Essence - Dress for a Moment

Here's one of my new Essence nail polishes from dm. Pictured below is two coats of Dress for a Moment. Then, I finished with a coat of Seche Vite. (sorry, I forgot to clean them up first) 

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Mardi Gras Nails!

When I saw Spoiled - Pet My Peacock in the store, I immediately thought of Mardi Gras. I decided to layer this over Essie - Sexy Divide. I was really disappointed with the quality of Pet My Peacock, though. The base is really thick. This made it hard to apply multiple coats, which was definitely necessary to get enough glitter on the nail. Overall, not too pleased with these, but I thought I'd post them since it's Mardi Gras. 

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Catrice - Forget-Me-Not!

I'm leaving in a few hours to go to Karneval in Venice for the weekend! So, I thought purple would be an appropriate color for this. I started with two coats of my new polish Catrice - Forget-Me-Not! This is a really great color and could have been applied in just one, careful coat. Then, I applied S-he Matte Top Coat. 

This pic is before the matte top coat:

This pic is after the matte top coat:

I can only tell a slight difference between the two, and in the pictures it is even less noticeable. Then, I decided to use my new nail tattoo liner, too. I just created little dots on my ring finger using LOOK By BIPA - türkis. 

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Collection of Valentine's Day Nails

Hey, Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!!..I thought I'd combine all of the Valentine's Day manicures I've done over the past week or so into one post. 

Pink Gradient Heart Nails

Conversation Heart Nails

Pink and Red Glitter Nails

Valentine’s Day Crackle

Valentine’s Day Nail Stamping

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Snowflake Nails

It is so cold in Vienna. It has also been snowing a lot, so I decided to do some snowflake nails. I used some of my new essence nail polish. This one is called Stairway to Heaven. Then, I used BM14 and Pure Ice - Silver Mercedes for the snowflake stamp. I finished with a coat of Seche Vite.

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Conversation Heart Nails

Here are some more Valentine's Day nails. Check out my pink gradient nails, my heart stamp nails, my pink and red glittery nails, or my valentine's crackle nails for other Valentine's Day nails!

To do these, I started with two coats of Pure Ice - Super Star on my pointer, two coats of Essie - French Affair on my middle finger, two coats of Essie - Lilacism on my ring finger, and two coats of Essie - Mint Candy Apple on my pinky. 

Then, I used a fine-tip brush with Sally Hansen InstaDri - Rapid Red to write the conversation heart sayings on the nails.

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Day 31: Recreate Your Favorite Nail Challenge

I've been wanting to try some splatter nails, so I decided to do another set of nails inspired by a tutorial. I followed Polish You Pretty's tutorial. I started with two coats of Pure Ice - Super Star. Then, I dipped the end of my straw in Pure Ice - Flirt Alert. Like her, I could not get the polish to create a bubble at the end of my straw, because the opening was too big. I chewed on the end a bit to make the opening smaller, and this worked most of the time. Once the bubble formed on the end of the straw, I blew on the straw at the other end, aiming at my nail. This created the splatter effect. 

Then, I repeated this with Sally Hansen InstaDri - Brisk Blue. 

I thought that I didn't get enough pink on the pointer, so I went back to that one, but I got too much on the nail, and it ended up creating this purple blob. 

I cleaned up around the nail with cotton swabs and nail polish remover.

The thumb looked the best, so I finished it with a coat of Seche Vite and snapped this macro shot.

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Nail Challenge Recap

Here are the nails I have done for the past 30 days for the 31 day nail challenge. Day 31 is recreating your favorite challenge. The way I'm going to interpret this is that I can do any challenge over again, rather than recreating the nails I did for that challenge. Check back tomorrow to see what I decide to do! I can't believe it is already the last day of the challenge!

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Day 30: Nails Inspired By A TUTORIAL

I had seen these nails on Cutepolish's YouTube page for nail tutorials, and I thought they were really cute. I'm not sure these really required a tutorial, because they were so simple. Here's the tutorial anyways. 

I started with two coats of Pure Ice - Super Star. Then, I used a fine-tip brush with Essie - Coat Azure for the blue lines and Sally Hansen InstaDri - Rapid Red for the red line.

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Purchases in Austria!

Super excited about my new purchases! I've been wanting to get some Essence nail polish for a while, as well as, try out other brands I can't get in the US! I haven't tried anything yet, but here's what I got yesterday at dm:

s-he - matte top coat - 2,95

Catrice - Forget-Me-Not! - 1,35

essence re-mix your style - Stairway to Heaven - 0,95

Then, I got an essence stampy designs plate from Müller. It says it is 01 have fun!, but I have googled this, and the results show some other stamping plate..so I'm not sure what it is really called..It was only 1,45 though.

I got these today! 
From Müller:
essence nail art - purple magic - 0,95
From BIPA:
LOOK by BIPA Nail Tattoo Liner - türkis - 1,69
b.pretty - burned pearl - 1,09
b.pretty - sky - 1,09
b.pretty - deep sea pearl 1,09