Books and Roses

Happy Sant Jordi everyone! Can you remember last year's explanation of what Sant Jordi is? Well I will refresh your memory. It's a special day here in Catalunya, it's like a national day and it's also the day of the book and the rose. People, specially couples, give roses and books to each other it's a lovely day. Check my last year's design and post for more information.

Catalunya Next European State

Hey guys! Surprise today's design is not part of the 31 day Challenge. Today's mani is dedicated to Catalunya, today is September 11th, our national day. As many of you know if you have read my About Me page I am catalan and our country is fighting for our right to decide if we want to be an independent state. These nails represent the flag that asks for independence.

Today is a really emotional and special day for all of us, a human chain will follow the length of the whole country (400km) so the world knows about our situation. You can find more information if you are interested here.

These are the colors I used for this design, including this new amazing blue polish by a new brand I had never used before:

I hope you enjoyed this little piece of history, and if you want to know more about today just ask me and I will do my best to try and make this situation understandable for you all. I hope you all have a great day and bona diada a tots els catalans i catalanes!

Baby You're A Firework!

Hello lovelies! Tonight in Catalunya we celebrate Sant Joan (Saint John), we celebrate the shortest night of the year. We normally gather up at night with friends and family and there's fireworks. I decided to do a simple design using fireworks as a theme to celebrate Sant Joan.

This was a really quick design but I wanted to do something for today. I will be celebrating Sant Joan with my friends and I have to get ready. These are the colors I used for this design, quite a lot:

 Did you know about this celebration? Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Happy polishing

Modernist Building

Hey guys! Well this weekend in my city there was this thing called ‘Fira Modernista’ where lots of shops are on the street and there’s lots of activities planned inspired in modernism. In Spain modernism is the same as Art Noveau, so people were all dressed up and it was all inspired by this era. I couldn’t do a related theme mani this weekend but I did it today. This mani was inspired by a modernist building in my city called Masia Freixa. It’s beautiful, one of the best things in my city. It’s in the middle of a wonderful park and its a lovely place to visit.

I don’t really do realistic nail art and this hasn’t turned out that well because of this but it doesn’t look that bad, does it? Well I think it looks like the building at least I think people would recognize it. This is a photo of the building that inspired my design:

I just painted one hand and I really don’t know what to do with the other one so the most likely thing to happen is that I take these off to do another thing on my two hands hahah. These are the colours I used for this design (greens and browns are for a tree i did on my thumb but didn't quite like so I didn't post the photo):

Don’t be to harsh on my realistic nail art skills. I hope you like my design and don’t forget to share, like and comment if you have any questions or suggestions. Happy polishing!

Sant Jordi!

Happy Sant Jordi day to all! I guess most of you are thinking, what the hell is she talking about? Well let me explain. I live in Catalunya and on the 23 of April we celebrate Saint Gorge/Sant Jordi which is the patron saint of Catalunya.

I’ll explain a bit my design. Sant Jordi is the day of the rose and the book. So men buy roses for women and women buy books to men. Why, you will be asking? The legend says that a dragon had a village terrified and to keep it controled they offered a sacrifice to feed the monster. One day the person who had to be given to the dragon was the princess. The story says, that when the dragon was going to eat her, Saint George appeared and saved her, killing the dragon. From the blood of the dragon a rose bush was born and Saint George gave a rose to the princess and the village was saved.

My accent nail is the flag of Catalonia as we are also celebrating a important patriotic day as Sant Jordi is our saint patron.

Here’s a close up of my nail so you can see the little roses I did. The flash doesn’t show the colors of the roses but you can see them a bit better from close.

These are the colors I used for my design including a new red my sister bought:

I hope you like this design and you enjoyed the story behind it. If you have any questions about this tradition ask me, don’t forget to like and comment. And again Happy Sant Jordi to all of you!