RETO 2013 - A new Challenge!!!

Well, since my January Challenge is over, I can start a new one, right?

I found the prettiest challenge over at Loving Cosmetic... The post is in Spanish and my Spanish is not that good as my Italian. But since the two languages are alike, I can understand most of it... Anyway, there's always Google Translate... :)

The rules are simple...

- There are 12 manicures to do...

- We are starting on Feb 4th.

- The challenge lasts for 12 weeks, this means one mani each week. And you get to post on any day of that week... (Loved it!!!)

- You have to use the Inlinkz code after posting each mani...

And the rest is up to your immagination...

Loving Cosmetics sent the English version of the table for me...


1st week -> Something about candy.
2nd week -> Something about love
3rd week -> Something about flags
4th week -> Something about Disney
5th week -> Something about Videogames
6th week -> Something about Fruits
7th week -> Something about brands (Coke, Nike, Dior ...)
8th week -> Something about Colors
9th week -> Something about Water
10th Week -> your imagination, whatever you want
11th Week -> Something about a Drawing
12th Week -> Something about Make Up

Isn't it fun? If you want to participate, please comment to Loving Cosmetic's post...


Don't forget, we are starting on February 4th... :)

My new Nailz Craze Plates

My new Nailz Craze plates have arrived!!!!

I guess I was one of the lucky ones to have them. :)

I bought my first plate about a month ago. I had bought NC02, the one with the unicorn... :) I've been meaning to buy the rest later, but when I saw that Natalie released a new plate with diamonds on it, I went crazy and ordered the rest!

To my surprise, the package came on only 5 days from Israel!

As always, it was neatly packed, bubble wrapped and came with a cardboard at the back, so the plates don't accidently get bent in the mail... :)

Here are all the plates...

Sorry for the fingerprints... LOL

I tried the diamond one today, NC04... As always, the images stamp crystal clear. The only thing that made my cry was the big diamonds... Just like the cloud pattern in the NC2 plate, you just have to scrape it really carefully to get a nice image. Because the image has a lot of flat area, it is really tricky to scrape... 

Recently, she made a video about the scraping method. After seeing her, I finally made my NC02 plate to work. I hope she makes another video for NC04.. LOL

For those who haven't seen the video, here's the link...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151362711106118

Anyway, for this mani, I used 17 Holo and Konad Special Black... Loved the way it blings... :)

Oh, the Konad Black is soooo hard to clean!!!!

The New 31 Day Challenge - Day 31 - Recreate someone else's mani

Oh my God!!! How time flies!!!

We are on the last day of the 31 Day Challenge... I am both sad and happy... I am sad, because I love doing challenges. They give me headstart when I lack inspiration...

I am happy, because it was really hard posting every day. I don't understand how other ladies do it but it was really tiring for me... I guess from now on, I'll be posting every other day, just like I used to do...

Anyway, for the last day of the challenge, we are supposed to re-create someone elses mani...
The mani I chose was the color opposites mani of Lydia from Lydia's Nails Day 16: Color Opposites.

Well, let's say I tried to re-create... I looked nothing like hers... Hers was more gorgeous. But mine did not turn out to be so bad... :)

Here's the awsome inspiration!!!

And here's my interpretation... :)

I used Essence Miami Roller Girl in Bienvenido A Miami, Essence Breakthrough and Flormar Matte M102...

Well, shall we make a round-up?

It was really fun being in this challenge with all the other ladies... Thanks Debbie, for the opportunity... :) Hope to see all the ladies in another challenge soon... :)

The New 31 Day Challenge - Day 30 - My Favorite Nail Art Technique

My favorite nail art technique???

Of course stamping!!!

But first, let me introduce you to my newest polishes....

I ordered them form a local web shop called Evoria... The package arrived like this...

In it there was a box...

In the box, there were my babies, wrapped in pink paper...

And here they are... Color Club Halo Hues!!!

These are the missing ones... Angel Kiss, Blue Heaven and Halo-graphic... I know, I know, these are old news, new 2013 holos are released, but please, I just got them... And it is impossible to keep up with the polish companies... :)

Here are all my Halo Hues... The old ones have a black cap... I wonder why...

Anyway, back to the challenge, I have two coats of Halo-graphic on my nails. And I stamped them with Konad Special Black and Cheeky Jumbo D...

There is a tutorial for making water spotted nails. I loved it sooo much and tried to make it. I tried hand sanitiser, alcohol, perfume, cologne... But I failed every single time. Then I remembered. I had the Cheeky Jumbo D and it had a pattern just like the one I wanted... :)

Sooooo, why bother... :) See, that's why I love stamping! You have endless possibilities!!!!

Enjoy the holo bomb!!!

The New 31 Day Challenge - Day 29 - Inspired by a Blogger

Oh, I follow many blogs... And I get inspired from them a lot. So when I saw the Nailasaurus with this mani, I knew I had to copy!!!!

I used Zoya Ziv as my base color.... After placing the tape, which took almost an hour, I painted my nails with Pastel 68 and 100...

I loved how this one turned out...

And the awkward hand position, only to show the thumb!!!