Strawberries

Good evening everyone, it's getting late but I thought I had better post something before I go to bed ! I've been busy doing "stuff" here in Berlin, "stuff" generally meaning shopping etc which is always good fun ! The weather here has become really really seriously hot all of a sudden which, although nice, is a bit too much and doesn't really make me want to do anything in particular !

I did these nails before I came over to Berlin, around the same time as when I did my watermelon nails, I just got the urge to paint some more fruit, and I'm so glad I did ! You can see the design on my little finger looks a little bit odd, and that's because I initially wanted to use tiny micro bullion studs for the yellow seeds, but decided that I didn't like it and would instead do dots, but then I didn't like the colour I chose so I went over all the dots I had already painted in yet another colour... and then I couldn't be bothered to start from zero on that nail but oh well !

For the base on this design I used an un-named Color Club pink polish, then I used Essie Mint Candy Apple for the green bits, and for the leaf accents and yellow seeds I used my Models Own pastel nail art pens in green and yellow. I really like the way that the strawberries look with the light pink colour. I would have wanted to do them red, but I have an aversion to red polishes at the moment for base colours as they are such a pain when it comes to taking it off ! Do any of you get that problem ? Red polish cuticle stains are the worst !

Right, that's it everyone, I'm off to bed ! I'll probably sit and play Candy Crush Saga for a while, are any of you addicted to it as well ? Night night everyone !

NOTD : Mini Polka-Apples

Hey there everyone ! So this will be my last NOTD for a whole week, as I'm going on holiday to Cologne and have scheduled posts for you all this week ! So as some of you have probably seen, a lot of blogs have started up the 31 day nail challenge which involves doing your nails to match a theme every day for a whole month. I was thinking of doing this challenge, but decided I unfortunately wouldn't be able to follow daily for the whole month of September so I'll be doing it at a later time (possibly November ?). Rebecca from Rebecca Likes Nails however is participating for the second time, and her first mani for the "red nails" theme was so adorable, I decided that it'd be the mani I would wear for going on holiday !

How cute is that ? Rebecca did apple nails for yesterday's challenge, and did a great photo tutorial for doing them as well ! I couldn't resist the cute mini apple print she did and thought they'd be great for a full mani without accents ! Oh how I love uniform nails !

So for this design I used OPI Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh ?, OPI Big Apple Red (how convenient !), OPI You Don't Know Jacques and Collection 2000 Ninja. I love how from a distance you could mistake the apples for just plain red polka dots ! I just love fruit nails ! Plus the fact it uses nude and red.. such a great combination !

So that's it for today ! I'll see you in a week, but never worry, the scheduled posts are daily, and I can now reveal that all the posts will be part of an "As Seen On.." series ! How exciting ! Have a great day.. and week for that matter ! See you next Sunday !