Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Water Marbling - 1st attempt

yay! I finally pulled myself together and decided to try the water marbling technique :O
Here is the result:



xoxo

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Urban-Night



I really wanted to do something more complicated today, but after I failed to hand-draw the lace I just stamped it over with Konad image :(
BUT! I realized that the problem was the brush I was using, so I'll be trying lace design again next time when I buy the proper brush.
Here is my Saturday's mani props:

Konad plate M-57Army of China Glaze polishes and black acrylic paint: Urban-Night, Light as Air, High Hopes, Passion (stamping) and First&Last clear coat.

xoxo
Anya

Friday, February 10, 2012

Pink Trails

China Glaze - 'Knotty' and 'Rich & Famous'

I'm trying to stay away from stamping and actually learn to draw on my nails instead of easy way out :))
I hope I can get a chance to go to art store over the weekend to buy myself a tiny brush and create something more sophisticated than lines :)
xoxo Anya

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Random

Let me tell you this: not painting my nails everyday while on vacation was a challenge..
At some point around 4th day little by little my manicure started to chip, salt water contributed to the growth of the nails and I was tempted to ask Cuban girls where can I do my nails around here. All of them (*ALL!!!*) wear long, flawless nails with awsome designs! So I was kinda jealous :(
This time I didn't want to bring any nail polish with me, but maybe next time I take at least something :)
So here are 3 manicures I did as soon as I came back :D

China Glaze - Awaken

China Glaze - Sea Spray

China Glaze - Tender Touch


Also it was nice to come back home to a little package of nail art goodness!!

xoxo

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Back from vacation D:

This is what I was wearing during my vacation to Cuba!
China Glaze - Shocking Pink

It matched my swimming top :)

xoxo Anya

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Lack of snow..


I think for the past month we had snow only for few days.. And it seems that it will be +6 in few days. Just something I didn't post yet from the series when we actually had snow :(
China Glaze - Classic Camel + Snow
Anya

76 polishes challenge~! ^_^


I am a HUGE fan of China Glaze (CG for short) now. I cannot believe it took me so long to get it, try it and love it.
So i just cleaned up my nail polish shelf and replaced all my drugstore polishes with CG. I accounted for 76 nail polishes in my collection and the other 98 will go to a different shelf, which my fiance promised to build for me after our vacation. After he said he will help me with that I suggested that we would need another one for new CG collections that are coming out in Spring/Summer to which I got this look -->
So I promised him that until I try ALL the polished I have in a form of manicure or nail art design he will not approve of getting more.. *sob sob* Even though my hobby is WAY cheaper than his, I had to agree.
Sooooo, my challenge for now is to go ahead and actually go through each polish I got.. And let me tell that's going to take me a very long time, since I cannot wear neon pink to work :(
So here is my first day and first polish I am wearing:

China Glaze - Tantalize me
I think I'm drawn to purples and pinks more than other colours and this one is just GORGEOUS!
It has this blue shimmer undertone and it reminds me of my favourite flower - Lilac!
Here is a picture:
With flash



And without flash:



Gorgeous!!!!!
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I am off to family dinner right now to celebrate Russian Christmas, so when I come back I'll decorate it with a nail art or something :)

Merry Christmas everyone!


Update:
Let's see if I can do this on my right hand >.<

Anya