Tag: nail of the week
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NOTW: Midnight in Moscow
Shock & horror! No it’s not Halloween just yet, but I think for the first time on this blog, I have a nail of the week for you that entails only one nail polish. Before you start thinking that I am losing my edge: I’m not. I had a party to go to and I…
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NOTW: Pastels for Easter
Just a quick little post as I’m busy with some social activities these days. I visited my parents for an Easter brunch yesterday and today I will be hitting up some friends for a birthday so I don’t have much time. This is the nail look I put together for a fun spring/ Easter look.…
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NOTW: Frosty Ocean
I of course had to us my new Catrice & Essence polishes on my nails as quickly as I could. So when I was doing my nails before heading to my parents for my mom’s birthday I came up with this quick and easy nail look. On my nails: Essence Walk on Air as a…
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NOTW: Coral Ocean
It’s been a while since I did any nails of the week, so I thought it was time to do something new. This time I was feeling like doing something colorful with a beautiful bright coral color and a bright teal. Left hand Right hand As you can see I alternated my hands and added…
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NOTW: New Catrice polishes
The other day German budget make up brand Catrice revamped their collection with some new products. My favorite Catrice product must be their nail polishes. So when I found out about the new colors they were releasing I decided to have a look and see whether anything would be worth picking up. Unfortunately there are…
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NOTW: Strictly Cookies & Cream
This week I wanted to try something clean and simple. I love Ciaté’s Cookies & Cream nail polish as it’s a great neutral shade. I decided to pair it with a stripe of Ciaté’s Strictly legal as I thought the dark purple with subtle golden glitter would be a good contract with the creamy beige…
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NOTW: A little bit of this…
… and a little bit of that. Finally my nails have started to grow out again so I think I can do some fun nail creations again some time soon. As for right now, my nails are covered in 5 different colors. I simply couldn’t choose and didn’t think any of these colors special enough…
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NOTW: Pink & Sunshine
I have been so lazy regarding my nails lately. First it was because they all started breaking on me. It was as if my nails had suddenly become more brittle than usual. The problem: my new nail polish remover. And now, I’m just too lazy to look into cute nail designs and what not. So…
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NOTW: Vampire Black
This week I spent on the couch watching True Blood Season 4 for the most part. I was feeling under the weather and I had yet to watch the latest season and lo and behold what I picked up when I sat to do my nails? Yep two black polishes that in hind-see are very…
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NOTW: Sparkly New Year’s Nails
When deciding on what nail polish to wear, I quickly grabbed two of my new glitter polishes. I especially think the duochrome polish is very suitable for celebrating the new year. It reminds me of fireworks! I am wearing the turquoise glitter polish on my thumb and pinky. My other nails are covered in a…
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NOTW: Festive green nail art creation
I suddenly had this idea for making a new nail art creation. Again, it’s something very simple nor is it super fancy, but I think it’s cute and the colors are a perfect match to the time of year.This is the result: As you can see I went with a seafoam green base coat, added…
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NOTW: Strictly Legal
Last week, I logged onto Facebook and found a very nice surprise in my inbox: I had won a free nail polish by nail polish brand Ciaté. I was allowed to pick whichever color I liked from their current range of colors. I ended up picking a color called Strictly Legal: a deep plum/ purple…
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NOTW: Blue toned french manicure
Another week, another new nail look. I decided to play around with a current trend: french manicures with a twist and this is what I came up with: It’s my first time painting a french manicure on my nails and my ring finger is one hot mess, but I think it looks cool. It’s certainly…
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NOTW: Sparkling rose
I thought it would be fun to do a nail creation with some of my new polishes that I showed you the other day. This is what I came up with: I simply love these simple stripy designs and you can do them with so many different colors! The possibilities are endless. My hand wasn’t…
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NOTW: Purple & Gold
For some reason I felt like painting my nails in a dark purple color. However, once I had that on my nails I thought it looked rather boring. I was wrecking my brain trying to come up with a fun color to match the purple. Suddenly ‘gold’ popped into my head and this is what…
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NOTW: Pumpkin Spice
Another autumn inspired post. As I’m totally digging fall colors right now, and I made pumpkin soup the other day, I thought it would be apt to have a pumpkin inspired color on my nails. This is the result: Products used: – Etos nail hardener extra strong – China Glaze Life Preserver – Catrice Rusty…
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NOTW: Cranberry Sparkle
Another short but sweet post, but tell me how could I keep this fun and sparkly autumn nail look from you all? Products used: Etos nail hardener extra strong E.L.F. nail polish in cranberry Essence nail art special effect topper in circus confetti Seche vite fast drying topcoat The best part? This fun, sparkly nail…
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NOTW: I’m feeling blue
Since the past few days have proven to be lovely Indian summer days, I thought it was time to wear a pretty summery color on my nails again. Just one last time, before the days become actual dark and gloomy and I take to wearing dark greens, blacks, browns and glitters again. My favorite summer…
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NOTW: Sweet like candy
Another new nail look. This really reminded me of bubblegum, cotton candy and Dutch marsh mellows (spekkies), hence the name. It’s very simply, but I liked the pink a lot on its own, so I didn’t want to ruin it by adding too many distracting factors. I hope you like it. – base coat: Etos…
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NOTW: Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy!
I blogged earlier today about going to a beach party and so I thought I’d do my nails in a nice, bright summery kind of color.This is what they look like: What I am wearing: – Etos extra strong nail hardener (base coat) – 3 coats of China Glaze Lemon Fizz (pale yellow) – 3…
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NOTW: Perfectly Pastel
I decided to do another Nail of the Week post. I enjoy doing them, but since I put this blog on nail polish overload in April writing about all of my different nail polishes, I decided against posting about this as well.Here’s what I’m currently wearing on my nails. All three polishes are by Ciaté.…
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NOTW: Coral & Yellow gradient
I thought it was time for some fun and happy colors again! Left hand is now coral/ peach. Right hand features yellows: Products used: Left hand (from left to right): – China Glaze Peachykeen – OPI Melon of Troy – Hema Longlasting Nail Polish no. 204 – OPI Hot & Spicy – China Glaze Life…
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NOTW: Flight of the Bumblebee
I thought it would be time to get a bit more creative with my nail polish look. When I saw this tutorial on youtube by the lovely bubzbeauty, I knew I had to try it, So below you can see my attempt at drawing a bumblebee: Not bad for a first time I think! Especially…
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NOTW: a different shade of brown
I decided to go with this brown look for now. Products used: – OPI San Tan-tonio – OPI Over the Taupe – Seche Vite Topcoat
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NOTW: Blue Gradient
Another Nail of the Week! This time it’s different shades of blue. I have to work on my work’s open day on Saturday and I plan on wearing a dark blue blazer and thought the blues would be a nice match with that. Products used (from right to left): Ciaté Paint Pot in Skinny Jeans…
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NOTW: ready for spring!
Wow! It’s certainly been a while since I posted one of these. But here we go again! Colors used: China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise Cosmetica Fanatica Quick Dry no. 32 I thought this would look fun and funky! What do you all think?