Dear Nail Diary,
This was supposed to be a Mani Monday but I'm a bit behind. To make up I'll give you a double feature!
I'll start with my Mom's as I did hers first. It's based on the design of the Glossybox I received last December. To recreate it I started off with two coats of Collection 2000 - Buried Treasure over a base coat, as it was the closest shade I owned to the box which is a sort of warm/rose gold colour.
I then sponged China Glaze - White on White onto the tips of her index, middle and little fingers. On those same fingers I haphazardly dabbed China Glaze - Chillin' With My Snowmies in a kind of snowfall gradient. I still had to place some of them to keep the biggest glitters away from the bottom of the nail.
On her thumb and ring fingers I simply sponged Nails Inc - Champagne Graffiti to the desired amount, as I still wanted a tiny bit of the rose gold to come through.
My nail design has been influenced by several nail art designs I've been looking at on Pinterest - where you can also find me.
I started with two coats of Ciatè - Morning Dew and added a coat of Seche Vite. Once it was fully dry I added snowflake vinyls, which are part of Twinkled T's Holiday Vinyl Bundle. I however got them as part of their Limited Edition Holiday Bundle. Anyway, I painted over the vinyls with China Glaze - I'd Melt For You and a little of Ciatè - Looking Glass. I then added a matte topcoat to let the iridescence of the Morning Dew "shine" through in a different way.
For my ring finger, I painted two coats of China Glaze - White on White and then a coat of Butter London - Frilly Knickers and finally a matte top coat. Once that was fully dry I sponged on Barry M - Silver around the tip and up the side of my nail and then poured on some fine silver glitter and brushed off the excess. On top of this I also dabbed light glitter coats of Essie - A Cut Above and London Girl - 42 and added a thick coat of Seche Vite, careful not to get any on the matte part of my nail.
Unbelievably I've chipped this already, so hopefully later this week I'll be posting a new mani.
>:x
Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Snowy Nails
Labels:
Barry M,
blue,
Butter London,
China Glaze,
Christmas,
Ciate,
Essie,
glitter,
gold,
iridescent,
matte,
nail art,
Nails Inc,
rose gold,
silver,
Twinkled T,
vinyls,
white,
Winter
Monday, 12 December 2016
Mani Monday: Candy Cane Lane
Dear Nail Diary,
As promised here is the first of my Holoday Nails, before I do my Mom's and potentially ruin them. Also if you want to get technical there isn't actually any holo in this design, only iridescence and sparklies. I was desperate to try my new candy cane stripe vinyls - now they are holo! I started off with a base of Barry M - Lady. It's a textured polish, but a couple coats of SV sorted that out. I then applied the vinyls and painted on Nails Inc - St James. I was just going to leave it there but there seemed to be something missing...
More sparkle! So I glued on some square rhinestones and added another coat of SV. However it still wasn't enough...
So lastly I stamped a filigree style design on the tips of my nails using China Glaze - I'd Melt For You and added a final couple of coats of SV. It's been a couple of days and I'm impressed I haven't lost any rhinestones yet as I've usually lost at least one an hour after I've done my nails.
I'll be back when I've done my Mom's nails as I forgot to take a photo of the design I last did for her.
=:x
As promised here is the first of my Holoday Nails, before I do my Mom's and potentially ruin them. Also if you want to get technical there isn't actually any holo in this design, only iridescence and sparklies. I was desperate to try my new candy cane stripe vinyls - now they are holo! I started off with a base of Barry M - Lady. It's a textured polish, but a couple coats of SV sorted that out. I then applied the vinyls and painted on Nails Inc - St James. I was just going to leave it there but there seemed to be something missing...
More sparkle! So I glued on some square rhinestones and added another coat of SV. However it still wasn't enough...
So lastly I stamped a filigree style design on the tips of my nails using China Glaze - I'd Melt For You and added a final couple of coats of SV. It's been a couple of days and I'm impressed I haven't lost any rhinestones yet as I've usually lost at least one an hour after I've done my nails.
I'll be back when I've done my Mom's nails as I forgot to take a photo of the design I last did for her.
=:x
Labels:
Barry M,
Bundle Monster,
China Glaze,
Christmas,
iridescent,
nail art,
Nails Inc,
red,
rhinestones,
Seche Vite,
silver,
stamping,
stripes,
SV,
vinyls,
white
Sunday, 11 December 2016
George and the Dragon
Dear Nail Diary,
I apologise if the nail art is looking a little worse for wear in these photos, I've been meaning to take pictures for a few days, but I've been too ill to take them. Yesterday however, one chipped completely off the nail on my other hand so I thought I'd better get a photo while I still can.
I love the two green holo polishes from A England - Saint George and Dragon and I wanted to build a design around them. I started off with this Dragon Scale Triple Gradient tutorial from Simply Nailogical:-
It was the first time I've tried a scaled gradient and while it ccame out okay, it seemed pretty basic just on it's own, so I decided to add some elements. Using a dragon vinyl from Twinkled T's Mythical Creatures collection, I painted it using Nails Inc's red/orange duochrome glitter polish - New Burlington Place. On my next three fingers I stamped a fiery looking tribal stamp with an orangey/gold shimmer polish from Avon that I've had for ages. I also painted a light coat of China Glaze's Golden Enchantment on top of the flames. Duochrome dragons breathe golden holo fire, don't you know? ;)
Wouldn't you know my camera died just before I could take this last photo, so I had to take it with my tablet. My thumb is what my duochrome dragon is protecting - its treasure room. I did a quick glitter gradient using OPI/Gwen Stefani - Don't Speak and a thin layer of the golden holo on top.
Next time I'll have photos of the first of my Holoday nails!
=:x
I apologise if the nail art is looking a little worse for wear in these photos, I've been meaning to take pictures for a few days, but I've been too ill to take them. Yesterday however, one chipped completely off the nail on my other hand so I thought I'd better get a photo while I still can.
I love the two green holo polishes from A England - Saint George and Dragon and I wanted to build a design around them. I started off with this Dragon Scale Triple Gradient tutorial from Simply Nailogical:-
It was the first time I've tried a scaled gradient and while it ccame out okay, it seemed pretty basic just on it's own, so I decided to add some elements. Using a dragon vinyl from Twinkled T's Mythical Creatures collection, I painted it using Nails Inc's red/orange duochrome glitter polish - New Burlington Place. On my next three fingers I stamped a fiery looking tribal stamp with an orangey/gold shimmer polish from Avon that I've had for ages. I also painted a light coat of China Glaze's Golden Enchantment on top of the flames. Duochrome dragons breathe golden holo fire, don't you know? ;)
Wouldn't you know my camera died just before I could take this last photo, so I had to take it with my tablet. My thumb is what my duochrome dragon is protecting - its treasure room. I did a quick glitter gradient using OPI/Gwen Stefani - Don't Speak and a thin layer of the golden holo on top.
Next time I'll have photos of the first of my Holoday nails!
=:x
Labels:
A England,
Avon,
Bundle Monster,
China Glaze,
glitter,
gold,
gradient,
green,
holographic,
multichrome,
nail art,
Nails Inc,
OPI,
orange,
red,
Simply Nailogical,
stamping,
Twinkled T,
vinyls
Thursday, 8 December 2016
Furry Fail
Dear Nail Diary,
I forgot I hadn't posted this. I recently bought some nail vinyls from Twinkled T (among other things) and was desperate to try this idea I'd had to honour my cat who died a couple of months ago. Cristine from Simply Nailogical has these cat cyclone vinyls and I wanted to see how they'd look combined with the flocking powder I got from Bundle Monster. I imagined a really cool texture effect between the A England polish I'd chosen and the furriness of the powder, however the end result wasn't as impressive.
I think it would have been better if I'd used nail glue or top coat instead of clear polish to adhere the flocking powder. Also it was obvious right away that I needed a more striking colour of powder if it wasn't going to create the effect I wanted.
I changed to a purple, however that just seemed to emphasize how badly the powder wasn't sticking. The last time I used the flocking powder it worked really well, but I think that was because I was applying to my entire nail. I tried a vinyl with a gold holo glitter just to make sure it wasn't my lack of skills with vinyls that was failing me - as you can see, that wasn't the case.
It worked slightly better on my right hand which I did second, so maybe I just need to practice this technique a bit more?
=:x
I forgot I hadn't posted this. I recently bought some nail vinyls from Twinkled T (among other things) and was desperate to try this idea I'd had to honour my cat who died a couple of months ago. Cristine from Simply Nailogical has these cat cyclone vinyls and I wanted to see how they'd look combined with the flocking powder I got from Bundle Monster. I imagined a really cool texture effect between the A England polish I'd chosen and the furriness of the powder, however the end result wasn't as impressive.
I think it would have been better if I'd used nail glue or top coat instead of clear polish to adhere the flocking powder. Also it was obvious right away that I needed a more striking colour of powder if it wasn't going to create the effect I wanted.
I changed to a purple, however that just seemed to emphasize how badly the powder wasn't sticking. The last time I used the flocking powder it worked really well, but I think that was because I was applying to my entire nail. I tried a vinyl with a gold holo glitter just to make sure it wasn't my lack of skills with vinyls that was failing me - as you can see, that wasn't the case.
It worked slightly better on my right hand which I did second, so maybe I just need to practice this technique a bit more?
=:x
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