Border Love

I have my final Valentine's Day nail art of this year for you.

From the side.

Frontal View.

The base colour for these is "Ahoy!" by China Glaze, with a champagne coloured paint used for the little hearts everywhere. I had the idea to do a vertical border on one side and I think it turned out nicely.

I hope you enjoy and have a good week!

Coffee Candy Cane

Have you ever had/seen those gourmet candy canes? You know, the coffee, cappuccino  or espresso flavoured ones? Well, this mani reminds me very strongly of those ones.

Nov/14/2012

I used a striping brush and regular nail polish to make these. The lines are a touch wobbly as I was a bit wobbly the other day. Also, I must apologize for the dents, my hair lately seems to be attracted to wet nail polish :(.  The colours I used for this mani are "Copper", "Expresso" by Kleancolor, and "Saturday Night Fever" by Sally Hansen.

Flashback Friday: Abstract French

May/10/2010

Another black tipped french, only with some white dots and swishes. "Black Creme" by Wet n' Wild.

Miss Emo Shun All

I liked the colour combination I did for Sam a few weeks back, and wanted to test it out again with a slightly different spin.

August/19/2012

Here's a photo before my niece MZM decided she was going to use her little bebe nails to dent them. So I'm still obviously into this whole "accent nail" business at the moment. On the ring finger we have Sation's "Loudest Colour" a blinding highlight fluorescent green/yellow. It's much greener in person. On the rest of my fingers is "Miss Emo Shun All" a beautiful deep violet also by Sation. I originally attempted water-marbling with these colours for the accent nail but it didn't work out. So I opted for some needle-dragging instead. I topped it off with some large bronze studs and called it a day. 

Also on a totally off-topic note, I aced my final exams for Nail Technology. :)

Flashback Friday: Simple French

June/10/2011

A basic french manicure. Used "Sheer Peach" and "White" from Kleancolor. The glitter on my index finger was from a sad attempt at making my own glitter polish. You can see it a little in the Rimmel London bottle in hand.

3D Roses

At school on July/14/2012 after performing a back fill for a set of acrylic false nails on Ayesha (my lovely cousin), she decides to mix up some glitter acrylic. Since she and I have time and not much to keep us busy that day in class, she asks me to show her how I do my 3D acrylic flowers. This is the result:

July/14/2012

So this is what I did for her, its not the best I've done, but it's adorable! I did this on her ring finger, and the glitter you see was her special acrylic mix of pink and blue.

Flashback Friday: Silver Butterflies

May/17/2012

Base colour is "Sex on the Beach" from China Glaze, with some fauna and butterflies stamped on using Sally Hansen's "Silver Sweep" and Bundle Monster plates: BM208 and BM05.

Stars

Feb/14/2010 to Feb/20/2010

Green glitter nail polish was by Wet n' Wild, although if I did this again I'd use "Brilliant Idea" by Nicole by O.P.I. Glued on some little gold star confetti. As you can see, slight shrinkage of this polish.

Message Confetti

Sept/02/2010 to Sept/09/2010

Base colour is "Hue Left A Message" by Finger Paints, I love this colour. It's one of my all time favourite glitters. Also to add some pizazz I added a little confetti on each finger.

Heart Confetti - Valentine's Day

Aug/22/2011 to Aug/27/2011

Base colour is "Purple Panic(Neon)" by China Glaze, with some hand painted hearts in purple, pink, and black. Really cute and simple for Valentine's Day.

Pink Hearts - Valentine's Design

Jan/29/2011

The base colour for this was "Tickled Pink" by Wet n' Wild after my attempts to make my own colour failed in a gloppy, forever to dry mess. On top of that a paler pink paint was used to make stripes, and finally some simple hearts.

On a side note, I wanted to attempt to film the making of this but completely forgot when I actually went to make them... Who knows I might venture into video-making one day, but for now I don't have the memory power for it.
As you can see, I managed to dent my index finger before it completely dried... just my luck -_-'

Hearts and Sparkle - Valentine's Day

Jan/21/2012

Here's a simple design for Valentine's Day. Very easy hearts on a red base, you don't need any special brushes for these hearts, its just a matter of learning to flick the nail polish wand in certain directions. It will take a bit of practise to get them right, but it's fast and easy once you get the hang of it.

So for this the base colour is "Hey Sailor" by China Glaze, the hearts were done using "Red Carpet" by Sally Hansen, and the top sparkles were "Golden Enchantment" by China Glaze.