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.

White Lilies and Green

Hello,
this time the challenge is stamping over green base.
Essence' green palette is rich, and the polish names are funny. So the base was the polish "L.O.L.".
I made stamping decals from the image of lilies (Bundle Moster BM-314) and painted lilies with white and light green.

I can always pepper my nails with glitter: 

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.

New Year's Eve

Belated New Year's Eve mani.
First of all: Happy New Year!

While on holidays I broke a ring finger nail very badly, so this time my little sister lent me her nails.
But on my holidays not only broken nails happened, I took the opportunity to buy the interesting polishes by Dance Legend, which are sold in Belarus in shops.

One of the first purchases was the "chameleon" polish, better known as duochrome. The base colour is deep blue and it turns purple at some angle of view (look at the point and middle fingers). It's the nuance 091 Boggs.

The white accent nail was done with Yves Rocher tiny "vial" of Blanc neige.
The images on all nails except the thumb are from Sugar Bubbles New Year and Christmas plates.

And the fireworks on the thumbs are stamped with Bunny Nails festive plate HD-E. I took different metallic polished for it, because the fireworks are usually colorful. :)

My sis is holding another polish by Dance Legend, I'll write about it later.

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.

A new technique

Day 17 of Laid Back 31 Day Challenge - A new technique

Well, I found water marbling amazing when other people do it on tutorials. But my trial is not that pretty. God knows how much polish I used for experimenting, what colours/ polishes would work and how to create some kind of good patterns... *sigh* The only thing I discovered so far, that among not expensive polishes the best choice would be p2 and misslyn, then some colours by catrice and essence would also work. Metallics and other polishes with glitters are generally bad for water marbling.

So and here is my miserable failure with egg colours since we have Easter today. White is snow-white by misslyn, and yellow polish is p2 Color Victim 790 summer to go!

Floral Grunge

I didn't expect that essence brings their next limited edition so soon. But here you are: 

It's called floral GRUNGE. I bought only three colours of five. Coral and lila were not that interesting.

The white one with the name LILY BLOOM is pearly white with very fine light pink and golden shimmer:

I am not sure if my picture can show any of shimmering... The polish is opaque, but you get the better look with at least two coats.

The next polish is minty GRUNGE ME TENDER.

It has more distinguishable shimmer, which I would call blueish and silvery. I think, the cosnova is very into shimmers, because almost everything they release these days for essence or catrice contains shimmer.

And when we combine the two:

The idea of final look was something like that:

But it didn't work out well. I used some lace stickers also by essence, but for french manicures. I struggled to get them right in the line and ruined most of my nails. :(