Abstract Brush Stroke Manicure: Blue

Hiiiii Everybody!!

Omg....Are you as well so stressed like me? I FREAK OOOUT!!!
I seriously need a distraction or I will explode soon. So.. I guess I focus on my nails and tv-shows lol.

A while ago I saw on 2 great nail blogs a very cool, easy and awesome technique called "Abstract Brush Stroke Manicure"

Basically it looks like you spend hours on your nails, but it is actually very fast and soooo cool and easy to do :D

I saw these manicure with neon- and autumn colors in the internet, but was in such a "blue-mood" yesterday that I searched for all kind of great, useful blue polished I own and created the whole manicure based on one color - and I LOVE IT!!!

Ok, enough talk: lets get started!

Polishes I used:

• O.P.I. - What´s With The Cattitude?
• O.P.I. - Suzi Says Feng Shui
• Essence Colour & Go - I´m Bluetiful
• O.P.I. - Yodel Me On My Cell
• China Glaze - Calypso Blue
• Claire´s Polish - Blue Iridescent Glitter

I started with a coat of normal white polish, just to make the colour "pop" more :D It doesnt matter which brand you use.

The describtion of the Abstract Brush Stroke Manicure basically said "You simply use the brushes from the polishes and apply the colors semi-randomly, keeping an eye on balance and depth"

I felt that I should start with the darkest color first and stop with the lightest, even this was not the case in the 2 manicures I saw before - and I think it turned out pretty cool :)
And: it´s so fast! Every polish I picked I applied with a few strokes on all my 5 nails and went on with the next color.

The glitter looks useless in my pictures with flash - but under normal daylight or artificial light it has such a beautiful blue shimer, very gentle and not immediately to realise.

Here you can see it´s own color a little better.

Soon it´s weekend: my only motivation right now :D

See you later!!

Easy Christmas Tree Nails

Ho ho ho!!!

I hope you all enjoyed christmas very much and celebrated with your family and friends :)

I am right now in Germany to see my family and seriously brought more than 50 polishes with me because I could not decide which I may need or not :D My dad said already "child, I love you, but you are crazy" 

Yesterday I went to see one of my grandmas and I created christmas tree nails for her.

Polishes I used:

• O.P.I. DS - Extravagance
• O.P.I. - Don´t Mess With OPI
• Claire´s Polish - Copper & Gold
• Wet ´n Wild Fast Dry - Party of Five Glitters
• Wild & Mild Nail Art Pen - Red
• Wild & Mild Nail Art Pen - Yellow
• Essie Good To Go as a topcoat

First I applied Extravagance as my base color. It is so damn sparkly and perfect, almost a 1 coater :)

After I used scotch tape to create a triangle shape and painted over with my green polish.

After I removed the tape I painted on my pointer and ring finger some of the multi-glitter and on my thumb, middle finger andn pinkie I used the gold & copper glitter - but always just for the trees.

As an extra detail I tried to paint on some candles with the red and yellow nail art pens, but this is just optional.

I finnished with gluing on a tiny star on top of my christmas trees and applied a fast drying topcoat.

Enjoy the rest of your week!!!