Fun With Ms. Sparkle "A Lotta Terracotta" and "Living Coral"

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I also recently purchased "A Lotta Terracotta" from Ms. Sparkle. I used it for a little marbling.

Blue Marble Stamping

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Happy Sunday! I did this mani ages ago, but never got around to posting it. It was when those marble design stamping plates were popping up everywhere last year. Such a fun way to create a marble design! I decided to use a more unusual colour for this marble and grabbed my new dark blue OPI "My car has Navy-gation" and took out my new stamping plate by Nicole Diary: Marble Artist Stamp Stencil 076.

The Digit-al Dozen does Marble - Stone Marble

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As things are often better late than never, here's my final mani for this month's Digit-al Dozen theme "Marble":

The Digit-al Dozen does Marble - Drag Marble

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My fourth instalment for the Marble challenge is a drag marble!

The Digit-al Dozen does Marble - Smoosh Marble

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The third marble mani of the week! I chose a smoosh marble this time. For this relatively simple technique one uses a stamper to smoosh polish together. This usually works wonderfully as a base for stamping, but this time I left it as is:

I started with a white base (HEMA) and then smooshed with P2 "Spaceshot" and "Ferris Wheel", Essie "I'm Addicted" and Konad Silver. I sealed it in with Seche Vite.

Kinda loved wearing this, was sad to take it off after just one day! What do you think? Do you like smoosh marbles?

Have a look below at the beautiful marbles by my fellow Digit-al Dozen Ladies!

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The Digit-al Dozen does Marble - Saran Wrap Marble

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I'm already a day behind, but here's my second mani for this week's marble challenge - a saran wrap marble.

The Digit-al Dozen does Marble - Water Marble

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For the first challenge of the year, we decided on 'Marble'. Over the years, folks have been coming up with many ways to create marbled nails, the most famous of which is water marbling. I've never been good at it, but I thought I'd give it a try with some new polishes my sister gifted me for Christmas, that she bought in Brazil. Yay for exotic polishes!

I have to say that this is one of my more successful tries, so I'm quite pleased! The polishes marbled marvellously, I'm so happy I thought of using them!

Thanks, sis, for these beauties! 

What do you think? Did you ever try water marbling?

In any case, take a look at the links below to see the beautiful marbling of the other ladies!

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The Digit-al Dozen's Stamping Week - Marble

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I wasn't able to post yesterday, because I haven't been feeling well for the past few days. I wasn't able to do my nails for two days and I slept all evening yesterday, so no post and today I'm going to have to pull something from the vault! I did this manicure last summer, hence the still-square nails. 

One of the wonderful things that you can stamp, besides patterns from plates, is a marble! This technique is very simple, but looks intricate. Very fun! 

The Digit-al Dozen's 5th Birthday - Greek Party

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Today, for The Digit-al Dozen's 5th birthday, I'm hosting a Greek party on my nails!

Beauty Big Bang Cuticle Protector Peel Off Tape

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I was recently approached by Beauty Big Bang to review some of their nail products and of course I said yes! The first thing I chose was this peel off tape. You may have noticed that I suck at water marbling. But with these cuticle protectors I thought, what the heck, I'm gonna give it another go! 

Random Drag Marble Fun!

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I received some US polishes from my friend Donna, like the awesome neon yellow. She also sent me A stunning bright purple from LA Colors and a pink from Wet 'n Wild. I decided to use them in one mani!

Summer Manis with LynBDesigns Neon Dream Collection!

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I recently got LynBDesigns' "Neon Dream" collection and those babies are perfect for nail art! I did two manis with them, each with three shades. Have a look:

Watercolour Halloween Skulls!

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More Halloween for you today, whoohoo!

Spring Florals with Essie Silk Watercolor Kit

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A while ago, my awesome friend brought three beautiful jellies with her from The States - the Silk Watercolors Kit from Essie! These are the cool-toned colours. I loved how they looked together and it has a teal one! So I started playing. This is one of the manis I did with it! 

Halloween Dry Marble

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I tried a little dry marbling today for Halloween...

Mod Lacquer Electrified Collection

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I have a new-to-me indie brand to show you, for which I was chosen to swatch! Such an honour <3 It is Mod Lacquer, which you might know from the amazing holographic polishes that they have released last year, over which I have been drooling for a while! Mod Lacquer jumped on the neon bandwagon this year and has released a huge collection of absolute neon must-haves: The Electrified Collection. And yes, they marble!

Born Pretty Store Review: Marbled Studs

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Today I have awesome studs from Born Pretty Store to show you:

Friends On Friday - Marble & Mermaid

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A quicky post today with two manis for friends. The first one was requested by her, as she saw it on another blog and thought it was cool. I did my best to recreate it:

ManiMania in Paris Part 2

Happy first day of the long Easter weekend!

Today I want to show you the nails I did for my Parisian friend <3

We did these at night, so we had time (although we had to wake up very early the next morning). This was not the first time I did her nails, and she is an excellent hand model. Her nails are fantastic: they are straight and big (but not too big, just big enough, if ya know what I mean ;) ). Her skin colour permits the most flashy colours and today I chose red (2 coats of Essence "Kiss on top of a rock"):

"Moulin Rouge"

As you can see, I wanted to marble, so I did that with black (from Max) (mind you, I only had about 10 bottles with me, so there was not much choice). At one side of the nail, I made a gold line (with Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours). Then I took out my dotting tool (since I didn't have my actual one with me, I used a bobby pin and a toothpick) and created the gold and black lace motif. Then I added topcoat and prayed for it all not to smudge while sleeping. It worked! <3

(Update: One of our facebook followers has been so wonderful as to assign a name to the mani, she's brilliant: Moulin Rouge. Thank you <3)

I miss her dearly now. We had such a good time together in Paris! Thank you my sweetie!

xoxoxo

Captain

Hestia

Hiiiii!

We're back with another goddess. It's Hestia, goddess of home and hearth. The first offering at every sacrifice in a household, went to her. Her symbol is, surprise, fire. Hence fire is on my nails now!

This picture was taken in diffuse daylight.

I started with a layer of Bourjois "Rouge in Style", and on the accent nail, I also applied one coat of W7 "Red Dazzle", as can be seen here:

This picture was taken in artificial light.

Then I saran marbled with Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours gold. With my striper from Etos, I freehanded the outline of the flames on my accent nail, and since it is my right hand, that is shown here, I had to do it with my left (which still has Hygieia on it, with the pretty snake, that I just could NOT remove yet ;) ). I'm sorta proud of my left hand for drawing this while shaking BADLY! 

Then I added some more Red Dazzle to the accent nail, in the center of the flames, to make it more fiery!

And that's it :) We'll continue the Goddesses until the end of February (so Thursday) :)

xoxoxo

Captain