31 Day NA Challenge - Day 21: Inspired by a color

Last post for today! :)

The challenge for today is a mani inspired by a color. A few days back I got Catrice - (S)wimbledon as a gift from my sister-in-law (thanks again Roxi!) and I decided to use it for this nail art:

I used Flormar 436 as a base and painted over with Catrice (S)wimbledon. 

I absolutely adore ruffian manicures - and there are sooo many combinations you can do! 

Do you like this style as much as I do? 

Tell me your favorite color combination! 

Thanks for reading and see ya tomorrow my lovelies <3 

31 Day NA Challenge - Day 17: Glitter

Hello my lovelies!

I didn't post yesterday because I still have such a bad headache and it won't go away :(

I will post both challenges today though, so don't worry ;)
First one is glitter, which was yesterday's challenge:

I used Flormar 436 on all fingers except the ring finger and topped it off with Sally Hansen Twinkle, Twinkle. On the ring finger I used Essence Ultimate Pink and added Essence Twins Topper 04 Carrie. 

I had something else in mind, but it didn't work out so I did this instead :) 

Hope you like it! Thanks for reading and see you in a bit with the second post!

31 Days NA Challenge - Day 4: Green Nails

Hey guys!

It's so strange to post every single day, after I didn't post for so long :D But it's fun! And today I have the fourth challenge for you, which is green nails :)

I applied 3 thin coats of Flormar Neon N007 as a base and used a small nail art brush to draw that wavy pattern with P2 Green Palm Tree (from the Summer Attack LE). 

Hope you like it!

Thanks for reading <3 

My first Galaxy Nails!

I finally managed to do the most awesome nail art trend ever : the galaxy nails! I wanted to do them for ages but I always thought, they're too difficult to do. When I saw some pretty pictures featuring this awesome design a few days ago, I just removed my polish and started polishing and sponging like crazy, to achieve the galaxy look :D

Here is what I used: 

And also Flormar U25, which I forgot to put in the picture^^ And here is the end result:

The white is actually acrylic paint, and I used the technique shown in this video to create all the little stars in my galaxy :) 

It was really fun creating this mani, buuuuut the clean-up was such a pain in the a** because of all the blue polishes. After washing my hands 2 times the blue staining from my skin was gone though :) 

So much shimmer and glitter going on here and since blue is my favorite nail polish color, this has to be my all-time favorite manicure !!

I will definitely try this with different colors too! Like purple shades for example :D 

Now tell me, do you like galaxy nails? 

Thanks for reading and have a good night! 

Halloween NA Challenge: Favorite Character

Hello, my lovelies!

I hope you all had a fun Halloween :) Here is my favorite Halloween character mani. Now I don't really have a favorite character, but I chose the one that came to my mind first...and that is Frankenstein! :D

I used Flormar Neon - 014 and Essence Back to Black and White Hype. 

I really like how this turned out! I saw a lot of nail art with Frankenstein, so it's nothing new, but it looks kinda cool, right? =) 

Zebra Swimsuit Nail Art Tutorial! =)

Hello, my lovelies!

Here is the tutorial for my latest nail art! Enjoy :) 

1. Apply a base color of your choice! 

2. Tape your nail off diagonally and paint the nail with a white polish. If you don't want to use tape, no problem! The line doesn't have to be perfect, cause it'll be covered up anyway ;) Just use a nail art brush and freehand it!

3. Paint the zebra print with black ... or you could do a leopard print as well! ;)

4. Now take a thin nail art brush and paint a thin line with a sparkly color that matches your design along the white part of your nail. 

5. Let it dry a little bit and add a top coat of your choice! And you are done :) 

Pretty easy but so eye-catching! You could do many different designs on the white part though! Leo print, dots, stripes ...you name it! :) 

Here is a pic of the end result again (sorry for the tip wear, but I wore it for 3 days now!)

I hope this tutorial was helpful to some of you! :)

Have a nice weekend! :*

Zebra Swimsuit!

Hey there! 

I would have posted something earlier but I wore one of the Mirrorball polishes I swatched in my last post for a whole week and now that I took it off, I finally have something new to show you! ;) 

Oh boy, I love O.P.I's Swimsuit .. Nailed it!, the polish I used as a base for this nail art. It's probably my favorite blue ever !! (Thanks again Kaki for this beauty!!) 

I mean, look at that shimmer and that perfect shade of blue ... so beautiful! But enough about that. So, I used that polish (hence the title :D) and Essence Silver Surfer, Flormar Black Tip Painter and Nail Collection Nr. 1.

I don't know why my skin looks a bit green-ish ... maybe I should stop taking pics at night?!

Anyways, I would love it so much to have a swimsuit with this pattern and color! Now that would be amazing! ;) 

I hope you like it, my lovelies! And I also have a tutorial for this nail art, that I probably post tomorrow :) 

Thanks for reading and see ya! :*

Neon Nail Art

Good morning, my beautiful readers!

I hope you had a great weekend so far :) The summer is back in Germany, so me and my friends are going to the lake again! Yay :D For this occasion I decided to do something really bright and fun on my nails :)

I saw this design on a false nail set on etsy, so it's not my genius invention! I just liked it so much that I had to try it myself! =)

I used 2 really bright neons: China Glaze Pool Party and Flormar Super Neon N014.

I love it so much! It looks so crazy and the colors are so much brighter in real life! (and Pool Party is much more pink too :P)

So that's it..I hope you like it! Aaaand I'm already late! =))
Have a nice Sunday!!! :) 

Pink & Silver Splatter Mani

Good morning girls!

Just a quick post with some nail art before I go and do the make-up for the third Penguin Challenge! :D 

I did this some months ago and only discovered the pictures yesterday :)) So here it is, a pink splatter mani:

I used Essence Ahoy as a base and for the splatters I used only Flormar polishes. 

I wore this design for almost a week, I loved it so much! :D

Hope you like it and see ya later with some make-up! ;) 

Summer Challenge: Recreate your favorite manicure!

It's already the last challenge!! I don't even know where the time went...a whole month ago, we all started this challenge and now it's over! Well, to be honest, I'm glad I can start doing what I want again :D But it was a lot of fun! Thanks ladies for this awesome experience ;) 

So the last challenge is to recreate one favorite manicure of someone else's! I had 3 absolute favorites in this challenge, although there were a loooot of amazing manicures! And I chose to recreate the one that was kinda the easiest  and the best - or I should rather say, most yummy - looking one :D It's this one right here, made by the very talented Chiro! No, honestly, go check her blog out, if you didn't already!! 

I wanna eat my nails right now! It's the mani from the Ice-Cream challenge .. and she chose to do a mint one..my favorite!! And even with chocolate chips :D 

In the last pic I didn't had the TC on... it looks just like real chocolate chips, doesn't it ? 

But of course they're not! I painted some polish on a piece of paper and cut that in little pieces, sprinkled it on the nails and tadaa! ;) 

Make sure to check out the last manicures these talented ladies did for this challenge! 

And see ya tomorrow with a new challenge! Yes, you heard right...the Penguin Makeup Challenge!! More info about it --here--! 

Summer Challenge: Favorite Water Animal

I can't keep up with this challenge =)) I always post to late.. and all that coming from someone who helped creating the challenge itself :P Well, the last theme was: 

Favorite Water Animal !

I don't know why, but the first thing that came to my mind was Nemo! :)) So here is my clownfish many:

I used Catrice - MAN,GO Tango and some white and black polish from Flormar.

It looks so bright and summery, I really love it!

Let's see what water animals the other ladies chose!! (After the jump :P)

Summer Challenge: Tropical Drinks

Hello there!

A bit late but here is my tropical drinks inspired mani!! :D My inspiration was this yummy looking Blue Mojito ;) I love cocktails with mint or cocos or fruity liqueurs, but this one just looks awesome!

I first started with a blue gradient, using Sensique - Lakier Sky Blue and Farmasi 85: 

I also added some mint leaves... but they look weird =)) But from afar it looks okay ;) 

Also check out these ladies!! (After the jump!)

Summer Challenge: Favorite Summer Memory

Phew this was a hard one! I only post it so late, because it took me so long to figure out what I wanna do with my nails =)) First off, it is really hard to find a favorite summer memory, because every summer happens something awesome, and second of all, how can you transfer a memory to your nails, right? 

I managed it in the end :P One of my favorite summers ever was the the summer 2008, were me and my best friend went on a vacation on Young Island, Croatia. It was just A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
I will never forget those 2 weeks :) 

I'll show you the mani and explain later what each design represents ;) 

Explanation and the links after the jump!! ;) 

Summer Challenge: Palm Trees

I am so sorry I didn't post this earlier, but I forgot! I could have sworn I already posted my Palm Tree Challenge, but this morning I realized that I didn't do it. I have the nails done since Friday and what a luck I still had them on today, to take pictures! ;)
First, my inspiration: 

And this is how it looks on my nails: 

For the sunset gradient I used 4 colors, which are: 

Essence - Break Through (purple), Kiko - 289 (pink), Essence - Get the Fever (orange) and Essence - Sundancer (yellow). I sponged this colors over one coat of white polish (Essence Ahoy!). For the palm trees I used the black tip painter from Flormar :)

Btw, I didn't use any top coat over the palm trees accent nails, because I really like the uneven structure of the palm trees :D 

After 3 days, they still look very glossy and there is almost no tip wear! (Please excuse my dry skin/cuticles!)

What is that miracle top coat that shines like crazy even after 3 days, you say? It's Essence Better Than Gel Nails Top Sealer ... this stuff is amaaaazing! :D I can really recommend it! It also dries super fast ;)

I really liked this manicure and I got some compliments on it too! That's always a plus ;) 

Check out these ladies for more awesome Nail Art !!

Summer Challenge: Favorite Summer Song

Already the third challenge ?!! Time flies :) 

Today's theme: Favorite Summer Song 

Let me tell you, this was a hard one!! Phew :)) Why? Well, many reasons! At first I didn't know what my fav summer song is ... but then I realized which one it is! .....DANZA KUDURO!
Oh boy, I adore this song :D It's exactly the kinda music I like, it's the soundtrack to my favorite movie (Fast Five!!) and it's my ringtone ever since it came out =)) 

First problem solved....but then I had no idea what to paint on my nails, that could represent this song! After a little brainstorm I came up with some ideas, but then came the next problem: how the heck should I transfer that to my nails?? 

In the end I solved that problem too, I just made some sketches and everything was fine :D

Here's the song, in case you don't know it, but then again you must live under a rock, if you never heard of it =)) 

And here is what I did on my nails: 

Oh yes, it's the Yacht from the first scenes of the music video ;)

I worked really hard on this one and I reeeeeally like the outcome :D  

On my thumbs I wrote the song title: 

DANZA KUDURO! ... oi oi oi ♫ ..sorry, I'm listening to the song right now and I'm singing along =))

Here is the sketch I talked about earlier: 

I initially wanted to do some kind of gradient on my thumbs, but I did some waves instead :P 

So tell me: what's your favorite summer song??? :)

Summer Challenge: Picnic

Hey there my lovelies! :) 

I just realized that I forgot to post the picture of the summer challenge! So here it is, just in case, you have no idea what's going on here :D 

Today's theme: Picnic! Oh boy, I was so uncreative with this one :)) I just did some picnic-blanket pattern and some ants *yawn* You really should check the other ladies out, because they did some really cool nails on this theme! Anyway, here it is: 

 I used: Essence - Ahoy! (base), China Glaze - Ruby Pumps and Flormar Tip Painter in black. 

Btw, what is with me and fat animals?? I mean, look at that ant on my ring finger!! First fat bees, now fat ants? =))) Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against fat or round animals, I'm just wondering why I always paint them that way :)) 

I hope you like it! Go ahead and check the other designs out!

See ya tomorrow with an exciting challenge :D 

Summer Challenge: Bees

Omg, I'm soooo behind! I am so sorry, but life was a bit hectic these days :) Anyways, I will catch up, I promise! 

So first theme is/was: BEES !  

And here is my take on it, inspired by a manicure I once saw on Emily's Nail Files ... but I don't know the exact post, sorry!

First let's see what I used: 

Essence - The World's Coolest (base color), Essence Show your Feet - In the Jungle, O.P.I. - Fresh Frog of Bel Air, Essence - Sundancer, black and white nail art tip painter from Flormar + Fimo flowers.  

 Those flowers look so freaking cute! :D But that bee is kinda fat, oops soory! I mean round :D 

I included the last pic to show you how the flowers look on the nail. I didn't add a TC, because I liked how they looked without ;)
Check out the other ladies, who are participating, as well ;)
See ya tomorrow with the next challenge!