Call me when you find Unicorn Puke

It's time for another manicure I'll probably wear until it totally chips. :D

My hand is much better now and I'm happy I waited to fully recover before coming back. :) I still have problems with lifting things and I can't move my wrist up and down,  but it's much better as it was. :e

I also file my nails down just because I had problems with my index nail, I had a tiny cut on the side but I always manage to file it to a smooth edge. But it kept breaking my nail and everytime I spotted the cut, I was so nervous so last time I decided to file all my nails down. As you probably know I prefer long nails on me, but I hate if I have peels or weird borders. :$

I didn't know what to wear so my mom chose for me.Well I pick 2 of them and she pick the one. :)

p2 - Call me! & Cult Nails - Unicorn Puke

She picked p2 - Call Me! - dark plum creme. It looks much lighter in the bottle on the sun than on nails. :) I got it from Adora Belle but I didn't hear from her for ages, hope she's okay! :( I added 2 coats for full opacity and it dries pretty fast. Since I've seen Amygrace's nails she did for my guest post, I feel in love with sponged flakies so I decided to try my first Cult Nails tiny bottle of Unicorn Puke I got from Iris at Polish Amor ♥. Thank  you Iris for sharing your bottle of Unicorn Puke with me. <3 Unicorn Puke or also Clairvoyant has multicolored flakies in a purple jelly base - you can find blue, green, orange, purple flakies inside, all I can say is gooooorgeous! <3

Sun

Daylight

Nail Tek - Foundation 2

p2 - Call Me! / 2 coats

Cult Nails - Unicorn Puke aka Clairvoyant / sponged

Beauty Secrets TC Fast Finish Polish Dryer

It's soooo pretty. <3 Unicorn Puke is really an amazing polish. :) I hope I'll get my hands on more awesome polishes from Cult Nails. :) I should definitely wear dark color more often, especially when my nails are so short. :$

What do you think about this combination? :) Thanks for reading! :rainbow I should take a nap to catch some sleep and study! I have an exam on Saturday - not good. :(

Xoxo,

Ivana :k

Dots, Heart, Stripes & Cupcake Nail Art

Today I'm showing you another 2 products I got from Born Pretty Store - 15pc Nail Art Design Brush Set and Silver Stripping tape. I didn't have any ideas how to try them out so after a while I decided to do skittles manicure with different patterns so I could try different brushes and tape out.

Here's what I came up with. :$

Nail Tek - Foundation 2

Thumb: OPI - Sparrow me the Drama / 2 coats + White Acrylic Paint &amp + Star Fimo Slice; Longer Liner Brush

 Index: Ciaté - Fun Fair / 2 coats  + Farmasi - 031 + Sparrow me the Drama + Essence - Stamp me! White + Pink 3D Steel Ball Glitter + Pink Rhinestone & Smaller Painting Brush & Longer Liner Brush & Dotting Tool / Cupcake inspired by Simply Rins

Middle Finger: Essie - Splash of Grenadine / 2 coats + Essence - Very Berry + Farmasi - 031 + OPI - Sparrow me the Drama & Silver Stripping Tape

Ring Finger: Essence - Very Berry + White Acrylic Paint + Farmasi - 031 & & Smaller Drawing Brush &  The Smallest Painting Brush & Dotting Tool/ Cartoon Heart inspired by Nailside

Pinkie: Farmasi - 031 / 2 coats + Essence - Stamp me! White & Dotting Tool

Beauty Secrets TC Fast Finish Polish Dryer

Unfortunately I didn't include my thumb in picture and it was already late to take another one. But I made vertical stripes with liner brush and added pink star fimo slice. :)

Brush set contains 15 brushes and you get: 3 drawing brushes, 7 painting brushes, 2 liners, 2 fan brushes and 1 dotting tool (see the picture below). As you can see I didn't try them all but just some of them and all I can say is that these brushes are really great for nail art. My freehand skills aren't phenomenal but sometimes I really want to try something out especially when I spot great tutorials, for example Jane's Cartoon Heart or Rina's Cupcakes. &lt;3 One of the drawing brush had wonky bristles so I cut them out and it was ready to use. All brushes have long handles and because I already have one with short handle I prefer that one over these, long handles make it harder to hold and paint details, but that's maybe just me. :) You get 15 brushes for less than a $5 - great deal if you're asking me. :D

I'll probably use drawing brushes and the smallest painting brush most of the times, but other painting brushes are also great for clean up. :) I know I can't leave without clean up brush and every time I loose it in my room, I'm going crazy but now I have lots of them. :) Those with more nail art skills would probably use all of them but I'm still not there. :P

I also got Silver Stripping tape. I used it on my ring finger. First I applied base color and when it was fully dried, I taped regular tape for a bottom line and then 2 pieces of stripping tape above. Stripping tape is self-adhesive so it stays on surface perfectly. Than I carefully painted rows between tape with different colors and removed the tape so I got 3 rows with different color. I could leave it like that, because I got a lovely tape manicure but I decided to add tape again for lovely detail. I added a coat of TC to seal it on the nail. :) You get one roll of tape and I think I'll have it for quite a long time. I'd suggest you that you keep it in that little plastic bag, because it's quite sticky on the sides, that's why my roll is full of dust. :/

Don't forget to use code IRJ61 to get 10% off on your order. ;)

My fave is probably the cupcake and I can't wait to make it again, probably as an accent nail. &lt;3 What do you think?  Would you wear a manicure like this or is it too girly for you? :P

Thanks for reading. :rainbow

Xoxo,
Ivana :k

*Some of the products in this post were sent to me by Born Pretty Store! For more information read my disclosure policy!

Stargazer - 307 & Born Pretty Nail Art Stamping Plate m57

Weeks ago I got another package from Born Pretty Store with few products for review purposes and here is the first I decided to try out. These pictures are quite old now but I never had time or will to crop and prepare them for post. Better late than never, right? :)

I got another image plate in mail - m57. I wanted it for a while, because I still don't own it. I just overlooked the important text on their page saying that the patterns are smaller than others. It'd be probably perfect for those with short nails but for me some patterns are too small, even normal patterns are sometimes too small for my nails but you can still use them of course. :)

Here you can see m57 on the right and m69 also from BPS on the left. You can see that the patterns are smaller on m57.

I wanted to try out another Leopard French Manicure I did before with different base color so I used Stargazer - 307 for my base. I'll show you pictures of this polish on its own in one of my next posts. :)

I used tape for diagonal lines and stamp my tips with this leopard pattern and Wet n Wild - Black Créme. On my middle finger I had to stamp the pattern twice to cover my whole nail. I probably couldn't do that with fishnet pattern, it'd be hard to make it look like I didn't stamp twice so if you have long nails or nailbeds, that pattern will be too small for you. :)

 

Nail Tek - Foundation 2

Stargazer - # 307 / 3 coats

Wet n Wild - Black Créme & m57 / stamping

Beauty Secrets TC Fast Finish Polish Dryer

I hope you can see the pattern but it was really hard to take pictures of this mani. :/ What do you think? Do you like it?

Born Pretty Store has so many stamping plates and lots of other nail supplies for nail art with free worldwide shipping so I'd recommend you to take a look. You can also use code IRJ61 for 10% off on your order. ;)

Do you have any image plates from BPS? Do you like them? Thanks for reading! :)

Xoxo,

Ivana :k

*The product in this post was sent to me by Born Pretty Store! For more information read my disclosure policy!

New Goodies

I decided to show you few goodies I got recently. :) I didn't polish my nails but I still got some really amazing nail polishes. <3

Before New Year OPI had lots of giveaways aon Twitter. You could win a set if you tweet them right answer first, questions were mostly about Muppets. I must say I didn't watch Muppets when I was younger so often that I'd know all those details they're asking... I think they weren't that popular here as in US I suppose. So I googled for an answer and I googled fast, because I wanted those minis obviously. :$ That's how I won this lovely gift I got yesterday. :e Very very Lucky Ivana. 8)

The Muppets Soundtrack

OPI minis Wocka Wocka!, Excuse Moi!, Designer... de Better!, Warm & Fozzie

I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with soundtrack CD. :i Would you like to have it? Let me know, I can give it away with few nail polish  but I don't want to give it away to someone who wouldn't care about just like... Khm... Me. :D

Next lovely pakage I got all the way from UK from lovely Esther at Fab Fingertips - check her blog, she is such a sweetheart. I got it months ago and I never took a great pic, just like now, but I wanted to share this with you. :) I'm still having them on my desk, that's why they're so dusty. :$

Star Gazer

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307

She sent me Star Gazer's dupe for Orly Space Cadet - 307, which I wanted to try out and she kinldy added another similar duochrome I still need to try out. Thank you Esther so much! <3

I already showed you amaaaaazing swap package from Polish Amor ♥. <3 I got so many goodies on my B-day. :party

I won another giveaway from Christina at Pee Before Polish! :e  I told you it was my lucky month! :)

KIKO

241 Rasperry Red Multicolour

262 Violet Blue

270 Sparkle Touch Aqua Sequins

300 Pearly Malachite Green

342 Sea Green

Essence - Heart Chakra

H&M Summer Nails Purple, Pink, Metallic Blue, Yellow

Got lots of Kikos! :e I only had 2 and now I have 7! :P Yay! Thank you Cristina for sending me all this goodies! :k

Last but not least are these.... 

 

Golden Rose Graffiti Nail Art - 12, 09

Farmasi - 031

Bourjois - 18

Essence - Cotton Candy (TE Circus Circus)

OPI - Lucky Lucky Lavender

First 3 nail polishes were a B-day gift from Veri, she brought them from Bosnia and I was so amazed that they have Graffitis there. I saw them at Emerald Sparkled but I never thought I would have at least one of them, yay. :i Farmasi is a totally new brand to me but I loooove this shade of pink. <3 Thank you Veri so much, you know I love you. :k Bourjois is a lovely holographic glitter perfect for layering and it sparkles so much, I got it from another great friend for B-day. :h Of course I got only the pink one from Circus Circus, bit I also don't like square glitters. Lucky Lucky Lavender was a huge lemming of mine and I finally got it from Kleopatra at On the Color Side, thank you. :)

I think that's it. :e What would you like to see first? I don't know where to start and that's killing me. I'll start painting my nails slowly so expect pictures of my manicures soon! :)

Btw, I have to say a big THANK YOU to all who're reading my blog and became a follower of mine.

Few days ago I hit 1000!!!! :party

And I already have 1025 followers! Big thanks goest to all lovely ladies who sent me a guest posts, because I probably got them just because of you. :$ THANK YOU :k .

Huh, I didn't realize my post will be that long so I hope you made through here. :) Thanks for reading!

Xoxo,
Ivana :k

Holiday Guest Post #14: Nails and Noms

What do you do when you can't sleep? I'm typing this post together and listening to the music. :e

Woooohoo! Blogger finally changed comment section and now you can answer on invidual comments without writing all your replies in one comment. Great job! :e In case you don't have it - check Blogger Buzz for details! I always wanted my comments to be like this but I didn't want to install Disqus or others, because I hate that profile pictures aren't visible. I remember pictures more than text so that was a big no for me. I had some problems with smileys in comments but now they'd be visible. :) I still don't know why the hour of comments isn't right and it looks like I'm not the only one with that "problem". Anyone already found out how to set it? Or it's just a bug for now? :P

Okay, we're having Rie from Nails and Noms here. :e Rie is having amazing blog with even more amazing macro pictures of her manicures. I just love them, because you can see all the details in polish she posted. <3 Here's what she had prepared for us. :e

Morning Everyone!

The lovely Ivana asked me if I could do a guest post for her while her hand healed from surgery, and I said yes of course! I had all sorts of amazing ideas for the holiday season to do some themed manis. Then life happened and the holidays came and went. :( Not deterred, I decided to play around with two shimmery polishes I recently acquired with the help of my Red Angel stamping plates. No holiday theme this time around, but it still turned out pretty neat! ^_^

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For my base polish I used 2 coats of Pure Ice Twinkle, a gorgeous peach coral with golden shimmer. Then I used my Red Angel RA-112 stamp with OPI Lucerne-Tainly Look Marvelous, a gun-metal grey metallic. I really like the way this turned out, I hope you do too! You can enlarge the photos to their original size you can really get a good look at the shimmer in both polishes. :-)

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That's all I've got for today, I'd like to thank Ivana for letting me pop in for a guest post and I hope you all enjoyed it! ^_^

I can't wait to get RA plates in my hands! This is so lovely pattern and I love how subtle but pretty this manicure looks! <3 Thanks Rie for sharing your manicure with all of us. <3 Please check Rie's blog Nails and Noms to see all her beautiful manicures and show some love, you won't be sorry because her blog is amazing, I promise. :D

Do you already own RA plates? Do you like this lovely combo? :)

I think I'm going to watch a movie or something and fall asleep pretty soon. Bebo is sleeping under my bed but everytime he hears that I eat something he get up quickly and check what I'm eating. Like he've never eaten before. xD

Thanks for reading! 

Nighty night,

Ivana :k