Peach Mint Prettiness

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Ms. Sparkle just went on a much deserved vacation, so before she closed up shop, I managed to grab a few pretties, to help me through her absence ;-) I completely fell in love with "Peach Mint" from the Japanese Kit Kat Collection. Today it arrived in the mail and I immediately grabbed it and put it on after work. I'm so obsessed with its prettiness that I want to post it right away!

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

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Happy birthday to us! It's The Digit-al Dozen's 5th birthday, so this week we celebrate, and I do that by throwing five parties on my nails. First up is a tropical party!

The Digit-al Dozen does Rainforest - Primitive Primates

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Day 5 - the last day of The Digit-al Dozen does Rainforest! This was, as it always is, fun! I really enjoyed looking at my fellow nailistas' nails as well. Some amazing freehanding has been going on there... 

Now for the last installment: 

One of the most interesting species that inhabit rainforests around the world, is H. Sapiens Sapiens. Some tribes of H. Sapiens Sapiens have no or very little contact with other tribes and thus have preserved their original, albeit primitive lifestyle. I decided to attribute a manicure to these primates, with whom I share nothing except DNA, but who fascinate me endlessly.

The Digit-al Dozen - Get to know ME! - Flowers

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This month, The Digit-al Dozen focuses on the person behind the nail art, the blogger herself, the individual.. which for this particular little corner of the internet is ME! So the upcoming 5 days, I'll let you get to know me through some manicures and I thought it would be fun to start with my name...

The Digit-al Dozen does Decades - Sixties Style Icon

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Although the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was set in the early 40's, the movie based on the novella, that established Audrey Hepburn as an eternal style icon, was set in the early 60's - at the time it was filmed. That's why I chose this as inspiration for my hommage to the 60's!

Twinsie Thursday with ProcrastiNails!

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Dreamcatchers...

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I have a cool new stamping plate from bornprettystore.com for you today, along with a beautiful creation from My Indie Polish!

LynBDesigns "May The Fourth Be With You"

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Happy May The Fourth! A while ago (I do not remember exactly when), LynBDesigns included this beautiful treat in people's orders for a special occasion: "May The Fourth Be With You", a varnish dedicated to International Star Wars Day! So let's feast our eyes:

BPS Stamping Plate BP-72 & Crown Decoration

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I have a fairy tale manicure for you today, featuring 3 Born Pretty Store products. Look!

Mint & Print

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Happy ManiMonday! For this ManiMonday I did some nail art with gradients and stamping and studs and this is the result!

Friends on Friday - Mint Bridals

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My friend got married and asked me to do her nails. I was ecstatic! But then I started to get nervous. I mean, if there's any day on which one needs perfect nails, it's one's wedding day! What if I screwed it up?! 

The bride was going to wear mint peeptoes, so we decided her nails should all be mint. For that, I used Rimmel "Peppermint". This is the result, and thank goodness, it worked out. That probably made me more happy than her ;)

Guest Post by Pobbynails!

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This is Priscilla from pobbynails! A few weeks ago, I saw Lothwen's post on a Facebook nail community that she's looking for guest bloggers! So I contacted her and I made a new friend :). For a week or so I was wondering what to blog about. Wanted to do some swatches, but reckoned that it may be too plain. & snapped! What about a simple pictorial! :D So here we go!

SiS: Girly Bits "Apparition"

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First off: Did you enter the giveaway yet? Only a few days left!

My first Girly Bits mani is a fact! I used Apparition in this manicure, that I came up with as an idea for my friend's wedding:

SiS: Catrice Crème Fresh Limited Edition

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Today I would like to show you two pretties from Catrice's Limited Edition "Crème Fresh". It is an LE full of candy coloured pastel pretties, referring to the sixties and spring. And yes, I slightly broke my no-buy for this, but I bought only 2 of the 5 and both could be used in the upcoming bridal manis, so it's more of an investment, I told myself. I bought "Evergreen 60s" and "Another Pink Panther". I decided to mix and match them in one mani:

Friends on Friday: Pre-bridal tryout mani!

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Three of my friends will be getting married this summer (not to each other)  and all of them asked me to do their nails <3 Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!! So we had a pre-pre-wedding session in which I did some careful examining and concluded their nails needed much work :P Then I got rid of the worst cuticles and painted their nails. Then I forgot to take pics, except for the last person to leave, so I give you a minty marital mani!

Preppy French Tips, That's What I Mint!

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This is what I'm actually wearing right now! 

Mint Manis for Talia Joy

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No FoF today. Instead, we remember 13 year-old beauty guru Talia Joy, who sadly lost her battle against cancer last Tuesday. To remember and honour her, the nail polish community has decided to all wear a mint mani, as it is the last mani she posted on instagram. This is my contribution to this beautiful gesture.

I used Rimmel "Peppermint" and Golden Rose no. 122.

R.I.P. Talia!

xoxoxo
Captain

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Green Fizz Fun!

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The other day, I googled "Bourjois Green Fizz" and found that google showed my swatches! This of course made me do several dances in my living room ;) I also found an awesome mani with Green Fizz, that I simply HAD to recreate. It needed two polishes, namely Green Fizz (doh) and W7 "Cosmic Green". I did not own the latter yet, and had not give myself permission to buy it yet either! But last week, The Lieutenant and I decided to go budget shopping, and she bought a pair of lovely shoes. Then we found this clothing store in which the highest priced item was 5 euros! I found 2 awesome knits and The Lieutenant found a bold belt :)

One of the knits happened to have the exact Green Fizz colour, so there I had my excuse to go buy Cosmic Green to create the mani, so that I could wear the new shirt with the mani to the department's barbecue. Sadly, it was really cold, so after an hour I really needed to wear my jacket, but suffering the cold for an hour was totally worth it. So without further ado, I give you Green Fizz Fun!

With the lovely knit and my bracelet:

This is two coats of Green Fizz on my thumb, middle finger and ring finger, and one coat of Green Fizz with two coats of Cosmic Green on my index finger and pinky! Cosmic Green is a lovely glitter bomb with gold and blue glitter, creating a green illusion. I used my dotting tool for the dots.

What do you think, do you love it as much as I do? It sparkled so bright, it was fantastic!

xoxoxo

Captain

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Barry M Ridley Road Texture Polish!

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I have my very first texture polish! My friend brought it over from The UK. Barry M Ridley Road:

'Nuf Said! It is soooo nice :D Application is nice. You can have opacity with two thin coats as long as you apply it very neatly. I found that is has an awesome sand-like texture with two coats. If you put three coats, it gets more of a bubblegum feel to it. Haha it's so much fun! I added some studs from Action:

And that's it! Weartime with this polish is amazing. It lasted 3 days on my nails. That is super long for me!

xoxoxo

Captain

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Studded nails part 2!

Hi there! 

Today more nail art using studs from Action's! As I showed yesterday, the smal sized studs (SS6) can be used very well on the nails. This is a simple and elegant mani I did using Hunkemöller "Mint Green" and the bronze coloured studs:

Just apply a little clear polish or topcoat and pick up the studs using a dotting tool. Then seal in the design with two layers of top coat and you're done! These nails even survived a day at the beach:

xoxoxo

Captain

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