Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 16: Doodles

Having a nice Monday? I'm back from my weekend of and after a good night sleep I've charged my batteries after late nights, swimmingpool and too much sun. As I told you just before leaving, today I have a new design for the NAGG Challenge.

The theme for day sixteen was doodles and I didn't want to do the typical black doodle on a notebook background. Instead I went a bit out of the box and did a blackboard inspired design. Let's see what you think?

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 15: Round and Square

Hello lovelies! Finally friday. Although I'm on holiday I celebrate that it's already friday because every morning I go to study for my driving licence, which I still haven't got. So I'm happy that tomorrow morning I can sleep in a bit.

Today I bring to you a new design for the NAGG Challenge. The frist theme for the third phase of the challenge is Round and Square and I did this simple geometrical pattern.

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 14: Sweets

Hello lovelies! I've sure taken my time to come back after my trip to Milan. It's been nearly a week since I last posted, shame on me. However, I'm back now and for the moment I'm not planning to leave. The concert was awesome and now I'm back with some nail art.

After a week without posting I need to continue with the NAGG challenge. Today's theme (well actually yesterday's sorry, I should have posted on Monday....) is sweets. I wasn't really inspired by this so I ended up doing something simple. I hope you like this jelly beans design.

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 13: Hearts

Happy friday! I was supposed to be strict with the challenge and I'm already a day late with this post. But well, I'm on holiday and I totally forgot to do it yesterday. I hope you like it even if it's a bit late.

Today's theme for the NAGG Challenge was hearts. You all know how I'm not a very girly girl when it comes to nail designs so I wasn't really looking forward to this theme. At the end I ended up doing something pretty cool.

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 12: Camouflage

Hello guys! Well after some weeks on hiatus Lindsey and I have decided to retake the NAGG Challenge right where we left it. After a rough month I really want to go back to the challenge and doing it with Lindsey again will be awesome.

Today's theme is camouflage. I have never done it or even thought about doing this design but I have to admit I quite liked it once I had finished it.

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 11: Wallpaper

Thank God its Friday! This week has been terrible, I've had so little time for nail art and so much work. However I'm at least kind of keeping up with the challenge.

Today the theme was wallpaper and the first idea that came to my mind was the typicall 70s orange and yellow design.

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 9: Inner Geek

Hello guys! It's nearly the end of the week. I know I haven't been around much this week but well I am having family issues, my dad is in the hospital and I also have many exams and essays. I am trying to keep up at least with the challenge.

Today's theme was Inner Geek and I have to say I was looking forward to this one! I did some Lord of the Rings inspired nails. These are not my first ones but I love them as much as the previous LOTR nails. 

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 8: Still Life

Happy Monday, that is if a Monday can be happy. I hope you all enjoyed your weekend and are starting the week fully recharged. As you all know Monday means new design for the NAGG Challenge and here it is as always.

Today's theme was still life. I have to say that not even in art class I liked it very much. I've always found still life paitings sad and dark in some way. But well I had to come up with something and I ended up doing this.

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 3: Warm vs Cool

Happy Monday guys! It's my first official day on holiday and I couldn't have spend it doing more things. I've organized my closet, got rid of all the clothes I didn't want anymore and I cleanded all my room. What a morning I had. However this afternoon I am going window shopping to Barcelona.

Today is Monday and that means Lindsey and I are posting our new designs for the NAGG challenge. Today's theme was warm vs. cool colors. At first I wasn't very inspired by this theme but I ended up doing a mosaic design which you will love.

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 1: Achromatic

Hello guys! It's Monday and I have really interesting new to give today. As you all know these last months have been pretty difficult ones, exams, new jobs and in consequence they have been a bit slow. Lately I told you I was going to look for some challenge to make me do some nail art at a regular basis. I am happy to announce that I am starting a new challenge today, the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go challenge put on my Missy over at Gnary Gnails.

This challenge was supposed to be done in February but I loved the themes and saved it for a time when I could do it. Recently I saw that Lindsey from Wondrously Polished  had started the challenge but hadn't continued with it. We ended up deciding it would be fun to do it together. So from now until we finish all the themes we will be posting a design on Mondays and Thursdays.

The first theme for the NAGG challenge is Achromatic, absence of color. I decided to do fun design that I came up with some time ago and still hadn't done it.

31 Day Challenge Round Up

Hey guys! I think it's time I finally post a review on the 31 day challenge, don't you think? I have finally finished my classes until january when I'll have the rest of my finals exams so I found some time to make a little collage with all the designs for the challenge to put together all the designs.

I can really notice the evolution I have made at least with my pose and the photographs I have taken. I still have to work on the lighting on the photos because it's different in each one. However the complexity of my designs has grown and I've been able to think out of the box for some designs.

I'm actually really pleased and happy that I decided to start this challenge, I have learnt so much and I've tried new things. That's the point of all this right? I still have a long way to go but there's lots of challenges out there I can try.

Which designs is your favorite? I can't really decide because I mean I really like how my galaxies turned out but also my Starry Night recreation. LOVE THEM ALL! I hope that all of you have a wonderful weekend and happy polishing!

31 Day Challenge – Day 31: Recreate Your Favorite Challenge (Menage A Triangle)

Hey guys! It's been a while but this week has been crazy. I have tons of work I hope when I finish my finals in January I have some time at last to do some real nail art and make more than 8 posts in a month! Let's leave my stuff and let's get to the point. Today I am happy to present the last design of the 31 day challenge!! I can't believe it, I mean it's taken me like forever but I've reached the end!

For my last design I chose to recreate the ''Inspired By A Pattern'' theme in the challenge.

For my previous ''Inspired by A Pattern'' design I did Sherlock Holmes wall paper, here. I have chosen to make something totally different. The first one was black and white this has lots of shades of blue, the other one was nature-like patter and this one is geometrical.

I used four different blues and white to create this design. These are all the colors that I used:

I am so happy to have finished the challenge. It has been a wonderful experience. I will post a round up of all the designs shortly and I will make a kind of review of the experience of my first 31 day challenge. Until then you can find all the designs here. Happy polishing!

31 Day Challenge – Day 30: Inspired By A Tutorial (Purple Nimbus)

Hey guys! I'm back with another design for the 31 day challenge, I'm so close to ending the challenge I can't believe it! Today's theme was inspired by a tutorial and I saw this awesome mani by The Nailasaurus some time ago and she posted a tutorial on how to do it. The technique is called nimbus and it looks really cool. I tried my best but they don't quite look like hers.

It really doesn't have to look this bad.... It should be more like faded. I don't know how to explain it. You should really check The Nailasaurus tutorial on Nimbus nails. Her's look awesome! Maybe mine don't look as good because I didn't use pure acetone. I'll try with that the next time I try them.

These are the colors I used. You can try different combinations. Sammy has already done pink nimbus, green and also blue nimbus and they all look amazing.

I really like the idea and I will try to perfectionate them when I buy some acetone. I still don't know what my last design for the 31 day challenge will be. The theme says to recreate my favorite challenge. What should I do? Check all the manis I have done until know here and let me know. Have a great week and happy polishing lovelies!

31 Day Challenge – Day 29 Inspired By The Supernatural (Know Your Symbols)

Hey guys! I'm back, sorry for taking so long to continue with my 31 day challenge designs. I've had problems with my latptop and I had to take it to get it repared. But I'm here now with a new design. The first I can think about when reading this theme is of course Supernatural the TV show, which I really like. I made a Supernatural inspired mani some time ago, Castiel nails to be accurate. This time I chose the symbols of the show.

I think this mani has been the quickest to make in some time. They were quite easy even if they look quite complex and elaborate, they were actually quite simple to do. Maybe the hardest thing to do was the design on my thumb because it had tiny details which took a bit longer than the rest.

I really like how they look and the matte just makes them... i don't know I like them mattified. These were the colors I used for this design, the matte top coat is from Flormar.

I hope you liked this design. I realise this is the second design in a row inspired by a TV show... I know I have an addiction problem but hey! the frist step is to accept it. Well I am nearly done with the challenge, I have lots of ideas to come so keep tuned! Happy polishing!

31 Day Challenge – Day 28: Inspired By A Flag (Warholian Union Jack)

Hey guys! Today's theme for the 31 day Challenge was inspired by a flag. At first I thought I would do the Catalan flag but I already did it this September for the ''Diada Catalana''. I decided to represent my other half. As some of you may know I'm half English, so I decided to inspire my design in the Union Jack.

I decided to make the original flag and then I tried different color combinations, as if it was an Andy Warhol artwork. I tried to use really britght colors for the rest of the designs as I really want them to stand out. For the original flag I used the most accurate colors I found in my stash. These are all the colors I used in order of appearance:

The first color combination listed above is the one I used for my thumb.

What do you think about this colorful design? It wasn't easy to paint but I had lots of fun with all the different color combinations, they look very psychedelic. I hope you liked it too and that you had a wonderful weekend. Happy polishing!

31 Day Challenge – Day 27: Inspired By Artwork (Starry Night)

Hey guys! It seems I'm doing quite fine at the moment and not leting much time pass between each post. The end of the 31 day challenge is getting closer and I've finally arrived to one of the themes I was most excited about, inspired by artwork! I decided to make my own and simplified version of Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh.

I did my best to recreate a fantastic artwork. I guess everyone here is familiar with the painting, but just in case.. just in case I will post a photo here so you can see how my design doesn't make justice to one of my favorite artists.

I did what I could to recreate the effect even if the shapes aren't really accurate and as I didn't include the moon on the four nails I normally show you I decided to paint it on my thumb where I had more space.

These are the colors I used, not that much considering all the blue tones I needed but I just used my blue base color (Essence) and mixed it with other blues and black and white.

I hope you liked this design, I really enjoyed painting it and I'm quite happy of how it turned out. What do you think? Can't wait to create a new mani and end this amazing experience of the 31 nail art challenge. Happy polishing lovelies!

31 Day Challenge – Day 26: Inspired By A Pattern (Sherlock's Wall)

Hey guys! I am really happy to show you my first Sherlock related mani. It's been some time since I've wanted to do one and I found the perfect excuse! I inspired this design on the pattern on Sherlock's wall.

The design of course has been simplified to fit my nails and to make it less complex. If I hadn't done that it would have been a total mess. The actual design in the TV show is more complex than this.

This is just the first Sherlock design I've done but not the last. When the third season airs, let me think that will be like in 100 years time at this rythm, I'll probably do another one. I hope you enjoyed this design. Do you watch Sherlock (BBC), I have to admit I AM SHERLOCKED! I really recommend it. Have a nice week and happy polishing.

31 Day Challenge – Day 25: Inspired By Fashion (Eye On You)

Hey guys! I thought I could manage to do more than two designs for Halloween but I've celebrated it so hard with my friends I haven't done my nails until today! As I couldn't really do as many designs as I wanted, I sort of merged this challenge theme, fashion, with a halloweenish look.

I was inspired by a pair of leggings from my favorite online shop: ROMWE. I wish I had the legs to wear suspender leggings because I'm really in love with these.

I decided to make this design mattified because it looked more like it could be material like the leggings even if they are shiny nilon. I also tried to match the ye colors even if I didn't use them all I think they look pretty good.

This month hasn't been really active, I have noticed every month I do less designs... I have so much uni work to do! I'll try to make the most of it this month and make many designs! I'll finish the 31 day challenge soon and I will come with many new ideas. Happy polishing!

31 Day Challenge – Day 24: Inspired By A Book (Coraline)

Hey guys! It's time for a new design! It's been three days and I can't let it be more! Today's mani had to be inspired by a book and I chose on of my favorite books which later became a movie ''Coraline''.

I tried to represent the most importante elements of the story on my nails.

• Index: it's the key Coraline finds which will later open the door to ''the other side''
• Middle and Ring: the needle and the two black buttons that the Other Mother wants to sow on her eyes. I know creepy right?
• Pinky: the cat that helps Caroline through the story 
• Thumb: I copied the title of the book in the same style and colors

This was the main inspiration for my middle and ring finger. It's the moment where the ''Other Mother'' shows her the black buttons.

These are all the colors I used for this design, I tried to get the exact green of the plate and I think I did it quite well, don't you think?

Have you read the book or seen the film adaptation? It may look like a book for kids but I wouldn't recommend it, it's a bit scary for the little ones but I love it! That's all for today I hope you liked the design. Happy polishing!

31 Day Challenge – Day 23: Inspired By A Movie (Across The Universe)

Hey guys! Time for a new design fo the 31 day Challenge. Today's mani was inspired by a film ''Across The Universe'' one of my favorite films ever.