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Mother's Day nail art

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Happy Mother's Day everyone! Have you celebrated with your mother today? My mother and I had a movie night on Friday, so I hope it counts!

My mom really dislikes all things makeup and nail polish. She got used to my crazy nails, but you will never catch her with colorful nails. So on today's manicure I used the ONLY nail polish in my stash that my mother is willing to use- Ga-de Angelina. While she uses one coat of it, for a 'yours but better' sort of look, I used 3 coats here, and added some studs, to put a little bit of myself into this nail art.

This gorgeous pastel studs are from Born Pretty Store, and you can get them here (#4). In each wheel you get 3 colors of studs, in 4 different shapes- round, leaf, and small and big squares. While I got the soft pastel, there are also neon wheels, they I might get myself right in time for summer!

The studs held really well, and I applied them with clear polish on the nail, and then stuck them down. I haven't used topcoat on top of it, and it lasted a whole two days before I got it caught in something, and they fell. If you want to buy them, or anything else, you are welcome to use the coupon code below to get 10% off your order.

How about you? Does your mother like nail polish? To you treat her with some nail art?

*Items were sent for an honest review.

Mother's Day nail art

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Happy Mother's Day everyone! Have you celebrated with your mother today? My mother and I had a movie night on Friday, so I hope it counts!

How about you? Does your mother like nail polish? To you treat her with some nail art?

*Items were sent for an honest review.

The Lacquer Legion: Glam

Monday, April 28, 2014

So, I know I've been a bad blogger lately. Trust me, it hurts me more then it hurts you. But I have managed to get the Lacquer Legion post up in time for you guys, and I have some stuff up my sleeve for very soon [AKA when I'll have the time to sit down and edit the photos.], including a review of some awesome Born Pretty store items!

Anyhow, When I thought of the subject of GLAM, I knew I'm going o do something with glitters and gem shades. So I decided to go with a bright turquoise, and a 3D cube pattern using gold and silver holographic glequins.

My base color is Ga-de Dramatic teal, and the reason that the two accent nails are o bubbly is because I used my thick top coat to smoth out the glequins. I need to find another solution for that!

Does it have to resemble a Kiwi?

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

See this title above? That's all I had in mind while wearing this manicure. It's also why I've added the studs, to try and convert it up a bit.

I love the fact that this stamping design is user freindly. I mean, I had few mistakes, but they aren't that visible! I even re-stamped on my thumb since the design was too thin to my wide thumb, and it worked quite well!

My base color is Ga-de Emerald glamour, and I stamp using Wow 393 and Bundle Monster BM-021.

Spring Awakening

Friday, April 4, 2014

Originally, I did this design for Nailpolis competition, and later on I've submitted it to KBShimmer competition as well. I'm guessing that spring is the right time for nail art competitions... Anyhow, when I uploaded it to Nailpolis, I've named it "Two little birdies sitting on a tree", but for the post name I went with the competition name itself, which was what I wrote on my thumb as well.

I've started with a grey base and sponged greens and pink all over the background for the overall flower-y vibe. The rest was free handed, and at the end, I finished up with 15 different nail polishes out on the table.
I really liked the bird on my ring finger, but the second one didn't turn out very well, I believe.

I even went a bit artistic with this design, and did some photos with floral props, that believe me, were really hard to find around the house!

Dark and twisted

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

I wanted to go with "Dark glitter gradiant" at first, but Grey's Anatomy was on, and the minute I said 'dark', there was no coming back as to this manicure name! So this one if for you Meredith!

While this nail art may be the most simple thing ever, I think that the bold contrast between the glitter and the background is what makes it so unique, and got me many compliments while wearing it.

My base color is Ga-de Black swan, and the glitter I used is Sally Hansen Lady Luck.

The Lacquer Legion: Lucky

Friday, March 28, 2014

As always, this too non-specific topics are giving my a hard time. I know that the reason behind it is St. Patrick day, but I didn't want to go with a green, gold and clover. Every time I tried to think about a nail art, Daft punk's Get Lucky song kept playing in my head. After I found the cover art for the single, I just knew it would transfer beautifully to my nails, so I did just that!

You know that feeling when you just feel too bad to do this extra step on your nail art? That every step is good enough on it's own? This is what I like to call an "Evolving Manicure". My base color- Ga-de Peach sorbet (that you can actually see only on my thumb) is very gorgeous on it's own, and the gradient (using Ga-de Tangerine and Life 299) can pass for a nail art every day. I did the shape of the sun using OPI German-icure, and added the silhouettes with Ga-de Black swan.

I'm interested to see what everyone else did today, and how many of them didn't stick to the green :)

From day to night in a simple twist

Monday, March 24, 2014

When I've noticed that my tips are starting to break, I realized I need to shorten my nails again. But it felt like such a shame to give up this length, so I decided to use it before I lose it. I came up with an idea for a subtle, office appropriate manicure, with some bright, flashy inner tips. This way I can keep it appropriate, but don't feel all sweet and soft for a long time.

I went with 3 coats of Ga-de Angelina, so I can reach opacity, and on top I added OPI Pirouette My Whistle in a dabbed coat, just to add this little something extra.
I didn't want to color on my inner tip to affect the look of my normal manicure, so just so I'll be on the safe side, I painted a coat of white polish, Wow 350, before applying Ga-de Tangerine.

I had so much fun wearing this manicure, and I just loved the looks on people faces when they saw the inner side as well. I will defiantly be doing more double sided manicures in the near future!

Bloody round ruffian

Thursday, March 6, 2014

I think I'm getting way too creative with naming my manicure lately... But what can I say? An artist's mind is an artist's mind.
Anyhoo, I had this vision in mind of a red ruffian over my dark silver base. Then I kept thinking it will be too dull, so I thought about adding stamping in an accent nail. But then, I remembered my self-promise to do more full manicures. So I did just that.

And I gotta say- my stamping skills are really improving! This time, my one and only problem was placing, with the print being a bit to small for most of my nails, and WAY to small for my wide thumb. I actually used the ruffian in my favor, and kept the spaces next to my cuticle, so the ruffian will cover it up.

My base color is Ga-de Vintage silver, and both the stamping and the ruffian were done using Ga-de Hypnotic red. The stamping plate I used is Bundle Monster BM-206.

Robot necklace manicure

Monday, February 24, 2014

A while back, I couldn't hold the urge, and bought a very cute robot necklace from Forever 21. While wearing it one day, I took it off and played with it out of boredom. The chain kept twisting around my nails, and that I decided that I HAVE to do a manicure inspired by this necklace!

Since that fateful day, the idea was sketched in my little ideas notebook, and I finally got around to do it! I drew the robot by hand, and added the very fitting stamp to the rest of my nails to finish of this design.

My black base is Ga-de Black swan. I used Ga-de Vintage silver and Bundle Monster BM-012 for the stamping, and Chic Diamonds for the robot.

Sochi Olympic Games- Curling nails

Monday, February 10, 2014

If you're following my Facebook page, you already know that the 1st of February was a horrible day. It was the day I was forced to cut down my nails and make them into nubs. After screaming at the top of my lungs, I set my self down and made a new manicure, because I couldn't look at my naked nubs for another second. Now, don't get me wrong- there are many people who can really rock their nubs, but unfortunately, my hands just look too big like that. Doesn't work for me.

So although the Winter Olympics started a few days ago, only now I'm posting my Olympic nails, inspired by my favorite winter game- Curling. In Curling there's a target painted on the ice floor, and it is played in two groups. The point of the game is to get your group's rocks as close to the target eyeball, but also making sure the other team's rocks as far as possible.
The Curling competitions only started today, so this manicure comes out just in time!

So here is a quick breakdown of the whole nail art:
I believe my pointer needs no introducing, but anyhow, it's says "Sochi 2014", to state which Olympic games we are talking about. My middle finger shows this year's Curling icon, with a man throwing the rock. Which leads me to my ring finger, on which I've drawn the rock itself, on the white background of the ice, on it's way to reach the target- which is exactly what I have on my pinky.
On my thumb I have the well known Olympic rings. Don't ask me why the logo is placed so low, it just turned that way during the course of things.
All was free handed but the icon's head, in which I used a dotting tool.

And we're down to the colors break down. The white base color on all of my nails is Chic White flag. The light blue on my thumb, pointer and middle finger is Chic Bora bora. The red is Life strawberry, and the dark blue that I've paired with it on my pinky is Life 332. The dark-silver shade of the rock is Ga-de Vintage silver. The black is Ga-de black swan, the green in Life 327, and the yellow is Ga-de Mellow yellow.

Caviar beads in rows and triangles

Thursday, February 6, 2014

After obsessing over my Facebook page when I got new likes, I was inspired to use my caviar beads again. The last post you've seen them in was the first time I've ever used them, although I own them for a long time now.

This time, I used a more interesting color, rather then the silver I've used before. I really like the way the caviar beads looks when are ordered in a triangle.
Other then that- making the stripes was a pain in the ass. To get them to sit straight and not move, while I keep working one by one, was not an easy job.

My base color here is Ga-de Black swan.

My first attempt at jelly sandwich manicure

Thursday, January 30, 2014

I've seen many sandwich manicures during my time in the nail art community. I was drawn to the stubble (yet still noticeable) appearance of the glitter on those manicure. And yet, I haven't got the chance to try it out myself. I don't own any 'real' jellies, so that was a little obstacle (putting it mildly).

I decided t hat I still want to try it, so I had to make a small shortcut in order for this to work. Instead of using a jelly nail polish, I grabbed one of my (very) cheap polishes, that I could never get to be fully opaque. I used the holographic glitter, and ended up amazed by the beauty of it through the red jelly.
The photos below are my best attempt of catching the holographic effect.

My base color is Ga-de Hot passion, which is a very dark and deep red. The glitter here is H&M Jo is in the house, and on top of it I used GK 741.
In conclusion, I believe that is using the right shades for this technique, I can create myself some sort of a dupe for Zoya Payton and Dream (that I've got in my wishlist ;) ).

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