Galaxy nails

I love nail art. I don't know if you've noticed but I love to do funky stuff with my nails. I've always loved nailpolish but after a while just painting my nails just wasn't enough. (sounds like I'm talking about some horrible addiction :-D) I started with really simple stuff like polkadotted nails, two or tricolored nails, and eventually tried out rainbow nails (going from purple to blue to turquoise to green to yellow to orange to red) with a tiny paintbrush and since then I'm absolutely hooked on nailart. I've done butterflies, The Who logo's, tiny triforces, flowers... not all as perfect as the next but I have had loads of fun doing it! I started looking for some good tutorials too and I found this lovely channel on youtube called 'cutepolish' (click here to visit her channel!) where you have all kinds of awesomness! Pikachu nails (which reminds me, I should totally do a pokeball naildesign!), Super Mario mushroom nails, adventure time nails (one of my favorite wacky cartoons), animal print, plaid... it's crazy and awesome. Even if you're a nailbiter or you hate putting on nailpolish it's a delight to see all the different designs. And, my favorite design of her, GALAXY NAILS. These are just brilliant, especially since november 9th was was Carl Sagan's birthday (R.I.P.) so I took a chance and tried it out. If you want to check out the tutorial, check here!: Gorgeous Galaxy Nails

My nails might not be quite as perfect as hers but I was so so so pleased when I was ready with my nails. I kept staring at them. :-D It was a little time consuming but pretty easy!

okay, they're PRETTY awesome, right?! Tell me what you think of them and if you enjoy tinkering around with nailpolish too! Here's how I did it:

I started with some dark blue as a base, just gave it two coats and let it dry.

After it had dried completely I started to sponge on some white nailpolish where I wanted my 'galaxy' to be on my nails. (sponging = putting a little bit of nailpolish on a sponge and 'pressing' the sponge onto your nail so that you get a kind of cloudy design on your nails) I just tore a tiny bit of a foundation sponge and pressed it onto my nails with the sponge between tweezers.

You let the white dry completely and you sponge on a bit of bright yellow in the center of your galaxy. Let it dry and start the last color, some rosy pink. A thin coat on your sponge and again, try to center it as much as you can so you have a nice flow of colors.

If you think you've overdone the white a bit in the beginning you can sponge a bit of dark blue polish over some of the white, it'll make the cloudiness more realistic.

After that you can add some little stars by dotting tiny white dots in the galaxies and on your nails from varying sizes. I did it with a little toothpick and the tip of a dried out pen. You can add some silver glitters to finish your starry sky et voila! You got some bangin' space nails!

I just bought some opaque white nailpolish, shimmery golden olive green and shimmery rusty golden orange by the way. Catrice is my favorite nailpolish brand ever, they have gorgeous colors and the durability is excellent if you ask me.

Romantic Punk

I'm a little tired and very content! My sister, my mom, my boy and me went to the monthly sales at our favorite vintage shop in Antwerp, Think Twice. Everything for 2 euro. I think I got 12 items or something. :-D One coat, one leather coat, 3 skirts, 3 dresses, one cardi, 3 jumpers.. yep that seems about right. Now I don't have to go shopping for the upcoming winter anymore. Maybe some boots at the sales but other than that I'm completely good! Everything fits like a dream and I got everything I needed! Warm jumpers, wool skirts, a very thick, slightly oversized coat (so that I can wear a jumper underneath the coat too!), 3 gorgeous dresses (two of them very holiday spirited!), I'm so happy. After we came back from Antwerp I went to the post office to send a little package to my niece in the U.S. who turned twelve this November (shame on me for not sending her a gift earlier!). Now I'm gonna watch some stupid TV program and drink a big cup of mint tea with honey! And maybe some potato salad. See ya laters, alligators! OH and I will be posting pics of my new clothes soon!

a little cameo of my man and my old little doggie, wagging her tail at us! I'm crazy about both of them! :-D

Color me Turquoise

More colors, different colors! This time I wanted to use my turquoise dye with my red and green and I'm absolutely loving it. If you could choose between every color of the rainbow, what color(s) would your hair be? Blue? Yellow? Orange with leopard print? (yup, you can do that) or maybe raven black or auburn reddish brown? Or EVERY color of the rainbow? :-D

having bright hair is freaking awesome. Just sayin'.

Print on print on Pink

I used to love Pink. Not the color but the singer. Well actually also the color. But I still love the color and not so much the singer. I haven't been loving the songs she brought out the last couple of years. But back when she was all the rage with 'Don't let me get me', 'Let's get this party started', 'Family portrait' and 'Just like a Pill' I loved her. Pink and No Doubt were of course total girl power. And I really liked her 'I'm not dead' album! I actually went to see her on that tour with my sister and some of her friends and that was my first concert. So she'll always have a special place in my heart! I still really like her voice, it has this raspy quality that can totally pull off softer acoustic stuff but also some fun poprock. Of course, as a multicolor/bright hair lover I always dug her bright pink hair at the beginning of her career.

My outfit is very bright and colorful and I felt so good wearing it. When I think back a year and a half/two years I remember being so inscure about wearing skirts above the knee because of course, apart from the fact that I was already a self conscious teenage girl, the fashion gurus wiggle their little fingers at wearing stuff above the knee unless you have a certain shape or skinny legs or whatever kind of weird ass rules they apply. They have this strange idea that it's empowering for women of all shapes and sizes to be told that they are NOT the same, CANNOT wear the same things because hey, nobody wants to see the cellulite on your thighs and nobody wants to see a short girl on flats. Only show people your best assets! Do not let people know that we're not perfect! To appear skinnier and taller at all times! Even if you're already tall and skinny you still need photoshop! The things that irritate me the most are probably that almost all well known stylists and fashion gurus look exactly the same. Most of the time, long straight hair, wear dark colors, fabrics that look very expensive and a pencilskirt and some stiletto's. When it's a guy, always a suit and short hair. And of course dressy shoes. Wouldn't it be nice to have someone do make-overs and actually have a style of their own? I've seen it so many times: in comes fashionista ready to make someone over, enter the 'victim': maybe a bikerchick, maybe a hippie. At the end of the make over, they all look like 'proper ladies' but not an inch of uniqueness is preserved in their styles. Maybe the hippie woman got some large earrings and the bikerchick got a smart leather jacket. I'm pretty sure that my style would not be tolerated by most of the fashiongurus. Too much color, might look childish! Too much floral, you look like an untrimmed flowergarden! Too many sneakers, oh honey you don't need to look like you can run off and shoot hoops! Midiskirts, SO unflattering for a girl with chunky calves! Shouldn't people dress however they want to dress? Sure, if people ask for help because they seem to be stuck in a rut and can't get out of it themselves, by all means go help! But I almost never hear the 'helpers' ask "What do YOU like?" and than maybe tweak it to make it a little more stylish if that is what pleases him/her. I wish fashion/clothing would just be something to have fun with, no rules and prejudice attached. So here! My colorful, sneakerful style!

I'm loving this bright lipstick, this bright pink really makes me lust after some bright warm orangy color. I love to mix my lipstickcolors together and I'd really like to mix a little orange with my bright red! Warm red colors always look so classy to me. And a little sidenote: I'm hoping that my boy will help me dye my hair again tomorrow! I have some unused turquoise in my cabinet and I'm dying (sniffles) to use it! Hope you guys have a lovely day and see you all on the flip side!