Soccer/Football month: Holland football nails with Orange You Hot? (European Cup 2012)

Hello Everyone,

Like I said in my previous post I wanted to make something matching with my toes for Hollands first match today. Normally I match my toes with my hands, but this time the other way around. Because I plan on leaving my toes that way for the upcoming 3 matches.

So I made my hands to same way as my toes :)

Base 3 coats of China Glaze Orange You Hot? from the Summer Neon 2012 collection. I sooo love this orange color. Stamped with M49 and M52 (bigger footballs on my thumb) first in SN white and then I colored them with a Essence pearl white nail art pen. And tried to precisely stamp over it with SN black. On my thumb a selfmade water decal of Hup Holland.

Some funny pictures with Holland supporting lions ;)

My hand and my foot

My feet picture from earlier this week.

And some swatches :)

With topcoat.

I did not cleaned up very wel, so sorry for my bit orange cutticles ;)

For my Dutch readers (and Danish ;)) have fun watching the match tonight!

Also good luck and have fun for my Portugese and German readers who play after our match and are in the same group as Holland.

xoxox

Soccer/Football month: Orange You Hot? Football Toes (European Cup 2012)

Hi everyone,

My feet are already ready for our first match saturday against Denmark. I usually leave polish on my toes longer then on my hands, so think they will last for the upcoming 3 matches (we probably don't play more..yeah I know not optimistic right ;) but we have some tough opponents). As you can see in me previous post I did something similair 2 years ago during the World Cup. I just like these footballs on my toes :)

Base is China Glaze Orange You Hot? from the new Summer Neons 2012 collection. A perfect bright "Dutch" orange ;) Stamped with Konad SN black and M49 and M52. Again first stamped it in white on my big toe and colored it with a Essence nail art pen and stamped over it with black. A selfmade water decal of Hup Holland Hup (means Go Holland/Netherlands Go) it is also part of the lyrics of a Dutch soccer/football song.

I plan on making something matching on my nails for this first match :)
Will show them tomorrow!

xoxox

Soccer/Football month: Football Feet (World Cup 2010)

Today I'll show you my feet I made for the World Cup in 2010 . I did something similair this year, will show them later this week.

Base is Impala (matte fluors) Tech. Stamped with Konad SN black and M49 and M52 on my big toe (stamped in white first and then colored it and stamped again over it in black). Selfmade water decal of WK 2010 (it's short for World Cup in Dutch).

xoxox

Soccer/Football month: Hello Kitty goes Orange! (World Cup 2010)

Hi everyone,

This weekend the European soccer/football Cup starts, that means making Holland (red,white,blue or orange nails) :) 2 years ago when it was the World Cup I made several Holland creations, but back then I did not had blog. So I thought it would be fun to show you these too in the upcoming weeks and also my new supporting my country nails for this European Cup that I still have to make. I don't expect that we come far, but we play at least 3 games so I think I will make at least 3 new creations :)

This creation I made for our first match in the World Cup in 2010.

Base is China Glaze Glacier and and a white french with China Glaze Snow. Self made water decals of Hello Kitty (gave her an orange "Dutch" dress and a football) Stamped with Konad M44 and SN red and SN blue, so it looks like our red, white and blue Dutch flag.

Here a photo of just the glitter China Glaze Glacier and the french Chine Glaze Snow tips.

Are you (my European followers) making supporting nails for your country for the upcoming European Cup?

xoxox

Angels in the sky

Hi everyone,

These nails I also made a few weeks ago, for the challenge "The Sky is the Limit" on the Adventures in Stamping Facebook group. I made these the day after Motherday, and I was still a bad sad so I was like maybe my mommy is an angel too. And the angels are holding animals, so our cat we lost that weekend (and the other pets and persons) are also angels :)

Base is from The Face Shop BL603 a gorgeous bright light blue with white/silver shimmer. Water decals from angels with pets (not self made) Stamped the clouds with Konad M79 and SN white.

Here some swatches of The Face Shop BL603 I got this polish in a contest from the sweet Anastacia from My MakeUp Mania.

With flash.

With artificial light.

Have a nice day!

xoxox

Neon Gradient Cow

Hello :)

I also made these a couple of weeks ago for the Unnatural Animals challenge. I really wanted to try the make-up sponges sponge technique. I usually sponge color by color with Konad sponges and when I do a holo gradient I just paint them layer by layer because those polishes blend perfectly. But doing all the colors on a make-up sponge seemed a lot easier and faster, so I tried it :)

I did this over my Romance in Paris nails, just quickly removed the decal and stamps a bit. Did not want to paint a base again and I thought that light pink will be good underneath it. So it is not so neat but I was happy with it

I thought a neon gradient Cow with blue spots was unnatural enough for the challenge ;)

The base is sponged over Orly Cotton Candy with all 6 colors of the China Glaze Poolside collection (Pool Party, Flip Flop Fantasy, Sun Worshiper, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Kiwi Cool-Ada, Towel Toy Boy) Stamped some Cow prints with Konad PSN coral blue and imageplate M61.

Here some pictures with different lighting, it is always difficult to capture neons.

Also some swatch pictures. Like I said it wasn't very neat, you see parts of the stamps under it and the base wasn't totally smooth anymore. But with stamping it wasn't showing.

Have a nice and happy weekend :) The weather is sooo great here in Holland. I am wearing a neon gradient right now too, but I will show you that one next week ;)

xoxox

Starry Kitty nails

Hi everyone,

I made these nails a few weeks ago for the stamping challenge to make something with a plate ending in a 5. It was also mothersday that day and we just lost our pet cat before the weekend, so I wanted to make something that would combine it all ;)

So I used a water decal of a cute lady cat, because she was a real lady and her name was little lady in Dutch :) And stamped stars because I said all our loved pets/persons are stars now and watching over us. So also my mom who I missed even more on mothersday :(

 Base is Zoya Gilda over Essence Flashy Pink from the Show your feet collection. A water decal (not self made) from a white cat. And stamped some sort of stars from Konad M5 with SN white.

I wanted to make swatch photos but it was soo hard with this polish ;) It often made it to pink or with blue in it and looked like it was still sheer (but that Essence underneath covers really good). But here some pics that will give you any idea. And is shows also the sparkle.

It's a bit blury but you see the sparkle in it ;)

xoxox

China Glaze Cocktail Manicure

Have you guys ever heard of the cocktail manicure? For me this was totally new until last week. I saw it on China Glaze's facebook. A cocktail manicure is that you paint your right thumb, pointer and middle finger a different color then the other 7 fingers. The 3 fingers that are different are the fingers you hold your cocktail with. I really never heard of this but I tried it out. If you are a lefty you can do it on your left hand.

On their facebook there was a menu with all sorts of cocktails and color combinations. I only had the polishes to make the KIR ROYALE. That is Peachy Keen on 7 fingers and Mango Madness on your cocktail fingers.

I wanted to make a nice summer photo :)

Here you can see the cocktail menu.

I am not sure if I'll ever do this again, I like more the ring finger as an accent nail. Or if I do it then it will probably be on both hands, since I never hold my glass in the same hand all the time.And I never drink cocktails ;) But it was fun to do and try out :)

xoxox

Peachy, happy, flower nails :)

Hello everyone,

I made this creation today :) They say it's going to be nice weather this weekend so I wanted something happy :)

Base China Glaze Peachy Keen with a pink shimmer topcoat Catrice Million Styles C07 ¿Holo Qué Tal?! Stamped with my new Konad plates M82 and M83. I used all parts of the images I think I stamped about 13 times on each finger ;) Used Konad SN gold brown, white, dark orange and green for stamping. And made with SN yellow and a dotting tool dots in the flowers.

 Under different light.

All fingers together.

Hope you all have a great sunny weekend :)

xoxox

Green gradient Toreads nails (Lyme Disease and Mental Health awareness month)

Hi everyone,

I made these green nails about a week ago  for the green month of Lyme Disease and Mental Health awareness on Midnight Manicures. Before I got the answer if it was internationally I already made them becasue I love doing something for a good cause ;) You could have entered with a make up creation, a manicure (without nail art) and nail art. I did not do make up, for the manicure I send in a older one with Nubar Reclaim and China Glaze L8R G8R, I just love those 2 green holo's. For the nail art I made something new :) I love making something with a certain theme or purpose.

Base is a gradient of 3 green Catrice colors 390 Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy, 240 Sold Out For Ever and 740 King of Greens. Stamped with Konad SN green using imageplate BM01. And I added some self made water decals from the Toreads. This girl is called Flora.

Now you all probably think what are Toreads? I never heard of them before too untill a few years ago someone asked me to make decals of them :) Toreads are tiny creatures (forest nymph) and they are all about nature. Every Toread has his own special thing that is part of nature. So I was like Lyme disease is often caused by ticks and they live in the forest and plants and stuff. So it all has to do with nature ;) Made it a green nature theme.

If you like to know more about these cute creatures check this website: Toreads

Here a photo of the base.

I loved making these for the Lyme Disease and Mental Health awareness month, you can also check her facebook to see more photos of great green make up, manicures and nail art entries. I think it is a good thing those different kinds of awareness months.

xoxox