What's on my nails today?

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It's time for Lace and I was actually thinking about two color schemes: fall colors or, inspired by my wedding dress that had a lace bodice, white on white. I decided to go for the latter but after painting the base, I realized it would look beautiful with a darker color on top. So I dug up a gorgeous reddish brown polish... and it's turned out to be this mix of fall on white-ish:

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It's the eighth time Michelle and I challenge each other to do a manicure with a polish one of us chose and a plate chosen by the other. This time I picked ILNP Paige and Michelle settled on the flower image from Pueen plate 112. I'm not sure if my nails are 100% compliant with the rule that the chosen polish should be a prominent part of the manicure but there is no way I could have used that polish and that image in any other way. Here is what I did:

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The second installment of Michelle and me challenging each other with a polish one of us chose and an image from a plate the other picked. This time I picked the polish (Colors by Llarowe Berries in the Snow) and Michelle picked the plate (Pueen 103, bottom left). Michelle doesn't own Berries so after some deliberating we settled on ILNP Black Orchid for her as that is supposed to be a dupe for Berries. And after the selection process was done, we were ready to start painting!

This is what I created:

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I know, a second post on the same day? Shocking! But both Michelle and Juanita expressed their curiosity about the rejected, beige-brown version of my Triad manicure so I figured, why not write about it right now, when I have a little free time :)

I have to warn you though, I totally didn't do the gorgeous polishes I used any justice so please search for swatches by people who actually know how to photograph holographic polishes if you want to know what they look like in real life, deal? Alright! In that case, here you go:

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another quick manicure because I wanted to try out some of the new colors I have been spoiled with this week (I have THE BEST husband ❤️).

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The prompt for week 22 was Favourite Superhero. Right... superhero... and favourite on top of that!
I've never had a thing for Superman, Iron Man, Captain America or any other guy or girl in a spandex suit who zips across the screen, rescuing the world at the last moment. It's not that I hate them, they're just not my cup-of-tea so I don't go to the cinema to watch the movies, I don't buy the comics, etc., which means I don't have a favourite superhero either.

So I turned to Google to see if any superhero would spark an idea. The only one that seemed interesting was Natasha Romanov aka the Black Widow, probably because I like the combination of black (suit), red (hair) and gold (belt). This is what my superhero manicure looks like (idea definitely stolen from, borrowed from, inspired by Michelle):

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It's that time again... quick post for an easy manicure. These colors don't need much though so easy is good :)

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It's that time of the month again when Michelle, Juanita and I show you what our imagination does with (or to ;) a manicure one of us picked out. This month we're doing my choice, a beautiful manicure by @Vernimage. Of course Michelle and Juanita are way more organized than I am so they finished their manicure weeks ahead of the deadline but I didn't do so bad either as I managed to complete my nails last weekend. I even took pictures which was a good thing as I woke up the next morning with a snapped off tip of my middle finger on my pillow and a nasty scratch on my cheek from the remaining pointy edge <insert some choice words that my mom would not approve of>

Anyway... this is my result, a coral-and-peach version:

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Last week my sister-in-law came by and we ended up talking about nails and nail polish. She mentioned she really liked what I did with my nails but that it would be way too hard and way too time consuming to try it herself. Now you and I know nail art can be as hard as you make it so it can be the easiest thing ever. Of course I had to show her that and what's easier than dots, right?

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It's the last Friday of the month so it's time for Friday Triad with Michelle and Juanita :) This time I got to pick the manicure we were going to create and I picked this beauty by Camille of Pshiiit.com...

And boy, did I regret that pick! I think I've done at least four versions of this manicure and I kept messing up the vinyls. Sure, I could have stamped a design but I bought vinyls and I really wanted to use them. So I fiddled and removed the tragic result, tried again and removed the pitiful result again, did it once more, made pictures of the base before trying to master those *censured* vinyls and... ended up removing the result again as I really didn't like it. At that point my supply of vinyls was running low, my cuticles looked like I'd been doing a month's worth of dishes without gloves, I was ready to start throwing stuff around and I was contemplating just posting the pictures of the base and be done with it. But that didn't feel right either (although I will post the base for my third attempt at the end of this post as I really like it ;) so I sat down, picked a happy color scheme, took a deep breath and this is what I ended up with:

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As it's getting closer to Valentine's Day I thought it would be nice to do a quick manicure for the occasion. I picked out a cute pink polish, combined it with white and gray to keep it soft but not sickly sweet... and I think it worked out quite nicely. Want to take a look? Just keep reading :)

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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