Picture Polish Frosting, a nail polish by Cosmetic Cupcake

Lately I have been in love with a specific nail polish, so much that I was wearing it for two weeks straight. And you know that is a very long time for a nail polish addict! It all started back in early August when I received a package from my dear friend 'Chelle who runs the blog Cosmetic Cupcake (more on that epic package on a later post). Inside was Frosting, a nail polish she created in collaboration with piCture pOlish. As soon as I laid eyes on it I was in love!

My latest creative endeavours

About a month ago I took part in a spring bazaar to showcase my Cel's Deconails jewelry and decoden creations. It was a fun weekend full of new experiences and meetings with good friends old and new.

Kawaii Deco for Valentine's Day

Hello everyone ^_^/

Happy Valentine's Day to all who celebrate.
Here are some cute deco ideas for this romantic day!

It's a day full of hearts and sweets so nothing is best than heart shaped cookies! They look so cute over trinket boxes and purse hooks! A Disney couple themed heart shaped purse hook is cute too ^_^

And here are some Japanese style deco nails made by yours truly ^_^

Cookies, hearts and polka dots, everything looks super cute, don't you think?

A feature and some blog awards ^_^

Hello everyone ^_^/

January is already over and my final post for this month is a very happy one!
Why you may ask. First of all, one of my handmade items is selected as one of the items of the week on the Etsy Greek Street Team blog. The theme of the week is heavy heart and the item featured is my kawaii Barbie heart-shaped purse hook.

If you love handmade arts and crafts and you want to see some fabulous creations by talented Greek crafters take a look at the Etsy Greek Street Team blog for sure.

Secondly during January I received three blog awards.
The Cute Blog and the I love your Blog awards from the lovely Bunny from Bunny Nails and the Liebster blog award from the lovely Sweet Wahine from Sweet Wahines Beautiful Life. Thank you so much my dears, I am honoured that you like my blog and that I got to know you through blogging <3

For each award there are some questions to be answered so here we go.

1. What is your go to makeup product?
Majolica Majorca Lash Expander frame plus mascara. It makes my lashes look fab even without wearing falsies.

2. What was your favorite fashion trend of 2011?
Flakies. I know it started before 2011 but it certainly boomed during the year and there is so much variety now. I just love them!

3. What is your favorite dessert?
Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia <3

4. Favourite color?
Purple

5. What is your middle name?
I don't have one

6. What was the last song that you listened to?
SMAP - Original smile

7. Cats or dogs?
Dogs. How can I betray my cute B-chan for a cat? XD

Something about myself that you don't know:
I love old school anime.

I am passing this award onto
Miss Dudette
Sweet Wahine's Beautiful Life and
Neues from Kellerkind

1. What is your favorite fashion magazine?
Kera

2. Who is your favorite singer/band?
I cannot choose one so here is my top 5 in no particular order: Bauhaus, Paradise Lost, SMAP, Kanjani8, Gackt

3. Who is your favorite YouTube guru?
I don't do youtube

4. What is your favorite makeup product?
Etude House BB cream for oily skin

5. Where would you like to live?
If not where I am now, Tokyo, Osaka, London

6. What is your favorite film?
Bram Stoker's Dracula, Romeo and Juliet (the 1965 version)

7. How many pairs of shoes do you own?
Too many XD

8. What is your favorite color?
Purple



I pass this award onto
SophiaBSC
Beauty Oshaberi and
Drugstore and Bargain Lover

For this one I have to share 7 things about me.
Let's see...
I'm pisces and proud of it. I speak 5 languages. I collect nail polishes (as if you didn't know XD). My favourite pastime is reading a good book. Recently I enjoy watching the Mentalist. I love Japanese variety TV shows. My favourite writer is E.A.Poe. There XD

I pass this award to
Bunny Nails
CBSG5861 and
Box of Polish

Yosh! This was quite a lengthy post but I am done now ^_^

Gothic bling, a perfect combination!

Hello everyone ^_^/

the holidays are now over (unless you celebrate the Chinese New Year, in which case I envy you!) but I will show you a project I did before Christmas. I wanted to make a new deco case for my iPhone, but I wanted it to reflect my personal taste 100% So it had to be dark. And purple. And super sparkly too somehow!

After careful planning  I came up with a Steampunk Deco Gothic iPhone case! Yes ^_^
And here it is!

First I coated my case and added the main pieces. A Fleur de Lis, a skeleton cameo, wings and a key.

Then I carefully placed the Swarovski crystals, using grey and purple as my main colours.

Of course as you can see in the first photo, I added some cute phonestraps as well. If something isn't hanging from my phone, I find it to be empty somehow :o What do you think of the result? I think it fits me perfectly ^_^

And I will close this post with a couple of projects I did this week.

A deco flower purse hook/key chain for my mother

and a lipstick and pill case set for a friend.

If you would like to check more of my deco creations, you can always browse through my etsy shop ^_^

Etsy Greek Street team blog, items of the week

Hello everyone ^_^

how is your week going?
I am very happy today as one of my items is featured in the items of the week over at the Etsy Greek Street Team blog.

The theme is fairy dust and the item is my Holographic Rainbow round adjustable ring.

I am really honoured as it was picked amongst the many creations of all the talented Greek artists.
Please take a look at the blog if you want, it has many interesting posts ^_^

Also on the above photo you can see a preview of my Greek pride manicure which I will show you in my next post ^_^

You can have your nail polish and wear it too!

Hello everyone ^_^/

A new week is starting and I thought it was about time to share a new crafting idea since the deco part of my blog must have been feeling a bit left out lately.

But with this post I will combine both deco and nail polish so yay!!!

It all started after coming along this article in one of the nail polish mags I was reading in the summer.

After showing a lovely design with white colours on a purple background the writer suggests making a matching ring using gel. Now I have never played with gel nails but the idea was stuck in my head. I was intrigued. So I started experimenting and investigating.

Then I came across this lovely tutorial on youtube.

That was it, I started experimenting with all sorts of polishes and designs. I find the whole idea very exciting so here are some of my creations as well.

 Various designs. You can see I used glitter, nail decals, swarovski crystals, stamping and sponging.

Rings with the matching manicure.

Rings using Zoya Sara, NfuOh 51 and OPI DS Original.
The possibilities are endless really. You can use a huge variety of materials and methods and produce really unique designs.

These proved to be quite popular as I have already sold quite a few. I even added a few to my etsy shop.

What do you think of this? Exciting? Boring?
If you would like me to do my own tutorial on these rings let me know.

I hope you all have a lovely start to your week!

Happy Halloween!

Hello everyone ^_^/

How are you all enjoying the Halloween weekend? I am sure you're all having fun hehehe

Although I didn't manage to do any Halloween manicures due to my injury I am going to share some Halloween nail sets that I made for my etsy store instead ^_^

I used all sorts of nail polishes, rhinestones, glitters and decals and it was so much fun working on these.
I just wish I could do something on  my nails too as I had so many ideas.

Still it was great fun seeing all the Halloween manicures you guys shared on your blogs too ^_^

Deco class in Tokyo

Hello everyone ^_^/

today is a national holiday here so I spent my day swatching for future blog posts. Instead of that though today I will share something from my trip in Tokyo. My deco class with the lovely Kotone-san from 310carat in Ueno.

As I spent quite some time in Tokyo this summer, I thought it would be a good idea to get together with an experienced deco professional and learn some tips and tricks that I didn't know so I can improve my deco skills.

So with the help of my friend Kaoru we arranged a deco class. As I am not a begginer I was mostly interested in seeing how a professional works and learn some secrets of the trade so to say.

The whole experience was great fun and I got great tips on what products to use (i.e. what is the best glue) and how to lay out supplies while working ^_^

Here are a few photos of what took place.

 If you want to deco a whole phone case, you will need a lot of supplies.

 Kotone-san showing me her awesome decoden skills.

 Working on deco seals.

 Kotone-san had minx done on her nails so I had to take a pic to share with fellow nail enthusiasts.

 Our finished products.

Deco seal on a cellphone.

If you like deco and you would like to bling up your phones or just get your hands on some cute deco accessories, take a look at my etsy and zibbet stores. I also accept custom requests ^_^

Bridal nails and makeup

Hello everyone ^_^/

or rather, good morning as it's half seven in the morning here.
And yes, I haven't slept yet. You see darling and me had our 1 year wedding anniversary yesterday.
And we spent the whole night partying ofc. So now I am still so hyper and I cannot sleep.

Instead I will share with you my bridal nails and make up. Yayyyyyy!!!

As every bride I was very excited on deciding how my hair, make up and nails would be. I bought a few fake nail sets from Japan and kept trying them on and on, trying to figure out which one to use.

The winner was this lovely hand painted nail set from Yuzu Nail that I bought in MaruiOne.

I applied them at the very last minute using nail tape and I am so happy I chose them. This photo was from when I first bought them as now they are flying around somewhere in the house and I need to locate them (I swear half of my things are MIA since we moved).

As for my make up I did not want something subtle but I wanted to go all the way. Being a dark chick who likes gothic looks since I was a kid I decided that it should show at least in my make up (as Greece is too traditional for brides to be able to wear let's say dark or medieval wedding gowns without the parents having multiple heart attacks). So we used purple shades, lots of purple glitter and Shu Uemura eyelashes with dark Swarovski crystals.

I also got this lovely tiara from acpetrille's etsy shop .

It was such a crazy day and I don't remember much but looking back at the photos I am pleased with how everything turned out. Still I am glad it's over XD (you can tell I am not one of the girls who dream of getting married since they were kids).

And I am gonna close this post with a bonus shot of me trying to put on my nails before leaving the house to get married. It was insane I tell you, insane!

I am back ^_^

Hello everyone ^_^/

Long time no see.
I am sorry that I made so few posts while being away but internet access was not as good as I hoped it would be. I am now back from my Tokyo vacation (just returned a few hours ago) so I will get back on track asap.

I have a lot of things to share with you both nail and deco related and I also have another giveaway in the works.

For the time being let me share with you an Etsy treasury by moonlilydesigns that features my Sweet Pastel Fruit Salad nails.



Check it out here if you want.

Gotta get some much needed sleep now but I shall return with more posting soon.

Cute Character Items Etsy Treasury

Hello everyone ^_^/

How are you all today? I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
I am having a really bad case of the flu which is forcing me to stay at home and do almost nothing. I cannot even finish the manicure I had in mind because I am so dizzy most of the time. So whenever I am not drowsy I browse the net to pass the time.

I decided to be a bit creative and made my first Etsy treasury.
The theme is Cute Character Items because I have a soft spot for such goods.



Check it out here if you want.

In the Zoo Etsy Treasury

Today the day started well as another set of nails from my etsy store are listed in an animal print themed treasury compiled by the lovely Floralworld. Thank you so much ^_^



If you like animal prints take a look.

Have a lovely day everyone <3

Candy Pink Geisha - etsy treasury

The lovely ykonna has created a pink geisha themed treasury over at etsy featuring one of the items from my etsy store too.
This Anna Sui style deco mirror.



Check it out here if you want. She picked some very pretty items.

Holidays on the island - etsy treasury

I am so excited today, my Ocean Blue nails are being featured on a holidays on the island themed treasury on etsy, a list of summery items compiled by Dryw.

Check it out here if you want.



Have a lovely weekend everyone