Winnie and Friends!

Helloo!
As I grew up, I loved watching cartoons every saturday and sunday morning (- I still do). I was thrilled to do these ever since I saw them on Leslie's blog, Polish Art Addiction. Her blog is the first one to pop in my head whenever I want to feature a cartoon character on my nails, and do I need to mention that she rocks every single design? So go check her's out too.

Anyways, these were on my nails a few months ago and done by acrylic paints.
Hope you'll like it! :)

Butterflies in Your Stomach

Good morning / afternoon / evening! (whereever you're living) 

Actually, the title should have been butterflies on your nails. :)

I am going through basics and after tribal nails, I did monarch nails, as in monarch butterflies. Again, these are not recent pictures, I believe these are from three weeks ago. Normally, I'm not a fan of orange color, and this manicure is probably the most bearable version of orange to me. 

 Base color is Orly - Truly Tangerine.

 The phone case that was on my iPhone at that time apparently had some errors, it blocked the camera. It was not that obvious without flash (just a bit of yellow peeking), but this happened with flash.

You can see a bit of wearing, photos were taken after second day, please ignore it. :) Done with acrylics and thin brushes. Here is a photo of real monarchs, although I would run away instantly if a butterfly so big came near me, I just think they are pretty to look at in the pictures. :)

Have a nice weekend :) (And also, from now on, I will not only have nail art, I'll try to do swatches and NOTD's since I feel a little bit uninspired and wear polishes on their own)

Tribal Nails

Hello there! Today, I have a manicure that I wanted to try for a long time and had chance to do a couple of months ago. I believe almost every nail artist (is there such a term?) done tribal nails at least once in their life. It was quite a challenge for me, all those stripes and dots took longer time than they normally should have, but the end result was worth it. 

 I wore this mani for a couple of days before taking pictures of it, so ignore the wearing on the tips.

The base color, purple, is Pastel 309. The rest is painted with acrylic paints and brushes.
Hopefully, you'll enjoy it as much as I did! :)

Dandelions

It has been a long time since I posted. I know I do this a lot and should not do it in order to have more followers and make people see my work, I'll try harder. :)

I did this mani a while ago but had time and interest to post it only now. I saw a tattoo of dandelions and it was sooo pretty that I could not just past through it and I turned it into a mani. Then, like a week later, I saw that Copy That, Copy Cat posted basically the same mani before me. So, being not inspired by her, I still feel like I should be giving credits to her, you should go see hers too. 

 I loved watching dandelions flying with the wind when I was a kid. I still love it but I don't see them that often anymore.

The base color is China Glaze - Blue Year's Eve, and this photo is blurred to make you see how shiny it is under the lights. So, so pretty. :)

The nail art is done with brushes and acrylics, all by myself. I don't think that it was a challenge to do, so if you are a beginner and want more complicated looking art on your nails, this might be a great choice.
Hope you'll like it. :)

Will you be my Valentine?

I am such a lazy blogger.  I did this manicure before Valentine's Day and I am posting it right now. It is the exact same manicure that Rina did here, only colors are different. I think you can understand that I love recreating Rina's nail art. I was in love with the way it looked on my hands and felt bad cleaning it because of school.

Here is my left hand, a little bit lighter colors since the paint dried until I passed to the other hand.



Also, I took all these pictures (except the first one) with my sister's professional machine. Aren't they lovely, life became more clearer with these pictures :D I did these using acyrlics and they were real fun to do. Just a bit of patience I believe anyone can do this.

I hope you like it. :)

Sponge Bob Nails It!

Well, excuse me for getting really excited about this but, come on, these guys are one of my favorite couples. Normally we wear uniforms to school and nail polish is not allowed. When they said that it will be OK to wear nail polish and normal clothes since it is the last day of the first semester, I was like HOORAY! So I had to do something that I would enjoy anywhere. I chose this design of Leslie from Nail Polish Art Addiction and added my own ideas and this is the result:

 

 The floral design of the cartoon, some algae, and Sponge Bob and his bestie, Patrick.

 This is day 2 of this mani, so there have been some wearing on the tips.

    And my left hand, I try to give it a part on my blog to let you guys see how I handle it.

                                      Gary, floral design and Krabby Patty. :)

 

I used acrylics for this mani. I hope you liked it! :) 

Day 6 - Santa + Christmas Tree + Ralphie

And finally a wrap on this challenge! Santa on my thumb is from Simply Rins' Santa and Rudolf Nail Art . Do I need to mention that I love her designs? I mean you can easily understand that from my posts. The bell was inspired by someone's nail art but I just can't remember whose. I'm sorry, let me know if you know who. And Rudolf is also by Rins, which got featured in one of my previous posts.

 My favorite was Santa, and to be honest, this design is not my favorite so far.

 And here is my right hand. This polish is the gorgeous Going Incognito - Essie. :)

 Hooray for loooots of presents. :)

And this is my horrible Ralphie, I failed this so bad, I didn't even want to post this, but to give you proof, here it is.

Again, all of these designs were made with acrylic paints, free-handed. Hope you'll like it. :)

Day 5 - Nightmare Before Christmas + Grinch

Hello again! :)

I don't think there's need for explaining, here is the Nightmare Before Christmas mani.

Look at how pretty this nail polish is. It is Midnight In NY - Sally Hansen, it has all colors of shimmer in it. You can see by clicking on this photo and look at my pinky.

 Sally's hair was not this much red, but with flash, it looked like this.

And I have a surprise for you! Grinch!

 

This is not a full mani, I just did it on my thumb and the photo is taken by my camera phone so the quality is not the best.

The next and last mani of today I'll be posting is the one I wore on the New Year's Eve. I hope you liked my Nightmare Before Christmas and Grinch mani. :)

Day 4 - Dickens Christmas Carol

Hi there!
I know that it is a bit late for these posts, and I swear these nails were done before New Year's Eve but I didn't have time for posting these. So to make it up for you, I will be posting 3 posts today!

I kinda failed this challenge, I mean, look at the date! It's the 8th of January, time flies so fast. Here are the pictures of Dickens Christmas Carol mani.

 This mani is inspired by this photo.

 Excuse the mess on my fingers please, it was REALLY hard to clean up, it just didn't come off.

 I sponged a mixture of yellow, brown acrylic paint on white nail polish. Then free-handed the wreath with acyrlics. I think sponging did a great old paper effect.

I hope you liked this mani, I'll be back with new manis in a couple of hours. :)