Important Konad news and a BIG thanks to you, my dear followers

Hey,

long time no hear, I'm terribly sorry about that, but I had a deadline for a translation job I had to finish and finally I've made it, have to say what a week this was:)

As you've probably heard OC NAIL ART will no longer be able to accept all the coupon codes which are available around the web. The last to day to use your code is today, so if you've planned to order some great stuff go ahead and still get -30% on all Konad goods. You can still use a code (mine is KONADOMANIA, or any other code) at the check-out and get the discount.

I would also like to thank you, my dear followers and readers, and kindly welcome all the new ones! I really appreciate you following me, and each time I see a new follower I get so excited:) Big thanks and kisses

I promise to post new stuff soon, I've already made some new manicures, and especially konadicures;) As a matter of speaking I'm going to polish my nails right now, as there was not enough time during the week, and man those polishes Tuli sent me are really amazing, I have one on my nails for about 7 days and still no chipping, how cool is that!

Sending you my love and hugs, have a great and polished weekend:*

Link Love 3/5/10

Tuli's Nails shares her festivities during Purim with us and creates a colorful manicure that's perfect for the celebration.
Chromatic Misadventures brings us a host of Models Own swatches this week in an array of colors
Phresh Mentality found a little inspiration in Rihanna's Rude Boy video for the phresh design she's brought us this week.
Have nail issues or questions you'd like to discuss with a nail specialist? Well get your questions ready because polishSWATCHES is starting a new blog series called "Nail Talk"... with celebrity manicurist Tashina, from Poochiez Nail Studio in Atlanta. Submit your questions by using the contact form at the top of the blog page.
Polishg the Nails shows off Adore from China Glaze. Have you ever seen this color from the 2009 Romantique collection?
Naive Nails channels the orient to bring us a a very pretty konadicure she's called the Jaded Tiger.
The Swatchaholic was able to get her hands on the Essence Cute as Hell collection and brings us some wonderful swatches of all the pretty pastel colors.
Travel with Euridice is sharing a Color Club Color that you absolutely have to get your hands on this spring. Or should I say on your hands?! :)
Polish Galore is showing off some hologram goodness. Hint: This color is sure to have you LOL. ;)
Manicure Mommas shed a little light on the new fun and quirky polish brand called Cheeky Monkey.
and Polish Freak is showing off a color that has set the polish world on fire.
Helen's Nice Things wants you to know they have a brand spanking new site AND a new web address at.... Just Nice Things! So have a visit and change your blogrolls accordingly from http://www.helensheenie.wordpress.com/ to http://www.just-nice-things.co.uk/

And now.....Giveaways!!!

Check out...

The Konadomania Giveaway in honor of her gaining 300 blog followers

and

The Chromatic Misadventures Giveaway in honor of her gaining 300 blog followers

Congratulations Ladies!!!

Guest nails: Japanese cherry tree KOTD

Hey:)

A quicky today, as I'm on my way back to school. Here are familiar guest nails again, there are 2 coats of Jade 315 (bright red with gold, pink shimmer), which I could not captures in these photos, but I promise I'll show it to you in its true beauty:) Then I used fauxnad im H23 and Konad special nail polish in white and 1 coat of Poshe fast drying topcoat.

Do you like the end result?

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished day:*

All images are clickable:)

Polish bloggers Link Love 27/2

Phresh Mentality paints a few PHRESH mani's in an effort to raise funds to help Haiti



Helen's Nice Things has swatched a Ciate Paint Pot color, but you have to click the link to see which one. :)



Naive Nails has a little Lilly on her tips brought to you from Zoya, of course!



Konadomania is felling a little lot spring like and she is showing it off... on her nails!



The Swatchaholic brings out a lusted over discontinued color from her stash and rallies for the maker to bring the color back. Please be sure to take her poll located in her blogs sidebar and maybe our voices will be heard.



Oh how I love a pretty textured mani and Bright Lights Big Color is showing off just that!



Hot & Spicy are the words to describe Polish Freak's mani. Be sure to leave her a comment on how you feel about the color.



Dying to see some swatches of the new Diamond Cosmetics spring 2010 polishes?! Well, Nail'd & Polish'd has just what you need.



Magic Maid has brought you some beautiful swatches from a well known European brand polish.



Tuli's Nails has on polish that's "as pretty as a picture" thanks to our lovely polish blogger Nicole.



Travels with Euridice also has some Essence swatches. The more the merrier I always say.



Nail-Design is giving us a peek inside her stash and showing us how she stores her polish.



Perfect 10 Beauty has swatched a polish called FABULESS... see if you can guess the brand.



Metallics are deemed to be big for the upcoming season and Manicure Mommas has showed you how to make it look luxe.



polishSWATCHES brings you a closeup of Rihanna's "Pretty Kitty Manicure." What do you think of the design?

Now for the Network Giveaways...

Konadomania is celebrating 300 followers... click her name to see exactly how. It's so worth it!



Travels with Euridice is having a Holla for Holos giveaway to show her followers her appreciation.



Neglelakkmani is having a giveaway that's scheduled to end on Monday, so please enter if you haven't already done so.

Mattified and konaded, could I ask for anything more:)

Hey, you Lovelies:)

And good morning to you all! It's again a beautiful day outside, and I'm waiting for my BF to come home from night shift.

Today's KOTD is yesterday's manicure with Careline 355 which I mattified with China glaze Matte magic and I'm so satisfied with the result I cannot tell:) Love the smoothness and the velvet effect it gives to the polish. This is also my first real matte top coat.

But I did not stop at mattifying, huh:D I had to put a konad over it, what else;) I used konad image plate m73 and China glaze Passion for gold stamping.

The pictures are taken in my lightbox with artificial light.

What do you think of the matte effect and the konadicure? Yay or nay?:)

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished weekend:*

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no flash

All images are clickable:)

Swap polishes: Careline 355

Hey,

looking forward to the weekend?:) I surely am!

Today's polish for you is one of the many I got from lovely Tuli in our polish swap. It's Careline 355, burgundy red colour with copper shimmer, which is more evident in the bottle than on the nails, though it's still a gorgeous colour,  but as you know I'm a sucker for reds and purples:)

The application was great, it was really easy to handle the brush, these pictures are not precleaned, I think I applied it quite nicely:) It's a 2 coater over Nailtek f.2, you could get away with only 1 thicker coat, but for extra depth I added the 2nd one. There's also 1 coat of Poshe Fast drying top coat in the pictures. The pictures were taken in my light box with artificial light, with and without flash.

What do you think of the colour?

Thank you, dear readers and commenters, have a nice and polished weekend:*

with flash

no flash

with flash

no flash

All images are clickable:)

A rather small konad ip haul and China glaze matte magic

 Hey, Ladies!

How are you? It's a beautiful day, the sun is peaking through the clouds into my room:) What I  have for you today is a rather small konad image plate haul which I haven't shared with you up till now. I've ordered m21 m27, m36 and m36-1. Do you have any of these yourself?

I've also got in my mail box a package from trans design which included a bottle of China glaze Matte magic for me, other things were for a dear friend Anchek:) Thank you, you're a sweety!

Can't wait to try all this new stuff, as you can see I've already pre-cleaned the plates with some pure acetone, just like to do that before I use them:)

Do you have any experiences with CG Matte magic?

Thank you, dear followers and readers, have a nice and polished day:*

ps. GIVEAWAY