Happy Mother's Day with flowers

Today is Mother's Day and well...it's always a busy day.

With my mother, my hubby's mother and being a mother myself it is not really the most relaxed day.

However I've been spoiled a lot :D

 

There were drawings, poems, chocolate, kisses, a DIY necklace and of course my UV and nail drying lamp!!

 

I recently had a surprise Mother's Day give away on Facebook for my Dutch followers.

I asked them to share a picture of something their mother loves.

Among the shares was a picture of scarves/mini shawls which the mother was obsessed about.

This is what I came up with:

 

 

 

I bought a nice Summer scarf and made a matching nail art bracelet.

 

Now, for my own mother...

She loves flowers and actually is my biggest fan.

From day 1 she's been sharing all my pictures on her personal Facebook page and loves when I do her nails.

Nail art is temporary and I decided that she should have something more lasting as well.

 

 

I've made a nail art locket which can be worn on both sides.

Front side are flowers.

 

Back side is purple holographic with the text: Mom. I love you!

 

 

And I actually found some time to do my own nails as well :D

 

I've started with a white base: Only You White French

Then I took a detail brush (0000) and black acrylic paint to make the flowers.

I've done the coloring with the same brush and the fabulous OPI Sheer Tints.

And decided to finish the design with a matte topcoat: China Glaze Matte Magic.

 

To all mothers and mothers in heart:

Have a fabulous, amazing Mother's Day!

 

 

Blue holo flower nail art

I actually didn't want to do a nail art today.

For two reasons:

1) I'm not feeling very well :(

2) This polish doesn't need anything

 

Let's start with the polish.

This is my first Indie polish and it is from the Netherlands...yay!

Thanks to another blog...don't know the name anymore because I was on a huge Google/blog search for Dutch Indies :-/

I finally found Big City Nails

And ordered 3 beautiful polishes.

 

Today I show you "The sky is the limit"

 

 

Are you seeing the gorgeous holo glitter already?!

 

 

I love the bottle top. It's like a giant "The sky is the limit" gemstone.

In fact every nail polish bottle should contain this...don't you agree?

 

 

The hand written polish name...definitely Indie and personal :D

Oah and a little peek of the polish on the nails.

 

Here are some more swatches:

This picture is taken in the shade

 

This picture is taken in sunlight (but we didn't have much today).

 

The sky is the limit is a clear polish filled with a great amount of blue and holo glitters.

Pictures above are 3 coats and 1 coat of Seche Vite topcoat.

With the first coat I wasn't sure if I could get this polish opaque but it built up very quickly with the next coats and also dried a lot faster than other glitter polishes.

There wasn't much sunlight today but when this polish hits the light...ahum...breathtaking.

I bought it for €6,95 ($9,54)

For sure a polish and webshop I can recommend.

 

For the nail art I only did a simple flower on the accent nail.

 

 

Polishes used:

- Big City Nails - The sky is the limit

- Layla Holgram Effect 07 Ocean Rush

- Maybelline Color Show 661 Ocean Blue

- China Glaze 544 Liquid Leather

 

Day 256) Fall look flowers

Today my mind was set on a flower nail art...it happens ☺

In the Netherlands fall has started with rain, wind and coldness.

Therefore I wanted to give the flowers a more fall look;

making it warm and keeping the design small.

 

 

Working method:

1) Started with a beige base

2) Lightly sponged with gold

3) Handpainted flowers and leaves

4) Matte topcoat

Day 193) Nail art glitter flower

In a few hours my hubby and I are off for some sightseeing.
My parents will take care of the kids as we go to Lisbon for at least one night.
So, today is a fast nail art because I just want to enjoy Lisbon and my sweetheart.

After the basecoat I sponged some pink, purple and gold nail polish. Then I used my striper brush and a black nail polish to roughly paint the contours of the flower. I ended with (roughly) coloring in this flower with a glitter polish.