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

Wavy Gradient

School started today, brand new semester, brand new challenges, looking forward to it.
I also made travel plans, me and my friend are going to meet up in London, she lives in Sweden and I'm here in Iceland, and after a weekend in London I'm going back with her to Sweden and spend Easter with her and her boyfriend. Can't! Wait!

Polishes used:

OPI - La Paz-itively Hot

Kleancolor - Cherry Sky

Cult Nails - Faded

This one is a little bit out of focus but I love how it turned out on the thumb so I had to include it.

Tutti Frutti Candy Cane Stripes

No work today, there's a blizzard going on and I'm stuck home, not even going to try to swim through the snow to my car, which is also snowed in deep.
I thought I would use the opportunity and practice my freehand lines, I bought a ton of nail art brushes from Borne Pretty Store a while ago and I've been dying to use them.

I take all my pictures in natural light and because of the gloomy weather the pics aren't that great today but I still want to show you guys my candy cane stripes.

Polishes used:

OPI - Kiss Me I'm Brazilian

Orly - Blue Collar

OPI - Red Hot Rio

Oh and thanks for all the lovely comments, I read every one and for the most part always answer back but I realized today that the new layout won't let me reply to your comments, I'm pretty bummed out by that and I probably have to change that soon and after all the work I put into this it feels crappy...
Just thought I'd let you know why I'm not answering your comments.

A VERY late Halloween post - Comic Book Nails and my Costume

There, I did it again, no blog post since October. I've been extremely busy with school, work and just life in general and I haven't been able to paint my nails so the state they're in right now isn't pretty.

I went as a comic book girl on Halloween and of course I had to do my nails as well.

Polishes used:

OPI - La Paz-itively Hot

OPI - Who Are You Calling Bossy?!?

OPI - Alpine Snow

 Bonus picture of them glossy.

And lastly my comic book girl costume, very home made, did the sign myself and used acrylic paint to paint my face, after many tries with many different materials the paint was the only thing that would stick. Used he round eraser at the tip of a pencil to do the white dots and did everything else with a small paint brush.

31DC2014 Day 31 - Honor Nails You Love

THE LAST DAY AF THE CHALLENGE!!!

Thought this sentence deserved cap locks.

It's been a fun but difficult month filled with empty bottles of polish remover, dirty paintbrushes, lots of scotch tape and headaches over nail polish fumes, but it's over and at the same time I'm so glad it's over I'm also sad because I had so much fun and now I have to go find my own prompts, lol.
I'm giving myself a promise that I'll keep a better schedule (blog vise) now than before the challenge, I just have to stop procrastinating so much and just do things.

For this last one I decided to recreate Glitter Fingersss's Half Moons. I only recently started following her blog but every nail design she does blows me away.

Polishes used:

Cult Nails - Thrive

Kleancolor Nail to Toe striper - Beaming Pink

See what I did last year: 31DC2013

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31DC2014 Day 21 - Inspired By A Color

Because I had my water marble "gear" on my table and some time to kill I did another water marble for this day's prompt which is inspired by a color.
As you've maybe guessed if you have followed me for some time I really like pastels and bright colors and my favorite colors at the moment are mint green and pink so I thought I would take inspiration from that and do a water marble with them.

There are two types of pink in there but as I used Acid Watermelon also as base the other one kind of blended in. These are much brighter in person, my camera could not handle this masterpiece ;)
Here are a "few" photos.

Polishes used:

L'Oreal - Acid Watermelon

Maybelline Color Show - Tropink

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Kelp Yourself

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31DC2014 Day 12 - Stripes

I didn't realize until halfway through that this is a waterfall nail art, 

I was thinking of green grass while doing this.

Polishes used:

The New Black - Some pastel pink I don't know the name of

OPI - Amazon... Amazoff

OPI - You Are So Outta Lime!

OPI - Life Gave Me Lemons

China Glaze - Atlantis

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My Birthday Manicure

My birthday was on Saturday I turned 27, wow how time flies!

My birthday present from me to, well me was my first stamping kit from MoYou, can't wait to try it.

I did a pink kitty nail art to celebrate it, I love the color pink and I love cats so this had to happen :)

Polishes used:

American Apparel - Crescent Heights

Alessandro - Ice Cream Bar Strawberry/Vanilla

Alessandro - Midnight Black

OPI - Mod About You

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I thought I would do a manicure dedicated to the pink ribbon.

In my books it's a failure but I decided to post it anyway, the pink polish and the pink crystals are way too similar in color, the crystals are way too big for my nail, I looked at them and thought them tiny but when they went on the nail I almost didn't have enough space for them.... Maybe they grew... o.O

Polishes used:

OPI - Mod About You

Depend no. 190

It's 3:30 and the sun is so low in the sky it's soon setting so I got this beautiful light when I was photographing my nails.

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31DC2013 Day 17 - Glitter

Life wouldn't be the same without glitter!

Polishes used:

OPI - Hawaiian Orchid

OPI - Excuse Moi!

I had a nasty fight with scotch tape while doing this, the Hawaiian Orchid peeled off when I put tape on it to do the glitter halfs. But we made up, with few minor wrinkles.. ;)

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L'Oreal Color Riche - Paradise Flower - Swatches

As I'm currently in between nail art challenges and saving my nail art for that I thought I would post some swatches, maybe even go and swatch my entire collection to post them on the blog so there won't be as many days where I have nothing to post.

So here we go!

L'Oreal - Paradise Flower is a limited edition shade from the Miss Pop collection.

It looked so good in the bottle, pink jelly base with gold and fuchsia glitter in different sizes, but when I put it on I wasn't that impressed.

Application was hard, it gets gloopy and a little bumpy and I had to battle with bald patches, also the glitter turns out matte on the nail and somehow drowns in the base.

The photos aren't quite color accurate, its a little more vibrant in reality.

I can't say I absolutely hate it, but I don't love it either.

Will probably use it again as an accent nail or in nail art.

So tell me what you thought of this post, do you like it or should I just stick to the nail art?

Oh Mon Dieu! 31 Day Nail Art Challenge - Day 1 - Pink

There is a great nail art challenge going on in July, it's called Oh Mon Dieu! It's both a challenge and a giveaway! Today the theme is Pink.

I saw this layered mani over at Candy Coated Tips and really wanted to try it.

Polishes used:

OPI - Strawberry Margarita

OPI - Pompeii Purple

Sally Hansen Xtreme wear - Coral Reef

OPI - Mod About You

Here is a link to the challenge if anyone is interested Oh Mon Dieu! It's the Rather Awesome 31 day Challenge Giveaway

If you want to see what others came up with you can go here!