The Matryoshka

As promised, my nails are done! This one took me quite some hours and effort. And even some moments of wiping the nails completely clean and starting back from scratch. After much struggling and fighting I ended up with the following look in the middle of the night... It does need improvement; a lot of improvement. But considering the effort and precision it takes to achieve even this little much, I'm cool with the outcome for now. Not sattisfied... just cool. It's called 'The Matryoshka' and it was inspired by a gift magnet I received in 2009 from a very dear friend of mine. A very simple gift which, to me, has a story behind it. I...

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Grey had more than 50 shades...haha

Last friday I had a gig as the masters of ceremony at the installation night of the local youth brigade. An official ceremony... in front of the prime minister and other important people (just so you might get an idea of what I'm talking about) For this event I wore a black and white pencil dress and red stilleto shoes and I wanted the face to look a little classy as well. I ended up with grey semi-smokey eyes and red lipstick... hmmmm...classy enough! To my personal opinion I could have done much better. But for a quick make-up done in my car using no more than the mirror in the visor...it turned out quite OK. Only, I think I looked...

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Muddy Miss Leopard

I wanted to try some leopard print this time. And I wanted to test-drive the 'Beavis and Mudhead' (Catrice).. Perfect!!!! I'll combine them... Last night I made the first attempt which resulted into a major fail. Didn't like the color combination, detested the way the design turned out and was plain disgusting! Really, see for yourselves... Couldn't force myself to look at that for more than 24 hours....yuck. So as I reached home tonight I took them off and retried the whole process... Only, I used a different design and decided upon a different color combo. And THIS is what a heart-rob looks like...(even if I have to say that myself)...

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'Dear Mermaid

I walked around a couple of days without having painted mý nails....and I felt NAKED! Last night I decided to try on another look with my new polishes. This one's called 'Dear Mermaid' and it looks like this... I'm seriously in love with my nails at the moment...seriously. Here, I decided to include a picture of everything I used to achieve this look (minus the base and topcoat). Base color is the Acid DC from Catrice. And on the accent nails I decided to use Cosmic from Jordana instead of the Glorious Aquarius from Essence. Difference is, the Cosmic has green glitters, which complimented the Acid DC in this case to my opinion. The...

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"Make-up" your mind

Hey dazzling, hmmm it's been a while since I last did make-up posts and I have no idea why it took me so long haha... Well here are some of the most recent looks... (note: I said "some" ) One of my b-day looks...'Damsel in the grape vine' Combo of purple, aqua and just a dash of black (tired and sleepy here...sorryyyy) The other b-day look was a simple combo of blue and green...just that. I call it, 'Peacock prance' Are you still with me? Hmmmm..let's see...besides the b-day looks I also have this one called 'Smoke Signals' which I wore last Friday to a mega fun sushi-night with my girls... This...

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Shrimp n' Dip

About time I tried the new goodies out, right? Hell yeah.. As you can already imagine, I wanted to try them out the very night I got them. But you know, I was tired (literally dozed off with them next to me on my bed) and since I planned to go to the beach last Tuesday (and the beach is very well known for ruining nail designs) I decided to postpone the ''itch''. Until yesterday... I sat down with them all  in front of me again (hahaha indecisive much) and brainstormed on my very first try out with these. And I ended up with THIS...called 'Shrimp n' Dip' Yup, I used the Pimp My Shrimp from Catrice and topped it off...

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It showered...polishes

There are days when you're exhausted...I mean really really worn-out, yet you can't sleep. And today's one of those days for me. I'm (very much) sleep deprived, did a scavengers hunt basically the whole day and I'm desperatelly in need of a massage (seriously).  But I'm also ecstatic...reason why I couldn't sleep as yet. (read: hyper-kind-of-happy...yeah with the well known silly dances.) In one of the previous posts I told you that the 'Genius in The Bottle' (Catrice) broke in shipment and I used what was left to create 'Zebra in the Golden Sunset' before it dried. Well, my sissy in law was kind enough to send me another Genius. And...

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'Rose in the Darkness'

Obviously a person can just NOT wear birthday nails forever. I took them off last Monday and did these yellow retro nails. But I didn't take any pictures of it since (sincerely) it was nothing but yellow nails and black retro-like stripes (haha). But today I decided I wanted something else. Something a little bit more fancy! Now, there's this sketch I made for the first time in my teens. I called it, 'Rose in the Darkness'. The whole thought behind it was to be a rose in the darkness and let your beauty shine in places where beauty lacks. It has been one of my favorite sketches....just for that thought behind it. So I kinda recreated it on my...

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