Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Monday, 28 January 2013
31 Day Challenge, day 21: Inspired by a Color
Hi everyone! This is day 21 of the 31 Day Challenge and this time I'm supposed to be "inspired by a color". Like many other participants of the challenge I'm a little confused about what exactly is meant by that, so I chose to be inspired by the name of a polish, like fellow blogger Sarah did from Chalkboard Nails (do check out her blog!).
My inspiration, that I just randomly grabbed out of my Helmer, became OPI's Midnight Blue Glitter, pictured below. I instantly liked the name of it and already had an idea of what to make. But instead of using the polish itself for the look, I decided to only use the name as theme, because I really wanted my mani to scream: "BLUE GLITTER!". :3 And although Midnight Blue Glitter does contain beautiful blue (and turquoise and pink) bits here and there, the overall color is clearly charcoal. So I picked OPI Absolutely Alice (on top of Orly Sweet Peacock) to be my blue glitter. Which means my ring finger is indeed symbolizing midnight, with a classical Roman twelve in a clock, freehanded over China Glaze 2030. Hope you like it! :-)
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| OPI - Midnight Blue Glitter |
Sunday, 27 January 2013
Nail Art Love. A Note off of the Desk of an Unexplainable Journey, Wishing I had paid attention to computers in 2007, I know nothing, SPREAD THE WORD, HAIL to the N.A.W.,
I have no idea how Blogspot works. I just keep adding my #nailart here in hopes of it finding people who love it and share it and use it to feel joy. I wish I understood the ‘social media’ aspect of this business. I can paint celebrities, i can paint princesses from different countries, I can paint heirs of vast fortune, but I cannot ‘connect’ here like I wish I could. It is MY personal goal to learn that and to always try my best. Until then, Please accept my nailart and share it and help me to reach my goals. My whole life I have done nail art in a corner. I am sharing everything with you so I can exchange my nailart for canvas art. I would love to show my art all over the world and teach on Youtube all of the techniques I have learned over my 24 years sitting at a desk. Until I “get this computer stuff right” please accept my gifts of art and pass them freely!!!! If you copy, please say “inspired by Robin Moses” so others who wish to learn can find me and try a design they might love.
Forever Gratefull for all You guys do for me,
Robin
The Nail Art Wizard Ph.D (HAIL to the N.A.W.)
Forever Gratefull for all You guys do for me,
Robin
The Nail Art Wizard Ph.D (HAIL to the N.A.W.)
Friday, 25 January 2013
Foil Water Marble
I'd never thought I'd be able to do, let alone love, water marbling, but here I am with another marbled mani. This time I wanted to do a darker one, using H&M Kiss Goodnight and Orly Sweet Peacock, which is the sparkly blue.
From my last water marbling attempts, I've learned that not every polish is suitable for it, so I wasn't surprised when that was the case with Sweet Peacock. It was hard to draw neat, controlled petals in the polish. But that actually didn't bother me at all, as my nails were left with these beautiful, more natural swirls of polish instead.
Clean-up, however, was less beautiful! Despite having taped my fingers before dipping them in the polish, it was almost impossible to get them clean. So I took these pictures the day after, when most of the foily shimmer was finally gone after a long and hot shower. ;-) Thanks for stopping by!
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
31 Day Challenge, day 20: Water Marbled
They say practice makes perfect, and I couldn't agree more. I once tried water marbling just after I started this blog: I looked up a few tutorials, prepared the stuff I needed for it and then failed miserably. "Never again." I thought to myself. But since the technique is included in the 31 Day Challenge, I had no choice but to give it another go. So last week I failed again, and again, and again. And again. But I learned from it. And now I can proudly say I can do it. Weeee!
Things I had the most trouble with were finding the right polishes (some dry too quickly), drawing the designs in the water (maybe from using the wrong polishes) and preventing air bubbles. Though I have to admit I completely forgot to follow tutorials first this time, so I ended up rediscovering some handy things that I vaguely remember from the first time I did it. Clever me! :') Guess I was just too excited to get busy.
The polishes I used for this mani are Sea Spray and Four Leaf Clover, both from China Glaze. They were excellent for water marbling, but next time I'll be experimenting with my stash of too-crappy-for-normal-application-polishes. Because let's face it, water marbling uses up a LOT of polish. Thanks for reading!
Monday, 21 January 2013
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Sunday, 20 January 2013
Suzi Skittle
As my recent water marbling attempts for day 20 of the 31 Day Challenge weren't exactly succesful, I'll show you this colorful taped skittle from the vault instead. The grey shimmer is OPI Suzi Skis In The Pyrenees Suede. It dries with a matte finish but with some glossy topcoat it looks just as stunning! On top I did a fifty-fifty tape mani by covering up half of the nails with tape and painting the other half with the following polishes:
P2 - Groovy
Etos - #118
Essence - Sending You Kisses
Bourjois - Jaune Cab (#85)
In the meantime I'll practise more water marbling, I really want to be able to nail it! See you nex time!
Friday, 18 January 2013
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
31 Day Challenge, day 19: Galaxies
Hi readers! Today I have my first galaxy nails to show you. I always get excited when I see them on other blogs, but somehow it took me this long to finally do them myself. Now that I have, I'm really happy with them. Look at all those colors! :-)
I started with two coats of OPI Russian Navy (in the bottle in the second picture you can clearly see the red/pink shimmer I'm so crazy about!) Then I balled up a piece of paper towel to randomly dab on OPI Extravagance and China Glaze DV8. Finally I added a few white dots as stars and a layer of iridiscent glitter with OPI Last Friday Night. That's it! Now this may seem like a lot of steps, but because they don't require much precision this mani is very easy to do. Hooray!
To achieve this galaxy look, I roughly followed the steps of Asami's helpful video tutorial. Asami was one of my blogging idols with her make-up and nail blog Nails By Asami, often featuring cute handpainted cartoon nail art. Unfortunately she quit blogging, but you can still find her old video's on Youtube and a few of her designs on Pinterest.
Thanks for reading!
Monday, 14 January 2013
Saturday, 12 January 2013
OPI DS - Reflection
This post I want to share a beauty from the vault with you: OPI DS Reflection! Oh, how I love this polish... I often reach for it when I'm in a hurry but still want something really pretty on my nails. There's corally red, there's scattered holo and a bit of gold shimmer. Doesn't it look amazing? I applied two smooth and quick drying coats, but it could do with one thicker layer too. Well done, OPI!
Friday, 11 January 2013
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Thursday, 10 January 2013
31 Day Challenge, day 18: Half Moons
Hi everybody! I'm on day 18 of the 31 Day Challenge and today I'd like to show you half moons, something I haven't shared on this blog before. Not surprising given the fact I've only done half moon manis twice so far. Time to change that, because working on it this time reminded me of how fun it is!
With this challenge I also rediscovered my love for OPI Russian Navy. It has that subtle red/pink shimmer which gives this navy polish a nice something extra to look at. I used two coats of it to freehand the half moon gaps and then I filled in the bare gaps with pieces of silver glitter using a dotting tool. I know they're just plain silver glitter, but from a distance I swear they're like little diamonds. Almost like jewellery on my nails and it actually makes me feel a bit posh, haha!
Have you tried half moon manis yet?
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
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Robin Moses
Nail Art Wizard PHD
(Hail to the N.A.W.)
I have also been alerted of being featured in Nailpro Magazine! I haven't seen the article yet, but I am very excited and grateful. If someone has a link, I would love to see! xoxoxoxo
Monday, 7 January 2013
Gold Ornament
This mani is from a few weeks ago. I was just getting in the mood for the December holidays and added this simple tribal-ish pattern with a striper to go with the rest of my dark nails. I sure have a soft spot for black and gold. ♥
Below are a couple of older manis in black and gold. I thought it would be fun to show these lined up together to compare, isn't it a versatile color duo? ^_^
Fancy triangles, one of my first posts!
Shining like a star on Christmas '11.
Nude clouds for New Year's Eve.
And my recent Art Deco linework. :-)
And for those who are interested: the black creme I use is Color Club's Where's The Soiree?. It dries with a satin-matte finish, but I don't mind since it dries very quickly because of that, and I can always add some glossy topcoat. Another thing is it's a one-coater, so it covers perfectly but therefore can also leave stains on the skin. So I have to be extra careful with the application. Despite of this, it's still my favorite black so far.
Thanks for reading!
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Saturday, 5 January 2013
31 Day Challenge, day 17: Glitter
Ah, a new year has started. My first resolution? Finishing last year's 31 Day Challenge! :') I must be the worst participant ever! That's why I kept postponing starting on it in the first place. But at least I'm still having fun with it, and that's what counts, right?
For day 17 I did a glitter gradient. My first one actually and I must say I enjoyed it! It's so simple to make yet the results are pretty cool, I like. :) I used two coats of OPI Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ and dabbed H&M Confetti Kisses and a bit of China Glaze Silver Lining on the tips. Thanks for reading!
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I was asked to do nail art for 20th Century Fox's "The Heat" 2013 starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. --(LINKED INSIDE MY VIDEO)-- Is the trailer and at 1:26 is my inspiration. It is a GROOVY shirt worn by Kaitlin Olson A.K.A. "Sweet Dee" from "It's always sunny in Philadelphia. I hope you guys like them. I am thinking of a giveaway or some kind of gift type deal. Please watch my video and reply to the TRAILER. Getting my name out to the trailer will REALLY help me spread the word to a larger audience who might want to learn art. That is my goal, so please help!!!! *huge love and thanks to my supporters" and....WOOOPWOOOOP!!!! MOVIE NAILS! HAHAHAHAAHH
Friday, 4 January 2013
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Wednesday, 2 January 2013
2013 NAILS!
Hi guys! Happy New Year! Here are some of my HK nail art and Hard Candy Swatches! Enjoy!!!
God Bless you all!!! ♥
Pink Blush Ombre
Materials Used:
Sally hansen "lavender cloud"
hard candy "pretty in punk"
baviphat "lady pink"
fimo bow design
holo top coat
black s.p.
dotting tool
yellow n.p
matches my toe nails love it!!
hard candy just nails nail color
hardy candy "envy"
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hard candy "lava"
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hard candy "pretty in punk"
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hard candy "mr. wrong"
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hard candy "break up"
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hard candy "mr.right"
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hard candy " hot pants"
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hard candy "fishnet"
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hard candy "date night"
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hard candy " sweet p"
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hard candy "sugar daddy"
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hard candy "rumor mill"
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nail art I made for angelica's 18th birthday
"cherry blossom"
"TAKE A NAP"
sally hansen "lavender cloud"
black special polish
glitter nail polish
neon, red, pink polish
opi top coat
dotting tool
ob 31 and qa 13 image plate (MyOnline Shop )
sally hansen "lavender cloud"
black special polish
glitter nail polish
neon, red, pink polish
opi top coat
dotting tool
ob 31 and qa 13 image plate (MyOnline Shop )
" hello kitty leopard"
Hope you like them!!!
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