Halloween nail inspiration, spooky kawaii nail art tutorials

Less than a week left for Halloween and spooky parties are in full swing. While trying to decide on my Halloween manicure, I turned to my trusted Japanese nail art magazines for nail inspiration and found lots of spooky and kawaii nail art ideas so I decided to share them in a new post.

Summer nail art trend from Japan, Jewel nails

It's been a while since I did a nail inspiration post. There is a summer nail art trend in Japan right now that I really love! Jewel nails! Glitter, crystals, shells, if it sparkles, it has to be on your nails! 

September nail inspiration, spice up your manicure

Fall is finally here and the weather is getting cooler yay! That's a good excuse to catch up with some nail mags and do another montlhy nail inspiration post. From the latest issue of Nail UP! here are some easy nail art tips to spice up your simpler manis.

August nail inspiration, hot nail colours for summer, nail art tutorials

August, the last and hottest month of summer is here, so for this month's nail inspiration, let's take a look at the hottest summer nail colours, according to Japanese nail magazines. You can see 8 fun and easy to do summer nail art tutorials after the cut.

May nail inspiration, Japanese nail art and decoden

If you read this blog frequently, you must know by now that I love Japanese nail art and decoden. So for this month's nail inspiration how about combining the two? Here is nail art inspired by deco items. 

The images are from Nail Max Collections.

April nail inspiration, wedding nails and a giveaway winner

April is a great month for weddings and as a beloved friend of mine is married in a few days, I decided to dedicate this month's nail inspiration post to wedding nails and take a look at some bridal nail art ideas and step by step tutorials straight from Japan.

March nail inspiration, floral nails tutorial, spring nail designs

Spring is here once again and as everything around me is blooming, I can't help but dedicate this month's nail inspiration post to flower nail art that is perfect for spring! All this month's nail art comes from Ericonail, one of the most well known nail salons in Japan, that also has an exclusive nail art supply line.

Check out these fabulous floral nail designs!

February nail inspiration, kawaii characters nail art tutorials

My favourite month, February, is finally here, so of course it has to start with a nail inspiration post ^_^
Also this post marks the start of my first theme month. The theme being kawaii (cute). So this nail inspiration post is full of kawaii nail art tutorials with cute characters that we all know and love.

December nail inspiration, Christmas nail art

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the most beautiful month of the year is upon us once again. Just a few days left for Christmas so this nail inspiration post is full of Christmas nail art tutorials from the Nail Up! January 2011 edition.

November nail inspiration, fall inspired step by step nail art

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November is upon us and finally I can feel the weather getting colder. So for this month's nail inspiration, I have for you easy to follow step by step nail art tutorials with a fall theme as seen in the November edition of Nail UP! Magazine.

October nail inspiration, lace and freehand nail art tutorials

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no October nail inspiration post would be complete without Halloween nail art. This time I was drawn to a fabulous dark lace nail design from the current issue of Nail Venus. Black lace on a grey background, with Swarovski crystals. Very elegant and perfect for a Vamp look.

September nail inspiration, 23 nail art ideas

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my first post for September is quite late as I went on a very exciting trip in the beginning of the month (more about that in an upcoming post). But that doesn't mean that this won't be a nail inspiration post.

Here is the last installation of the Nail Up! Summer nail calendar, 23 fabulous nail art ideas for September.

August nail inspiration, daily nail calendar

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traditionally the first blog post each month is a nail inspiration post and this one greets the return of the nail calendar. I just got the latest edition of Nail Up! and was pleasantly surprised to see a summer nail calendar for the months July, August and September, while browsing the pages.

So here is the August nail calendar, full of inspiring nail designs. The theme is Princess summer nails.

July nail inspiration and giveaway winner

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July is here and the time for summer vacation is drawing near. So the theme for this month's nail inspiration is marine nail art. The latest issue of Nail Max has some really lovely marine nail art tutorials and I am going to share them with you today!

But before that, let me announce the winner of my blog's second birthday giveaway. It is the lovely rock-or-not ^___^ Congratulations!!! I have emailed the winner already. If I don't get a reply within 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen. Thank you so much to everyone who entered and don't worry if you didn't win. I am preparing my next giveaway already.

Now on to the marine nail art tutorials.

June nail inspiration, time for a pedi

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June is here and summer is in full swing. So it's time to wear sandals and show off our pedicures.
This month's nail inspiration post is all about feet ^_^

May nail inspiration, custom made nail polish bottles

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It's May, which means my blog's second birthday is coming up, yay!!! I am already considering a ton of ideas to celebrate, but I will have more information on that in an upcoming blog post.

Today it's time for another nail inspiration post. Lately I have seen an interesting trend popping up in Nail Max. Custom made nail polish bottles. And we are not talking just adding some rhinestones or a sticker, we are talking having your nail polish bottles match your nails. As expected from the very talented and creative Japanese nail artists.

April nail inspiration, fun nail art with acrylic paint

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April is here and Spring is in full bloom. The best time to play with your nails, if you ask me. So here is another nail inspiration post. For this month I will show you some step by step nail designs using acrylic paints and a fine nail art brush, courtesy of the spring edition of Nail Venus. All of them are fun and very easy to do.

So let's start with some stars, a cute cat and a swallow.

March nail inspiration, time for some spring colour!

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March is here and although the weather is quite cold still we can say that spring is here. So this month's nail inspiration will have a spring theme. This time I present to you some nail ideas from ES Nail, a well known nail salon from Tokyo. Recently they published a catalogue full of pretty nail art ideas.

These pretty flower themed nails are on the cover.

February nail inspiration with a romantic touch

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my favourite month of the year is here, yay!!!

This month's nail inspiration has a romantic theme since Valentine's day is approaching.
Here are some ideas for cute heart nail art from Nail Max collection vol6

And a few more cute designs from Nail Up!

Apart from the traditional pink coloured designs, I chose some bolder ideas using orange and even green.
Do you like doing Valentine's themed nails?
I generally am not for Valentine;s day at all as I want to celebrate my love for my darling every day but I find Valentine themed manis cute ^_^

p.s. keep an eye on my blog as there is a giveaway coming very soon ;)

Let's welcome the year of the Dragon

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Happy New Year! It is 2012, the year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. The Dragon is a symbol of strength and good luck so I am expecting this year to bring great things for each and everyone of us and for humanity as a whole.

For the first post of the year and of this month I will continue with the monthly nail inspiration posts.
For January, inspiration comes from the January edition of Nail Up!, which is my favourite nail magazine.

Here are some nail art ideas based on the colours that are in for the season.

The snowflake design on the bottom right of the second picture was actually the inspiration for my Christmas manicure ^_^

So what do you think of this month's nail inspiration? Do you like these designs? Do you agree with the colours? Personally I fail to see mustard as a trendy colour, I would much more prefer a forest green one instead.