EmOzean

Today I have for you swatches and some nail art with my newest franken polish. Actually I wasn't the one that made this franken, it was my boyfriend. I created a franken that day, and my bf thought I should use another polish to mix in with NYC - Bowery Black, so I had to mix another polish. You can see my creation here. 

My bf decided to call this polish for EmOzean, and he used the colour of my eyes as inspiration. 

I like how he played up "Emotion" and "Ozean" in the polish name... clever, I see what you did there. 

First I started out with Sinful Color - Snow Me White as base colour. I used two coats of that, then proceeded to add some circular stickers and painted EmOzean over. I finished off with some black striper.

Sinful Color - Snow Me White

Sinful Color - Snow Me White

Sinful Color - Snow Me White and Franken - EmOzean

Sinful Color - Snow Me White and Franken - EmOzean

Sinful Color - Snow Me White and Franken - EmOzean

Sinful Color - Snow Me White and Franken - EmOzean

Sinful Color - Snow Me White and Franken - EmOzean with black striper

Sinful Color - Snow Me White and Franken - EmOzean with black striper

EmOzean was created mixing NYC- Bowery Black, Beyu - 377 (blue shimmer) and Depend - 245 (pastel blue)

Have you ever had a male (boy)friend suggest a franken for you?

Step out of the box

Often when we talk about being creative, we talk about "stepping outside of the box". To be honest, we now spend so much time "outside the box", I'm not even sure what's in the box anymore. It's like a Schrodinger's Cat thing.

It was the night before Summer Solstice, I was sitting up late watching the night sky.
I came up with this piece of nail art.

What do you think? I know, It's super silly. HaHa.

Space Invaders Twinpost

I am a huge fan of Arcade games. Space Invaders was one of the first games I played, on console.
Nintendo.
I even have a Nintendo keychain. Nerdy? 'Ell yeah!

When the time came around to do Cheeky plate CH45, I knew what to do. Girl, have I been waiting for this plate. Feel the 8-bit love!!

I used Wet N Wild -Black Creme as background, and stamped using Sinful Color - Snow Me White.
For ring- and little finger I used Two Way Striper- and Nail Art Pens in red and white.  To create the "A" and "B" buttons on the controller for Nintendo.
In he-insight I should have made the red dots bigger...

To see what Mishka did the same plate, head over here. 

Easter Nails - A skittle adventure

Happy Happy Easter.
And here are some happy nails. I started out with 3 coats of pastel yellow, this is Miss Sporty - 453.

I made this manicure using a set of stamping plates.

Index finger: BM 310
Long finger: BM 317
Ring finger: BM 208 and BM 314
Little finger: Mash 45

Stamped using Wet n Wild - Black Creme, as always. Then I took a green nail art pen and dabbed in some jagged lines on the ring finger, and added some more depth to the grass and the egg on the thumb.

Linda Johansen - Aqua Rock

Swatch time!

Lets have a look at this baby I found at the airport.
Aqua Rock.

Linda Johansen polishes are all toxin free, with no formaldehyde, Toluene or DBP.

I wanted to make some art with it, and added some lines and dots. What do you think?

Summer Challenge - Mermaid

Sorry I am late with this post. But here you have it.

I <3 mermaids, one of my biggest wishes is to get a monotail from the Mertailor in USA. He is such a good tailor! Sadly they cost like $ 2000 (!!) but they are SO gorgeous.

Anyhow... back to nails.

Base

1 coat

2 coats

So thats my mermaidtails. 

Summer Challenge - Surfin USA

Good evening ladies!

I took this challenge a bit different that a lot of the other girls did. 

I had art-block, and  Mishka from Lacquer or Leave Her! and I was chatting last night over Skype. 

We came up with the idea of focusing on "Surfin", and it made me think about "Surfin on the webz". And Mishka said I could make a computer mouse with the cord going over my nails. 

Needless to say: I loved the idea.

One coat of Sinful Color - Snow Me White.

- A bowl with a few drops of vodka ( I find it to work excellent for this, and we hardly drink it, so why not?). 

- A piece of paper.

Newspaper nails

Print a design you want on a piece of paper, use the "reverse printing" option on your printer. (most printers has that option) . Cut out a piece that fits your nail (leave some extra to make it easier to peel of), soak it in alcohol for 30 sec. Place the paper piece onto your nail (print down), and press it firmly down. I like to close a fist over the finger, while the alcohol dries, and the print transfers. This will take about 1 min. Take the paper of. Take a dry finger and rub it gently over the nail, to remove access paper. This will not smudge your design, so don't worry. 

Add topcoat to protect your design. (Some brands might smudge the print.)

But we are not done yet! We need the computer mouse. Its no Steelseries, but it will do.

Happy Birthday Nails

My Father-in-law is turning 65! So I had to make some special nail art for the occasion. 

Bobbing for Baubles from ESSIE as a base. Its dark blue, leaning towards being black in some light. 

The nails says; " Happy Birthday" in Norwegian. 

And a tiny firework burst on the little finger there.

What do you think?

Gamer Geek Chic FTW!

I have a confession. I am a gamer-geek.
With that, I don't mean I play a few games now and then. Oh no no no. I play almost every day.
I play World of Warcraft.

I am a female draenei mage!
I am a blogging fashionista attending to Dalaran`s School of Magic.
Some might call us space-cow, but I don't care, they are just jealous.
I am more sexy than a succubus, and you cant bind me.
High maintenance is just the beginning, I have more dresses than you got gold.

I am the guildleader, of "The Dominion Of Elites" - Darkmoon Faire (EU)

The Dominion Of Elites.

Mishka from Lacquer or Leave Her! and I, wanted to do a twin-post, with World Of Warcraft as our theme. We have been sending mile-long mails to each other, for a while now, and the idea of doing some twin-posts where born. Mishka is an amazing girl, she is really kind and just as much as a geek as myself. <3

I decided to do a tribute to my awesome guild. I have been the leader for the guild, almost 2 years now, and I truly love them. I am going to visit some of the officers and members when I go to the UK in September. 

I started out with YSL - Bleu Majorelle. It is the closest blue I have to Stormwind-blue. Its a nice cobolt blue, but it smells terrible. Urgh. I also used Midnight Kiss from China Glaze and a white striping brush/pen.

Be sure to headover to Mishka, on Lacquer or Leave Her!, for her WoW-themed nails.

FNUG - Bandana dressed-up

 Today I have another FNUG - Bandana mani for you.
I have fallen in love with this beauty.

For this mani I used:
White Striper with shimmer
FNUG - Bandana
Gold and Silver - hex rhinestones.

I got the hexes in a set I bought from Bundlemonster. (link to BM, and the set I purchased)
The striper I got from Ebay in a set with 60 others. (link to the blog post I made about the stripers)

I started out with two coats of Bandana, and then made a cross on each nail. I added a silver hex in the middle of the cross, and gold on opposite side.