Like many other nail bloggers, I too have been a terrible nail biter in the past. It started at age five or six and it continued till I was about nineteen. Nail polish has always been a hobby, ever since I got my first bottle of nail polish (silver, holographic bar-shaped glitter!) from my aunts. But I almost never got to enjoy my polishes on my nails because I could never fully get out of the habit of biting them. But then I stumbled upon nail blogging world and rediscovered my love for nail polish, I pampered my nails, started doing nail art and now I'm talking to you guys ;-) Since two years I'm finally able to say that my nail biting days are pretty much over. But then I went to the movies (In Time)... 109 minutes later I got two little nubbins on each hand, what just happened?! Sigh. Guess the movie was even more exciting than I thought, lol. Anyways, that's why I couldn't post anything earlier than planned, my nubs were really too short to share them with the world, haha. And honestly they still are, but oh well, that's why I made some nail art to distract you all. Hah! My base color is H&M Blue My Mind, I love how bright the color is, a true eye-catcher. I'd say it's a darker periwinkle blue creme, the formula seems a bit thick sometimes, but it's still fine and needs the average two coats for full coverage. On top I did some free hand stripes in random sizes with my favorite striper polish China Glaze Ink. I really like these simple stripes, because they're so easy to achieve plus the vertical pattern can make shorter nails look longer, which I kind of need right now :P Hope you like it too and thanks for reading if you made it this far. Good night!
Monday, 14 November 2011
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jenna marbles portrait on a nail. please pass this to jenna if you are her fan, i want her to see it!!
(above) the initial jenna marbles "the face" portrait tutorial that was lost on my video camera. i back up all pictures for when i am copyrighting the material i paint. so here is the lost full set. it was hilarious and a bit more simple. this one was super fun to me and i had a great time with it.
update: the first upload link to jenna marbles was super bad quality. i had to RE:UPLOAD it and so now the links work. it is so important that you guys show this to jenna and truly this has been such a hard tutorial for me, technically. lol. i have had NO LUCK with this video at all, i hope hope that it is well loved in return, because boy.....it gave me a hard ass time! xoxoxoxo
working link posted here
just in case :D xoxoxoxox
Friday, 11 November 2011
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TURQUOISE faux finish sponge technique: robin moses simple nail art design tutorial 510
turquoise faux finish by robin moses nail art design blue and green nailart to try that is simple and fast!
simple and fast nail art for party girls. christmas parties and new years eve 2012 nailart!
buy the glue at scraperfect.com and the glitter at inaz cosmetics on facebook
brilliant!
Orly zigzag
Hello everyone! Since I didn't have much time to do my nails this week to post something, I decided to dig in the vault, look what I found! It's a zigzag tape mani I did in the summer with China Glaze Recyle for the grey and Orly's Viridian Vinyl and Purple Pleather for the tips, they were amazing to work with for the taping by the way. I expected the colors and zigzag pattern to pop more against the grey, but it became quite subtle actually. Still I like the matte and glossy finish combined in this mani :) What do you think about it? Thanks for reading!
Labels:
All tape manis,
China Glaze,
Creme,
Grey,
Matte,
Orly,
Purple,
Teal,
Turquoise,
Zigzag
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Vintage clouds
Hi guys! For this post I have another request to show you. A little while ago I received an email from a reader who wanted me to come up with a funky mani for her informal dance soon. A few colors she liked were teal and coral, so I combined them in this "funky clouds" look. I like how simple this design is to achieve. Just pick three matching colors, one for you base color and two for the cloud shapes on top. The clouds are made by applying three strokes of polish next to each other, each smaller than the one before. My tip is to leave enough polish on the brush (but not too much!) so that when it touches the surface it will leave a nice, round dot as start point. This doesn't even need a lot of precision and you can just use the brush from your polish for this. And that's it :) Though I would advise using a fast drying top coat afterwards if you don't want to wait too long for your nails to dry, after all it's three coats of polish. (Four if you include base coat.) I like the way it looks here with plain cremes, but for a more festive look, a layer of (iridiscent) glitter can be added.
The polishes I used:
Essence - What Do U think? Version 1 (it looks less orange in real life)
China Glaze - For Audrey
Essence - Bella
Monday, 7 November 2011
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"Coffee Drinker" inspired by Oliver Ray.
"simple nail art design" featured in NAILS magazine December 2011
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