Beauty Bloggers Battle 2.0 [Fairytales]: The Frog Prince

Hi everyone! I have some exciting news to share. I'm competing in Romy's second Beauty Bloggers Battle! She hosts the battle on her blog everythingnice.nl where I write guest posts.

All the information on the battle can be found here but I'll explain it shortly. I'm competing against seven other bloggers of which (luckily?) none is a nail blogger. Every two weeks there is a new round and every two weeks one blogger will be eliminated from the battle. Each round has its own theme. The first theme Romy picked was 'sprookjes', Dutch for fairytales!

BPS midi ring review + french manicure

Hi guys! Today I'm going to show you this nice chunky midi ring and an elegant french manicure.

Double Design: studs and flowers

This month Monique and I both sort of lost track of time for our 'Double Design'. Why do you only have 28 days, Februari? Anway, let's just pretend it's the 29th of Februari today and that we are right on time with our Double Design for this month! The theme is 'Floral'.

Coral polkadots + Mirrorball macros

I finally found some time to do my nails again and went with this easy and fun polkadot manicure. There's a special story to this coral nail polish that I want to share with you.

Roses for Valentine's

Hi everyone! It's been a couple of days since I last posted anything. Things are getting quite busy around here with studying/work and a secret project (how exciting!). I hope I can still find enough time to paint my nails and blog about them :).

Today I want to show you these that nails I did for my second guest post over at everythingnice.nl. This time it is a tutorial for super cute (if I may say so) roses nail art. For the tutorial you can head over to Everything Nice, here I'll just show you the pics of the end result.

Winter nails tutorial: snow and mittens

Hello there dear readers! I wrote a guest post in Dutch for Kimberly at Sokimberly (thanks for asking me to do so Kimberly!). For L'Ongleterre I made an English version. It's a tutorial for these cute mitten nails that I'm quite pleased with!

Nail art + pictorial: raspberry cake

Hello dearest polish lovers! It's time for some simple freehand nail art with a pictorial. The pictorial might be unnecessary because I think it's pretty obvious how this manicure was created. But hey, I took pictures between my steps so why not add them? :) Enjoy!

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 ^^.

Norwegian Bad Boys That Surf (sounds good right?)

Hey guys! I'm sorry if this is getting boring - but here is another blue manicure! I treated myself at H&M yesterday and bought two new nail polishes, a cute coral one and the one I'm using today: Norwegian Sky. I keep thinking it's called Norwegian Wood because of The Beatles and Haruki Murakami... Anyway, it's very pretty :).

All I can Confetti

Hello there! Today I have a happy, bright manicure to show you! I bought Catrice I All I can Blue with 50% reduction and I knew I had to do a festive manicure. I took this post from 'The boxes under my bed' as my inspiration.

 

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'

Pink Lady Polkadots

This is my very first EVER try on polkadot nails... I'm definitely going to try to become an expert at this.

 I took pictures in two kinds of light: both artifical, the first one more yellow, the last one more white.

 

Glitter fade

Sparkle sparkle sparkle!!

 

More sparkly pictures after the jump ;)

Sporty stripes on my cousin's nails

My cousin and I found this manicure in the WAH nails book of nail art. She chose the colours and I did her nails! I think they turned out pretty well for a first try.

Nail art practice

Practicing some nail art with the WAH nails book (:

30 day nail challenge (5/30): BLUE

Day 5: blue cloud nails (:

 Used:

Maybelline - party blue

Uniq - 08 (holographic polish)

Etos - (no name)

An apple a day keeps the doctor away (:

Catrice - forbidden apple (LE)

Catrice - sea of green (LE)

Arianna - white striper

Maybelline - chocolate 
MAX - natural