My World

Stewie Griffin

2012-03-03T11:30:00.001+02:00

Continuing on the cartoon line, I give you...

Stewie Griffin from Family Guy

I used Nivea Turbo Pastel for Stewies face and H&M White for the background.

Then at first I did one nail yellow and the other one red, matching his outfit and for the rest of two I used O.P.I Designer... De Better. Later I covered red and yellow up with the same color.

Do you like Family Guy? Who's your favorite?

Bender

2012-03-01T11:00:00.001+02:00

Bender from Futurama

Base - three coats of GOSH Holographic

Details with black and white nail polish (and a little bit of gray that I mixed)

Fun fact - this is my right hand. For the first time, my right hand, that I did with my left hand looked better than the left hand.:D

Hope you like it.

Small Haul

2012-02-28T10:00:00.002+02:00

As I promised, here's a small haul of all the things I got from my last trip to Sweden, Stockholm.

Probably my favorite thing.

I've been looking for a Star Wars t-shirt for ages. I even searched in the kids section, but nothing! They just don't sell that kind of stuff here.

From H&M

I may look boring in the picture, but it's so pretty when I put it on. It's this light blouse thingie with a belt and it looks great with a black top and skirt.

Also from H&M

My first charm bracelet and my first two charms - a black stone and an iguana.

The iguana caught my attention right away.

It's so cute and reminds me of the iguana from the movie Tangled. Now I have my own personal Pascal. :D

And last, but not least - set of three rings. One is a regular silver one, one has the word Peace on it and the other has Love. Really simple, just like I wanted.

All the things were from Ur & Penn

My next post is a manicure one. It's about a certain silver robot. Can you guess who? ;)

Newspaper Nails

2012-02-25T11:53:00.000+02:00

I finally got around to try the newspaper nails.

It was my first time, so as expected, I screwed things up a bit, but it was still wearable.

For the base I used two coats of Sally Hansen Beige Blast.

Overall I really liked the look and I'm most definitely doing this again.

Whatcha think? :)

Dark Blue

2012-02-23T10:00:00.001+02:00

Dark blue, dark blue

Have you ever been alone in a crowded room...

-Jack's Mannequin "Dark Blue"

Every time I looked at my nails that song started playing in my head.

I used two coats of H&M Blue.

It's such a beautiful dark creme blue.

(I'm a total sucker for blues!)

Over the blue I used one coat of e.l.f Golden Goddess.

It's such a nice combo, isn't it? I think the Golden Goddess looks excellent on dark colors.

Sandra Likes #2

2012-02-21T11:00:00.001+02:00

Things I currently really like

Nail polish - GOSH Holographic

It's gorgeous and it dries super fast. What's not to love?
It's my go-to polish when I need something quick and pretty.
It'll be a sad day when I finish the bottle, so I'm considering buying one more while we still have it.

Action #1 - shopping

I love shopping and I'm good at it.
I love buying new things and finding great bargains. I'm confident to say that I've super good eye for good deals. I've found so many things on sales and clearance racks that's exactly my size and look great.

Action #2 - drawing/painting

I love listening music and painting, it's so soothing and every time I finally get around doing that I wonder why don't I paint more often.
This picture I painted for my friend's Birthday (she's huge Lion King fan). Later I wrote Hakuna Matata on the top, but I totally forgot to take a picture before I gave it away.

Book - Jeremy Clarkson books

Although I don't agree with everything he says (especially about environmental issues) I really enjoy his writing style and humor. Sometimes I read on a bus and I've gotten a few weird looks when I start laughing/giggling while reading his books.

Make-up - e.l.f Day to night beauty on the go palette

I use the night pallet pretty much every time I do my evening make-up. The colors are grea - really pigmented and they blend well. I'm so happy that I ordered it.

Movies - X-Men series

I finally got around and saw the first three X-Men movies. All I can say is WOW! I can't believe I didn't watch them earlier, they're seriously amazing.

Place - Sweden

Last week I went to a short cruise to Stockholm again, it was my second time this year. And as always I loved the trip.

I always have the best time going there and being there. All the people are so nice, friendly and polite and I can shop shop shop there. (Small haul coming soon)

Music #1 - ABBA

ABBA & Sweden - logical.
I happened to see first 15 minutes of the movie Mamma Mia and I got hooked again. Their songs are so catchy and they always put me in a good mood. ABBA is a band I've been listening pretty much my whole life, even my parents liked them.

Music #2 - Foo Fighters

I've always liked them when I heard them on the radio, but after I saw the movie Thor and heard their song Walk there, I've been listening to them religiously. Their songs are excellent, powerful and carry a good message.

I Rule!

2012-02-18T11:00:00.002+02:00

A bit quirky mani. :)

The pink is Sinful Colors shade Mindy and the lines and numbers are made with black acrylic paint. Inspired by one only - my ruler.

Matte vs Glossy

2012-02-16T14:00:00.002+02:00

I used two coats of regular black nail polish and one coat of BeYu Matte Top Coat

And then I did the tips with a glossy top coat.

Black is always safe option for me.

I hadn't tried matted out black yet and I have to say, I really liked how it looked.

And I think the glossy french tip looks nice and switches it up a bit.

Valentine's Day Mani

2012-02-14T11:00:00.001+02:00

Although I do like pink and even hearts, my Valentine's Day mani is the Forever Alone guy. :D

I hope you like this mani, I sure did. :D

Happy Valentine's Day, everybody.

Is it Pink? Is it Purple?

2012-02-11T11:00:00.001+02:00

It's both!

This post is about BYS nail polish that changes colors under different temperatures.

Purple when it's cold

Pink when it's warm

Something between pink and purple in room temperature

I run my thumb under cold water at first and then put hot water at the tip, it gave a pretty nice noticeable line.

The shade itself is called BYS Glitter Purple N285, which pretty much explains all - it's glittery and it's purple.

I'm wearing three coats and on my accent finger I have on two coats of Wild and Crazy Anchorage.

My only surprise with this polish was that it dried matte (and that was the reason why I used matte top coat too)

Overall I liked, it was nice shade (both shades, actually) and it stayed on really well. I'd give it two thumbs up. :)

Andy Warhol Inspired Nails

2012-02-09T11:00:00.001+02:00

I've mentioned that I'm a huge art and art history fan - I absolutely love the renaissance era and I also love pop art.

Andy Warhol has been one of my favorite artists for a long time, so here's a mani inspired his artwork "Gun"

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Andy Warhol "Gun"

Do you like art? Who's your favorite artist?

E.l.f Golden Goddess

2012-02-07T11:00:00.001+02:00

Let me start out by saying that I really like this polish.

To test it out I tried it over black and white.

It looks nice on white, but it looks excellent on black - at least in my opinion.

The small golden glitter gives a nice background to the bigger holographic hexagon glitter.

It's my first e.l.f polish. I'm really satisfied with how it looks and it doesn't take much time to dry, so all in all it,'s great.

I already used it in the Glitterbomb post and I'm wearing it right now, as I type it over some blue (post coming soon).

How do you like this and have you tried e.l.f nail polishes and did you like them?

Glitterbomb

2012-02-04T11:00:00.002+02:00

For the base I used one coat of Sally Hansen Beige Blast and two coats of Essie Virgin Orchid. Even without the glitter I loved how it looked. It's such a beautiful pink with gold shimmer, the only downside is that it tends to look streaky (so that's why the Beige Blast).

(Pictures taken before I cleaned up around the edges)

After the base, I sponged some O.P.I Designer... De Better to the tips and finished it off with a coat of E.l.f Golden Goddess.

It's so girly and sparkly, I really liked this look. :)

All over the place - Haul

2012-02-01T19:12:00.000+02:00

I got all the things two weeks ago and but I have had some technical issues so that's why the haul goes up now.

This is my last bigger purchase - black studded handbag.

My favorite department store was having a sale and this bag caught my eye right away. I absolutely love it - it's exactly what I wanted and needed: big enough to fit all my stuff and it's black so it matches with everything.

I was in Stockholm on January 17th and that is where I got all the jewerly.

These earrings are from a store Ur & Penn. I had never even heard of the store, but it had some great stuff.

From the same store I got this butterfly charm for my sister's birthday that's in spring. I try to get her a new charm every time I go abroad.

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From H&M feather double ring.

I've been searching for a nice double ring for over a year now. All that I've found so far has been either not my cup of tea or with really sharp edges. I'm clumsy enough, I don't want to worry about cutting myself while wearing a ring, so yeah..

Paris, London and New York bracelets, also from H&M.

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Gold cuff bracelet, also H&M.

When I came back to Estonia I bought black Depend Crackle nail polish and BYS nail polish that should change color depending whether you feel cold or warm. We'll see how that works out, I haven't had time to try it out yet, but I will definitely blog about it in the near future.

Chanel Péridot (pic heavy)

2012-01-29T12:35:00.000+02:00

How freaking gorgeous is this?!

Another beautiful polish I got for Christmas from my friend.

I know you read this. Thank you!

I'm wearing two coats of Chanel Péridot, which is a gorgeous duochrome.

It can look gold, green and even teal in some light. I absolutely loved it.

On my ring finger, I tried to create something peacock-like, but I didn't succeed.

Nevertheless, this is definitely one of the most gorgeous and versatile polishes I own.

E.l.f Haul

2012-01-27T14:04:00.003+02:00

I wanted to do a big haul of all the things I bought last week, but as always - blogger is not working well for me, so I though I'll just shorten the haul and include only e.l.f stuff.

Here's everything.

I ordered everything on 5th of January and got the package on 16th, although it was here already on 12th.

I ordered lipstick in the shade Fantasy, plumping lips glaze in Oasis and eyelid primer in Pearl.

To feed my nail polish obsession I got a polish Golden Goddess and Studio cream eyeliner (with a small brush) in Gunmetal.

And probably my favorite thing - Day to night beauty on the go palette, which included 20 eye-shadows, 4 lipglosses (I don't know what to call them) and two blushes and a box where you can fit the palette.

Reviews of everything coming soon. :)

DS Extravagance

2012-01-21T10:43:00.000+02:00

I have had some problems with Blogger recently, with my posts not showing up.

I really hope this goes up normally.

Anyways - I'm seriously in love with this polish.

This too was a gift from EstonianBeauty

A blurry one to make the holographic effect show up more

O.P.I DS Extravagance

Two coats give perfect coverage.

It's absolutely gorgeous dark pink holo and it looks the same on the nails as it does in the bottle.

I can't say enough good words about it, it's seriously one of the most beautiful nail polishes I own, or what do you think? : )

The King

2012-01-18T11:45:00.002+02:00

Similar?

I hope so.

What's the better nail art combo than one of my favorite polishes GOSH Holographic and one of my favorite artist Freddie Mercury.

I'm finally done with the exams (which I all hopefully passed) and right now I'm on a short cruise to Sweden, Stockholm.

I hope you're all having a great week and I'll leave with a piece of awesomeness.

Designer... De Better

2012-01-14T11:00:00.001+02:00

Believe it or not, this is my very first O.P.I polish.

My good friend and fellow blogger EstonianBeauty got me 2 O.P.I polishes for Christmas and this is one of them - Designer... De Better from The Muppets collection.

For the first two days I wore only this polish (three coats), on third day I added the lines with a sharpie.

I really love this polish, it's gorgeous gold foil with red sparkle. Most of the pictures were taken with flash so that's why it may seem silver-looking. In real life it's gold and looks amazing.

It's definitely one of my new favorite polishes.

Grape Going!

2012-01-12T10:00:00.001+02:00

This is the third Sally Hansen Insta Dri polish I got for Christmas, it's called Grape Going!

It's pretty purple with blue shimmer. In the pictures I have on two coats of it, but three would've probably been better.

It's nice, but nothing too groundbreaking. When I have more time, I'll definitely try it on with a black or white base.

Sparkling Gray

2012-01-10T10:00:00.001+02:00

A really short one, since all my time is still occupied with studying for exams.

For the base I used two coats of Coral Prosilk #103, which is a dark gray and I topped it off with a coat of Eveline Cosmetics Color Instant #488. Although the pink doesn't show up that much, the glitter does.

It look tad more dusty purple in real life.

Lately I've been really loving all sparkly things, so this mani was exactly my cup of tea. :)

I've got two more exams to go, then it's back to regular life. I really can't wait.

Captain America Mani

2012-01-07T10:00:00.001+02:00

Those who've seen my earlier posts already know I'm a huge superhero fan.

And since The Avengers is coming out in May, I wanted to see all the previous Avenger's superhero movies.

Captain America: The First Avenger was a really good movie, I liked how it was connected to Thor and Iron Man and how hot was Chris Evans?!

Iron Man already got his own mani, so now it's Captain America's turn.

Thumb - Captain America's shield - H&M White and red and blue acrylic paint

Index finger - his symbol - YSL Blue and H&M White

Middle finger - Hydra's logo - ARTDECO #305 and black acrylic polish

Ring finger - his chest - YSL Blue, H&M White, red acrylic paint

Pinky - his helmet - YSL Blue, H&M White.

Crazy Colors

2012-01-05T11:00:00.001+02:00

Random mani that ended up looking kinda Christmassy.
(typical, just when the holidays are over)

I used some random red nail polish and green acrylic paint for sides and gold nail art polish for middle part.

I'm having my midterms/finals till the 16th so I'm not sure if I can keep up with posting three times a week, since I have to study like a maniac.
I do have an awesome post prepared for Saturday, but after that I've got nothing.

Hot Pink Beginning

2012-01-03T09:00:00.001+02:00

And so the 2012 began...

I hope everyone had great New Year's Eve!

I used one coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Fast Drying Nail Color shade Speedy Sunburst.

When Beige Blast needed two coats to look even, this only needed one.

For the stamping I used GOSH Holographic. I thought it would be really light and not show up, but it surprised me by being really good stamping polish.

And in the middle of every flower I used holographic glitter.

New Year's Eve Mani

2011-12-31T10:00:00.001+02:00

New Year's Eve came quickly this year!

And this is the mani I came up with.

This is how the flowers look without the holo glitter.

The usual base - two coats of black polish, but for the flowers I used tacky & stickly nail art polish and toothpick.

The key of doing the flowers is the tackiness - with fresh polish it wouldn't look like a flower. Also the base color has to be totally dry, otherwise the toothpick will mess everything up.

For the middle part I used holographic glitter.

This is perfect NYE mani for me, since I don't know yet what I'm going to wear, but black & silver will match with everything.

Happy New Year everyone!
May the 2012 be the best one so far.

Random Reds

2011-12-29T14:37:00.001+02:00

Another quick mani.

As a base I used one coat of Manhattan Lotus Effect nail polish #153, which is pearly nude.

Then I did some wave-thingies/brush strokes with Wild and Crazy Egyptian Red, then I let it dry and did some waves with Wild and Crazy Poncia and finished it off with brigter red Wild and Crazy Angelica.

I'm kinda disappointed how the pictures came out. In real life it looked prettier.

It was such a quick mani, I used only one brush and I really liked the outcome.

I'll definitely do similar thing with other colors, in the future.

Beige Blast

2011-12-27T10:00:00.001+02:00

I hope you all had lovely holidays, I know I did!

I received 3 Sally Hansen polishes for Christmas, and this is the first one - Beige Blast.

This is only 2 coats.

I used two coats of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Fast Dry Nail Color shade 03 Beige Blast. I really like this color and it really did dry super quick. When I was finished with one hand, I could touch the first nail I did without smudging it. First coat was little streaky, but second gave a nice smooth coverage.

For my thumb and ring finger I used these cameo nail stickers that I totally forgot I had. And for the rest of the fingers I put a coat of Wild and Crazy Ticklish Toes over it.

I like the end result - it's modest, but not boring.

Christmas Mani

2011-12-24T10:00:00.001+02:00

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

As a base I used one coat of Marks & Spencer gold nail polish. It's really beautiful and sparkling gold.

For the holly leaves I used green acrylic paint and for berries I used Orly Crawford's Wine.

On both of the thumbs I put red and green rhinestones.

Really simple and nice mani for Christmas. :)