Normal is an illusion.

So it is almost that time of the year again. Halloween has always had a special place in my heart, even though the country I was born in this holiday was never celebrated. It was so sad for me that people did not understand why do I carve pumpkins all day long or do scary makeup for the evening... I just like the feeling of this day, OK? It doesn't matter if I am the only one who is excited about it.

I am glad that my  boyfriend accompanies me on these things and always agrees to watch some silly "Halloween themed" movies.(And yes, I am extremely jumpy and it is annoying to watch scary movies with me in one room but he is a trooper lol. )

Today was the best day to make a post on these nails - the weather is Autumn-ish, which I adore, my birthday is only  2 hours away and I have The Addams Family members on my nails. I mean, how cool is that?!

It was a long time since the last time I did a nail art like this one, but drawing these faces using a fishing line wasn't something annoying. Maybe because of the good mood, and eternal love for these characters, I don't know. But I sure know that I am so proud of this nail art that I cannot stop showing it off.

Oh and since it was a perfect timing for nail art, we have made a new nail art video. Awesome, right? We have changed the format so that this way we can make the videos quicker, which means more often.

"Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly."

Morticia Addams 

'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

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??

Dexter Morgan is a sweetheart.

Hey there!

Guess who is back to doing nail art! Yup, yours truly.

I would like to apologies for my absence, but for the last two months I've been spending so many hours at work that I barely had time to do ANYTHING interesting.

BUT NOW, as I got used to it, I finally found time to do my nails. YES! I hated how my nails looked during these weeks - all broken and not polished properly.

So enough with the talk, here is what I came up to as a second comeback for this year - Dexter Morgan inspired nails!!

I've been waiting for the 8th season for so long that I could not believe that it is actually out. 

I decided to do a pretty simple design not to overload my brain too much - a few blood splatters, Dexter's weapons of choice and his name as usually - using only a toothpick for this design.

So whaddya think? I really like these and I love the fact that my nails are pretty again <3

Can't wait to see the next episode of Dexter!

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 )

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

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.

Nintendo Wii vs PlayStation Nail Art

Hey! Are you in your gaming mood? Because now you need to choose a side to be on.

This time two nail designs at once!

Nintendo Wii vs PlayStation!

Why two designs you are asking? Well, my sweet boyfriend is a PlayStation fan and I like to spend some time with Nintendo playing Zelda. 

I could not resist making both of the designs because I imagined them so perfectly  and could not wait to "dress" my nails with it.

Plus Keiran was excited to see these nails.

It's black nails vs white nails I guess.

As always - Keiran knows how to make the tutorial fun to watch.

It is ALWAYS worth watching till the end..

So what's your choice?

Channel -  NailAsylum

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Your support is important for me <3

Android Nail Art

Hello there, my dear readers!

It would not be my blog if it consisted out of all-girly-stuff nail art, right?

So that is why this weeks nail at is totally random and super simple.

Android nails!

(click to enlarge)

I cant't say much about these, I just wanted to make something quick and fun.

They all look different, but all together it's an Android army on my nails! 

Not sure of how long it took me to make these, but I am pretty sure that not more that an hour.

What did I use for this? As always - toothpicks!! one side for the green body and the other for whit eyes aaaaaaaaaand you're done!

Thank you for stopping by today and have a great pre-Christmas weekend!

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