In line with today's previous post, I bring you "witchy" nails, inspired by Wiccan symbols. Now, as it's a serious belief as any religion or such, I really don't want to offend anyone by my nail art. I just personally think Wiccan symbols look beautiful, and that they have wonderful meanings that are often ignored and made look worse than they actually are. I tried to choose symbols that could have a positive meaning for me, were I to believe in all this wholeheartedly, and my reference article can be read here. (If you're a Wiccan, or more informed about these than me, please don't hate on me if I've missed a point here. I did this mostly for the visuals but wanted to acknowledge in this post where the symbols come from.)

It's been a while since the last nail post, so I thought it was finally time for one. I'm trying out some things seen in my Born Pretty Store Haul, and I really liked playing with the bling although really could've done even better job with them. I hope they are inspiring nevertheless.

Hello lovelies! How are you today? ♥ I've just today realized it's already July, and that I haven't gotten enough summer looks to the blog. I will try to start correcting that tomorrow by having my hubby take some outfit photos of the daily office look (which you always can see on Instagram even if they don't make it to the blog all the time), taken that it's not storming outside or anything the whole day.

Today, I thought it would be fun to share some nail art before getting back to the travel posts - so that there would be enough content for everyone, even for those who don't care about F1 that much. So below, you can see the designs I have for you this time:

Hello lovelies! How are you today? ♥ I had awesome weekend with boys, and we made quite a bit of good memories while playing games and watching hockey. I never get quite as relaxed anywhere as I do when I spend time with the guys. So, in case any of you are reading this, hello, I love you all so much. Thanks for the weekend, and I can't wait for the next adventure after few weeks!

Today, I really wanted to share these two nail designs with you, so that we could maybe one day catch up on the designs - at least a bit. These are both designs I was pretty proud of, so I'm really hoping you like them too!

Hello everyone!

How are you all? ♥






















So what do you guys think about these? And do you like either one better? Let me know in the comments below!

Hello my darlings!

How are you all today? ♥

Hey lovelies!

How are you today? ♥

Hello my lovelies!

How was your weekend? ♥

I just finished a mountain of school work - or at least that's how it felt! And now, I feel I can actually get going with a new week, and probably a ton of new work as well. But the best part is, I have a bit shorter days and even if they aren't, I get to spend them with my darling girls. I have seriously missed them, no matter how nice the girls in my this week's group were.

But anyways, as I'm trying to backup my phone so that I can then start making it faster, I figured I should probably write up a little something for you guys. So, here you can see something inspired by our relatively new curtains:



A set of nails with candy print. If you don't recognize these, not to worry, as they are such a Finnish things. The interior decor print that inspired these, is Karkkipäivä (Candy Day) by Vallila Interior. Again, if you don't know, Vallila is a brand pretty well known here in Finland, and they make amazing prints for curtains and other textiles. If you are into interior stuff, you can check Vallila out here: http://www.vallilainterior.fi/en



I'm personally pretty crazy about the Karkkipäivä prints, as they remind me of my childhood. Why? Because the prints are clearly representing certain classic candies everyone in Finland has had as a child. For example, the fox print here is like the one in candies named Pihlaja (rowan), which is a candy that originally reminded the taste of the berries of that tree. Nowadays, it's much sweeter (to my taste, anyway) but still darn good.

...And my fox kinda looks like a badger but let's not bother too much about that, okay?



The colors used for this design were Essie Licorice, China Glaze White On White, China Glaze Seas The Day and a random yellow polish from H&M (that isn't sold there anymore). The rhinestones are again from Born Pretty Store, and the designs have been painted with thin nail art brushes and dotting tools. No stamping included.



These nails had so much to them that I really just wanted to show them on their own, without a comparison, but later on we will be back doing these in pairs so that I don't fill anyone's feed with just nail stuff. ;)

What do you think about these nails? Let me know in the comments below!

Now, I'm gonna try and get my phone backup done (it's taking ages), and in the meanwhile, I will do a new manicure. More on that hopefully tomorrow on Instagram and such, so stay tuned there. But as always, I will talk to you as soon as possible!

Have a great start for the new week ♥

Hello everybody!

How are you all? ♥

Sorry for the few days' absence and all, but I was kind of celebrating my birthday as well as my fiance's so I haven't even opened my laptop during the long weekend. Also, on Friday we had a funeral to go to, so that day I really didn't feel like blogging if you know what I mean.

Anyways, today I really wanted to show you these two nail art designs for couple of weeks ago - and with this I hope I'll get more posts up than usual since I'm again back on track with the writing. I have many nice posts in store for you, including Nail Art 101 part 2, couple of guest posts, product reviews and the regular stuff, so I really need to get on with the typing. But stay tuned later for that, and now, please enjoy this nail art post:



So first up is this cute little skittle mani (or mix and match, however you prefer), where I used light blue base and added a little rainbow and some black to make it more special.



With this mani, I was happy to use the Essie Belugaria for the accent nail. It's such a cool black texture polish with glitter, and it looks absolutely perfect to me.



The other polishes I used were China Glaze At Vase Value, Grass Is Lime Greener, Sweet Hook and Glitz N Pieces. The studs I used are from Born Pretty Store.



The other mani today is much more subtle, and not necessarily something I really like. But I felt like learning some stamping again, so I took out the stamping plates and some gold polishes and tried to do something somewhat classy.



I realized only watching these pics that the images didn't really interpret to the photos that much, but I hope you can recognize the famous print that is made by Louis Vuitton. The image made me think of the well-known brown bags, so I figured I would create something inspired by that.



And one with a bit of a different light. The polishes I used were China Glaze I'm Not Lion, Fast Track and Goldie But Goodie. Stamping plate I used is from Born Pretty Store. Like I said, I wasn't maybe 100% happy with these, but then again, you can't always have a great success. And I think some of you enjoy seeing more neutral/wearable nail art.



So that's it for today, two very different manis in my opinion, and both of them at least somewhat nice. Hope you liked them - let me know in the comments what you think!

Now, I gotta head out to have a little shopping trip in IKEA and have a nice lunch with my boo before heading to work. Tomorrow is my fiance's birthday, so you guys get to enjoy a guest post as I need to be having a nice time with my man before my work shift. But later this week, I will be posting a new outfit post and other nice things, so keep checking in or follow this blog/me in Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or Bloglovin' so you won't miss any updates!

Have a fabulous day ♥