Blowfish Blue + BK 902

Hi everyone! its 17:48 here right now, and i didnt have much time to think and did nail art. I had good time with aunty and mum today. But i still did nail polish today. So this time, i used blowfish blue and mixed it with BK902.

The "Blowfish Blue" from LA Splash :

Blowfish Blue (LA Splash ) and BK 902 (The Faceshop)

Close up :
The picture isnt clear and blur :(.

Happy 2011!

My New Year's Eve manicure! I HAD to use my new OPI. Today is the last day I can use as much of it as I want withouth my nails looking overdone. And today absolutely needs glitters! So I added it to every nail with a dotting tool, unfortunately this picture doesn't show that properly.

A little explanation:
Thumb: pink and golden fireworks, made with a pink striper and a small dotting tool (I don't have a golden striper).
Index: made with a striper, no further explanation needed I guess.
Middle: these are oliebollen, Dutch food we traditionally eat at New Year's Eve. With icing sugar! I used a dotting tool for the oliebollen and a sponge for the white sugar.
Ring: champagne! I used Essence's great nail art pen for the glasses.
Pinky: it's almost twelve o'clock! (Well, some kindly mentioned that it's more like eleven o'clock...) Again, Essence's nail art pen helped me out.

Happy New Year!

Butterfly!

My little neighbour-girl gave me a set of tips last night. And today she played in my room and beg me to try those tips. Then i decided to create a design on tips for the first time. I asked her what she want me to paint and she answered "Butterfly". And she picked the pink colour as base colour. And this is the result :

These are what i used :

- Base coat from Pixy
- PK212 from Skinfood (base colour)
- For butterfly : green from Eternally, red from Pixy, black polish, rhinestone
- Glitter from Eternally

Butterfly Nail Art

Icy gradient

I'm into sponging lately! I really like the gradient effect. There were many things I could do to take this design to the next level (painting snowflakes, adding rhinestones, etc.), but I couldn't decide and just left it like this. It actually doesn't need more!

I used two blue colours for making a perfect gradient (OK, nearly perfect). The lightest blue, in the middle, is Essence Choose Me! (a beautiful glittery greenish blue) and is currently one of my favourite polishes. In the end I applied Essence Glisten Up! (blue flakies) all over the nail. I really recommend these two if you like the colours, they have great application and are very cheap!

Argh, I hate it that the shape of my nails aren't all alike on this picture...

Snowflakes 2.0

So here's the second version of the snowflake manicure, I used different colours but also added a silver gradient (using a sponge) on the background. I made this one on my sisters nails.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Brown Glitter Floral

Hello guys! Tomorrow is gonna big-nervous-excited day for me. Im so very nervous for tomorrow and super excited  also.  So today i made nail art for tomorrow. And im going to wear brown top , that why i used gold and brown color for my nails.

I started with base coat from Pixy, 2 coats of gold brown (Pixy), then one coat of  Glitter (Eternally), a french line with brown color from Pixy, then applied half-flower sticker of each nail. And the last is top coat from Pixy.

These are what i used :

Brown Glitter Floral

First christmas nails

It's nearly christmas, so it's about time for some christmas nails on this blog! These nails are one of the first nail art designs I ever made, possibly even the very first! I made them for christmas a couple of years ago. I used a white striper and a silver/glitter one. It's not perfect, but I find that kinda charming for this design. I still like it!

Sparkling Beach (LA Splash)

Hello everyone! I still need recovery from what just happened! i made christmas tree fallen down all over to the ground lol. i had no idea why it could happen, i didnt hit it strong, i just "very" little bit touched it but yes the tree very very very old like i ever told you, mum bought it when i was 4. i was speechless when it did happening in front of my eyes. and anyone laught of course. thats gross of me! some christmas stuff of tree broken and messy on the ground. lol that was funny actually.

Ok, to the nail now i have "Sparkling Beach" from LA Splash. The color is great and its glitter polish. One coat is good enough but i used to having 2 coats.

"Sparkling Beach" ( LA Splash)

2 coats of Sparkling Beach (LA Splash)

18 December 2010

Lost idea to create the title, then i decided to pick the date of today as a title of this post. I been not feeling well since 2 days ago, my back feels hurt and tired i dont know why, might be homesick (that what my fiance said though). And yes i missing Bali very very very much!

I got new items related to nail stuff. I got rhinestone ( im not sure what the name) and some stickers. I done 2 nail art designs to my own nail and my aunty with the rhinestone.

First mani, i used base coat from Pixy, white polish for french line, glitter from Eternally, purple rhinestone, and purple from Eternally to create some dots.

Here it is :

I know the glitter doesnt look clear on the on the pics :(

For the second mani, i was doing my aunty's nail, she is actually my first model to practice on for another hand nails. She is glad i done her nails, so am i :). I started with base coat from Pixy, making line french with Sparkling Beach from LA Splash, white polish to create tiny line below it then applied yellow rhinestones and last is top coat from Pixy.

Here it is :

Thanks for reading!

BlackBerry manicure

I got it! OPI Show It And Glow It from the Burlesque Collection! It costed €14, but it's worth every cent! After spending the afternoon shopping in Amsterdam withouth having bought a single thing, I thought I deserved this polish. I've been craving it ever since I saw a picture of it.

And I decided to do a Blackberry manicure with it:

Black·Ber·ry man·i·cure Noun  /ˈblakˌberē ˈmaniˌkyo͝or/
Manicure with the tumbs painted in a flasy color that's different from the rest of the nails, so they stand out when typing on a BlackBerry.

I have a phone from Stone Age, but it has the same effect - I almost get blinded by a blur of bling when sending a message. It's impossible to secretly send a message when in college, friends have been asking why my messages contain so many mistakes lately and I'm considering wearing sunglasses even though it's snowing here in Holland. But I love it! I even think I will be able to handle the hell that will arise when I have to take it off...

My photo doesn't show all of the awesomeness of the polish, so I'd like to refer you to pictures of others who have been succesful in capturing the glitter overdose in a picture. I love it!!

50% of Flower

I think the title of this post little bit weird. I dont have much time to think for the right tittle but finally i found one yet :) For this nail art, i started with base coat from Pixy, 3 coats of BL601 from Faceshop as base color, then i applied one line french with black polish, red from Pixy to create half of flower , and the last is top coat from Pixy.

These are what i used :

The 50% of Flower

OPI Rising Star- To Design Nail Arts

2 coats with Essie Good To Go! top coat./ 2 vrstvy s nadlakem Essie Good To Go!.

Goldie & Brown

This is 2nd design of french manicure. For this one, i truly tried myself to make it :D and i used gold glitter.
Okay, so i started with base and top coat from Sally Hansen, then make a line above of the nail with gold gliiter. Then put top coat from Sally Hansen.

 

 

 And for this mani, i used base coat from Pixy, 2 coats of Gold Brown from Pixy and top coat from Pixy. Its just plain polish without any art.

Zoya Wicked Fall 2010

I have so much praise for this collection I'm not sure where to begin.  So, I'll begin with my complaints instead.  WHY do weed need 3 more red/pink shimmery glittery look alike polishes Zoya? The answer is WE DON'T.  The first three polishes in the Wicked collection are gorgeous don't get me wrong, but just one magenta or pink would have done the trick considering the name of the collection is WICKED!!! Where is the black or dark blue? Heck, I would even have been happy with a blood red instead of more pinks.  The need for three more pinks seems even tinier when you consider the fact that there are 3 more reds/pinks in the Wonderful collection.  In my oppinion Zoya missed their chance to do a jaw dropping, dark, and mysterious group of edgy polishes with the Wicked Collection.  What we got instead is a collection of HALF jaw dropping awesome, and HALF pink.

So let's start with the pinks, shall we?  

This is a dark pink with dark pink shimmer/micro glitter that almost looks blackened in the bottle, sadly that doesn't translate onto the nail.  On the nail it looks more like a plain dark pink foil. Well maybe not quite a foil, more like a regular ass pink glitter. Ok, ok, maybe it's a regular ass pink glitter with a hint of gold sparkle.

This was virtually impossible to tell apart from Kym in 99% of my pictures. In the bottle no problem, but on the nail they look nearly identical.  I had to purposefully take photos of each color under different lighting in order to get pics that look like 2 separate polishes. Even then I was second guessing myself while watermarking the photos. So, Carrie Ann is a Slightly lighter regular ass pink glitter with gold sparkle. 

Karina is at least a totally different shade of pink than I'm used to seeing from Zoya. It's a gorgeous hot magenta micro glitter/shimmer that almost looks like it has some silver in it.  Again this is almost a foil but doesn't quite translate on the nail.  This one is pretty but it certainly isn't wicked.

Now we can get to the awesome, finally.  It is almost like 2 seperate marketing teams each did half of this collection then they just shoved them all in one box.  These next three colors are freakin' KILLER and deffinately are deserving of their title of Wicked. I seriously want to make out with who ever mixed up these three beauties. 

First up on team bad ass is Cheryl. Stupid name for this incredible polish, but whatever. This color reminds me of cigars, tobacco and smoky rooms filled with mysterious men playing poker under dim lighting.  The color is a redish, brownish, burgundy loaded with brown and very dark gold micro glitter.. I adore this. 

JULIEANNE!!! OMFG. This blue based dark purple is jam packed with so much wicked awesome that I honestly don't know how they fit all the silver and purple micro glitter in there.  This polish flashes like a foil but in most lights appears to be a jelly base, LOVE. It is basically Milani's Totally cool on a serious dose of steriods. This is my favorite polish from this collection. 

Lastly, we have the shining star of this collection with its baffling duochrome, glitter, metallic, shimmer CRAZINESS. Good god is this gorgeous! Honestly I think this polish follows in the footsteps of China Glaze's Wagon trail as it isn't really a duochrome. I think it's actually a black base with charcoal/silver and gold micro glitter and glass flecks, making it appear to flash olive green to charcoal to black. Except this polish is a foil, which makes it blindingly beautiful as it changes colors. Whatever it is, this polish is totally unique and amazing.  AMAZING.

 I love so much about this collection I feel like I am going to bust at the seams! First off I love the NAME.  Wicked. It's awesome, ok. I know I'm suppost to be saying what I love at this point but the names of these polishes really piss me off.  This is the WICKED collection... where are Elvira and Morticia...and other wicked female names I cannot come up with at the moment???

Back on track, I love the finish they have created that is impossible to describe on a lot of the colors. Glass flecky, metallic, foil, micro glitter, bad ass-ness. But, what I loved most about it was the formula.

All 6 of these applied amazing. The formula was 100% consistant from polish to polish. Each and every swatch above is an even two coats, this itself is a gigantic compliment to zoya's formula.  These are highly pigmented for glitters, more like EXTREMELY pigmented for glitters.  They glide on smooth and I saw no need to use a topcoat on any of them due to graininess which was non existent. Another unexpected perk to these was they weren't all that hard to remove, actually they were very easy to remove in terms of any kind of glitter polish.  Zoya did a top notch job on the formula of these babies, I mean WOW.  Just WOW Zoya.

Love, MM

Zoya Sparkles, the remainder.

When I first bought the Sparkles Collection from Zoya I decided on only getting 3 of them and passing on the reds/pinks.  Now that I have the 3 reds from the Sparkles collection I realize the mistake I made when first purchasing! These are gorgeous, people!

Nihdi is the most unique color of the bunch in my opinion. It's a red jelly/cream hybrid loaded with shimmer and micro sparkles. I absolutely LOVE it, not to mention I own nothing else remotely close to it which is a good and RARE thing.  

HOT.  I adore this medium to hot pink jelly!  It's so 80's yet so now at the same time.  It's jam packed with pink glitter and shimmer and basically comes alive in the sunlight. 

Alegra...Wowza!  This one is my favorite from the entire Sparkles collection now that I see it in person.  A truly gorgeous magenta like dark pink that sings when applied.  It was the most pigmented of all the sparkles polishes IMO and only needed 2 coats to reach it's perfectly sparkly goodness.

Overall, the Sparkles Collection is my favorite collection from zoya ever.  These polishes are unique in color as well as finish, they are attention getting, and they have a superior application to any other glitters I own while not needing a topcoat. SO, if you haven't gotten the sparkles collection yet...HINT HINT. To see the other colors from Zoya Sparkle click here.

While Zoya used to be near the bottom of my top 5 polish brands they are trudging up the totem pole with these new wonderful and inventive collections.  I have found myself with a desk FULL of zoya bottles with nowhere to store them, and they are quickly catching up in numbers to my previous favorite brands like China Glaze and Orly.  Keep it up Zoya!

Love, MM