• Hi everyone!


    Juanita and Michelle invited me to join their twinsies posts (so does that make this a triple-sies post? ;) We're going to recreate let ourselves be inspired by a manicure from our to-do list and post it on the last Friday of the month, but we're only really starting in January so this is just a trial run. I got to pick a manicure from one of them to recreate for November and I had already chosen their twinsies Halloween manicure (here and here) since I would be at home on Friday so I could actually do the black nail thing without getting weird looks and I would do a manicure from both of them... double win! Unfortunately something popped up that requires me to look more or less presentable tomorrow and I doubt that graveyards fall in that category so I had to search for something else at the last minute... and I'm NOT good at 'at the last minute'! So what is a girl to do in crises like that? She makes her husband pick out a design! He chose Michelle's Pink treasure nail art (see what I did with the title? ;) and after that all I had to do was select my polishes.

    Hmmm... The one kind of polish that isn't very well represented in my collection is glitter polish. I hardly have any and the ones I do have usually have a clear base so those don't work either. I quickly decided to go for one of the rare holos-with-thingies-in-them that I own (and I can just hear Maria chuckle now ;) and combine it with a chrome, like Michelle did, and I think I didn't do too bad, even if it was 'at the last minute':

    indoors, no flash

  • Hi everyone,


    after searching through my husbands english dictionary (yep, the old fashioned paper kind, a huge Webber dictionary that could easily be used to step on to reach the highest shelves as it's at least 6 inches thick!), I still couldn't find anything that I could use as starting point for my entry for the letter X of the ABC Challenge. I finally decided to see if I happened to have a polish with a name that started with an X. Lo and behold, I actually had one: a lovely lilac colored holographic beauty named Xochitl. After I googled the word xochitl (as it wasn't in Webber's) it finally clicked. Xochitl is a name that is used in central and southern Mexico and it means 'flower' (thank you Wikipedia ;) So I decided to go with a simple manicure that featured lilac colored flowers, and this is it:

    indoors, no flash
  • Hi everyone!


    If you haven't guessed from the title, this is my entry for the W :)
    Another word I could have added was 'wedding' as I can totally see a winter bride wearing this manicure but
    1) I'm already hitched and
    2) our wedding day was in the midst of summer (and it rained... ;)

    When I tried to think of a theme for the W, all I could come up with was 'watermarble' and I really didn't want to do that with bleary eyes and a pounding head. Only when I asked my husband for some english words that started with a W and he came up with 'weather', something inside that brain of mine clicked and a light bulb labeled 'winter' popped on, immediately followed by white (snow) and the early beginnings of a design were born :)

    So what exactly is this W-manicure I'm talking about? This:
    indoors, no flash

  • Hi everyone!


    Quick post for the V as I can't wait to crawl back into bed... yep, another flu victim here :( For some reason just the smell of acetone makes me nauseous so please forgive the lousy clean up job.

    My original idea was a leadlighting manicure with viola flowers but as that is a bit too ambitious at the moment I decided to go the easy way and chose Violet as my theme. When I googled the definition of the color violet, Wikipedia told me violet is the bluer side of purple: the color of amethyst and lavender. That made it even easier so I searched my stash for polishes with amethyst in their name and I found two, OPI I Am What I Amethyst and Teeez Amazing Amethyst. Fortunately the Teeez one stamped pretty nice and this is the end result:

    indoors, no flash

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