nastassiasnails:
June Nail Polish Photo A Day - Day 2 - A Favorite Mani From Past
OPI Ogre-The-Top Blue, Kiss Me On My Tulips, A Roll in the Hauge, Did It On Em
I assumed the author of this challenge meant to redo a favorite mani I previously did. With that in mind this was a no brainer. I rarely do nail art because I clearly suck so picking between the few (successful) nail art designs I did was easy. So, for day two I redid my saran wrap mani. This time I used FOUR colors and I really like the results. It started with a base of Ogre-the-Top Blue, half of the nail Kiss Me On My Tulips, the other half A Role in the Hauge, then the center with Did It On Em. After each polish, excluding the base, I did a quick sponging with the saran wrap then voila!
3:02 pm • 2 June 2012 • 10 notes
duffysfashion:
First swatches of the upcoming OPI Germany collection!
Is that a mustard I see? Interesting. That shimmery orange looks nice! :)
From: http://www.kissandmakeup.tv/2012/05/galleries/opi_launch_germany_collection.php?pic=10
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2:11 am • 2 June 2012 • 29 notes
chalkboardnails:
China Glaze Summer Neons: Hawaiian Floral
I saw this lovely design in a video tutorial made by Mr. Candiipants. It’s such an easy breezy technique but the results look like they took much longer than they actually did!
White On White
Hang-Ten Toes
Under the Boardwalk
Orange You Hot?
Surfin’ for Boys
I’m With the Lifeguard
Ride the Waves
3:24 am • 19 May 2012 • 1,052 notes
quitepolished:
I made a tutorial! I hope this is something that possibly helps people, because I know some people said they wanted to try out my stippling gradient nails.
Okay, so words to go with the pictures:
First you need to paint your nails with which ever color you like. In my original nails I chose a black base, but I like white much better. Then, using a tiny dotting tool (or a needle, possibly a toothpick, I used a #18/0 spotter brush) make a bunch of dots near the tip of your nail, so many that barely any of the base color shows through. You can use nail polish for this, but I chose to use acrylic paint. After that keep working in sections, using less and less dots and making the sections ever so slightly bigger until you reach your cuticle. If you have long nails you could probably stop before the cuticle, or you could just make the sections bigger. I like to do four sections, but you could do more or less depending on how gradual you want the gradient.
If there’s any confusion please let me know and I’ll try to clarify!
5:07 pm • 18 May 2012 • 6,769 notes
etherealellie:
(Pictures were taken with and without flash. Click on individual pictures to see enlarged version!)
Let me start by saying that I am not a nail polish/varnish mania and I’m probably not as interested in nails as other beauty geeks out there. However, I have to admit there are times when I get the urge to splurge a little bit and allow myself the pleasure of painting my nails.
I recently bought a few Essie nail polishes. I’ve found that ordering them online through Amazon is just so much of a better deal than buying it at a local drugstore. That being said, let me tell you what colors I got (recently) in order of the fourth picture:
- Navigate Her
- She’s Picture Perfect
- Lapis of Luxury
- Tart Deco
- Neo Whimsical
I absolutely love these colors. I’ve swatched them on my nails for you to see, and basically the colors I got are on the more pastely side except Tart Deco which is a hot orange/coral.
I’m currently loving “Neo Whimsical” and “Navigate Her”. Neo Whimsical is basically a really pretty baby pink and someone described the color as “truly feminine, fit for a wedding.” It definitely gives you a clean finish to your nails, adding a very soft feminine look.
As for “Navigate Her”, I’ve been hearing so many compliments about it every time I go out with that color. I’ve written a post about it, which you can read it here. Basically, you can’t go too wrong with that!
“She’s Picture Perfect” is a really pretty lavender color, which turns out bluer than excepted on nails. It also has this shimmery content in it, which I had hoped would come out as such on the nails- but it wasn’t as shimmery as expected.
“Lapis of Luxury” is a matte soft blue that is pretty pigmented, not so sheer.
And lastly, I wrote about “Tart Deco” here if you’d like to read it.
Essie nail wasn’t my favorite nail brand. I really enjoy Butter nails the most as I love their color and pigment, and how they are true to color on the nails as inside the case. However, Butter nails are quite pricey ($14) compared to Essie nails ($8). I feel though that Essie nails are coming out with better more trendy colors and I’m really enjoying them! xx
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3:31 am • 17 April 2012 • 27 notes
nailstuff24:
I really love Alice in Wonderland, and I’m really happy with the way these turned out!
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2:11 am • 11 April 2012 • 865 notes
solmates-nails:
ROSE NAILS TUTORIAL.
This is my very first tutorial. I’d honestly suck at doing videos so I simplified it to photos. Lol. The wonderful Mel (aka @prettynailswag) requested it so I said why not! I love her nail art! :)
What you’ll need:
-5 colors (base color, 3 for your roses, and 1 for your leaves; of course you could do 1 or 2 colors for your roses and have no leaves at all. It’s entirely up to you!)
-A nail art brush (it shouldn’t be too small or too big) or a toothpick for drawing your roses.
Steps:
1. Paint your nails your base color.
2. (When that’s dry) add 3 random dots anywhere on your nail. But make sure you don’t clump them all into one area. Space them out.
3. Start making some lines around the dot. Slightly curve them so that it doesn’t look too awkward.
4. Continue to build the lines around the dot.
5. This step is essentially the same as the previous. I just wanted to show you guys how I build mine up. Keep going until you’ve reached your desired size!
6. Add leaves to fill in the white spaces (or not add any and just leave them as-is). And voila, you’re done!
Hope this was helpful! I’d love some feedback. And if any of you decide to try this out, please shoot me a message in my ask box. I’d love to see what you all come up with! Thanks!
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4:31 pm • 29 March 2012 • 1,662 notes
laurensnails12:
nailsbyveryemily:
I am loving these grunge nails by Nails Adored! Check out the tutorial on her blog. I must try these soon!
I love this! It’s so cool: I’m gonna give it a try when my nails grow out lol or I give up and put on acrylics ha
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7:45 pm • 23 March 2012 • 1,170 notes
nailfood:
This is a tutorial for leopard (not cheetah) print nails! I didn’t make it, but if you click through the link here , you’ll find instructions on the original site (:
9:49 pm • 18 March 2012 • 358 notes
pardonmypolish:
Here’s my second ever nail wheel!
Man, inspiration took FOREVER.
And one of the nails at the top fell off. I think my cat had a part in that. D:<
Gimme FEEDBACK <3
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4:06 pm • 16 March 2012 • 8 notes
how to rescue a broken bottle of nail polish
fuckyeahnailart:
Today my kitten knocked my bottle of Orly Halley’s Comet on the floor, breaking the top from the rest of the bottle. It was nearly full and it’s one of my favorite colors, so I wasn’t about to let it go—I had to rescue it. But how? I’m sure that many manicure lovers encounter this over the course of their lives, so I’m sharing my methods.
Things you’ll need:
- an empty (or near-empty) bottle of polish
- tin foil
- polish remover
- a plastic cup—ideally the clear kind like you find at water coolers, because they’re bendier than solo cups and you’ll need it to be bendy
- scissors
- an elastic hair band or a rubber band
How to rescue your polish:
- Carefully wrap the broken bottle in foil. I don’t know if this actually helps, but I did it to keep the polish from drying out while I figured out the rest of the rescue plan. I say “carefully” because you don’t want to cut yourself on the broken glass of the bottle.
- Choose the bottle that will be your polish’s new home. If it still has a bit of other polish in it, pour in some polish remover, twist the cap back on and shake it about. Pour out the mixture and repeat a few times until you can see that the inside of the bottle is clean. Then fill the bottle with water and empty it, to rinse out any polish remover residue—you don’t want that mixed in with the polish you’re rescuing!
- Cut straight down one side of the plastic cup, and then cut the bottom off. Again, be careful, because the cut plastic can sometimes be sharp enough to slice or stab you, and no one wants that.
- Twist the plastic into a funnel. The bottom should be small enough to fit into your empty replacement bottle, and the top should be big enough to fit your broken bottle.
- Wrap the hair elastic/rubber band around the funnel to hold it together. It may take a few tries to find the right place, but once you’ve found it, it’ll stay.
- Put the funnel in the new bottle and, while holding the contraption carefully to make sure it’s stable, turn your broken bottle upside-down into the top of the funnel. The polish should make its merry way into its new home with little trouble. The entire ordeal will look a little something like this:
- Cap your rescued polish and congratulate yourself on a successful mission!
If you, like me, want the new bottle to say the name of its new polish, follow this second set of steps below the cut.
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2:31 am • 13 March 2012 • 264 notes
