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The Battle Challenge: #14 inspired by Childhood vs. Future

Jan 31, 2013

Hello Dears!! Todays is the 14th Battle of this Challenge and is a battle of Inspiration between Childhood vs. Future. I've chosen Childhood! I was a child during the 80's and back then graffiti was a big trend, specially among some groups of young people.
So I've decided to do graffiti nails! Of course do not expect an spectacular free handed nail art, but just the perfect occasion to wear my Essence gel like nail stickers in 03 Berlin's most wanted.

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New Look for Polished Polyglot!

Jan 30, 2013

Hello my darlings? How are you doing today? Isn't it crazy we arrive already to the end of January? Where have this month gone?

Firstly, I'd like to remind you of my GIVEAWAY which is still going for one more week, so if you haven't entered yet, what are you waiting for??!!

Organizing this giveaway was much fun to me, so you can bet it won't be the last time! This was also a way for me to have an important feedback from readers as what they think about my blog. I'm most interested in knowing your honest opinion. BUT, of course, I can't change everything of everything, because it would stop being MY blog, wouldn't it?
In one thing I agree with a lot of you who had commented: the looks did not completely satisfied me.
As you may have noticed (well, not if it's the first time you visit the blog!) I've introduced a few changes to the way my blog looks like. I've been intending to do that from the beginning, but I was a bit lazy and just picked one standard layout when I started the blog.

Now, I'm not a web designer or anything, so I keep a layout from blogger because

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Nail look for Carnival: NYX Carnival over Essie Buttler please

Jan 29, 2013

Hello my dears! How are you doing today?
I have another manicure I think it would be fun wearing for Carnival, just because it reminds me a lot to the confetti used during the parades!

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New Essence Hugs & kisses LE: my picks

Jan 28, 2013

Hello my darling readers! We start a new week so today I have new things to show you!
This is about the new Essence Limited Edition for Valentine's day and it's named Hugs & kisses. This is a collection with many, many nail polishes, of which I've picked none! It was so sad to see the display completely ravaged! but only the nail polish was missing! well, if you want to see what the whole collection looks like click here, you might be luckier than me!

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Nail Look for Valentine's day: Crazy chick in love

Jan 27, 2013

Hello my dears! How was your weekend?
In 2.5 weeks time is Valentine's Day and I thought it was time for another idea for a manicure dedicated to the lover's date. Last week I've showed you a Vintage Valentine's mani, which was grey and white, and maybe a little dull. To see my last week's Valentine's mani click here. You can Also check my Valentine's day Gallery on the dedicated page, just click on the tab under my Blog Header.
So today, I thought it would have been a nice idea to brighten up the lover's day with some yellow nails!

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The Battle Challenge: #13 inspired by a dress vs. Shoes

Jan 25, 2013

Hello my dear readers! Happy Friday to all!!
Today I have for you the 13th Battle of this Challenge which is a battle of Inspiration! Inspired by a dress vs. shoes. So for me it had to be the dress! It's a quite simple wearable silk spring dress I bought last year for my son's baptism, but I love it very much and I decided I wanted to reproduce it on my nails.

So here is the dress:

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Sneak Peek: Limited Edition „Neo Geisha” by CATRICE

Jan 24, 2013

Hello my dear readers! Guess what I bring you today? Good news!!! Another LE from Catrice!!
This time it's just a preview, I'd like to share with you what I've found on their site. All the info and pictures belong to Catrice website here.

This collection will be available in few days, but launching dates may vary according to each country.

Widely popular on the international catwalks: the Asia trend, inspired by the Japanese Geisha look. Red lips and black eyeliner are absolutely essential for the silk kimonos, collarless jackets and spectacular footwear of this trend.
The Limited Edition “Neo Geisha” by CATRICE is a modern interpretation of the traditional Geisha look that unites artistic Japanese elements with facets of the Western World. The colours: red, dark blue and nude are mixed with intensive green, pink and purple. A combination of classical and modern. (read more after the jump)

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Nail Look for Valentine's day: Be my Vintage Valentine

Jan 23, 2013

Hello my dears! How are you?

What I'd like to show you today is my first Valentine's Day manicure of this year. It's a simple grey and white manicure with some vintage melancholic air. For this mani I used Essence Get Arty as a base, and stamped on it with white konad special polish using Konad plate m-65 for the roses pattern.
Later on I stamped with konad red wine special polish and plate m2 the hearts with the Love inscription.

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Essence Vintage District LE Blush

Jan 22, 2013

Hello my dears! How are you today?
One week ago I received the most awesome nailmail from my "Polish Fairy" Christine from Polished Marvels blog. No kidding! she sent me 5 fantastic nail polish that I'll be showing to you soon, but it wasn't only about polish, she included this fantastic blush from Essence Vintage District Limited Edition in 01 It's Popul-Art. This lady rocks!

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Nail Look for Carnival: Essence cracking polish over Life is a Freeride

Jan 21, 2013

Hello lovelies! How was your weekend? Hope you had a great time and that you're starting the week in the best way.
Today I decided it was time to put some motivation to my nail art. You know, December and the Holidays Season brought many excuses to do nail art, and since January began, all my nail art has been dedicated solely to the once per week challenge I'm in. So I thought I'm definitely one to need some excuse, and I found two very good excuses!!
First Mardi Gras is on the 12th February this year and Valentine's Day is on the 14th February (that's every year), so I thought that would give me two wonderful excuses to do some crazy manicures and some girly manicures as well!!

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