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

first piggy for me

My newest design was from plate m64. I always want to use the paisly flowers, but I decided I should try something differnt and use the plaid design. I also used my new piggy polish from ulta. It was my first time using piggy polish and overall I wasn't that impressed by it. I had to use 3 coats just to cover my nail with no bald spots. I don't know if all piggy polishes are like this one but I was dissapointed with the quality. Anyway I made it work with a quick stamp of konad white special polish and the end result came out pretty neat. Hope you like this one!!
-CCC

cute bottle but that flower decoration kept getting in the way and the polish was not so great. Has anyone else had probems with piggy polish??

do re me fa so la te do ... music note nails !!!

I was a little skeptical to try this design but it ended up coming out alright and in turn gots lots of compliments at school today. It is a music print with notes and a keyboard. I also bought this new stuff from CND stickey-anchoring base coat. I wasn't sure if it would really work but after reading many reviews I gave in and bought it. I am so glad I did because it works great. It really sets the polish and I haven't had chipping in almost a week which is amazing for my nails. So if your looking for something to hold your polish, I would try and find this to add to your collection of polishes. For my nails I started with a basic white polish from Confetti in wedding white, then stamped with LA girl Flare in black, and finished with konads top coat. It was a little tricky lining up the keyboards and some of them came out a little crooked, but overall it wasn't too noticable so I just left them as is. Hope you love my new mani's and have a great weekend everyone!!

-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