What's on my nails today?

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A new weekly nail art challenge has started and I'm going to try and participate every week. Not making any promises though as I don't know what 2020 will throw at me ;)

The first prompt is Birds. I decided to take it easy and use an image with birds from one of my favorite stamping plates. Combined with some wintery colors, this is my take on it:

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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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July is almost over so that means it's time for the Triad manicure of the month. If you've been here before you probably know what Triad means: Michelle, Juanita and I take turns in picking an inspiration from our to-do-list and we all create a manicure inspired by it. Just recreate it is an option but go a completely different route is possible as well :)

This month was my turn and as I knew I was facing some very busy weeks I decided to pick a beautiful but not too complicated manicure, this one by Yvonne from @eivi_nails. I love tone on tone and different finishes so it was on my list for quite some time, waiting for me to notice it. And this is what my version looks like:

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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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It's time for the Friday Triad to show off their inspired nails again. This month Michelle chose this floral manicure by Tracy of Olivia Jade Nails, and the first thing I thought when I saw her choice was: leadlighting! I've never done leadlighting before so I looked up some tutorials, watched some YouTube and decided I could definitely do that. And hey, it was a month away so I would have plenty of time to pick out a plate (as I didn't own the one Tracy used) and polishes (again, as I didn't own any of the polishes in Tracy's manicure except the white one).

Life happened, time went by, and then this post by Juanita popped up where she mentioned some problems she had with stamping her image for the triad manicure. But hey, it was still a week and a half away and you probably know by now I do my manicures at the latest possible moment (which has absolutely nothing to do with lousy planning on my side... nope, I deny everything!) so I didn't feel the urge to start working on my nails right there and then. Instead I really had to clean up all the bottles and plates and tools I'd pulled out for my last manicure so I sat down and checked the plates to see if they had all been cleaned properly and I noticed a plate with a floral image that might actually work for leadlighting. I decided to try it out (which is very out of character for me actually. Usually I find out things don't work around midnight when I have to have the post ready by the next morning, but still definitely no lousy planning ;) and about an hour later I had a full manicure... over a week before I could post it!! All I could do was shove it under my husband's nose... and I did... repeatedly!

But finally the wait is over and I can finally show all of you what I did:

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I would have loved another lazy weekend but that was not meant to be this time so I actually stayed up until way after midnight to finish my manicure for the letter K and unfortunately I think it shows I was pretty tired by then. I'll leave it up to you if this should be considered a fail or not ;)

indoors, no flash

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This manicure was born out of pure laziness: I used three polishes that were still on my desk and added a floral stamp (as you can never go wrong with a floral afaic :) So what colors were patiently waiting for to be put away?

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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:

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