nails done with eyeshadow, mac eyeshadow nail art, harley davidson flames and skull nail art design, black tips with white iris nail art, beautiful purple and blue butterfly nail art with holographic glitter. up for 7/25/11

french manicure with iris flowers

HARLEY DAVIDSON TUTORIAL HERE

FRENCH MANICURE WITH IRIS FLOWERS

 

BUTTERFLIES ON GRADIENT WITH GLITTER

Blue explosion

Hi guys :) Yesterday I showed you a lovely blue from Essence, Let's Get Lost. As I mentioned in that post, Let's Get Lost is a one-coater and therefore fast-drying, which is perfect if you want to use it as your base color for tape manis. So that's exactly what I did here. After the blue base color was dry, I cut some triangles out of tape to create the 'explosion' shape, which I used before in my 4th of July nails. Then I applied my favorite black creme over the tape, Color Club Where's The Soiree? and pulled of the pieces of tape right away and let it dry. I repeated this on each finger, but after I was finished, I still felt like something was missing. So I added another color, H&M Coral Summer (the lighter blue) and that fitted the bill :)
While making this mani I somehow kept thinking about how I would name this post, 'blue explosion'. And one thing led to another and before I knew it I was singing Black Eyed Peas' Boom, Boom, Pow all day long... "I got that boom boom pow!" My apologies if you are singing it with me now hahah. Have a nice day!

Essence - Let's Get Lost

Essence, you did it again. Let's Get Lost is a bright, aqua blue creme with a perfect smooth formula, perfect application and... it's a one-coater! Yes, pictured is only one coat, no topcoat, isn't it awesome? On the pictures there's still a tiny bit of visible nail line, but fear not, it's not noticeable in real life.
Because Let's Get Lost is a one-coater, it has also a short drying-time, which makes it a wonderful base color for a tape mani. So, that's what I used it for and the result will be posted tomorrow ;-) Good night!

OPI The "It" Color + black crackle

Hi everybody, recently I ordered some OPI polishes and one of those was OPI The "It" Color. I'm a huge OPI fan, with a weakness for their amazing glitter polishes but their cremes are wonderful as well, so lately I've been collecting more of those. I love their formula and the handy brush. The "It" Color had been a lemming for a while. I was searching for a pretty, warm and wearable yellow that would also apply nicely, which usually isn't the case with yellows. I had high hopes for The "It" Color, since I heard its application was pretty okay for a yellow and that it would cover in two coats. Too bad that's not the case with mine :-( The formula was alright, but I can't say the same for the application. No matter how careful I was with applying the polish, it kept leaving bald spots. After three coats it got less but the spots were still subtly visible here and there. So to hide those I added a black crackle from Barry M which made it better, yay :) I wish The "It" Color was as perfect as other OPI cremes, like Jade Is The New Black or Suzi Says Feng-Shui, but sadly it isn't. However I do love the warm, almost orange, yellow color. So I'll definitely give it another try soon and hopefully I can take all the bad words I said about it back then. What about you guys, have you found your perfect yellow yet?

smiling strawberry nail design, glitter explosion nail art, nails done with eyeshadow, eyeshadow nails, pigment nail art, pastel colored henna nails. belly dancer nails, bellydancing nails, 30 rock nails, big bang nails,

 

SMILING SUMMER STRAWBERRIES 

GLITTER EXPLOSION SHORT NAIL DESIGN 

bellydancing henna inspired design 

ROBIN MOSES VIDEO VIXEN & NAIL ART WIZARD PHD. NAILS MAGAZINE NAIL ART GURU

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Catrice - Run Forest Run!

The other day I ran into this green pretty, I instantly loved it and needed it! Which was really surprising, because I remembered not liking it the first time I saw Run, Forest, Run!, so what's up with that? After reading The Polished Perfectionst's post about this polish, I knew what was going on; Catrice has two versions of this polish! The older version is a tradtional forest green, while the new one is a much lighter, muted green with a tad of blue which makes it lean towards emerald. Besides the color I also fell in love with the perfect formula and application. Just two smooth coats and you're good to go, a winner.

Price: €2.49 for 0.34 fl.oz./10ml