Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Simple two colored diagonal nail art


Simple two colored diagonal nail art

                                         This is really fast and easy everyday nail design. This designs looks good even on short nails. Experiment with different colors of your choice. I like to use two shades of the same color.

Nail polishes used


Let's begin!!!

1. Apply a base coat.
2. Apply two coats of neon blue nail polish and let it dry completely.
3. Put a scotch tape diagonally across the lower half of the nail and fill in the tips with dark blue nail polish and remove the tape carefully.
4. Now create a diagonal line of the silver glittery nail polish, separating the two blue colors.
5. Apply a top coat and you are done!!!!!

                                                      Here is the picture of same kind of nail art but with light and dark green nail polishes with gold line.


diagonal nail art
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Netted tips and butterflies stamping nail art



Netted tips and butterflies stamping nail art


                                                     I wanted to try out the french tips stamping design plate of konad(m45) and here is the outcome. You need a bit practice to aim and transfer the design onto your nail. This is a simple everyday nail design. 

Nail polishes used



Image plates used are konad m45 and m36 and designs shown below

m45


m36


Saturday, October 27, 2012

Rose and vines stamping nail art



Nail polishes used



Image plates used are konad m60, m36 and designs are shown below

m60

m36
Tutorial coming soon...




Friday, October 26, 2012

Pink French tips and stamping nail art




Nail polishes used



The design is from the 221 designs big nail art stamping plate.


I will post the tutorial shortly.


Blue and white splatter stamping nail art




Nail Polishes used



Image plate used is m21 from the KAND stamping nail art kit and the design is shown below.





Butterfly and flower red stamping nail art

Here is a simple design for short nails.

red stamping nail art nails with butterflies and flowers


red stamping nail art nails with butterflies and flowers

Nail polishes used



The image plate used is konad m36 and the designs are shown in the picture below.




My nail polish collection!!!




                                      I love these kone Helsinki miracle colors. They have a thick consistency. One coat  is enough and they are really glittery. The neon colors have a bit thinner consistency but the colors are awesome. The only holographic nail paint I have is the white one. It is very shiny with lovely rainbow filled holos.


These ones have thick consistency and are beautiful on nails.


                                    Coming to the wild and mild and wild and wet series, they have really thin consistency, almost water-like. So you need to apply atleast 3 coats.


                                      These are Golden rose Fantastic nail paints, metallic colors and my favorite matte nail polishes.



These are the mini nail polishes I have. Among these I like the Happy colors more.



These are assorted ones of different brands like Revlon, Rimmel, Maybelline, Elle 18 etc.


Thursday, October 25, 2012

Brown nails with gold tips and yellow flowers



Brown nails with gold tips and yellow flowers
Brown nails with gold tips and yellow flowers

Nail polishes used

Brown nails with gold tips and yellow flowers

Let's begin!!!

1. Apply a base coat.
2. Apply two coats of brown nail polish and let it dry completely.
3. Create gold french tips. You can do it free hand or with the help of French manicure guide strips.
4. Then at one end of the french tip put 5 dots of yellow nail polish with the help of a tooth pick to form a circle.
5. With a clean tooth pick, starting from the middle of each dot drag towards the center of the circle. That's it!!! you got the flower.
6. Then add yellow dots to the remaining half of the nail below the gold tip.
7. Add gold dots to the middle of each flower using tooth pick.
8. Finally apply a topcoat and you are done!!!!



Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Nail Stamping




My konad stamping nail art kit with image plates m36, m45 and m60.



This is the nail art stamping kit I ordered online for my sis:). She is so excited to have it. I tried this out and it was awesome. check the "Blue and white splatter stamping nail art"



Nail stamping, big image plate, 221 designs, easy stamping

                                        This is the big stamping image plate with 221 designs I ordered online. It has a huge collection of designs. I will be posting nail stamping design ideas using this image plate and some with konad stamping plates. This image plate is awesome and highly recommended for nail stamping lovers.


Here goes my first experiment with the big plate...



Trying big image plate nail stamping 221 designs

I will be posting the detailed tutorial shortly.




Brown and white water marbling nail art


brown and white water marbling

Nail polishes used

wild and mild, golden rose, wild and crazy





Let's begin!!!

1. Apply a base coat and then one or two coats of white nail polish and let it dry completely.
2. Take a glass(plastic/paper) of water and allow it to come to room temperature.
3. Cover the skin around your nails with scotch tape as you don't want your fingers to get  messy. Instead of using tape, you can apply Vaseline to the skin around your nail.
4. Now you are ready to do water marbling.
5. First add one drop of white nail polish into the glass of water and let it spread.
6. Then add one drop of brown nail polish in the middle of the glass let it spread.
7. Again add white polish and then brown polish alternatively so that you use at least 4 drops of each polish.
8. Now using a toothpick, make a design as you wish by gently dragging the layer of the nail polish into the middle of the glass.
9. When you are satisfied with the design, carefully dip your finger with the nail facing down into the water containing the layer of nail polish.
10. Keep the finger dipped for at least 10 seconds and using the tooth pick remove excess nail polish from the top of the water.
11. Carefully take out the finger and follow the steps from 5 to 11 for each nail.
12. Now remove the scotch tape and if there is any excess nail polish on the skin, use a Q tip or cotton bud dipped in nail polish remover to clean it.
13. Finally add a top coat and you are done!!!!

Note: For better results use new polishes for water marbling as they will easily spread in the water. If you have an old nail polish which is a bit thick and is not spreading in the water, try adding few drops of nail polish remover to the nail polish to make it thin.
Make sure that the water is at the room temperature. If it is hot or cold you cannot work with it.



Pink nails with silver tips



pink nails with silver checkered tips

Nail polishes used

pink silver tipped nail art


Let's begin!!!!

1. Apply a base coat.
2. Apply two coats of pink nail polish.
3. Add silver diagonal tip to each nail. For this put a scotch tape diagonally across each nail and fill the tip with two coats of silver nail polish. Remove the tape carefully.
4. Then using dark pink polish and a striper brush, create stripes vertically and horizontally on the silver tip as in the picture.
5. Finally add a top coat and you are done!!!

Blue and white nails with polka dots

I came across this design while searching google images for nail art. I don't know the original nail artist's name. Here is the recreation of the same....

blue and white nails with polkadots
Blue and white nails with polka dots

Nail polishes used

Kone helsinki neon colors, wild and mild, blue and white nails
Kone helsinki neon, wild and mild

Let's begin!!!!

1. Apply a base coat.
2. Apply two coats of blue nail polish.
3. Add a diagonal white tip. You can use scotch tape for this. Put the tape diagonally across each nail and fill in the tip with two coats of white polish.
4 Now using the toothpick, create white dots in the blue area and blue dots in the white area.
5. Finally apply a topcoat and you are done!!!! 




Monday, October 22, 2012

French tipped orange nails


orange nails with brown french tips
French tipped orange nails


Nail polishes used

golden rose fashion color, kone helsinki neon and miracle, wild and crazy, nail polishes used
golden rose fashion color, kone helsinki neon and miracle, wild and crazy

using scotch tape
Using scotch tape


filling the tip
Filling the tip



Let's begin!!!

1. Apply a base coat.
2. Apply two coats of neon orange nail polish and one coat of glittery orange nail polish and let them dry completely.
3. Then take a scotch tape and put it horizontally across the nail as in the picture.
4. Apply two coats of brown polish to the tip of the nail and carefully remove the tape.
5. Finally apply a top coat and you are done!!!

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Simple, elegant orange nails with dots



simple elegant orange nails with dots
Orange nails with dots


Nail polishes used

kone helsinki miracle colors, golden rose fashion color, wild and crazy, nail polishes used
kone helsinki miracle colors, golden rose fashion color, wild and crazy


Let's Begin!!!

1. Apply a base coat.
2. Apply two coats of orange glittery nail polish and allow it to dry.
3. Then with tooth pick, make big black dots diagonally across the nail as shown.
4. Again add small orange dots into the black dots.
5. Finally apply top coat and you are done!!!!!

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Blue nails with gold tips and flowers


blue nails with gold tips and flowers
Blue nails with gold tips and flowers


Nail polishes used

kone helsinki,kone helsinki miracle, wild and mild, wild and crazy


Let's Begin!!!!
1. Apply a base coat.
2. Apply 2 coats of a blue colored nail polish and let it dry.
3. Using french manicure strip guides, create gold tips. I didn't use strip guides here.
4. Then use a striper to create a thin line separating gold and the blue polish.  I used a dark blue polish here.
5. Then add a flower as shown using the white polish and toothpick to the lower part of nail.
6. Add small white dots below the french gold tip.
6. Finally apply a top coat and you are done!!!