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Hello everyone, I hope you had a great start to the week! Mine is going to be a busy one.. as always :) Anyway, I have a couple of Gouda Gouda Two Shoes swatches that I want to share with you. As it says in the post title, the swatches were made by Nastya and it’s her second guest post here in my blog. Let’s move on to the pics, shall we?..

Gouda Gouda 2 Shoes OPI

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Happy Sunday everyone! Today there will be my first outdoor swatch ever :) Last weekend I went into the country with my friends, and there I had plenty of time for swatches and polishes between barbecues, picnics and walks along the beautiful local river.

Here’s the first color – an amazing crimson nail polish by Zoya in Maura:

Zoya Maura ZP 517

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Hello! I have a new guest today, her name is Anastasia and she’s from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Nastya (it’s short for Anastasia in Russian) enjoys traveling and snowboarding. She’s been in many countries across Europe, and she’s always up for a trip to the mountains where there’s chill in the air accompanied by bright sun and snow.

Apart from snowboarding Nastya loves reading, programming (she’s a programmer btw), chocolate ice cream and nail polishes. For her first guest post here in my blog she chose a beautiful color – Zoya in… yes! Anastasia :)

Zoya Anastasia swatch

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Hello :) Life is hectic for me atm, that’s why I don’t post as often as I used to *sigh* I really miss blogging and nail art designing :( Today I have a simple nail polish swatch for you – a well known OPI color called Ski Teal We Drop:

OPI Ski Teal We Drop swatch

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It’s time for another guest post from Bulgaria :) I’d love to show you a wonderful floral nail art by Adi:

Purple Floral Nail Art

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Essie 346 in Capri

April 12th, 2012 | Posted by Mari in Nail Polish Swatches - (1 Comments)

Hello :) Before I move on to the last part of the 31 Day Challenge, I want to post a couple of swatches. Today it’s an orange nail polish by Essie called Capri. The color is hard to take pictures of, I took more than 50 and it looked different every time %) Here are 3 pics, where the color looks more or less close to real life:

Essie 346 Capri pics

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Day 20: Water Marbled

April 4th, 2012 | Posted by Mari in Nail Art Designs - (1 Comments)

Water marbling… is fun! Seriously :) When about a year ago I saw a tutorial on this technique, I was terrified. I saw a girl’s nails and fingers all covered with polish and I imagined how much time and effort it takes her to clean it up. I thought it’s not my thing. Now I know that I was wrong, but first things first – my water marbled nails:

Water marbled nails

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I’ve never been to Japan, but I admire their tradition of enjoying the beauty of spring flowers. The cherry blossom season is currently approaching its peak in many locations across Japan. Yesterday the opening of the blossoms was announced in Tokyo. Kyoto and Osaka are forecast to follow on April 2. Yes, don’t be surprised, every year they have the Sakura Blossom forecast in Japan!

Unfortunately I’m not there to see this beautiful season of sakura bloom, but I decided to do a sakura nail design to celebrate it anyway :)

Sakura Nails

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Day 19: Galaxy Nails

March 30th, 2012 | Posted by Mari in Nail Art Designs - (2 Comments)

Galaxies and space traveling theme for today’s nails. I’ve never tried to paint anything like this before, all I knew is that I’ll need to use a sponging technique. I watched a couple of tutorials, and then I’ll googled for a galaxy image.

Space is incredibly beautiful! I found so many amazing pictures of galaxies, and finally I ended up on Wikipedia reading about a very large spiral galaxy M74 that was discovered in 1780. According to Wikipedia, it is at a distance of about 32 million light-years away from Earth.

Well, my Galaxy M74 Manicure is right here :D

Galaxy Nails

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Day 18: Half Moons

March 28th, 2012 | Posted by Mari in Nail Art Designs - (5 Comments)

Hello everyone! It’s time for another Nails Of The Day post – of the 18th day to be more exact. The task was to do a half moons manicure. Here’s my version for the Challenge:

Half Moon Nails

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