Anti Vegetarian Nail Art

I'm not a vegetarian. I also have nothing against those who are. It's just that they are sooo passionate about it, and they generally like to shove their beliefs in other people's faces. Have you ever invited someone over for dinner without knowing that thay don't eat meat? Probably not, because vegetarians just won't hesitate to tell everyone about it. 

Unfortunately you can barely see the writing on the signs. The signs are (from left to right) vegans are evil, eat meat, I have feelings, I have a heat too, don't be mean to greens, potato. I adore the carrot in the middle, I mean seriously, this is one determined carrot. It looks like it's staring straight through your soul. Imagine sleeping at night and waking up to a carrot in the corner of your room staring at you like that. Well, I for one would start doubting my sanity. Also, see the most awesome anti vegetarian image ever made:

Crazy Cat Lady Nails + Borm Pretty Store Review

A few weeks ago I posted a list of my favorite products from Born Pretty Store, which included the stamping plate QA15. Which I an going to review now.

I really love the choice of stamping plates at Born Pretty, the always display clear images of what you will be getting. I chose this on because of the awesome full nail patterns and adorable little kitties. And who wouldn't want to cover their nails in kittens :). The plate was fully covered in teal plastic film, and packed in bubble wrap. As you can see it arrived in perfect shape. Please ignore my fingerprints at the top of the plate :)

The perfect Christmas sweater nails done in just a few seconds. I would never had the patience to actually freehand these.

And, of course I can't stick to just stamping. So, I made cat lady nails (you know, the cat lady from the Simpsons!). The cat lady unfortunately covered almost the whole pattern, you can only see a small purple +.
I also like the originality of cat lady nail art, I mean who would paint a grumpy old lady on their nails. Well I have and I love it :D.

Overall, I was very pleased (or even impressed) with the stamping plate. If you would like to buy this item, you can find it here, also don't forget to use my coupon code SCL91 (which you can see on my sidebar). 

Easter Bunny Nails

Yes, I do realize that Easter is over, and I am totally late with this design. As I have mentioned before, I have problems with doing nail art in theme with the date. Believe it or not, this time I actually finished this design 3 days before Easter. But I had entered a competition which forbade publishing the pictures before the results were in. In case you were wondering, I got first place yaaay (the competition had four sections, I won the "paint and polish art" section). So, now all the the winners and the runner ups are uploaded here, to determine the final winner. The final winner will get a HUGE chocolate egg. (which can be seen here.)

 Now, please go vote :D. If i win.... I .....will... hmm....hmmm....  How about, if I win I will start a new nail art tutorial challenge?? Anyone interested in that?
(To vote got to this page here, you have to like the page first, and then click vote on my design.)

IT'S RAINBOWING

It has been raining a looot here recently, and it has been a pain to take photos of my nails. Since it's rather dark. I'm sick of rain, I wish it started rainbowing :)

I did this for a  nail art competition at Nails by Kayla Shevonne. I used Hypnotize Me for the green gradient and topped it with Happy Ending, both by Cult Nails.

And I did a facebook page for Brush Me Blush. Check it out!

Liebster Award

I have been nominated to the Liebster award by the author of the Nail Doodle.

I was actually nominated a while ago, but never felt like doing a post about. I am simply really lazy. As it turns out you have to have less than 200 followers to be nominated, and I have only three to go. So, it was about time to do the post.

For those that don't know, the liebster award is basically like a "you are great" chain mail.
The official rules are:

1. Post 11 facts about yourself.
2. Answer the 11 questions asked by the person who nominated you.
3. Ask 11 questions from the people you are nominating
4. Find 11 blogs with less than 200 followers and nominate them

Facts about myself

1. I can't drink water. Not a single glass. Not even on a extremely hot day.

2. I am a tea addict. I drink about 4 liters of tea per day. Yikes. Tea is literally the only thing I drink

3. I adore cycling. In the past summer rode 45 km every single day. (I lost 5 kg.)

4. My laptop is always near me when I paint my nails. Therefore my laptop is covered in all kinds of paint and polish splatter.

5. I have the ability of completely embarrassing myself in every possible situation.

6. on the note of the previous fact. While I am living in Spain, my Spanish is rather poor. This has led to a lot of awkward conversations like:

Someone: Do I look bad without makeup?

Me: (I was not listening at all so I just smiled and said) Yes. 

(oh god why)

7. I constantly use google translate to check spelling.

8. I would die without an Internet connection.

9. I have been told that I have a very expressive face. I guess that's true. Because I once made a girl cry by saying: You look so slim. I have no idea what was the expression I showed, but it was enough to make her cry.

10. I skipped number 5.

11. Ok, I really didn't but I made you look didn't I.

The questions asked by Nail Doodle.

1) What was the last nail polish you bought?

It was Sugar Matte 646 by Kiko. It's the most gorgeous textured polish in black and silver. Matte finish but very sparkly. I bought it about a month ago.

2) Do you use Indie Nail polishes? If so, which is your favorite. 

I have never tried a single indie polish.

3) How do you photograph your manicures? 

I use natural light from my living room window. I have fat hands so I almost always wrap my hands in some kind of cloth. I use a Panasonic dmc-lx7 camera to photograph my nails. I adore this camera the macro is insane, it captures even the most miniature details. Some which I couldn't notice with the bare eye. Before I used the camera on my samsung galaxy 3 (3 not s3). It has the most fantastic macro I have ever seen on a mobile phone. It's is a looot worse than the camera but if you are in the right light in the right pose you can get pretty fantastic photos. Here is a photo taken with my phone.

4) Would you rather develop polish or review polish? 

Oh, I would adore developing my own polish. But it's rather hard to get the perfect colored/sized glitter and what it the glitter dissolves, and there are a million other problems. It's very time and recourse consuming. On the other hand I also love swatching. But the €1 class of polishes I buy aren't very swatchable. Swaching may be a lot less time consuming but it's definitely more expensive. However I would adore swatching if I could get the polish for free :D

5) What is your favorite nail art technique? 

Freehand. I rarely use any other.

6) How do you store your polish loot? 

I store my polishes in cleaned plastic candy boxes.

7) If you could move to a foreign country which one would it be? 

Well, I am a foreign student living in Spain. But if I had to choose a new one it would be any country with English as a native language.

8) Do you listen to movies or music when you are doing your nails? 

Nope, I am in complete silence. When I am painting mu nails I completely block out the rest of the world.

9) Do you have a favorite quote? If so please share it! 

Well I don't. 

10) Would you rather have every shade of crème polish or glitter polish? 

Every single shade??? Oh, that would be amazing. I would choose creme.

11) What is your favorite cartoon?

I don't have one.

Questions I am asking from my nominees.

1. Name your top five favorite nail blogs.

2. Why did you start blogging?

3. From which brand do you own the most nail polishes? How many?

4. How many nail polishes do you own.

5. How did you get into nail art? 

6. What's your favorite manicure so far.

7. What's your dream job?

8. What's your favorite color of nail polish?

9. What countries have you visited?

10. What other hobbies do you have?

11. Name something (non-academic) you would love to learn.

The Blogs I nominated.

1. 10 Nice Nails.

2. In the Name of Colors.

3. A Sparkling Finish. 

4. Midnight Butterfly.

5. Peachy Sweetness.

6. My Little Big World.

7. Life is Crazy

8. Lou's Labyrinth

9.Sparrow Nails.

10. Crafty Nail.

11. My Little World of Make up.

Oh whoa, that was a lot of writing.

Baby Dragon Nail Art

As I have said before, I adore dragons. In this case I did the baby version. The background was done in a circular gradient. A circular gradient is done by painting a circle on a piece of sponge, then paint a circle around it in a darker color, repeat if wanted. This is actually the only nail art design on this blog that hasn't been entered to a competition. It is a very competition poor time of the year. So, if you know of any let me know.

Leopard Nail Art

So, I have entered the Tip Top Nail nail art competition. The theme was hearts and animal print, and you could only use pink, red, purple, nude, brown and black. Which of course was a pain and I am not pleased with the actual animal print however I am rather fond of the leopard.