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Trying out MoYou London plates for the first time

It’s not a secret I’ve been sort of in a creative funk for a hot minute, where coming up with makeup color schemes, let alone trying to put together nail design has felt next to impossible. I’m trying to get back into all things creative little by little, on makeup that has meant setting some challenges for myself, and in nail art it’s quite the same too. For years, I’ve been wanting to get better at stamping, so I’ve taken it as my mission to find the brands and plate styles I enjoy the most, and finding the fun of nail art again. Not really doing much in that regard has felt like a missing piece of myself, and I’d like it to not be missing anymore. 

So, today I’m sharing how my first experience with MoYou London has been. 

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Foxy Fall Nails

New season, new nail art. Whos's excited? Because I am. I've talked about this on my Insta briefly, but autumn time makes me feel more alive and creative. So it's no wonder this feels like a time to bring you new nail art. And while this is being posted, I'm working on the next design, so if you like nail art, no worries, there will be more. But let's first get to today's design:

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Blue Zebra Nails

Who wants to get back into nail art posts? Because I sure do. Today, I'm sharing pictures from a little while back as I have been lacking in blogging for some weeks now. I've tried to plan my life and have routines so I could better fit blogging in, but to be honest it was hard for a while. Now, I think the routines have settled in their place enough for me to add writing the posts in. 

But now, without further ado, I'll show you the nails:

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Green & Gold Nails

Since we just started another spring month, I feel it's more than appropriate to continue with spring color nails. So, I'm sharing a bright green design with you. I was so inspired by this green polish a while back and hed to do something fun with it. So I paired it with gold and did this.

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Neon Floral Nails

Today, I'm happy to share another nail art design with you! I'm very eager to get into the more colorful designs as it gets towards the spring - although to be honest I think we all know I love wearing my colors on my nails and on my hair for any given time. I'm also very, very tempted to buy the China Glaze spring collection since they have so many beautiful colors in it. In case I do invest in it, expect a post with swatches as well as some designs featuring only them. 

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Sweater Weather Nails

Today, it's time for the last autumn inspired nails before I get to the winter/Holiday designs next month. I've already started doing them as you may spot if you follow my nail art Instagram @silvertigonails. But any ways, today we'll focus on these autumn nails.


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First Clear Jelly Stamper Design

It's been a little while since the previous nail art post, right? Well, if you have been missing those, today is your lucky day as I'm sharing a new design with you. And in addition, I'm talking about some new products I got not too long ago. If that's something you're interested in, keep reading!

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Blue Snowflake Nails

On Holiday time, I often get super inspired to do many themed nail art designs. This year doesn't seem any different as I already started my third mani of the month yesterday. Here on the blog, I will today share my second Christmas mani of the year, which is maybe more a winter design. But I wanted to play with techniques as well as new stuff I got from Born Pretty Store. I'll talk more about them below along with the pictures.

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#31DC2015 Black and White & Metallic

Hey babes! How are you all? I've had a chill day today at home, and been feeling a bit under the weather today. Luckily a marathon of O.C. and a huge cup of tea got me through it until hubby got home. He always makes me feel better. Also, I did new nail art, so it's definitely appropriate to share a couple of new designs from the #31DC2015 with you. So here are the black & white and metallic designs!

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First up is the black and white design. I was scrolling through images of black and white nails and was inspired to do this graphic, geometric design on them. I was really feeling the stripes that day, and I still love looking at this design.

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I think the studs were such fun finishing touches to the design. That's actually the thing I loved most about this!

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For this design I used White On White and Liquid Leather, both by China Glaze. All the studs are from Born Pretty Store and I used striping tape to create the geometric shapes.

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Next up is my metallic design for the challenge. I had this duochrome metallic shade I really wanted to try out, so I painted my nails with it and stamped leaves all over it to create a fun Autumn design.

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I like how this turned out even though I don't usually love shades like this on my nails. Somehow I ended up buying this one anyway and I love it quite a bit.

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The polishes I used for this were China Glaze Cabin Fever, Seas The Day, Roguish Red and Stoked To Be Soaked. The leaves were done with Konad stamping set, using the plate m20.

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


That's all I have for you today, I hope you enjoyed these nail designs. Today I will be posting something else, but in the meantime remember to follow me on social media to stay updated about the blog and other things as well. I will go now to watch TV with the hubby and then get some rest, but I will be more chatty here tomorrow because I'm sure I'll feel all better after a good night's sleep. See you tomorrow!

Have a fabulous week ♥

Blue-green vs. Aztec

Hello lovelies!

How are you all today? ♥

I'm on a trip right now, but I figured that since many of you don't have extended holiday now as we do in Finland, I should schedule you a couple of posts even though I'm not on my laptop at the moment.

Today, I think it's time to talk about nails again, just for the sake of weekend. Maybe you can get inspired?

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First up is this blue-green design, which worked well in theory, but my rusty stamping skills kinda dulled it out for me.

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Despite the lack of neatness, I really liked the color combo and all, so it wasn't a complete fail. But I'd like to try this again just to get it right.

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The colors I used were China Glaze White On White, Wait N' Sea, I'm With The Lifeguard and Smoke And Ashes. Studs and the used stamping plate are all from Born Pretty Store.

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And on to another stamping fail. On these nails I was trying to create these cool summer print with my new large stamping plate, but as I am lacking the skill a lot, the results were... this. I need to practice a lot more, but on these nails I didn't mind it too much that the pattern is a bit off. 

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Again, I was loving the colors a lot even if the stamping is what it is. I think the neon gradient looks way cool on summer nails.

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The colors I used were China Glaze Sun Of A Peach, Surfin' For Boys, X-Ta-Sea and White On White. The stamping pattern is from a Born Pretty Store plate BP-L010.

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So that's what I have for you today, not my greatest nail moments, but I guess still worth sharing as an inspiration. I personally will try to tackle these later this year, so we'll see whether I can actually make them worth showing. 

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

I will try to check out the comments and some blogs on the trip, but probably I'll be more active on the social media, so for a couple of days, let's interact there more!

Have a great weekend ♥

Earthy Tones vs. Aztec

Hello my lovelies!

How are you all today? ♥

My week has started so well, work has been challenging yet rewarding. I'm actually heading to bed in minutes, but I had to come here and post a little something for you. I'm so happy I've almost gotten into the posting rhythm I want to have here in the blog, so let's keep this up, shall we?

Today I wanted share another nail art post with you. I hope you guys like these!

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First up is this kinda earthy and neutral design featuring some stamping action, which I should train a heck of a lot more.

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The polishes I used were Choo-Choo Choose You and Loco-Motive by China Glaze, dark red stamping polish by Konad and metallic studs from Born Pretty Store.

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I enjoyed wearing these unusual colors on my nails, and I must say that the metallic base (Choo-Choo Choose You) is so hard to photograph. It looks blue in the bottle, but goes all sorts of colors on nails. Like red and green (the glare, not the entire polish though). Interesting shade altogether, and very fun to wear.

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The other mani is my attempt on painting a freehand Aztec print once again. I'm pretty happy about the result, although I must admit I could use even more practice on the straight lines.

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I personally loved the color combo here, the purple and light blue look so nice together, and  think Aztec print suits well on the color scheme.

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The polishes I used are Grape Pop, Sweet Hook, Capacity To See Beyond and White On White, all by China Glaze. For gradient base I used sponge, and for the details I had a thin nail art brush and a dotting tool.

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So these are my little creations for you today, I'm really hoping you liked them even half as much as I do. (And I'm my hardest critic.) 

Let me know what you think about these designs in the comments below!

I need to go catch some sleep now, because tomorrow is a sports day and I need a well-rested body to get through my workout. If you'd be interested in my (very casual) workout routine, let me know so I can make a post about that. I'll be back very soon, but in the meantime you can find me on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook if you want to see things that don't make it into the blog. 

Have a fabulous week darlings ♥ 

Gradient vs. Mix'n'Match ♥

Hello darlings!

How are you all? ♥

I've been out of the blogging - and everything online because I was sick pretty much all of the last week, having a sore throat and quite a high fever, so doing anything was a challenge. That means of course that I have a ton of things to do this week (supposing to be a break but truly it's not), especially with our school project which I feel super bad I have neglected. But now, with the new energy I'm sure I will get things done pretty efficiently, starting tonight.

For blogging, I figured a nice comeback would be a nail art post. Since I haven't done my nails in a week as well, it makes me feel better to actually see some creations I've done previously. Hope you like these as well. 

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So first up we have these gradient nails with animal print and some glitter placement. Pretty simple except for the glitter - because that takes time to work with.

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This wasn't one of my favorite manis, but I did like the colors and it was a good practice of techniques, so not at all a waste in that sense. I'm not saying there's much of anything wrong with these, just not so much my taste.

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The colors I used for this mani were China Glaze White On White, At Vase Value, For Audrey and Wait N Sea. The glitter is from Born Pretty Store as well as the studs, and the stamping was done with Konad plate if I remember correctly. (But if not, the plate was from Born Pretty Store as well.)

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The other one today is a combination of pink, black and silver, which I personally like a lot. 

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I was trying to do a neat little tape thing here with the chrome polish, but that didn't work as well as I thought. I definitely need to try that again so much that I finally nail it. However many takes I need for that.

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The colors I used here were China Glaze White On White, Escaping Reality, Meet Me Under The Stars and I'd Melt For You. The rhinestones are from Born Pretty Store as well as the tapes I was trying to use.

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So that's all I have for you today, I'm going to get some sleep now so that I can continue catching up my workload early in the morning. 

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

I'll be back with you as soon as I can - and this time it probably won't take a week or so. So stay tuned, I have loads of nice things in store for you!

Have a lovely day ♥

Skittle vs. Vuitton ♥

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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 ♥

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