Music nails!

Hey guys,

I chopped of my nails the day before yesterday :D
Why? Because I have another passion besides nail art and thats making music <3
I started playing my beloved guitar again, it's a 10 year old red Squire Stratocaster!
So long nails don't go with playing guitar obviously :)

So I made some music nail art, which shows all the things I love! - pianos, music, guitars and singing <3
I also practice on the bass from my boyfriend! :D

Hope you like them! (it's so difficult painting short nails xD)

Hey Baby - NOTD

Hey guys,

I have a super quick NOTD for you today <3
My nails are growing super fast and they are extreeem long! I have no idea how I'm doing this ^^

Birthday nail art for my sweetie *__*

Hey guys,


so today is Bea's birthday and I thought about doing some birthday nail art for her <3
 
I also found a really old pic of my birthday nails from 2 years ago, and I thought I show you how they look back then

... yeah, I tried o.O 

and here are my birthday nails today!

Happy Independence Day, America!

Hey guys,

so today is Independence Day in America and I had to make a design for my fellow american lacqueristas <3
I hope you like them! :)

Nail Art: Polka Dots and Roses

Hey guys,


today I have some more nail art for you: polka dots and roses <3

I was inspired by and design from mllrdesign!

Essie Too Taboo madness

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

I feel like it has been AGES since my last blog post, and unfortunately it is! I was so busy with work/study/life last weeks that I hardly had time to do my nails, and especially there was no time to take some good photos or write a blog post :( but since all this busy times must come to an end, and I present to you a crazy nail art I did with Essie's Too Taboo Neon Collection 2014!

Mad Mani Tuesday: Cherries and strawberries

Hey guys,


I have a belayed Mad Mani for you today!
It's a strawberry and cherry nail art by me :) hope you like it!

I Love Nail Polish Summer Collection 2014 Swatches!

Hey guys,


remember when I said in my last post, that I have a big surprise for you?

Haha, here's your surprise!: I bought the whole summer collection from ILNP XD
It consists of 5 holo and 6 multichrome polishes!

These are my first indie polishes I ever bought, so I went apeshit crazy as I got them yesterday in my mail <3<3<3
Shipping was extremely fast, as ILNP comes from Las Vegas (Vegas baby <3), I had them in just one week!

So without keeping you in suspense, here are the swatches! :D
Enjoy them as much as I do <3
And also, be prepared to be showered in my nail art posts in the future where I'm going to use them :D 
you can also follow me on instagram @moira_eden to be updated with my mirin' :PP
(click on the pictures for more resolution!)

MoyouLondon Nail Art Challenge Week 5 + Nail Art!

Hey guys,

so FINALLY! MoyouLondon's Nail Art Challenge is over! :D
Now we have to wait if we won or not, so please keep your fingers crossed for us <3

Here are the last three manis and for celebration a "normal", not stamped nail art, taken with my good old SLR :D (totally stolen from instagram, it's not my design!!)

MoyouLondon Nail Art Challenge Week 4!

Hey guys,

it's time for another update on our MoyouLondon's Nail Art Challenge!

Here's another week of our contributions!
We have just 3 more days until the challenge ends, we are super curious if we will win! :D


As always you can follow us on instagram @lacquersista and @moira_eden ! 

MoyouLondon Nail Art Challenge Week 3!

Heys guys,

it's time for another update on our MoyouLondon's Nail Art Challenge!

Here's another week of our contributions!

As always you can follow us on instagram @lacquersista and @moira_eden !

MoyouLondon Nail Art Challenge Week 2!

Heys guys,


it's time for another update on our MoyouLondon's Nail Art Challenge!

Here's another week of our contributions!

As always you can follow us on instagram @lacquersista and @moira_eden !

MoyouLondon Nail Art Challenge Week 1

Hey guys!

Sorry for the lack of postings this month, but LacquerSistas participates in MoyouLondon's Nail Art Challenge!
We try and post a mani daily, as we want to win the awesome prize of a new real MoYou-London Set that will include 6 image plates, 3 nail polishes, a stamp & scraper. 

We thought about posting a weekly compilation of our manis :)
You can also follow us @lacquersista and @moira_eden on Instagram! 

So here are our entries for week 1!

The Lacquer Legion GLAM - Katy Perry Dark Horse Video Nailart Recreation

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

so this month theme from Lacquer Legion was "Glam", and I was kinda "meh" and uninspired when I've read it the first time. Actually, I had only ideas how the mani should NOT be. But somehow, the design now is what I truely associate with glam.

I went over the great Anthony Vincent who did a Katy Perry "Dark Horse" Edition in 20 different styles, and some of them went freaking awesome great. When I watched the video, I realized the thumbnail of Katy Perrys' original video. I knew the song only from the radio because it is played every three hours I think :D I was like "w00t" because the thumbnail looked like something egypt inspired. While I was watching the video asking myself why she picked that setting to this lyrics (I still don't get it!!) I realized that she and the dancers have FREAKING AWESOME nailart!!

So I think Kleopatra - which I think is her character in this video - was the first GLAMorous woman ever documented. She was aware and cared for her beauty and was admired by everybody who saw her - and especially Iulius Caesar of course. So I combined this to this nail art topic, and I'm gonna show you what I used to recreate two of the manis in the Dark Horse Video!

My monthly contribution for The Lacquer Legion!

Hey guys,

it's my favourite time of the month again! :)
This month's theme is GLAM. So here is my most glamorous mani (it's also our facebook profile photo ;))

Pink Floyd Nail Art

Hey guys,

today's my boyfriends birthday and he's a big Pink Floyd fan, so I made some nail art for his big day <3
This is from the Dark Side Of The Moon cover, one of the most known album from them.

Dupe-alarm!: p2 - Opulent VS. maybelline - Green Depth

Hey guys,

today I have a quick comparison for you!

Yesterday I bought Green Depth from maybelline and when I came home and swatched it, my "dupe-senses" turned on and I found that I already had the EXACT SAME color! That never happened before! :D

See for yourself:

Green-themed mani for the one who passed away

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

so today I'm going to be very busy. But this is quite nice for me because especially the last days were really hard for me. And this day also especially is. 
Three years ago, my very very best friend died in a car accident. She was only 19 years old. I can't remember any day when she is not with me and in my mind, and find myself thinking of her every day and think about how she might would have reacted to things I would've told her. Or what she might tell me now. And what her life would be like.
That said and with many many pain in my heart, I decided to cope with this in my "new" way to cope with things, and made some nail art in her favourite color: green.

Mad Monday Mani - Water Marbel Tutorial!

Hey guys,

today my cat Duzi has a "dentist appointment" and I'm a nervous wreck because she's in anesthesia and I'm so anxious :/
So I had to distract myself and made a quick tutorial on how to make a water marbel design!

As you may know, my lacquerista career started with a water marbeling tutorial on reddit, I started buying nail polish and more and more and more and more... yeah, I was instantly caught in a loop of buying polish and asking myself why? but that's ok, I know I'm not the only stupid one throwing my money out for this *looks at Bea* ;)

So let's start, shall we? :)

Low-budget comparison: ciaté - Snowglobe VS. catrice - Holo Is The New Yolo

Hey guys!

Did you miss me? :)

I tell you something, I have the biggest stress in my live at this moment.
But from next week easter holiday starts and hopefully I can relax my brain a little and post more! :)


So today I have a low budget comparison for you!
I'm gonna compare ciaté's "Snowglobe" and "Holo Is The New Yolo" from catrice.

with flash

Watercolor Butterflies - feat maaaany colors of newest haul!

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

so since Leslie from work / play / polish left the first ever comment on this blog *yippie* and this was very positive to my #LLLucky contribution and the watercolor background I felt so honoured that I decided to give this technique another try - but wanted to try something else than a background for a mani (although this was awesome :D). And since here in Vienna summer resides and nature is still stuck in spring, I decided to do some butterflies!

The "it's nice outside but I need to learn"-Mani

Hey guys,

today is such a wonderful day in Vienna, but I have to stay inside since I have a very difficult exam on tuesday (electrical engineering, ugh -_-).

So I had to cheer myself up with a mani! 
I used my new moyou stamping plates and new polishes I bought for this and I did both hands different :)

What makes Bea feel lucky - Horses!

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

so this is the third time The Lacquer Legion announced a theme, and this time it was "Lucky". So what came to my mind were HUGE amount of St. Patricks Day manis we've seen this March, and I thought "well no". It had to be something WITHOUT any clovers, pigs, or other usual New Year's Eve giveaways that are associated with luck. And then I had it clearly in my mind: What makes me feel lucky are horses. Whenever I come to my barn to either ride or either take care of the horses of my riding instructor, this really makes me feel lucky.

Dani's contribution for #LLlucky

Hey guys,

it's the time of the month again where Lacquer Legion has a monthly nail art challenge!
This time it's about the word "lucky".

"This month, use your mani to represent your version of LUCKY. Be inspired by your trusted lucky charm, an amazing lucky break, an awesome lucky find or even someone you are lucky to know. Anything goes"



I'm really lucky for my nail polishes! Doing my nails comforts me when I'm upset, it helps me fight my impatience and I spend a lot of time with people, who love my hobby too :)

Since two years I'm obsessed with my bottles and it all began with a post on reddit about water marbeling. 
So I have a water marble design for you! :)

Moto GP Season is about to start! Vroom Vroom!!! (Repsol Honda/Marc Marquez mani)

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

so finally here it is again - Moto GP Season! Since my boyfriend and I are absolutely addicted viewers I decided to do a mani for last year's "Baby Champ" Marc Marquez and his team Repsol Honda . Since my boyfriend owns a Honda bike also, this was quite close ;)

Alles rund um Nagelpflege, Nägel wachsen lassen und Haltbarkeit eurer Manis!

Hallo Leute!

Heute mach ich mal einen Blog auf Deutsch (haha, fühlt sich ur komisch an! ^^) Wird übrigens ein bisschen länger, also macht euch ruhig Popcorn und holt euch ein Bier oder so :D

Wollt ihr wissen wie ihr eure Nägel von dem

zu dem 

verwandeln könnt? *magic*

Hier hab ich einige Tipps und Tricks für euch! 

Very first spring mani ...

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

so after this never-came winter here in eastern-Austria it seems that spring also skips its part and turns directly to summer - last Wednesday I went to barn to ride my rented horse (I'm sure there exists an english term for "Mitreiter" that I don't know ;)) and rode outside the hall in the sun with my summer outfit for the first time in 2014. This is how weather should really do it, it's so amazing!

So in case spring stops by though, I created my first spring-inspired mani ever, and this is the result:

Mad Monday Mani: St. Patricks Day Nails!

Hey guys!

So today is Mad Monday Mani AND St. Patricks Day!!
And it's getting better: I've made the most epic manicure I've ever made.

I hope you know the Guinness logo ;)
Enjoy!

If it has to be done quickly: Glitter ombre

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

so University has a lock on me again and it seems I have to kind of "reorganize" my "mani day" in the week. I usually have to go to University from Tuesday to Thursday and from in the evening, and I organized with my boss that I come to work every Monday, Thursday and Friday. Being busy with preparing things for university, hobbies (or simply living?) on the other days, there is very little time for my manis.
Beside this fact, I used to do my nails every about 5 days because as long as they are not completely chipped I feel fine with them and feel sad if I take them off.

I wanted to do something else than I did, but it didn't came out very well. I started preparing the f*** mani before I went to university on Wednesday and started to finish it after I came back home, but I did one hand and was like "meh, no". Since there is something called sleep which I wanted to do but didn't want to leave my nails plain, I grabbed two colors for a nice & easy 15 minute glitter ombre, and here is the result:

The Ultimate Holographic Polish Comparison!

Hey guys!

I've waited a (far too) long time for this comparison, because I had to wait until it was sunny but finally today was the day! :D

Holo polishes are, beside textured, my absolute favourite type of nail polish.
The sparkles, the rainbow, the colors, everything <3
My camera had a problem with focusing with all the sparkles, so I had to take some pictures with my mobile phone, I hope you guys don't mind <3

I compared this 4 polishes (from low-priced to expensive)!
I painted every polish over a black polish.

Low Budget Comparison - Zoya - Payton vs. Kiko - 255

Hey guys!

Alright, so today I have another low budget comparison for you!

Last year zoya's zenith winter collection came out and I bought Payton and Dream and was really impressed with this super intense glittery beautys.
As I placed them in my shelf I noticed that Payton is really similar to Kiko No. 255.

I never really compared them, so I'm really curious myself how similar they are.

Textured Chevrons

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

so this week I present to you the mani I wanted to do on the day I got my Sally Hansen Satin Glams :D this is my very first attempt at chevrons, so I would like to share some experience I got during this about two hours of creating this mani!

Wow. Many bottles. Such fancy. Much things (how I store my nail polish and equipment!)

Hello everybody,

So since my LacquerSista Bea got her new desk I thought about showing you guys my nail polish storage!
I wanted to post earlier, but I had so much stress with learning and yesterday my bunny Bobbie got sick... total chaos! But he's fine now, here's a picture of my little stubborn baby, I love him so much <3

 

ANYWAY, withouht further blah-blah, here's my nail-polish-wonderland, where magic and other wonderful things happen <3

Our contributions to #LLadoration - Carnival Ombre + Apocalyptic Nails

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

it's time for The Lacquer Legion again, and this time the topic was "Adoration". The first thing that came to my mind was "OMBRE!", but I couldn't decide wheter to do a gradient or to do a glitter ombre. Now I mixed this up, both.

Another background for this design is the "Fasching" that will come to an end on next Wednesday. Fasching is the austrish word for carnival, a season that starts on November 11th at 11.11 am, when the "Narrenwecken" (wake up the fools) takes place every year. Fasching is a season to be jolly, tell jokes that everyone heard about 10,000 times and when balls and "Faschingsumzüge" (carnival parades) take place. And of course you eat Krapfen. Looooooots of Krapfen!!! The translation for Krapfen leo got me is "Jelly doughnut", I don't know if that is really correct because a Krapfen looks very different than a donut does here in Austria, maybe I get a Krapfen and can add a photo with this mani here later on :D Today I go to the show of a local "Faschingsgilde", and therefore I prepared my nails the very best I think!

Fuzzy Unicorn Magic (aka why my brain is completely gone)

Hello my lovely people,

today I had a real challenge. 
I had do make a presentation about fuzzy logic (it's a highly scientific area in information technology, but I'm not gonna talk about that) and I got a very very good grade.

So since my brain (the the brains of my group members) is muddy and completely gone we somehow came from fuzzy logic to fuzzy magic, with unicorns who fart out mathematical formulas and functions in rainbow colors (yup, our brains were completely down the drain) I just had to make a nail art about this magical fuzzy wonderland.

Sally Hansen Satin Glam Mosaic Color Blocking somewhat madness + review

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

so on Facebook I announced you that I had a "freak out day two" last week, and this was the day when I FINALLY got my hands on Sally Hansen Satin Glam Collection! I went to my local supply I think every day since this collection was announced and it took AGES! Even after my last visit on Thursday I wrote Dani sayin "this collection will never ever come", then I went to another store and suddenly *bam* IT WAS THERE! I think I screamed so loud that everyone in the store thought the Zalando man came in (for non-German readers: Zalando has an advert where all the girls scream when postman brings their Zalando packets, and their slogan is "Schrei vor Glück", which rougly translates to "scream from luck").

So, after I was lucky, I got my hands on the whole collection that hit Austrish stores, and this made me create a real cool mani which I want to share with you now, including a little review of those little treasuries.

Because of reasons: How to fix a broken Nail!

You reach into your bag and then BAM your nail just broke!
And you curse the day, your full bag, the people around you, the store you are in and question yourself why you even woke up in the morning...
YOU HATE E V E R Y T H I N G (but only if your nails are slow growing like mine ^^)

But there's help!
Here's how you can fix a torn/broken nail.

All you need is Nail Glue (not superglue, it's something completely different!!), an empty tea bag, tweezers and a buffer.

So let's start!

Finally I got him ... my nail polish desk! (+ bonus bunny)

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna!

I am very excited to show you what I got this week after long planning and working ... and lagging ... and even more lagging ... my new nail polish desk!
When my collection grew and my small Ikea Samla box wasn't enough *gg* I discussed the idea of a nail polish desk with my lovely boyfriend. When we finally found the right location, my boyfriend drew a plan with the precision of a technical physicist that he is *gg*
My dad is a hobby joiner, he did nearly all the cupboards that we have in our flat, and he is a very focused, exact worker and still thinks about what fits right to the flair of a room. So we gave him our plan, and he decided to do it! 

Silver comparison: China Glaze VS Sally Hansen

Hey folks and a warm „Servus“ from Vienna,

originally this post was supposed to be done in January, and I did it - it only didn't made it to the blog, lol xD So these photos are my really first attempt as you could see it in the Pink comparison post (they were shot on the same day), and my photographic skills have improved since then, so please excuse the blurry and only flash-lighted pictures :)

This comparison is about my silvery shades. When China Glaze released their Autumn Nights 2013 Collection I decided to buy Gossip Over Gimlets if there is no silver shade in the Holiday Collection. And see: there was none. But I needed silver for a design earlier, so I bought Sally Hansen‘s Shoot The Moon. Time to compare them!

Comparison Post - OPI Emotions VS. China Glaze Bump In The Night

Hey guys,

today I'll make a comparison between two black texture polishes, OPI's Emotions and China Glaze's Bump In The Night. As everybody know I loooove textured polishes espacially the ones from OPI so I'm pleased to make this comparison!

 
Emotions is from the Mariah Carey Holiday Collection from 2013.
Bump In The Night is from the Monsters Ball Halloween Collection from 2013..

I first bougth Emotions and I was more then dissapointed in this polish. 
Then I bought Bump In The Night and I was happy again! Why? Let's see!

A different Valentines Day mani

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

I normally don't share the Valentines Day hysteria, and so I didn't want to create a Valentines Day mani. But the plans for tomorrow are so much fun that I decided to create a quite different mani.

My boyfriend and I share a big passion: to ride the motor bike! Since I prefer the comfortable part as the in German so called "Sozia", my boyfriend likes to drive - and he is a very good driver! We had some exciting trips in the last two years, where we formed some friendships and seen lots of awesome things. 

Tomorrow, on Valentines day, we make a trip to a motorcycle exhibition in Linz, and we both are very excited seing some new released bikes and maybe buy some new equipment, either for us or for our bike.

Since I had no chance to do a mani with my new moYou plates since I did my review, I decided to merge the Valentines Day with a motorcycle theme, and here is the result (please excuse the messy cleanup)!

Big haul review!

Hello everybody!

Since my lovely Bea and I are addicted to buying nail polish (lol ^^) and current collections from different brands we were really really excited for this haul!

We waited for soooooooo long and none of our nail polish online shops we normally buy from had this collection, but FINALLY we saw the display with the Gwen Stefani collection from OPI at our local nail supply and almost screamed :D (I swear, Dani really screamed ;))
After that glorious purchase I snached up the whole Crushed Crystal collection from catrice, double-win!!

So here's the review of our haul!

Love is in the air - Valentines Day Nail Art

Hello ladies!

Since next week is Valentines Day, I wanted to show you a quick and easy nail art design!

All you need are different kind of nail polishes, some tape and a zigzag scissor!

Here is the design:

Iced Earth Plagues of Babylon Album Cover inspired nailart

Hello folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

first week of holidays from University means a lot of stress lol. No afternoon and evening this week which is free of any plans!
One of those plans is to visit the Iced Earth concert here in Vienna and I am very excited for this gig since they have a lot of catchy songs on their new album called "Plagues of Babylon". Since it is the Plagues of Babylon Tour, I decided I have to paint my nails in an appropriate way!

First of all I start off with the album cover to show you what the painting on my nails was inspired of! I hope you like metal album covers? Don't be scared, it's just a drawing ;)

 

Mad Monday Mani - "NFL Edition"

Hey guys,


Are you excited for todays Mad Monday Mani? ;)

Actually I wanted to post another one but yesterday I was watching the 48th NFL and casually did my nails and I thought they turned out gorgeous :)

I was inspired by this mani from nevertoomuchglitter and I wanted to give it a try :)

Here are the things I used:

Basecoat: Nail Envy - OPI
Basecolor: Blanc - essie
Black Stamping Polish - Konad
Stamping Plate: Suki 01 - moyou
Top Coat: Good To Go - essie
Acrylic paint for the color and a tiny nail art brush


And here's what I did:

moYou Stamping Plates Review

Hey folks!

So this will be a huge MEGA GIGA combined post by Dani and me, and here we will show you - as announced on Facebook - our new arrivals: moYou London Stamping plates!!

I've seen a stamping design by The Nailasaurus, and so I noticed the brand moYou from London. Later on, I saw that many of the RedditLaqueristas also going crazy about those stamping plates. I took a look at the homepage and immediately called Dani stating that we need this!!! Finally, we made it and ordered a huge package of plates - still having not all of those we want, lol!

My contribution for #LLreinvention

Hey folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

since I am a very constant reader of The Nailasaurus, I noticed she took part in the 31 Day Challange, where you post a new mani every day for 31 days to a specific topic. Since this would be simply unable for me, I was very excited when she posted from an initiative called The Lacquer Legion, a monthly challenge - which is much easier to achieve for me.

The Theme for January '14 was "reinvention". I've read it and had no idea how to interpret this. Then I came up with an "artist" kind of view on this theme. Here is the result!

Low-Budget Comparison: essie - Stroke Of Brilliance VS. catrice - I'm Dynamite

Hey guys! :)

Today I'll be doing a comparison between essie - Stroke Of Brilliance and catrice - I'm Dynamite.

After I bought Stroke Of Brilliance it come to me that I have a very similar polish at home which was I'm Dynamite from catrice. 
So I wanted to compare them to see if there is any difference. 

Galaxy nails - practice for physics!

Hey folks and a warm "Servus" from Vienna,

since Dani announced Mad Mani Monday, I have to share with you my todays mani which made me very mad when creating it!

For a friend of mine (she studies technical physics at Technical University here in Vienna) I promised to do her nails for next weeks TU ball. So what is closer to physics than our Galaxy - on the nails? Since I did galaxy nails only one time before, I decided I definitely need practice! ;)

Mad Monday Manicure - "practice makes perfect!" (with a little comparison)

Hey guys!

Today I looked through my old manicures and I stumbled over a picture from 2012, when I just started with nail art.
Now I wanted to see if my skills have improved in the past two years.

I wanted to duplicate this cherry blossom nail art:

  
(this is from 2012)




So I tried to grab a mint polish, but that wasn't easy at all...

Pink Comparison: Essie vs Essie vs OPI

Hey folks and a warm „Servus“ from Vienna! 

So this is a post I was really excited to do because I waited very long since I had no time to do this comparison :) why we should do a comparison? Exactly, the colors looked very VERY similar to me in the bottles.

Colors

Essie Jamaica Me Crazy

Essie The Lace Is On

OPI Suzi & The 7 Düsseldorfs

Low-Budget Comparison: Chanel & Claire's

Hey Ladies (and Gentlemen)!

So this is my first post and I was thinking why not post a low-budget version of Chanels BEL-ARGUS? Because not everybody can afford chanels beautiful polishes and I just found, not an exactly dupe, but it is very similar.
So let the swatching begin! :)

Here is a side to side comparison of the color in the bottle. Doesn't it look pretty identical?