Now You See Me... Now You Don't! - Thermal nail art

This look was created wih two thermal polishes. A thermal polish will change its color depending on the temperature. Most thermal polishes have two shades, but the one I wore as a base for this mani actually has three!

I love this look! The left picture is the warmest state, the right is the coldest and the middle picture shows the transition between the two phases.

When it's very cold, all you see is a gorgeous almost black nail with a bit of holographic goodness in it.

These are my first - and only - thermal polishes and I am absolutely in love with them!

Colors used:
bow polish - Mood Creator (base)
bow polish - Hex (polka dots)

Neon watercolor - I turned 19 today!

glow in the dark stuff makes me happy:)

I want to apologize for the weird/unusual picture today. I took this at Starbucks and I kind of liked the look of it, so I decided to keep it for this post as well.

Anyway, it's my birthday! I'm now officially 19 years old. These are my nails. They're not super color accurate. They're actually neon. AND, they glow in the dark! As always, my glow in the dark picture is weird and does not do the actual glow any justice.

Tribute to David Bowie - Rest In Peace, David.

The news of David Bowie's sudden passing has upset and surprised many people yesterday, including me. His music was an integral part of my childhood and there is no doubt that he was an astonishing musician.

I decided to make a design as a kind of tribute to him. Sure, it's an unusual choice of remembering, but nail art has always been and will always be my form of self-expression.

The portrait on my ringfinger is based on this picture.

Colors used:
black, white
LOOK - street (medium grey) [destashed]

Holographic abstraction

Wee, it's my first post in 2016!
I made the resolution to update this blog more this year, so I decided to start working on that today. Here's the result. (Note: I am still going to university, so if I miss a week or two (or a month), that's probably why)

Happy New Year! - simple New Year's Eve manicure!

Happy New Year everyone!

For this year's New Year's (Eve) manicure, I decided to keep it a lot more simple than the previous year, where I spent about 5 hours on my design. It barely took me 30 minutes for this one, so that's definitely a plus, considering I've been pretty busy lately.

I decided to use my all-time favorite polish for this design. I got this polish at Christmas, but it's way prettier than anything else I own. I paired it with black, to keep it simple and elegant.

I won't keep you any longer, go on and celebrate!
(Excuse my red fingers, I dyed my hair the day before!)

Colors used:
black
Milani - HD (silver holo)

Merry Christmas! - Red Santa manicure

Merry Christmas everyone! I know, it's only Christmas Eve Eve, but I won't be home until present time and I figured I'd rather put it up too early than too late.

I didn't get to do a lot of festive manis this year, mostly because uni is super duper stressful at the moment. Now that I'm on winter break, I'll hopefully get to invest more time in this blog.

If you couldn't tell, Santa is winking, he's not missing an eye or anything. It looks weird if you don't know, so I wanted to point that out.
The red polish did end up bleeding through the white, but that is my top coat's fault, since I used a different one for this mani.

Colors used:
essie - forever yummy (red)
essie - spin the bottle (nude)
OPI - Jade Is The New Black (green)
essence - winter wonderland (pastel blue)
white

24 days of swatches & reviews -- essence advent calendar :: FINISHED

The essie advent calendar consists of 24 nail products - mostly nail polish or nail art/manicure supplies.

All polishes are minis and have 5ml/0.16 fl.oz. of product in the bottle.