Finally, the last day of the month! August has been extremely long and hard for me, and I am very happy that it is over already. It also brings the end of summer with it and some new, refreshing breeze. So to celebrate this last day, I have a very special post and a glorious manicure to show you.  This is a guest post, the first in my blog, made by one of my most favorite freehand nail art artist - Raggio di Luna Nails. Please welcome her with a big warm hug! She's AMAZING!

Today in the Where In The World Challenge I am taking you to Japan. One of the countries I MUST visit! I have heard so much about it and I have seen so many photos and visiting Japan is very high on my bucket list!
But in the meantime, I got some inspiration for my mani from Japanese Culture, Or to be exact - from Sanrio, a Japanese company that designs, licenses and produces products focusing on the kawaii (cute) segment of Japanese popular culture.

Today is the last day of this month's Crumpet's Tri Polish Challenge and just a reminder - these month's polishes were Barry M Passion Fruit, Zoya Holly and Orly Sunshine. So here's my last entry for August:

I am usually not much of a pink type, but when I saw this polish up in Claudia's Holographic Hussy blog, I knew I HAD to have it! This is You Polish Pink Again.

So we're on Day 3 of The Crumpet's Tri Polish Challenge for August, and the polishes I chose are BarryM Passion Fruit, Zoya Holy and Orly Sunshine. Remember?

A little while ago I saw this review by Natalie of Nailz Craze. It is of a new polish by a local polish brand here called Ga-De and it looked so pretty on Natalie's nails that I had to get it too! And since I was already in the store, I picked another polish of the same collection by the name of Mellow Yellow.

I can't really say I was impressed by these polishes. They are cremes, they are nice and easy to apply, they dry pretty quick. All is true. But I have seen the same colors and the same formula and finish about a billion times before. 

Nonetheless I decided to go with the yellow as my base and rock it for the summer!

Many of you know by now that I make some thermal color changing polishes. So when I heard that Nfu Oh were releasing their thermal collection too - I had to try it. So today I have one of those thermal polishes: SECE #11 (When will you move to meaningful names already???)

Today I have a gorgeous nail polish to show you. It's a beautiful polish that I have seen a while ago and really wanted, but only recently the brand started to offer Internationally shipping, so I grabbed the opportunity right away! This is Eternal Blaze by Mod Lacquer.

Back in June, when I saw the colors for the Crumpet's Tri Polish Challenge, I already wanted in and I did this mani to be the first for that month. However, things happened and I could not play that month. This doesn't mean that I can't still show you my mani, right?

ooooooh I like it when I'm ahead of time! =D
So another post for The Crumpet's Tri Polish Challenge this month and August is Red, Green and Yellow. Or and just a reminder of some of the rules - White, Black, Silver and Gold are always free to use.

YAY! I am still keeping up!! I just might complete this challenge afterall!! And today in the Where In The World Challenge we are visiting Colombia, the land of coffee, gold and amazing landscapes. Colombia is also infamous for  it's drug trade, that initially made me think of some Marijuana leaves mani, but then I decided to go with something else. 

It's been exactly two months since I took part of the Crumpet's Tri Polish Challenge. Due to personal reasons I had to skip both June and July. But now i'm back and I hope to stay around some more. And for the month of August we have Red, Green and Yellow.

The three polishes I used in this month's challenge entries are Barry M Passion Fruit, Zoya Holly and Orly Sunshine.So let's get on with the first entry shell we?

Yesterday I told you I got something with Blue polishes lately, didn't i? so just to prove you that I wasn't lying, here's yet another blue nail polish. This is Liberty by You Polish.

I don't really know what's getting me into this but recently my hand is drawn to blue polishes. More and more blue polishes... So today I would like to show you a couple of gorgeous Blues: Brute by Mentality and Jumping Jellyfish by Sea Lore.

Hello beautifuls!
Today I am so honored and proud to let you know that I am a guest poster at Raggio di Luna Nails blog! I really love Tanja's art and I was really excited when she asked me to do a guest post a while back. So I knew I wanted to do a water marble, and I knew it had to be in shades of Blue-Green, and I am pretty happy with the mani I came up with!
So please go over to Raggio di Luna Nails blog and check it out. And while you're there - like her! Trust me - you won't be sorry!!!

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Today I have another entry for Where In The World's challenge, and this time we're in Korea.

Today I have yet another Elevation Polish to show you. I don't know how it happened that I have been using Elevation Polish so often lately, but I truly do enjoy them so much! And today I would like to show you a Limited Edition polish, part of a special Duo called The Geo Duo. These flowers were stamped over Dykh-Tau.

If you like stamping, I am sure you had your need for gold nail polishes for stamping. I know I needed it. But I usually ended up using some Metallic - Chrome polishes such as China Glaze Passion or Barry M Gold Foil Effect, but those are too...smooth. The stamping doesn't look like gold. You know what I mean? Anyway, now I have found my favorite Gold Stamping Nail Polish! Please let me show you MoYou Gold:

I am looking for a good Nude Creme. This is a very problematic color for me, but it's an excellent base for nail art. While I still did not find my favorite one, I did find a couple that are so close that you might not need them both in your life. So I decided to show them to you. Here are Julep Pippa vs. Rescue Beauty Lounge Opaque Nude. (Index and Ring are Julep Pippa, Middle and Pinky are RBL - Opaque Nude).

Today is a quicky post of a quicky mani. I know it may sound strange to call a water marble - a quicky mani but this was really a quick one!

Today in the Where In The World Challenge I would like to take you to Ukraine, the largest country within Europe. However, I would like to take you to a rather small part of it, near the town of Kleven, a place called "The Tunnel Of Love'".

This one has been on my lemming list for a very long time and to be honest - I pretty much gave up the idea I will actually get it one day. But then sweet Jen of Jen's Wonderland had one up for sale! YAYAYAY!! I finally got it got it got it!! Jan - Thank you sooooo much!!! So here is Nerd Lacquer - Holy Grail!

It's been a while since I wore purple. I think it's very sad because I love the color in all it's shades and I have tons of purple polishes, so I decided it's time, so today I have two purple polishes to show you!

Yeah I know it's no longer spring but I still love grey nail polish. And the one I want to show you today is super beautiful! However, I am not sure about the nail art because I think it takes way too much off the beautiful base.

I honestly don't know why but I am having some serious issues with the Needle Marble technique. It should be real simple and I see so many amazing manis made by this technique, but for some reason I just can't get it right. So I took me a free evening and decided to give this method a try. It did take me quite a while until I was fairly happy with all my nails, but I did it!

I am beginning to think that I had another reason to neglect the rest of the Where In The World Challenge, other then just being lazy... Today's country is Singapore. What do I know of Singapore? Absolutely nothing! Well, I do know it is in Asia but that's really the only thing I know. But since I decided to complete the challenge, I turned to my virtual life support machine - Google, and came up with quite a few gorgeous landscape photographs of Singapore, and one of them is my inspiration for today's mani.

Last month when everyone was celebrating the 4th of July with fun Red, White and Blue manis, I was over my head occupied with personal issues. But I still wanted to enter the parties. Besides, better late then never, right? So please accept my 4th of July mani, just one month later.

I already showed you a glimpse of today's mani a few days ago when I reviewed MoYou stamping image plates. But I thought that this polish, being one of my most favorite polishes in 2012 deserve to have it's own post too!

Today's mani is somewhat boring but sometimes I need that. I need my mani to be quiet and boring. You know this feeling? Anyway, today's mani is Nails Inc Soho Mews - from the Leather Effect collection.

It's been a while since I posted an entry for the Where In The World challenge. I admit - I was trying to forget about that challenge and I didn't really think I will get to finish it. But this last weekend I was googling something and saw this gorgeous picture from Finland, and decided I can go for it and actually complete the challenge. Let's see how far I can go this month then! 

And for now - here is my Finland Entry: