#52weeknailchallenge: mythical creature

How is everyone doing? Surviving the lock down? The one question I have come to hate during this time is, "how are the wedding plans going?". Like seriously? Did you think that one through? How am I supposed to make any plans when there are no service providers working?? Fortunately, I have all my service providers. Now it's a case of waiting to see what's going to happen with this lock down. And deciding at what point do we start to worry.

Anyway, nails! I decided to do mermaid nails for this one. Besides that I have a mermaid on my nail, my polishes are also mermaid inspired. I started with two coats of Ulta3 black satin on my pinky. On my thumb, index and ring finger I have two coats of Catrice mermayday anyway and on my middle finger I have two coats of Hean 401. I then added a coat of Sinful Colors green ocean to all my nails.

On my pinky I stamped a scale image from Moyou Sailor 4 with Painted Polish stamped in scales. On my middle finger I added a mermaid decal. I think I should have used a slightly pink base for the mermaid, like China Glaze let's chalk about it. It would have made the green jelly less obvious.

What do you think? It wasn't quite what I had in mind, but then again these ones rarely turn out the way I want it to.

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#52weeknailchallenge: nude

I did something very simple for this prompt and I absolutely loved wearing it. It's definitely not something I would normally wear. Let me show you what I did.

I started with two coats of Tip Top bare with me.

I then added two coats of Ulta frosted on my middle and ring finger.

Added a decal to my ring finger and a dot of Ulta3 black satin on my pinky and thumb.

And that's that. super easy. 

What do you think?

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#52weeknailchallenge: school

For today's prompt I did something similar to what I did last year. Let me show you.

I started with two coats of Catrice good lack! on all my nails. I then stamped the lines from Lina feeling shapely 1 with Mundo de Unas sky blue and orchid.

I then added the alphabet. Stamped from Moyra scrabble with Nicole Diary black.

On my thumb I added a cute apple decal. Why is it that school is generally associated with an apple for the teacher?

What do you think? I do like how it turned out. Hopefully we won't have this prompt next year. I will have to come up with something else.

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Catch up on #52weeknailchallenge

I've been terrible with posting the challenge posts as the weeks just seem to get away from me, all the time. Since I'm late already with the new year's challenges, I decided to post the remaining ones from last year all together and hopefully this year will be better... But with planning the wedding I might not.

Let's start... First up: Mermaid

Polishes used:

Hean sugar 856 pink

Hean 401 

Hean 408

Sinful Colors green ocean 

The rest is decals.

Summer

Polishes used:

Pahlish Scamander

China Glaze let's chalk about it

The rest is decals.

Nude

Polishes used:

China Glaze beaches and toes

China Glaze meet me in the mirage

Stamping plates:

Lina feeling shapely 1

Lina feeling shapely 9

Lina @tanya_wish collab

Stamping polishes:

Nicole Diary white

Nicole Diary black 

Konad 17

Black and white

Polishes used:

China Glaze bump in the night

Hean black

Hean 401

The rest is decals.

Christmas

Polishes used:

Pahlish Godric

Pahlish Salazar

Hean 401

Stamping plate:

Lina can't wait for Xmas! 2

Stamping polishes:

Mundo de Unas caramel

Moyou fresh basil

New Year

Polishes used:

Tip Top sparkle queen

Hean sugar 852 gold

Vinyls: 

Numb3r5 from @becauseishop

And that's it. All the ones I missed from this year. They are all up on Instagram already. Now to get to work on this year's ones.

Thanks for reading!

Friday Triad: Inspired by @melcisme

It's that time of the month again, for our Friday Triad. And I have a not so funny story to tell as to why my post is about 2 hours late... I lost track of this month. Even with Xmas being two days ago, I thought I still had another week before this was due. Face Palm right?

This month it was Joyce's turn to choose and she chose this manicure by @melcisme. Let me show you what I did.

I started with two coats of Pahlish Gryffindor on my thumb, index and pinky. On my ring finger I have two coats of Pahlish Golden Snidget. On my middle finger I have two coats of Catrice good lack!

I then stamped the lines on middle finger from Lina Feeling shapely 1, with a gold born pretty polish. Adding a bow decal afterwards.

And that's that. Super quick and easy.

What do you think? I obviously haven't worn this long enough yet, but I'm starting to like it...

Don't forget to check out what Michelle and Joyce did. I can't even hazard a guess as to what they did as I haven't checked it out yet. Ladies, sorry for being late!!! At least it wasn't a midnight mani!

Thanks for reading!

#52weeknailchallenge: yellow and green

Another late post... Hopefully I'll catch up soon.

Let me show what I did for this prompt. I started with three coats of Morgan Taylor go for the glow on my thumb and index. On my middle and index I have a coat of China Glaze daisy know my name. On my pinky I have three.

I then did a gradient with go for the glow and daisy know my name on my middle and ring finger.

Once it was dry I added a coat of Sinful Colors holo back over the gradient. Then I added some decals.

What do you think? I love how this turned out! Especially the neon.

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#52weeknailchallenge: half moon

I'm so behind with posting these blog posts, it's not even funny. And I don't want to update Instagram, because my blog posts are behind... Anyway, I took this prompt literally and had half moons on my nails. Let me show you what I did...

I started with two coats of Morgan Taylor under the stars on my thumb, index and pinky. On my middle and ring finger I have two coats of Morgan Taylor go for the glow.

I had such doubt about go for the glow, but it's sooo pretty!! It's definitely one I will be wearing again. The half moons are decals I got from Aliexpress. If you don't have any I can really recommend getting a pack from Aliexpress, as long as you don't mind the wait. I have so many! I have even given some away.

I added a matte topcoat to the nails with under the stars and I loved it even more.

What do you think? And which version do you prefer?

Thanks for reading!

 

#52weeknailchallenge: newspaper

Can you believe that in all the time I have been doing nails, I have never done newspaper nails! So this is a good time to give it a go.

I started with 3 coats of Hean I love Hean 873 on all my nails. I'm fairly certain when I used this polish the first time I didn't need 3 coats... Does this happen to you too?

I then took some newspaper clippings, put it on my nail and put a cotton pad soaked in alcohol over the clipping. Here I learned something, don't do it that way! When I place the cotton pad over the clipping it moves, and makes the transfer skew. I then put the clipping on the pad and then placed it on my nail and this worked much better.

I then added some decals.

What do you think? I think the decals hide the print quite a bit and I'm not there yet for me to freehand the flowers.

Thanks for reading!!

#52weeknailchallenge: Spring

I had a completely different idea in mind for this prompt, but then I couldn't find my inspiration!! I saw it ages ago and never saved it. So when I went looking for it, it was nowhere to be found. Teaches me for not saving it. Let me show you what I did though.

I started with two coats of Hean 903 on my thumb and index finger, on my middle two coats of Catrice good lack! On my ring finger is two coats of Pahlish golden Snidget and on my pinky is two coats of Essence you and me?

I then added a decal to my middle finger. Top coated and done.

I wasn't too sure on my colours, I thought they might be too dark for spring, but then there is flowers. And that's the whole idea.

What do you think? Spring enough?

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#52weeknailchallenge: gold & brown

So the Fiance and I are finally looking for wedding venues... And I'm slightly shocked at how expensive things are. I mean, I knew it was going to be expensive, but some of these place are just crazy!

Anyway, on to today's prompt. It's super easy and not much to tell. I started with two coats of Hean City Fashion 167.

I then added some decals I got in the travelling box.

And that's it!

What do you think?

Thanks for reading.

Friday Triad: Inspired by Juli

It's that time of the month again for Triad!!

This month was my turn to choose our inspiration and I went with this one done by @juli_addicted. It seemed simple enough until my lines seemed to straight and then too wonky and then the top coat ate my decal. So fun and games. Let me show you how this turned out.

I started with essence shade of happiness at my cuticle then Tip Top cha cha cha then Omega stormy weather and then another line of cha cha cha.

 I tried to not have my lines too even and in the immense concentration of getting the lines uneven I forgot to alternate my colours! So we have a rather uniform manicure here.

Once my base was dry I added my decals and then used my smallest dotting tool to make the dots with Ulta3 black satin. I'm not sure if I should have gone with less dots or not. And then of course my top coat ate my decal!

All in all I'm kinda happy with how this turned out. What do you think? Don't forget to check out what my two partners in crime did! I'm certain Michelle and Joyce knocked this out the park! As they normally do.

Thanks for reading!!