Anyone said Cougar?

Animal prints is a fashion thing I never jumped on. I felt those prints where too eye catching, too "bright". 

I felt really brave one day and bought a Zebra printed dress/tunic online. I worn it once or maybe twice. It's still on the hanger, and when I'm going out with friends I look at the dress and ask myself if I feel brave enough to wear it. Too often, the answer is no. It's a lovely dress, with a broad band in the neck with black sequin, straight cut. I just don't know what to pair it with. 

On my nails on the other hand (pun not intended). It had to be tried. 

I wanted to go subtle. That if you looked for it, or the sun happen to hit my hand on the right angle, you would be able to see it. 

I have seen a lot of tri-polish challenges on my feed lately, and wanted to pair up my own combo.

I picked out TopShop - Mercury Miasma, TopShop - Cosmic Karma, and Orly - Sweet Peacock. 

Stamped using Bundlemonster - BM 221.

I got the same print on a Konad plate, but decided to take the BM plate, as the box was on my desk and the Konads in my bedroom. If you wonder, that would be the Konad - m57. 

This is going to be a picture spam, just so you know. I ran around the house trying different lights, settings, etc to make this really show. Needless to say, I loved it. 

Ringfinger TopShop - Cosmic Karma

TopShop - Mercury Miasma

Stamped with the opposite TopShop colour, and filled the big circles with Orly  - Sweet Peacock.

Needed some suitable underwear for a manicure this sassy. 

I Love Polish

As if that was a surprise.

Back in town, and back into blogging.
I start this year with a Challenge me and Mishka started last year. The Cheeky Girl Challenge.
Here we take 1 plate, 1 image, each Friday, and make a manicure out of it.
Giving you ideas on what to use all the plates for, and to challenge us to actually try something new, and  not just use a few of the images in a set, but to use them ALL.

This Friday is CH *stops mid typing looking around for her plates*
CH40, we choose the tiny image to the bottom right with "I <3 polish".

I choose something suitable girly for this and used three pinks.

1 coat of Candy Girl - Misa

Added some striping tape and Orly - Preamp over.
Removed the tape and stamped using Barry M - Fuschia.

To see what Mishka did with the image, head over here. 

Casino Royale

I would call this a gambling Medley, is search for a better word. It's about gambling, and all there is to it. The chips, the slot machines, the dices, and cards, the smokin' ladies, and the money.

For this manicure I used a collection of plates.
Cheeky 31, 39, 55
Bundlemonster 303
Konad m22

Using nothing but 4 colors, I made this.
Sinful Color - Snow Me White
Wet and Wild - Black Creme
NYX - Matte Red
Orly - Viridian Vinyl

I had so much fun with this manicure, and enjoyed my night out trying roulette, and black jack. One thing is for sure, gambling is not my thing, but what do you think about the nail art?

MSMD: Christmas Bling

Inspired by Lacquer or Leave Her! manicure last week called Christmas Bling. I created this mani.

Sorry for the tip-wear, I wore this for a day before I got to take pictures of it.

Look at those glitters!!!

And as of my dating life, I am sure you are waiting for an update?

Back to the nails. Aren't they lovely? the rhinestones I used are 2 mm, and I'm guessing the one Mishka used are 1 mm or 1.5 mm, so I used only one rhinestone for each nail, but I love the look.

I should get some different sizes rhinestones as well. The kit I bought are from Bundlemonster, so if you are looking for a good starting set, they have some great ones. 

H is for Halloween

I know its a late post to make. Specially since Christmas is so close.
But, since I haven't made any Halloween manicures this year, this will be mine.

For this manicure I used Orly- Purple Pleather, and Max Factor Fantasy Fire.
Purple Pleather covers in two coats.

Playing catchup on my ABC challenge from Llama Nails.

G is for Green

Here is another festive Christmas-y manicure.

Todays manicure is for the ABC challenge at Llama Nails (FB)  . My G is for Green. Yeah I know, kinda obvious. 

May I just pause for a moment, and say ...wow... I love this.

Sunlight w/flash

Indoors

and then I did something I'm not very proud of. I added Barielle - Elle's Spell over the green. Its denser that I thought it was. My bad.

Lets see if we can fix it / make it work, non the less.

What do you think? Maybe Elle's Spell wasn't such a bad idea after all...

F is for Festive

We are getting closer and closer to Christmas, there is no denying it.
And since I'm still determined to play catchup on the ABC Challenge over at Llama Nails, my F will be for Festive, and kinda Christmas-y, without being overly so.

For this manicure I used red rhinestones, and Orly - Flagstone Rush.
Working hard on trying out all the polishes I got from US. This polish is gorgeous. Metallic shimmer, and with the added rhinestones, it would make for a wonderful Christmas manicure.

The rhinestone on my index finger slid a little there.. so will have to redo them...
Be sure to check out what the other girls did with their F-manicures.

D is for Dailies

So I am all in The World Of Warcraft today. And when I was wondering what to do for my ABC challenge next, it sure had to be something related to my game.

Dailies.

For those of you whom are not in the know:
Dailies are different from ordinary quests cause they can be repeated, over and over again, but only once a day, while as quests are a once in a life time event.
This will give you reputation with the faction/clan of the person you do the quests for.
This can give you mounts/gear/ or other fun/useful stuff in-game.

Me and one mount I acquired from doing dailies.

For this manicure I used Cheeky plate CH48.

Orly - Viridian Vinyl

Makeup Mekka - Remember 79'

Look! It matches my teapot!

normal light

w/ Flash

Heavily cloudy that day, but at least this get the color right. 

Everywhere I see, I see dailies!!

Twinpost: Anchor Away!

It was about time I did a manicure with rhinestones again, and I have been dying to mix different stamps.
So when it was time for my next twinpost with mishka from Lacquer or Leave Her! I decided to do just that.

We used Cheeky plate CH36 this week, and I also added BM 224, and I added a manicure with just the BM224 and the rhinestones so you get two manicures today.

Two coats of Sweet Peacock, and it glided on like a dream.

Be sure to check out what Mishka did with CH36, over here. 

US Haul

Mishka has been so nice to help me out getting my hands on some US polishes.
<3

Here is what I got.

Barielle
Razz Berry
Hidden Hideaway
Blackened Bleu
Passion Pirouette
Elle's Spell
Katalicious

Orly
Flagstone Rush
Fowl Play
Mermaid Tale
Mysterious Curse
Preamp
Purple Pleather
Sweet Peacock
Viridian Vinyl
Sashay My Way

MISA
Candy Girl
Chocolate Icing  #65
Date Night to the Twilight
Girl Next Door
Office Polish-tics
Russian Sage
Speed Of Life
Toxic Seduction
Working Hard or Hardly Working
Misa Like It Like That

And M.A.S.H plates

Surprises:

WoW, look at this. For sure the coolest bottle evva.

CANDY!

Avon Mosaic Effect top coat, can't wait to try it out.

Chocolates and eyeshadow duo