My Dogsled is a Hybrid - My Christmas Day Nails - stamping nail art

Hello everyone!

This mani is inspired by the name of this green OPI polish from the fall/ winter 2014 Nordic Collection: My Dogsled is a Hybrid. 

I think it's the best nail polish name ever!!! :-) A hybrid sled would be nice if the dogs were tired. But how can it work? Do you turn it around and it drags the dogs? Or do you put the dogs in the sled and drive it with a gasoline motor? A battery would not last very long in the cold... Or as my boyfriend suggested, the driver would have to drag the dogs and the sled...


This is what I was wearing on Christmas Day. This manicure kind of evolved, so I'll show you the pictures in chronological order.


Step 1. Paint nails with OPI: My Dogsled is a Hybrid

When I noticed that the sun was actually shining, I ran outside to take some photos.

Not sure why my index nail looks strange.

Step 2. Stamp the trees, dogs and birds on. 

Then I hurried out before the sun went down, and I went for a long walk, as is our family tradition on Christmas Day.

winter sunset

It was -14°C outside, and the snow had turned into chrystals some places. You can see a parts of some chrystals on the photo below.

 This nail polish name also brings back a lot of memories from my childhood...

...I remember the Winter and Easter Vacations before I was old enough to go cross country skiing, when my dad used to put me in a pulk, and let his dog drag it. The dog ran like crazy, and never learned that the pulk was bigger than him... so it got stuck between trees, and turned upside down with baby me face down in the snow...

 ... and a few years later...

...our neighbours came with us. Our parents probably wanted to walk fast, so I was allowed to be in the pulk with the other children. We lay there, all four of us, in a pulk made for 1 or 2 kids, but we talked and laughed and had fun. It's one of the happiest moments from my childhood...

...and when I was about 12 years old...

...I took a course in dog sled driving. We only used 3 dogs, and it's a long time ago, so sadly I don't remember enough to do it today, but it gave me enough reasons to buy this bottle because of it's name, even though I had just bought the "little NORTHIES mini nail lacquers" set, and I think I alredy have some similar green polishes... You might remember them from my Summer Vacation haul post.


Here my skin looks pink because of the cold. I couldn't wear gloves, because they would have made my nails look hairy... LOL

Yes, I know it's upside down

Step 3. Add "snow". 

Sadly, I didn't look at the pictures until I came home. So it was then I added the snow on "the ground". I just used the brush from OPI: My Boyfriend Scales Walls.

Ott- Lite

Step 4. Add glitter. 

It was so cold outside that it looked like someone had sprinkled tiny diamonds everywhere. That's why I felt that the mani needed some glitter.

LED lamp

I put a few drops of OPI: My Voice is a Little Norse on a palette and used a tiny brush to apply it. It's from the Nordic Collection too.

LED lamp

Products used:

OPI: My Dogsled is a Hybrid - green creme
OPI: My Boyfriend Scales Walls - white creme
OPI: My Voice is a Little Norse - silver holographic glitter

Stamping plates:
Dashica Beauty Shop: Infinity Nails 75 - trees
MoYou London: Explorer Collection 23 - birds
MoYou London: Princess Collection 03 - dogs

Stamping polish:
Konad SN White
Konad SN Black

Seche Vite


As you see, exept for the stamping, I only used OPI. I don't have a sled image plate. LOL! So I had to leave the actual dog sled outside the design. Any suggestions?


Here's one photo taken in daylight, where you can see that it's shiny:

winter daylight

What do you think? Does this nail polish name give you good memories too? Any dog sled drivers among you?


Lani

52 Week PICK N MIX Challenge - Grey & colour - freehand nail art

Hello everyone!

This was made just a few hours before the deadline. I started with grey nails, and made a grey - pink gradient with grey, white and pink nail polish. The flowers were painted with acrylic craft paint, one angled brush and one round brush. I had just seen this tutorial, so although my nail art doesn't look like that, Cutenails/ Tartofraises is the one who inspired me. And this nail art made by ALPS Nail Art, so that's why I used these colors.

Products used:

Duri Rejuvacote
Inglot: #671
OPI: My Boyfriend Scales Walls
GOSH: #598 Bubble Gum
Sponge
Angled brush
Round brush
Acrylic craft paint from Panduro:
Rose
Titanium White
Lamp Black
Seche Vite

Inglot: 671

I used 2 coats of Inglot: 671, but I would have used 3 if I wasn't going to make a gradient. The lovely purple shimmer that I see in the bottle doesn't show on the nail, but I think it's a pretty grey color.

Inglot is not tested on animals, and it's as close to being vegan as possible; The kind man in the Inglot store explained that they use products like bee wax, and real hair in some of the brushes they sell, but that they also have animal free alternatives. So although no animals are killed to make Inglot products, they are not vegan, if I understood it correctly. :-)


Lani

Canada Day Nails

Hello everyone!

The Adventures In Stamping challenge yesterday was Independence Day or Canada Day, and I chose Canada Day. The flag was my inspiration. Happy Canada Day to all of you who are celebrating today!

Canada Day Nails

I used the maple leaf image from my new Pueen set, and my new and first white based glitter which I love, and I finally used my red croc effect top coat. Love the effect. The Jolly Jewels glitter was opaque in two coats, but I applied one more coat on my pinkie because I was curious about the glitter. And on the index finger you can see what it looks like over a white base. I used one coat, and dabbed a little more on. I wanted the nails to look a little different.

Canada Day Nails

Canada Day Nails

Canada Day Nails

Canada Day Nails

Used:

OPI: My Boyfriend Scales Walls
Pueen 12 (stamping plate from the Sumptuous Gallery set)
Konad SP Red (stamping polish)
Golden Rose Jolly Jewels #110 (red and black glitter in a white base)
Mi-Ny Croc Color: Intense Red 2 (red croc effect top coat)

Used to make Canada Day Nails

Canada Day Nails

Canada Day Nails

Canada Day Nails

Lani

Entry #2 to Konad Ireland's Black and White Competition

Hello everyone!

Entry #2

This is my second entry to Konad Ireland's Black and White Competition. I started with the white nails that were stamped with black animal print, that you saw in my last blog post. And I changed it by painting a black frame on each nail. Here is a photo of the mani before the frame was added:

You can find information about the competition and links, in my last post (about entry #1). I used Gosh Nero and a small brush to paint the frame, and used two coats of Seche Vite on top of that. Here you can see the finished result again:

The competition entry photo is the collage you saw in the first photo. I want to end this post with more photos of the framed mani, and a list of what I used.

Used:
OPI: My Boyfriend Scales Walls (white)
Konad: SP Black (stamping polish)
Konad stamping plates: m57, m69, and m78
Small brush
Gosh: Nero (black)

Lani