Polished Polyglot

Hello my dears! How are you doing today? I'm feeling like crap again, because of the flew once more. I can't remember when it was that I felt completely healthy, pfff. My little guy is also ill, but he hasn't got a temperature, so luckily he might be spared this time. I can't begin to tell how I wish this winter was OVER! 

Well, as I promised, I'm posting today some pictures of my baby's first birthday party. He's got the Mickey Mouse cake, which took me hours to make! But I got many compliments, so it was worthy in the end (I've blurred my son's name on the cake). Home made muffins, cupcakes and (for some reason I forgot to photograph) salty finger food. We were 16 adults, 8 children and 2 soon-to-be-born! That explains the amount of food :D

Hello my darlings! How are you doing? Today is a very, very special day since it is my baby boy's first birthday!!! I'm very happy because it is also my first "birthday" as a mum. This year has been full of novelties, learning, happiness and satisfaction! I'm very grateful for what I'm living and would like to share my happiness with you.

Hello my dears! Happy Saturday!!

I hope you all spent Valentine's Day in the best possible way. I enjoyed a tête-à-tête dinner with my hubby, and it was soooo romantic (and also fun). I really think there should be a Valentine's day once per month (at least, lol).

<3<3<3 Happy Valentine's day to all my lovely readers!! (and also to everyone else, of course :P )

Today is kind of a difficult day for me, because

Hello my dears! Today there's no manis or pictures, just some rumbling. So, you're warned!
My rumbling subject is very simple, as today's the first day of Lent, I wanted to do some sacrifice. As I do not smoke or drink, those weren't real sacrifices to me, and I thought something that would really cost me a lot of effort had to be nail polish related: This means I'm not going to buy any nail polish for 44 days.
Giving it a second thought to the decision, I came to the conclusion that it was hard, but not too hard. Because, although that would demand a lot of discipline to contain myself when going out "shopping", and it would also mean missing all the main Spring releases, and that may have a certain impact on the blog too, in the end, I have so many UNTRIED nail polish, that the fact of no buying new ones would not REALLY affect me. So I decided to go one step further and to impose myself a non buying ANYTHING for me. That goes from cosmetic and makeup to clothes, including other stuff like music, or cinema, theater (well we already have entries for a play on March 13th, but it is part of a suscription to our local Theatre), it also includes not going to the hair stylist, or even buying a chocolate bar, or anything else you could think of that involves spending money on a pleasant thing. That also means I will not be doing any swaps until Easter (Sorry!).

 

I'm oficially in a NO-BUY BREAK FROM TODAY UNTIL EASTER!

I'm not completely nuts or ridiculous. This is supposed to have some great output in my life. Firstly, it will help me save some money ;) secondly, it will make me save some time too! thirdly, it is good to recover some kind of boundaries, because lately I've been somehow limit-less shopping. I expect to regain some self-control, and spend otherwise my time.

As always, I'll be very pleased to read your comments!
Love, 

Nati

 

Hello my lovelies! How have you started this week! Hope you're doing well and full of energy.

Today I wanted to share with you another nail art Carnival-inspired. I've showed you recently a mani trying to reproduce a Venetian mask, and thought it looked neat, it wasn't quite the spirit of Carnival I grew up with. Carnival in Latin America is much brighter, more colorful, more joyful and of course hotter. So I thought the right way to express that was through the famous Carnival of Rio de Janeiro costumes, and I've even found an image without nudity!! (lol).

Hello my dears! Happy Saturday! We are already oficially in Carnival period since yesterday. To Celebrate that I have for you a manicure inspired by the Carnival of Venice. I can hardly think a more elegant and chic way to celebrate Carnival, this is a unique celebration in the world I guess.

For this manicure I used

Hello Lovelies! How are you? I'm impatient for the Friday to arrive, because then I'll know who wins the giveaway! If you haven't entered yet, hurry up! you still have time until tomorrow midnight. You can enter by clicking here.

Today is the 15th battle of this challenge, and it's again an inspiration battle: Object vs. fabric. I haven't done any nail art for today, sorry. Nonetheless, I do have a great polish to share with you. When I was thinking what to choose as object of inspiration I came up with a great idea: my pearl necklace! I could not think of a more timeless, elegant and feminine object. It was also the perfect excuse to finally wear my recently acquired Chanel Pearl drop (I had this on sale 50% off! wiii!). I used three thin coats, because it is a sheer polish, and very likely to show brush strokes, and I was so happy with the look that I decided to leave it like this and not doing any nail art.

Hello my dears! Happy Friday to all! Any nice plans for the weekend?

I have great news today: Catrice LE polishes are here AND I have swatches for you! Are you ready?  The whole collection counts 5 nail polishes of which I've picked 4. To see the whole collection click here.

Look what was on my mail box today!

I got the whole Zoya Lovely collection from nailetc.com for USD 49.00 (including shipping fees) . It took 15 days to arrive, but I chose the cheapest shipping method, so I think is acceptably fast.
Every year I get a spring collection, (well except 2012 when I was on a polish-break). And I'm really happy with this one. It's my favourite collection of all the previews for Spring that I've been seeing so far. I know, you're thinking about the Color Club Halo Hues for Spring, but I'm not that much a holo girl. While I'd like to get one or two shades, I wouldn't buy a whole holo collection.

At first sight, it looks like all the "Lovely" colours are unique in my collection, there's only one  I might have a dupe of, it's Zoya Blu. I have yet to try on the nail but on the bottle it looks exactly the same than Essie Borrowed and blue. So if you own the Essie shade you might want to give it a second thought before getting Zoya Blu. For the rest of the shades, none of my colours is even near to them.

I can't wait to swatch them, and share them with you. But I want to wait for a sunny day to have good pictures. So stay tuned!
What do you think about Zoya Lovely? Is this a collection that appeals to you for Spring? Have you already got any of the shades?

Love,

Nati