Miss Cop Market Mani

A few weekends ago I visited our open market in the city center.  I noticed a lady selling Miss Cop nail polish for €3 per bottle, so I browsed through them.  I decided to buy two and see how I like them and if I did maybe one day I’d pop by and pick up some more.  I’m not sure what the name of the purplish color is, on the label it says Laca de Uñas No40. I guess it’s number 40?  Maybe the text is the name, who knows… it’s in Spanish.

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Yay I’m Stylish!

At least Karin thinks so!  It makes me so happy to know that someone enjoys my newbie nails blog!
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My First French

No, not that kind of French, that was with a kid named Aaron about 20 years ago.  I mean a French manicure!
After my massive staining from a previous manicure, and using a lot of dark polishes lately, I felt like something a bit more fresh and natural looking.  I tried absolutely everything to get those stains off, lemon juice, tooth whitening tooth paste, whitening nail polish remover… nothing worked.  In the end I just took my nail buffer to my nails and got as much of it off as I could.

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Storage Solution: Ikea Expedit

One problem I’ve been having since I started my little nail habit, is somewhere to store the polish and all the accessories.  Up until a little while ago, this is what it looked like in my living room.
In our small two bedroom flat, with my husband using the spare room for his Lego Habit, I didn’t really have any space.  This is my little ‘hub’ in the house, it’s where I craft (see the knitting basket on the table on the right), it’s my computer desk (see my beautiful monster laptop on the Ikea Dave table in front of my chair) and my nail station (see black Ikea Dave table with my nail stuff on the left).  Everything I needed within arms reach!

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London’s Weather Forecast

The weather here in the Netherlands has been rather dreary for the last while, and last week my husband deserted me for a few days in London… so it wasn’t hard to find motivation for my latest manicure.
My rainy day manicure… perfect for the dark and depressing weather we’ve had over the last while, and suiting to my mood of late.  Not sure why but I’ve been in a bit of a funk the last few days. I blame lack of real sunshine.

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Stains and Sparkles

Remember how much I loved WnW Teal of Fortune?  Well, I wasn’t loving it so much after I removed it!
YIKES!! I have never had staining like that before.  Granted, I forgot to use a basecoat because I quickly painted my nails before leaving to go out, but jeeez.. I’m going to have to scrub my nails with some kind of whitening something or other to sort this out. Anyone have tips?

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My Metro Nails

The other day I saw this post over on Colores de Carol about a newspaper manicure. I kept that tab open for days because I wanted to do it and knew if I closed the window I’d forget!
I had just gotten the same polish she used (Catrice Snow Motion) not that long ago so I knew I had everything that was needed for this manicure.  Uhh, except a newspaper, which I later swiped from the waiting room at my doctor’s office! You can always count on finding a Metro somewhere you go during the day!

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Traci Has Gone Bananas!

It’s the only reasonable explanation I can come up with.  The girl is doing yet another giveaway!!  She just announced the winner from her 100 follower giveaway and she is already on to her 200 follower giveaway now.
The giveaway ends on May 27, 2011 so there’s still time. Get your butt on over there and sign up.

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WnW Teal of Fortune

After my MEHni the other day, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my nails.  Luckily I didn’t get too long to think about it.  A friend contacted me to ask if my husband and I wanted to go to their place for a games night and after a busy day I realized I didn’t have long to get ready, and my nails were naked!!

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Saturday Morning MEHni

Yesterday after spending the night before cleaning my turtle tanks, my poor butteryfly mani was chipped to bits, so it was time to do something new.  I wasn’t sure what I wanted but I thought I’d try something light and pretty using one of the gifts I got for my Birthday. 
I chose WnW Wild Card and thought it would be pretty with some white floral stamping on top using my new Konad plates.  That would be pretty!

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Butterfly Wing

I saw something I LOVED yesterday when I was looking through some blogs.  I found a random post on Kronicles of a Konad-er with a design for butterfly wings that she initially found on Lacquerized.  I was immediately in love!  I thought I’d try it someday when I have more nail art paint and when my nails are a bit longer to accommodate the design.
I couldn’t wait though, I had to see if I could get something even close to it.

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I’m Sorry Essence, Can We Be Friends Again?

Stop the world, I wanna get off!!  I am so incredibly confused right now.
Remember my rant about stamping not working?
Then how I got a Konad set for my birthday?
… and how excited I got when the Konad stamping worked?
Well today I saw this post over at Mirannie’s Nails and once again I was wondering why other people seem to get the Essence set to work and I don’t.  So I was on a mission.  I was going to try every combination of Essence / Konad paint, plates and stamps until I narrowed down the culprit.  I wanted to know what exactly was making it not work for me!

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I Can Stamp! I Can Stamp!

PTOEY! *Spits* Suck it, Essence Stampy Set!  I got me some Konad now and I’m never turning back!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!!
I stamped, I actually STAMPED!
If you are new here and are wondering what all the fuss is about, stamping has been a bit of an issue for me.  The first stamping set I got was from Essence and I tried a million times but could not get the full nail designs to work.  The smaller ones were OKAY but the full nail? Not a chance…

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My Nails Are 36 Years Old Today!

Today is my birthday and boy oh boy do my peeps know what I like!  Especially my husband!  He really threw me for a loop today as he got me the absolute best present I could have ever asked for.  Not only is it something I love, but it’s not something I’d hinted at or even put on a list… just something that he heard me talking about, made a point of remember and got for me!

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Don’t Tell Romeo!

I saw Julia on top of Chuck! True story!  Please don’t tell Blair either, you know what she can be like.
At the Kruidvat 50% off sale, I tried to snatch up as many of the Essence Nail Twins as I could.  I ended up not getting a single pair but I did manage to get these two.
Chuck, the blueish purple base coat and half of the “Chuck and Blair” twin set, was an absolute dream to work with.  I managed to coat my nails with just one coat and it was sooooo smooth.  I take back whatever I said about cheaper brands not being as good as the others because this has become one of my favorites both for color and for ease of use.  Honestly, I want all of the nail art twin bases now, just in the hopes that they are as lovely as this one.

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I Love Spring

Kruidvat had a great sale on last weekend, 50% off all makeup. Omg!  I got over 20 bottles of polish for less than 20 euro, I was in heaven!  All this sunny weather and trees blossoming made me want to do something with more spring colors, since I often tend to stick to darker colors.  I wanted to do something with dots that would resemble flowers.  Looking back I probably should have put the dots closer together but I can always give it another go some other time.  Even if it just looks like random dots on a yellow base I still think it’s springy and pretty!

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