Tri polish challenge: Green, blue and purple day#1

After a small break from this challenge I am back in March! I decided to go dark this month - couz I love dark vampy colors and I don't believe they are something only for fall. So this month I choose: 

Green - Essence Deep sea, baby

Blue - Essence Absolute blue

Purple - Chic Dark and handsome

For this look I used China glaze Cosmic dust as base. The stamps are done with the 3 colors and pueen38. And over it I added some Essence stamp me!black or Barry M Silver foil and BM411. 

Do you ever wear vampy colors out of season?

xoxo
gin

TNCC#1: Untrieds - Mardi gras

We don't celebrate Mardi gras where I am from, but I love the idea and the colors and New Orleans. If I will ever be able to visit USA you can find me in New Orleans :) 

 I had this Golden rose Jolly jewels 106 for such a long time and I've never used it - bad bad blogger. It's a combination of small hex glitter on a clear base, they come in green, purple and gold! How perfect is that? Over it I stamped with Konad Royal blue and Konad m15, to make the fleur de lis symbol.

I love how festive this turned out even thou they are short nubbins :)

Do you celebrate Mardi gras where you are from?

xoxo
gin

Spomladansko cvetje nail art navodila za Top make up

*This tutorial is in Slovene only. Sorry international buddies - try to still enoy the pictures*

Ker je čas za spomladansko prebujanje cvetja sem se odločila, da pripravim nail art navodila z izdelki iz strani Topmakeup.si. Za take nohte potrebujete 4 lake, tanek čopič in orodje za izdelovanje pik.

Jaz sem orodje za izdelovanje pik in tanke čopič dobila iz D.I.Y. setov L.A.Girl ki so na voljo na strani. Laki, ki sem jih uporabila (od L proti D) L.A. Girl Funkadelic, Watermelon splash, Love notes in Sands of time.

Korak 1: Uporabi L.A.Girl Watermelon splash za podlago.

Korak 2: Poveži 2 kota nohta z ravno linijo, ki teče čez sredino nohta. To je centralna linija okoli katere se naveže celotna mreža. Jaz sem uporabila L.A. Girl Funkadelic.

Korak 3: Naredi vzporednice centralni liniji na obeh straneh. Pazi, da je vedno enakomerna razdalja med njimi.

Korak 4: Naredi pravokoton linijo na centralno linijo, ki je bila narisana prva. Nato naredi vzporednice, tej pravokotni liniji na obeh straneh. 

Korak 5: Na vse prostore kjer se linije sekajo naredi pike z L.A.Girl Sands of time.

Korak 6: Okoli vsake pike naredi 5 dodatnih pikic, ki služijo kot cvetlični listi. Če se v tem procesu sredinska zlata pika izbriše, nič hudega. Jaz sem naredila 2 velikosti rož in nekaj zlatih pik celo izpustila, ker se mi je zdelo prepolno. Za cvetlične liste sem uporabila L.A. Girl Love notes.

Korak 7: Ponovno sem naredila zlate pike, tam kjer so izgubile obliko zaradi izdelovanje cvetličnih listov. Z lakom L.A.Girl Sands of time. In končali smo! :)

Tu je še hiter povzetek celotnega procesa :)

Obiščite slovensko spletno trgovino Topmakeup.si v kateri lahko dobite vse potrebščine za spomladanske nohtke posute s cvetlicami :)

xoxo
gin

Carnival time - Kurent nails

I live in Slovenia - Halloween is not so established here as is Pust or Carnival! It's a distant cousin of Mardi gras. The tradition is for the children to dress up in costumes and go from house to house to ask for candy. Only treats not tricks - kids here are behaved :) 

A big part of pust are Kurenti - they are the deities that chase away the winter. I posted some photos below of them - they are huge fuzzy demon things that carry bells around their belts and make a lot of noise - apparently winter doesn't like noise :) I love them - they are so cute and a bit scary <3

So in this time of the year we have many parades featuring Kurents or Witches - depending on where you are at. 

As I did these Kurent nails I wanted to make them seem fuzzy, add the big wings they wear, stamped some bells and something that vaguely resembles their faces :)

This is such a cool close up picture of a Kurents mask <3

To make the fuzzy effect I used OPI Solitaire as base and over it I added Essence Crack me! White. I just love this effect that was created. To make the wings I stamped with MoYou London Biker 02 and Essence stamp me! Black. The pinkie has two layers of bell stamps done with pueen38, Essence Wanna be my sunshine and Catrice Team lucky mustard's. And the middle finger has a yellow mask stamp underneath done with Essence Wanna be my sunshine and HD01, over it I added BM410 and Catrice Roberts red ford. 

Here they are in our capital city doing what they do - run around and ring their bells :) You can see a black on in the back - they are usually white :)

Does your country have any special traditions in time of Carnival?

xoxo
gin

The Lacquer Legion - Adoration: Duck Dynasty

Recently I got a bit of the blues and I wanted something to pick me up and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about with the show Duck Dynasty. I ADORE THIS SHOW! Can you say INSTANT LOVE!!! I never thought I would like a reality show that has no drama and bearded guys with long hair *a bunch of my pet peeves*

But yeah ... the show picked me up and all my friends have been hearing about it so I decided to bother my cyber buddies with my current love also :)

For this look I used Barry M Key lime as base. Over it I stamped with Essence The green & the grunge and Catrice Holo in one with BM416 to make a faux camo look. Over it I stamped with BM424 to make the swap flowers effect. The accent finger has a though bearded guy stamp done with Essence stamp me! Black and MoYou London Biker 02. 

Gahh I love the accent finger! So though looking <3

A random funny quote :)

Here is the Opening theme of the show <3

So this is my part of the Lacquer legion Adoration challenge :)
  My motto is: 'If you love something put it on your nails' :)

xoxo
gin

Nail art a go-go challenge recap

So we are done with the art portion of the challenge now back to random stuff :) Since I was in a time crunch I participated only partly but I still loved the challenge! Thank you Missy from Gnarly gnails for organising this!

Color theory week: Achromatic

Color theory week: Primary

Art101 week: Night sky

Art101 week: Camouflage

Art history week: Sci-fi

Art history week: Snow day

Art movements week: Surrealism 

Art movements week: Pointillism

My favorite is the snow day one! Which is yours? :)

xoxo
gin

TNCC: Summer - Arabian night

This month I didn't have the time to participate in the TNCC challenge. The theme was summer, don't get me wrong I miss the hot temperatures as the next girl since the winter was so bitter here, but I know there will be plenty of time to make summer nails during the actual summer :)

But the other day I got this amazing Catrice Chromeo & Julie from the recent Luxury lacquers LE. It is the most amazing duo chrome that ranges from gold, bronze to red. And the colors reminded me of an Arabic theme so I added some MJ XIV stamps that have Arabic script in it. The stamps are done with Kiko Gold.

I must admit I love these nails! The duo chrome effect is amazing! Nice work Catrice <3 Since they have a tendency to say they will release a polish with a special finish like holo or duo chrome but it just ends up a normal glitter or shimmer finish :) I am glad you finally check out a polish dictionary :) Can't wait to see what will you come up with next!

P.S.: Sorry for the weird lighting on the picture but the chrome was very hard to capture :)

Did you got anything from this LE?

xoxo
gin