Friday, 26 March 2010

Dukes of 'Hazard'


ACK! People are sick here at work, everywhere I turn, *cough* *HACK* *sniff*. Gross. Major gross. They inspired today's nails... the Biohazard symbol. :) I really hope that I don't get sick, that is about the last thing I need right now. :-/ On the bright side, going to a Bad Religion concert tonight- woo! :)



I used Electric Orange as a base, with American Apparel Hassid. Sealed the deal with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.

Put your dukes up!

Thursday, 25 March 2010

Surprisingly Orange Nail Art

Hello my Sweet Nail-art lovers.
I am not kidding today calling this design "Surprisingly" Orange.
Originally flowers were painted in red and white, but after i put on the top coat white paint turned yellow. That was super wired, it nether happened before with this paint. And i used different top coats, so it was not a top coat issue.So wile color changing is a misery, i think i even like it better this way. I really like the design, and looks really bright and summer like.



YOU KNOW YOU ARE A BLOGSTAR!

I definitely go through different phases with the nail art. On these four sets of nails I went a little crazy with the nail polish and striping brush. A little polish can always take a design to the next level.




I bought some "sugar coating" glitter in pink, blue, yellow and purple from the craft store and mixed it together with clear acrylic to create this look. I added dried flowers to every finger for some spring time fun.

On these nails I faded two colors from sparklesnailproducts.com. I added clay flowers on the ring fingers and finished with my signature dots.

This is impression nail art with spring colors.

I added orange and yellow mylar on these nails to make them super sparkly!

I Ain't No Ho-Ho!


:-D ok, I'll admit, today's title cracks me up. I'm SUCH a dork.

The inspiration for today's nails came a few months ago via email from Niki C., of Polish on Digital Paper fame, and while I've gotten inspiration from other designs people have sent in before, (with permission, of course ;)) I usually don't copy them stroke for stroke... These however, were too awesome not to, I loved their quirky simplicity. Thanks Niki, you rock! :)



I used MAC Showy as a base (can't find it for sale), then used my white Migi Nail Art Pen for the frosting swirl. Topped it all off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat to simulate the tasty glossy chocolate frosting. Oh damn, I know what I'm going to buy at lunch. *drool*

Anybody got any milk?!

Giveaway Winner!

Hoi allemaal, ik weet dat ik al te lang afwezig ben maar ik kon dit niet te lang laten duren. Als eerste allemaal bedankt voor het meedoen! Ik vond het erg leuk om een giveaway te hosten dus ik ben zeker van plan om dit in de toekomst vaker te gaan doen.

Daarnaast wil ik natuurlijk ook Enchantra bedanken voor het sponsoren van deze giveaway en voor het aanbieden van de 15% kortingscode DTCHNLBLG in hun webwinkel.

Hi all, I know I've been absent for way too long but I couldn't let this stretch out too long. First of all a big thank you to everyone who entered! I liked hosting a giveaway so I definitely plan on doing more of these in the future.

Second I would like to thank Enchantra for sponsoring this giveaway and for offering a 15% discount in their webshop to my readers with the code DTCHNLBLG.

Ik heb alle inschrijvingen geteld en ben toen terug gegaan om het aantal tweede inschrijvingen te tellen en heb die allemaal op een lijst gezet. Ik heb het op deze manier gedaan om ieders kansen om te winnen te spreiden. Als je twee inschrijvingen had omdat je over de giveaway geblogd, getwitterd of op een andere manier aangekondigd hebt en mij dit hebt laten weten zijn je inschrijvingen niet als opeenvolgende nummers geteld maar bijvoorbeeld als #1 en #78.

I've counted all the entries and then went back to count the number of second entries and listed all those. I did it this way to spread the chances of winning for everyone. If you had two entries because you blogged, tweeted or announced my giveaway in any way, shape or form and let me know about it your entries would not be following numbers but for instance be numbered #1 and #78.

Daarna heb ik www.random.org gebruikt om te beslissen wie de winnaar zou zijn en het winnende nummer is:

Then I used www.random.org to decide who the winner would be and the lucky number is:

"Too bad, I won't have the balls to put an announce at my local supermarket. Ah ah!
Let's keep it simple: I'm a follower on here via blogspot (and I'm in Europe). Smile

It's great to celebrate Spring. <3>

Nathalie van Jellynat! Gefeliciteerd Nathalie! Ik heb jer een email gestuurd voor je adres zodat Enchantra je jouw prijs kan opsturen!

Nathalie from Jellynat! Congrats Nathalie! I sent you an email to collect your shipping info so Enchantra can send you your price!

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

China Glaze - Peachy Keen

Hello my sweet Nail-Art Lovers.
The moment i saw this polish on the promo pictures, even before the colelction was relesed, i knew that i get to have this color. So i finally recently got it and sharing pics with you today.
I know i can play it out with much more fun, and i will, i promise, it is just that super busy those days.


Blue shimmer comparison: Misa VS. OPI

Misa A Sin Worth Committing OPI Yoga-ta Get This Blue!

Hi guys! Initially I wasn't planning on posting this tonight, because I had another great polish in mind. Unfortunately my David top coat decided to eat half of it, I've never ever experienced this before, but my pretty polish became victim of the dreaded 'shrinkage'.
Therefore, I'm not going to bother you with some lousy pics of this mishap.

Instead, I have a comparison for you to look at. I've been wanting to compare these two for a while now: Misa's 'A Sin Worth Committing' versus OPI's "Yoga-ta Get This Blue!". I found out about the similarities between the two when I was reorganizing my Helmer. At first, looking at the bottles, I thought they were blatant dupes, but they're not, albeit almost. It's hard to pick up on, but the shimmer that lives inside 'Yoga-ta Get This Blue' has a more turquoise hue to it. But they're so incredibly close that if you'd wear these two polishes at the same time, I'm sure no one would notice! So, I'd say these two are rather dupe-y.

The main difference lies in the formula though. 'A Sin Worth Committing' beats 'OPI's Yoga-ta Get This Blue' any day! I only needed to apply 2 coats of the first and 3 coats of the latter. ASW just glides on, where YGTB is more sheer and a wee bit on the gloppier side. Thanks to her flawless application Misa is a true winner here. If you ever have to decide between these two, you know which one to pick.

With that said, I want to thank you all for stopping by! Have a great night everyone!

You can read individual reviews here:

Misa - A Sin Worth Committing

OPI - Yoga-ta Get This Blue!

(Misa - A Sin Worth Committing is available at Head2ToeBeauty - not affiliated)

Fit As a Fiddle


Today's manicure was inspired by violins/fiddles/guitars, etc. I came up with the technique of layering several colors, and then using a big fluffy brush that was wet with acetone and brushing lightly, until the colors from underneath started to show. I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out, it gave the effect of aged, varnished wood, which is precisely what I was going for. :-P I'll probably try this again at some point with crazier colors.



I used 2 coats of American Apparel Manila as a base, then 2 coats of American Apparel Pinto, then two coats of Sally Hansen Leather Frost, which I got at the Dollar Tree. Topped this off with 1 coat of Seche Vite top coat, let it dry, then proceeded to brush off the color with the acetone remover. For the F holes, I used American Apparel Hassid. Topped everything off with Seche Vite top coat.


Colours. ♥

A very kawaii set of gel nails!
This design is something I've not done before and I'm loving how well the colours and glitter show up. It took me almost 3hours to get this set of gel sculpture nails done and I would have to say that it's definitely worth the wait!


Colourful nails are so "IN" these days. :D


Look at the hearts!! They are inlays and are of pink and purple, different sizes and some are hollow! Ultimate cuteness.


Yummy colours.


Supa sweet n kawaii right? ♥!

Colours. ♥

A very kawaii set of gel nails!
This design is something I've not done before and I'm loving how well the colours and glitter show up. It took me almost 3hours to get this set of gel sculpture nails done and I would have to say that it's definitely worth the wait!


Colourful nails are so "IN" these days. :D


Look at the hearts!! They are inlays and are of pink and purple, different sizes and some are hollow! Ultimate cuteness.


Yummy colours.


Supa sweet n kawaii right? ♥!