What's on my nails today?

Hi everyone!


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:

indoors, no flash

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This manicure was born out of pure laziness: I used three polishes that were still on my desk and added a floral stamp (as you can never go wrong with a floral afaic :) So what colors were patiently waiting for to be put away?

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Quick post of a quick manicure:

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Another two weeks have passed and during that time the flu I thought I had turned out to be a rather nasty pneumonia. I got medication, doctor's visits, pictures taken from my lungs (guess what? I have two!! ;), the works and I'm FINALLY on the way up again. During most of the exams you are asked to either not wear nail polish or remove it from your index and middle finger as they stick these thingies on your fingers to check oxygen saturation and stuff. Two bare nails and eight nicely manicured ones just would look too silly so I've been going commando for a while... yep, totally nekkid! So now that all the exams are behind me I wanted to do something really extra special. I did kind of forget that I still have the energy levels of a sloth in hibernation so it took me a lot longer than expected but I don't care about that at all when I look at my nails.

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