What's on my nails today?

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the seventh prompt of the 52 week nail art challenge is Nude. Add to that the fact that I've been wanting to do a plaid for some time now, and this is what you get:

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A new year, a new post and even a new feature... yep, definitely starting off on a high note ;)

First of all, I would like to wish you and yours all the best for 2020. I hope your year will turn out even better than you're dreaming it will be.

I haven't made any resolutions but I do hope to pick up blogging a bit more regularly and to do so, there's a new feature: 'My polish, your plate'. Michelle from Ordinary Misfit and I were chatting and we came up with a concept we thought would be fun: one of us picks a polish, the other picks an image of a stamping plate and we do our nails using both polish and image. We can use other colors but the chosen color has to be prominent. If the other doesn't have the chosen polish, she can send alternatives that are available and the one who picked the polish gets to pick the alternatives... and that's about all the rules we came up with. Oh, and we post our manicure on the first and third Friday of the month.

This is the first episode. Michelle picked the polish: OPI Hands Off My Kielbasa!, and I picked the plate: Pueen 83, the image in the lower-left corner that looks sort of like zigzags or lightning flashes. And here's my manicure using both:

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It's the last Friday of the month again, so Michelle, Juanita and me get to cross off another manicure from our to-do lists with our monthly Triad manicure. This month's inspiration was created by Emilia from PolishPixie92 and chosen by Michelle who said she wanted a stress-free, pretty design. Pretty? Definitely! Stress-free? Not entirely... but I'll get to that part later ;)

First let me show you the end result:

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I'm catching up on all the things that were neglected these last weeks... so full speed ahead for a quick post about the week 14 prompt of the 52 Week Nail Art Challenge: Autumn.

I've been racking my brain how to do a fall themed manicure while outside the first leaves are starting to dress the trees in a pale green and the daffodils are coloring the ground yellow. I totally didn't feel like using falling leaves or acorns and stuff... and then it hit me, just do something abstract using fall colors! And I did, with this result:

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it's September 21st and that means summer is officially over, the sun will hide her face earlier and the nights lengthen (unless you're on the southern hemisphere, in that case spring has sprung and you're heading for summer ;) Of course most polish creators have released their fall collections weeks ago and I have picked up a few vampy-er polishes already, among which a gorgeous shimmery brown that I used as the base for the manicure I want to show you today:

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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:

indoors, no flash

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Yes, it's me... complete with separated fingers as the tape FINALLY came off last Friday! My finger was quite swollen after it was released but that has mostly subsided by now and all you can see now is that it's slightly thicker but it's perfectly straight and with the exercises I have to do I should be able to use it as if nothing happened within a few weeks :) I've been scrubbing my skin like my life depended on it and I think I've used an entire bottle of cuticle oil to pamper my digits and after all that I think I'm sort of ready to show my nails again... so I present my current manicure:

indoors, no flash

It's not that spectacular but I had some official events to go to so the spectacle has to wait a little longer... I'm just happy I can polish my nails again!!

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I had such high hopes. I was going to spend an entire evening playing with polish and come up with the most amazing design! And then... my sister in law called that my two nieces had a ballet recital and grandma had gotten sick and grandpa was going to stay home to take care of her, so there were two empty seats and two very sad girls. So I had to choose: stay inside all nice and warm and cozy with yummy snacks and nail polish or go outside into the cold, the rain, the hail, to a theatre to see a bunch of little girls jump up and down and twirl as if their life depended on it...

So of course I went to the ballet recital (you must have guessed that already) and instead of taking all the time in the world to create a dazzling design I picked three colors that looked nice together, grabbed a dotting tool and did my nails in the ten minutes that I had left after getting ready for the evening with this result:

indoors, no flash

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A quick post today as I've been so busy it's almost ridiculous! I'm ages behind with the blogs I follow, I haven't done anything but eat, work and sleep <repeat the next day>, and I think I might have to introduce myself next time I actually get to sit down with my husband... But just two more days and after that's it's fifteen days of free time for me so I don't want to complain too much ;)

Anyway, this is what my nails look like since yesterday when I managed to squeeze in some polish time:

indoors, no flash

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I was looking for a clean, office friendly look and this is what it turned out to be :)

indoors, no flash

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As summer is turning into fall I want to wear some richer, autumn-y colors... and I have just received the Zoya fall collections, Entice and Ignite, so I have plenty of colors to choose from :)

I combined white, black and coppery-orange in a skittelette:

Fall skittelette - indoors, no flash

I used OPI Natural Base as base coat, followed by two coats of OPI Alpine Snow and a coat of Seche Vite on my ring and pinkie. My middle finger was done in two coats of Zoya Dahlia, a sparkling black textured polish, and my index and my thumbs were painted in one (!!) coat of Zoya Autumn and a coat of Seche Vite. I used Dahlia and Autumn to make dots on the white nails and that was all!


Have you started to wear fall colors already?

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They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, so I hope Deborah of Love. Varnish, chocolate and more…. doesn't mind this version of the beautiful manicure she did recently.

When I saw the picture on her blog, I couldn't help myself... I had to try these colors myself! Unfortunately I have baby sized nails instead of her gorgeous long ones so I could only make one circle of dots but I still loved the results.

indoors, no flash

I actually had most colors Deborah used, so I started with my regular base coat (OPI Natural Base) and after that painted on two coats of OPI Don’t Bossa Nova Me Around to get a completely opaque base. One coat of Seche Vite to speed up the drying and to keep the base protected in case I had correct errors and after that I could start my dots. I used one big dot of Catrice First Class Up-Grape, a small partial circle of Catrice Metalight (Metallure collection) and a larger partial circle of OPI Alpine Snow. Another coat of Seche Vite and my manicure was done.

The nude base makes me feel really sophisticated and the colors of the dots only add to that feeling.
I really loved my nails like this.


Have you ever copied a manicure you saw online?