31 Day NA Challenge - Day 20: Water Marble

Hello again!

Here is yesterday's challenge...which I absolutely HATE! I hate water marbling... it's just so much work, such a nail polish waste (because you use a lot) and it never works for me! (and of course the clean-up is a pain in the a**)

But here it is (only as an accent nail):

I used Milani 3D Holographic - 510 3D as a base and for the marbling itself, plus S-he 303. 

I did my ring finger 4 times (!!) until it looked like that. The thumb was ok after the first time :P

In my eyes the result is not worth all the effort you put in, but I have to say that I really admire those girls who pull off such gorgeous water marbling nail art! 

You are really talented - and patient xD 

That's it, thanks for reading!

See ya later with today's challenge (finally :D)

Halloween NA Challenge - Pumpkin

Maybe you've seen this challenge on other blogs or on my facebook page, I'm talking about the

Halloween Nail Art Challenge! 

Didn't Isabella just do an awesome job on this banner?? :D

For the whole month of October we will do different Halloween designs and the best thing about it? It's just 2-3 designs a week! Everyone can keep up with that :) It's not too late to join! Just head over to Kaki, she has the code for the Inlinkz app and then you are ready to go!

First challenge is: Pumpkins! 

I used: Catrice - Man,Go Tango, S-he - 452, Essence - Back to Black and Harm Limit - Crackle 18. 

This mani didn't turned out like I hoped. I'm not very happy with it, but I promise to do a better job with the other challenges :P 

I took this picture to show you how orange that crackle looks in the bottle... sadly, it didn't transfer to the nail at all! I used 2 coats and it still was very sheer :( To cover it up, I used a coat of orange glitter ...and that made it worse =))

Check out the other ladies as well! ;) 

Christmas Challenge Day 24 - Favorite Manicure

The last challenge .. I can't believe it's over. I had really fun doing all this designs, although sometimes it was hard doing Nail Art everyday :P I'm so glad I joined this challenge, because I improved my Nail Art skills and I found some nice ladies, who also did this cool Christmas Challenge :) It was really worth it! 

Today we had to recreate our favorite manicure from all the 23 themes and I didn't have to think a lot about it: I chose Snowflakes ;) But I didn't do the same version as last time, instead I chose the design that Copy That, Copy Cat did some while ago :)

 I chose China Glaze - Ruby Pumps as a base instead of a blue one, cause it's more Christmassy that way :P
For the tips I used: S-he 471 (silver), Farmasi 79 (little silver glitter) and Essence - Julia (big glitter). 

It was a really hectic day today, so I didn't had the time to do all nails with snowflakes, but I really like how that looks too :)
I'm so glad I can keep this design on my nails for as long as I want to, cause I don't have to do another challenge tomorrow :P I will keep it on, til it chips and I hope that won't be too soon :D

If you didn't visit these blogs til now, make sure to do it! They all did a great job in this cool challenge:  

Paint That Nail, Steffi, Jessica, Salpi, Shannara, Kirshten, Kelly, Lexi Martone and Kaki.
I will really miss seeing all the different interpretations of 1 theme everyday, cause it was fun and interesting! ;)

I wish you all a Merry Christmas! Enjoy your free time with your loved ones and may Santa bring you many great presents! :D

Christmas Challenge Day 11 - Wreaths

Hello to my old and new followers!

Since my test was today (it went ok :D), I didn't had the time and energy to do today's theme on all my nails .. I didn't even change the base color :D So here is a cute accent nail: 

I like it, especially the little bow... I love cute bows :D 

I used S-he 320 as a base and Catrice - Run Forest Run for the wreath. I topped it with a green Golden Rose glitter and little shimmery dots (P2 - Divine). For the bow I used Sally Hansen - Brick Wall.

Go visit the blogs of these gorgeous ladies to see more cute little wreaths!

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

Have a good night and sweet polish dreams! :-* 

Christmas Challenge Day 10 - Poinsettias

Heyho :)

Today's theme: Poinsettias ...*sigh* they looked so good in my head...but on my nails, oh well, I don't like it.

Can't wait to do tomorrow's theme, so I can take these off :P 

Go ahead and see the beautiful poinsettias these ladies did: 

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

Have a good night! :*

Reader´s Choice: S-he 195

Hello my dear readers! :)

The awesome polish I will show you in a second, was chosen on Tuesday by an Anonymous reader, who chose number 211 :) Thanks for that, whoever you are :D Number 211 is S-he 195, a very sheer red glitter polish, which reminds me of Christmas :P I knew immediately what I would do with that polish, and here it is:

 BLOOD! :D Oke I know its Glitter-Blood, but still :P It´s perfect for Halloween ;) 

I used: Art de Lautrec 21 (black), P2 - Open your Heart and S-he 195. 

As I mentioned before, S-he 195 is very sheer, so I always use it as a glitter topper over a red polish.

In this second picture the red is color accurate :) There is so much glitter going on in real life, but I couldn´t capture it in the photo :(

Wanna know something funny? :D After I finished this manicure last night, I read some some new blog posts and I came across this manicure from Anutka. She did the same dripping manicure :D Cool coincidence, right? :P Make sure to visit her blog ;)

That´s it! Thanks for reading and have a great day .. I´m off to the Uni now ;)

Nail Art Tutorial: Spider Web

Good evening everybody! :)

How was your weekend? I hope a little bit more spectacular than mine :P I learned the past few days for my upcoming test and now I found the time to post my weekend tutorial for you ;)

Btw: I now have a facebook-page! So if you´re on facebook, go ahead and like it! :D And I wanna ask you guys, whether you know, how to put the facebook box on my blog´s sidebar. I tried the HTML-Code, but it didn´t work :( So if you know how it works, just write me an email ;)

So, this time we have the Spider Web! Since Halloween is coming up, I thought I do some Nail Art for it :) It´s really easy and fast, and here it goes:

Step 1 : After applying you base color, you take a small brush and choose another color for the spider web. The colors should have a good contrast :) Basically you just have to paint some straight lines, that all start at the same point. I chose the right side by my cuticles as the "starting point".



Step 2 : It should look like this after painting on your lines. You can do more lines, for a denser spider web, or less, for a big spider web. I chose 4... I think it´s just the perfect amount of lines :)



Step 3 : Now we have to draw on the other lines, to make it look like a web. You could do some round lines, from one side of the nail to the other one (and it´s a lot easier that way), or you could do the lines a little bit curved from one line to the other. Does that make sense ? :D It´s like you painting a little "u" between every line.



Step 4 : Finish it off with a TC to make it shinny and you´re done! You have a spider web on your nails! :D (I didn´t put a TC on cause I added something else :P)



Phheew, I sure said the word "line" a lot :D


I didn´t do the web on all of my nails, just on the thumb and the ring finger. Then I thought I could add a cute little spider to one of my nails and here is the end-result:

 I also added some glitter over the spider-web, cause I loooove glitter! :) But this step is totally optional ;) 

I used: P2 - Dramatic Black (base on thumb and ring finger), S-he 471 (silver), Farmasi - 79 (silver glitter) and Essence - Fatal for the Spider. 

I am in love with this cute spider and his web!

Do you like it? 

I think I will do some more Halloween Nail Art the next couple of days ... this mani just got me in the mood :D

Have a good night and thanks for reading! :-* 

A new leopard design :)

Hey everybody!
I think you all know by now, that I love animal prints .. I can´t help it :P So here´s another manicure with leopard design :

I applied my base color, taped it off, added some metallic black and finished it by adding the leopard design. I used: Essence - White Hype (base), S-he 471 (silver), Essence - Fatal (leopard outlines) and Essence - Metal Battle.

Simple but eye-catching :P Some people actually asked to see my nails, so they could take a closer look :D 

Also ... it´s Tuesday! Yep, that´s right, you have the chance to tell me a number between 1 and 226, and decide which polish I wear tomorrow! :) Can´t wait to see, what it will be ;) 

Thanks for reading and have a great day! :-* 

Reader´s Choice: Catrice - Just Married

Hello my lovelies! :)
As always, I asked you yesterday for a number, and the first comment was from Elizedge, and she chose number 17! On my list, that´s Catrice - Just married! Thank you! I really love this color and I´m so mad at Catrice, that they discontinued this shade and many others, just to replace it with other ones, under the same number and name. Come on! Couldn´t they at least take other names for the new polishes ?! Anyways, I swatched this color -->here<--. I wanted to add something to it, and I was very clueless, til I saw my dotting tool laying around on my desk :P So I added some silver dots, and I must say: I really like the combination of this colors! The silver polish I used is S-he 471.

Simple but cute! Hope you like it ;)
Good night and see ya next time ! :-*

My first Splatter Mani :)

Hello everyone! :)
I miss blogging already....I count the days til the end of the month, then I´m free and I will have more time for my blog :)
Some new trend in the nail polish community is the so-called splatter manicure. It´s so easy to achieve and it creates an awesome effect on your nails. So I started with a gold-beige shimmery polish as a base, it´s S-he 320.The color is something in between picture 1 and 2. I did 2 coats, the application was flawless and it dried super fast! After 5 minutes I accidently bumped my index finger against my table and ...nothing! It dried completely. I was fascinated :D

To create this effect, all you have to do is, take a straw, dip it in some nail polish so that it creates a thin layer over the hole. Now you have to blow (from the other side of the straw :D) and the nail polish will scatter all over your nail. Make sure to tape off the skin around the nail, just so you don´t have to clean up that much :) Repeat this step til you like the result and your done :)

How do you like it ? :) Have you tried a splatter mani yet?

Thanks for reading and have a great day! 

S-he Red Glitter

First of all ...I have 11 Followers! When did this happen? :D Well, welcome to my blog ;) Now I don´t have the feeling anymore, that I´m talking to myself here :P And the second thing I wanted to tell you guys: Kim and Leslie from Nail Polish Art Addiction are hosting a great nail art contest: "Good enough to eat" ..yeah, the nail art must be food related :D I just found out about it some days ago :P Deadline is June 20th, so you have still enough time to enter! Here is the link: click ! I just submitted my entry, but I´m not allowed to show it on my blog, til they got all entries and they can start the vote ;)  I will tell you when the time comes :)

I just have something simple on my nails right now, since my focus was on that nail art contest :P

 I used 1 coat of P2 - Open your heart as a base and 1 coat of S-he 195. You could also use only 3 coats of S-he to make it opaque, your choice ;) The second pic is a bit blurry, but I wanted to show you the beautiful shimmer this polish has.

Looks better in reality, cause , again, the camera is not good :)
See ya next time, my dear readers! :-*