I'm still away from my computer, but I wrote this one ready for you beforehand so that you'd have something fun to read while I travel. It's yet another nail art thing, and this time there's a design that's very dear to me.

This first design is actually of my wedding nails, and I totally loved these a lot. Never mind the flaky looking tan there, it looks worse on these pics than it actually was. And yes, I did my nails myself even for the big day.

These were actually something I could've worn anyway, but they were also a perfect match to my coral dress (which I need to show you, but we still haven't gone through the wedding pics properly, yikes!). I went for the safe choice, leopard print, which never gets old to me.

Polishes I used were China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy, Gossip Over Gimlets, Liquid Leather and Essie Set In Stones. The rhinestones are from Born Pretty Store and the leo print was done with dotting tool.

The other one is also a summer design, which actually got inspiration from the youtuber Shaaanxo's nails she had some weeks ago. As she lives on the other side of the world, she had actually winter nails, but as I like to break the rules, I decided to create grey nails for summer. Because why not.

Now, I don't know if lace is the right term to these, but that's kind of what they remind me of. So we'll go with that.

The polishes I used were China Glaze Elephant Walk, Daisy Know My Name, White On White, Liquid Leather, Gossip Over Gimlets and Make Up Store Greta. The details were painted with thin nail art brush and dotting tools.

So there, designs with a little neon to them, as I've loved my brights this summer a lot. I'm guessing that won't go away even if the autumn starts, but hopefully you won't mind.

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

That's all I have for you today, but hopefully I'll have a new little post for you tomorrow. Also, remember to check my social media for photo challenges, random updates and more. I'll see you all very soon with another post.

Have a fantastic start for the new week ♥

I've been taking a couple of days off from blogging just to get some time away from laptop. My cousin visited us, and honestly I rather spent time with her than a computer. You know how it is. Family comes first. But since this blog is more or less my baby, it's always nice to come back to it even if mom needs some days off every once in a while.

Today, I wanted to share these two nail designs with you all:

First up are these skittlette nails. (Skittlette means there are at least two nail with a similar design - compared to skittle where every nail is different) I had so much fun playing with the neons here and I pretty much loved the outcome. This was a recreation of some nails I saw a while back on the internet but I can't remember who it was by (bad blogger!).

I really loved these neons and all, and it was refreshing to do tiger pattern after a long while. I could've made these into gels and worn them a lot longer than I did - which is a first in a long time as well.

The polishes I used were China Glaze White On White, Escaping Reality, Glow With The Flow, Highlight Of My Summer, Daisy Know My Name, Home Sweet House Music, Liquid Leather and Treble Maker. The silver polish is a Kiss nail art pen, and the studs and rhinestones are all from Born Pretty Store.

So with these we continue the rainbow theme, as I wanted to try the sugar spun technique for the first time. Now, this was kind of a failed attempt, but given it was my first time with it, it could have been a lot worse. 

I really don't know what to say about these. They were kinda fun and colorful but I still wasn't too big of a fan of them. Maybe with more practice I could nail this technique (pun intended) but so far it didn't go too well. 

As for the polishes I used the entire China Glaze Electric Nights collection, and the base color is White On White as usual. 

There you go, two new nail designs for you to see, I hope you enjoyed this little post. 

Do you have a favorite of the two? And what are your thoughts about these nails? Let me know in the comments!

Now, it's time for me to get some light food before bed, and tomorrow I need to start getting ready for the next weekend, which will be one of the most awesome ones in a while. I will let you know more about that later. Tomorrow, I will also share another outfit with you, so stay tuned for that one and check out my social media channels while your waiting for that!

Have an amazing start for the week ♥

I've been throwing some old stuff away and doing some other rearranging in our home, and I'm hoping I will get the whole place pretty much decluttered before the new year. So if you wondered where the new post was being delayed, that's what kept me from posting. And the Hungarian GP of Formula 1. Because that is life.

But anyway, today I wanted to share two new nail designs with you. (For those who don't care so much about nails, I can say that don't worry, I have planned loads of other stuff in the near future too)

First up is this Aztec design I created but ended up taking off the same night because I didn't like how it turned out at the moment - and couldn't bother painting the right hand. But I took photos of it and now that I look at it, it's not so bad. I actually even quite like it.

The combination of super bright yellow and and black here, because they are also my favorite hockey team's colors. ;)

There were three polishes I used: China Glaze White On White as the base, Daisy Know My Name on top of it, and the design was painted with Liquid Leather using thin nail art brush from Born Pretty Store.

The other one is what  did after removing the aztec one. This one was a bit more subtle, but still very summer appropriate and fun. 

And again I was doing the leopard print I love so much. I think I will be doing more animal prints on Autumn, as I feel the Autumn colors fit for that so well. Although, as you probably know I could do leopard prints all day every day because I dig it so, so much.

The colors I used were all by China Glaze: Five Rules, Daisy Know My Name and Liquid Leather. I used a dotting tool from Born Pretty Store to create the leo print, and the neon studs are from there as well.

That's all I have for you today, I hope you enjoyed this post and that it was worth waiting for a couple of days. Now I gotta go have some decaf tea, a shower and then do my night time routines. Tomorrow is a start for an inspiring week, for which I have planned quite a lot of things. I will be planning few a bit different posts for the near future, rearranging our home and hopefully finally getting the blogging corner so done that I can share it with you and we will also be having our six year anniversary (we've been dating that long). Also, I might have a wedding post to share with you at the end of the week, so stay tuned for that.

Have a fabulous start for the new week ♥

I was meant to post this yesterday but celebrating our wedding kinda had a toll on me. I actually took an hour long nap last night at seven, which I never do since it messes up my schedule. But now it was more than needed. I guess I can't party like I used to anymore without getting some proper sleep on the way. Anyway, while I'm waiting to get all the pictures from people from the wedding, I have lots of other things to post for you. Like today, when we are going to talk about nails.

First up is this tropical design, which was strongly inspired by Sam from PackaPunchPolish. I wore this one to zoo (see pics of the trip on the previous post) so I had to have an animal in there.

I personally really liked this design, because it was good practice for free hand painting. Obviously I should get acrylic paints to do this kind of things, but that shall be next months to-do. (As I just placed kinda big nail polish order last night... Who is excited to see that?) I think I did kinda good job with the nail polish here though.

I used quite a lot of polishes here, as the picture shows. The polishes were China Glaze White On White, Liquid Leather, Treble Maker, The Grass Is Lime Greener, Red-Y To Rave, Sun-Kissed, Splish Splash, Home Sweet House Music, Glow With The Flow, Surfin' For Boys and In The Lime Light. (at least, but I'm sure I forgot some. I should start writiiing these down when I paint.) I used one dotting tool and a thin nail art brush to do the design.

Next up is this Ikat print design. For this I actually had to custom make a green by mixing yellow and green neon polishes because I didn't have the shade I wanted. Other than that this was basically just technique training.

I liked this design quite a bit and wore it for midsummer. I think I will be doing Aztec and Ikat prints quite much in Autumn, because they are fun to wear and they better my hand-coordination when I need to paint a lot of details. My hand painting is not nearly where I want it to be yet, so this should be good for that.

The polishes I used were all by China Glaze: White On White, Liquid Leather, Glow With The Flow and the green is mixture of Daisy Know My Name and Treble Maker if I remember correctly. Like I said, I need to start writing these down.

That's all I have for you today, I really hope you enjoyed this post. I would be happy to take in your nail art ideas (no matter how challenging) so that you could see designs and techniques and so on that would be helpful for you. Also, please leave any tutorial requests below as I will try to start filming that kind of things on videos as soon as I can.

Tomorrow we will have another fun post, but in the meantime, you can follow me on social media, where I post all sorts of stuff that doesn't make it into the blog. Like the #julybeautychallenge I have going on on Instagram, where you can today see what's my favorite new beauty release of the summer. Any guesses? Anyway, I will see you all tomorrow.

I had my pre-wedding hairdresser today and I kinda did something different to my hair to honor that. You can check the pictures on my social media, and there you can also let me know how you like it. That is actually the last thing I needed to complete before the wedding day, so I can use the rest couple of days for relaxing. Kinda nice situation for a bride, isn't it?

Today, I wanted to share two new nail designs with you. I'm still pretty into my neons, so these two are quite colorful again.

First up is this leo print with glitter accent nails. I liked the idea of gradient made out of the leopard spots. So I did that and just tried to match the glitter nails to that.

I think this one turned out very well, and to me the colors seem to go pretty well together. Hope you like it too!

Polishes I used were China Glaze Glow With The Flow (pink), Red-Y To Rave (red), Home Sweet House Music (orange), Daisy Know My Name (yellow) and Liquid Leather (black). The glitter topper is China Glaze Point Me To The Party. I used a dotting tool to paint the spots.

Next one is done with a technique I have never used before, but decided to try now because neons. This is dry brush technique, and like its name tells, you use very dry brush to paint the strokes on the nail. You swipe the brush nearly clean and dry with the help of paper, if needed to get this kind of distressed finish to the nails.

I was actually way more into these nails than I believed, and could have taken a ton of pics of these. Of course, that wouldn't be too beneficial for you readers, so I tried to choose the best five to show you here.

The polishes used were all by China Glaze and the shades are called Glow With The Flow, Red-Y To Rave, DJ Blue My Mind, Liquid Leather and White On White as a base. This doesn't require any special tools, all you need to do is keep the brush dry enough. The patterns can be as random as you like.

That's it for today, and I hope you guys enjoyed this post at least half as much as I enjoyed painting these designs.

Let me know your thoughts about these designs in the comments below!

Now, I'm heading to other commitments, but I'll be back tomorrow with a beauty related post. Stay tuned for that, and if you want to see wedding stuff or my #julybeautychallenge, head to my social media channels and say hi!

Have a fabulous day, dolls ♥