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Mother's Day nail art

Sunday, May 11, 2014

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.

Mother's Day nail art

Sunday, May 11, 2014

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!

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

*Items were sent for an honest review.

Does it have to resemble a Kiwi?

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

See this title above? That's all I had in mind while wearing this manicure. It's also why I've added the studs, to try and convert it up a bit.

I love the fact that this stamping design is user freindly. I mean, I had few mistakes, but they aren't that visible! I even re-stamped on my thumb since the design was too thin to my wide thumb, and it worked quite well!

My base color is Ga-de Emerald glamour, and I stamp using Wow 393 and Bundle Monster BM-021.

Recycling manicure

Thursday, March 13, 2014

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.

Eye catching Sakura

Monday, March 10, 2014

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.

Purple hexagons meet nubs

Monday, February 17, 2014

I don't know why, but this title sounds like some sort of a summary to a Sci-Fi-Romance movie. Imagine it- a purple hexagons, with his very own pare of legs, walks into a bar and seeing miss nub sitting at the corner. Her well moisturized cuticles and smooth surface catch his look, and---
Ok, I'll stop right there, and we'll move on to the manicure before someone decides to hospitalize me somewhere.

I tried stamping again, because you know what they say- practice makes perfect! Well, the thumb on my left hand was the best of my many tries. For some reason, the stamping on my ring finger insisted on smudging every single time I tried to repeat on it, so I ended up just letting it be.

Also, this time I actually made the same nail art on both hands! If you knew me IRL, you'd know how rare that phenomenon is. Many times I even go with my right hand polish-naked. Yes. I am THAT lazy. Kinda justifies the blog's name, doesn't it?
So in order to celebrate that, I've decided to include some very rare (and you better appreciate it!), right hand photos.

The base color of all my nails is Chic I lilac you. I stamped using Bundle Monster BM-422 and Life 337, which is a nice shimmery purple. The glitter topper is Wow 368. I added a stud from Forever 21. I actually quite liked the fact that the black stud breaks the overall purple look a bit, but doesn't disturb it.

Caviar beads in rows and triangles

Thursday, February 6, 2014

After obsessing over my Facebook page when I got new likes, I was inspired to use my caviar beads again. The last post you've seen them in was the first time I've ever used them, although I own them for a long time now.

This time, I used a more interesting color, rather then the silver I've used before. I really like the way the caviar beads looks when are ordered in a triangle.
Other then that- making the stripes was a pain in the ass. To get them to sit straight and not move, while I keep working one by one, was not an easy job.

My base color here is Ga-de Black swan.

Blue skittlette tribal

Monday, February 3, 2014

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.

Triangle studs

Monday, January 20, 2014

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.

Gradiant bow

Monday, January 13, 2014

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.

31DC2013: Day 5, blue nails

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Wow... Blue is a color I have plenty of polishes from, since you always want that specific shade of blue, don't you? It's a color that will never be exactly what you want. So you see, I had to stare at my nail polish drawer for a long while till I decided on what to do.

This idea came to mind after I went to buy my self some wanted studs. I looked for some ziplock bags to put the studs in, and found a little one with two of this stud-alike in it. The thing is, those are not real studs. It's actually that decoration there is on the side of the sunglasses. We got a kids pair for free so i played around with it, and kept those. Good thing I did so, huh?

My base color is Laline Kahal Galena. On top of that I used striping tape to create lines of Chic Peacock. Than I added the stud-alikes using a clear polish.

You can see that this stud-alikes are way thicker than standart studs. Re-thinking it, i should have chosen a diffrent base color, so the stipe will show off better. Oh well, next time then.

31DC2013: Day 4, green nails

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

4th day and still going!
Honest truth for a second? This post, as well as the next 3, are scheduled. Why, you may ask- it's an holiday, and I won't have access to the computer in the next day, but I did not want to leave you with nothing!

Ok, ok, I know. Not real creative of me, isn't it? But I have an excuse, I swear! I bought those studs last week, and just look at them! They're simply gorgeous! Yes, I wish they were smaller, but the color if amazing!

Anyhow, the base color is Chic, crazy in love. Then, using clear nail polish, I pasted the studs on, and topped it with more clear polish.

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