In With the New, Out with the Old...

Day 79

Happy New Year's Eve!! For tonight, my nails required sparkle, and champagne, and that's what they got!! ;-P



I used OPI Dazzled by Gold for the Champagne, China Glaze Liquid Leather as a base for the other nails, China Glaze White on White for the white on the champagne glass, and Zoya Luna for the silver sparkle. Everything was topped off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat. :)

I hope that everyone has a very Happy and VERY safe New Year's Eve!! Remember your designated driver!

Edited to add:

Here is a pic of me enjoying a 'champagne' toast ;) Don't mind the hair- this was at the end of the night after walking across downtown in the snow!! lol

Happy New Tiger Year!

Happy new year to all my wonderful readers and all the Nail-Art Lovers.
I am so excited, to start the year of the Tiger, according to the Chinese Calendar.
Tiger is the same as Cat just not domesticated, and i love cats so much.
I made 2 tigers manicures, first i made orange one, but when i realized that it is the year of the white tiger, and had nit done again tonight.
So, i hope you ll like manicures and have a cool holiday.

VEGAS BABY!

These nails are too fun! This is a glitter called "wild aces". On the ring fingers I used fimo polymer clay playing cards that I got from oaktreedollshouseminiatures.com
These nails will bring good luck at the casino! Go gamble and have some fun! P.S. have a drink for me!

Mmmm, Fruity!

Day 78

Hi everyone!! Only one more day left of the decade!!! OMG, time flies. Today's nails were a request/suggestion from quite a few people, and they were also on my original list, so here they are!! FRUITYYYYY!!!



I used

Thumb: Watermelon

Kleancolor Barbie Pink as a base, with China Glaze White on White
and OPI Green-wich Village sponged on the tips, and China Glaze Liquid Leather used for the seeds.

Index: Lemon

Not-named yellow jelly from a set given to me by my friend Jodi as a base, with Zoya Pippa for the rind and lines, as well as China Glaze White on White for the pith and lines.

Middle: Lime

Zoya Bekka as a base, with China Glaze White on White for the pith and lines, and OPI Green-wich Village for the peel and lines.

Ring: Strawberry

China Glaze Salsa as a base, with Zoya Pippa mixed with Zoya Ginger for the seeds, and Migi Nail Art Pens for the green.

Pinky: Orange

Sally Hanson Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear in 06 Sun Kissed as a base, with China Glaze White on White for the pith and lines, and Pumped Up Pumpkin from the ULTA Exclusive OPI Glow Get a Treat Halloween mini set for the skin and lines.

2 coats of Seche Vite top coat to top everything off, and away I go. :)

Getting any resolutions ready?

Bridal acrylic nails

Lots of bridal nails to update. For now, 2 sets of them done in acrylic. I will post bridal gel nails in my next post ok? I like to blog a little bit of each every time, hoping that you girls would never get tired of my blog. :)


Ahhh, this set, cute white ribbons and hearts on a 2 tone glitter champagne base. Prettttayyyy!


Bling bling bling bling bling!


Light rose glitter extension with fluffy marshmallow flowers and not forgetting crystals and pearls!


Lovely light rose glitter tips! Can see? I would totally love to have either of this for my wedding! :D

Bridal acrylic nails

Lots of bridal nails to update. For now, 2 sets of them done in acrylic. I will post bridal gel nails in my next post ok? I like to blog a little bit of each every time, hoping that you girls would never get tired of my blog. :)


Ahhh, this set, cute white ribbons and hearts on a 2 tone glitter champagne base. Prettttayyyy!


Bling bling bling bling bling!


Light rose glitter extension with fluffy marshmallow flowers and not forgetting crystals and pearls!


Lovely light rose glitter tips! Can see? I would totally love to have either of this for my wedding! :D

Gel flowers inlay!

Remember the gel flowers inlay sample i did?

Did these 2 sets on my customers and they turn out really nice!

Colourful and warm! Love it!
Peach orange glitter with different shades of flowers. See the tiny dots? I know, the colour doesn't show up here, and in fact they are actually tiny round disco ball flakes of green, gold, red.


Oh and this, it looks more fall/winter with the silvery/greyish colour. Love the colour combi! :)

Gel flowers inlay!

Remember the gel flowers inlay sample i did?

Did these 2 sets on my customers and they turn out really nice!

Colourful and warm! Love it!
Peach orange glitter with different shades of flowers. See the tiny dots? I know, the colour doesn't show up here, and in fact they are actually tiny round disco ball flakes of green, gold, red.


Oh and this, it looks more fall/winter with the silvery/greyish colour. Love the colour combi! :)

Misa On The Edge

Ik zou hier een heel afgezaagd grapje kunnen maken over hoe we op de rand staan van 2009 met 2010 voor ons maar dat ga ik maar niet doen. ;)

English: I could make a corny joke here about how we are on the edge of 2009 looking at 2010 but I won't. ;)

Oh wat houd ik van Misa! Het glijdt op je nagels als boter, dekt zonder strepen, het kwastje is geweldig en de kleuren zijn ook super. Dit zijn twee laagjes met base- en topcoat.

Hij lijkt op Rescue Beauty Lounge Dead Calm maar het is geen exacte dupe. Toch vond ik hem goed genoeg gezien het prijsverschil.


English: Oh how I love Misa! It glides on your nails like butter, isn't streaky, the brush is great and the colours are awesome. This is two coats with base- and topcoat. It's similar to Rescue Beauty Lounge Dead Calm but not an exact dupe. Still it's close enough for me considering the price difference.


Ik heb mijn mobiele fotostudiootje gekregen! Ik moet er nog flink mee experimenteren heb ik wel door. Deze foto is de enige foto die er vooralsnog fatsoenlijk uit ziet. :P
Maar dat komt goed! Ik moet gewoon even spelen met de instellingen van mijn camera en de belichting.

English: I got my light box! I'm going to have to experiment with it a bit more. This is the only pic so far that I got that looks decent. :P But it will be OK! I'll just have to play with my camera settings and lighting a bit.

Blubber Colours!

Kleikleurige, modderachtige, rokerige, 'vieze' kleuren. Ik ben er weg van!
En ik ben vast niet de enige dus ik heb ze een eigen categorie gegeven in mijn labels.
Blubber kleuren...

English: Clay coloured, muddy, smokey 'dirty' colours. I love them! And I doubt I'm the only one so I gave them their own categorie under my labels. Blubber colours...





Dit is Orly Crocodile Rock. Een kerstcadeautje van de geweldige MissHavisham op de Nail Board op MUA! Niet echt groen, grijs of beige en toch ook eigenlijk allemaal wel. Fantastische en vreemde kleur!
Hij is min of meer HTF (Hard To Find / moeilijk vindbaar) omdat het een kleur is uit een oude collectie maar hij is soms wel op Ebay te vinden.
Wat vind jij van dit soort 'lelijke' kleuren?

Dit zit nog op mijn nagels van voor de allergische reactie begon en het zal er dus ook nog een paar dagen op blijven omdat ik niet met remover aan de slag wil op mijn ontstoken huid.

Bedankt voor het kijken!

English: This is Orly Crockodile Rock. A Christmas present from the wonderful MissHavisham on the Nail Board on MUA! Not really green, grey or beige and yet it is all of the above. Fantastic and strange colour! It's more or less HTF (Hard To Find) because it is from an old collection but you can find it on Ebay every now and then. What do you think about these kinds of 'ugly' colours?

This has been on my nails since before the allergic reaction and it will remain there for a couple of days because I don't want to use remover on my inflamed skin.

Thanks for looking!

China Glaze Metallics

Hello Dear nail-Art Lovers.
China Glaze marketing representative was kind enough to send me some China Glaze Metallic polishes for review - that was some kind of wonderful Christmas Miracle for me, because this is not often that companies send me polishes.
So here are those adorable colors that i have got - Adore, Millennium and My long time dream Sci-Fi . Where is no much need to say anything about formula - it is perfect as always. Colors are very opaque and look wonderful even with one coat. Perfect for Konad - as a base and as a Stamping polish as well. I also checked out, just for my own curiosity if China Glaze polishes are available in Russia, and i was pleasantly surprised that it it. it would cost about 10$ a bottle, which is a normal price for professional nail polish in Russia.
So here are the pictures and some description

1. Adore - this Metallic polish is from "Romatique" collection, but at first glance looks very similar to the one from the more recent Khrome collection. It is light green metallic with the touch of blue. The color is rich and beautiful - and aplication is really smooth.


Here is Metallic Muse from Kromes for comparability - as you can see it is also very beautiful color, but less bright when Adore. and i would say a little more minty.


2. Millennium - i would call it one of the best pure chrome metallic on the market. It is very competitive even against special Mirror effect polishes, because it shines, sparkle and reflect as a real metal. Metallics are long lasting hits and a part of any nail polish collection

3. Sci-Fi - this one is also from "Kromes". I wanted this polish ever since kromes came out - it is very intricate and provocative. I woudl call it a lacquer with the surprise. It is a silver metallic with the very gentle touch of lilack - very beautiful and very unique color.


I hope you liked this review, and it helped you to know more about China Glaze metallics

The whole true about the goose :)

Some of my friend noticed that the goose was a little to orange when it supposed to be, and asked me to check out if Marshal-Cat is still arround, so here is the whole true about the goose, all reviled
First - Good Bye Kiss

Second - loading into the oven


Third - the result :)

SPARKLES

On these nails we went all out! This is acrylic in nebula at the tip then I faded a glitter from sparklesnailproducts.com called masquerade ball at the smile line. Then, I added silver dots and black and silver stars. Is there such a thing as too cute?! :)

This is my cute sister in law! She is so nice she just goes along with whatever I want to do. I used my own purple and then a glitter from sparkles nail products again. Just an FYI for all my clients I just ordered 12 more glitters from their website.

If you are a reader of my blog you will recognize this color nebula with a little disco ball action at the smile line. It's obvious that I am going through a disco ball phase!

These nails are done with my new favorite glitter called disco balls and one of my own blues that I mixed myself. I added little silver dots and stars all over.

On these nails I used a glitter from sparkles nail products called blue diamonds and faded another one of their glitters called disco balls. LOVE their products! P.S. Click directly on this photo to see the detail of the glitter.

WHAM!! KA-BAM!!

Day 77

KABLAM! Back to pop art! :-P ZOP! POW! BAM!



I used China Glaze White on White as a base, with Ultra Pro in Blue Blaze for the blue, Zoya Pippa for the yellow, China Glaze Salsa for the red, and China Glaze Liquid Leather for the black. Topped it off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.

BTW- Check out www.kissonline.com, my KISS nails are on their FRONT PAGE!!! WOO!!!

Essence Hand Creme Winter Edition. Win a Complete Set!

Essence komt deze winter met een aantal nieuwe handcrèmes voor de winter in de heerlijke geuren witte chocolade&framboos, vanille&appel en chocolade&sinaasappel.

English: Essence brings us a couple of new hand cremes for winter in the wonderful scents white chocolate&raspberry, vanilla&apple and chocolate&orange.




Vooral de chocoladegeuren lijken mij wel wat! Je kunt nu een complete set winnen door een email te sturen naar beauty@essence.eu met als titel winter creation en het antwoord op de volgende vraag:

English: I'm really looking forward to the chocolate scented ones! You can win a complete set by sending an email to beauty@essence.eu with the title winter creation and the answer to the following question:

What is the pampering hand protection balm in the essence trend edition called?
a) 12h hand protection balm
b) 1 hour hand creme
c) 6h all around hand creme

I'm not sure if this is open to contesters outside the EU but there are no limits mentioned in the email I got about this contest.

[From The Vault] My Very First NOTD!

Ik heb een mega-allergische reactie nadat ik een klein allergietestje heb gedaan dus ik wil de komende dagen even alles wat irriterend kan zijn vermijden tot de medicijnen werken. Geen nagellakremover en nagellak de komende dagen dus.

Ik wil toch iets posten dus ik laat jullie mijn allereerste NOTD foto zien die ik gemaakt heb voor het nagellaktopic op www.fok.nl Niet slecht voor een eerste foto al zeg ik het zelf!
Een funky french met twee laagjes Rimmel Jaded Glamour en een laagje Essence Bubblegum.

Ik hoop snel weer terug te zijn!

English: I'm having a major allergic reaction after doing a little allergy test so I'm going to try and stay away from anything that might irritate my skind for a couple of days until the meds kick in.

I did want to post something so I'm going to show you my very first NOTD pic that I made for the nailpolish topic on www.fok.nl Not bad for a first pic if I say so myself!
A funky french with two coats of Rimmel Jaded Glamour and one coat of Essence Bubblegum.

I hope to be back soon!

Get Footloose and Fun-kay....

Day 76

Hey everyone!!! How is your Monday going?! Lots of you had to go back to work today, and I really feel for you... but I'm on VACATION!!!! lol Ok, so I'm on vaca in Michigan, does that REALLY count? Anyway, I present to you today's nails... I bough Funky Limelight a while ago, and really wanted to use it, soooo....I did.



I used Essie Funky Limelight as a base, with Essie Foot Loose applied with Konad Plate m69. Topped it all off with Seche Vite top coat. :)

BTW, the pic doesn't even begin to show how bright Funky Limelight is, its rather blinding. :-P

Magical Footloose Attraction

Day 75

Hey all, sorry this post is so late tonight, 10:38 PM EST!!! I just got to my sister's after traveling BACK across the state to spend the remainder of my vacation here in freezing cold Grand Rapids, MI. WOOOOO!! Today's nails were spur of the moment, and I JUST bought this polish at Meijer (a midwest chain supermarket/superstore), and for a $2.99 polish, I have to say, its gorgeous. Fully opaque in 2 coats, but I did 3 for extra sparkle. (as if it needs any extra!! lol)



and a blurred one so you can see the sparkliness better, but the picture doesn't come NEAR capturing its glory. :-P



I used Massini Magic Attraction as a base, with Essie Foot Loose applied with Konad Plate m69, and then flower/swirl pattern was hand painted with China Glaze Liquid Leather. Topped off with Seche Vite top coat.

This one is sure going to be a bugger to get off, darn glitter. :-P

Mad as a Hatter

Day 74

Hey all!! I hope that everyone's Christmas went beautifully, that everyone got to spend time with their families, and that everyone's travels found them safely at their destinations this year!! I must admit, I'm rather elated to be able to not do Christmas themed nails today, is that bad?! :-P Sorry if it is, but yeah, I was running out of ideas!! Today's nails make me think of The Mad Hatter for some reason, I think its the acid green base that does it... but not entirely sure. Sorry again for the poor cleanup- still no good remover here at the parents' house.



I used Barielle Polished Princess as a base, with China Glaze L8R G8R applied with Konad Plate m65. For the tips, I used Essie Foot Loose for freehand painted tips. Topped everything off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.

Anyone get any good after Christmas deals today??

HAPPY NEW YEAR

The first thing I did on these nails was acrylic in nova near the tip. Then I used a glitter called disco balls from sparklesnailproducts.com. I mixed it with clear acrylic first and added it near the smile line blending it up into the blue. I painted a snowflake on the ring fingers.

These nails are a super cute chunky blue glitter called stratosphere. For this time of year we just had to add the snowflakes.

This color is called "black hole." I added pink and silver stars to it. I used my migi nail art pen to write "2010" on the ring fingers. Happy New Year!

On these nails I used my favorite color nebula and then added some silver sparkle strips near the tip and a silver star for a new years theme.

These are silver nails with gold stars.