New year's eve nails.

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Här kommer sista manikyren från 2014, mina nyårsnaglar. Kanske också den mest genomarbetade manikyren det året :p Och två år senare är jag fortfarande ledsen över att A England inte skeppar utomlands. Buuuuu!

Ofokuserad progressbild. Började med två lager Barry M - Pink Multi Glitter. Fick ta ett lager överlack också för att få striping tapen att fästa. Det överdrivet snygga gröna är såklart A England - Saint George. (som jag faktiskt använt ett nyår till men det blev inga foton då)

Eftersom det var nyår var jag ju tvungen att he på mer glitter! China Glaze - Fairy Dust + Atlantis och A England - Merlin. Plus en liten sten och Seche Vite top coat. Svårt att fånga blinget så ni får väl lita på att detta var en redigt snygg manikyr!

My new years eve mani! Two coats of Barry M - Pink Multi Glitter, striping tape and A England - Saint George. I feel a NYE mani needs sparkle so I added some glitter to the tips with China Glaze - Fairy Dust and Atlantis + A England - Merlin. Rhinestone in the middle and some Seche Vite and done!

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A request, kind of.

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Sister L commented that I should do a cloud mani in cloudy colors (blue and white). She also suggested a rainbow... I was all like yeah sure! Then my white polish made me crazy and I ended up with one of my favorites (one coater ya know!). Actually, two favorites. Need to put these away so the other polishes get some love too! ;)

The grey (which looks blue here) is H&M - Miss Stone Heart and the blue is China Glaze - First Mate. Best cremes! Then I added some rhinestones in the colors of the rainbow. Except I didn't have any orange ones!

Also booh Seche Vite for smudging! Need to have a lighter touch I guess. And next time I'll reverse the colors so it's more cloudy. Blue clouds exist tho right??

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...and nails to match.

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It's been a while... Well here are some nails!

 I made this mani to match the dress I wore for the wedding we attended this past weekend.

It's the same technique as this one. The base is one coat of H&M - U Must Have This. Probably should've done two coats to avoid the little bald spots but I didn't have that much time. The dark blue is my trusted nail arty polish China Glaze - First Mate. Used in at least 7 nail arts on this blog. Woop woop! I added a yellow rhinestone before I slapped on some SV. Done!

And a pic to show you how well this matched my dress. Like really well I would say! My mom bought this dress and it shrunk a bit when she washed it = free dress for me! It's a good thing for me my mom has such great taste :)

Alas, now my nails are naked again. And so shall they remain until next week when I have the entire weekend off, including friday! Bring on the nail polish!

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Tape and rhinestone skittles.

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Skittles! :p

The purple is two coats of Milani - Hi-Res, then I used hole reinforcers and striping tape and added A England - Bridal Veil and Camelot. Bling on some rhinestones, SV and done!

 Holo holo!

I wanna try these designs again but one at a time :p
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Sponge and tape and rhinestones.

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Finally some nail art! I was really pleased with this mani but the pics are a bit off...

The base is Sephora - Any way any where and then I added striping tape on some nails and sponged on China Glaze - Stella. And made a heart with purple rhinestones.

On my right hand I just sponged and added rhinestones in a different pattern.

 These were crazy shimmery. Almost looked prismatic or holo in strong light. Love!

I need to make more nail arty manis!

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Best of.

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I thought it'd be fun to make a post with my favorite manis since I made one with my favorite polishes. It will involve quite a bit of tape... ;) Oh and they're not in order or anything. You'll recognise some of them from my header since I put my favs there. But big pics is always nice huh? :] I'll include links to the original posts.

Ofc the radioactive one makes the list. I still think this is one of the coolest things I've done.

And part two.

 

One for the icelandic part of me.

 A super villainy one with rhinestones and striping tape.

Simple yet very pretty.

A reminder that free handing is possible.

And ofc this post needs a marble and some rainbows!

I hope you liked this post! It's fun to go back and look at what you've made in the past to get inspired :)

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Black and red.

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Here's another take on this mani. I really liked the old one but I think this one is slightly cooler!

The red is A England - Perceval and the black is A England - Bridal Veil. Striping tape and some black rhinestones with Seche Vite to smooth everything out!

It makes me think of some super villain lol.

Here's an artsy macro shot the bf took with his new flash.

Must make this again in some other colors :)

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Holo glass fleck.

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Since I like rhinestones and tape... Well you all know the rest by now...

Base color: (and a better pic of) China Glaze - Ahoy!. A really pretty glass fleck. It's pretty similar to OPI - The Color Of Minnie. Which is nice since I only have that one in a mini bottle :)

I added tape, a pink rhinestone, A England - Ascalon + SV. I've used my A Englands a lot lately. But they're so darn nice! :> I thought this mani was pretty but I liked the first one a little more.

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Purple times two.

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My current mani, that's on day three now. I don't redo my nails too often right now.. But they're nice at least lol.

This is two coats of A England - Princess Tears, striping tape, one coat of Orly - Rococo A Go-Go, a silver rhinestone and ofc some SV to smooth it all out.

A bit out of focus, but this shows the design well I thought. I was a bit short for time when I did this so.. Anywho :P Pretty polishes!

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Gold and bling.

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This is actually what I'm wearing right now. I was going to post some DIYs but those pics are in the bfs comp and since I'm going to work soon I'll post some nails instead! I really need to start blogging in the evening instead lol.

The gold is two coats of A England - Holy Grail. It's a really pretty gold. But I was concerned it might look weird on my skin with just the gold so I added some rhinestones and a coat of SV.

The rhinestones are much more glowy IRL but I couldn't capture that in the pics. You'll have to imagine it! ;)

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Eigi víkja.

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Today is the Icelandic National Day and since I'm also celebrating a very special woman today I decided to do some nail art to honor the occasion.

Yes, it's another striping tape and rhinestone mani :) The white is E.L.F. - White and the blue is China Glaze - First Mate. Some red rhinestones and Seche Vite to top it off!

 Here's the flag that I made in Paint lol.

A bit messy since I'm too lazy to do clean up (oops). Anyways, I like it :)

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Tape and rhinestones.

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Of course I added something to the green. Purple rhinestones and striping tape. The purple holographic glitter polish is Color Club - Too Violet. It was only 20 SEK at Ica Maxi 8)

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Holo tape mani with bling.

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The bf's birthday was a couple of days ago and I wanted to make a really pretty mani for that special occasion :) Behold!

My favorite mani yet! :) With flash.

It's the previous mani (Milani - Hi-Tech) and A England - Dragon. I also added some rhinestones. I did this on both hands and wore it for three whole days!

Another flash pic since I liked it so much! I did it too early in the day to get sun pics tho :/

Bling bling and sparkle :)

Also, I just have to say why do they change everything all the time? This new blogger seems really annoying and not at all as good as the previous version /sigh.

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Pearly rose.

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Not much to say about this one. I got it for 20 SEK at my grocery store (Ica Maxi) last year. I wore it before I started blogging so I thought I should get some pics of it now.

Two coats of Isadora - Pearly Rose and maybe SV from the looks of it. I don't remember exactly. It's a bit less red IRL.

Pretty shimmer. Application was easy as all of my Isadoras has been :)

Day 2 I wanted to add something and try my new square rhinestones. I probably won't use them a lot since they are a bit big and also since they're square they're harder to place than the round ones. Ah well, now I have some more options if I want :P I added a coat of China Glaze - White Cap as well. Much prettier IRL!

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A VNL solution.

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The Lighthouse from my earlier post was still not opaque after three coats. And doing four coats of polish, no... So you add something. And since I've been rhinestone-crazy lately aaand you have to apply them on wet polish so it's so easy to just slap 'em on and call it a day ;)

I did my right hand first as usual and put the stones on to hide mah visible nail line. And some SV that pooled up behind the stones. Meh.

I didn't really like the first hand so I placed them like this on my left hand. Much better. And what do you know, I got some cat eyes on my nails all of a sudden. And I do love 'em cats! Mine had yellow eyes as well :)

I promise I've done some other nail art manis as well lol.

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Have you noticed that I like rhinestones?

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Ofc I couldn't leave the vacation blue polish alone! So I added some rhinestones :P

Two coats of Isadora - Turquoise (a word I can't spell on my own lol), pink rhinestones and some SV to seal the deal. This looked cool because in most angles it looked like the rhinestones were shining or glowing.

Also... YEY! Puuuuuurdy! My A Englands are now living on top of the Helmer together with my Pride polishes. They are stunning! Thank you bf :*

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These rhinestones are growing on me.

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I wore this mani last weekend when me and the bf went to my mom's house to celebrate mine and my sister's b-day. Kind of a more advanced take on the first b-day mani. Now that I've gotten better at using my rhinestones I should really give my plates some more love (or maybe realise I'm not a stampy person?) lol.

For this festive mani I used two coats of L'Oreal - 738 (except on the ring which got three for opacity). Then I used my striping tape and added A England - Tristam (whyusopretty) and a blue rhinestone. I wish my wheel included a dark blue one but it didn't so this was what I had. The ring got "gold" (more like yellow lol) and blue rhinestones. On with some SV and done!

And a flash pic since the daylight pic didn't really show the purdy holo! I can't wait to get my hands on some Legends :D

There you have it. Another version of my b-day mani :) Which one did you like the most? I think this one is flashier obviously but the first was more wearable. People already think I'm a nail freak! Lol.

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Darn purples, so hard to photograph.

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These pics are probably way off and all that lol. The camera doesn't really like photographing this type of purple shade. But I got it in my head that I want swatches of all my polishes on the blog :P

Two coats of H&M - Purple In Paris (weird name lol) + SV I think. Application was so and so. It turned out a bit streaky when it dried, should have done three coats. Anyways this photo is the most color accurate I think. I didn't like the color all that much. Pretty but not very special. Maybe I'm not a creme person :P

Then I did this the day after :) Tape, China Glaze - First Class Ticket, rhinestones and SV. The b-day mani was a second take on this one. I'm glad I've started to use my rhinestones a bit more, they're pretty nice! :)

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B-day mani!

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My birthday was yesterday (I'm 24 now zomg) but I didn't turn on the computer so I'm posting it today instead :) I had a cosy evening at home with the bf. We made a nice dinner and dessert and watched Fringe. And he told me what I'll be getting. I get to pick out five A-England polishes :O Woho! He is pretty awesome that one for coming up with the idea and everything :) He really listens to all my nail polish babbling (which recently consisted a lot of the Legends) :D So sweet.

B-day mani! One coat of China Glaze - Life Preserver, striping tape and a coat of MNY - 665, a little rhinestone and SV.

I really liked this mani :) Also, winter? Can you leave and take my frazzle dazzle cuticles with you? Thanks in advance.

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