tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47633670467491528822024-02-08T14:22:23.841+00:00Nails and FrecklesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711173359169184048noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763367046749152882.post-4408491537156877902013-10-25T12:07:00.000+01:002013-10-25T12:07:01.101+01:00Gold and bronze gradient<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello ladies! It's been a while since I last posted... again! I'm starting to be annoied by the way life tries to interfere with blogging. </div>
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Today I'm here to show you a little, easy gradient with studs. Hope you like it!</div>
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Unfortunately, as soon as I started doing it, I noticed that the two colours look almost the same on my nails! AAAH!</div>
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So I added some black studs from Born Pretty Store, and I have to say that these studs are very pretty, they add something to the manicure without requiring too much time to place them. </div>
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Last but not least, I want to apologize for the blueness of mi pictures. The sun doesn't want to come out and this is the only light I have apart from the artificial one (that I hate).</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711173359169184048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763367046749152882.post-6966640179987203922013-10-04T21:08:00.003+01:002013-10-04T21:08:48.627+01:00End of the break! <div style="text-align: center;">
Hey there! I'm so happy that I'm finally back! Even better, I'm <span style="color: red;">H</span><span style="color: orange;">A</span><span style="color: yellow;">P</span><span style="color: lime;">P</span><span style="color: cyan;">Y</span><span style="color: blue;">!</span><span style="color: purple;">!</span><span style="color: magenta;">!</span></div>
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On the 17th of August, I left my beloved Milan to come here, in Scotland. I'll be a foreign exchange student for a whoooooooole year, and I am so excited to be able to have this experience!</div>
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Anyway, one of the 'bad' things about this journey, is that I didn't have time to write a proper post or take proper pics of my nail art (trust me, I've done LOADS of nail art lately!). </div>
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During the last few weeks, I took my time to settle down, relax, explore Edinburgh and meet a lot of wonderful people, including my host parents.</div>
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I know this is not a 'normal' post here, but I don't have anything else than the pics I took with my phone, so I hope they'll be fine for you! Also, I have a surprise for you!</div>
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(I apologise in advance for the super poor quality of the pictures!)</div>
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I'll go in temporal order!</div>
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First up, these super cool flowery nails! I did them a couple of weeks ago and a lot of people liked them! I used a lot of polishes, and I can't really remember their names, except for Barry M Foil Effects in gold.</div>
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Galaxy nails! A lot of polishes, a lot of time, a lot of fun! I'm not particularly proud of these, but I am somehow happy with how they look! I used too many polishes in these: KIKO #294, 940, 238, 279, 275, Barry M foil effects in golden, Beauty UK DENIM FX - BLUE DENIM and Maybelline color show in Winter baby.</div>
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In these last few weeks I've been really loving flowery patterns!</div>
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For this, I used KIKO #340, 297, 279, Sinful colors - Unicorn, Maybelline color show - Urban Turquoise and I think Barry M - Peach Melba (I'll have a separate post about this polish. I L♥VE IT!)</div>
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These are pretty easy to do, aren't they? :)</div>
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All I used was Sally Hansen - Bandage and some studs. Voilà!</div>
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Bonus pic! I tried to have square nails, but they just kept breaking every time, so I went back to my beloved round nails a couple of months ago.. and they never broke! (ok, this might bring me unluck. Great.)</div>
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I know I've disappeared for more than 2 moths! I'm sooo sorry! But now I'm ready to come back! I'll try and post at least once a week, I super-promise! And maybe with pics taken with my usual camera!<br /><br />Oh, I almost forgot about it! My base coat at the moment is OPI Nail Envy for sensitive and peeling nails, and my top coat is OPI RapiDry TopCoat (which I'll abandon, because it started becoming impossible to work with after about half bottle was used!)</div>
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If you want a tutorial for any of these, just let me know in the comments!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711173359169184048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763367046749152882.post-73510294418575718562013-07-18T21:54:00.000+01:002013-07-18T21:54:59.632+01:00Sad Post Hey there girls! This is kind of a sad post for me.. I'm not closing the blog, don't worry, but I won't be able to post for a couple of months or so..<br />
You may have noticed that I don't really post so often, and it's because I'm leaving Italy to spend one whole year abroad. I won't tell you exactly where, but it's in the UK.. I'm leaving during August, and until then I won't have my camera (nor my polishes T__T) next to me, and probably I won't find so much time to post until I have settled down.. Anyway, you'll hear from me! (I have a couple of posts to post maybe in a week or two!)<br />
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Hello lovelies! Today I don't really have any nail art for you, but a 'combination' I made with my new OPI polish, Polka.com. This glittery polish is composed of pink and blue exagonal glitters and smaller, square, purple ones. I really love this 'shade'!</div>
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The base is KIKO #282, a bubblegum pink which needs 2 to 3 coats for full opacity.</div>
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Over that pink, I put 1 coat of OPI Polka.com, which needed minimum placing, and no fishing at all!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711173359169184048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763367046749152882.post-49084255075101812422013-07-04T00:30:00.002+01:002013-07-04T00:30:56.493+01:00Giant Leopard Moth <div style="text-align: center;">
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I ran out of ideas, so I asked to a friend of mine if he could help me, and he sent me this picture of a giant leopard moth (<a href="http://www.imgbase.info/images/safe-wallpapers/animals/insect/bugs_12736.jpg" target="_blank">source</a>).</div>
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Hey girls! Just a quick post to show you the nails I did yesterday! the base is Sinful Colors Unicorn, all the rest is done with KIKO #238, 297 and 275. The top coat is OPI RapiDry. Hope you like them!</div>
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Hey ladies! I have been busy the last few days, so I didn't have much time to write for the blog! I'm sorry!</div>
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Anyway, before we start with the nails, I wanted to 'announce' that I won a nail art competition at <a href="http://www.naileditnz.com/" target="_blank">Nailed It NZ</a>. I came third, and I'm so happy for that! You can see the full post <a href="http://www.naileditnz.com/2013/06/announcing-winners-of-my-nail-art.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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When I had finished painting on with the black, I grabbed my Shaka Matte Top Coat and made a thick coat of that, making everything matte!</div>
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I know this isn't such and intricate manicure, but I really lovehow it turned out!</div>
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Since we made them together, the black and white polishes were the same I used, but the top coat was KIKO 3 in 1 Shine (which I just replaced with OPI RapiDry TopCoat, I'm literally IN L♥VE with that top coat!). All she used was a toothpick! </div>
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That's the last 'colour' manicure in the challenge, the next one will be black & white, so we'll start working with some more colours!</div>
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I'm writing this listening to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKxodgpyGec" target="_blank">this</a> song, so I'm feeling kinda cool ;)</div>
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I wasn't really feelinng like painting my nails plain violet, so I added some stripes in white and bright pink, but I decided it was too much and to make it more delicate, I added some roses, for which I made a <a href="http://nailsandfreckles.blogspot.com/2013/03/rose-nails-tutorial_14.html" target="_blank">turorial</a> some time ago, so make sure you go check it to see how I did them!</div>
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I used KIKO # 330 (background and roses), KIKO # 389 (leaves), Sinful Colors Cream Pink (bright pink stripes) and Revlon White On White (you guessed it.. that's the white!). As a basecoat I used Sally Hansen nailgrowth miracle and as topcoat KIKO 3 in 1 shine (that I almost finished, I guess I'll go and by another one! Any advice on which I should buy?)</div>
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Hey there! In the last few days I've been very busy with school, so I haven't had any time to post! Anyway, here I am, and what I'm about to show you is a manicure I really love.</div>
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That's a very easy one. Basically you just paint a cross across (oh gosh, I hate this pun!) your nail, in a colour that is toootally different from the main one,!</div>
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This time I decided to use this dark purple-ish polish, KIKO #255, and on top of it another KIKO polish, #616, which is a silver metallic polish, created to give you a mirror effect, and it works!<br /></div>
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Some time ago, I old you I was trying Sally Hansen's nailgrowth miracle, and now I can tell you it works! It doesn't really make my nails stronger, but they grow faster than ever before! When I broke my pinky nail, I was desperate, because normally it would have taken maybe 2 weeks to grow back, but now, in a week, it's brand new! I love this product, though I'll try some others, because I love trying new things :)</div>
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A few days ago, I went to Sephora and I fell in love with the Ciaté kit for Chalkboard Nails. It consists of a matte nail polish (it's a one-coater, and I love it!), a matte top coat (that, if applied too thin, ruins your manicure, but if you apply a generous amount of it, you won't get any trouble!) and 4 markers. The box says that if you make a mistake, you just have to erase it with water. What it doesn't say, is that you have to be quick because, once the paint dries, you can't erase it anymore!</div>
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Let's see the mani I created with this kit (if you follow me on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/nailsandfreckles" target="_blank">facebook</a> you might have seen it already!)</div>
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This mani is just a doodle I made with every marker. They come in four colours: white, blue, pink and yellow.</div>
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Yellow hasn't got a good coverage at all, I had to do at least 4 or 5 coats before it covered the black!), white is quite good (2 or 3 coats), then comes blue (1-2 coats) and the best one is pink, with just one coat!</div>
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Hello! When I was thinking of what I was going to do on my nails, I picked my yellow polish and applied it. Then, I saw the black, and I knew I had to do a leopard print! So, here it is!</div>
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My base colour is KIKO #279. For the spots I used KIKO # 391, 394 and Sinful Colors Cream Pink. Then I used a striper and KIKO # 275 to make the Cs and some dots in the empty spaces. I let it all dry and applied my top coat.</div>
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Hey there! I was rearranging my current polish stash and I saw my black polish next to the gold one and I decided I HAD to do some kind of nail art with them.</div>
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After I applied my base coat, I applied two coats of OPI My Very First Knockwurst (I just lost it and I'm desperate.. I think I'll buy it again 'cause I LLLLLLOVE it), then I created the plume using Avon Deluxe Chocolate and Revlon White On White using a small striping brush.</div>
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Frankie, instead, decided to paint some flowers and a nice tree on her thumb.</div>
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Who doesn't love biscuits? I do, and I wanted to show it. So I painted H&M Dust & Diamonds over my base (KIKO 3 in 1 shine).</div>
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I wasn't very satisfied of what came out, so I took some polishes (too many to remember which ones!) and painted some of these sugary things you can find on some biscuits.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711173359169184048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763367046749152882.post-8247711337969788672013-04-21T21:14:00.000+01:002013-05-18T21:18:13.882+01:00The 31 day challenge - day 3 YELLOW!Hello! Here we are, with day 3 of the challenge. The theme is yellow, and we both had fun doing our nails!<br />
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When I first thought of this colour, a beautiful Camaro came to my mind, with two thick black stripes on it.. so I decided to recreate that look on my nails!<br />
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To achieve this look, I applied KIKO #279 over my base coat, let it dry and then applied the striping tape like below</div>
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After I had applied the stripes, I painted KIKO #275 for the black stripes, as shown below</div>
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I really hope you like it! Let me know in the comments!</div>
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For this mani, she used KIKO # 279, 385, 275, 355, Essence # 74, 40 and, for the white, an Essence polish for french manicure! And, of course, Base coat and top coat, which I believe were KIKO 3 in 1 shine base coat top coat.</div>
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To do these, I used my dotting tool and painted KIKO #340 over Sinful Colors Unicorn, a lovely yellow creme, perfect in 2 coats. After this, I mattified it all with essence matte top coat.</div>
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The day after I had done these, I just wanted to turn them into something special, so I grabbed KIKO #343, 361 and Revlon 050 White On White and created many many roses, using <a href="http://nailsandfreckles.blogspot.it/2013/03/rose-nails-tutorial_14.html" target="_blank">this</a> tutorial, and that's the result!</div>
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GiuliaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711173359169184048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763367046749152882.post-13331913239184394842013-04-11T17:58:00.002+01:002013-05-18T21:18:40.118+01:00The 31 Day Challenge - Day 2 ORANGE!Hello world! I know, I know, I should have written this like 2 days ago, I'm sorry!<br />
Today's colour was orange, so we became creative and painted our nails!<br />
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I didn't have many ideas, so I just made some stripes with the striping tape, using silver and orange.<br />
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The polishes I used are Essence Studio Nails XXL nail thickener, KIKO #616, 280 and KIKO 3 in 1 Shine Top Coat.</div>
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Some days ago, I was in the center of my city, Milan, and I saw the striping tape looking at me and whispering <i>Buy me!</i>, I just couldn't resist, so I bought it!</div>
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For her orange nails, she decided to do these adorable oranges (I tried to do oranges as well, but I ended up with orange pizzas :D), using her Essence base coat, and KIKO # 280, 296 and # 356. Here is a close up of her thumb!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711173359169184048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763367046749152882.post-87586796256344552512013-04-05T16:24:00.000+01:002013-05-18T21:19:06.893+01:00The 31 Day Challenge - Day 1 RED!Hey there! Here I am, with my first day of this challenge. It's been a hard week, full of relax ;P<br />
Today is the red day, so me and my friend, Frankie, created a manicure full of this beautiful colour, which reminds me of love and all those things related to it.<br />
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As I said before, red reminds me of love, so I did a manicure inspired by it! First, I applied my basecoat (Essence studio nails - XXL nail thickener), then i painted my thumb, pointer, middle and pinky with Sinful Colors - Sugar Sugar, which is a red polish with small silver (I guess) glitters.. I just love it! After applying two coats of red, I took Revlon - White On White (#050) and painted my ring finger with 3 coats. When the white polish dried, I make a little heart with Sugar Sugar and applied my new matte topcoat, which is from Shaka.</div>
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Even if you can barely see it, on her ring finger she did some stripes! She used an Essence base coat (unfortunately she can't remember the exact name or number), then Kiko #238 and Essence #30 - Late At Night for the stripes. I think it's a lovely look, very easy and nice!</div>
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In the last few days, weather has been terrible, there was rain, and rain, and, you won't believe me, rain!<br />
But let's get back to the Challenge. For those of you who don't know it, it's a challenge (you don't say? ;D), which asks you to do a new nail art every day, for a month, following a chart. Many bloggers did it (<a href="http://www.chalkboardnails.com/">Chalkboard Nails</a>, <a href="http://www.copythatcopycatnails.com/">Copy That Copy Cat</a>, and many others), and they all said that it helps develop skills and stuff, so why shouldn't I give it a try?<br />
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Did My Nails is a blog I love and I never forget to check, so when I saw that she was giving away some polishes, I decided to participate :)<br />
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