Chinese New Year 2014

Chinese New Year 2014 falls on the 31st of January. The Year of the Horse began and gave me reason to use Bundle Monster Holiday plates. BM-H15 is all about chinese new year.

I stamped over essie Good as Gold with the Rouge prussien by Ives Rocher. The colours are swapped on my pinky nail.

The horse on my middle nail is painted freehand with acrylics.

dodo Glam Nail

Hello!
Here we are - one of the polishes I've bought in Japan. Meet dodo Glam Nail. The maker doesn't bother to give interesting names to their shades, so it has got only a number: 490.
The polish is light pink with golden shimmer. It's very translucent, I've painted three coats, and still my nails weren't covered completely.

Прывітанне!
Вось я дабралася і да выпрабавання лака, які я купіла ў час падарожжа па Японіі. Знаёмцеся,  dodo Glam Nail. Вытворца гэтага брэнду не заклапочаны выдумленнем гучных назваў для кожнага колеру, таму лак атрымаў толькі нумар 490.
Лак вельмі празрысты, светла-ружовага колеру, з вялікай колькасьцю залатога шымеру. Я бы нават казала, што колер ружова-залаты. Я нанесла тры слаі, аднак лак не здолеў цалкам закрыць пазногаць.

The other drawback is a relatively long drying time. I smudged the nails, as they were all dry in my opinion.:(

Яшчэ адзін мінус - доўгі час на прасушванне. Нават калі я была ўпэўнена, што лак мусіў быць сухім, змазала некаторыя пазногці. :(

On the positive side is the colour itself.
The shine of golden particles is seen most in the artificial light.

Да плюсаў можна аднесці колер лака.
Бліск найлепш бачны пад электрычным святлом.

I guess, the tender pink with gold may be popular among Japanese girls, because it's girly and cute.

Мяркуецца, што японскія дзяўчыны любяць такія пяшчотныя і адначасова бліскучыя колеры, таму што яны дзяўчачыя і чароўныя.

Old New Year

Happy Old New Year!
In Russia, Belarus and some other countries the people can't celebrate enough! Because of the difference between the old Julian and the newer Gregorian calendar there is another opportunity to feel festive. It's not official holiday. I decided to bring more golden radiance into the day.

Віншую са Старым Новым Годам!
Для тых, хто яшчэ не стаміўся святкаваць, яшчэ адна нагода наліць келіх шампанскага і закусіць салатай аліўе ці якой іншай стравай.
А для мяне гэта яшчэ адна прычына апрануць пазногці ў раскошу цёмна-сіняга і залатога.

Essie's deep blue Midnight Cami and Good as Gold are sprinkled with the body powder haze of gold by p2.

Паверх essie Midnight Cami я распыліла залатую пудру для цела ад p2, якая была ў іх навагодняй калекцыі.

I wrote with acrylic gold paint "Старый Новый Год" and the translation "Old New Year" and stamped with Bunny Nails HD-E the celebrating people.

Каб азначыць нагоду, я напісала тонкім пэндзлікам таксама залатой акрылавай фарбай "Старый Новый Год" і пераклад на ангельскую мову - "Old New Year". На вялікім пазногці святкуюць новы год вясёлыя чалавечкі з келіхамі. Гэты матыў я ўзяла з шаблона Bunny Nails HD-E і настэмпіла яго залатым лакам таксама ад essie.

I discovered midi rings recently and here they are! It's a cute idea, still I think I wouldn't be comfortable with them at work.

Залатая пудра разляцелась па ўсёй руцэ, але каб не здавалася, што замала бліскучасці, я надзела пярсцёнкі для фалангаў і знайшла "залатую" біжутэрыю. Па-мойму, пярстёначкі для фалангаў выглядаюць чароўна, але не ведаю, ці зручна маць іх на пальцах у час працы...

Weihnachtsfeier

Junge, Junge, ich bin schon so lange dabei im Unternehmen, aber erst dieses Jahr durfte ich die Weihnachtsfeier miterleben. Da unsere Firma mächtig auf den Sparkurs geht, war dieses Mal alles bescheiden. Was mich natürlich nicht davon abhalten konnte, die Pracht von Gold und Glitzer auf meine Nägel zu bringen.
Gerade dazu passend sind die Pailletten oder sequins von der limitierten Edition "Feathers & Pearls" von Catrice. Sie bestehen aus sehr feinen runden Glitterpartikeln und aus normalgroßen Hexagonen. Es gab diese Pailletten in Gold und Schwarz.

Man, I am already that long in the company, but I was allowed to be on the Christmas Party first time this year. Because our firma is on austerity course, the party of this year was kind of modest. But I could not but create luxuriousness of gold and glitzer and on my nails.
Recently I bought some products of Limited Edition "Feather & Pearls" by catrice. Gold and black sequins are the perfect choice for the Christmas Party. They consist from very small round glitter particles and normal sized hexagons.

Dazu passend ist auch der Nagellack C05 Runnig Wild von der gleichen Serie - schwarz mit Mikroglitter.

The polish C05 Runnig Wild of the same LE series is matching the sequins. It's black with tiny silvery glitter.

Von der gleichen Serie habe ich noch C01 Flapper Style und die namengebende Perlen, die fürs Kleben am Körper, aber ich denke, es geht auch mit den Nägeln. Die Perlen sind nicht flach, daher wird die Maniküre damit so ziemlich voluminös.

I've got two other products from the series: polish C01 Flapper Style and the eponymous pearls. They are supposed to be worn on your body, but I guess they would do also on the nails. You have to keep in mind they are not flat and could easely drop away.

Aber zurück zu unseren Schafen, also Nägeln. Ich habe den Akzentnagel mit Glitz and Glamour von Orly lackiert und tauchte die Nagelspitze in die goldenen Pailletten.

But let's return to our muttons, id est nails. I've painted the accent nail with Glitz and Glamour by Orly and dipped the nail tip in the golden sequins.

Den Rest habe ich mit dem Runnig Wild lakiert und den Mittelfinger in die schwarzen Pailletten eingetunkt.

All other nails are painted with Running Wild and I dipped the middle finger nail into the black sequins, this time full nail.

Holiday Colours

Christmas Winter Challenge - Day 3.
Today's theme is holiday colours (red, green, gold)

Just the day before I found a green glitter by Rival de Loop. 

 This green glitter has a translucent base and thus is good for using over colour base.
Other colours for the mani were:

 I used the Voyeuristic Green by alessandro for the accent nail. The other nails are red with red grained by Maybelline ColourShow series Vintage Leather. Vintage Leather has a matt finish and red glitter inside.

 Then I painted with the greens ( Voyeristic Green, p2 green palm tree, and Rival de loop Effect Green (the new glitter) to paint the christmas trees and the wide stripes on the accent nail. Also gold (Goldfinger by catrice) decorates the trees and Glitz and Glamour by Orly makes a Christmas tree top.

On the accent nail I applied the fimo pieces from essence Happy Holiday series. And a load of top coat, to keep fimo in place.

 

Daylight version:

Did it turn out christmas-like?

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Bunny Love

Easter is over and everything is sold for half the price at least. How couldn't I buy these cuties? Two sweet golden bunnies and a pink heart made of the finest Lindt chocolate are framed by a nice box with flowers and butterflies.

I felt the urge to recreate this design on my nails. The base is essence floral GRUNGE Lily Bloom. Then I painted the heart with a pink metallic polish (IsaDora 629 Icy Purple looks exactly like pink foil). Because I wanted the bunnies filled with colour I did them like stamper decals.

On my thumb and pinkie I stamped various floral and butterfly patterns from essence and cheeky plates with the same pink and golden polishes.

The next step was to paint the golden border on the nail tips. I set pink and golden dots between the thin and thick golden parts. And a top coat over all.

Splatter

Day 11 of laid back 31 days challenge - Splatter.

It's my first attempt to do this technique. It was as messy as expected :) You are warned in every tutorial about it.
I used black for base, and gold, silver, light blue and dark blue (which isn't to see anyway) for splatter.

Gold

A little bit later than it was planned I could do the next step of the laid back 31 days challenge.

The theme was gold, and the first polish I think in terms of gold is Glitz and Glam by Orly.

But just golden colour is a bit boring, so I wanted to add something. I painted the tips black and covered it with Smoky Top Coat

And then we go to another shade of gold - by Catrice (Goldfinger), which I used to stamp the stripes over black. Unfortunately it went not that ideally even as I hoped. :(

Stripes are from the Cheeky plate CH24.