Swatch: Astra Italian Romantic Colours No. 19

• Name: Green Jade
• Number: 19
• Color: green
• Finish: shimmer
• Coats: 3
• Price: € 3.90

I'm nicely impressed by this color. It's a bit sheer but with three coats you get enough coverage and I really like how this color looks on me.

Swatch: Catrice 440 I Wear My Sunglasses At Night

• Name: I Wear My Sunglasses At Night
• Number: 440
• Color: black
• Finish: shimmer
• Coats: 2

This color looks really pretty in the bottle. It has a green and purple shimmer. On the nails the shimmer almost disappear and it looks plain black polish.

Swatch: Deborah Shine TECH No. 57

• Name: //
• Number: 57
• Color: brown
• Finish: creme
• Coats: 2 in the pictures but 3 is even better.

No problems with the formula or application. If you like this kind of color this polish is great.

Scans | Nail Up September 2011

Scans | Ray x Scawaii Kimono 2011

Gold & Navy Nautical Nails

This weekend some friends come visit so I will not have time do my nails. I decided to go with a mani that will not bore me. I love the marine/nautical theme so I decided to go with this nautical inspired mani.

-dark blue: Deborah Shine TECH no. 35-

-milky white with gold shimmer: KIKO no. 205-

-gold striper (used on the index too): KIKO no. 307-

I also recieved my birthday present a bit early (my birthday is on the 30th) and it's a new digital camera. It has great picture quality and it also makes HD videos so maybe in the future I will start to make video tutorials. Hope they will be more helpful!

BUBBLES

Sorry for the lame title but after a whole day without ideas I decided to go with something simple!

This is another nail art inspired by a Japanese magazine.

It's really easy and quick to realize, I think it took me 10 minutes!

Step 1: apply a mily white nail polish.

-White: KIKO no.205-

Step 2: make some pink dots around the edges of your nails.

-Pink: Miss Sporty no. 140-

Step 3: Add some blue dots.

-Blue: KIKO no. 295-

Step 4: add some purple dots. Wait until the dots are PERFECTLY dry and then apply tour top coat.

-Purple: Deborah Pret a Porter no. 34-

THE FLINTSTONES Inspired Nails

This mani was so fun to make and it's absolutely cute! You can also use it for Halloween!

Unfortunately my top coat smudged my index finger! :(

Step 1: Apply your base coat. Paint two nails with a natural polish, one bright purple, one medium brown and the last one a soft orange.

-Purple: KIKO no. 290-

-Brown: Deborah Shine TECH no. 58-

-Nude: basic-

-Orange: Deborah Pret a Porter no. 04-

Step 2: On the purple nail make a big horizontal line in the middle. On one nude nail make a big triangle at the base, on the orange nail draw the shape of the necktie, use a picture for reference. I used blue acrilic paint but you can use nail polish if you prefer.

On the other nude nail paint half of the nail white and make an oblique shape.

-White: KIKO no. 203-

Step 3: Add some black details. On the purple nail make some irregular black dots. On the brown one add an "X" shape and finish it with small dots at the ends. Add two black lines over the blue triangle. On the orange nail add some irregular black triangles.

-Black: Deborah Shine TECH 30-

Step 4: add details on the remaining nails. A gold dot on the purple nail, a white one on the middle finger and a row of white irregular dots on the index finger.

-Gold: Deborah Pret a Porter no. 04-

-White: KIKO no. 203-

Step 5: to give the nails a cartoon effect draw some black borders with a marker. Wait for it to dry before apply your top coat or it will smudge like it appened on my index finger.