What's on my nails today?

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2016 is almost over and I haven't even posted my Christmas nails yet, let alone my New Years manicure! So here's a quick post to show you the nails that I wore during Christmas and the days after that.

I've probably said it before, holidays are always bittersweet for me since my dad passed away in 2011. I love seeing all my family having fun together but there's always this little voice in the back of my head telling me my dad should have been there too, to enjoy the company and see how my nephew loves to play with his big cousins (so cute, those three really are crazy about each other, even though the girls are 8 and 10 years older... or maybe that's the reason they are so patient with that little 2 year old tornado) and feel the warmth and love of being with the people you've been with for your entire life. On special occasions (like my dad's birthday, the day he passed away and Fathers Day) I usually wear classic red nails as my father loved those best so when I was trying (and miserably failing) to think of a design for my holiday nails, my husband asked me why I didn't just do what felt good... and boy, did he get it right again!

After some searching I chose Il était un vernis Pinot Noir, a gorgeous dark red holo that seems to glow from within and is just Christmas in a bottle to me:

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after staring at all sorts of pretty red polishes without even a hint of inspiration for a Christmas manicure (even the Christmas carols that played in the background didn't help), I decided to go for more cosy and comfortable colors, grabbed a few of my beloved neutrals and sat down to do an office friendly manicure, as tomorrow is going to be chock full of meetings so I have to look more or less presentable (and now that I'm typing this I get a sudden craving for neon green ;) Anyway, a little while later my nails looked like this:

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now that the ABC Challenge is finished (my very first fully completed challenge... yay!) I figured it would be nice to have an overview of all manicures I did so be prepared for a lot of nails (26 x 5 = 130 to be exact).

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It's time for the last manicure in the ABC-Challenge, the Z. I wanted to end with a stupendous, awe inspiring manicure but of course I had to also think of a theme with a Z... All I could come up with was Zig-Zag and Zebra, which didn't inspire me to do something awesome and I started to get a little agitated... and then I realized another theme for the letter Z is what polishing my nails means to me. It relaxes me: I can focus on a small thing that is totally under my control and take my mind off matters that keep nagging when I can't do a thing about them. And while I'm not very good at things like painting or other "normal" creative hobbies, I love that I can create something beautiful with nail polish (and it's an extra bonus that other people like what I make ;) So basically polishing my nails is sort of my way to Zen (or at least a more relaxed, peaceful state).

Of course Zen is a very abstract concept so I decided to see what images were connected with the word Zen. When I searched Pinterest I came across something called zentangle: drawings made up of easy, repeating lines that make up patterns. While I don't think I would enjoy drawing with actual pen and paper, I immediately started thinking about translating those patterns to a manicure and that's what my final ABC manicure turned out to be: zentangled nails.

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I know, lousy title, but I'm totally lacking any kind of inspiration (or energy for that matter) so it'll have to do. The manicure it describes is better, I promise! Want to see? Just move your eyes a little further down the page...

If you've been reading my blog for a while, you probably know I'm not too fond of polishes that have larger thingies in them like flakies or big glitters. So when the Cirque Colors Facets collection came along I decided I didn't need them in my life. But for some reason I kept looking at pictures of swatches when I came across them and when I saw a gorgeous swatch by Maria of the blue one I seriously started doubting my decision but with all the beautiful holiday collections that started to show up I didn't want to spend money on polishes that I wasn't 100% sure I would like.

Enter my husband who keeps pushing me out of my comfort zone by asking me to put on colors I wouldn't choose, do designs that are totally not me and telling me to buy polishes I would never pick myself. This time he didn't say a word. Instead he simply ordered the entire collection and gave them to me as a present for putting up with him for eleven years, two months and seventeen days (HIS words). It doesn't happen very often but I was speechless (and he couldn't stop laughing while I was trying to come up with an answer...) Anyway, when I was putting away the new bottles, Morganite ended up next to Carpe Diem and Hudson (I store my polishes by brand) and I really liked the colors together. This is what happened next:

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I'd been thinking about a theme for the letter Y for days but the only thing I could come up with was Yellow and I was so not in the mood for yellow. So I kept on thinking and the end of the week kept coming closer and closer... and I still wasn't in the mood for yellow! When I was just about to give up on the Y my priceless husband decided to just read a list of english scrabble words that start with a y and while I knew most of them, I never heard of the word 'yesteryear'. It turns out it means 'last year' or 'not too long ago'. The cogs in my head started turning and I decided to go with 'years ago' and an art deco theme. Of course art deco is from the 1920s so it's definitely not of yesteryear, but it IS from years ago (about 90 to be exact ;)

I've always loved the straight, geometric look of art deco and, living in a house that was built between 1920 and 1930, we have some gorgeous art deco stained glass in the separating doors between our living room and our study (which is actually one of the things I love most about this place). So I searched through my plates for an image to stamp. I'd already decided I wanted to stamp with gold on a very dark color (Great Gatsby movie poster anyone?). Everything combined looks like this:

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Juanita and Michelle invited me to join their twinsies posts (so does that make this a triple-sies post? ;) We're going to recreate let ourselves be inspired by a manicure from our to-do list and post it on the last Friday of the month, but we're only really starting in January so this is just a trial run. I got to pick a manicure from one of them to recreate for November and I had already chosen their twinsies Halloween manicure (here and here) since I would be at home on Friday so I could actually do the black nail thing without getting weird looks and I would do a manicure from both of them... double win! Unfortunately something popped up that requires me to look more or less presentable tomorrow and I doubt that graveyards fall in that category so I had to search for something else at the last minute... and I'm NOT good at 'at the last minute'! So what is a girl to do in crises like that? She makes her husband pick out a design! He chose Michelle's Pink treasure nail art (see what I did with the title? ;) and after that all I had to do was select my polishes.

Hmmm... The one kind of polish that isn't very well represented in my collection is glitter polish. I hardly have any and the ones I do have usually have a clear base so those don't work either. I quickly decided to go for one of the rare holos-with-thingies-in-them that I own (and I can just hear Maria chuckle now ;) and combine it with a chrome, like Michelle did, and I think I didn't do too bad, even if it was 'at the last minute':

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after searching through my husbands english dictionary (yep, the old fashioned paper kind, a huge Webber dictionary that could easily be used to step on to reach the highest shelves as it's at least 6 inches thick!), I still couldn't find anything that I could use as starting point for my entry for the letter X of the ABC Challenge. I finally decided to see if I happened to have a polish with a name that started with an X. Lo and behold, I actually had one: a lovely lilac colored holographic beauty named Xochitl. After I googled the word xochitl (as it wasn't in Webber's) it finally clicked. Xochitl is a name that is used in central and southern Mexico and it means 'flower' (thank you Wikipedia ;) So I decided to go with a simple manicure that featured lilac colored flowers, and this is it:

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If you haven't guessed from the title, this is my entry for the W :)
Another word I could have added was 'wedding' as I can totally see a winter bride wearing this manicure but
1) I'm already hitched and
2) our wedding day was in the midst of summer (and it rained... ;)

When I tried to think of a theme for the W, all I could come up with was 'watermarble' and I really didn't want to do that with bleary eyes and a pounding head. Only when I asked my husband for some english words that started with a W and he came up with 'weather', something inside that brain of mine clicked and a light bulb labeled 'winter' popped on, immediately followed by white (snow) and the early beginnings of a design were born :)

So what exactly is this W-manicure I'm talking about? This:

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Quick post for the V as I can't wait to crawl back into bed... yep, another flu victim here :( For some reason just the smell of acetone makes me nauseous so please forgive the lousy clean up job.

My original idea was a leadlighting manicure with viola flowers but as that is a bit too ambitious at the moment I decided to go the easy way and chose Violet as my theme. When I googled the definition of the color violet, Wikipedia told me violet is the bluer side of purple: the color of amethyst and lavender. That made it even easier so I searched my stash for polishes with amethyst in their name and I found two, OPI I Am What I Amethyst and Teeez Amazing Amethyst. Fortunately the Teeez one stamped pretty nice and this is the end result:

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I was totally stumped for the letter U. I thought of unicorns and uniform and understated but nothing inspired me to even start looking for colors, let alone do a complete manicure. All I could think of were fall colors, especially deep reds... Fortunately I have this wonderful person in my life who usually comes up with the weirdest ideas but has his moments of genius and this weekend one of those moments happened. He asked me why I didn't do a manicure with all untried polishes... Why didn't I think of that?! I had already seen a gorgeous fall manicure that was on my want-to-recreate list so I decided to brave Mount Untried and find colors for my version of it... and this is what my nails look like at the moment:

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For the letter T I decided to go with triangles, but not the stamped kind... no, I painted patches of polish, cut them up in slivers and stuck those to my nails. What that looked like, you ask? Like this:

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Yep, highly inspired title... not! The manicure it describes is a lot nicer though, or at least I think so ;)
Want to see? Here you go:

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I guess you already figured out from the title this is my manicure for the letter S in the ABC Challenge. I had a completely different idea but unfortunately my side job as official gravity tester interfered (note to self: do NOT try to catch stuff with your fingertips if you're sporting (too) long nails). The manicure I had in mind really called for long talons so I'll be saving that for later, when my nails are back to hardly-able-to-type-length and I decided to go for subtle stamping on my shorties:

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This is just a placeholder until I have time, internet connection and a working computer instead of trying this on a mobile phone who has a completely different dictionary than the one I use... the woes of a nail blogger are endless!

Guess what? I'm not at home at the moment!! My hubby surprised me with a week-long getaway in a lovely romantic little town called Rothenburg ob der Tauber, which is in Bayern, South Germany. We had been talking about taking some time off to get away from normal day life with all its duties and chores and just spend some time together, and he picked this place to go to. Of course I totally objected (because why would I want to do absolutely nothing but enjoy the company and the gorgeous views and not think of work or any other duties) so he just about had to drag me there kicking and screaming ;)

Anyway, before we left I remembered the ABC Challenge would start again since the 31 Day Challenge (read: 31 days of absolute madness) were over so I decided to go with a re-creation for the letter R and take pictures in advance so I could write a post once the InLinkz would be available, even if I wasn't home yet. I already knew what manicure I wanted to recreate, this one! I just love the colors and the fall vibe. The only thing I changed was that I didn't put the stamped image on all nails and, since I wanted to push myself a little, I decided to try and mirror the stamped image on my left hand so my hands would be completely symmetrical. This is the result:

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Another episode of What was on my nails last week, as I didn't have the time to type up even a quick post :( But I did manage to take the pictures so I can still show you what my nails looked like last week.

I was inspired by the color change in the leaves of the chestnut tree in our neighbour's back yard. Unlike all the gorgeous colors I see online, this one just turns it's leaves a dirty kind of greenish gold and drops them along with a huge load of chestnuts just when I have to get something from the storage in our back yard. Yep, fall is dangerous around here ;)

Anyway, I picked out the green ages ago and I also found the stamping plate I wanted to use but I couldn't find a suitable gold until I saw one of Maria's stamping manicures and I found my perfect dirty gold: a-england Holy Grail!

So I proudly present my falling leaves manicure (chestnuts not included):

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Nope, you're not hallucinating... it's a new post with a new manicure :)

A quick and simple manicure as I still have very limited time but I want my nails to look nice so I went for four plain nails and one decorated one, a color combination that I really really like (deep red, rose gold and white) and some special finishes. This is what it looks like:

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As I was browsing the web for no other reason than being too tired to even watch tv, I happened to see a pretty blue manicure hidden among several other images that showed up during a Google image search that I can't even remember the keywords for. This is the link to the original post for that manicure. I fell in love with the design immediately and I wanted to recreate it but using different colors with this result:

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Brace yourselves... I can't stop grinning so you're going to see lots of exclamation marks and smileys in this post.

Guess what? I DID IT!!! I finally did it! I mastered the beast! I dove in head first and won the battle!
What is it I'm talking about (read: scream about like a maniac)? Water marble of course!!

I so couldn't stand that I just couldn't do a water marbled manicure like all the other nail bloggers that I decided to sit down behind my desk on Sunday morning and try and try and try again until I was happy or it was time to go to bed (whichever would come first). I tried out several cups, a zillion polishes, dropping polish with the brush almost touching the water or higher above it, dragging lines with a needle, a pin, a dotting tool, just about anything that was sort of pointy and... I did it!!! Wanna see?

Tadaaaa:

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As the madness that is called the 31 Day Challenge is reigning all the nail blogs and social media in September there is no ABC Challenge during this month, so no R inspired manicure this time. And as autumn is approaching fast (I can't wait to start burning candles and cooking oven dishes and pies and all the other homey things that I associate with the season) I decided to use some of my favorite colors and do the first fall manicure of this year:

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I've been contemplating skipping the Q as I don't like the result of my Sunday experiment one bit... but it has been on my nails (past tense, you didn't think it would last very long if I didn't like it, right?) so it's going to be on my blog. So without further ado I present my Q manicure: quilted nails (or rather one quilted nail as one is more than plenty ;)

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For this manicure I should have renamed the blog to "What was on my nails last week?" as I removed it last Sunday but still haven't managed to write about it... but it's too cute to skip so this is going to be a quick post.

I felt like doing a fun, bright skittlette and just started looking for colors that would be nice. I found ILNP Summer Crush among my untrieds and figured it would be a nice starting point. This is what my nails looked like after half an hour of play time (and most of an episode of Justified):

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My to do list for today:
1. reply to all the sweet comments on previous posts
2. do the laundry: machine is working on it, two more loads after the current one

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Totally uninspired title for an equally inspired manicure... but I think it didn't turn out too bad in the end :)

I've been racking my brain to come up with a theme for the letter O but my imagination stopped at orange. I didn't even think of onyx or opal or obsidian or anything else that might have been original (<- yet another O word that kept eluding me) so with just half an hour before my bedtime and naked nails that were waiting for a paint job I settled on orange.

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Running awfully late for the ABC-Challenge... and basically late in general as it's about an hour past my bedtime but I really wanted to enter my manicure for the letter N so here is my nude-to-neon manicure:

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I have to do my exam this week so this weekend, between studying and growing more nervous by the hour, I thought it was a good idea to try water marbling for the letter M. Yeah, right... shaking hands, no patience and a new challenging technique, really great combo ;)

So after a few failed attempts at flooding my desk with polish and water I decided to go for something easier:

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Yesterday was a difficult day for my family as we had to say our last goodbye to my aunt Jo. She always made sure to take very good care of  herself and I can't remember a time when her nails weren't polished or when her makeup wasn't put on perfectly. She also was very fond of roses. So I decided to create a special nail art in her honor, featuring rose gold and roses.

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Last Monday marked the start of one of the busiest weeks at work. Not only did I have to do my normal tasks but I got new responsibilities as well (yeah, more meetings... so not a fan of those!!) and on top of all that a two day mandatory training, so I figured it would be a week of wearing the same manicure... but nope, I wore something different every day! Of course I cheated a little ;) Let me show you what I did in this rather picture heavy post (please click the small pictures to enlarge them).

This is what I started with:

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I would have loved another lazy weekend but that was not meant to be this time so I actually stayed up until way after midnight to finish my manicure for the letter K and unfortunately I think it shows I was pretty tired by then. I'll leave it up to you if this should be considered a fail or not ;)

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Today was a lovely lazy Sunday. Hubby was playing some computer games and I had absolutely nothing to do but play with colors... and so I did :) I had to come up with a manicure for the letter J so I decided to do a classic technique that I'd never tried before: a jelly sandwich. About an hour later I had a pile of dirty cotton pads, about half an inch less nail polish remover, and the knowledge that I absolutely can't stand VNL (Visible Nail Line, when you see the white tips of your nail through all the coats of polish you put on) on my nails... so I tried to think of something else that didn't involve jelly polishes. Of course by then any kind of inspiration had disappeared so I was just sitting there, googling for words that started with a J that I could turn into a manicure. Cue hubby who innocently asked me why I didn't use an opaque base color first... I swear, that man has flashes of genius even Albert Einstein would be jealous of :D

I didn't feel like layering a bajillion coats of alternating jelly and stamps on my nails again so I decided to try something else: a watercolor like manicure with jellies (as I still had to do something with a J ;) and this is what I created:

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When trying to find inspiration for the manicure I wanted to make for the letter I, I kept ending up with ivory. If you've seen more posts on my blog you might have noticed I use ivory, white and pale nude as a base quite often so I tried to think of different words with an I and of course my happy helper (aka husband) thought along with me: irrational, irritating, infuriating (could actually have done that... blobbicure comes to mind now that I'm typing this ;), idyllic, icey, immature... and the list of I words he produced went on and on but I won't bore you with that. Finally I decided to just skip the I for the moment and do something fun and summer-y, so I picked a yellow and an orange polish and then inspiration struck like a meteor! Next to the orange was a bottle that shouldn't have been there at all: Zoya Chloe, a polish from way back when flakies were not multichrome and opaque in two coats but sheer and... (wait for it)... IRIDESCENT (trumpets start to blare).

So I started out with the two polishes I picked, the stray one next to it and an assortment of tools and this is what my hard work looks like:

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Quick post during my lunch break as it's pouring so I'm not going out for a walk today... yeah summer! ;)

When I started the ABC-Challenge there was no doubt what I wanted to do for the letter H... holo of course! But when I actually had to do the manicure any inspiration had disappeared so I finally settled on doing a skittlette with holos. I actually tried a holographic base as well but that was a bit too much so I used my trusty white creme instead and this is what is on my nails today:

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Yep, you read that right... more pink, but definitely not girly this time ;)

When I asked my husband to pick out a nice, bright, preferably holographic polish, he brought me Il était un vernis My Favorite Popsicle... a pink! I just removed the barbie pink from my nails and he brings me another pink. Men...

But since I told him he could pick anything he wanted as long as it was bright and colorful and he chose pink, I decided to use it to create a more mature manicure by combining it with black and white. And now that I look at my hands I think I succeeded :)

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When thinking about something to do for the letter G the first thing that came to mind (and stuck like a piece of chewed bubble gum) was girly. Since I'm not quite the right age group for that, I decided to consult the girls in my life... and the things they told me should definitely be in a girly manicure were: pink, hearts, kisses, cute, pink, pink and pink!

So this is what my nails turned out with those keywords:

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You probably guessed it already, another quick post :)

For the letter F in the ABC Challenge I wanted to do flames. Of course there are zillions of ways to do flames: stamping, needle drag, freehand (yeah right, as if...), gradient stamping.. and then there is the agony of choosing colors. I'll spare you the thought process, in the end I settled for decals of blue flames:

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This afternoon we went to a reunion of my husband's family. Some cousins who live in Australia came over for a visit and that of course was a great reason to organize a reunion. As my father in law has no less than 12 brothers and sisters who almost all have children, grandchildren and even a great grandchild, when there's a family gathering it's like a small army getting together and this time was no exception. We had a great time catching up with all the uncles, aunts and cousins :)

Of course I had to do something special for my manicure. By now my obsession for interest in nail polish is common knowledge and the first thing they do after greeting us is taking my hand and check out what's on my nails and who am I to disappoint them with bare nails, right? As my outfit consisted of faded black jeans (not bleached, the real deal... I've worn these for over four years to get them to where they are now), a pitch black jacket, an off white shirt and black high heeled ankle boots, I wanted my nails to be the cheerful accent, so what better than neon to add some color? So I grabbed three neon polishes, a black and a holo topper (and added a stamping plate later) and combined them with this result:

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On my nails today (and yesterday and the days before that, as I did this manicure last Monday but didn't have the time to write a post about it until now...) is my vision of an elegant, emerald manicure, and below you can read how I ended up with it on my nails (or you can just check the bottle shot to see what polishes were used :)

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Quick post in my lunch break... yep, it's still ridiculously busy at the moment and it looks like it will be like this for another week :(

For the letter D I thought of lots of different things: dry marble, delicate, dotticure, daffodils, dandelions... and my husband came up with demon, diablo, dogs, doodoo (... I REALLY wonder what goes on it that head of his ;) but I finally settled on double stamping and added a few dots as well:

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I've been breaking my head over my manicure for the letter C in the ABC Challenge. I was thinking about circles, citrus colors, colors in general, brands that start with a C. I even asked my husband for inspirational words and he came up with Call of Duty (a computer game ;) and conflagration, cats, claws and caterpillars. Nothing sparked just the tiniest bit of a hint of an idea... Until I was in my mom's house yesterday to bring some groceries and saw a Chinese bowl in her showcase. That bowl has been there for as long as I live (probably even longer ;) and I can't remember looking at it twice until today, when I realized it was decorated using the cloisonné technique and <insert trumpets> that starts with a C (don't ask me why I know it's called that... I've known that all my life as well ;) So I've tried to translate the design to my nails and this is the result:

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A very quick post for a quick manicure that was done in three shades of blue:

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As the title suggests, I had a blobbicure in mind when I started this manicure. All chores were done, hubby was busy doing whatever hubbies do when their wife is going to paint her nails and I had an entire day of free time ahead of me so I wanted to try this ridiculously easy technique that promised really pretty results (according to YouTube and all the blog posts I read about it).

I chose two polishes that I liked together and I sat down for what turned out to be the most frustrating nail painting session I've encountered so far! Let's just say blobbicures and me don't get along... at all!! The blobs either didn't spread or spread way too far, it looked too asymmetrical for me to be happy with, I repeatedly smudged the drying blobs, in short it was a disaster.

I had a birthday party to go to and of course I didn't intend to go there with naked nails, so in the last 15 minutes before I had to leave I did a quick stamped skittlette and that was it. This is what I wore for the party:

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I just received a surprise from my husband: all four Frozen Smoothies polishes by KIKO. Of course I had to play with them and I decided to go for the blue one, Glossy Doughnut. I combined it with a sparkly black texture and a black stamp with a tribal feel to it (or at least I think it looks tribal ;)

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I had a business meeting today and I didn't feel comfortable attending with pitch black nails... so yesterday I decided to do a quick skittlette with some stamping. I picked out three polishes, decided on an image and went to work. This is what my nails look like at the moment:

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What do you do when you're completely lacking any kind of inspiration for a new manicure but you have to go to a dinner party and you do want your nails to look nice? That happened to me this morning so I did what I usually do in a situation like that... I asked my husband! He was gaming at that moment so he told me to do an Alice: Madness Returns manicure, the game that was keeping him busy. Not knowing anything about that game I googled it... and I was confronted with dark blues, dark teals, blacks and of course lots of digital blood. So I asked my husband if he realised it wasn't Halloween yet. He just grinned and told me he had absolute confidence that I could do it but I could always go for something more season appropriate if I felt it was too hard for me. Ha! That was a challenge I just had to take on so I searched and searched until I stumbled across this image. Now those were colors I could do something with, namely this:

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The weather forecast for the coming days says sunshine! Translated to nail polish terms that of course means HOLO and lots of it. So what polishes did I pick? Three cremes... yep, really thought that through ;) But there's always holographic top coat and I added a true holo so I think it turned out alright in the end:

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this is a quick post for my current, soon to be retired manicure (and I'm totally lacking any kind of inspiration for a descriptive name, so Last manicure in April is the brilliant title I came up with ;)

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It's very cold over here... I heard on the radio it's the coldest last week of April since 1991. It feels like winter outside, there even was some hail and snow, and it's going to get worse the next few days*cries* So we've been staying indoors this weekend, all warm and cosy, doing only the chores that REALLY couldn't be postponed and even tried to get out of those ;)

Hubby wanted to invest some time in Dying Light as his gaming time last week was limited and his buddies were starting to get ahead too much, and what is a girl to do if her husband is slaying digital monsters with headphones on and all his attention focused on his monitor? Polish her nails of course!!! I contemplated doing wintery nails with snowflakes but I just couldn't. I want sunshine and warmth and spring and if I can't get it for real at least my nails should look spring-y. And as I felt a bit adventurous I decided to try a tape manicure for the first time. So without further ado I present my striped spring manicure:

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Yep, you read that right... before this manicure I've never worn leopard print on my nails. Sure, I tried a few times but even a plain house cat wouldn't want the results on it's fur... but the saying goes that practice makes perfect so I decided to try again. I couldn't decide on what colors to use so I did what I always do in a situation like that: I asked my husband. He told me I should do a purple manicure, even though I wanted to do leopard print... Being the sweet wife that I am, I pulled out about 15-20 different purples and made him choose. He picked a lilac and a darker purple and that was my starting point. This is the result:

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