Animal Print Series - Black Tiger

Hello Lovelies!

How are you today? The weekend is almost here - you nearly made it! Hurray :-D Today I want to share with you another Animal Print design. I saw similar pictures online and liked them a lot so I had to try it this way too. I think it is a bit more elegant and less girlie.

The base colour for this manicure is Maybelline Color Show - Mauve Kiss. I then added a stripe of black polish to approximately one third of my nails with L'Oreal - Black Swan. Using a fine nail art brush I created tiger stripes on the other part of my nails.

I don't know what it is with me, Animal Prints and matte top coat, but I added some to this manicure too. At first I was pretty pleased and wore it for a while, but I ended up adding a glossy topcoat again later. I simply didn't like the look of the matte finish anymore, especially on the black polish. I didn't take another picture though, but you get the idea of how it looks like glossy from the pictures above.

How do you like this design? Is this something you'd like to wear too?

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Skittle Manicure

Hello Lovelies!

It is finally getting really hot here in Germany and I am ready to wear bright colours. Today I chose a manicure that I have been wanting to do for a while now but was never in the mood for. A colourful Skittle Manicure.

Most of you probably know the yummie little candies that gave this mani type its name so I won't have to explain that! :-D Here are the colours I chose for the different tastes:

Strawberry: Maybelline Color Show - Power Red
Orange: NYX - Pop Culture
Lemon: Maybelline Color Show - Electric Yellow
Lime: essie - vice versa
Grape: Suzie And The 7 Düsseldorfs (or is it actually black currant?)

For this manicure I used a Maybelline base coat, two coats of china glaze - White On White to make the colours pop and then two coats of each colour. I didn't use a topcoat to show the different finishes of all my polishes. You can best see them in the pictures taken in natural sunlight below. Some are super glossy, others shimmery and almost a bit frosty and the green vice versa has a very soft satin finish.

I think this is such a great manicure for summer! It is fun and it will fit almost every outfit.

Have you ever done a Skittle Manicure? Do you like mine?

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Sponged Rainbow Manicure

Hello Lovelies!

Happy Thursday. Today is a holiday in Germany and I am happy to have my best friend visiting from Austria. Really need some girl time! And this day is also special to me, because today is my 6 month blogging anniversary! Wohooo... Time really does fly by!

Since summer is almost here I decided to do a colourful rainbow manicure.

I started off with a basecoat and two coats of china glaze - White On White and then spongend on my rainbow diagonally using these colours:

NYX - Bimbo, Pop Culture and My Sunshine, essie - vice versa and mezmerised and Maybelline Color Show - Purple Gem.

To save me a lot of cleanup I taped my fingers with scotch tape before I started stamping. I think it is totally worth the effort, but you have to decide that for yourself.

Doesn't this look cute instantly? The colours worked so well together. I repeated the process about two to three times on every nail until I had good coverage and a soft gradient between colours.

As you can see there is not a huge mess around my nails after I removed the tape. Finishing it off with a topcoat made the colours come together and pop even more.

In daylight and direct sunlight the colours look so bright! I love it! :-D

You probably can tell, that this manicure turned out pefectly in my opinion. Just what I had hoped for if not a bit more!

How do you like my rainbow? Do you like sponging?

Since today is my half year bloggiversary I wanted to go the extra mile and do some designs on this rainbow, but this post is already quite long so I will split that up and have another post coming your way during the day! ;-D Stay tuned.

Maybelline - Color Show - Mauve Kiss

Hello Everyone!

Today I want to show you this Maybelline Color Show polish by the name Mauve Kiss (150).

Mauve Kiss is a light brown creme polish with an excellent formula. It is almost opaque in one coat, but I still used two for these swatches without any base or top coat. Judging by the name I expected the polish to have a hint of lilac to it but that is absolutely not the case.

This lovely nude polish is ideal to wear year round especially with nailart ontop of it. 

I think it looks good with my skintone so I will definitely use it again!

How do you like this polish? Do you wear colours like this on their own or do you prefer them with a bit of nailart?

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Drugstore Polish Haul

Hello Beauties!

And Happy Friday! As usual I could not resist buying a couple of new polishes, when I went to the drugstore this week. It was even more tempting to buy some from the Limited Editions I discovered. Let me show you what I got:

p2 LE - Beauty goes Safari: offers four new polishes in trendy colours for the upcoming season with a gorgeous chatoyant pearl effect. I got three of them.

unforgettable - runaway - sunsational

NYX: Under The Moon - Enchanted Forest

p2 Metal Reflections: apricot soul - mint metal

Maybelline Color Show: Watery Waste - Grey Matters

essence - brit-tea LE: Have A Beau-Tea-Full Day - Green Tea For Two

There are some real beauties here, that I can not wait to put on and show you! I wish you all a great weekend.

Do you have a favourite polish from this haul?

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