Black&Blue Zebra Stripes

Finally something more recent! :D This was the last design I did in Finland... Inspiration is straight from HERE. ^^ This was also before I cut my nails shorter again. :P

Before sequins... Somehow it looks a lot more simple without them. ::D

First I polished my nails with one layer of some old Claire's polish which number I can't remember... But it's a cute, sheer pink with some shimmer in it. :) Then I sponged this very old blue polish on the tips, the polish is sooo old, I got it for free with some magazine years ago but it's still working! :DD The name has faded away though. :/ I did black stripes to the tips with black Kiss nail art -polish, and added tiny blue sequins for some more details. :) I really like how these turned out! ^^
You already know what happened to my sister's blog, and I decided to let her post her nail things here as guest blogger until she works out how to create new blog. :) So that's what's coming up, besides my own nail designs of course! ^^

Vähän uudemmat kynnet tällä kertaa! :D Tein nämä juuri ennen kuin lähdin Suomesta ja leikkasin kynnet lyhemmiksi. :)
Pohjana on yksi kerros Claire'sin vaaleanpunaista lakkaa, en nyt muista sen numeroa mutta se on aika vanha, läpikuultava ja shimmerinen. :) Kärkiin töpöttelin vanhaa sinistä lakkaa jonka sain joskus vuosia sitten jonkun lehden mukana... Nimikin on kulunut jo pois. :'D Mutta toimii vielä ihan hyvin! Sitten tein kärkiin vielä mustia raitoja Kissin nail art lakalla ja lisäsin vielä minipaljetteja. ^^
Tiedätte varmaan jo mitä siskoni blogille tapahtui... :/ Päätin antaa hänen bloggailla välillä kynsijuttujaan tänne, siihen asti että saa perustettua uuden blogin. :)

Gold & Bling

Haha I know I said I'll post something new this time but this is another design from summer. :D
This was quite a lot of work because I had to place every tiny sequin one at a time... :'D My original idea was to do all the nails as the ring finger, but I was too lazy... And I figured it might be too much. And then I only kept this on my nails for a day! :'DD Not that I didn't like them, I just had new inspiration... :D

I used H&M 'Gold' and sticked the sequins on when the polish was still wet. ^^

Pidin näitä lakkoja vain päivän, vaikka näiden tekemiseen meni aika paljon aikaa... :'D Käytin pohjana H&Mn Gold -lakkaa, ja tökin sitten nuo mini-paljetit yksitellen märkään lakkaan. Tykkäsin näistä kyllä, mutta sain uuden idean ja oli pakko vaihtaa. :DD

Pink Splash

I promised you some new nails today, so here we go! I did something bit more complicated this time, because my nails have been quite simple lately...

This pic is taken in direct sunshine, I love the holographic polishes... *_*

Things I used! :)

I like them. :) The Golden Rose holographic polishes are very beautiful, and though the holographic effect isn't very special, I was surprised by the quality of them! The polishes dried quite fast and were super glossy even without the top coat. They were also easy to put on, and made very sleek surface on my nails. And the polish stayed on very well without chipping, I had these nails for a week, still no cracks! Yey!
So I put 3 coats of holographic polishes first and then made the pink "splashes" with my neon pink Sinful Colors -polish. Then just added the tiny sequins and round rhinestones. I love the rhinestones, I think they're very cute! They look like pink water drops or bubbles or something... I'd love to do some kind of marine-themed manicure with blue-drop-rhinestones! :D
Then I did also my toe nails:

I saw this design in some nail blog, I just can't remember where! But the point is that this is not my own idea.
So I polished my nails with my white Rimmel polish and gefore the polish dried, I did that "lace" using dry-marble -technique. I think they turned out quite well. :)

My toes are quite crappy, I know... :P Winter makes my skin very dry! :(

That's it. :) Btw, I have a picture of my blingy-polish removal -operation...

LOL xD

Removing blingy polishes is painfully hard, but that foil-technique makes it much easier! :)
That's all this time! But I have to share two very random pics with you in the end...

Do I have too much free-time? xD
Then the same in Finnish:

Äänestysaikaa on jäljellä vielä 19 tuntia, mutta laitan nyt tähän postaukseen tiivistelmän...
Lakkasin siis kynnet Golden Rosen hologrammilakoilla, ja yllätyin positiivisesti niiden hyvästä laadusta! Lakka levittyi hyvin, kuivui melko nopeasti ja teki kynsiin todella tasaisen ja superkiiltävän pinnan jopa ilman päällyslakkaa. Laitoin 3 kerrosta hologrammilakkaa, ja sitten tein pinkit kuviot Sinful Colorsin neonpinkillä lakalla. Päälle laitoin vielä minipaljetteja ja pyöreitä strasseja, jotka kiinnitin kynsiliimalla. 
Varpaankynsiin tein mustavalkoisen "pitsikuvion" kuivamarmorointi tekniikalla, tämän idean löysin eräästä kynsiblogista, jonka nimeä en nyt millään saa mieleeni... Siellä oli myös tutoriali näihin, postaan tänne linkin blogiin heti kun löydän kyseisen postauksen. :) Käytin Rimmelin valkoista lakkaa "London Clouds" ja Kissin mustaa nail art -lakkaa kuvioihin.
Lopussa on vielä kuva edellisten blingikynsien poistamisoperaatiosta, kyllä tuo folio on kätevä keksintö! Säästyy paljon aikaa ja vaivaa. :P

Tämän tyylisiä tiivistyksiä on siis luvassa jatkossakin, toivottavasti tykkäätte! ^^

Contest nails

Okay, apparently it is allowed to publish the contest nails before the winner is released... My mistake, I´m sorry you had to wait this long! There were two themes in the competition, Coloursplash and Black on white. I did both of them. 
First the Black on white -manicure:

I used my white Rimmel polish, London clouds, as the base and then I put on some lace stickers. The L O V E -letters are made with black rhinestones, I glued them on one by one. There´s a little rose in the middle of O... :) The Sweet Love -text on my thumb is made with black nail art polish, free-hand.
Then the Coloursplash:

I used five different polishes, the green Claire´s -polish, Sinful Colors Fusion neon, H&M Blue My Mind, Models Own Lemon Merinque and OPI atomic orange. Then I added the tiny sequins one by one, and then glued on the colorful rhinestones (also one by one).
So what do you think? :) I put so much time and effort to both of them, I really hope everyone likes them! ^^ These aren´t the same pictures I sent to the competition, I did little collages for that. ;)

Let´s keep it simple

First of all some (hopefully) better pics of my previous turquoise mani:

I still didn´t have an opportunity to photograph in direct sunlight, because it was cloudy, but at least I got the pics taken outside in natural lighting! :)
Then my nails at the moment! I just finished them and managed to take pics outside. Now it would have been too late, since it´s already dark outside! :o I was planning to go jogging this evening, but it´s so dark that I´m not brave enough to do that... ^^' Oh well, the nails:

Green again! My lucky colour... :D

Polishes I used: H&M Dollar Green, Golden Rose Holographic color 115 and Kiss Nail Art polish.

 

What do you like? They don´t look that holographic in the pictures, but I think they´re pretty. :) And I also polished my toe nails!

Nail polish is Models Own Green tea. It´s actually a matte polish, which surprised me a bit! But I like it. :)

Lots of green and pretty simple both in finger and toe nails!
But hey, I have already 25 followers! :D Thank you all! I´m glad if you enjoy reading my blog. ^w^ If you have any wishes about what you´d like me to post about, please let me know!

Sippe wanted to take part in my polishing! :D

Sparkling ocean

Winter is coming so fast! It´s getting darker and darker faster, and I don´t have time to take pics outside in sunlight... :( I usually polish my nails quite late, but I want to take pictures immediately, so the quality of the pictures isn´t the best. Anyway, here is the new look of ocean nails!

I started with pearls, then I added some rhinestones, then little sequins and done! They turned out pretty blingy. ^^'

 

Things I used: Pearls, rhinestones, tiny sequins and Creative -polishes.

Creative Magic to add even more bling and Hotski To Tchotchke, which was the base.

What do you think? :D I´ll post better pics when I´ll have a chance to take photographs in sunlight! Next mani is going to be probably the good luck -thing, since the maths exam is getting closer and closer... :S
See you! :)