Nicki Minaj inspired nails

So many things to post and so little time! At the moment I'm in the middle of my exams, hence the lack of posting this week. But I've got plenty of fun stuff to share with you once things are slowing down. :)

Between all the studying I did manage to create a look for the OPI Nails 4 Life contest on Facebook. My entry had to be inspired by one of the four Nicki Minaj outfits provided by OPI. I chose the outfit she wore to Victoria's Secret and didn't have to think long about my choice, I was crazy about the fun graffiti style in vivid colors. Different techniques were used to achieve this look: sponging for the background, taping for the striped accent nail and a lot of freehanding for the stars, hearts and Nicki's initial, which took a lot of time to make but turned out pretty cute. ^^

If you like my entry, you can vote for me through this page. The prize is the entire OPI Nicki Minaj collection, plus an autographed copy of her Pink Friday album! Isn't that awesome?! I'm thrilled about the whole prize, so I'd appreciate it if you truly want to vote for my entry, though that's entirely up to you of course!

Did you participate in OPI's Nails 4 Life contest?

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Tutorial: Citrus design

Hi everyone, welcome to my citrus design tutorial :) I first made this design for my entry in the Good Enough To Eat contest at Nail Polish Art Addiction, a few months ago. The shape of a sliced citrus fruit has always amazed me for some reason, so for the contest I made this exotic, abstract pattern. A few of you dear readers requested a tutorial for it, so here it finally is :) Now go pick three delicious, summery polishes, your nail art brushes and do some nail art!

Start with the base color you like (if necessary with a basecoat underneath) and let it dry.

Then use your nail art brush and a contrasting, opaque polish or acrylic paint to draw a few circle shapes. Spread them evenly on the the surface to make a nice composition. Then devide each circle in 'slices' and round of the two outer corners of each 'slice'.

Clean your brush (or use a new one) and use a third color to suround each circle shape with a line, leave a small gap between the circle and the line, if you can. Then fill in the gaps with the same color and let the whole nail dry for a few minutes.

The surface is still a bit bumpy, so to make it smoother and protect your design, apply a topcoat. At last clean up the excess polish on your skin and you've got yourself a fresh and juicy design ;)

Tip: To clean your nail art brush(es), pour a little bit of nail polish remover in a small dish or the lid of the bottle. Let your brush soak in it for a few seconds and dab it a few times on a cotton pad. Repeat this until your brush is clean.

I would absolutely love to see your attempt on my design, so feel free to leave a link to your creation in the comment section!

Products I used in this post are OPI The It Color, Essence Let's Get Lost and OPI Dim Sum Plum.

Titanic inspired nails

Hi guys, I've entered another nail art contest, themed "Thank God, I'm a woman!". The contest is hosted by Orlica and this time all the entries had to be related with why you like to be a woman. Although I have many reasons why I'm happy to be a girl, I just couldn't think of a fun and original way to capture those on my nails. The theme of this contest was so challenging! After a LOT of thinking, I decided to make Titanic inspired nails. It's one of my favorites movies and I'm not just saying that because of the overwhelming love story, lol. I know many find the movie very corny, but I can't help but loving it :P It's everything about it, there's a reason why it won 11 Academy Awards! So I picked Titanic as my theme, because as a girl, it's okay to love that movie without being frowned upon ;-) I freehanded the ship itself on my thumb and on my ringfinger I have Rose's Heart of the Ocean necklace, made with a dotting tool and rhinestones. Once again, it was a really tough theme, but all the contestants have been really creative to think of something cute, so go check them out and vote for your favorite!

La coeur de la mer

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PHOEBE'S NAILART CONTEST ENTRIES

Hi guys, just a quick post..

Here are the entries I submitted for Phoebe's Nailart Contest.
To vote, just "LIKE" Phoebe's Nailart page and vote for the entry of your choice. You can vote for me if you like...

here are the links:

1st Entry

I named it "Lovely Phoebe"... I used sponged technique, multi layering and multi stamping on my design.. And I drew a face on my middle finger nails'...

2nd Entry

I drew a faces of an asian girl with different expressions. because when I saw Phoebe's nailart, that's the first thing that came to my mind. And the meaning of the chinese inscription on my middle finger nail is "love" .. It took me almost 3hrs to finish my design...

HOPE YOU LIKE THEM! GOD BLESS

Angry Birds Nails + Random Nailart

Hi guys,
How time flies, it's july again! Yay!
Season changes, so does my nails... I cut my nails short again, I missed doing stuff with my short nails, now I can.... I want to challenge myself to do nail art even if it is short..

I thank you all guys for all your comments and for appreciating my work!
It's very heart warming when you see other people happy...☻
Anyway, here's my "Angry Bird" design.
I really like this game, actually I finished it and now i'm playing angry birds rio! hehehe... So addicted to it, a very fun game.. ☺

Zipper nails!

I saw this kind of "tutOrial pix" on PHD I really like the way she shot the pictures, very detailed and well focused...

Tooth nails!

I love it! My hubby requested for me to do this design.. Hehehe

P.S
Do not forget to join my APOTHICA giveaway! Thanks!

Hope you like them! God Bless

JOIN MY APOTHICA GIVEAWAY!!!

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APOTHICA is giving away $25 worth of gift certificate to one of the followers of Art of Nail

APOTHICA is an online boutique that provides makeup, hair care, and many more beauty and skin care products.
They carry premium beauty brands such as Clinique, Too Faced, SkinMedica, DuWop, La Roche-Posay, etc.
Apothica have Master Estheticians available who are willing to help clients choose the right product for them.
Check out their site for more amazing products.

Here's how to join:

Mandatory Rule:
• Become a follower of my blog Art of Nail
And visit APOTHICA and tell me which item you prefer if ever you will win. (2entries)

Optional :
• Become a fan of Apothica on facebook (1entry)
• Follow Apothica on twitter (1entry)
• Mention this post on twitter (1entry)
• Sign up for their newsletter - found at the bottom of their page (3entries)
• Mention this post on your facebook (1entry)
• Mention this post on your blog (1entry)

• Total of 10 entries

Pls. Provide a link if you post , retweet, etc. So I can check it!


P.S the winner will be notified thru email. Don't forget to include your email address so that I can inform you if ever you win! Goodluck!
giveaway ends on : JULY 15, 2011 at 11:59 pm Philippine time.

Sushi inspired nails

Hi everyone, now that the contest at Nail Polish Art Addiction is over I'd like to show you what would have been my second entry. In the end I decided to submit the citrus mani because I thought it was more fun and complete and I was happy to have made the right choice after I saw several other sushi entries from other contestants (beautifully executed though!). Unfortunately my entry wasn't good enough to win any prize at all, hahah. Oh well, you can't have everything! But thanks so much if you did vote for me :) Have a nice day!

Citrus inspired mani

Hi guys! I participated in yet another nail art contest :) This is my entry for the Good Enough To Eat contest at Nail Polish Art addiction. My entry had to be food-related and food seemed like a really fun and broad subject to me, but I had such a hard time coming up with something! After a lot of branstorming I finally had citrus fruit in my mind but it took me until the last week before the deadline to translate it to a design on my nails. I simply loved the stylized shape of a sliced citrus so I used that to create a summery, abstract pattern with exotic colors.

Please have a look at all the other creative, delicious entries at Nail Polish Art addiction and vote for your favorite. There are 48 of them, so you don't want to miss that! :)

Stamp Art Mixture

Hi guys, another busy week for me, Jaem started going to school again! And he's now on preparatory.. We're so glad and excited at the same time... got used to getting up late during the summer vacation.. hehe ☺ We're still adjusting with his new school schedule.

Btw, here are my nail design that I made "Art Mixture" and "Hortesia"

Hortensia or hydrengia is a genus of about 70 to 75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas, and Indonesia) and North and South America. Most areshrubs 1 to 3 meters tall, but some are small trees, and others lianas reaching up to 30 metres by climbing up trees. They can be either deciduous or evergreen, though the widely cultivated temperate species are all deciduous.

Materials Used:

Sansan "cloudy gray"

Etude house "pp907"

konad special polish "black"

BM 207 and BM 208

Sally hansen base+top coat

Materials Used:

bobbie "vamp"

etude house "GR605"

china glaze " lemon fizz"bm 208bm 223konad special polish"white,dark purple, and dark orange"l.a colors art deco"forest green and white"

I also want to share with you guys the winners of the nail art contest hosted by Bless. I'm one of the judges.. I'm very glad that I'm part of it. Here are the winners.

Natalie Brookes Rodriguez got the peoples choice award..

Marian Pellos got the top rank. If you want to see all the entries you can visit the facebook page of Bless. Just click HERE.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Hope you like them! Happy weekend everyone! God Bless

Flamingo inspired nails

Hi guys! There are many nail art contests hosted lately. The last two I entered have just ended and I'm already participating in the next one. This time it's the Animalistic nail art contest at Spooky Nails. I found it hard to come up with something animal-related which was original at the same time. Finally I came up with the flamingo bird, I was attracted by its corally pink color and the long, curved neck. So I went googling for some images and found some beautiful ones where the flamingos are relaxing in the water. Their pinky color formed such a nice contrast with the water and I immediately knew that I wanted to make something that would capture that contrast. I tried to keep the overall look simple by using the flamingo design as accent nails only. The colors I used were Essence You're The One (corally pink), China Glaze For Audrey and Rimmel Sky High for the tips. I also added a layer of White Cap over For Audrey on my accent nails, which is barely visible in the pics. But in the second picture below, where I didn't add the birds yet, you can see it a bit better.

There are many others participating in the contest, so please visit Spooky Nails to have a look at all the creative entries and vote for your favorite!

EDIT: Unfortunately my entry didn't win in the contest, the winner was Mada with a cute and simple, sillhouette cat creation. But I really want to thank you if you had voted for me! :)

Smells Like Teen Spirit won!

Hi everyone, I'm very happy to say that Smells Like Teen Spirit has won the franken contest at More Nail Polish! There were so many other pretties competing, so it feels incredible to win and I'm very thankful for it. Thank you so much if you voted for it, it wouldn't have won without you! Also big thanks to Cathy for hosting the contest, it must have been so much work to do, and for the amazing prize; a brand new bottle of Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Turquoise Opal! I can't wait till it arrives, it's so pretty! Thanks for stopping by :)

Flower design for inspiration contest

Hi everyone, lately I've been busy, busy, busy... 'Cause the franken contest at More Nail Polish isn't the only contest I've entered, Swaafie also hosted one for which you had to let your design be inspired by something.

So this is my entry. I was inspired by a little tin can with flowers I have. The can is empty but I just had to buy it because it was so cute and I loved the colors so much. It looks very cheerful and summery so it was a suiting inspiration for this time of the year. The colors and the flower pattern are what makes the can so nice to look at, so I wanted to capture that on my nails but without being too literal. Later I added purple rhinestones, I think they compliment the design and are just within the limits of cute instead of tacky, haha. What do you think?
About the contest: only a few entries will be presented to the judges who will pick the winner. But before that can happen everyone can vote who should be part of those few. So check out all the entries and vote for your favorite three designs. You don't have to be a GFC follower in order to vote. Thanks for reading!

EDIT: I'm proud to let you know my entry won first prize in the contest! Thanks so much if you voted for it, it wouldn't have won without you! The prize is awesome and of course I'll share the pretties here with you all :)

Before the rhinestones

Vote for my (first) franken!

Hi guys! My first franken! I've finally managed to finish a bottle of topcoat so I had an empty bottle to start the long-awaited frankening. I wanted to post my franken sooner but then I discovered the Franken polish contest at More Nail Polish, so I entered! And I couldn't post my entry anywhere yet before it was published on More Nail Polish.

My franken is called Smells Like Teen Spirit, named after the famous song from one of my all-time favorite bands Nirvana, as a tribute. The song isn't my favorite of them but it was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the finished franken. I think the name fits the vibe of the franken well and I really wouldn't be able to come up with any other name for it, this franken was meant to be Smells Like Teen Spirit!

The polish is a blend of many different glitter and shimmer polishes. The result is a blue-toned purple base filled with silver, gold, blue, purple and iridescent glitter/shimmer in different sizes. And it needs three coats to get opaque.

So check out all the 21 amazing frankens that have entered the contest and vote for mine if you really think it deserves to win. The grand prize is a bottle of the rare Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Turquoise Opal!

Sun

Shade

 

And here's the recipe for those who are interested, it's a looong list of 11 polishes, I think I poured in about the same amount of each and I also included a picture of everything I used, 'cause isn't a picture worth a thousand words?

China Glaze - Gold Digger

China Glaze - Strawberry Fields

Orly - Galaxy Girl

OPI - Last Friday Night

H&M - Blue Wave

Essence - Choose Me!

Deborah Milano - #838

Paris Memories - #253

Paris Memories - #254

Diamond Cosmetics - Turquoise Glitter

LA Girl - Overdose