Colorful Cupcake Cat

Haul, Instagram and other things

2015-05-14T00:31:00.000+00:00

So many things have been going on lately so I've had to put the blog on hold for a while.

School has kept me busy as ever and work also so I've had little time for anything else but now

school is over, at least until next fall when I'll begin my last semester as I'll

graduate next Christmas. Can't wait!

I'm on Instagram now

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Last but not least; my haul!!

I met up with a friend in London where we spent a great weekend mostly in art galleries,

we also did a lot of sight seeing, walked around and drank a few beers ;)

From there we went to Sweden where she lives, I spent a few weeks there with her and her boyfriend,

needless to say, I had a lot of fun and picked up a few nail related things.

The items:

Lush - Lemony Flutter (finally got one)

Essie spa - Starter Scrub

Essie - Apricot Cuticle Oil

Crabtree and Evelyn hand lotions

The polishes:

China Glaze - Turned Up Turquoise

China Glaze - Platinum Silver

China Glaze - Pink Voltage

OPI - Go With The Lava Flow

OPI - A-piers To Be Tan

OPI - Wharf! Wharf! Wharf!

Essie - Mint Candy Apple

Essie - Over The Edge

I bought a back-up of Essie's Mint Candy Apple in Sweden, it's my

favorite polish and the brand hasn't been available in Iceland but to my surprise that changed last week.

I see a lot of money spending in my near future.

Polishes are:

Essie - Bikini So Teeny

Essie - No More Film

Essie - Cute As A Button

That's it for now, I can't promise a steady stream of blog posts but I'll do my best,
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Until next time.

Birthday kitties!

2015-01-11T15:08:00.000+00:00

My birthday is today and if I remember correctly I turn 28 today ;)
Had the most awesome surprise birthday dinner yesterday which my amazing friends planned for me and today I'm just taking it easy.

For my b-day manicure I wanted to recreate last years b-day manicure, pink cats. :)
I loved it so much last year and I also wanted to see if my free hand nail art skills have improved.
Here you can see my last year birthday kitty mani.

Polishes used:

Alessandro - Lime/Vanilla

Alessandro - Strawberry/Mint

OPI - Who Are You Calling Bossy?!?

OPI - Mod About You

Wavy Gradient

2015-01-06T11:08:00.002+00:00

School started today, brand new semester, brand new challenges, looking forward to it.
I also made travel plans, me and my friend are going to meet up in London, she lives in Sweden and I'm here in Iceland, and after a weekend in London I'm going back with her to Sweden and spend Easter with her and her boyfriend. Can't! Wait!

Polishes used:

OPI - La Paz-itively Hot

Kleancolor - Cherry Sky

Cult Nails - Faded

This one is a little bit out of focus but I love how it turned out on the thumb so I had to include it.

Happy New Year!!

2015-01-02T19:46:00.000+00:00

Happy new year everyone, hope the new year is treating you well.

I was planning on taking part in a challenge this month but I'm not sure I'll follow through on that, the plan was to use Christmas vacation to brainstorm and maybe do a few designs in advance for the challenge but that didn't happen.

But here is my new years mani.

The photos are a little iffy, had to use flash to get the sparkles to show.

Polishes used:

Color Club - Harp On It

OPI - My Voice Is A Little Norse

OPI - All the sheer tints

Guest Posting over at Leesha's Laquer

2014-12-28T01:35:00.002+00:00

Merry Christmas, hope you are all having a wonderful holiday.

I'm hitting a milestone today, guest posting for the very first time at Leesha's Laquer.

Here's a sneak peek.

So head on over to Leesha's Laquer to see the full post in color ;)

I''ve been absent lately here on the blog but I promise to do better in January,

I'm planning on taking part in a challenge, can't wait!!

Tutti Frutti Candy Cane Stripes

2014-12-11T14:58:00.000+00:00

No work today, there's a blizzard going on and I'm stuck home, not even going to try to swim through the snow to my car, which is also snowed in deep.
I thought I would use the opportunity and practice my freehand lines, I bought a ton of nail art brushes from Borne Pretty Store a while ago and I've been dying to use them.

I take all my pictures in natural light and because of the gloomy weather the pics aren't that great today but I still want to show you guys my candy cane stripes.

Polishes used:

OPI - Kiss Me I'm Brazilian

Orly - Blue Collar

OPI - Red Hot Rio

Oh and thanks for all the lovely comments, I read every one and for the most part always answer back but I realized today that the new layout won't let me reply to your comments, I'm pretty bummed out by that and I probably have to change that soon and after all the work I put into this it feels crappy...
Just thought I'd let you know why I'm not answering your comments.

A VERY late Halloween post - Comic Book Nails and my Costume

2014-12-10T14:54:00.001+00:00

There, I did it again, no blog post since October. I've been extremely busy with school, work and just life in general and I haven't been able to paint my nails so the state they're in right now isn't pretty.

I went as a comic book girl on Halloween and of course I had to do my nails as well.

Polishes used:

OPI - La Paz-itively Hot

OPI - Who Are You Calling Bossy?!?

OPI - Alpine Snow

Bonus picture of them glossy.

And lastly my comic book girl costume, very home made, did the sign myself and used acrylic paint to paint my face, after many tries with many different materials the paint was the only thing that would stick. Used he round eraser at the tip of a pencil to do the white dots and did everything else with a small paint brush.

Cobwebs and Spiders

2014-10-24T11:52:00.004+00:00

This became a one big mess!! I'm investing in a better striping brush today because the ones I own are crap.

I started with the cobwebs and thought that it was going great, then I decide to do a spider, BIG fail.

I still decided to post it, you know, the good, the bad and the ugly ;)

When I get the new striping brushes I'm ordering from Born Pretty Store there will be a point two

take on this one.

Polishes used:

Alessandro - Ice Cream Bar Lime/Vanilla

OPI - Orange You Stylish!

The New Black - Black Striper

Peppermint Taffy

2014-10-19T14:32:00.000+00:00

The boutique I work in is a little bit out of town and is right next to a shop called the Christmas Garden and as the name says its full of Christmas-y things and is open all year round.

One of the things the Christmas garden is famous for here is their considerable variety of taffy caramels that come in many tastes and colors.

I try not to go in there so often because the caramels call to me, they tell me to eat them all (!!!!), but for rare special occasions when I want to treat myself I go and buy a (~~mountain of them)~~ a few I and always think to myself that they are perfect nail art inspiration and if I can contain myself and won't eat them all at once, I could do a series of taffy inspired nail art. What do you think? Good idea?

But anyway, on to the nail art.

Here's the first one, peppermint taffy.

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

Essie - Peach Daiquiri

I'm eating the caramel as I'm writing this, it's heavenly!

A Makeover!

2014-10-17T12:37:00.000+00:00

As you can probably see if you follow my blog I gave it a makeover, I've been blogging now for over a year and thought it was time for a change. New layout, much simpler and cleaner than the standard blogger one I had but still with a splash of pink to it, and added social media buttons so it would be easier to follow or contact me. I can't say that I'm one hundred percent happy with it but it'll do for now.

Tell me what you think.

Leaves In The Snow

2014-10-13T12:10:00.001+00:00

I had a feeling about this, everything is covered in snow, it's beautiful to see the snow cover the bright autumn colors and I wanted to try to interpret that on my nails.

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

E.L.F. - Pot Of Gold

Barry M - Huckleburry

BK Polishes No. 07

The New Black - Black Striper

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Fall Is Almost Over

2014-10-11T15:21:00.000+00:00

It started snowing today and I got a little melancholy over it, I'm not a snow person, maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have fibromyalgia and snow means cold, cold means pain.

In my desperation over the snow I got out my fall color polishes and decided I needed to use them before winter starts for real.

This is what I came up with.

Polishes used:

Essie - In Stitches

E.L.F. - Pot Of Gold

E.L.F. - Mod Mauve

American Apparel - Peacock

American Apparel - Crescent Heights

The New Black - Black striper

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Juicy Tomatoes

2014-10-07T17:14:00.000+00:00

After the September-challenge craziness I'm trying to set myself blogging goals and actually following them through, this is not the first time I finish a challenge and then fall into a blogging rut, don't know what to blog about and what to paint on my nails, also up until now I've only posted sporadically, whenever the mood strikes or I do a pretty manicure, but now I want to put a little more effort into it and see how that goes.

For starters I've started several inspiration books where I can write things like prompts and themes, color schemes and trying to plan ahead for Christmas, Halloween, future challenges and such or if I don't know what to do I can look into my inspiration books and find something I like and want to try.

Well we'll see how that goes.

These are juicy tomatoes, I actually don't like tomatoes that much, the texture or something, I'm not sure, doesn't go well with me but I like these I did on my nails.

Are tomatoes fruits or vegetables?

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

OPI - Cajun Shrimp

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31DC2014 Day 31 - Honor Nails You Love

2014-10-01T13:52:00.000+00:00

THE LAST DAY AF THE CHALLENGE!!!

Thought this sentence deserved cap locks.

It's been a fun but difficult month filled with empty bottles of polish remover, dirty paintbrushes, lots of scotch tape and headaches over nail polish fumes, but it's over and at the same time I'm so glad it's over I'm also sad because I had so much fun and now I have to go find my own prompts, lol.
I'm giving myself a promise that I'll keep a better schedule (blog vise) now than before the challenge, I just have to stop procrastinating so much and just do things.

For this last one I decided to recreate Glitter Fingersss's Half Moons. I only recently started following her blog but every nail design she does blows me away.

Polishes used:

Cult Nails - Thrive

Kleancolor Nail to Toe striper - Beaming Pink

See what I did last year: 31DC2013

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31DC2014 Day 30 - Inspired By A Tutorial

2014-09-30T12:10:00.001+00:00

Keeping with the same theme as yesterday I followed this tutorial Here.
Again The Silence in a suit from Doctor Who ;)

When I took these photos I thought that it would be okay to just keep my regular hand pose with the thumb at the bottom and then just flip them on Picasa,
little did I know they would turn out so awkward after I rotated them so there are not that many pics.

Polishes used:

Alessandro - Midnight Black

OPI - Alpine Snow

OPI - Taupe-less Beach

The New Black - unnamed nude

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31DC2014 Day 29 - Inspired By The Supernatural

2014-09-29T10:44:00.000+00:00

What's more supernatural than The Silence from Doctor Who?
For some reason I can't remember doing this manicure ;)

Polishes used:

OPI - You're So Vain-illa

Black striper from The New Black

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31DC2014 Day 28 - Inspired By A Flag

2014-09-28T13:05:00.000+00:00

I wasn't that inspired doing these, I'm sick and just not in a good mood so this is not my best work, a little sloppy and all over the place.

I didn't choose one specific flag, I made this thinking of fall so I went with a fall-y palette.

Polises use:

Essie - Rock The Boat

Cult Nails - Faded

Essie - In Stitches

American Apparel - Crescent Heights

E.L.F. - Mod Mauve

E.L.F. - Pot Of Gold

American Apparel - Peacock

Kleancolor - Jazz Olive

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31DC2014 Day 27 - Inspired By Artwork

2014-09-27T13:17:00.000+00:00

Dots are my favorite kind of nail art, it's easy to do, doesn't take a lot of time and it always comes out looking good.

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese pop artist who is most famous for her obsession with dots, coincidentally she is one of my favorite artist. Some say her art is shallow and repetitive but I disagree, I think she is showing us her soul, showing the world her twisted imagination, how hard it must be to have spots on your mind all the time. I think she is in an institution for people with mental illness now because she would work on her art until she collapsed - that's a strong obsession.

Here's my inspiration, she calls this pumpkin her alter-ego.

Polishes used:

OPI - Need Sunglasses?

Alessandro - Midnight Black

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31DC2014 Day 26 - Inspired By A Pattern

2014-09-26T15:41:00.000+00:00

There are too many patterns in the world!!!
Choosing was so hard, I wanted to do something simple as I'm a little short on time these days, also patterns intimidate me, I'm much more of an abstract artist than anything else, at least when it comes to nail art. But I found this really pretty print on Pinterest which I like a lot.

The best thing about it is that it gives me room to be a little messy ;)

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

OPI - I Just Can't Cope-acabana

OPI - Sorry I'm Fizzy Today

Black striper from The New Black

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31DC2014 Day 24 - Inspired By Fashion

2014-09-25T09:06:00.000+00:00

I don't know why but this one was difficult to photograph, half of them where blurry for some reason.
This dress was was the inspiration for my manicure

Polishes used:

OPI - 4 In The Morning

Alessandro - Lavender I don't know the name of

Make Up Store - Elin

Alessandro - Yummy Yellow

Cult Nails - Blackout

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31DC2014 Day 24 - Inspired By A Book

2014-09-24T13:30:00.000+00:00

I took inspiration from the cover of the book A Discovery Of Witches by Deborah Harkness.
It's rather simple, black background with red smoke going over the cover.

Polishes used:

Alessandro - Midnight Black

OPI - Coca-Cola Red

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31DC2014 Day 23 - Inspired By A Movie

2014-09-23T18:26:00.000+00:00

I was a little uninspired when I was looking for inspiration for this one.

One of my favorite movies it The Fall, it's really beautiful, colorful scenes and a lovely story.

When I went looking though pictures of this film on Google I came across this one.

And decided that this would be my inspiration.

I'm not extremely happy with how this turned out, I used a lighter red and a darker red to give the design more depth but that got totally lost on the pics.

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

OPI - Coca-Cola Red

OPI - Red Hot Rio

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31DC2014 Day 22 - Inspired By A Song

2014-09-22T12:51:00.001+00:00

I took inspiration from the song Goodness Gracious by Ellie Goulding, I had never heard it before but it was colorful so I had a lot of options to work with.
I picked a scene that shows in the beginning of the video and is this beach scene with white palm trees.

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

OPI - No Room For The Blues

Sally Hansen Insta-dri - Flashy Fuchsia

And here's the video.

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31DC2014 Day 21 - Inspired By A Color

2014-09-21T09:54:00.001+00:00

Because I had my water marble "gear" on my table and some time to kill I did another water marble for this day's prompt which is inspired by a color.
As you've maybe guessed if you have followed me for some time I really like pastels and bright colors and my favorite colors at the moment are mint green and pink so I thought I would take inspiration from that and do a water marble with them.

There are two types of pink in there but as I used Acid Watermelon also as base the other one kind of blended in. These are much brighter in person, my camera could not handle this masterpiece ;)
Here are a "few" photos.

Polishes used:

L'Oreal - Acid Watermelon

Maybelline Color Show - Tropink

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Kelp Yourself

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31DC2014 Day 20 - Water Marble

2014-09-20T12:58:00.002+00:00

It's water marble day!!

I like to do water marbles, I think it's pretty fun but the thing is that it's time consuming and I suck at clean up, my cuticles always end up messy, that's the reason why I don't do them very often.

I love this color combo and I did a gradient using them back in January, you can see that Here.

Polishes used:

American Apparel - Crescent Heights

American Apparel - Peacock

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