Eyeko Vampira Polish....Turned Funky

So I did this mani about 2 weeks ago, and just loved it. I only have a few Eyeko polishes, but thi s is my fave!!
I decided that it needed something extra.....So I decided to do a matte tip & I'm so glad I did. I love it even more now! The Matte is OPI's Lincoln Park After Dark Matte.

The Floral Mani Art Tutorial

How To :
- Take your dotting tool, dip it into the color of your choice and create small little blobs of paint. These will be the base of your flowers.
- Take your striping brush and carefully paint an inside circle of each flower a darker shade. Let dry.
- Dot small black circles in the middle of each flower.
- Add leaves to each flower. Let dry, then complete with a top coat. And you're done!

Colorful Nails Stripes!

How To :
- get yourself some striping tape. eBay sells rolls of 10 for about $3.
- paint whichever colors you want to show through the stripes, it can be one color or various. Let dry very well.
- lay down your striping tape. You can create lines in whichever direction you want.
- apply your second color all over the nail, make sure it's an opaque one coater.
- immediately remove your striping tape whilst the polish is still wet.
- Apply your top coat and you're done!

Yay, It's Pink wednesday!!

I really love having a day of the week pre-planned color wise! For today's mani, I wanted to try some more layering. So I first started with Nicole by OPI  You're An Angel.  The shimmer in this is so amazing, and NOT hidden at all. I did 3 coat.
 I then added Pure Ice Rio
and using my Mash plate M64 & Pure Ice Silver Mercedes, I did this design :)

A Valentine’s Day Bow Mani

OMG, girls! It’s almost Valentine’s Day! Do you know what you are going to do, what to wear and what kind of nail art you are going to put yet? Ok, ok don’t stress! If you don’t have any inspiration for your nails, just continue reading and get some inspiration from my Valentine’s Day Bow Mani. It is very easy to do, it won’t take too long to master (it’s done in a few steps), and I’m sure your date will love it! Ok, lets get started, shall we?

Since it’s Valentine’s Day, I opted for a red nail polish, so make sure you have a red nail polish in front of you, a base and top coat, a red glittery nail polish and some bow stickers. These are the steps:

Apply a base coat and let it dry. You always have to apply a base coat before applying any other nail polishes on your nails. Don’t forget to protect your nails girls! Apply a red nail polish on all nails and let it dry. I’m using the China Glaze #1018 Winter berry nail polish in this tutorial.
Apply a red glittery nail polish on 1/2 of your nails (see pictures in this blogpost). Let this dry and go further with the next step. I’m using the China Glaze #1019 Ring in the red.
Apply a cute golden bow sticker on each nail and press it with a toothpick a little bit. You can also draw bows on your nails with a toothpick or dotting pen if you don’t have bow stickers. Apply a top coat and let it dry.
Voila! Now you are finished and ready for Valentine’s Day!

Possible V-Day mani and Konad tutorial

Steps :
I decided to do a tutorial on nail stamping, since I have had a few request. This is the mani that I did. For this I used China Glaze Naughty and Nice as the base. Then for the red/pink lip image, I used Sally Hansen Color Quick pen in Red Chrome, Silver lips are China Glaze Millenium, and the tips are OPI Lincoln Park After Dark Matte.
I get all my items together first
This is the image plate I'm using
Once you choose the image, you take your polish and and cover the image.
Then with your scraper, you scrape over the image, removing the excess polish
Then with your stamper, you place the rubber part and press, transferring the image to your stamper
Excuse the pup hair, I didn't remove it before I took the pic, eeek
Finally, all you do, is place the stamper above your nail, where you want the image to appear on your nail, and in a rolling motion, press it onto your nail.
The best tip for stamping, is to only use 100% acetone. After you stamp, wipe the scraper and stamper onto a cotton ball/pad, that has been soaked in acetone. I use a green coaster, and pre-soak the cotton pad in acetone, and set it onto the coaster. Then after I scrape, I swipe the scraper onto the pad, removing the polish, and then after I stamp, I wipe the stamper on the pad as well. You should also clean the image plate in between each stamp. Although I'm guilty of not doing this, lol. Oh and you do need to work fairly quick, because the polish, since being so thin on your stamper, dries quick.

Here I did the rest of my nails, and then did it over again with China Glaze Millenium.
Once I'm done, I take my mani double pointed q-tips, dip them in acetone, and clean up the excess polish from stamping, around my nails. I then do a coat of SV, and TADA
Last of all, I added tips in OPI Lincoln Park After Dark Matte


Tutorials You Should also see :

• Two Side Braids With a Ponytail Tutorial
• How To Make Little Fishtails For Your Hair
• Gold & Green Funky French
• Simple Fishtail Braid Tutorial

Gold & Green Funky French

This is 2 coats of the base, 10, #415
Then with the Konad on :)
And the final mani :)

3D Heart Nails Art Design

1- After filing nails and waiting for your base coat to dry, paint one to two coats of your lightest color. Wait at least 30 minutes for the polish to dry.

2- Apply tape. you can use trimmed Scotch tape, or striping tape. You’ll need four pieces for every nail.

3- Alternating every other space, paint the triangles your second color.

4- Wait at least 10 to 20 minutes before removing the tape. You’ll be left with this design, which is actually pretty cool.

5- To create the hearts, use the back end of a paintbrush to create two small dots. You can also use a straight pin, bobby pin or dotting tool.

6- Create a V-shape underneath the two dots and fill in the center.

7- Wait for the hearts to dry and then apply a topcoat to seal in your design. Use a cotton swab dipped in nail polish remover to clean up the cuticles.

Newspaper Nails Manicure

How To :
- Apply a thin layer of your favorite base coat. Then, apply two coats of any polish in a light to medium shade.
- Find any newspaper on-hand. Cut ten 2" x 1" strips (one for each nail), and set aside.
- Dip the whole nail into a small bowl of rubbing alcohol. Then, dip one newspaper strip into your small bowl of alcohol and shake it out.
- Overlay that newspaper strip directly on the nail bed and don't move!
- Take an alcohol-dampened paper towel and apply light pressure on the nail like a temporary tattoo.
- After 10 full seconds, slowly peel off the strip and you'll see the ink imprint. Repeat this process for each nail.
- Allow nails to dry again for five full minutes, then seal the deal with your favorite top coat.

Edgy Half Moon Mani

I've seen tons of half moon manis out there, and I'm sure you have too. Well, I like to do things a tad different, if you haven't noticed. This is my edgier version of it. For this I used Wet n' Wild Hannah Pinktana, and Sinful Black on Black. Trsut me, Hannah Pinktana, is really fairly holo, but I didn't have any sun when I did this mani :(
Here is 2 coats of Hannah Pinktana over black.
This is how I cut my tape to do this design
You then tape it on your nail, like so
Once you polish on your 2nd color, black in this case, remove the tape ASAP, and you will have this
Repeat this for all your nails, and once you're done, add your top coat, mine is SV, Seche Vite

A Sexy Cami you all need!

This applies like magic. It really only needed 1 coat, but I did 2 anyways.
Then I also grabbed 2 new Nicoles, and this one is CRAZY holo, Make A Coment-Ment, I also love the name :P
Ummm...can you see all that prettiness?!?!? This was only 1 coat too.
and since it's been a while, I decided to use my Born Pretty Hello Kitty plate, and add some white and silver flowers. For the flowers I used both Konad White and China Glaze Millenium on the same flower, it is kind of hard to tell, but I promise each flower is 2 colors :P

Birds of a feather flock together, Feather Mani..... (giveaway sneak peek)

What I did, was paint a fairly thick layer of the glue onto my nail, and trimming the feather, as close as I could see, placed it onto my nail with tweezers, lightly pressing it down. I then added some more glue to my brush and did a coat over the entire feather and nail. Then when it was mostly dry, I went around with clippers, and clipped as much of the excess off the sides and tips that I could. Then when that was done, I did 2 coats of SV. It is perfectly smooth and shiny. Since I only did one nail on each hand, the rest of the mani is Brucci Blackened Emerald.

So what do you guys think? Have any of you tried it? I got soooo many compliments it was crazy.

Hello Kitty Funky French Nail Art thanks to Born Pretty

Most image plates have a very thin film that you might not even see. Just make sure to remove it.
Before I started stamping, I applied 2 coats my base coat of Brand 10, color #415, Pinky Promise
Now on to stamping. I used the flower image on the plate first, and used China Glaze Millenium for them. Then I used the cute Hello Kitty image, and Konad polish in black for that :)
Finally I did my black tips with Sinful's Black on Black and added a tiny rhinestone to her bow :)

When a swatch becomes a full fun mani

This is 2 coats pre-tape :)
 cut 4 very thin strips of tape for each nail. When they were all done, I added 2 coats of SV on top

Pink beautiful

Pink  beautiful

Water Marble Picture Tutorial

When I start, I make sure all the lids are off. Here I just dropped in a blob of my first color, Gray Area, and you can see it spreads.
Then I dropped in a blob of White on White, right in the center of the Gray Area
and dropped in a blob of the OPI
I repeated the 3 colors again, until I was happy with how it looked.
Then using my pencil, I lightly drag the polish into designs in the cup
This is what it looked like, when I stopped, and I liked the designs I had.
I tape each finger, using 3 pieces of tape.
and dip your nail into it, at an angle.
Once you have fully dipped your nail, I take my pencil, and with my nail still in the water, swipe it around my nail, and this picks up all the excess polish, so you don't ruin your nail, when you remove it from the water.
Then once all fingers are cleaned up, and my top coat has been applied, this is my final mani :)

Essence Magnetic Metallics Polish Swatches!!!!

Essence Magnetic Metallics Polish Swatches!!!!

OPI DS Sapphire on the tips :)

Morning :) Here is the mani I did using the OPI DS Sapphire, that I posted about yesterday. I started with a base of Wet n' Wild Black, and a coat of SV
Then using tape, of course, I taped my tips off, and used OPI DS Sapphire

I'm a Material Girl!

I'm a Material Girl!

Katniss Everdeen, GIRL ON FIRE!!!!

 I started with Sinful Black on Black on all my nails except my 2 ring ringers. On them I used 2 thick coats of China Glaze Electrify.
of tape. I forgot to get a pic before I placed it on my nail and polished over it, so that is why the black polish is already on it, oooppps.
This is going to be the looooongest day ever!!!!