Birthday kitties!

My birthday is today and if I remember correctly I turn 28 today ;)
Had the most awesome surprise birthday dinner yesterday which my amazing friends planned for me and today I'm just taking it easy.

For my b-day manicure I wanted to recreate last years b-day manicure, pink cats. :)
I loved it so much last year and I also wanted to see if my free hand nail art skills have improved.
Here you can see my last year birthday kitty mani.

Polishes used:

Alessandro - Lime/Vanilla

Alessandro - Strawberry/Mint

OPI - Who Are You Calling Bossy?!?

OPI - Mod About You

31DC2014 Day 4 - Green Nails

When I was looking through the photos I took to decide which to use I got frustrated because my pinky has a posing problem, always out of focus or bent a little different than the other fingers.

I had an "accident" back in January, I was trying to be faster than my cat to close the front door before he got out, but as he was in front of me I decided to jump over him and at the door but my left hand got in the way and crashed all wrong on the door corner. It was painful and with a pinky swollen like a thumb I went to the emergency room where they told me that at least it wasn't broken but ever since then I sometimes get throbs of pain in my pinky and I can't seem to be able to move it as much as I did before, hence the frustration, I bet the people at the emergency room where laughing their asses of when I went out, I probably sounded like a crazy catlady... "So this happened because of your cat?"

I searched Pinterest for inspiration and thought this would be fun to do, have never done this before and I was extremely happy with the result.
Kiwis - the fruit - not the birds ;)

Polishes used:

Alessandro - Lime/Vanilla

Barry M - Coconut

Unnamed black polish in a skull bottle.

See what I did last year: 31DC2013

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Stitched Halloween Nails

Even though we don't celebrate Halloween here in Iceland I decided I wanted to do some Halloween nail art, I did two looks, the first one is this and I'll post the second one tomorrow.

So happy Halloween for those who celebrate it!!

I followed a tutorial by HannahRoxNails which you can find here!

I'm not 100% satisfied with this but I'm still happy how it came out.

There are many smears and bubbles that somehow slithered in there...

Also the lighting is kinda wonky..

Polishes used:

Alessandro - Ice Cream Bar Lime - Vanilla

Alessandro unknown purple

E.L.F. - Party Peach

Alessandro - Midnight Black

My friend colored my hair yesterday and I'm really happy with the outcome, so I decided to overcome the phobia of posting a picture of myself (other than my nails ;) ) and show you how it looks like.

And the quality of the picture is crap.

PINK!!!!

Okay that's everything for today, now I'll go brood over the increasing amount of snow that is falling at the moment, I'll have to swim my way out of the house tomorrow...

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31DC2013 Day 3 - Yellow Nails

Yellow is the color today.

Polishes used:

Alessandro - Yummy Yellow

Alessandro - Cashmere Touch

This is a bright neon yellow but it came out like a soft pastel color which it is not, it's screaming, freaky neon yellow!! Love this color.

OMD 31 Day Challenge Day 22 - Animal Themed

Tiger Stripes, hear me roar!!

This is my first time trying this, I had a little problem with smearing when I put the topcoat on.

Polishes Used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

Alessandro - Cashmere Touch

Alessandro - Long Island Ice Tea

Alessandro - Midnight Black

OMD 31 Day Challenge Day 18 - Delicate

Well, not as delicate as I wanted it to be but this is my first attempt at a lace pattern.

Polishes used:

OPI - Hawaiian Orchid

Alessandro - Midnight Black

I can't believe I'm still on track with this challenge!

OMD 31 Day Challenge Day 14 - Flowers

This one was done last minute and I had no idea what I was doing :p

Polishes used:

Alessadro - Ice Cream Bar Lime /Vanilla

OPI - Need Sunglasses?

OPI - Strawberry Margarita

Essie - Mint Candy Apple

I seem to use Mint Candy Apple in quite a few manicures, it is one of my favorites.

Maybe I should do a favorites post in the near future.

More on the challenge here.

Day 14 and I'm still on board!!!! 

:D

OMD 31 Day Challenge Day 13 - Stars

Just because I was rushing things nothing I did seemed to come out right...

So here are some stars

This is Alessadro - Clubbing Reflection

and many many many stars!!

So I will probably be spending my Saturday in a mosh pit or stage diving and screaming my lungs out, drinking something with alcohol in it and dancing like crazy!

What are you going to do on this fine Saturday?

Will look though comments on Monday so don't be too mad if I don't answer until then :)

OMD 31 Day Challenge Day 8 - Matte

On Wednesday I will be going to Neskaupsstaður (which is a town in the middle of nowhere) on a rock/metal music festival called Eistnaflug, I went last year and it's so much fun!!

About 40 rock and metal bands from Iceland and other countries play from Wednesday to Saturday, last year it was epic, of course it will be epic now as well :)

So because of that I will try to schedule posts from Wednesday to Sunday and probably won't be answering comments until Monday because I will be ROCKIN' my head of!!! 

So it's day 8 and the theme is Matte.

Polises used where gazillion :p

Essie - Mint Candy Apple

Essie - Play Date

OPI - Hawaiian Orchid

Black Heart Beauty - Purple

Unnamed Black in a skull bottle

Unnamed Pink in a skull bottle

MaxFactor - Fantasy Fire

And my matte topcoat is from Alessandro

I topped Fantasy Fire over different colors to see how FF changed differently over different colors.

About the challenge

OMD 31 Day Challenge - Day 6 - Neon

So I colored my hair yesterday, It was blonde/white with orange tips, now it's blond/white with blue tips :)
I love changing my hair color, it's like going on an adventure, it could go horribly wrong or
it could come out amazing and then you have this sense of change, of newness even though
nothing in particular has changed.
And if it goes wrong your hair will grow out or it can be colored again.

Okay so on to the OMD 31 Day Challenge Giveaway!
It's day 6 and today's theme is Neon.

Polishes used:

Alessandro - Yummy Yellow
China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard
Essie - Peach Daiquiri

Yummy Yellow is a CRAZY neon yellow creme color, it took 2 medium thick coats to get it opaque and the consistency was fine, had no problems with it. The only thing weird is that in the bottle it looks like the yellow and the white have seperated but when I applied it on the nails it was fine.

So hope you all enjoy your Saturday and have a happy weekend.

Skál!

Failed Nails Because I Have Nothing Clever To Say

Squeekedy squee sqeekum sqeek...

Failed attempt at gradient nail, it looks better in person but still a fail... Might try this combo again and make  some adjustments. The orange is NEON but it doesn't show on the pic.

Polishes used 

Alessandro - Cashmere Touch

BK nail polish no 19.

Sometimes things work, other times they don't.

Hand Creams and moisturizers

This is the last week of school and I'm on overload to get everything finished before I turn in sketchbooks and diaries for evaluation. Can't wait for this to be finished, I love school but I'm getting really tired.

Today I'm gonna show you what hand creams I use. I have pretty dry hands so I always have at least one tube of hand cream with me. 

These are the ones I have and use at the moment.

Atrix Intensive Protection Cream with Camomile - Works okay but I feel like it doesn't absorb well into the skin so I get grease stains everywhere. I do not particularly like the scent but I read on their page that they do also make perfume free ones.

Alessandro Love you! Limited Edition Hand Cream - LOVE the scent, description says it has pomegranate scent, I have no idea how pomegranates smell but that is the main reason why I bought this. For me its not moisturizing enough though, it gives my hands some moisture but if they are really dry this one doesn't do it.

Nivea Refreshingly Soft Moisturising Cream - Is my heavy duty moisturizer, it says you can use it on your face and body but I use it only as a hand cream. This one has worked well for me but is a bit oily so I use it only in worst cases. It has the classic Nivea smell which doesn't bother me that much.

Time and Again Hand therapy cream - mistletoe kiss is its name and is from a Christmas collection.  I got it not last Christmas but the one after that so I couldn't find it online, but I linked back to their site. I haven't used it very much (forgot I had it) but I like it and the scent is really nice and you don't "have" to use it only in December. Santa wont be mad.... I think.... o.O

Hope this is informative to someone, otherwise I'm just.... Oh I don't know... Couldn't find anything funny to say there....

But anyway, I'm always looking for good hand and cuticle moisturizer so please tell me what is your favorite.

Síðasta vikan í skólanum og ég get ekki beðið eftir að þetta klárist, finnst hrikalega gaman í skólanum en núna má sumarfríið koma!

Ég nota mikið handáburði því ég er oft með rosalega þurrar hendur og þeir sem ég á og er að nota í augnablikinu eru : Atrix Intensive Protection Cream, keypti hann held ég bara ódýrt í Bónus, líkar ekkert rosalega vel við hann, verð of fitug á höndunum, plús mér finnst lyktin ekki góð. Alessandro Love you! hand cream keypti ég í Apótekaranum. Það er unaðsleg lykt af honum og það er eiginlega ástæðan fyrir því að ég keypti hann. Er ekki viss um að hann sé til lengur. Nivea Soft er líka keyptur í Bónus ef ég man rétt, þessi er rosa góður þegar ég er með mikinn handa þurrk. Time and Again Hand therapy cream keypti ég í búð á Akureyri sem heitir Bakgarðurinn og vil staðhæfa svo stórt að þetta sé flottasta búðin á landinu. ;) 

En jæja, aftur sný ég mér að lærdómsbóknunum... Over and out... 

My watermarble Evolution

I have a feeling that my blog posts will consist mostly of nail art and polish o.O But that's OK because I like doing my nails and I don't have many people to show it to so the internet will be my people :)

I got obsessed with nail polish a few years ago when I started reading a blog called My Simple Little Pleasures.

Colette is her name and she does extraordinary watermarble nail art, of course I had to try this and got mixed results.

 The first one I did with a friend and it wasn't that bad, we just didn't have that many polishes to work with and the clean up was a bit of a mess

My next one on the other hand (pun probably not intended) was a bloody mess:

I used three colors (mistake, beginner's start with two), blue, pink and orange, there seems to be purple there but I think I didn't use purple, and all shimmers (also a mistake).

If I remember correctly:

Pink: OPI - Be a Dahlia Wont You (one of my all time favorite)

Blue: Hello Kitty - Lola Maree (also one of my favorites)

Orange: Hello Kitty - Gaby Cherie 

After this catastrophe I started to experiment with different kinds of nail polish to see how they react in the water and what did not go together and after that I started to get the hang of it

Right hand, excuse the state of my cuticles.

Left hand and a few mishaps.

With minor mistakes, I am and was happy with the outcome :)

Polishes used:

Yellow: OPI - Need Sunglasses?

Orange/Watermelon Red: OPI - Cajun Shrimp

And another which I'm proud of

Well done cleanup-wise but my cuticles are a mess.

Polishes used:

Pink: Alessandro - Ice Cream Bar Strawberry/Mint

Green: Alessandro - Ice Cream Bar Lime/Vanilla

It's been awhile since I did these and I've done many since but I always forget to take pictures.

I have to start remembering..

Have you tried this? How did it go? Was it as messy as mine at first?

Another element this blog will probably have a lot of: Cats!

Cats playing Chess. Your argument is invalid...

Ég er með þráhyggju fyrir naglalökkum, og það byrjaði út af þessu bloggi: My Simple Little Pleasures, stelpan sem er með þessa síðu er snillingur í öllu sem viðkemur naglalökkum.

Eitt af því flottasta sem hún gerir er eitthvað sem er kallað watermarble, veit ekki alveg hvað það gæti heitið á íslensku en það snýst út á það að láta naglalakk í vatn og dífa svo nöglunum í vatnið og þá ertu komin með svona sérstakt mynstur.

Eins og þið sjáið á efstu myndunum þá tókst mér ekki sérlega vel til í fyrstu tilraunum en eftir fleiri tilraunir þá tókst mér að gera nokkrar fallegar :)

Confetti nails

Yesterday I bought L’Oreal Top Coat Confettis and of course I had to try it!!

Green polish: Alessandro Ice Cream Bar - Lime/Vanilla

Pink polish: Alessandro Ice Cream Bar - Strawberry/Mint

Black/White glitter: L’Oreal Top Coat Confettis. It has black and white hexagonal round glitter in two sizes,  has tiny microglitter in it as well but you can't see that on the picture. 

Over all I love it except I put another layer of Seche Vite top coat because the L’Oreal top coat did't have much shine once it had dried.

Græna naglalakkið: Alessandro með vanillu og lime ilmi.

Bleika lakkið: líka Alessandro með jarðaberja og mintu ilmi.

Hvíta og svarta glimmerið: L’Oreal yfirlakk.

Leopard Nails

I'm a little obsessed with painting my nails, it relaxes me when I'm stressed and takes my mind of my worries. 

I always have a orange stick ready whenever I'm painting my nails to swipe off any mistakes that might happen right away and without thinking I go and wipe of the stick on my fingers -.- hence the mess you see so painstakingly clearly..

Pink - Alessandro Ice cream bar scented Strawberry-Mint

Green - Alessandro Ice cream bar scented Lime-Vanilla

Purple - Alessandro also but I can't see the name..

I'm a little sceptical towards these scented nail polishes, I always thought that the fumes from polishes weren't good for you so why make it smell nice?? So you get high from nail polish fumes?? :p
But I find that these from Alessandro do have a nicer smell than many other scented polishes I've tried and your nails smell nice for a while after the chemical smell is gone.

I've been struggling with my nails, they brake and peel very easily. I've tried many strengtheners but nothing seems to work. So I'm open for suggestions, what do you use on your nails and how has it worked out for you??