#31DC2014 | Day 27 - Inspired by artwork

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Hello there cuties! What are you doing today?
It's day 27 and the theme is inspired by artwork. I was inspired by one of my faaaavorite artists!

Only one nail today, but that's because I was so happy with it and I didn't want to ruin this whole post not that good nail art.
This is inspired by a self portrait by Jennie Lee, a dear friend of mine. She's amazing and I love all of her art, and I think she should know that she's really good.
You can find her on instagram, @bloodandurine.

I used China Glaze Liquid Leather and acrylic paint for this manicure.

Check out day 27 from last years challenge, click click!

#31DC2014 | Day 26 - Inspired by a pattern

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Hi guys! Gotta keep it short today. I have a lot of stuff to do!
Today it's day 26 and the theme is inspired by a pattern. Take a look!

So my inspiration for this manicure was a piece of gift wrapping paper with a cute pink and green flower-ish pattern. I didn't use the exact same shades as the paper, 'cause I didn't want to copy the pattern right of. That's why I did two big flower-ish thingies on mt middle finger and my pointer.
For this manicure I used butter LONDON Trout Pout as a base and I used LVX Orchid for the other pink parts. The green parts is Holly-Day and Budding Romance, both from China Glaze.

Check out day 26 from last years challenge, click click!

#31DC2014 | Day 23 - Inspired by a movie

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Hey babes! How are you?
Today it's Tuesday and day 23 in the challenge, which means that today's theme is inspired by a movie. Take a look at my manicure!

Can you guess which movie I used as inspiration?
If you guessed Monsters vs. Aliens you guessed right! My inspiration for this manicure was the costume Susan is wearing. You can see it if you click here and here.

I used Pahlish Boundless As The Dark as a base for this manicure. It's a highly pigmented blue polish with shimmer flakes in blue and green. Then I used a striping brush and Depend 223 to paint the stripe pattern. I put on a little bit of clear polish the shapes that I wanted glitter and then I used a dotting tool to place the glitters. Then I finished with top coat!

I really like this manicure, what do you think?

Check out day 23 from last years challenge, click click!

#31DC2014 | Day 16 - Geometric

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Hi guys! I'm having so much fun at Christina and at the internship. It feels really good and I like it here. Plus, I have a nail polish lover by my side everyday (and all of her polishes) and it's amazing.
It's day 16 today and the theme is geometric. I did some triangles!

I started to hate Nordic Cap NP13 after this manicure. It was streaky and messy and just bad. So, I need a new white creme polish. What's you favorite white creme polish?

After I had a little fight with the white polish I painted triangles in three different colors randomly all over the nails. I used L.A. Girl Brilliant Blue (Thank you Ingela!), Make Up Store Nicklas (Thank you Malin!) and Gina Tricot Beauty Billard. I really like this manicure!

Check out day 16 from last years challenge, click click!

#31DC2014 | Day 12 - Stripes

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Hello cuties! Here I am, late as always! ;)
Today is day 12 for me. The theme is stripes!

I'm really happy with these nails! Seriously, I did a great job!
The base is a light sea foam green shimmer by China Glaze and it's called Keep Calm, Paint On. I love this polish. It's delicate and pretty and clean and cool at the same time. It's perfect! I've used it before in a couple of manicures, like this one, and I just love it.
I freehanded the stripes with a striping brush and these are the colors I used:
OPI Fiercely Fiona
OPI Who The Shrek Are You?
China Glaze Papaya Punch
I♥Layla N.07 (THANK YOU MARIA!)
Cult Nails Riot

I placed two neon orange studs* from Born Pretty Store on the pinkie and the pointer.
Use the code XHSQ10 for a 10% discount at Born Pretty Store!

That's it! See you tomorrow!
Check out day 12 from last years challenge, click click!

#31DC2014 | Day 3 - Yellow

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Helloooo babes! It's friday, yay! Finally weekend! Today I've been traveling around the world. Nope. I went to Malmö to do an interview with a company where I want to have my next internship (and I got it!) and then I went to Lund to meet Christina (Passionate About Polish, click click) and Emelie. We talked about the three P's. You know, polish, periods and politics! What a great day.
Today is also my third day in the 31 day challenge, so I've been wearing these nails today. Take a look!

I've been going bananas aaaall day!
I used acrylic paint for the bananas, 'cause I really want to practice my freehand skills.
I've painted my pinkie and my ring finger with two coats of Happy Hands Banana Stand, a beautiful light yellow with matte yellow hex glitter in a medium size and  matte green hex glitter in a small size plus brown shiny glitter in a medium size. Application was perfect, no trouble at all.
The other three nails have a base of Nordic Cap NP13 and acrylic paint.

Check out day 3 from last years challenge, click click!

Nail Art: Pop Art Rainbows

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Hej sötisar! Idag ska jag visa er något spännande! En dag satt jag och klickade runt på youtube och snubblade över en helt fantastisk kanal. Så jag gjorde det enda rätta och följde en av de fantastiska tutorialsen på kanalen. Ni borde alla spana in ProfessionalDQ på youtube (och instagram!). Vill ni veta varför? Jo, för att hon är drottningen över enhörningar, äter regnbågar och bajsar cupcakes. Japp.
Det kanske vore smartare att äta cupcakesen? Jo, men hur unikt skulle det vara? Inte så mycket.

Här har ni iallafall regnbågar i pop art format, videon hittar ni här!


Hi cuties! Today I will show you something exciting! One day I was clicking around on youtube and stumbled over a fabulous channel. So I did the only right thing and followed one of the amazing tutorials on the channel. You all should check out ProfessionalDQ on youtube (and instagram!). Do you want to know why? Well, she's the queen of all unicorns, eats rainbows and poops cupcakes. Yes.
Maybe it would be smarter to eat the cupcakes? Yeah, but how unique would that be? Not so much.

Here you have rainbows in pop art form, you'll find the video here!

Naglarna är förresten tillägnade min fina vän Jenna som jag går i skola med. Hon önskade att jag skulle göra regnbågsnaglar och det gjorde jag!

Ja, jag tycker nog att det är bäst att ni tittar på videon jag länkade tidigare, eftersom det var precis så jag gjorde. Jag använde Nordic Cap NP13 som bas, prickarna är China Glaze Pelican Grey och resten är akrylfärg. Och så matt topplack från H&M.

Skitakul att göra faktiskt! Jag har inte använt akryfärg innan, och upptäckte att de jag har är ganska dåliga (åtminstone den vita som ser ut som keso ungefär och fäster inte på lack). Jag kommer definitivt göra mer nail art med akrylfärg. Kul!


The nails are dedicated to my pretty friend Jenna who I go to school with. She asked me to do rainbow nails, so I did!

Yeah, I think you should watch the video that I linked earlier, 'cause that's exactly how I did these. I used Nordic Cap NP13 as a base, the dots are made with China Glaze Pelican Grey and the rest is acrylic paint. And matte top coat from H&M.

So fun to do actually! I haven't used acrylic paint before, and I discovered that the paint I got is pretty bad (at least the white which looks like cottage cheese and doesn't stick to polish). I will definitely do more nail art with acrylic paint! Fun!

31DC2013 Day 27: Inspired by artwork - Angelique Houtkamp

Hej allihop! Vad har ni gjort idag? Jag har gjort naglarna jag visar idag. De tog flera timmar och jag har lite ont i nacke och rygg nu. Nåväl, vad gör man inte för konsten!
Dagens utmaning är att inspireras av ett konstverk. Jag diskuterade med min bästa vän Jennie Lee, eftersom hon är väldigt konstintresserad, om vad jag kunde hitta på. Angelique Houtkamp tyckte hon, och hon hade en bra idé. Och idén blev jäkligt bra på naglarna också!

Inspiration picture.
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Så. Jag började med två lager OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons. Därefter freehandade jag alla mönster med Nails Inc Baker Street. Och sen topplack. Jag är sjukt nöjd! Känns inge kul alls att behöva byta lack imorn igen. Haha!


Hi everyone! What have you done today? I've done the nails I'm showing you today. They took hours to finish and my neck and back hurts a bit now. Oh well, the things you do for art!
Todays challenge is to be inspired by artwork. I spoke to my best friend Jennie Lee about what I should do today, she is very into art. Angelique Houtkamp was her answer, and she had a good idea. The idea turned out pretty darn good on the nails aswell!

So. I started with two coats of OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons. After that I freehanded the print on all nails with Nails Inc Baker Street. And then topcoat. I'm so happy with these! It won't be fun to change polish tomorrow though. Haha!