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Hello, my lovelies! Happy Thursday!

I'm posting on a Thursday rather than a Friday, because tomorrow as it is Valentine's Day and the hubby and I have plans of spending the afternoon, evening and night in a romantic escapade! We are not going far, in fact just a few kilometres from home, but enough to forget the daily routine and have some time for our couple. I'm so excited about it!!

Are you planning anything for Valentine's day? I know a lot of people don't care for this holiday in Europe, even us when we were younger we did not pay much attention to it. But after 22 years together (of which 16 years of marriage), you definitely need to seize every occasion to escape the routine, if you know what I mean!

I have no idea what I will wear tomorrow or what I'll pack in my bag, I'm not too worried about it, haha, but I definitely know what I will wear on my nails! LOL! Here it is my Valentine's manicure for 2020, and some other ideas from previous years in case you need some inspiration! I hope you like it!!

Hello, sweeties! Happy Friday!

I hope you all had a great week and that you're planning and even better weekend! We will try to hit the Open Air Cinema this evening, with the kids. They are showing "The Incredibles II" and my children would love to watch it! The thing is, the show starts at 8:45 PM and I don't think my children will stay awake that late. The reason being it needs to be really dark for the movie to show properly outdoors. Do you like open-air cinemas?

Today the  "26 Great Nail art Ideas Challenge" proposed us to make a manicure with a "silhouette scene". This is normally the manicure you'll sponge a sunset and place the silhouette of some palm trees on top. I have done that in the past here, so I thought to do a different thing this time, can you guess what it represents?

Hello, sweeties! Happy Friday!

This is my last scheduled post during our Summer vacation. Yep, unfortunately, our stay in Italy comes to an end in two days :(  But we still have plenty of adventures and yumminess to share with you on my Instagram Stories :) !!
Today the  "26 Great Nail art Ideas Challenge" prompts us to create a "Stamped gradient" manicure, and this is what I came up with.

Happy weekend, lovelies!
Today is going to be a super Saturday! My hubby is taking me to the Open Air Opera concert in Avenches this evening! I am an opera lover and it's been so long since I went to the theatre (or anywhere really) to see one. In fact, this won't be exactly an opéra but a mix of famous opera Airs from different composers, interpreted by some of the greatest opera singers. I'm reeeeeally excited! This Opera festival is so special to me because it takes place in the ancient ruins of one of the Oldest Roman Amphiteatres in Switzerland. The whole city of Avenches is a historic gem and the amphitheatre has a special magic. He reserved places on the bleachers, were we used to go when we were young! The magic of it all is that you can go early and bring your own picnic. Eat your dinner while admiring the sun setting behind the imposing walls of the Amphitheatre. Then, when you think it couldn't get any more romantic, the orchestra starts playing and the most beautiful music invades the atmosphere. The bleachers are the cheapest seats. But I think those are the best! Firstly, these are gradins, not chairs, so you can be very close to your partner, or even cuddling. This is totally impossible in the stalls. You also have a beautiful view of all the amphitheatre and you are not as far from the scene as in the circle, which are more expensive seats. Also, as I mentioned, you can picnic comfortably and you can dress casually, which you can't do when you get seats in the "posh" area. The tickets were hs gift for mother's day and I must say they are the most beautiful present ever! If you want to keep up with us during the visit to Avenches, take a peek at our picnic and to the concert, please, be sure to follow my Instagram Stories!

Well, Into nail art! Today, the Nail Crazies Unite prompted us to create a "galaxy" manicure, so here is what I came up with, I hope you like it!

Happy Friday, lovelies!
How are you doing? We are super excited for the weekend ahead, that'd be very social, full of parties, BBQs and friends. Can't wait!
Today, the Nail Crazies Unite prompted us to create a manicure inspired by the work of the artist Lisa Frank. So here is what I came up with, I hope you like it!

Hello, my lovelies! How is your weekend so far?
Today I have a new nail art design and a new nail art review to share with you. I prepared a Neon and Black manicure for the 26 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge, and for creating it I used is a Peel off cuticle guard from BeautyBigBang store*. I show you how to create fun manis without the mess thanks to this useful product. I really hope you like it!!

Hello Sweeties! How is your weekend so far?
Last week I was late for posting my manicure for the "26 Great nail Art Ideas" Challenge and I thought that instead of skipping it, I would just put it off until this weekend. The theme for this week is animal "reciprocal gradient" which is an advanced nail art technique that I'll expl to in you in detail if you keep on reading!

Hello, sweeties!
I hope you are all having a great weekend. As every Saturday I'm sharing here a new nail art, this time I have "Neutral colors" nails for the Nail crazies Unite nail art challenge, to announce you that the Nail Crazies United challenged restarts today!! I came up with this "coffee" themed manicure, and I really hope you like it!

Hello, sweeties! Happy Friday!
Today is the very LAST appointment for the "26 Great Nail art Ideas Challenge", I'm very proud to have finished this challenge, for which I created 25 different manicures, but at the same time I am sad that it's finished and I'm looking forward to the next amazing challenge my mates will organize. This last challenge consists in showing you my "Signature Style". I take this occasion to review the latest item I got from Born Pretty Store. This is a wonderful black 15ml Born Pretty Stamping Polish Black #03.

Hello, sweeties! How are you?
Happy weekend! I'm sooo excited, tomorrow we'll be leaving the Abruzzo to spend a few days in Emilia Romagna coast. We'll be staying in a hotel that is especially recommended for family with children. And, you know what that means? Of course MOMMY VACATION! No cooking, no cleaning, no laundry, no washing up, not even making the beds for one whole week!! WIIIII! I am going to love it ;)
In the meantime, let me show you another manicure I did for the Nail Crazies Unite challenge. Today's theme is "The beach" and it is so, so appropriate!

Hello, sweeties! Happy Saturday!
It's time for another nail art design, this time the 26 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge is about "beach or animal silhouettes". So I thought to do a sunrise on the beach inspired manicure, I hope you like it!

Hello, my lovelies!  how are you doing? Enjoying your summer?
Today, the 26 Great Nail art Ideas challenge is about "Going on holidays". So I thought to do a floral nail art with a sunset vibe.  I hope you like it :)

It is already that time of the year when we start thinking about Easter (ok, WE start thinking, I know many of you have already everything planned out). Easter is one of my favorite celebration of the year so I couldn't miss the occasion to show you some Easter themed nail art.

Hi Sweeties! Happy Friday!
It's been long since I could actually post on a Friday, which are usually extra hectic. But yesterday I had a moment to schedule this post, wii! I did this manicure for the Nail Crazies Unite Challenge and the prompt for today is "Rainbow".

Hello Sweeties!! Happy Friday!
Today, as every Friday is time for some nail art :) We are already counting the hours to Halloween, so the ladies of the "26 Great Nail Art Ideas Challenge" thought to challenge us to create a Halloween manicure with "the wrong colours"!! I don't like to think there are "wrong" or "right" colours so I came up with an idea: using inverted colours! Keep reading to find out how I did this manicure!

Hello Sweeties!! Happy Friday!

Happy Friday sweeties! How are you today?
I'm very happy because we are already in July, which means that in a couple of weeks, we will be taking a few days to have a well-deserved summer vacation. Talking of which, today's prompt for the 40 Great nail Art ideas Challenge is Holiday/Seaside/Beach!

Happy Friday sweeties! How are you today?
If you are also sad because it is almost the weekend and it is almost summer and the weather doesn't seem to have noticed (please Mr. Weather, can you please acknowledge we are actually in SUMMER here? thank you), the participants of the 40 Great nail Art ideas Challenge are here to cheer you up with lots of manicures inspired by summer!