with. I was inspired by all the candles and the red/orange color tones.

A gradient base with Kleancolor metallic red and metallic orange. Stamped the swirly image with Konad SN yellow and XL plate O and stamped the candles with Konad SN white from Winstonia W215 (later colored over the candles with black, blue orange and yellow).

And another picture.

I forgot to take a picture of just the gradient base..sorry.

Happy Birthday Roberta! Hope you have a lovely day and may all your wishes come true.

And for those who celebrate Diwali..I wish you all a Happy Diwali Festival :) It sounds like a beautiful thing.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Floam ♥ with some simple flowers

Hi Everyone,

I finally used my Floam and I love it :) I am not the biggest glitter fan, a lot of my untrieds are glitter polish. But I do really love Floam. It are really tiny "matte glitter" I know matte glitter sounds strange lol, cause it isn't glitter-y (is that a word? ;)) So I started calling them little scales, like fish scales ;) I needed 4 coats to get it opaque but it dried fast, so that wasn't a problem. Cleaning the cuticles was a problem hahaha, glitter everywhere. And removing it wasn't fun either, tried the normal way on one finger, then I decided to use the foil technique for the first time and it worked good :)

Base Floam stamped with XL plate O (that is a dupe of XL K) with Konad SN black and added some SN yellow and SN sky blue dots.

Another picture of my hand.

And of course swatches of this really cool polish :)

It are tiny yellow and blue matte glitters and very flat, it doesn't felt really gritty. The yellow and blue together gave this a green look. I really like Floam I think it is unique.

Have a nice weekend!

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Icy Butterflies :)

Hi everyone,

I made these for the AIS challenge. The theme was accent nail. I often do accent nails also with different colors or totally different. But this time I chose to do a subtle accent nail, all with the same colors and theme but just a little bit different then the rest of my nails.

When I did the base color on, I had actually something else in mind, but then I saw my decals and thought they would look good on this color too.

Base Hits Speciallità 205 Edição Limitada a pretty polish from Brazil. On top a layer of Essence @Holographic.com LE 04 Prismatic white. Stamped with Konad SN black pearl and XL plate O (that is a dupe from XL K). The butterflies are selfmade water decals.

Also some swatches.

Hits Speciallità 205 Edição Limitada with layer of Essence @Holographic.com LE 04 Prismatic white.

Hits Speciallità 205 Edição Limitada. I really love this color.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Snowflake toes in the snow!

Hi Everyone,

 

I made these nails 2 weeks ago, when we went to a subtropical pool and there was a lot of snow that day here in Holland. Too bad the snow is now gone :( My boyfriend bought us a new camera, one that also can get wet :) So we took it with us to the pool..had soo much fun that day taking crazy pics under water and outside in the snow in our bikini's /swim shorts. The outside pool was very warm and when we climbed out to play in the snow it wasn't even that cold and then jumping in the water was soooo hot. Not going to post my snowy bikini pics here..lol but did made pics of my toes in the outside pool with the snowy trees in the background.

 

Because of the warm water and the outside temperature below zero the pool was very steamy/foggy. Especially when it was dark you couldn't see a thing :) This made the wildwater track even more fun :)

 

Base Teeez Cool (a pretty blue holographic) and stamped with XL plate O (that is a dupe of XL K) with Konad SN white.

 

It was such a nice day.

 

Here a close up of my foot.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

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

Snowy owl at dusk

Hi Everyone :)

 

Let's start by saying a really miss my camera :( Hope to have a good new one for nail pics soon.

 

A few weeks ago I got an email from Nail Polish Canada, they invited me to enter their 3 weeks holiday themed challenge. I always love taking part in a challenge or contest...love that kind of fun and distraction (this upcoming month even more you'll know why :( ). I also felt really honored that they invited me :) especially when I saw all the names of the amazing bloggers that also take part :) But I really love to join. This first week the theme is SNOW, so that means anything snow related.

 

I really love stamping and also like to combine that with some self made decals, so I decided to make Snowy owl at dusk nails :) Too bad the camera made the black a bit blue.

 

A white, grey, black tip gradient with P2 Ship Ahoi! 010 Pure white, Catrice C01 Pebble Beach and P2 Eternal. And Catrice C08 Have an icy day on top for the holo glitter. Stamped the big snow flakes /ice crystals with XL plate O (it's a dupe from XL plate K) the small snowflakes are from HB 23. Stamped with Konad SN white and SN black The Snowy owls on the branches are self made water decals.

 

Here a pic made with my boyfriends phone.

It is moreblue with that camera.

 

Another one from my hand (with the camera that was from my mom).

 

 

Also some pictures of the gradient tips with holo glitter topcoat.

 

 

A bit blurry so you can see the glitter.

 

You can still enter this challenge. And if you want to do that or see all the beautiful SNOW entries click HERE. You can also vote for your favorite entry there until November 28 :)

I am curious what the theme for next week will be :)

 

Thanks for reading and enjoy your weekend!

 

xoxox