Mara’s Birthday nail art month – DAY 9

DAY 9

Good evening everyone,

today I have a very colorful nail design for you again.

For this manicure you need several different colors. Here is what I used:

Astor – 202
Catrice – green
Essence – Show your feet – 27 electric blue
Ciaté – PP065 – big yellow taxi
Ciaté – PP066 – headliner
Ciaté – PP106
ORLY – Baked – Tropical pop
p2 – 999 – aloha dreams
Ciate – PP017 – boudoir
any black and white polish (I used O.P.I.’s Alpine Snow and Manhattan’s black polish)

The base for this nail design is white, so I started applying two coats of Alpine Snow and let it dry.
After that I took a stamping plate and applied 2 drops of the first color (for example tropical pop) and painted a small triangle with my self-cut nail brush. After that I cleaned the brush, took the next color and applied that on the nail as well. Keep on doing that with all the different colors on all your nails. If some of the polishes need a second coat, apply it and let everything dry. After all colors are dry take the black polish and paint thin lines around the shapes you just painted. Let it dry and apply a clear top coat to seal in the design.

You might need some patience and time to do this nail design, but I think it is worth it.

How do you like it?

Mara

☆『マラ』☆

HAULy friday – nineteen – sickness & Maybelline

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Hey lovelies,

today I have a little different HAULy friday for you.
As you might know I am currently sick. My throat hurts, the nose ist running and I have headaches. DM is not only a great store for nail polishes, they also sell several health related things, so that’s what I bought.

nose cream with Camomile

classic tissues

tissues with Calendula

several drops for my hurting throat and some tea.

as well as hot lemon, acerola and ginger with honey. the one in the box is not from DM but from Japan.

While I was there I also saw the new Maybelline Colorshow Nail art pens. DM currently has a great offer. if you buy one Colorshow polish (1,95 euro) you get one of the nail pens (4,95 euro) for free!!!
I boguht 8 polishes and got 8 nail pens for less then 14 euro. In my DM they sell the Colorshow polishes for 1,75 euro. What a great deal!!

On the picture you only see four of the pens though I got eight, two of each color (white, silver, turquoise, gold/bronze)

Was this post intresting for you? Let me know.

Mara

☆『マラ』☆

HAULy friday – sixteen- KIKO polishes

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Hey everyone,

the open apartment was crazy today. I am still super tired from yesterday and had about 30 people (15 couples/friends) checking out our apartment today. I was busy for around 4 hours after work and now I am even more tired haha

Luckily my BF is making food now and I have time to blog.

Also tomorrow is a day I was really looking forward to since September last year. I will finally see my favorite comedian again. I am so happy.

Anyway, today it is time again for a HAULy friday.
I know I am a bit late with it, but I bought tons of new KIKO polishes shortly before and after the Blogger Event.
I didn’t wanna miss showing them to you :)

This was my first KIKO polish ever. I think I bought this one about a year or longer ago? So this is basically the only polish I did not buy together will all the following^^

221 – the shimmery light copper

I love this polish. This is my go to color when I don’t know which polish to pick. It is similar to my favorite UMA polish, but not as glittery.

KIKO - 221

The rest of the polishes I will show in order of the color.

203 – the french manicure striper

Yes, a striper. I was hoping it would be a simple white polish, but it is not. Also the striper brush is way to big, but at the same time maybe good for french tips? I am not sure since I always free-hand paint my french tips with a normal white polish.

508 – the simple nude

This is a nice nude beige tone. No shimmer, no glitter – simply a discreet beige polish.

512 – the slightly darker brown-ish nude with a hint of purple shimmer

Yes, it has a purple shimmer and I think that is why I was attracted to it. I felt it was different and unique, let’s hope it looks as nice on the nails too.

303 – the glitter metallic beige/brown

I am not sure as what to describe this polish. I think a light brown or even beige metallic describes it best.

511 – the kind of rose glitter metallic one

Really, this is so pretty. I had to get it!

497 – the dark red-ish purple one

also a very pretty color, so I had to buy it.

255 – the super glitter purple

very pretty with silver glitter in it. I am excited to see how it looks on the nails.

493 – BAM! the awesome glittery red

what more to say^^

533 – BAM! no 2 – the golden glitter green

I had to have this when I saw it in store, same goes for the following polishes.

532 – the glitter dark green with blue shimmer

Isn’t this super pretty? I told you I am a sucker for glitter polishes.

530 – blue like a lagoon

This was also one of the polishes I didn’t think twice, I just had to get it.

529 – the pretty blue shimmer polish

298 – the super sheer light blue / baby blue

518 – the light blue / grey-ish toned

335 – the marine blue

522 – another shimmer blue

517 – the shimmer grey polish

466 – the DENIM LE one

Super happy I bought this! It has a kind of matte finish, but with the slight shimmer it looks just gorgeous!

382 – the dark grey

You never know when you will need this^^

524 – the “I am note sure what color I want to be”

As you can see this polish is not quite sure if it wants to be blue, purple, grey-ish / silver or bronze……

514 – the brown with gold glitter

I was actually not sure if I should buy this but in the end I did and I am happy I did. Because it is very pretty and unique…..who know when I will need a polish like this^^