Welcome back! The Japanese nail art experience starts today, hooray! This is the nail art design I was working on:


Very suitable for winter. I decided to use my sister as guinea pig try that on my sister's nails. I had to adjust the design because I don't have snowflake nail stickers and just a small selection of rhinestones. So this was the result (click to enlarge):

I had some problems with the little silver stars that I put on the nail. After two coats of topsealer they started to curl up a bit. You will notice on the thumbnail (the literal one). Also the silver line on one side of the blue stripe is barely visible.


You see the nice shimmer in the original design? I tried to replicate it by using a certain topcoat by Essence (Remix your style LE).

I used the following polishes:

• basecoat and topcoat as always
• white: p2 virgin (three freaking coats because it's a white jelly)
• blue: Essence Hard to resist
• shimmer on the blue: Essence Love topcoat
• silver lining: Essence Can't Cheat on me
• silver stars: from an art supplies shop
• glitters: T€di

I'm in love with this Essence effect topcoat, it adds pure awesomeness. =3

What do you think of this nail design? Yay or Nay?

Yay, a new design! Both my blog and my nails are brand new! I worked on this new header design all day long... If I had hundreds of readers, I would just make a "create a header for Naekubi"-contest. I have 66 readers only, so I did it myself.  *wipes her forehead* Hope you like it! (If you don't, well...)


Here's my nail art from last week. I got this idea from the beauty board at Beautyjunkies.de. Somebody posted some nail art with polka dots made from crackling nail polish, which is an awesome idea!


The nail polishes I used:

• P2 Hypoallergen + Quick Dry Base Coat
• Essence Copper Rulez! (magnetic polish, but I put it more because of the colour)
• P2 Golden Rush
• Essence BTGN topsealer

This nail art is really super easy to do and I like this look - as you can see, the crackling polish crackles from the centre of the dot. It almost looks like a star...

Until next time :)

I love autumn! Autumn is my favourite season. The colours, the smell, the light, the fresh air. Crispy yellow and red leaves on the pavement that sound like potato chips when you walk on them... mmmhhh...


It's like a feast for the eyes before winter. Nature creates warm and rich colours that are just very inspiring.


So here we have my "Welcome autumn!" manicure. It was also partly inspired by this key chain in the picture that my little brother gave me as a souvenir from his visit in Madrid, Spain. A friend of mine noticed that this manicure looked a bit like the windows of a church. I can see the similarity, yup.


Let's move on to the polishes I used:

• P2 Hypoallergen + Quick Dry Base Coat
• Essence Gold Rush (gold beige)
• Essence 50s Girls Reloaded LE You're a Heartbreaker(blue)
• Essence Wake Up! (red)
• P2 Your wild side LE vibrant green (dark green)
• Essence Natventurista LE Barefoot through the Moss (light green)
• Rival de Loop no name (dark brown)
• Essence Sun Club LE BBC Golden Sands (golden brown)
• Essence BTGN topsealer

*phew* *wipes her forehead* I hope I didn't forget any polish. This is a free hand manicure by the way. I tried it with scotch tape first but with five different colours on each nail it would have taken forever.

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon!

Hey there! Just a quick post. This was last week's manicure. It's quite simple - purple and... *drums* a crackle polish! I never used one before but I like this one.


As always, you can click on the pictures to enlarge them. I highly recommend this, otherwise you won't notice the subtle red and blue sparkles.


Just look! :)

And now the polishes I used:

• P2 Hypoallergen Base Coat
• Catrice Times Square at Midnight
• P2 Pearl Crackling Topcoat Violet Fusion
• Essence BTGN topsealer

The crackling nail polish looks less purple than in the bottle, but I still find it nice.

Until next time!

Hi there! Scented polishes are a trend that pop up occasionally. I remember seeing some scented nail polishes when I was... hmm... 14?


Trends in fashion and beauty are a funny thing. Now everyone will agree that absolutely new things don't come around too often. Neon colours, leggings, blue eyeshadow... been there, saw that (except taupe nail polish - that was actually new, as far as I know). It is mostly eclecticism and recombinations that make up innovation nowadays. Remixes and sampling, if you will.


Anyway, my nails smell deliciously like artificial raspberry. I used a bottle of polish that I bought in China and didn't even notice that it was scented.  Nice surprise :) As always you can click on the pictures to enlarge.


The list of polishes:

• P2 Hypoallergen + Quick Dry Base Coat (for sensitive nails... whatever that is)
• Sasatinnie Super Dolly Fantasy Color (black with silvery blue shimmer flecks/particles)
• Essence tip art painter Silver Surfer
• ring finger: Manhattan Glamoration LE (from the nineties!, dark blue), topped with Essence Mermaid Tears, nail art sequins
• Essence BTGN topsealer

Have a nice evening everyone!

Hi everyone! The weather is crap at the moment. Constantly going up and down. So does my blood circulation. I'm not the "yay! sunshine!!" kinda type, but warmer sunnier days and more stable weather would be nice nevertheless. In order to fight the grey mood I'm sporting some ombre nails now.


Ombre nails are the kind of manicure anyone can do (I call it "nail art for dummies"). Just like skittles manicures, you only need different colours and an eye for nice colour combinations. With ombre manis it's even easier, a gradation of one colour will do.


The colours remind me of ripe fruit like peaches, cherries and blackberries. Hmm... =)~~ *drooling*

So... the polishes I used, from darkest to lightest colour:

P2 Hypoallergen + Quick Dry Base Coat
P2 140 Diva
Rival de Loop 20
Nivea 43 Cherry Glaze (it's actually more pink than on the pictures... think crystallised cherries)
Essence Denim Wanted! 01 High Waist Pink (also this one is more neon in real life)
Eyeko Nude Polish, Catrice Biscuits and Cupcakes on top of it
Essence Better Than Gel Nails topsealer


By the way, this is my new umbrella. It's pink with dots! It's somewhat sad though that I have to use it so often at the moment.

Anyways, I hope you guys will have a nice weekend. :) See ya!

Hi there! I haven't posted a manicure in a while. I lack inspiration... I guess that happens to all great artists, hehe. This is actually from last week.

Also, I am going to take a little break from my blog, even a blogger needs vacation :). I'll be back in a week.


I kinda missed the good time for taking pictures, that's why they are relatively dark... The green polish is more of an emerald green.

The polishes I used:

• P2 Base + Care Coat
• Esprit Best of Style 805 Palm Green
• CS Diamond Dust no. 014
• Essence Better Than Gel Nails topsealer

I guess I got a bit lazy with doing my nails *sighs*. Anyways, thanks for stopping by!

Hi everyone :) I had some time to paint my nails. This time it's just one colour. Quite rare for me because I normally use at least two colours...


This time it's another polish that I bought in China, a Sasatinnie. It was relatively easy to apply, the only thing I disliked a bit was the brush. It's pretty short for a bottle this size. The polish applied nicely, I did three coats to get it completely opaque. Though two coats might have been sufficient - but it's better to be safe than sorry...


My crappy little camera made the lovely purple hue disappear completely. 

I used the following procedure:

• P2 Base + Care Coat (ok, this is getting boring, I used this one in 99% of my manicures... but I have a new base coat soon to be tried...)
• Sasatinnie Fantasy Color Nail Polish Super Dolly Fantasy Color (name is pretty redundant - three coats)
• Essence Better Than Gel Nails Top Sealer: awesome top coat, quick drying, it made my last manicure last for eight days - no chipping, no cracks, just lost one rhinestone. Downside: lasting manicure also means difficult removal.

Another picture taken in the shade. Maybe you can see the hint of purple:





Maybe not.

Have a nice evening or a nice holiday! (hooray for Bavaria and its gazillion holidays!)