It's that simple.

I know that every nail blogger out there did this design on their nails. Either for comic con, or any other occasion, but I felt like I am lacking this design on my blog.

So here it is, nothing outstanding, nor original, but does it really matter though?

Different colors on different hands because I had a difficult time choosing one fro the background. 

Just give me snow already! I'm sad seeing December without it. 

Feathery Dream.

I have recently visited Pet Expo 2013!

This is the only exposition that I visit annually for like 5-6 years now. I love every bit of it - all those kittens, puppies, ferrets, birds bunnies, all of them. Coming home with lots of presents for my lovely doggy I had inspiration for a very colorful nail art - feathers! And they are rally easy to draw - just grab a brush and draw tiny strokes in a feather shape. You can mix colors for a more colorful look.

Even though Pet Expo was on last Saturday and I painted my nails on that exact evening, I didn't had time to blog about it... For a number of reasons. But today is the day I share these nails with you!

This time there were more birds and dogs than cats, which is not a bad thing, it is just that I am used to seeing more cats there. But look at those feathery fellas, aren't they cute -

And, umm... The name of this breed made me smile - BASTARDS. It appeared to be a mixture of a canary and any other bird that agrees to.. well, you know.

Loved it.

Everything is OK.

This year really is something.

I had all sorts of emotions - the best ones and, sadly, the worst ones. And it seems like every month is giving me a test, which I will pass, I promise. But I still want this year to end. New year - new life, right?

Well anyways, I was not in the mood for the nails, although I love painting them. That is why I felt like doing something easy and pretty. These nails show exactly how I feel inside - bursting with emotions (hot and cold) covered with the dark color of reality. ( Oh, I am so poetic, lol)

So here they are -

They may not be perfect, but I am OK with all those colors underneath the top coat. 

I'm OK with any challenge ahead of me. I am not afraid.

Evil is a point of view.

Ah, at last this day has come. And as much as I love Halloween it doesn't mean that this day will be as awesome as I want  it to be. Once again I get the feeling that I was born in the wrong country.

How can this be? How can stores not have ANY Halloween decoration (one of them actually had Christmas stuff on display. October! Really?!) How can people ignore the fun of this holiday? I have seen only one person dressed up today but she was highly intoxicated so it doesn't count.

Either way, it has never stopped me from having fun... alone... at home. 

I have made a special nail design for today, that came to my mind 2 minutes before I was about to do something else. What inspired inspired me were those fake blood capsules which I bought a few weeks ago. 

Vampires. This actually took me just a few minutes to make but omg, I love those fangs so much I'm not taking this design off for at least 3 days more.

And they look especially great while playing with fake blood and taking pictures.

Now go trick or treating or simply get comfortable on the couch and watch scary monster movies all night long like a true Halloween fan you are.

Have a great holiday!

Wishing you a Halloween full of moonlight and magic!

Arachnophobia.

Spiders. I like spiders. No really I do... But only when they are miles away from me. But oh how these scary little rascals fit in to the Halloween feeling. 

Not much to say really, I just felt like painting my nails yellow, which in fact never happened before. Yellow was never my color of choice for nails and as soon as I have applied the color on the nails it seemed like something was missing - spiderwebs! 

An easy design for a quick Halloween nail art!

'Cause back in school we are the leaders of it all.

I cannot believe it is September!

I mean WOW did summer passed quick. But don't get me wrong, I LOVE autumn. All those trees changing colors and the wind and my doc martens boots. <3 (fuck yeah)

But lets get back to nail art, shall we?

I am not sure about all the other countries but where I am from 1st of September is a Day of knowledge. And on this day all schools and universities start  lectures.

So I thought that I needed something that reminds me of school.. And one of the subjects I hated the most was geometry. And first thing that comes to my mind when I say "geometry" is a ruler... So I've put one on my nails.

This is super easy to do and it gives your nails a little bit of a "back to school" feeling. All you need is some striping tape and 30 minutes of your time.

Go on and try this design out! I am pretty sure you'll love it.

And here is a song for the mood - 

Deftones - Back to school

Macbeth Nails.

I wear my Macbeth shoes like every day, if it not freezing outside... Or if it is not melting because of the freaking heat. But even then I wear my Macbeths from time to time.

So where was I.. Oh yeah - NAILS!

I decided that my nails should match my shoes aaaanndd this was a great idea. Honesty like how my nail look like.

What I did to make my nails match the shoes? I took a piece of fishing line, as I usually do, and WRITE WRITE WRITE on my nails! Then added a logo on the thumbs annnd here we are - DONE!

Best shoes! EVER!

Thank you for the inspiration!

Cats, cats everywhere.

Cats are super awesome, OK?! But one thing that bothers me is that... I am allergic to them. How horrible  is that!? I mean really, I'd pet them all day long if I could. There are more than 5 cats living right outside my house, I see them everywhere everyday and I cannot touch them.

But I found a way to solve this - CATS ON NAILS!

YUP! I am wearing cat-inspired nail art and now I have 10 cats, instead of none. And the best part is that I don't sneeze and cry around them lol. Hope my staffordshire terrier won't get jealous because of this.

This nail art was extremely easy. Super quick to do - just a background for the cats fur color, and faces done with a toothpick and black/white nail polish.

You guys should try this one out on your nails. It is if you like cats, of course. :)

So what do you think? Meow meow??

In The Music Mood.

The weekend passes by so quick.. I can't believe I need to go to work tomorrow already. But at least this time I haven't wasted all my free time for nothing -  I was playing guitar all weekend! I am so very proud of myself because for the last few months all I did on my day offs is sleep. What a shame.

But not this time. I will not waste my precious time anymore. 

So when I was choosing a pick to play with I ended up choosing one of my favorite ones - green fender pick, which ended up being an inspiration for my nail art for the next few days! I took a piece of fishing line, green and black polishes and did this on my nails really quick.

Here is how my nails look like-

I love my nails, I love this weekend, I love my guitar. 

"I think I like today, I think it's good." (c) Good Day

Come back again for more nail art and have an awesome day! 

<3

Down Alondra

Today is the music-related nail art day again!

But this time I'd like to introduce you to a band called Down Alondra!

Here is their home page, be sure to check them out!

I wanted to support them a bit and made a nail design inspired by their new song called EVERYTHING.

It is pretty simple but i really like the result!

I can continue telling you how awesome they are, but you need to hear them to understand it!

for example - here is their music video 

I guess this is it for today...

Come back soon for more nail art <3

Disco on the nails.

Another weekend - another nail art.

Well to be honest I did these yesterday while I had time at my boyfriend's work place. As I do not have a job at the moment I spend a lot of time home and I hate being home when Keiran isn't there, so that is why he takes me with him when he goes to work. 

I'm helping him out with some paper work, but most of the time I make tea and do my nails there. That is how helpful I am lol.

So anyways this time I grabbed my black nail polish with me and using acrylics I created something that Keiran named as "Disco nails".

I took a pencil, dipped it in the red acrylics and made a line of dots across my nail and then continues dotting with the blue color. 

Added top coat and the nails were done.

This was one of the fastest designs I ever did and Keiran's colleagues complemented me on my nails so many times. 

Anyways, If you want a quick and eye-catching nail design  try doing this.

And yes, I got a paper-cut... Paper can be dangerous sometimes.

Thank you for stepping by my blog and come back again!

<3

Glittery Things In Life.

Hey!

Did you miss me? I know you didn't but I am glad to announce that I am officially BACK in nail art creation.

Yes, I have finally passed all the exams for this semester (yay) and I have enough time to do nail stuff. ( at least until I find a job lol) but nevertheless I will be doing my nails more often from now on.

I will make it up to you guys for disappearing like that, I promise.

And since today feels like spring ( at last, I was so tired of snow already) I decided to add more glitter to the day.

 If you were checking out my blog these two weeks, you know that I have received an Adore Box with a cute pink-ish glittery polish inside. And today I had the chance to try it out on nails.

And not to make it too simple and boring, I added some black polish on the tips of the nails.

Tried to make it as rough as possible to create a decent contrast between glitter and solid color.

And it looks good actually. I planned on doing nail video tomorrow but now I might postpone for another day to get a chance to wear this design for a little bit longer.

And here is how they look like:

Pictures are so sunny and bright <3 and you can see the little tomatoes growing. My grandmother always grows something on my windows. Every spring. 

I think this nail polish look pretty awesome. What do you think about it?

Have a super awesome day and comeback soon for something new for your nails.

Adore Box.

I know you are tired of my excuses for not doing nail art as much as I did, but I have one examination week left ahead of me and then I will continue  to create awesome stuff on my nails.

And so one sunny Friday I received a box full of awesome stuff!

The Adore Box  is a regular beauty box but it is only for the Baltic countries... And the company was created only relatively recently so that is why I have never ordered it before. AAANNND to be honest I thought that it would not be as good as any of the American beauty boxes. Don't know why but I just think like that lol

I have ordered a one month subscription, just to try it out at first. It  costed about $20. (9.99LS) by the way. I was pretty impressed with the content of this box! it even had A cute little card that said " For Karina" in Latvian. ( yes, the "ai" in the end of my name kinda means "for".. confusing, I know).

So it had A LOT of things that I really liked like lip balm, mascara, body lotions but the best thing in it was NAIL POLISH.

OH GOD YES.

I really liked the color of the polish but I have not tried it out yet on my nails....

BUT my mom has... and my grandmother.. I guess they have more time than me to spend on nails lol

And here is how it looked on my mom's nails - 

The polish is "layla ceramic effectt CE37".

I hope I will have a moment to try it on my nails.  I will tell you how it stays on the nails later.. when my mother tells me how she liked it. :)

Well, I guess it is all for today.

Back to preparing for Personnel Management exam tomorrow.

Come back soon <3 

Easter Rabbits.

Today will be just a quick post with a quick and super easy nail art.

I don't have a lot of free time because of the University exams, but I had to do something quick and sweet for the Easter. And here is what I did:

Using all the fun colors, I did the background for my Easter nails.  These polishes were bought in UK in Primark in a set. I do not remember if this set had a name but doesn't matter, I'm not sure they are still selling those anyway.

Then I grabbed my acrilics and started speed-drawing bunnies on my nails. Cute and super easy - in about 2 minutes I have "bunnified" my nails. 

And in addition, I drew a cute little chick hatching from its egg for Easter.

Add a top coat and here you are - cuteness on your nails in 5 minutes.

Come back again on the weekends to see another awesome nail art! <3

And Happy Easter!

(Picture by julkusiowa )

My "Magneto" experience.

Hello!

I must say, bare with me for two more weeks - I have an exam session going on at University and that is why my nails are taking a break from epic nail art.

BUT It doesn't mean I don't do anything nail-related.

This time I did this Magnetic nail art on my mom's nails. She usually asks me to do something simple on her nails and as I recently discovered a new nail polish type I decided to give it a try.

So the first time I saw Magnetic nail polish was in The Little Canvas 's blog. And I must tell you I felt kinda embarrassed for not knowing that polish can do that lol. 

And I definitely have never thought that I would find that polish somewhere in my local stores, but whadya know, I went to buy some tattoo stencil paper and there it was, right at the cashier's desk.

But I think it is enough with the words - here is my first experience being Magneto.

I'm sorry if my voice sounds weird in this video. I've been sneezing all day and there was nothing I could do with it. 

I think they turned out great. 

Thank you for reading and some back soon!

Transformers Nails

I've been making posts on random days lately, and today is the nail art day as well.

I have missed my standard post style so I will make it as "traditional" as possible. 

My boyfriend loves Transformers and I just couldn't say "no" to him, when he asked me to draw them on my nails. He has been busy working on the signatures for the Transformers game forum, so this is something special for him.

Did you miss my comic book-ish photos of my nails? lol 

I know that they aren't perfect, it turned out more complicated to draw than I expected it to be. 

I drew autobot's and decepticon's logos on two of my nails and simply added tiny rhinestones to other nails. And for the background - my attempt to do a gradient.

Anyways, I am glad that I did this post as I used to. 

Thank you for stepping by and come back again for more nail art <3

Deftones Nail Art

Hello, sweethearts!

Did you guys miss me? First of all I'd like to apologies for not posting anything for two weeks now. I had a lot of things happening and I haven't been feeling well for a few days. As I am feeling a bit better today, I feel that I must make a post on the blog. We haven't filmed anything, but I think we will have a new video tutorial this weekend. I hate being sick, I hate staying at home and feeling sick. So I think I will be feeling as good as new till the end of the week! ^__^

I have chosen a "band-inspired"nail art to come back from the two week "break" from painting my nails.

This time it's Deftones!

I haven't been listening to them for two years or so, but recently I have discovered their albums on my phone and I started listening to their music again.

I am not complaining but it was pretty hard for me to do these tiny rose details... But I think I'll improve when I will be feeling better. :)

I know that this design is very simple, comparing to my other ideas - but bare with me this week.

Here is a great song for you, that is called "Good Morning, Beautiful" <3

"You should wake up before the wrath comes

me and you could take off before the wrath comes.."

Feel free to tell me what you think about these nails and come back this weekend <3

Valentine's Day Nail Art

Hello, my dear!

The real world has been taking all my time away lately, but I hope to find some more time to spend on nails.

They aren't in a "good shape", and I need to start recovering my nails. Maybe I need some vitamins?

Oh well..

The Valentine's Day is in a few days and as much as my boyfriend  hates this day, I am still excited to do something sweet for him. Can't say what.. He might take a look at this post lol.

Well, as the day is all about kisses, hearts and chocolate, I decided to do something ultra simple and super girly.

WELL... They might not be perfect this time. It was like the whole world was against me doing that design that day. Doesn't matter - had fun painting my nails while the love of my life was filming the mistakes I make lol.

Here is the video by the way - 

I honestly did not expect him to agree on participating in a girly video like this one... But he is the sweetest man on Earth!

PS. and , if you are reading this - thank you :*

<3

Thank you for stopping by to read this and come back next time for more nail art <3

Angels And Airwaves Nail Art

The first thing that I must say is - It was a surprise for me  not to find an AVA inspired nail art when I Googled it. I mean, really?

I love the band, the songs, the music, the lyrics the videos.. How can you not LOVE them after listening to at least one song?

If you have never listened to their masterpieces - shame on you! But here is a chance to make things right - I will post their song at the end of the post.

ANYWAYS, here is a quick preview in photos - 

Annnnd here is the video! TRUST ME it is worth watching - there is always "something special" added in it!

Love it! I'll be wearing this design for as long as possible!

Thank you for stepping by this weekend and "Spread Hope Like Fire" (c)

PS. here is a video for you - 

Oh and I have ordered this today -

CANT.FREAKING.WAIT.

Grenade Nail Art

Wow..

The real life had a lot prepared for me this week. But I am back and I'm in the mood for nail art!

Maybe this design is not something I usually do but I REALLY loved the idea of having tiny grenades on my nails since I saw this post - pinkandpolishednails .

And so here are my version of this - 

Check out the video on this nail design right here -

or follow the link - Video Tutorial

Thank you for checking out my blog and have a great weekend!

Love, 

K.