day at the pool

A day at the pool

I had two ideas for this months theme for Cyw’s “Mottomonat” – “Pool Party”. But since I didn’t manage to do both, I thought I combine them to a skittle-like look and call it “A day at the pool”… 😀 The water-looking nails are quite simple, I started with a middle, slighty aqua colored, blue…

BP plates

BPS stamping plates

As I already wrote last week, next to the stamping plate organizers, Born Pretty Store kindly sent me two stamping plates for review as well: Both plates are very well etched, the square one a bit deeper than the round one, though both not as deep as the MoYou London plates. But after some slight…

black lace

Black lace

This months theme for Cyw’s “Mottomonat” is “Something lacy”. My first idea was doing some sort of bridal nails, but since I already did something like this for last years “Elegance” month, I decided to go a little more “Burlesque”. 😉 I started with two coats of “jamaica me crazy” and then added a stamping…

blue roses

Blue roses

This months theme for Cyw’s “Mottomonat” is “Blütenzauber”: I started with two coats of a dark blue, added the white stamping and then a layer of top coat. After this was dry, I mixed some black and the blue polish with clear polish and roughly shaded the roses. I thought about adding some glitter, but…

charming ballerina

Charming ballerina

It’s Wednesday again, and time for “Lacke in Farbe … und Bunt!” and “flieder” (lilac): “ballerina’s charm” is a dusty pale lilac cream with a bit of silver glitter, which unfortunately is only visible if you look really, really, close. It is quite old (more than two years) but the quality was still ok, and…