The World Is Not Enough

Merry Christmas everyone!
Christmas nails are coming up soon, first I want to introduce the first manicure I did with my  new mini polishes. :)

I used The World Is Not Enough, which was a bit opaque, but with 3 layers I got enough coverage. Although I love all the four polishes, this was my least favorite out of them so I decided to save the best for last and start with this one. Besides Goldeneye and the Spy Who Loved Me just scream 'christmas manicure!', so that's what I'm planning to do with them. ;)

My camera doesn't do justice to this polish... I can't really decide what colour it is, which is why I had a hard time figuring out how to decorate it, but eventually I decided it's silver and went with white nail art and rhinestones. I also used tiny white roses and micro pearls. :)
Next up, christmas manicure! ^^

Some more stripes

Before decorations

Helloo everyone! ^^
Classy zebra stripe design this time... :) I wanted something simple with basic colors, so this is what I came up with. I did these a while ago, when my nails were still long... I just recently shortened them and made the shape more round again. :P

So what do you think? :) Oh, this time I actually remembered to take a photo of polishes I used:

Golden Rose silver nail art polish and H&M Ocean Sand.

Btw, you may have noticed that I changed my blog's background recently... I loved the pink one, but it started to bug or something, it didn't cover the whole screen and stayed as just a tiny picture in the center of the page. :/ And since I am such a computer noob, I had no idea how to fix it so I just changed the whole thing. I like this new one also, but it just takes time to get used to it. :P What do you think, better? Or would you have preferred the old, pink one? :)

Not Like The Movies

First I want to say Happy May Day to everyone of you! I know it's not the first of may yet, but in Finland we celebrate today. ;) It's called Vappu in Finland and it's a huge event. People wear funny costumes and party... It's like a carnival. Except for me, I suppose I wont be celebrating much this May Day, because in UAE they don't seem to have it... :'D
Anyway, now to the nails. This is the first swatch of the polishes I bought, Not Like The Movies from Katy Perry collection.

I love that polish! First of all the color looks different depending to the lightning. It can look deep purple, shimmery green, green from the sides and purple in the middle or silver grey... And all the time there are these gorgeus tiny silver sparkles shimmering through. So versatile!
It's quite opaque, though, and I used three coats. But I have to say that I'm extremely surprised about how well it stayed on! We went to waterpark Atlantis (it's in Dubai, Palm Jumeirah) on the next day I polished my nais, and I spent six hours in the water. And guess what? The polish didn't crack at all! My nails were still flawless when we left home. I think it's amazing, because last time we were at Atlantis, my nails suffered badly...
Anyway, gorgeus color and long lasting polish. I like! ^^

I tried to take underwater picture but it failed because of the waves... :'D

Rakastan tätä lakkaa! Väri on upea, ja se vaihtuu sen mukaan missä valaistuksessa sitä katsoo. Se voi olla täysin violetti, kokonaan vihreä tai molempia ja hopeaisen harmaa. Lisäksi siinä on ihanaa hopeista kimallusta.
Upean värin lisäksi lakka on todella kestävä. Laitoin kolme kerrosta, ja menimme vesipuisto Atlantikseen (Dubai, Palm Jumeirah) heti seuraavana päivänä. Olin vedessä kuusi tuntia, eikä lakka edes lohjennut! Kynnet olivat lähtiessä samassa kunnossa kuin tullessa. Minusta se on aika vaikuttavaa, varsinkin kun viimeksi kun olimme samaisessa vesipuistossa, kynteni kärsivät niin paljon että niitä piti lyhentää... :'D


Mutta hei, Hauskaa Vappua kaikille! ;)

Pink Splash

I promised you some new nails today, so here we go! I did something bit more complicated this time, because my nails have been quite simple lately...

This pic is taken in direct sunshine, I love the holographic polishes... *_*

Things I used! :)

I like them. :) The Golden Rose holographic polishes are very beautiful, and though the holographic effect isn't very special, I was surprised by the quality of them! The polishes dried quite fast and were super glossy even without the top coat. They were also easy to put on, and made very sleek surface on my nails. And the polish stayed on very well without chipping, I had these nails for a week, still no cracks! Yey!
So I put 3 coats of holographic polishes first and then made the pink "splashes" with my neon pink Sinful Colors -polish. Then just added the tiny sequins and round rhinestones. I love the rhinestones, I think they're very cute! They look like pink water drops or bubbles or something... I'd love to do some kind of marine-themed manicure with blue-drop-rhinestones! :D
Then I did also my toe nails:

I saw this design in some nail blog, I just can't remember where! But the point is that this is not my own idea.
So I polished my nails with my white Rimmel polish and gefore the polish dried, I did that "lace" using dry-marble -technique. I think they turned out quite well. :)

My toes are quite crappy, I know... :P Winter makes my skin very dry! :(

That's it. :) Btw, I have a picture of my blingy-polish removal -operation...

LOL xD

Removing blingy polishes is painfully hard, but that foil-technique makes it much easier! :)
That's all this time! But I have to share two very random pics with you in the end...

Do I have too much free-time? xD
Then the same in Finnish:

Äänestysaikaa on jäljellä vielä 19 tuntia, mutta laitan nyt tähän postaukseen tiivistelmän...
Lakkasin siis kynnet Golden Rosen hologrammilakoilla, ja yllätyin positiivisesti niiden hyvästä laadusta! Lakka levittyi hyvin, kuivui melko nopeasti ja teki kynsiin todella tasaisen ja superkiiltävän pinnan jopa ilman päällyslakkaa. Laitoin 3 kerrosta hologrammilakkaa, ja sitten tein pinkit kuviot Sinful Colorsin neonpinkillä lakalla. Päälle laitoin vielä minipaljetteja ja pyöreitä strasseja, jotka kiinnitin kynsiliimalla. 
Varpaankynsiin tein mustavalkoisen "pitsikuvion" kuivamarmorointi tekniikalla, tämän idean löysin eräästä kynsiblogista, jonka nimeä en nyt millään saa mieleeni... Siellä oli myös tutoriali näihin, postaan tänne linkin blogiin heti kun löydän kyseisen postauksen. :) Käytin Rimmelin valkoista lakkaa "London Clouds" ja Kissin mustaa nail art -lakkaa kuvioihin.
Lopussa on vielä kuva edellisten blingikynsien poistamisoperaatiosta, kyllä tuo folio on kätevä keksintö! Säästyy paljon aikaa ja vaivaa. :P

Tämän tyylisiä tiivistyksiä on siis luvassa jatkossakin, toivottavasti tykkäätte! ^^

New Nail Designs and Shoppings from UAE !

Okay, LOTS of PICS coming up!
First some pictures from UAE (United Arab Emirates), because there was so beautiful, warm and sunny! Although many of them are taken from Dubai, my family lives in Al Ain. :)

Hahaa, leaving the cold, icy Finland! >:D

Dubai Beach - oh how I miss that sunshine!

Dubai by night - picture taken from Burj Khalifa, which is the world´s highest building! 8)

Some of Dubai´s skyscrapers... They were so high! :'D

The world´s biggest indoor aquarium or something, in Dubai Mall. It was huge!!!

We also visited in Al Ain Zoo. Aren´t they cute? <3

Al Ain by night, pic taken from the top of Jebel Hafeet.

A camel!!! I love it! ^^

Palm Jumeirah

We were at Ferrari World... Of course we had to try it! And it was COOL!

And leaving UAE... Shaky pic from airplane... :'D

I want to go back! :'D
Everything was so huge in Dubai, I felt very tiny everytime we were there... Good thing my family lives in Al Ain, it´s more green than Dubai or Abu Dhabi, and it´s not sort of a tourist place as Dubai! I think Al Ain is just more comfortable than them, u know? :) There´s more great pics in my sisters´ blogs, HERE and HERE. Check them out! ;)
Now I have lots of nail designs to show you! :D Take a look:

My toe nails on the beach! Those are the stickers I bought from Tsukicon.

And French gradient manicure with rhinestone, I really liked this one, simple and pretty!

These I made for my little sister who lives in UAE, Karzu.

and things I used to them...

I love that polish, so I just had to polish my own nails with it... :'D But isn´t it gorgeus??

Toe nails also... Please ignore my crappy toes! :'D

I took a henna tattoo!

It turned out very dark brown in couple of days, I think it looks cool! :D

This desidn is made by Karzu! Its very cute, isn´t it? :)

I bought my first Konad plates! This is one of my first attempts, index finger failed but the rest are okay, right? :)) Polish is OPI Merry Midnight.

Another try with Konads, this time on Karzu´s nails.

Isn´t that cute colour? I love it! *_* It´s the Claire´s pink polish.

This design is currently on my nails, I like it very much! I haven´t done anything that complicated for a while. :)

Things I used...

+Konad plate m32.

So what do you yhink about them? :) That last design is my personal favorite... And I´m surprised about how easy those Konads are to use, I´d never tried them out before. I still have to practise, of course. ^^'
Now the nail polishes I bought:

OPI - Merry Midnight

OPI - Dazzle me

OPI - Sparkle-icious ( I´m still bitter that didn´t manage to get Mad As a Hatter -polish from Alice in Wonderland collection, and this is my "consolation prize"...:'D)

Claire´s matte top coat

Claire´s nail polishes from L to R: 176, 105, 166, 112.

I just love the blue and pink ones!

Inglot top coat

OPI Irre-swiss-ables mini polishes! From L to R: Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous, Yodel Me on My Shell, Color So Hot it Berns and RapiDry Top Coat.

Those mini polishes are so cute!

Some nail accessories... ^^ '

I also bought OPI - Show It And Glow it and Chip Skip, but I forgot to take a pic of them. I´ll present them to you later! :) Then I bought four Konad plates, m14, m72, m32 and m3 + three Konad special polishes, black, white and red. Then I bought lots of accessories, but I have no pics of them neither. ^^' I´m sorry, but you´ll see them, I promise! :)
And of course I bought lots of other stuff, clothes and everything, but this is a nail blog. :P
So now I´m back Finland and I´ll blog normally again! I can´t wait to try out the rest of my shoppings... ;) I hope you all had great New Years Eve and your year has started great! ^^
And wow, while I´ve been on holiday, my blog has now over 90 followers! o_o You´re all very welcome to read my blog, I hope you enjoy it and I´m glad you found it! <3
If you have any questions or wishes, let me know! See you all~