Creative Nails Collab - Welcome to the Jungle

In the Jungle, the mighty Jungle... the lion sleeps tonight...

A whim away, a whim away...

Ahem, I got a bit distracted over there... anyway, the last theme for July was, as you can see from the title, "Welcome to the Jungle". Once again, I chose a simple design and even incorporated some glitter and stamped some leaves on top.

The gradient is a blue-green combo and the stamping was done with dark green, after I applied a thin coat of sheer glitter.

I tried to get the hang of this "stamping thing" multiple times, but I was never really fond of the idea so I didn't quite give it my best. I'll always prefer free-hand painting.

What do you think about my nails? Should I attempt stamping more often?

Creative Nails Collab - Music

Hello nail art lovers,

"Music makes the people come together [Never gonna stop]
Music makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel [Never gonna stop]" - Madonna

Me citing Madonna? Well, that's something I never thought I would do on this blog... 

However, I felt it was appropriate for today's theme which is, of course... *drum rolls* MUSIC!

Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures, I couldn't get my camera to work well with the lighting that day...

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Creative Nails Collab - Elements: Water

Hello, nail art lovers! :)

I'm not sure if you've noticed but in the Creative Nails Collab we have included nails inspired by elements. Today is the first manicure of the "Series" and I couldn't be any happier about it. I've been planning on painting my nails this way for quite a while so this collaboration is going to be the most creative one yet. :D

Enough talking... take a look at my nails!

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Saturday's Theme - New Year

Hello, nail art lovers!

Last post for this year and I'm really happy with how my nails turned out. It's not the first time I've tried painting fireworks but I believe this time they really came out great.

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Saturday's Theme - Autumn Colors

Hello, nail art lovers! :)

This week I want to show you a manicure that is simple, yet dazzling at the same time! I wore it to a wedding last week and all this week to work and I got many compliments on it.

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Saturday's Theme - Hawaiian

Aloha, nail art lovers! ^_^

I believe you've already figured out what this week's challenge is, haha. Pretty predictable, but very fun to paint, as I've taken my best sponge out and did another gradient for this manicure.

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Saturday's Theme - Aztec

Hello, nail art lovers!

Today's manicure is one that I had to redo about... 5 times? before I was satisfied with the result. At first, the color combo was not right, then the pattern and so on. I finally managed to find my inspiration and do something cute, last night. The design is pretty simple, but the color combo looks nice in my opinion.

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Saturday's Theme - Palm Trees

Hello, nail art lovers!

Today's theme has finally got me to try a new technique and I'm pretty pleased with the result. Since the theme itself is pretty boring/straight-forward, I thought I should play with colors and ideas, instead.

Here is the result:

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Saturday's Theme - Purple

Hello, nail art lovers!

To prepare you for next week's theme - I'm super excited about it - I decided to go with a manicure that isn't as simple as the theme would indicate. I used purple... mixed with blue and silver mermaid tail scales! :D

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September’s Nails Challenge - Triangles

Hello, nail art lovers!

Today's manicure was inspired by two things: the phases of the moon and my favorite band, 30 Seconds to Mars.

Since the theme was "triangles", I chose to go with a black to white gradient, that looked similar to one of the phases of the moon and the band's logo - a triangle split at the middle.

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August's Nail Challenge - Gradient/Ombre

Hello, nail art lovers!

Another week, another post in the lovely challenge we have ongoing! This time we had to choose between a gradient and an Ombre. The main difference between these two is that the gradient is a succession of colors on one nail, going from dark to light, or the other way around and the Ombre consists of applying different nail polishes from the same color specter onto each nail, going one tone lighter or darker as you move onto the other nail.

I chose to go with a gradient, because I love this technique - not obvious enough so far, eh?

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July's Nail Challenge - V Shape

Hello, nail art lovers!

Are you ready to see my fail manicure? ( not my regular introduction, eh?)
For this week's theme I tried to recreate one of Simply Nailogical's manicures, the Neon Chevron Scaled Gradient Skittle one, to be more precise, and ended up with 4 big fails out of which I will show you the least horrible one.

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June's Nail Challenge - Neon

Hello, nail art lovers!

How are you coping with the summer heat? Are you the type that goes out and gets their skin tanned or the "me" type that stays indoors painting their nails? No matter which type you are, today's manicure should suit both.

Every summer I get my neon colors out and use them a looot... I go neon and on and on... :P This summer will probably be the same so.. let's get started!

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February's Nails Challenge - Gradient

Hello,

Last Saturday of the month and, also, last challenge of the month are "finally" here and I want to show you one of my best gradients so far. I know there is still room for improvement, but, so far, this is still my favorite technique. ^_^

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Fairy on a branch

A post that's not on Saturday?! OMG! :))
Yes, shocking, isn't it?

The reason behind this post is that I decided to participate in a nail art contest held by Bombchelenails on Instagram. The contest's theme is "Enchanted" and all we had to do is paint something (freehand) which would represent it: fairy-tales, dragons, magic etc., on our nails. ^_^

Since I love anything that has to do with magic and fairies and fantasy, I couldn't skip this contest, so here are my nails:

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January's Nails Challenge - Selfie with your nails!

Hello, everyone!

This week's challenge is one that I was reluctant to join at first. I never really intended to show my face on the blog, but I figured that since it's my profile picture on Instagram, I might as well post it here too. I hope I will distract you from my face with some super bright and childish nails, which I absolutely love and have been showing off to everyone for almost a week. ^_^

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Nail Art Marathon - 16. Geometric

Hello, hello!

This week I don't have much to say about my nails except that I'm still wearing the same manicure for over a week and I don't wanna clean my nails anytime soon... I'm in love (?) with my nails!

The week's theme is "geometric" and the idea belongs to Rita. At first the theme seemed boring to me. I thought of doing something minimalist on my nails, like a cube or a pyramid, but after doing some research on Google, I got my tape and sponges out and this is the result:

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Nail Art Marathon 2015 - 15. Dolphins,whales or favorite water animal

Hey there!

This post is online pretty late, but I managed to write it on time, yay!
The weekly theme is Rita's idea and it pretty much concludes the series of summer manicures for the marathon. I'm a little sad that summer is ending, but I'm super happy that the weather will change.

Anyway, back to nails... This time, since the theme was so rich, I chose to draw jellyfish on my tiny nails. ^_^

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Nail Art Marathon - 8.Gradient

Hey there!

This week's post is a little late because I had some issues with my nails and other things, plus a very busy end of the week, but I managed to take some [bad] pictures of my manicure this evening.

The theme is one of my favorites - gradient - and was Madalina's idea. I use a lot of gradients as a background for my manicures but this time I tried to make it stand out a bit.

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Nail Art Marathon - 7. Flowers

Hello everyone!
This week was a great week for me! I graduated from University, Law school, and I made a few new friends. I painted my nails in a way that matched my outfit for the last exam and Madalina's idea was really fit for this.

I have another idea for flowery nails, suggested by my lovely boyfriend but I will show that one to you later this month. :D

And now... my nails! ^_^

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