Mother's Day nail art

Happy Mother's Day everyone! Have you celebrated with your mother today? My mother and I had a movie night on Friday, so I hope it counts!

My mom really dislikes all things makeup and nail polish. She got used to my crazy nails, but you will never catch her with colorful nails. So on today's manicure I used the ONLY nail polish in my stash that my mother is willing to use- Ga-de Angelina. While she uses one coat of it, for a 'yours but better' sort of look, I used 3 coats here, and added some studs, to put a little bit of myself into this nail art.

This gorgeous pastel studs are from Born Pretty Store, and you can get them here (#4). In each wheel you get 3 colors of studs, in 4 different shapes- round, leaf, and small and big squares. While I got the soft pastel, there are also neon wheels, they I might get myself right in time for summer!

The studs held really well, and I applied them with clear polish on the nail, and then stuck them down. I haven't used topcoat on top of it, and it lasted a whole two days before I got it caught in something, and they fell. If you want to buy them, or anything else, you are welcome to use the coupon code below to get 10% off your order.

How about you? Does your mother like nail polish? To you treat her with some nail art?

*Items were sent for an honest review.

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Mother's Day nail art

Happy Mother's Day everyone! Have you celebrated with your mother today? My mother and I had a movie night on Friday, so I hope it counts!

My mom really dislikes all things makeup and nail polish. She got used to my crazy nails, but you will never catch her with colorful nails. So on today's manicure I used the ONLY nail polish in my stash that my mother is willing to use- Ga-de Angelina. While she uses one coat of it, for a 'yours but better' sort of look, I used 3 coats here, and added some studs, to put a little bit of myself into this nail art.

This gorgeous pastel studs are from Born Pretty Store, and you can get them here (#4). In each wheel you get 3 colors of studs, in 4 different shapes- round, leaf, and small and big squares. While I got the soft pastel, there are also neon wheels, they I might get myself right in time for summer!

The studs held really well, and I applied them with clear polish on the nail, and then stuck them down. I haven't used topcoat on top of it, and it lasted a whole two days before I got it caught in something, and they fell. If you want to buy them, or anything else, you are welcome to use the coupon code below to get 10% off your order.

How about you? Does your mother like nail polish? To you treat her with some nail art?

*Items were sent for an honest review.

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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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Dark and twisted

I wanted to go with "Dark glitter gradiant" at first, but Grey's Anatomy was on, and the minute I said 'dark', there was no coming back as to this manicure name! So this one if for you Meredith!

While this nail art may be the most simple thing ever, I think that the bold contrast between the glitter and the background is what makes it so unique, and got me many compliments while wearing it.

My base color is Ga-de Black swan, and the glitter I used is Sally Hansen Lady Luck.

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From day to night in a simple twist

When I've noticed that my tips are starting to break, I realized I need to shorten my nails again. But it felt like such a shame to give up this length, so I decided to use it before I lose it. I came up with an idea for a subtle, office appropriate manicure, with some bright, flashy inner tips. This way I can keep it appropriate, but don't feel all sweet and soft for a long time.

I went with 3 coats of Ga-de Angelina, so I can reach opacity, and on top I added OPI Pirouette My Whistle in a dabbed coat, just to add this little something extra.
I didn't want to color on my inner tip to affect the look of my normal manicure, so just so I'll be on the safe side, I painted a coat of white polish, Wow 350, before applying Ga-de Tangerine.

I had so much fun wearing this manicure, and I just loved the looks on people faces when they saw the inner side as well. I will defiantly be doing more double sided manicures in the near future!

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Recycling manicure

As shocked as I was about the bright pink polish fitting me, I really liked its bold look. And while the accent nails with the decal softened up the over look, I wanted to try and go BOLD. So I used the skittlette to my advantage and changed up only two nails.

So the stamping might have turned up awful, but I'm liking my bold move. I normally wouldn't have gone for such a bold manicure, but for those who does- such a bright look is perfect for the summer that gets closer and closer by the minute.

The pink polish is Life 276, and the stud on top of it is similar to the one here (You may use my coupon code YLX31 to get 10% off your order). My gold polish is Life 345, and I stamped over it using Wow 393 and Bundle Monster BM-410. Again, the added stud is from Forever 21, but you can get something similar by a quick search online.

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Eye catching Sakura

So, the story behind my untypical use of bright pink polish is this- a while ago I bought some water decals at a local store, and they were sitting unused in my drawer ever since. I felt like using the sakura brunches design, and my search for a matching nail polish has lead me to one of my barely used nail polishes.

So, on the the decals- after completely drying my nail polish, I cut a piece of the decal, took the plastic part off, and soaked it in water. When it was soaked enough, I pulled the design off of the paper using a pair of tweezers, and placed it on my nail. Quick tip- If your nails are wet, you can move the decal around even after you placed it, and then soak the water off gently. Don't forget to use top coat after applying the decals.

My pink polish is Life 276, and the base color for the decals is Wow 395. I used studs that I bought from Forever 21, but you can get identical ones from the Born Pretty Store here, and don't forget to use my coupon code YLX31 at checkout to get 10% off your order.

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Triangle studs

Just look at it. Look at how professional these pictures look like! I'm pretty proud of myself, I'll tell you that.
This manicure may seem a bit familiar if you're following my Facebook, since I used it as the profile picture. Anyhow, I'm taking this manicure as the first step toward being a bit more professional about my nail art, hoping my efforts will become even more visible in the near future.

On the ring finger, I organized silver caviar beads into two triangles- one on the edge of the other- and man was that a torturing job! I believe it was worth the effort thought. The triangle stud on my thumb is from a stud set I got from Forever 21 (shocking, I know. I can't seem to find it on their site, but it's the exact same wheel as in this set.). I also found a wheel of neon studs, so I grabbed that one as well.

My base color is Ga-de Perfect Plum.

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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 18, half moon nails

Half moons can be either boring or exciting. In today's case, it's some-where in the middle. One of those classical "It looked better in my mind" sort of nail arts.
But I still like it. Alot. Just not as much as I would expected.

I decided to go with a full coat of the base color, and using the hole punch stickers method, I created a half moon glitter gradient. I had an idea in mind to use the hole part and put it on top of the ring shaped sticker for a double half moon, and I tried it on the thumb, but the result was kinda muh...

The base color is Ga-de peach sorbet, and the glitter topper is Golden Rose [jolly jewels] 118.

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31DC2013: Day 17, Glitter nails

Glitters, glitters all around!
For this challange I had the idea in mind. I wanted to recreate The Nailasaurus diamond jubilee diamond.
But after I did my manicure, I found out that it's connected to her in an another way. As it turned out, we both been using the same polish in today's challange. And to top all that up, I used another polish that I bought once after keep seeing it on her blog!

Any how, I went with a skittlette mani, and used glitters in each single nail. Three kinds of glitter. I think that's enough for the glitter day, don't you think?

The glitter on my pinky is Sally Hansen [gem crush] lady luck, while the base color for all the other nails is Life blueberries. I used glequins, and the black lines were done with Chic black fog. The glitter on my thumb is H&M jo is in the house.

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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 14, floral nails

This day is the one I was afraid of. I do NOT like floral print. I don't know why, but I guess it just looks old for me. I mean, why would you wear you grandma couch as a dress?
Any how, apparently I was right. Even after finding a pattern I wanted to do, I failed doing it.

I ended up being really frustrated, and went with something simple. Very simple. And I managed to ruin.
I drew the flowers themselves with the basic polish brush, and added a dot on top of it. I like only two of the flowers- one on my ring finger and one on my thumb, both of them are the ones closest to the cuticle.

The base color is Astor 7, the flowers are Ga-de tangerine, and the silver dots are Chic diamond.

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31DC2013: Day 10, gradient nails

Man, today was not an easy one for me. It makes me worried from the challenges to come...
Since I did a gradient two days ago, I know I can't get away with just a simple gradient. At first, I thought about doing a gradient using my first two new texture polishes, but when I put the first one on, I realized they don't have the texture I thought they'll have. So I gave that idea up, and that's what I came up with.

Quit simple, I know. But I was really blocked. I swear!
By the way- sorry for the bad photos, it's a really last-minute post for me, since now it's after 11 PM here in my little country, and I NEED to go to sleep. Will you go easy on me this time?

My base color here is Ga-de tangerine, and on top of it I used tape to create the triangles [except dor the thumb]. The second color in the gradient is OPI german-icure.

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