Wednesday 20 August 2014

Let's Celebrate Nailpolis!


Hiya!

Today's design is my entry for the Nailpolis 1.000.000 Facebook fans contest! If you haven't heard of Nailpolis by now, it's an online "museum for nail art" where nail artists upload their work, can "like" other people's designs (kind of like on Tumblr) and get featured. You can also earn badges when you've done certain designs - I have a Watermelon Lover badge and a Space Explorer badge for example :) I love the badge idea!

For this contest, you had to make a festive design. Every entrant gets a limited edition badge and a gift certificate of $5 to spend in Live Love Polish, a new online polish store. I decided to take the "festive" theme literal, and painted some wrapped gifts and balloons with acrylic paint :)




I used Essie's Urban Jungle - and I just keep falling in love harder and harder with this polish. Formula wise it has the best formula of all my Essie's and man oh man that colour is just amazing. I also used Essence Circus Confetti and Catrice Two Million Dollar Baby and picked some glitter out of the bottles to hand place them around my design. 

I never really liked Circus Confetti - it has a clear base with glitters in a multitude of colours, very circus-like and I just never knew how to pair so many colours. But jeez, I adored the combination of this polish with Urban Jungle.



And on my thumb I made an OPI polish bottle!


This was a quick design, and I have no real ambition of winning (although it would be nice of course!), but since every participant gets something I feel like a winner already :D There's still a week left to enter, if you're feeling like celebrating!

Thanks for reading!


23 comments:

  1. This is a really cool design! Loving the OPI bottle :-D

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  2. God luck at the competition, you sure have a gorgeous manicure. I love the details and the cute OPI bottle! You have my vote!!!!

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    1. Oh thank you Andrea! Unfortunately people can't vote for the designs, but the creators of Nailpolis will pick their top three designs :) I'm glad you like it though!

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    2. I keep my fingers crossed for you! I've tagged you on my blog with some fun questions. I would love to read your answers if you like it!

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    3. Oh thanks a lot Andrea! It looks fun, I'm going to make a little post about the tags right now! :)

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  3. Je maakt een hele goede kans denk ik! Wat leuk!

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    1. Dankjewel Miriam voor je lieve commentaar! :)

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  4. that looks lovely! *headingovertonailpolistolikeit*

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    1. AWW thank you Franzi! *hugs you because you're so nice* :D

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  5. Loooove this design, it's so intricate, and so fitting for the competition! Your nail shape is gorgeous too Xx

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    1. Thank you so much! Glad you like the nail shape :)

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  6. Yayy, I have the Watermelon Lover badge too! :D These celebratory nails are fabulous, I love the bright colours you have used. Good luck!

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    1. Thanks a lot Ave! The badges are really awesome :D

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  7. Robin this is awesome! Good luck my dear friend :)

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  8. Cute. I have this Catrice and Essence, these one of my favourite toppers. They don't cost much, make an impression and are easy to paint with.

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    1. Yay! They're really fun indeed and super cheap - I love Catrice as a brand. I should use these glitter toppers more often actually! :)

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  9. This design is perfect for the occasion! I love the badges you can get on nailpolis too! These are so detailed and I love how the balloons spell out nailpolis too! :)

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    1. Thanks a lot Jayna! I felt like I had to incorporate the word Nailpolis in there somewhere so balloons seemed like the way to go! :)

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  10. I love this manicure! :)

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