Texas Nail Art

I have since a few months back worked on becoming an Au Pair in the US, and last week I finally found my host family. So in less then a month I will be going to Texas to work as an Au Pair there for the next year. My updating might be really bad during that time but I will try to update some. So to celebrate this I did Texas nails, with the Texas flag. And I know the flag is wrong for this angle but from my angle the flag is right. So you just have to imagine it or turn your computer upside down or something.

To do this nails I started with base coat and then two layers of white. Then with the red nail polish I painted half the nail, using the nail polish bottle brush. Then with a pretty thin brush I painted the blue on freehand. 

Then I thought about painting white stars on the blue but then I decided to just use some star charms on instead. Taking the easy way out. 

The Nail polishes I used are these -

Don't forget to use base coat to protect your nails.

White - OPI - Alpine Coat

Blue - China Glaze - First Mate

Red - Gina Tricot - Formula One

Top Coat - Nails Inc - Caviar Top Coat

Jeans Nail Art - Wear Your Nails

The nails I wanna show you now is inspired by jeans. I bought this jeans affect nail polish not so long ago and I haven't tried it before so I thought now it was time that I did!

When I did these nails I started with base coat which is always a most. Then I put two layers of the demin effect nail polish on. Then with a striping brush and gold nail polish I did small lines in different patterns to look like the stitches that you find on the jeans. 

It was an easy design but it looks pretty good according to me. And I just wanna point out that it's not tipwear on the pinky. It kinda looks like that but it's gold nail polish there. Just had to get that out haha. 

I did these nails matte because I thought that brought out the jeans look more. 

I have been a little bad with my nail care the last few weeks so I know it looks so bad, but I'm gonna take better care of it now haha. I promise you all that! 

 The nail polishes I used -

Base coat - Isadora - Second Nail

Denim - Kubiss - Denim Nail Affect

Gold - Sephora - I'm A Rich Girl

Matte top coat - Essie - Matte About You

Please leave me a comment to let me know what you think about this design. 

Galaxy Nail Art - My nails are out of this world

Today I thought I would share this galaxy Nail Art which I made. I'm pretty satisfied with these nails, except for the fact that the glitter I put on top of it was to compact. Which I didn't really know before. But other then that its a pretty easy design all you need is some cool nailpolishes and a make up sponge and then you are good to go.

To do this design I started with two layers of a dark blue with a little bit of shimmer in it. Then with a make up sponge I put on a little pink, a light blue and then at last purple. Then to top it all of and give it that 'Out of this world' feeling I added some holographic topcoat. 

Then with a white striping nailpolish I made some stars on and then made some smaller stars with a dotting tool. And then I did that thing I regret the most, I wanted more glitter so I grabbed this new glitter striping nailpolish and made some random things on the nail. Lucky me it didn't look so bad in real. 

To end it all I added a layer of topcoat, to just put the finish touch on it. Making it all smooth and shiny.

 The nailpolishes I used for this design is these - 

Base coat - Isadora - Second Nail

Dark Blue - China Glaze - Up All Night

Pink - Essie - Cute As A Button

Light Blue - China Glaze - Flyin' High

Purple - Mavala - Samarkand

White - Kiss Nail Art

Glitter - Kiss Nail Art

And then I realized I forgot the top coats I used -

Holographic - Ciaté - Halo

Top Coat - Seche Vite 

Please leave a comment saying what you think about this design, thanks.

Perfect Clean Up after painting your nails.

Everyone knows its not the most easiest thing to paint your nails perfectly, but what makes them look perfect is the perfect clean up, not only from nail polish outside your nails but also to get perfect line around your cuticles. To do this there are a few different techniques which I thought I would show you today.


The first thing is that you can use cotton swabs (q-tips) dipped in nail polish remover. But this is probably just best if you got nail polish outside your nails. It's not the easiest thing to get the perfect clean up around your cuticle with a cotton swab though.

The next thing is a nail polish correction pen. I used one for the swedish store Kicks, from their own brand.

Its like a pen full with nail polish remover. Its a good and easy way to get a good clean up. But the downsides which I found about this is that the tips easy broke and got ugly. But luckily you usually get a few extra tips with. These pens are available from OPI and Essie too that I know of at least. 

But after trying all different ways this next thing is my favorite. I use an angled eyeshadow brush that I bought pretty cheap. 

Just dip it in nail polish remover and its great for the clean up around your cuticle. To get the best looking nails it looks best if you clean so the nail polish don't really go all the way down to the cuticles. 

I hope this helps you all to get the perfect clean up!

Depends Nail Care Kit.

On todays post I wanna talk about a Nail Care kit made by Depend which is a swedish brand which you can find mostly in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Mostly know for their mini polishes and nail care products.

This is a kit that I bought not so long ago. It includes Avocado oil, Cuticle peeling and Cuticle cream.

Since I bought this kit I have been using it once a week. It does take some time but so far I think it's worth it because of the results I noticed so far. I think my cuticle which haven't been in the best shape are looking so much better. 

And on top of it all I think my nails are growing faster, which makes sense since that they grow faster when the nails are feeling better. That must be a good grade for it, don't you think? 

This was my nails in the beginning after a using it for a while. 

And this was my nails a while back, the only picture I could find right now but my cuticle was in a much worse state in between this picture. 

So this is something I recommend for those who can get your hands on it. 

Blue and Yellow Flower Nails - Inspired by a book

Today my design is inspired by a book. This is what happened when I am out of ideas and look for inspiration around me. I looked through my book shelf's to find a book with a cool cover you could make a great design out of. After a while I found one and this is the results of that.

The book I got inspired by is this book 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'. It's a great book by Jenny Han, which I recommend to all teen girls out there. 

To do this design I started with a base coat and then two layers of white. Then to make it pretty easy for me I used a dotting tool and started making yellow dots over the nails. Then with a striping brush I made blue stripes from the yellow dots. I didn't do them perfectly because I thought it brought a little charm to it. Then I added another yellow dot over the old dot to hide those blue stripes that came over the yellow dot. 

On my ring finger I only made one a little bigger flower to make it some kind of accent nail. 

The nail polish I used of this is -

Base coat - Isadora - Second Nail

White - Nail Girls - Snow White Tips

Blue - China Glaze - Flyin' High

Yellow - Face Stockholm - 171

Top coat - Nails Inc - Caviar Top Coat

Thank you for checking in and please do it again!

Ciaté Metallic Foil Nails

For these designs I used a method I haven't used before but it was pretty easy and I like the results of it.

For this I used the 'Very Colourfoil Manicure' kit from Ciaté.

The kit includes a nail polish - Kiss Chase, Foil Fix (glue) and small pieces of what I guess we should call the Foil. 

For this you start with base coat as normally to protect your nails. Then you put two layers of the nail polish which was included in the kit. When its completely dry you put some foil fix on some random spots on the nails and then put the foil paper on, just press it first and pull it off quickly. Then you just repeat putting on more foil until you are completely satisfied. Then finish with a coat of top coat. Super easy!

It's an easy method and it gives an great results without having to have loads of experience and time to make it super carefully. I think this is a great method where you can be a little sloppy but will still get a great design. 

Swatch - MIYO Summer Flower

Since I don't have a design to show you today I wanna share a swatch of a nail polish that I got in present not so long ago. I got it when I took my drivers license actually!

The brand is MIYO and the color is called Summer Flower.

It's a very pretty pink cream polish. It had a great formula and looked great with two coats. 

The special thing about this nail polish is that it's scented. I guess it's suppose to smell like summer flowers because of the name. It smells great and I was smelling my nails non stop when I had it one, which sounds a little creepy. 

Sunset Inspired Nails - including glitter and studs.

Today I wanted to do a gradient, and because of all the beautiful sunsets right now I let my gradient be inspired by that. I don't know if it turned out the way I hoped, but I'm pretty satisfied with it anyways and think it ended up pretty good and thats what counts doesn't it?

For this design I have three different orange colors. I started with base coat and then two coats of the lightest orange color. Then to do the gradient I took a make up sponge and painted all the three shades of orange on it. You have to put on quite a few layers because the sponge takes in a lot of the nail polish. Then I just dabbed it on the nail. Did this a few times letting it dry between to get the results that I wanted. 

It was the first time I did a gradient like this and I'm pretty happy about how it turned out. The only thing I think I didn't do so good was the I dabbed it to low on the nail and it didn't get so much of the lightest color in the end. But practice makes perfect and I'm sure I will think about that the next time I do a gradient.

To make it all a little funnier I added a holographic top coat on it. Then to make it a little special I wanted to make a fun accent nail. So I went though my boxes and found some studs I never used. The first one I put on I just put on the the wet top coat. But then I thought it would probably look better if I added some more studs. But by then the top coat had dried and I had to use some glue. And to just sum it up it didn't end so well which you can probably notice. But my favorite saying is practice makes perfect so I will just stick with that now too. 

The nail polish I used for this -

Base coat - Isadora - Second Nail

Lightest orange - Mavala - Fresh Melon

Middle Orange - Isadora - South Beach 

Darkest Orange - Ciaté - Speed Dial

Holographic top coat - Ciaté - Halo

Top coat - Seche Vite 

Please tell me what you think about this design, I love to hear it!

Nails inspired by art by Keith Haring.

Trying to come up with new design I looked through my memory to find some thing to get inspired from. Then I remembered this artist that we talked about in art class years ago. I remember he had some cool theme through his works. My problem were just that I didn't remember his name. So I spent some time searching through the world of internet and then I found it. The artist was Keith Haring. So here comes the results of my nails inspired by Keith Haring.

This is the work that inspired my nails.

To do this nails I started of with a coat base coat and then two coats of white. Then I used a thin brush to paint all the characters and then with a striping brush I did all the black lines around them. The heart I did with a dotting tool though. Topped it off with a top coat and its done!

Giving you a picture of my thumb too, just because I'm feeling generous. But it looks a little weird though haha. 

The nail polishes I used - 

Base coat - Isadora - Second Nail

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Orange - Isadora - South Beach

Red - Gina Tricot - Formula One

Yellow - Face Stockholm - 171

Blue - China Glaze - First Mate

Green - Sephora - Picnic In The Park

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black 

Top coat - Seche Vite

Thanks for looking in here and I hope you liked what you saw. 

Golden Polkadot Half Moon Nails

I thought it was time for me to do my first half moon manicure so that is what I did for todays design. The name half moon manicure comes from the fact that you paint a half moon looking figure on the bottom of your nails.

To do this nails I started with painting the whole nail pink and then with a brush I added the gold half moon. Then to make it a little funnier I added some polka dots. 

Then I ended it all with a matte top coat, just because I love making nail polish with glitter matte. 

The nail polishes I used -

Base coat - Isadora - Second Nail

Pink - MIYO - Summer Flower 

Gold - Sephora - I'm A Rich Girl

Matte Top Coat - Essie - Matte About You

Please tell me what you think about the design! Did I succeed my first half moon manicure? Leave a comment below.  

Tribal Nails

Sorry for not updating in a while. Been working, been on vacation and just been general lazy. I haven't even painted my nails in so long which isn't alike me at all.

But now I'm back and I'm back with a tribal printed nail art. Some girl even asked me if they were stickers when I was out shopping. I guess that's something good, haha.

I know the lines aren't the straightest lines and the cleanest clean up, but it's what I got for you today. For this design I used a striping brush and a dotting tool.

The nail polishes I used for this design -

 Don't forget base coat to protect your nails.

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Pink - Essie - Watermelon

Blue/Green - Essie - Turquoise & Caicos

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black

Purple - H&M - Lilac Plum

Top coat - Seche Vite

Sorry for being away so much, but I will try to make it better for you!

Black and white Nail Art

Today I wanna share an easy design. Not the most colorful one but I like it. Looks kinda cool according to me.

To do this design I started with a base coat as usually. Then I painted two layers of black. Once it was completely dry I freehand painted with a thin brush and then added some dots with a dotting tool just to make it a little prettier. 

Then I just added a layer of top coat for the finishing touch. 

The nail polishes I used -

Don't forget to base coat to protect your nails. 

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black

Vit - OPI - Alpine Snow

Top coat - Seche Vite

Thank you for checking in, and I would love if you left a comment for me. Requesting a design or just letting me now what you think of this one!

Animal Inspired Nails - Cheetah printed

Today I'm gonna show you something you haven't seen on this blog before, or well how am I kidding. Nails inspired by an animal. What else could it be then cheetah prints. It's one of my all time favorite designs and I never say no to an opportunity to wear it.

 This time I went with a turquoise and blue design. Im pretty happy about the colors in it, think they made a good match.  The whole design is made of different sized dotting tools.

I apologize over the tip wear, I just was to lazy to take pictures earlier. I'm so lazy I know. 

The nail polishes I used -

Don't forget to always start with a base coat. 

Turquoise - Ciaté - Headliner

Blue - Nicole by OPI - My lifesaver 

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black

Top coat - Seche Vite

Thank you for checking out my blog!