Bling!

Helloo!
I keep posting old photos that I took but didn't post. Today's is one of them and it was a fun mani to have on my nails. The texture didn't bother me at all, rhinestones started falling off after two days but I guess that is normal.

Hope you'll like it! :)

It's not about the price tag!

Hello there! Today's manicure is from June, and I couldn't post it until now. Some of you may know that Jessie J had a concert in Turkey. I had to be there, I mean, I love her sooo much. When there is a big event, I like doing my nails matching to it and for Jessie J concert, they were ready. It may seem like a simple design but no, I spent at least 3 hours on this. My perfectionist side showed up I guess.

Hope you like it! :)

P.S. - I took the pictures after I returned from concert to our summer house, so tip wear and other dents are so obvious, sorry about that :)

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. :)

Day 3 - Gift Wrapping and Rudolf the Reindeer

This week we set our Christmas tree (though we don't celebrate Christmas, it is for New Year's Eve), and I felt like the time for gifts is getting closer! YAY! So I decided to have gift wrappings on my nails and remembered that Simply Rins had a reindeer design and a tutorial. Therefore, I had to have a Rudolf too. Here is this weekend's nails. :)

 My index finger turned out really complicated, I didn't like it.

 I thought that my thumb turned out the prettiest, I liked it a lot. :)

And here is my right hand, I didn't want to try so hard on it so I just painted them like shiny wrappings' colors. :)

 Here is our tree and my gifts. :) Hopefully, there will be lots of gifts right where my fingers are in the left top photo. :)

 Yes, this is my extremely pink room and computer, I decided to make a difference this week and took a picture of the polishes I used.

I used Essie - Watermelon and Pastel - 31 for my thumb, Pastel - 52 and Sephora - 51/Leather Boots for index, Pastel - 74 for middle finger, Flormar's white and acrylic paints for ring finger, Pastel - 37 for pinky, plus Flormar Nail Art white and gold and Flormar - 003 on top on all of them.

I hope you'll like it. :)

Day 2 - Poinsettias and Candy Canes Nails

Or day 4? I feel like I'm cheating since I don't even do proper designs and do two designs at once. Today's (or this weekend's?) nails have poinsettias and candy canes on them. And here is the problem, we don't celebrate Christmas here in Turkey, so I don't really know the traditions. I can picture stockings filled with candy canes hung over fireplace in my mind but I don't have a single idea between poinsettias and Christmas. I have thought of giving up on this challenge because of insufficiency of time and lack of viewers; but I'm not that kind of girl who'll just give up on everything she can't manage to do, not without trying harder. *I Will Survive enters*

This weekend I was SO uninspired, I failed at all my attempts of nail art. I guess that is why I hated this design. Enough with talking, here is this week's design.

 I had candy canes, poinsettia-to-be's and candles. I even did some shading but with flash, they all seemed red.

Here is my lovely sweater and my nails. I liked this sweater a lot, so I thought it totally should be on my blog. 

I used Flormar - 390 as the base color, but it left so many brushmarks so I sponged on the last layer. Paintings were done with acrylics.

This week, my exams will end and I might have time IN week to do nails. I know that I can't keep them for the next day, but it is the only way I can finish this challenge.

And YAY! for 2 members of my blog!

Day 1 - Snowmen AND Snowflake Nails

You might have heard about the new challenge, 12 Days of Christmas Manis. When I saw it on Sonoma Nail Art, I thought I totally should join it. And the thing I love the most about this challenge is that the rules are so free, you don't even have to do days in order or finish on time. Since I get to do my nails from weekend to weekend, I asked her if they would let me join and if I could do 2-3 topics at once. She told me that it was okay, so here I am with my "Snowmen AND Snowflake Nails".

This was my first attempt of using acrylic paints on my nails, so be easy on me. :)

This design was inspired by Simply Rins' Snowman Parade design. You should take a look at her's too, she also has a tutorial.

Look at how cute they both are! When I was photographing, I saw this white puffle and I was like, "OMG! I need a picture of them together, white puffle freezes stuff so they must look good together!" I am such a geek. :D

 Experimenting with different angles. I think this photo turned out really artsy. :)

And to make you see how glittery this mani is. :) Excuse the wreckage on my index finger, it had a little accident till I took pictures and I couldn't fix it.

I used Flormar 423 as the base color, snowflakes and snowmen were done with acrylic paints and detailing brushes. The glitter polishes I used don't have a brand. After I did these nails, I realised how much I missed snow (AND holidays!).

I hope you'll like it :)