My nail care routine: How to get healthier, stronger nails!

Hi my lovely readers!
Someone requested a nail care routine post (ehh, like a year ago) so today I decided to document my nail care routine for you all. This has really helped my nails not to brake too often (they brake couple of times times a year). I do this at least once a week, but usually three times per week :) I highly recommend all the products shown here, I've bought them all with my own money and they are fabulous!

My nail care routine begins with exfoliating my hands and cuticles: I use absolutely amazing product called Lumoava Lady. This product has sugar and oil in it and it makes my hands feel so soft! This product gets all the dead skin cells off my hands so moisturizers sink in better.

This is what the scrub looks like on my hands:

After scrubbing my hands, I move to a cuticle oil. I really like Sally Hansen's Diamond Strength Cuticle+ Nail Oil. It's the best one I've tried so far. I massage it into my nails and cuticles.

After the oil, I will treat my nails and cuticles with my ULTIMATE FAVOURITE NAIL CARE PRODUCT EVER: Burt's Bees Lemon butter cuticle cream. I've gone through five of these!! I love this product SO much! I have dermatillomania, and having my cuticles in this condition is a miracle! They used to be awful, but this product has healed them and it's hard for me to pick them anymore :)

The next step is to use a hand cream. I adore Soap & Glory's Hand Food. It's quite thick but sinks in fairly quickly. This hand cream is a life saviour during Finnish winter.

Now my hands, nails and cuticles are soft and moisturized so it's easy to push back my cuticles. I use this tool I bought from Bornprettystore. I highly recommend this, it's super effective (and it was super cheap, hehe)!

After pushing back my cuticles, I foe my nails down a bit. I use my trusty glass nail file by Trind. It's five years old and still works like a dream. Please don't use those cheap nail files, invest in a glass file and you'll never go back! Glass files are so much better for your nails.

Unfiled nails ;P

Filed nails :)

The final step to my nail care routine is to apply OPI's Nail Envy before a base coat. Now this product is a total must for everyone who wants stronger nails! I've been using this product for five years and it's crazy how much healthier, thicker and stronger my nails have become (well, you can see the improvement within a month of use, it doesn't take five years xD). I cannot live without this product!

I hope that this post helped you if you suffer from weak nails. I really recommend all of these products with my whole heart :) 

Thanks for reading, have a magical day!

xoxo Pauliina

Eye of the day and Nails of the day

Hi my lovely readers! Today I decided to share with you my #Eotd &  #Notd ;)

Eyes of the day

(Well I guess this would be considered as face of the day)

Eye makeup: Naked palette's Naked & Buck in the crease, Virgin and Stila's Kitten on the lid and Lucky on the lower lash line. Black gel liner by WetnWild.

Turqoise kohl liner in waterline by Barry M, color: 13

Blush: Benefit's Coralista

Bronzer: Too Faced Chocolate Soleil

Lipstick: Lumene's Raspberry Miracle lipstick shade: 10, Flower Meadow/Niityllä.

These nails were inspired by highlighters. I was taking some notes with my highlighters and thought of this design. It was simple to do. I used China Glazes Flip Flop Fantasy, Orange Knockout and Celtic Sun. I used three very thin coats of each polish. Love the super bright result!

Hope you liked this post, thanks for reading!

xoxo Pauliina

What I've been up to?

Sorry again for the major lack of posts! I've been so busy so I haven't had time to film videos or write blog posts. I've been working hard, and studying for my entrance examination for Laurea university of applied sciencences. The examination was held on 5.6 -6.6, so now I'm free! Well, I still have couple of days of work here and there, but now I don't have to stress about the entrance examination anymore. Fingers crossed I'll get in to my dream school!

Me working in SM-liigagaala, posing with Poika and Mikko Leppilampi.

Me &  Sini reading chemistry for our entrance examination

What else have I done recently?

I've went to a Fashion Stock sale...

...Or maybe two Fashion sample sales...

Spotted a fashionable bug, which clearly was either born really lucky, or rolled in Chanel's Peridot

Eaten a really cute cupcake

Drank some yummy Arizona teas...

& Some soda

Adored my bunny <3

Bought new shoes

Listened to great music...

...such as Phildel's Storm Song

Baked macarons with my mother... Looks pathetic?

 OK LETS GET A BETTER PICTURE OF THEM

IN ANOTHER POST! 

Attended my little sister's graduation party

And finally, I have painted my nails quite a few times.

Thank you so much for checking out my blog! Next post will be a review :) 

xoxo Pauliina

Recent nails & what I've been up to!

Hi my lovely readers!
Let's take a break from the NYC post series!

Last Saturday I was working in an event for Candyshop. It was such an amazing day! I met so many lovely people there, it was especially nice to meet Sini, Pumpulipupu and Mirssiina. This was propably the last time I did manicures for Butter London, and I have to say that I've enjoyed the time I got to work with this awesome brand! Candyshop will start importing Rococo Nail Apparel instead, so I'm looking forward to see how good that brand will be :)

My notd: Two coats of No More Waity, Katie and one coat of Knackered (Butter London). The accent finger: OPI Black Onyx & Butter London's Rosie Lee.

Another notd; WetnWild Sagreena the Teenage Witch.

If you don't live in Finland, you propably don't know what 'Vappu' is. Vappu is a Finnish word for May Day (1st of May).  It's a huge celebration of spring, people who have graduated from college, and so much more. Mainly people celebrate Vappu, because they want to get drunk (in the middle of the week, on 30th of April). To me, Vappu means a feeling of carneval, crazy colors, balloons, paper streamer and good time. 

The nail polishes I used for my May Day manicure

My May Day nails

My makeup on May Day -see the tutorial below!

The ice hockey world championships are here again!!!! The games will begin today, 3rd of May. I'm so  happy, I hope Finland will do well.

My Finland flag nails

Me sporting my beloved Finland/Leijonat scarf.

<3

Thanks for reading, have a wonderfull day!

xoxo Pauliina

Spring nails // China Glaze & Gina tricot

Hi my lovely readers! Here are some nails of the days from past couple of days :)

China Glaze's Sweet Heart is super cute milky pink. It's opaque but kind of streaky so I applied three thin coats. I just love this pastel pink for spring! :)

This is Gina Tricot's nail polish in color Line Up. I was so surprised by the quality of this polish! It was super cheap but went opaque in two thick coats. It didn't last for that long though, just couple of days.


Last night there were these gorgeous northern lights all over Southern Finland. I've always wanted to see the northern lights, but I've always missed them when they're been on the sky. Northern lights are pretty common in the Northern Finland, but in the South they're quite rare. It was so calming to fall asleep watching the dance of the lights <3

xoxo Pauliina