Oh Cupid, It's a Valentines Day Nail !!

I wanted to do a special Valentines day nail, so here it is. I did two different versions. The first is using the Konad stamping system and the second done by hand. Hope you enjoy this V-day nail tutorial.

I started with a light pink bast coat (N.Y.C. 108A Polyester Pink Creme). Then I stamped the background pattern with a white polish (Confetti 011 wedding white) using plate m57. Then every nail got a diferent design. I found most the designs from my fauxnad set of plates and only one from konad. So from left to right I used fauxnad plate m09, konad m78, fauxnad m23, fauxnad m07, and fauxnad m41 for my thumb.

For the second look, I stole some ideas from Anna's last post. I used the same tape technique to achieve this look. I started with a hot pink bast coat (Sinful Colors 851 Boom Boom). Then I applied small little dots using a grey nail art pen. (Nail star Two-way pen from ebay)

After letting this dry completly. I took some scotch tape and placed it slanted across my nail. Then I applied the other color onto my nail (Ulta Flamingo). Then I carefully removed the tape and allowed to dry.

For the last part of I took (Sally Hansen x-treme wear in celeb city) and painted a slant going the opposite direction. I toched up the dots with my nail art pen and added a little heart to each nail.

Hope you enjoyed this post. Which one do you like better? Whats your plans for V-day?

-CCC

shades of pink

So Anna found this new technique where you sponge on different shades of polish to create this shading effect. Her original post can be viewed by clicking here ! Her nails came out awesome so I decided to try it out for myself. And I embellished them with a little flower with a rhinestone center!



I used a 4 different shades of pink and a red polish for the flower.







It's a very simple technique using any kind of cheap makeup sponge. Just dip the tip of the sponge into the polish and dab onto nail until you have the look you desire. It's all about layering and make sure to let coats dry in between applying or it will stick and turn messy.







These are all the polishes I used to do this mani. I started with N.Y.C. in Pol ester Pink Creme as a base all over the whole nail. Then used Ulta in Flamingo and shaded in below the half moon shape of my nail. Then took Sinful colors in Boom Boom to shade in the lowest part of my nail. The glitter polish from Sinful Colors in Pink 4 Ever was placed over the darkest shade and kinda blended everything together. I used essence in Ready for Action to stamp the flower with plate m57. And finished with a pink rhinestone and top coat.

If you like comment below!!

-CCC

Zebra Konadicure

Today I did a pink zebra nail. I used Sinful Colors Boom Boom and Konad black polish for the design. The zebra print can be found on Konad plate m57.

The full plate designs are my favorite because they come out perfect everytime and its really fun to convince people you painted the design yourself :)

Hope you like.. comment below!!

-CCC

pink sparkle

Today I decided to do a simple pink glitter nail. I started with Ulta's Flamingo as a base and used Sinful Colors Pink 4 Ever as the top coat. These two pinks works great with each other. Hope you like !!





When I was in class I realized my nails matched my favorite pen !!!

If you like these pretty in pink nails comment below !!

-CCC

nails with a little pink bling

Another design I fell in love with is this strange design that is from konad plate s6. I also bought some rhinestones from ebay and had to try them out to see how they look and how long they last. I started with my china glaze in devotion, which I love because it is a one coater. Then the design is stamped with the konad polish in hot pink. Then for some bling I placed a small pink rhinestone right in the middle of each nail. I didn't want to much but just enough to make it stand out. I was suprised that with just a little bit of top coat the rhinestones outlasted the polish. For some reason the china glaze polish I love doesn't last very long. After about 3 days it was chipping pretty noticably, so I came to remove my polish and the rhinestones were stuck to my nails. So I guess that answered my question of how long the rhinestones stay...and its forever. I had to scrape them off with my cuticle pusher. So anyway heres my nails hope you like em !!

-CCC

roses are red ...

So this is the latest with my nails... I'm still trying out my new plates and loving every design. This is a pretty rose design I found, and I decided to try different colors instead of one solid color for the roses. Its simple to do and looks great. I used a red polish and 2 pink polishes to achieve this look. In no particular order I just dabbed the different polishes onto the plate and scraped it across and ended up with this different color roses for a cute nail. I also used a white polish as a base and put a pearly finish ontop to make it glisten in the light. This first picture was taken outside and the second was inside.





outside light---->

inside light ----->

This is done using plate m65. The polishes I used are confetti in wedding white for the base. White pearl from sation for the top base coat. Then for the roses I used a mixture of NYC broaway burgandy frost, konad hot pink, and NYC poleyester pink creme. And I finished it off with konad top coat.

This is donw using plate m 65. The polishes I used are

Confetti in wedding white for the base

Sation in white pearl for the top base

For the roses:

NYC broadway burgandy frost

NYC poleyster pink creme

Konad hot pink

Konad top coat

Tell me if you like the different colors on one design.

Until next time.

-CCC

Leopard print nails

Hi everyone,

So I got some new china glaze polishes from transdesign.com today and decided to try them out. I was really excited for the metallic colors and they work great with the konad stamps. The China Glaze polishes I got were: Hi-tek a gold metallic color, devotion which is a lavender silver color, and my favorite for audrey that is tiffany blue. I gave my friend Ashley a konad mani and liked it so much I did the same one on myself but in different colors using the konad plate m57 the leopard print. So here it is:

This is Ashleys mani I used:

NYC poleyster pink creme for the base coat

China Glaze Hi-tek for the top design

(Hi-tek is my favorite its from the krome collection and it only takes

one coat and very smooth and non streaky like most metallics.)

Konad top coat

Konad plate m57 leopard design

stamper/scraper

For my nails I used:

Nail tek intensive therapy II

China Glaze in devotion for base

China Glaze in For Audrey for top design

Konad top coat

Konad plate m57 leopard design

stamper/scraper

So how do you like the leopard design?

-CCC