Hello everybody!

Sorry for not posting but I have a ton of presentations, tests and exams now and it's hard to find time to blog :) Around February 10 I will be done with all of this and I will have time again ;) So til then I will post every now and then when I have time :) 

I got the Essence Vampire's Love LE from my mom back in November and I wanted to show you my favorite polish of this collection :) 

Here they are all together (from left to right):

Hunt Me If You Can, The Dawn Is Broken, True Love, Gold Old Buffy and Into The Dark

My absolute favorite is........True Love :D Why? Well, because it's purple and it's a gorgeous shimmer polish.

It's not really purple it's more....purple with pink shimmer and it's absolutely stunning! But I'll let the pictures speak for themselves ;) 

Daylight with flash

Daylight (the most color accurate picture)

Indoors with Flash

Indoors

Make sure to enlarge the pictures to see all the pretty shimmer ;) 

This is 2 coats without TC. Gorgeous right? :) 

Do you have any of the polishes from the LE? Which one is your favorite? 

New Years Eve manicure :)

I wish you all a ...

May 2012 bring you much joy and happiness and may it be even better than 2011 ;)

I planned to post my new years eve mani yesterday, but I was very busy, so here it is today on the first day of the year :D

I was inspired by a mani I saw once on OMG Polish' Em! and I just love it!! Now I finally had the time to do it :D Initially I wanted to use other colors, but this ones matched my outfit better ... this way  it also comes even closer to the inspiration picture :P 

I used: Avon - Gunmetal (as a base), Essence - Can't cheat on me (sponged over Avon), Essence Glitter Topper - Hello Holo and Art de Lautrec in Black (dots) 

Blurry picture to show you the pretty holo glitter! :D As always it's so much better in real life :P 

Now some of you may say.."wait a minute! I now that dotted image!" Yes you do :D It's from the Konad image plate M60. Since I don't own it I had to use a dotting tool...but let's be honest, even if I'd own it I wouldn't be able to stamp a clear image :))) 

I love it so much that I don't want to take it off :D

Hope you like it and I wish you all a good start in this year! 

See ya next time ;) 

Hello ladies, 

My name is Laura and I am so happy that Theodora invited me to guest post on her amazing and inspirational blog :-)

Today I'd like to show you a manicure I created using two techniques, sponging (which is relatively new to me) and stamping: 

My first step was to paint my nails with two coats of E.L.F's Pearl Polish.

I then used a sponge to dab on two layers of a lilac polish (shade 123 by Wibo) from around the middle of each nail to the tip.

My next step was to stamp animal stripes across each of my nails using a silver Miss Sporty polish and Mash image plate m57.

Initially, I could hardly see the silver stripes, but once I'd finished my manicure, I could see the silver stripes did add a bit of shimmer to my nails. 

As the animal stripes were extremely subtle, I then decided to stamp another full image on my nails, this time using a darker purple polish by Kiko (no332) and a floral image, one of my favourites, from Mash plate m64.

I was so happy with the final result of this manicure as I loved how the white and lilac polishes blended together and matched the darker purple polish so well. It made me think I had princess nails :-) 

What do you think of this manicure, girls? I would love to know!

Christmas Presents + Secret Santa Gift!! :D

Hello lovelies!

How was your Christmas? Was Santa good to you ? :D I had a great time with my family and it was really fun opening the presents under the Christmas Tree. We didn't do that since I don't know when, cause my family is always so excited about the presents that we get them 2 weeks before Christmas :))) 

So it was really nice getting the presents on Christmas for a change :P 

Those are not all my presents, just to be clear :P And I will only show you the beauty/fashion related stuff I got, cause that's the things that belong on my blog :P  

I got this cute little hat with scarf and gloves and I just love it! The colors are so fun and the pattern is perfect for winter ;) I thought about doing a matching manicure but I don't think I will have time for it..but maybe next year :D I also got a dress with leopard pattern, but I forgot to take a pic of it :P 

I was soooo excited about the second gift: the perfume from Laura Biagiotti - Mistero di Roma. It's my absolute favorite perfume and I wanted it for ages! Yeeeeey :D The other perfume is called "Little white Dress" from Avon I think :)  

And I got some money too and I bought me .... guess what! Polishes :D ..and a ton of jewelry :)) Would you be interested in a jewelry haul ? 

I actually bought the polishes a few days before Christmas, cause I got the money a bit early :) 

I got O.P.I - Fresh Frog of Bel Air (I used it for my Elf manicure) and O.P.I Nail Envy...finally! I wanted to try this out for some time now, I just hope it helps ;) 

If you have it, what are you thoughts on it? 

You may now I'm in this facebook group, called Polishaholics Anonymous, and Krissi organized a Secret Santa, were we sent a package to someone with our gift and we received one back from someone unknown (our Secret Santa :P). It was really fun! I mailed my package to Ashley and got one from Kristal (unfortunately I don't know her blog :( )
EDIT: Kristal's Blog ;) Thanks for the link, girl!

I got my very first China Glaze polishes from her! I was literally bouncing when I opened the package :D 

What I was really happy about too, was the Burt's Bees - Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream, this cream is a dream!! All in all I was sooo happy about my gift, thanks again Kristal!! :) 

A short look back on to the Christmas Challenge

Hey there! :D 

Hope you had a great time so far with your family and loved ones, and that Santa brought you some great presents ;) 

I put all the challenges in one photo and I also created a page with all the photos with a link back to their original post ;) (It's up there next to my Stash List and all the other stuff ;) )

See ya ! ;) 

Christmas Challenge Day 24 - Favorite Manicure

The last challenge .. I can't believe it's over. I had really fun doing all this designs, although sometimes it was hard doing Nail Art everyday :P I'm so glad I joined this challenge, because I improved my Nail Art skills and I found some nice ladies, who also did this cool Christmas Challenge :) It was really worth it! 

Today we had to recreate our favorite manicure from all the 23 themes and I didn't have to think a lot about it: I chose Snowflakes ;) But I didn't do the same version as last time, instead I chose the design that Copy That, Copy Catdid some while ago :)

 I chose China Glaze - Ruby Pumps as a base instead of a blue one, cause it's more Christmassy that way :P
For the tips I used: S-he 471 (silver), Farmasi 79 (little silver glitter) and Essence - Julia (big glitter). 

It was a really hectic day today, so I didn't had the time to do all nails with snowflakes, but I really like how that looks too :)
I'm so glad I can keep this design on my nails for as long as I want to, cause I don't have to do another challenge tomorrow :P I will keep it on, til it chips and I hope that won't be too soon :D

If you didn't visit these blogs til now, make sure to do it! They all did a great job in this cool challenge:  

Paint That Nail, Steffi, Jessica, Salpi, Shannara, Kirshten, Kelly, Lexi Martone and Kaki.
I will really miss seeing all the different interpretations of 1 theme everyday, cause it was fun and interesting! ;)

I wish you all a Merry Christmas! Enjoy your free time with your loved ones and may Santa bring you many great presents! :D

Christmas Challenge Day 23 - Santa

Last theme in this challenge! Cause tomorrow we can recreate our favorite challenge :P

Santa kinda looks scared :P But I still like him ;)
I used: Avon - Ruby Slippers, P2 - Flirt & Tease, P2 - Hyper and Art de Lautrec Black and White.
Can't wait to do tomorrow's mani :D