Essie - Resort Collection Swatches

Hellooo! :)
I don't know if one finger counts as swatches but I know that these bottles are extremely small to swatch them as a full hand swatch. Lots of other bloggers already swatched it and passed to different collections but it is not so easy to get your hands on a polish in Turkey. Most of the brand polishes are expensive and they are not easily found. So consider this post as a stash swatch, not a new collection swatch. (I said "swatch" a LOT!) I also got Smooth Sailing while I was buying this collection so it is included in this post too.

Thumb: Smooth Sailing - 2 coats

Index: No More Film - 1 coat

Middle: She's Picture Perfect - 2 or 3 coats

Ring: Pink-A-Boo - 3 or 4 coats

Pinky: Sure Shot - 2 coats

With flash

 I liked all of these but if I had to choose my favorites, I would say Pink-A-Boo and She's Picture Perfect. They have tiny shimmers in them which made them my favorites in the first place. As for formula, worst one was Pink-A-Boo but I handled the situation pretty calmly since I loved the color.

Which ones did you like the most? Comment below and let me know if you'd like to see other stash swatches. :)

Leopard

Hi there!
(And please excuse the creative title of this post.)

If I have a regular follower out there (I hope I do, and if you do exist please don't hesisate to come say hi! :)) she would know that I give my best work when I copy a design previously done by someone else. Today's post is one of them, featuring a design from one of my favorite bloggers, Sarah from Chalkboard Nails! She did a tutorial about this leopard so go check it out too! :)

Base color is China Glaze - Agent Lavender

Inside of the spots is Rimmel - Ultra Violet

Outside of the spots is Rimmel - Blue My Mind

These were so fun and exciting to have on my nails. Definitely lasted for a long time for me, about a week or so I believe and that is why these are so grown out.

Hope you liked it! :)

My first successful gradient

Hi there pretties! Apparently, I am still uninspired. Today's post features one of the good enough ones. Here is my gradient nails:

Hope you'll like it. :)

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! :)

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. :)

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. :)