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Dainty Pink | Nail Art

I was feeling like painting my nails today and I quite liked the outcome. This nail art is really simple, yet dainty. For the base colour I used Catrice #37 'The Effect Maker', which is this gorgeous dusty pink semi-neutral polish. The white detailing on my ring fingers is Sephora by OPI 'A-ha! Moment'. On the rest of my fingers I placed a small silver rhinestone at the bottom of the nails, close to the cuticles.

Monthly Theme: Pastels 1, Ice Cream Anyone?

It's April 5th, and as promised, here's the new challenge. This time a little bit different. Instead of a challenge on one theme we will alternate themes every month! Because of this we can be more creative with every manicure. Every month we will do four manicures in that theme. I'm very excited about the first one, which is pastels. We decided to start with this theme because The Nail Challenge Collaborative is exactly one year old today. The first theme the group ever did was pastels, so that explains the first theme of this challenge. Here we go!

Polishes used:
~ Catrice I Scream: Ice Cream! (purple)
~ Catrice Play It Blue
~ Sephora by OPI A-ha! Moment

Catrice recently came out with a new limited edition collection which is called Candy Shock. The colors are just perfect for this first challenge! Four pastel colors and caviar beads too. For this manicure I chose two of the colors and used some caviar beads too. It just looks so sweet to me, so subtle, it reminds me of ice cream. Tell me your thoughts about these beautiful colors down below!

Winter Gradient

Continuing with the Let It Snow! winter challenge. Already at week 13, we're almost at the finish line! Here is my entry for week 13: Winter Ombre/gradient. I went for gradient, because I like it more than ombre. The best gradient give a really awesome effect.

Polishes used:
~Catrice Be Naturally Crazy
~Essie Turquoise & Caicos

I chose these colors because in my opinion they really give a winter-like feeling. Be Naturally Crazy is a beautiful neutral color with a slight amount of purple and green glitter. Turquoise & Caicos is the lightest blue color I have in my collection. It's a really icy color, which I adore. Here are the pictures, hope you like them!

Winter Wonderland

Pretty ironic, since the snow is finally gone and the past few days have been great when we talk about the weather. Today the sky is actually blue with just a few cute sheep-like clouds. And the sun is shining! To be honest, it feels like it's the first time this year the sun is actually shining bright. The only thing which stops me from going all crazy outside is the damn coldness.

Looking back on the winter there have been some really pretty landscapes with snow and ice. For this manicure I was inspired by those landscapes. Using nude and cold colors I put together a really easy, but cute looking, mani. I do have to apologise about my cuticles. They really look horrible. I do think the glitter comes out really well in these pictures.

Polishes used:
*Essie Turquoise & Caicos
*Catrice Cotton Candy At Eiffel Tower
*Catrice Be Naturally Crazy
*Catrice Have A Good Day
*Sephora by OPI A-ha! Moment
*Nails inc. Special Effects 3D Glitter Blue

Valentine's Day

A little bit late, but who cares? (: Here are my Valentine's Day nails for the Let It Snow! Challenge week #11

Polishes used:
*Sephora by OPI A-ha! Moment
*OPI You Only Live Twice

Here are the pictures of the mani I came up with for this week. The quality looks bad and I really don't know how that happened. Maybe it's because of the lighting or the glitter in the polish, or maybe because the batteries of my camera were running low? It was really hard to focus, but this was the best I could do (: That's also the reason why I'm pretty late. I tried it again, but the quality of the pictures were actually worse than these.

Let It Snow! Challenge #10: Hot Chocolate

The weather is going crazy in the Netherlands. Then it snows, then it rains and it flushes the snow away, then it snows again... That's how it is going the past days. It's the weather where you stay inside because there's nothing fun to do in the crappy weather. And lets not talk about the fact that we have to cycle to school in this same crappy weather. The fun thing about these days is HOT CHOCOLATE! Sitting by the fireplace with a steamy cup of hot chocolate and whipped cream... yes please!

This manicure is inspired by the hot chocolate cups I got for Christmas. I think they're just too cute and it was the perfect way to cover up my uninspired mind.

Polishes used:

*OPI Pink Friday

*OPI Did You 'ear About Van Gogh?

*Sephora by OPI Happy Earth Day To  Me

*Sephora by OPI A-ha! Moment

A complete OPI-manicure I see now! Not really a surprise though, since OPI is my favorite polish brand available in the Netherlands. Here are the pictures! Tell me what you think about this manicure and how you like your hot chocolate the best (:

Let It Snow! Challenge #9: Snowmen

Finally. I'm walking quite a bit behind on the challenge, but I'm going to hurry a little bit so I'll be on the same week as the others. It has been pretty busy lately, so I was not able to work on the challenge. But here's week 9: snowmen! I hope you like it (:

I used salt to get the snowy-effect (and a cheaper alternative than those caviar-effect beads) and in my opinion it worked out pretty good. Om my ringfinger I made a black hat to give my nails a touch of snowmen.

Polishes/things used:
~Sephora by OPI A-ha! Moment
~Catrice Be Naturally Crazy
~Salt
~Black acrilic paint

Let It Snow! Challenge #8: Icicles

Here we are, at number eight already! It goes so incredibly fast, I can't even imagine we're already half way to finishing this challenge. And I cannot explain how much fun I'm having :)

For this part of the challenge I wanted it to be very nude and subtile with a little bit of glitter. In my opinion it worked out pretty well, waht do yoy think?

Polishes used:

~Catrice Cotton Candy At Eiffel Tower

~Catrice Be Naturally Crazy

~OPI A-ha! Moment

Let It Snow! Challenge #7: Fireside Glow

It took me a while to come up with something for this one, and I finally had a chance to do it. Don't forget to hit that 'like' button and follow me on facebook!

So here it is, hope you like them as much as I do:

Let It Snow! Challenge #6 Winter Solstice

We're at number six already! This came with a little bit delay, but I try my best to keep up with the rest of the group. The subject of this week is Winter Solstice. It was quite hard for me to come up with something and this is the final result.

Polishes used:

~Rimmel Pompous

~Gosh 554 Gold

~White acrilic paint

~Black acrilic paint

It Was pretty hard to capture the nails right, because of the shimmery nail polish and the light. They're supposed to be trees, for those who can't see it (:

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Let It Snow! Challenge #5: New Year's

Here's #5 of the Let It Snow! Challenge, hope you like it!

Polishes used:
~Catrice Pool Party By Night
~Catrice Am I Blue or Green?
~Catrice Suede Effect
~Sephora by OPI A-ha! Moment
~Gosh Hot Pink
~OPI Light Pink

10 Personal Favorites of 2012

  

I hope you all had an awesome new year. To start off, I wish you all the best for the year 2013 and may it be a beautiful year for all of you! With this post I want to share my personal favorites of nail art from the past year. I saw some other nail art blogers doing this and I thought it would be fun to do this myself. Here are my 10 personal favoritesof last year! They're in no particular order. Hope you like them as much as I do!



     

xx

Let It Snow! Challenge #4: Christmas/Holidays

Week 4 of the Let It Snow! Challenge (:

Polishes used:

*Koh Stunning red!

*Catrice Goldfinger

I chose these two colors because they're my favourites for christmas. I love how the gold goes well with the red. I went with a reverse gradient. That's the reason why the skin around my nails is still a little bit gold ;)

I hope you all had a wonderful christmas!

Let It Snow! Challenge #3: Ugly Christmas Sweater

Week 3 op the Let It Snow! Challenge has already arrived. This post is a little bit later than I wanted it to be, but unfortunately I couldn't help it. I'm trying to finish week 4 in two days, so I won't get far behind. 

Polishes used:

*Koh Stunning Red!

*Catrice Be Aztec

*White acrilic paint

As you probably can see the lines are really not straight. I made this a little bit too fast and wasn't really paying attention on what I was doing. I'm not really satisfied with this one, but I was not in the mood to make a new one. I promise next one will be a lot better! Oh, and of course: Merry Christmas!

Let It Snow! Challenge #2: Inspired by Christmas movie/song/carol

Here's week #2 of the Let It Snow! Challenge (: For this week I was inspired by my favorite Christmas movie ever: Nightmare Before Christmas! I just freakin' love that movie.

Polishes used:
~ Sephora by OPI A-ha! Moment
~ Catrice Jack Sparrow's Boat
~ Catrice Wild, Wild West-side
~ Essence Mellow Yellow
~ Gosh Pink Rose
~ Koh Green no-name
~ Black acrilic paint

Here's the result!

Let It Snow! Challenge - #1 Snowflakes

Here's the first mani for the 'Let It Snow! Challenge', yay!

Please don't look at the length of my nails, they're really short, I know. I kind of ruined them in school :(

Anyway, here are the polishes I used:

~ Sephora A-ha! Moment

~ Catrice Captain Sparrow's Boat

~ Catrice Goldfinger

I quess I really heve to get some sort of stamp for snowflakes, 'cause I kind of blew it free-handed :) I do like the colors, I just get really excited for Christmas. It actually snowed yesterday, but unfortunately it didn't last very long, 'cause it was raining at the same time.