Alice

Hello!
The last part of MoYou London's contest was themed "Alice". This time I didn't take this too literally and discarded ideas to picture the heroine. This mani was a bit inspired by other nailistas' work in previous weeks.
Alice colours are blue and white, I guess. Also check pattern and roses belong to the theme. Luckily MoYou has got a plate with the quote by O. Wild: "Be youself; everyone else is already taken." I think this phrase suits Alice very well, as she stuck in her personality crisis after changing her size repeatedly.

And we cannot miss some cake crying: "Eat me!"
After putting all the motifs together I put some pearls and white 3D roses from essence "jewel set".

 I used
as base colour: misslyn silk touch 07
as sponging nuances: varios polishes in light blue, white and stone-grey-blue
as stamping polish: Yves Rocher Argent nacré, white stampy by essence
stamping images: MoYou London scholar 02 (quote), landscape 05 (roses), princess 08 (muffin), princess 10 (check).

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Thanksgiving

Hello!

Today some people celebrate Thanksgiving. Here in Germany there is no thanksgiving, but people already get ready for Advent-Christmas-marathon with mountains of sweets to be eaten and lakes of hot wine punch to be drunk.
Let's join the celebration of the harvest and plentifulness of the autumn!

 Autumn colours are created with some orange nuances and pink, yellow and light brown sponged over the base colour (010 gleaming apricot by p2 LE Beauty Stories). Also the mini polish by Yves Rocher Brun cuivré is very autumn-like.

 Stamping plates I used:
Bundle Monster BM-H13 on middle, ring and pinky.
Bunny Nails HD-E on thumb and index.

Mad Hatter

Hello!
Just by chance I saw the pics of other people who participated in MoYou London's contest "Alice in Wonderland" on Instagram. Some had wonderful ideas about White Rabbit and Mad Hatter and they inspired me to try too. Unfortunately there are restrictions: you have to use MoYou plates. Originally I had another idea whithout MoYou plates, but then I changed it. Somehow I am not really satisfied how it turned out...

The theme of this week were Mad Hatter.
I wanted to go to the roots and looked out for illustrations by J. Tenniel. They were all black and white, but some of the pictures were coloured later, although the colours were not uniform.
I took a pattern of Hatter's suit light yellow and black checked. This is MoYou plate princess collection 13. Than I painted the famous hat with the tag 10/6 and his bow tie. Teacup and teapot come from Winstonia W215 and MessyMansion MM10.

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Kind of victorian

Hello!
I  dug out a light pinkish lavender colour by Catrice from LE Candyshock (C01 I Scream: Ice Cream!), which I didn't wear long enough.
The tourist collection 03 by MoYou London has images you would associate with Paris, but it has also some stripes-laces and lady-in-a-frame images. I used them for this look. Not sure, if that would be called victorian...

I stamped with essie Smokin' hot.

Leadlighted peonies

Hello again!

We've got flower power! Lovely peonies from MoYou London plate pro collection 06. This is the first time I used the leadlight technique: you just colour your design over the stamped nail with sheer nail polishes. The base is typically white or other light colour and you stamp with black or otherwise dark nuance, which would be well seen through the sheer polish layer.

 

First I painted my nails with pure white and added some glittery sheer white polish (Yves Rocher Blanc neige) above. Then I stamped with black. And then I coloured the peonies with some polishes which I made more translucent by adding clear polish. Also I've got a really sheer red polish by Shiseido, and it suits very well for leadlighting. It is on the big petals around and over peach-colored areas. Due to its transparency the polish looks rather pink than red.

In the middle of November my chrysanthemums are breaking into bloom.
I think leadlight technique is more fun, if you've got ready to use sheer polishes. Some of mixed with clear polishes are stell not transparent enough.

Funky French

Today's theme is Funky French. I am not sure, if that was really funky. :)

Base: Catrice LE Check & Tweed 02 England's Rose.
Stamping plate: KONAD m64 (yes, I still own it :) ).
Stamping decals with gray stampy polish by essence from LE Love Letter and white and copperlike Brun cuivré by Ives Rocher.

I think it's easier to place decals on nails then to stamp directly, if the design has to be centered right.

Golden Autumn

Hello!
The autumn is coming and the foliage is turning red and yellow and you are just surrounded by explosions of warm colours! This has to be celebrated, right?
So we do.
First I painted my nails with plain yellow polish by p2, then added two coats of p2 lemon drop from LE Summer Attack (hmm, kind of wrong name here...) and sponged over it some orange, red and light-light green. I tried to keep the sponged colours very subtle.

And then I stamped with Yves Rocher Brun cuivré and MoYou mother nature 07.
It turned out better then I expected.

Some nice red leaves:

Oktoberfest

Seit 20. September läuft das Oktoberfest in München. Alle Welt strömt hin, und man kann sich einfach nicht dagegen wehren. Essence hat schon fast eine Tradition im Herausgeben der thematischen Aufkleber. Aber diesmal habe ich was von den Stamping Schablonen dabei: nämlich MoYou Tourist collection 16, mit dem eigentlichen Thema "Berlin".
Ich musste mich sofort an ein Buch erinnern, wo es stand, dass 90% der Klischees über die Deutschen stammen aus Bayern und sorgen für Ablehnung bei den 90% der Deutschen aus anderen Bundesländern. Und sieh da: auf der Platte sind Lederhose und Dirndl, was ein absoluter Stereotyp aus Bayern ist. Nun gut, genug geredet.
Dank dem Klischeedenken aus London habe ich fast alle Komponente für das perfekte Oktoberfest:

Die Raute im Hintergrund ist in rosa gehalten (essence 106 free hugs), weil eine Freundin von mir eigentlich ein Design für ihr Dirndl-Outfit wollte, und das Kleid hatte rosa Blümchen drauf. Ihre Nägel waren für diese riesigen Klamotten-Bilder zu klein, da mussten wir uns mit Aufklebern trösten, aber für mich habe ich die Stamping-Decals gemacht. Weißwurscht und Brezn dürfen freilich auch nicht fehlen. :)
Es wäre nicht schlecht, wenn man noch passende Sprüche als Stamping oder Aufkleber hätte, denn mit der Hand sie zu schreiben ist echt eine Herausforderung.
Eigentlich war das nur eine Übung, ich wollte das nochmal ordentlich machen. Leider habe ich keine Zeit mich damit zu beschäftigen...

Yellow... Honey!

Hello Beauties!

Today's theme is stamping over yellow base. And I have got the perfect chance to try out the new mini polish by Misslyn 103 mangolicious - warm yellow nuance.
I think that colour is close to the honey and I selected some images for the honeycomb, honeybees and honey flowers.
Here we are with honeycomb from BM-422, fat bee from Winstonia W202, flowers from MoYou Princess-08 and bee and a flower from QA3 (though not sure, if it's the correct number. It was a plate with Pooh).

Bollywood

Hey hou, Beauties!

Here we go again. This time AiS meets Bollywood.
Actually I only remember the very old Indian movies, which I watched as I was a child. They were most about some tragic love story. But now Bollywood is associated with colorfulness and joy.
So lets the colours strike and enjoy the Indian imagery.

Luckily I have got the "Indian" plate by BBF. :)
First I created multicolored background with sponging pink, red, blue, yellow, peach colour polish and so on. Then I stamped with my favorite Yves Rocher Violet electrique - what would I do without it? I like this colour of endorsing ink.
Then I added some purple rhinestones and and pink "glitter-rhinestones" and plenty of golden glitter.

Klassik Open Air

Hallöchen, ihr lieben!

Gestern war ja Klassik Open Air in Nürnberg angesagt. Und zwar picknickt man bereits seit 15 Jahren an der Meistersingerhalle zu schönen Klängen der Nürnberger Symphoniker. Mit ganz vielen Bekannten und Freunden wollte ich auch hingehen, aber der böse Regen hat uns einen fetten Strich durch die Rechnung gemacht. Es donnerte und blitzte und sogar hagelte, und der Regen wollte und wollte nicht aufhören... Einer nach dem anderen haben die Leute abgesagt, was aber auch sehr logisch war.
Der nächste Termin ist am 9. August. Da hoffe ich auf ein anständiges Wetter.

Trotz des Wetters waren meine Nägel perfekt für den Fall gekleidet. Als Inspiration diente das Titelbild für den diesjährigen Event:

Auf den senfgelben Hintergrund fliegen die Noten und Notenschlüssel umher. Da waren einige Platten im Einsatz: MoYou London Roxy collection 02, Sugar Bubbles SB 025, Bundle Monster BM-411.
Der Lorbeerkranz ist von der MoYou Explorer collection 18 (griechische Muster). Der Rest ist per Hand gemalt, mal direkt auf dem Nagel, mal als "decal".

Und das ist die Rechte Hand. Da hatte ich keine Lust mehr auf die Handmalerei mit meinen unsicheren Händen. Und setzte einfach einen Dirigenten dazu.

Nochmal die linke Hand mit dem echten Vogelpin vom Jahr 2013.

Klassik Open Air is a concert by Nürnberger Symphoniker outdoors. The guests can have a picnic and listen to classical music in the sommer evening twice a year. It's completely free! This year is already the 15th year in row.
Unfortunately I didn't go this time (27th of July) because of the havy rain. But the next one is planned on 9th of August. I am praying the weather might be kind with us next time. :)
Still I dressed my nails with the theme of the Klassik Open Air. I used MoYou London Roxy collection 02, Sugar Bubbles SB 025, Bundle Monster BM-411 and MoYou Explorer collection 18 for stamping. The birdie pins were freehanded. And I am holding in the last picture the real pin from the last year.

Amur Tiger

Today's challenge is International Tiger Day, which is held on 29th July. Tigers are amazing animals, the biggest cats in the world, but graceful and beautiful.
One very poetic description of a tiger was made by Yann Martin in his bestseller-book "Life of Pi":

He was incredibly muscular, yet his haunches were thin and his glossy coat hung loosely on his frame. His body, bright brownish orange streaked with black vertical stripes, was incomparably beautiful, matched with a tailor's eye for harmony by his pure white chest and underside and the black rings if his long tail. His head was large and round, displaying formidable sideburns, a stylish goatee and some of the finest whiskers of the cat world, thick, long and white. Atop the head were small, expressive ears shaped like perfect arches. His carrot orange face had a broad bridge and a pink nose, and it was made up with brazen flair. Wavy dabs of black circled the face in a pattern that was striking yet subtle, for it brought less attention to itself than it did to the one part of the face left untouched by it, the bridge, whose rufous lustre shone nearly with a radiance. Tha patches of white above the mouth came off as finishing touches worthy of a Kathakali dancer. The result was a face that looked like the wings of a butterfly and bore an expression vaguely old and Chinese.

How can you not admire such creation of Mother Nature? It's impossible.
My mani was inspired by this picture:

It is a siberian or amur tiger.

First I created the snow landscape over catrice Entering Atlantis: I painted with white and turquoise acryl paints fir trees covered with snow. I added also a bit Color Club Angel Kiss for sparkling.

Then the tiger body is gradient with white and orange. The head and body part on the middle finger are Moyou London Suki 01. The head on my thumb is also Moyou Suki, but 09. I did them as decals.

The ring finger is just a normal stamp over gradient. Cheeky CH2 for tiger thigh. And the tail is just freehanded.

After everything was done, I added a snow blizzard, which is surely happens in the cold Siberia. Actually the name of the snowy polish is very sommerlike: Blue Sky (Rival de Loop, Sorbet Nail Collection).

Kiwi Smoothie

Hello everyone!

I finally tried out the polish I hauled last winter!
It's Dance Legend 949 Kiwi Smoothie from the series Fruity Milk.
This polish is semi-opaque, milky-green with small glitter dots and hexagons in green and gold.
After staying too long on the shelf the glitters went down the bottle. What is more important, this polish dries really slowly. I don't have enough patience to wait... Or am I just hopelessly spoiled with all the super-quick-dry polishes?

Прывітанне!
Сёння я нарэшце спытала лак для пазногцяў, які я здабыла яшчэ ўзімку, калі была ў Мінску. Гэта лак рускай маркі Dance Legend нумар 949, са смачнай назвай Kiwi Smoothie ("садавінавы кактэйль з ківі"). Назва серыі таксама гучыць салодка: Fruity Milk ("садавінавае малако").
Лак напаўпразрысты, малочна-зялёны, з таксама зялёнымі і залатымі бліскаўкамі, частка з якіх вельмі дробныя, як кропачкі, другая частка - трохі буйнейшыя шасцікутнічкі.
Ад доўгача чакання на паліцы шасцікутнічкі пачалі падаць да дна. Аднак большая праблема - гэта доўгі час на сушэнне лака. Гэты лак сохне вельмі доўга. Мне не хапае цярплівасці на такое чаканне... Можа я дужа спешчаная ўсімі сучаснымі лакамі, якія суперхутка сохнуць?

 Here there are four coats of Kiwi Smoothie. Three coats were still a bit too sheer.

Тут чатыры слаі  Kiwi Smoothie. Праз тры слаі можна было яшчэ трошкі бачыць пазногаць.

Konad special polish

Hello!

I wanted to use a pink special polish by Konad for the pattern "inspired by phone case", which I didn't use the last 10 months. And it appeared to me being much lighter than I remember this polish. It was too sheer for stamping over any base but white, that's why I didn't use it for a long time. As I opened the bottle, I was surprised:

If you look at the screw thread: there is some dried polish of much more intense colour! I didn't know it can happen to a polish...
How are your experiences with it?

Inspired by phone case

Hello!
It's time for inspiration by your phone case.  Actually I've got a boring phone case (only one colour and a logo), but I have also another one. Last winter I was in my home town and discovered a really nice shop which is called "Шерстяной шкаф" ("Woolen closet"). You can find it here and on their blog there are many pictures of their products. I couldn't help but buy this pink phone case!

So, and here we are with a pink base (essence 106 free hugs) and added some sponged other pink shade to imitate the colours of the case. Then I stamped with different plates:
Konad m70 - yarn-like pattern;
Cheeky CH2 and CH7 - single flowers;
Bundle Monster BM-313 two little flowers
MoYou Mother Nature 07 - leafs.

I painted the snap freehand...

And added some glitter:

Roses

Hey yo!

Today I have got roses!
Purple gradient base over silver and stamping with lovely plate BBF-23.
The polish I used for stamping is maybelline, which I own like ages, and it's not dried.

Minty Holland

Hey-yo,

today I have got only simple mani with the new Winstonia plates. W218 has very cute tulips and not less cute wind mills, so I couldn't resist and stamped them right away after the world cup. :) By the way Holland is on the third place after all. You can see this mani as a little tribute for it.

Only by chance I learned from a friend, that the mint colour were the trend this season. Essie offers a beautiful gentle mint, but I saw essence 146 that's what I mint! and couldn't tell the difference between shades of the two.

And the finish is made with p2 simply matte top coat from the limited edition RED I love u!

Finale, oho!

Heute ist es soweit: Deutschland spielt gegen Argentinien um den ersten Platz.
Das muss natürlich auf meinen Nägeln abgebildet werden.
Glücklicherweise kam die Soccer Mania Platte von Winstonia gerade rechtzeitig zum letzten Spiel an.

Sonst wäre es wieder so wie immer: etwas zum aktuellen Anlass bestellen und erst, wenn es vorbei ist, bekommen.
Jetzt müssen wir nur schauen, wer die Bälle ins Netz schießt. 

Endlich habe ich einen Herzaufkleber von essence Go, go, goal!-Stickers verwendet. Und damit es gerecht ist, kriegt Argentinien von mir auch ein Herzchen.

Image I don't like

Today's theme is an image you don't like. Actually you don't buy images you don't like on purpose, right? But there are some plates in the sets (Cheeky, Gals etc), that I wouldn't choose ever. For example this one:

But here we go with the challenge. :)
This is "watercolor" base with different greens:

Then I stamped with even more green color and added a coat with sparkles: