31 Days NA Challenge - Day 5: Blue Nails

Hello there :)

To be honest I didn't had the motivation to post today since I sometimes think I'm talking to myself here ^^ But I'm doing my thing and I wanna share my stuff and if someone happens to read and like this - awesome! Although I have to say that I really miss talking with my readers through the comments, mails etc.
A few of you still comment, so thank you <3

Let's move on to today's challenge - blue nails!

This is 2 coats of O.P.I - Swimsuit.. Nailed it! and a lot of rhinestones on the accent nail :D

I wanted to do kind of a gradient with the rhinestones, but it was a lot easier in my mind! I still like the outcome though, but I could never do this on all my nails ... or maybe one day, who knows?

I chose this nail polish because it still is my all time favorite blue color and I don't think there ever will be another blue polish I love so much! 

Which is your favorite blue polish? Maybe you prove me wrong :) 

Thanks for reading and see ya tomorrow! 

*Late* Nail Art Monday - Tape accent nail

Hello my dear readers!

*EDIT: I suck as a blogger ... I wrote that post yesterday and forgot to post it ... I'm sorry for the delay, again^^ *

Today I have some simple nail art for you - an accent nail with rhinestones and geometric design, that I achieved by using tape :)

The base for this mani is P2's No Matter from the "Winter ... who cares?!" LE I showed you yesterday!

For the accent nail I used Essence - Snow Alert (from the Mountain Calling LE) and 3 rhinestones. I topped it all off with a thick coat of TC. 

My plan was to do all nails like that, but then I thought It may be a little bit too much and I also didn't wanna cover up that gorgeous blue ;) 

How do you like it? Let me know!

Thanks for reading :*  

Christmas Challenge Day 12 - Holly + Award

Holy moly! We are already halfway through the challenge! Can you believe how time flies?

Today's theme is : Holly. What do you do when you're lazy ? Exactly! An accent nail :P 

I used Essence - Can't Cheat On Me as a base (2 coats) and some rhinestones for the holly's :) 

Make sure to check these ladies out: 

Paint That Nail, Steffi, Jessica, Salpi, Shannara, Kirshten, Kelly, Lexi Martone and Kaki

I also received another award from 2 ladies: paint that nail and Shannara. I wanna thank you both so much for giving me this, I'm really glad other people out there appreciate my blog and in this case, especially my Nail Art! :) 

Thanks thanks thanks!! :D

I wanna pass this award to some of the lovely ladies that I highly appreciate and admire for their Nail Art:
Clothes, Cosmetics and Chat
A place for my Nails
MaD Manis
Sara ♥'s Pretty Little Things
Sonoma Nail Art
Wacky Laki

A little fun fact for you guys: I now have exactly as much followers as I have nail polish in my stash --> 254 :P 

See ya tomorrow ;) 

Nail Art Tutorial: Argyle Print

Hey, my dear readers!

Hope you are having a great weekend so far ;) Mine isn´t that good, cause I´m sick and I sit in bed all day, but that means I can do a little more for my blog ;) So here is another tutorial for you guys and it´s the Argyle print I showed you once on my Nail Art wheels :) Let´s start!

Step 1 : After applying your base coat and your base color, start off by painting diagonal lines all over your nail. The space between the lines will determinate the size of the argyle print, so paint more lines for a small print and fewer lines for a bigger print.






Step 2 : Now do the same thing from the other side ;) Little tip: If it´s hard to draw a continuous line, just start the line at the edge of your nail and draw it to the middle of the nail and then start from the opposite site and draw the line to the middle til they lines meet. Did that make any sense ? :P






Step 3 : Now that you have your net, you have to fill in some of the rhombs ( is that the correct word? I don´t trust google :D ) I did this with a small dotting tool, to make it a little easier. :) You already have a argyle print now! Let´s move on to decorate it a little bit more ;)

Step 4 : Now grab another color (preferable one that makes a contrast to the ones you used before) and draw some thin lines parallel to the ones you drew before. Hard to explain, but you get the idea from the picture ;)







Step 5 : Do the same thing from the other side :)  You could stop here and have an cool argyle print or you could take one more step ;)








Step 6 : As I said, this one is optional, but I like it very much :D In every spot, where the thin lines meet, you can add some rhinestones in the same color as the lines. Doesn´t it look awesome? :D

It takes some time to achieve this design, that´s why I did just an accent nail with it :) So here is the end result:

Do you like it ? I really hope this tutorial was helpful to some of you guys! :) I really like doing this tutorials and enjoy it even more, when I know I helped someone achieve the looks they wanted :)

Have a wonderful rest of the weekend and good night ! :-*

The British Flag + Little Poll

Hello, my lovelies!
Today I wanted to do something simple but still eye-catching :) What do you do? Rhinestones! :D I had this idea in my mind for some time, but not with rhinestones actually...I changed that spontaneously ;) I really like the colors of the British flag, so here is the mani I did:

(sorry for not cleaning up ^^)

I used P2 - Gigantic as a base, 2 coats on each nail. This is a really great blue and very glossy. Application can be difficult, because it tends to be sheer if you don´t apply it evenly. The white polish is Essence - Ahoy (LE), my new favorite white ;) And then I added some red rhinestones on the white lines and voilá! I love it! I love rhinestones more and more :P

Aaaand here is my little poll:
From now on I wanna ask you guys on every Tuesday, what polish I should use the next day. The way we gonna do it, is that you name a number between 1 and 199 (that´s all my polishes) and then I count down my stash list :) I pick the first comment with a number. Why do I do this? I´m clueless sometimes which polish to choose and that way you can help me ;)

So it´s up to you! Which polish should I use? :D

My first Rhinestone Manicure

Hello everybody! :)
Less talk and more pictures today :) I tried my first manicure with rhinestones last weekend and I really liked it! It was very easy to work with them and they really do make a manicure more special ;) I applied 2 coats of Essence - Hypnotic Poison, a really great red-pinkish shimmer polish. The shimmer is so beautiful in sunlight!  After that I put on the rhinestones, while the polish was still wet. And voilá:

Do you like to use rhinestones on your manicures? Tell me about it in your comments :)
Have a great day! :-*