What's on my nails today?

Hi everyone,


it's official now, I'm a certified nutcase. It's past midnight on Friday January 26th and I've just finished photographing the manicure I did in the last hour. You could say I should plan ahead better (or just plan ahead) but this time I was completely innocent! What should have been a nice, relaxed week with plenty of time to play with polishes has turned into a string of work related crises and working overtime three nights in a row. Of course that's nice for my polish budget but the bags under my eyes are proof that sleep might be a good thing once in a while ;)

But you're not here to hear me complain about my job (that I love btw.), you want to see nails... so here is what my fuzzy brain and bleary eyes managed to create from this inspiration by Dorra aka didoline:

Hi everyone!


The fourth prompt for the 52 Week Nail Art Challenge is Mermaids. And of course I don't own any mermaid themed plates... so I opted for a sophisticated mermaid with color changing scales:

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Last Friday we had to go to a birthday dinner so of course I wanted to have pretty nails (not to mention that friends and family actually expect to see a special manicure and of course I don't want to disappoint them ;) Unfortunately work is totally crazy these last weeks so I can only show them to you now, when they've already had to make room for new decorations... Oh well, at least we can look at the pictures, right? So let's do that right now:

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Officially I should still be working so I'm going to keep this short but boy, is it sweet :)

My manicure for the third prompt of the 52 Week Nail Art Challenge features both an unused polish but an unused plate as well. I won't say too much about the plate (as I wasn't too impressed) but the polish... *swoons*

Come take a look!

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week 2 of the 52 Week Nail Art Challenge is one of the prompts I dreaded the most... water marble! There are some techniques that are terrifying and water marble is very high on that list as far as I'm concerned. I had a really cute design in mind and found the perfect polishes... only to discover they wouldn't spread. No matter what I did (water slightly warmer, cooler, filtered, tap, different cups) I just couldn't get a nice bull's eye. So in the end I just went for different polishes and this is the result:

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First things first: best wishes for 2018 and I hope it'll be a year full of love and laughter and hopefully some beautiful manicures ;)

And talking about manicures... in a weak moment I was persuaded to try and do the 52 Week Nail Art Challenge. @polish_portfolio created 52 challenges, one for each week of the year and you can see all results by looking for the tag #52weeknailchallenge on social media. The first challenge is Pink + Purple and that's what I did, a (pale) pink and purple manicure: