New job mani

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I've been away for a long time, due to many things, but now I'm back! I got a new job at the Water Board and for my first day there, I decided to do an appropriate manicure to celebrate.

Sunset Gradient

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I felt like doing a three-toned holo gradient with sunset shades would impress someone I needed to impress, so I did one...

The Digit-al Dozen does Story Genres - Romance

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Keeping it short today, because it's waaaay past my bedtime. I based today's manicure on my favourite romance novel of the moment: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins!

When I first saw the cover, it screamed mani to me, so this was the perfect opportunity!

I started with a base of Celestial Cosmetics "Poipu Sunset" and then created a gradient with LynBDesigns "Nightmare Revisited" and Celestial "Hokulani". Then I sponged on some mixture of grey, black and silver holo. Then I created the buildings and the wonky Eiffel Tower with Rimmel Black Out and a detail brush. The lights are Poipu Sunset again. I sealed it al in with SV.

I hope you like it, despite the Eiffel Tower's wonkiness... 

Have a look at the other ladies' manicures below!

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The Digit-al Dozen does Decades - Feasible Future

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Decades - that doesn't necessarily mean past or present, right? Right. So let's skip a whole century from yesterday and see what's ahead of us, or our (grand)children. But at the same time, let's keep it positive, what with all the stuff that's going on in the world right now. Therefore I based this manicure on a feasible theory that brings hope to the entire planet: the theory that it is possible to have the entire world powered by renewable energy in 2090. All of us will have gone green! 

You Win or You Die

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The other day I was feeling line black, white and blue and holo, so I did this:

Paisley Pointers

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Today I have some more paisley for you! It happens to be one of my favourite designs EVER! I have a lot of paisley in my clothes as well (but not too much ;) ). 

Friends on Friday - Stampathon pt. 2

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It's time for part 2 of the Friends on Friday Stampathon! A bright blue and a summer nude manicure this time. 

Friends on Friday - Stampathon pt. 1

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I did my sister's nails and my colleague's nails recently! Both involved holos and stamping - next week there will be even more stamping on my friends, it's a true stampathon! I love it; I get to try out design/colour combos and they get pretty nails - what more could anyone want? 

Weekend Away Manis for me and my friends!

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So the season of taking weekend trips has begun. Not that I have many of them lined up, but I had one last weekend, a weekend away with the company I work for, to celebrate its 20-year anniversary! We went to Sneek, a little town in Friesland, a province of the Netherlands that is famous for its perfect lakes for sailing - which is exactly what we were going to do for team building, so I just HAD TO do a mani for that!

Classy Flashy Foliage

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It's time for a little double stamping again! Today it's classy, flashy and with a lot of foliage:

Pretty in Paisley

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A while ago, I did a manicure loosely inspired by my new shirt. Although the shirt is a bright flamingo-coralish pink, it has beautiful teal/turquoise patterns, with flowers and paisley. So I decided to do take the turquoise and the paisley to the manicure!

My base is two coats of Celestial Cosmetics "Celebrate with NYX", their celebratory 2nd birthday polish. This is just stunning. It is so bright, with so much linear holo, yet the holo doesn't even dull the colours in the shade. Perfectly concocted!

I stamped over it with BC-01. It is not the best quality stamping plate, the etching on this image is so fine that the stampers have a hard time picking up the image. But nontheless, it did the trick well enough. With all that sparkle underneath the image, nobody will notice ;)

What do you think? I wore this for two days, lol, which is very long for me.

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Celestial Cosmetics "Hokulani" and "Poipu Sunset"

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I thought I'd spam you with intense beauty today, as the world has been showing us so much ugliness off late. I ordered these two amazing holos from Celestial Cosmetics, through the Hella Holo Customs Group: Hokulani and Poipu Sunset. They're inspired by Hawai'i. Let's have a look!

Residual Halloween Manis - Oops!

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I meant to post these Friday and Saturday, in time for and on the time of Halloween, but both days I was not feeling well at all, so I couldn't muster up the strength to post these. Therefore I'll show them now and perhaps you can use them as inspiration for next year! 

Let's start with a mani that was loosely inspired by Cosmetic Sanctuary. I did not have her awesome vinyls or her awesome nail charm (I ordered one, but it hasn't arrived yet), so I created this:

Autumn Leaves

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A wee bit o' nail art today! In this nail art, I'm trying to focus on the nice parts of autumn, instead of the dreadful weather we've been having today.

Dragonflies in marshland...

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TGIF! Some random nail art today with Celestial Cosmetics and Born Pretty Store! 

Easter Florals

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It's almost Easter, so we need some really cute and springy manicures! Who's with me?!

Freehanding with BPS tools

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First of all, DON'T FORGET THE GIVEAWAYS! They will end this night.

I'm so exhausted, I'm doing a training for work, so I'm going to keep it short.

I recently got some tools from BornPrettyStore.com that are great for freehanding! Acrylic paint in various gorgeous colours and an amazing nail art brush to apply the paint! I created this with it (please ignore the extensive shrinkage; it probably has something to do with the peel-off basecoat and the fact that I took a hot shower):

Celestial Cosmetics "Callisto"

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Happy ManiMonday! Today's features the last of the prizes I won in @LadybirdLacquer's giveaway of Celestial Cosmetics pretties! I already suspected that this would become my favourite and it did not disappoint. "Callisto" is a dream, look at it!

Neon & Holo - Partners in Crime

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So yeah, my nails broke a little. So instead of swatching the last pretty, I decided to do some nail art over my previous mani of Celestial Cosmetics "Opie". This glorious silver holo was somehow screaming NEON to me, so I decided to oblige my nails:

Celestial Cosmetics "Opie"

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Today the second of the prizes I won in Ladybird Lacquer's Celestial Cosmetics giveaway! Yesterday I showed you an in-your-face green holo. Today we have a silver holo called Opie, magnificent in its simplicity:

This is three coats plus top coat. At the end of the day the Sun finally shone, so I got to take some quick pics! It's so pretty <3

This is what it looks like in plain daylight, it is like a super white silver. But then with sunlight, or certain artificial light...

Glorious!

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