What's on my nails today?

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This week's challenge is splatter... a technique I haven't tried before so my brain was already thinking of what plates to use. But I had the entire afternoon basically to myself today as my husband was running a (lengthy) errand and I'm on standby duty for work so I have to remain close to phone, email and computer, so I figured I could try a real splatter manicure and I would be able to clean up the mess and stamp something if it turned out disastrous. In the end I had to clean up some mess but I'm quite proud of the outcome. Let me present my very first splatter manicure:

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this week's manicure is nothing like what I had in mind. I was thinking something along the lines of butterflies, reverse stamped with bright, maybe even neon colors. But life happened and yesterday we had to go to another formal occasion where bright and neon or even too much decoration wouldn't be appreciated. So I looked through my neutrals, found a pretty one and wore it the entire day as a full manicure. This morning, when I sat down to do my manicure for the animal prompt, I wasn't feeling bright or neon at all. In fact, I felt a bit sad, so I decided to just pick colors that would maybe make me feel a little better and use my already painted nails as a base. This is the end result:

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Late again, but I have an excuse... I spent the weekend binge watching the series Altered Carbon instead of writing this post. My manicure was all ready and photographed and waiting the entire time! (I didn't say it was a good excuse ;)

So what did the tv keep from you? This:

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What do you do when you've got the flu, have no energy whatsoever and feel like crawling back into bed and stay hidden there for at least two months but you don't really want to do that either? I decided to snuggle up on the couch with a large pot of tea (courtesy of the significant other in my life), some cookies (courtesy of the same person), a fluffy blanket and a stack of movies waiting to be watched... and a few bottles of polish and an assortment of nail care related utensils :)

I had to remove my manicure as I managed to get a crack in the nail on my right index finger and I wanted to try and repair it. It sort of kind of worked but I'm still not good at the teabag method so I'll probably file all my nails down to shorties when I get too annoyed by the patch job. Anyway, one movie and some relaxed fiddling later this is what my nails looked like:

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First of all the most important news of the day: I PASSED MY EXAM!!!

I took the exam this morning, all pale and shaking and basically a nervous wreck and when I was finished I had to wait for another "approximately 30 minutes" (quote) to get the results (standard procedure for these exams but I still call it torture ;) After no less than 45 minutes I finally received the link to my results so while my husband (who thought it would be less hazardous to myself and my surroundings if he'd drive me to the exam center and back) was parking the car, I saw the page load... and load... and after what must have been the longest 15 seconds in history I saw PASS!!!! After that of course lots of tears, laughter, hugging, shaking, jumping up and down and basically going completely nuts because all those emotions occurred at the same time :D

What does this have to do with nails, you ask? Actually, quite a lot. Yesterday, when I had scheduled the exam, I was getting extremely nervous up to the point where I was ready to pick a fight with my husband about something I can't even remember now. And what do I do when I really need to relax? I paint my nails! By focusing on those ten little canvases I'm able to calm down enough for me to realize I'm acting really stupid (unless of course I'm right, in that case I just calm down enough to sound like a mature person telling the incorrect party who is right ;) So here's the result of my attempt to relax:

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It probably isn't a big surprise my favorite type of manicure is a skittlette. I love to have my nails look different but somehow matching at the same time. The queen of skittlettes is of course Marta from Chit Chat Nails. Ever since I've found her blog, I have been saving manicures that I would love to recreate and this is one for them, her chevron skittlette. I just love the combination of colors and the chevrons so I browsed my stash for similar polishes as I don't have any of the ones Marta used. I hope I did her manicure some justice :)

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I had to pick up some cotton pads from the local drugstore this morning and I couldn't help myself, I had to take a peek at the Catrice display. Imagine my surprise when I saw a brand new limited edition display, VISIONary. Of course the four polishes ended up in my basket :)

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Today a beauty from the core collection of Illamasqua: Stagnate.

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