Monthly Man-icure: Januari

Hi there polish pals, it's time for the Monthly Man-icure (previous months: click)! This month, Seb was inspired by a specific image...

Friend's fingernails: three tone nail art

One cold Sunday my friend Madelief came over to get her nails done.

Spring time flower nails with pictorial

(Without top coat)

I am so happy with this manicureeee :D I hope it will make you happy too! I spotted these awesome nails on Caroline Burke's blog. Thanks Caroline for doing such pretty nail design every time, I copied one of your designs before and now I'm doing it again :)! It seems like a lot of nail art bloggers copy designs from others without sharing the source. I think that's rude so if I like and 'steal' your design I'll always let you know and I hope you do the same with me! Now let's start talk about this manicure, and show you way too many pictures ^^.

2013 Nail Art Challenge: (2) A polish that's your favourite

Hello there! It's time for the second part (challenge? stage? what shall I call this?) of the 2013 Nail Art Challenge. It was too hard to pick my ultimately favourite nail polish so I decided to use the favourite that was most recently added to my collection: Catrice Mint Me Up. Beware: this post has a  LOT of pictures.

Cute? Check!

Hello nail polish lovers (: Spring seems to be coming and so today I really really felt like wearing pastels! So I grabbed my NYC mint macaroon polish and stamped a golden checker print on the top. The result? A very cute pastel manicure:

Geometric nails

Finally painted my nails again after being sick for six days! I copied this look by blogger Caroline Burke and used a green MAX nail polish I bought at action for just €0,49 (: (I'm really getting the hang of buying cheap ass polishes these days). I love the colour - I have never seen a green like this.

Girly Polkadot French with MAX nail stamps

Hello dear readers (: I was quite excited about doing this manicure because I used something I was curious about to create it. At Action, I found a very cheap nail art stamping kit. Though I allready own two Konad sets, I decided to buy this becayse I didn't have the included plate yet, and it was just €1,- ! It's not the most perfect manicure ever but I thought it was very cute and I wanted to share it :D

 

NYE nails

For New Years Eve (happy new year by the way!) I knew I wanted something sparkly... but I didn't feel like using glitter polishes because I hate taking them off. So I used two of my flakies polishes (and no top coat - they need that though, the polishes don't shine that much). I won't be posting in a while so enjoy these last pictures :D

Polish Presents

Holiday themed nail art! Yay! :D I'm not that big of a Christmas fan but I like matching my nails with special occasions so after seeing all those other beautiful nails online I just had to create something of of my own :D (although I didn't exactly invent this one, I saw many other polish lovers who did a manicure like this one)

The (first - lol) red polish I used is from a big set with 18 (eighteeeen!!!) polishes in it that my mom bought me. The set is from Germany, but I'm not sure where this brand called Technic is originally from or where it is sold. I do know about an eyeshadow pallet from the same brand which was a big hit with Dutch beautyblogs because it was cheap (we Dutch love cheap) and highly pigmented.

To see the set and more pictures... click 'read more'

Princess

For this manicure I used this post as my inspiration.

I was actually planning to do glow-in-the-dark-watermelon-nails, but the glow in the dark polish I applied somehow responded very weirdly to either my OPI nail envy, or my Essence express dry drops. It lifted up at the sides o.O. I could peel it right off!! It also showed strange white area's, mostly near the sides of the nail.

So I peeled/acetoned that off... and grabbed a polish I had on my 'intending-to-wear-shelf'. Then I saw Full Metal Jacket standing on the table and appealing as that polish is to me I just HAD to combine the two into one manicure (even though I allready wore FMJ earlier this week). VOILA!

As for the colour of the HEMA polish I used... I first wanted to name this manicure Princess Peach but I wasn't sure if this polish actually IS peach-coloured... It seems light pink in some light, then the next moment it looks almost coral or orange...The finish is also very mysterious, I spy shimmer but also bigger shaped particles, so I guess we'll have to call this a subtile glass fleck!

- Full Metal Jacket -

This amazing beauty definitely is the most foil-like polish in my collection :D. I'd call it metallic since there still are visible brush strokes... Nevertheless, this is one hell of a shiny polish!! I also like the silvery-gold colour, I think I might like this better than more yellow shades of gold.

Artificial light

Click the read more button for more pictures!

Flakie magic

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Flakies are like magic... it can be hard to capture their beauty in pictures, but I think the colour shift is surprisingly visible in these!

green --> blue

See the blue on the pinky and index finger?

Shiftshiftshift <3

So here's what I used:

NYC - City Blackout

Golden rose - scale effect 04

Essence - better than gel nails quick drying top sealer

30 day nail challenge (4/30): GREEN

For the fourth challenge I decided to try out a 'saran wrap manicure' for the first time!

I got this result by simply stamping on the lighter shade with a little ball made of saran wrap:

 Used:

NYC - Mint Macaroon

Catrice - Sea of green

Saran wrap :D

 Up next: blue! (I'm thinking pastels...)