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: