I'm loving my outfit

A while ago my brother celebrated his Bar-Mitchva, and I just had to match my nails to my outfit! Because it matched it so perfectly, I had to take a photo with the outfit itself, and I also have a two-hands picture, so I have quite a few extra pictures today!

Simple geometric stamping to match my earrings and necklace :)

My base color on all nails is Laline Kahal galens, and I stamped both designs from Bundle Monster BM-423 plate, using Wow 393 as my black and Ga-de Vintage silver as, well, my silver.

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Spring Awakening

Originally, I did this design for Nailpolis competition, and later on I've submitted it to KBShimmer competition as well. I'm guessing that spring is the right time for nail art competitions... Anyhow, when I uploaded it to Nailpolis, I've named it "Two little birdies sitting on a tree", but for the post name I went with the competition name itself, which was what I wrote on my thumb as well.

I've started with a grey base and sponged greens and pink all over the background for the overall flower-y vibe. The rest was free handed, and at the end, I finished up with 15 different nail polishes out on the table.
I really liked the bird on my ring finger, but the second one didn't turn out very well, I believe.

I even went a bit artistic with this design, and did some photos with floral props, that believe me, were really hard to find around the house!

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Cool toned skittlette

So, I've decide to practice my mix and match skills, so prepare yourself for many skittlettes in the near future. It also makes a great opportunity for me to practice my stamping skills without getting frustrated from a full stamping manicure. I still haven't tried the Skittlette goddess's formula, but this one is quite close.

So- two stamped nails, two plains and one texture later, this mani was done! Ok, you may notice that the stamping is less then imperfect, but I honestly believe that with this specific print, the missing parts aren't as visible, so I kinda douched the bullet with this one.

Both the bright blue (Wibo 482)  and the light green (Life 279) were too sheer, with the blue actually being a jelly, so I painted them over a white base (Wow 350). I stamped with Bundle Monster BM-206, and Wow 393. The texture polish is Chic 05.

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The Lacquer Legion: Adoration

We are now at the second month of The Lacquer Legion challenge, and let me tell you- I'm so glad I joined! This challenge prompts are so wide and unspecific, that I struggle to come up with the right mani to fit it. As I did before, I've decided to go literal on the subject, and when last time I had the reinvention of the butterfly shape, this time my nails consist of a crowd filled with adoration to their idol.

As to who or what this idol is, this is all up to you! The vision I had in mind is the cheering crowd at a concert, or maybe a party of some sort, or better yet- a DJ's concert that combines it all together. To demonstrate the colorful stage light I played around with strokes of different glow in the dark polishes, and on top of those, I added the crowd silhouette. Unfortunately, the crowd isn't really visible in the glow mode.

My base color is Wow 350, and above it are 4 BK's glow in the dark polishes- 01, 04, 07 and 09. The polishes does glow in different colors, with the main difference being in the purple polish, and yet on my glow in the dark photos [as in real life], it all seems to glow in the same color, so the colorful affect is lost. For the crowd silhouette as well as the French tip on my thumb I used Wow 393.

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Sochi Olympic Games- Curling nails

If you're following my Facebook page, you already know that the 1st of February was a horrible day. It was the day I was forced to cut down my nails and make them into nubs. After screaming at the top of my lungs, I set my self down and made a new manicure, because I couldn't look at my naked nubs for another second. Now, don't get me wrong- there are many people who can really rock their nubs, but unfortunately, my hands just look too big like that. Doesn't work for me.

So although the Winter Olympics started a few days ago, only now I'm posting my Olympic nails, inspired by my favorite winter game- Curling. In Curling there's a target painted on the ice floor, and it is played in two groups. The point of the game is to get your group's rocks as close to the target eyeball, but also making sure the other team's rocks as far as possible.
The Curling competitions only started today, so this manicure comes out just in time!

So here is a quick breakdown of the whole nail art:
I believe my pointer needs no introducing, but anyhow, it's says "Sochi 2014", to state which Olympic games we are talking about. My middle finger shows this year's Curling icon, with a man throwing the rock. Which leads me to my ring finger, on which I've drawn the rock itself, on the white background of the ice, on it's way to reach the target- which is exactly what I have on my pinky.
On my thumb I have the well known Olympic rings. Don't ask me why the logo is placed so low, it just turned that way during the course of things.
All was free handed but the icon's head, in which I used a dotting tool.

And we're down to the colors break down. The white base color on all of my nails is Chic White flag. The light blue on my thumb, pointer and middle finger is Chic Bora bora. The red is Life strawberry, and the dark blue that I've paired with it on my pinky is Life 332. The dark-silver shade of the rock is Ga-de Vintage silver. The black is Ga-de black swan, the green in Life 327, and the yellow is Ga-de Mellow yellow.

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Blue skittlette tribal

My first stamping post! While having many mistakes, I take pride of this manicure. I even tried to fill up the empty spots, but the shade I used ended up much lighter with the stamping, and the lines I made were far from being straight, so there's that.
After making this manicure I realized that it fits another monthly challenge I decided to join- Nailvengers Assemble. January theme turned up to be "New year, New technique", which fits right in with my first (and sad) attempt at stamping. So while I'm a bit late to the party, I promise you that I made this manicure on January 31st!

I still need alot of practice. Maybe I should go for the small prints first, instead of full nail ones, but oh well. You can be sure that you'll see much more stamping posts now that I finally got my Bundle Monster order, and own 42 stamping plates!

My base color on all nails but my pinky is Essence That's what I mint!. The pinky and the stamping were done using Laline Kahal galena. I used Bundle Monster BM-402 for the stamping. The studs are from Forever 21.

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Gradiant bow

So, this is the first, out of apparently only two manicures I've actually remembered to photograph. Very smart of me! Anyway, if I remember correctly, I did this manicure back in October, after I was blown away by Sarah's red mix and match manicure from the 31DC. I recreated the bow from that manicure, and being my lazy self, the rest of the nails didn't get anymore then a nice-color changing rheinstone.

The base color is Life 269, and the bow was done using Life 316, Ga-de dramatic teak, and different mixtures of the two.

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31DC2013: Day 26, inspired by a pattern

Patterns are awesome. They are. The thing is, we already had 10 days dedicated to them. But don't you worry, I have just the pattern you need, that hasn't been used in the challenge!
3D cube pattern! I mean. how can you not fall in love with this geometric, optic illusion print? I know I did!

I really liked yesterday's color combination, but I knew that I'm gonna need to use different shades of the same color, and therefor, the orange must go. That's why I added the dark turquoise to the combo, and went on with it.

I used Cihc sand as the nude tone, Life 329 as the light blue, Chic bora bora as the blue and Laline kahal galena as the dark turquoise in the pattern and on my tips.

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31DC2013: Day 25, Inspired by fashion

When I first set my mind to do the 31DC, I just KNEW I'm gonna ask my friends to look for some crazy fashion for me to use, since I'm not much of a fashionista my self. But it the end, I needed no help! Few weeks ago [don't expect me to know when], New York fashion week took place, and links for the collections, and one caught my eyes in particular.

I took my inspiration from Diana Von Furstenberg spring 2013 collection. Maybe the name doesn't ring a bell to you, it sure didn't ring for me, But when I googled her, I recognized her in a second. And so what if I watch American Next Top Model marathons when I'm sick. It's on TV! Any how, you can see the rest of the collection here.

My base color in the non-accent nails is Chic sand. The light blue is Life 329, darker blue is Chic bora bora, and the orange-y shade is Ga-de clay brushed.

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31DC2013: Day 24, Inspired by a book

After yesterday, I looked for something simpler to do. So I took inspiration from a wonderful, well written, full of emotions book, "The Fault In Our Stars", written by John Green [which is an awesome person!].
While the Hebrew cover looks somehow like the painting "starry night" by Van Gogh, The original cover is very simple, so I went with it.

OK, yes. Maybe too simple. But oh, well. I promise that tomorrow's design will make up for it!

The base color is Chic bora bora, black is Chic black fog, and white is Chic white flag.

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31DC2013: Day 23, Inspired by a movie

That one was a sure thing for me. My all time favorite is Grease. No, for real now- I've seen it over 10 times, heard the song many more times, I own the DVD, and yesterday I got my hands on a vinyl records set!
So I knew Grease is gonna be it.

Pinky to pointe I presented different outfits in the movie- Pink Ladies jacket, T Birds jacket, the skirt of that nerdy girl, and Rydell logo on the cheerleaders outfits.
As for the Pink Ladies, and the T Birds, I chose singular form, because I didn't had place for anything else.

My thumb shows the Grease logo- the word itself in a car shape.
And to tell you the truth- I'M SO FREAKING PROUD OF IT. For real! It turned out so much better then I expected, and I couldn't be more happy about it.

Black in by thumb, pointer, middle and ring fingers is Chic black fog, White in my thumb, middle, ring and pinky is Chic white flag. Red in my pinky and thumb is Life strawberry, Blue in my ring finger is Life 332, and the pink in my Pointer finger is Laka 73.

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31DC2013: Day 22, inspired by a song

When I've heard "song inspired" I imidiatly wanted to go with the one and only, that makes me go nuts in lipsing, Britney Spears. Now, I wanted to go with some old school classic such as 'Baby one more time', but ended up going for the song 'Holg it against me', because it's video has alot of sceance I could take Insperation of.

So here is the full on manicure, and from here I'm gonna show you each finger with a screen shot of the insperation for it.

Starting with the pinky and the thumb, where I took inspiration from the splattered dress. The white here is Chic white flag. Blue is Chic bora bora, green is Chic crazy in love, purple is Life 328 and orange is Life 299. I mixed those 4 colors with some nail polish remover [Acetone does not work!] and blow the brush to get paint on my nails.

On to the ring finger I have Britney lips. I must say, I did a horrible job capturing it, but oh well.
Black is Chic black fog, Pink is a mix of Laka 73 and Chic white flag, white is again Chic white flag and red is Life strawberry.

My middle finger represent Britney's CRAZY neon necklace, which I would love to get my hand on. No idea what will go with it tho.
Nude is Chic sand, Silver is Chic diamonds, and yellow is Ga-de california sun.

My pointer is an abstract of the fight between Britney's black self and Britney's red self. I uses saran warp to create this effect. Red is Life strawberry and black is Chic black fog.

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31DC2013: Day 21, inspired by color

*Intentionally ignoring the fact I've missed two posts, and hope to fill them up later.*
This is the part of the challenge that I was the most excited about! It just feels that this time, I got more space to do what ever I want, be much more creative about things!
So as many other bloggers, I interpreted this day as "inspired by color name", and I went with Essence night in vegas, which is a flakie topper.

Night in vegas starts in the Vegas sign, so that's what I went with! Smudged as hell, so I'm guessing it's time for a new top coat [and another, thinner, brush], but other than that, it turned up quiet awesome. I'm very happy about it, frankly.

Black is Chic black fog, and on top of it on most nails I have Essence night in vegas. In the thumb I added a random rhinestone I found. White is Chic white flag, Yellow is Ga-de mellow yellow, the blue of the stand is Life  316, and the blue for the font is Chic bora bora. red is Life strawberry, and gray is Life 269.

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31DC2013: Day 15, delicate nails

It's my birthday you guys!
I know I'm pushing the limits here, but give me a break, a girl can party in her birthday, right?
Since the begining of the challange I was wondering about what I'm gonna do for this special day. And I came up with something both delicate and festive, bunting!

I started with a grey base color, because this shade specifically is very cool. I don't know why, I just like it alot. Any how, I drew black lines on top of it, and went with my go-to pastel rainbow colors. In order to complete the look I added my number of years of existence on my thumb, and that was it!

The grey is Life 269, black is Chic black fog. Coral-pinky shade is Ga-de peach sorbet, yellow is Ga-de california sun, green is Chic crazy in love, Blue is Life 329, and the purple is Chic I lilac you.

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31DC2013: Day 13, animal print nails

I came up with today's manicure quit early in the day, but was too lazy to do it till now.
I didn't want to go with the classical animal prints, so I thought about it for a while, and decided to go with a parrot! two of them actually.

Four of my nails are devoted to the red parrot [don't expect me to search for his name], and my thumb is the parrot that I'm pretty sure is called Drara. This manicure is meant to be seen in a diagonal position.
After coloring my base colors, I hand drawn the details, and used dotting tool for the green bird eye.

This gonna be a long list of colors...
Green is Chic crazy in love, red is Life strawberry, white is Chic white flag, black is Chic black fog. I used Ga-de california sun for the green bird eye and as an undie on my ring finger. Both the blue and the bright yellow are from nails supreme set.

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31DC2013: Day 9, rainbow nails

I have to admit, I wasn't too excited about today's challange. For me rainbow is either too childish or the homosexual flag, to be honest with you. After coming up, and canceling, tons of ideas, I decided to simply taste the rainbow!

Oh... yeah! It's a skittles mani! And boy, this mani was a rough one! My nails ended up too short for this, and if you'll look closely, you'll see that I dropped the "e" in the word. BUT- I am very proud of it, and the rainbow itself came out great, which is why it's good I took some pictures before adding the text.

So my pointer is obviously the original flavored package, while the other nails supposed to resemble the skittles them self. Also, smart me didn't bother to wait till the text is fully dried, and massed it up with the top coat.

And on to the color list-
The red is Life strawberry, the orange is Life 299, the yellow is Ga-de california sun, green is Chic crazy in love, and the blue on the logo is Chic bora bora. The purple on my pinky is Ga-de purple empire, while the one used on my ring finger is Life 328. Don't ask why.

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