Showing posts with label Black. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2012

Moustache nails



I still remember that I wanted to do moustache nails in Movember but I couldn't find the time for it. Today my younger sister did them! She used the moustache nails tutorial from Cutepolish at Youtube.
Items used:
Essence - #02 White secret
Essence - #20 Fatal
Essence glitter top coat

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Review: Born Pretty dry dried flowers


Here is the second part of the Born Pretty review! If you haven't read the first part about the lace stickers, click here to go to that post.

Dry dried flowers
When you order this you get 12 different styles and colours of dried flowers. They are in individual clear jars with screw-on lids. Easy to open, easy to close. Born Pretty store says the combination of the flowers are determined by random selection. The design of each package may vary per kit, but you will always get 12 different flowers. If you really want a specific colour or flower you can always try to mention this in the comment box before checking out. The price for the 12 bottles is $7.08. So you could say one bottle costs $0.59 which is pretty reasonable in my opinion.


As you can see I received two different kind of flowers. The flowers with large leaves and the ones with ultra-small leaves. Each bottle contains three till five pieces of dried flowers. I think you will need tweezers for the small leaves because it's pretty difficult to take them up with your fingers. I used my nails to take them up and it was annoying. I don't have problems with the large leaves though. The flowers are very thin and they actually smell like flowers!


The flowers can be applied on natural and artificial nails. Here I used the small leaves to decorate the black tips (Essence - #85 Galactic black) on my natural nails. I applied them when the nail polish was still wet. After I applied the leaves I finished it with adding a glittery top coat (Essence glitter top coat) to set them.

I recommend these dry dried flowers for anyone who wants to add an elegant and unique touch to their nails. The small leaves might be a little struggle but otherwise it is not difficult to use them. Totally recommended!

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

The universe, everything that exists


Thanks to that one person who inspired me to do another galaxy design, but purple. If you are reading this, you know I mean you ♥ It's incredible how large and beautiful the universe is.. It just freaks me out, really :/

And again I used the shimmery black (Essence - #85 Galactic black) as my base colour. Then I applied the darkest colour which is a bit taupe/purple-like (Catrice - #640 Grey's kelly) using a sponge. After that I applied a sharp purple (Essence nail art twins - #08 Gabriella) and a glittery purple (Essence - #380 Forget-me-not!) to it. Now I've got different kind of purple shades. To add more variation I applied a little bit of Catrice - #450 Sand Francisco. And lastly I added some stars with a toothpick using Essence's white stampy polish. There is no certain method of where and how you have to apply the sponge on your nails, just do it the way your feeling thinks it's the prettiest!
Items used:
Essence - #85 Galactic black
Catrice - #640 Grey's kelly
Essence nail art twins - #08 Gabriella
Essence - #380 Forget-me-not!
Catrice - #450 Sand Francisco
Essence nail art stampy polish - #001 Stamp me! White
A piece of sponge

Saturday, December 31, 2011

To infinity and beyond


I thought a sort of galaxy nails would be suitable for this evening. The black base coat as the black sky and the other colours on my nails are the colours of the firework. You don't see it? No, I don't see it either hahah. Just felt like doing galaxy nails. This nail art made me think of something Buzzz Lightyear from Toy Story always says: to infinity and beyond! So that's how I named this post :p

After I applied the shimmery black colour I used a sponge to apply a green-like colour (Essence - #38 Choose me!). This one is really shimmery so after this step I actually wanted to finish my nails already. They looked like the galaxy already! But I wanted more depth so I applied some soft pink (Catrice - #210 Just married) and light brown (Essence - #33 Just in case) onto my nails. And to finish it I applied the Essence - #38 Choose me! one more time. Be sure the colours you use are transparent enough!
Items used:
Essence - #85 Galactic black
Essence - #33 Just in case
Catrice - #210 Just married
Essence - #38 Choose me!
Piece of sponge
I hope all of you are going to have fun today and tonight. Happy new year!

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Imitating animal print



I love this effect with the crackle top coat! I think it's perfect if you want to imitate animal prints :D So if you're feeling lazy, just apply your crackle top coat and you have some awesome nails done! The method is to polish with small diagonal stripes. If you want the prints to be small, don't use too much polish on your brush. And if you want the prints to be bigger (as on the nail of my pinky), then it's okay to have a bigger amount of polish on your brush (:
Items used:
Essence - #33 Just in case
Essence cracking top coat - #01 Crack me! Black

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Gradient crackle



Hi everyone! I felt like using my gold nail polish from Catrice and black cracking top coat from Essence. Using tape I did vertical crackled strokes. The widest at my thumb and getting narrower to the pinky. So... Tomorrow is Christmas already. How are your nails going to look like?
Items used:
Catrice - #650 Goldfinger
Essence cracking top coat - #01 Crack me! Black

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Black scars on it


... It reminds me of Chucky O:
Items used:
Catrice - #320 Back to black
Essence matte tip painter - #01 Berlin story (I love Berlin collection)

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Interrupted in the jungle

Hi! How have you been? I apologize for not updating my blog for the whole week. There happened a lot last week and I couldn't find the time to blog. Today is the first day I could do my nails again. It has been too long! How I did my nails today? I don't know how I came up with this design. While I was busy with them I thought 'okay, this is going to be such a fail ò___ó'! But to my surprise it's pretty okay.

Please leave a comment and tell me what nail art you love to see! With your help I can improve the content of my blog for everyone. Thanks!
Items used:
Essence - #38 Choose me!
Essence matt top coat
Essence matt black tip painter (I love Berlin collection)
Toothpick

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Friday, September 16, 2011

Vans


This is my first blogpost which won't contain my own nails, but my sisters.  I came home and saw she designed her nails with the Vans logo. She was happy I wanted to post them at my blog :D Yes, the passion for nail art is everywhere here. I have three younger sisters and two of them (11 and 12 years old) are into nail art just like me. Like most of the people she find it hard to do her right hand, so she decorated her nails on the right hand with crackle top coat. I think the Vans and crackle designs are a good combination. Hehe, I'm so proud of her!
Items used:
Essence - #20 Fatal
Essence nail art stampy polish - #01 Stamp me! White
Essence cracking top coat - #02 Crack me! white
Small and thin brush from the nail art brushes set

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Metallic green


I love metallic colours!
Items used:
Gosh - #567 Metallic green
Essence - #38 Choose me!
Essence tip painter - #01 Berlin story (I love Berlin collection)