2009/09/29

DOTS MANIA


This nails art is really easy, fun and really quick.

What you need: a needle for the dots, a thin brush, some rhinestones.

Colors:

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  • Base Coat: Debby nail THERAPY smoothing base + minerals
  • Black: DEBORAH Shine TECH No.30
  • White: KIKO No. 101
  • Glitter: Chresy No.32
  • Top Coat: KIKO Extra strong & hard No.04

How to:
  1. 02b Apply your base coat.
  2. 03b Apply the white polish alterning it with the black one. Apply a second coat if needed.
  3. 04b Draw an oblique tip with the opposite color. Apply a second coat if needed.
  4. 05b With the head of the needle draw some dots in the opposite color of the base.
  5. 06b With the thin brush and the glitter polish draw a thin line between the tip and the base.
  6. 07b Apply some rhinestones if you wish.

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Here is the final result.


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2009/09/25

BUBBLE POP


This is a little experiment I made a few days ago.
I wanted to see if I could use paper to decorate my nails. Well, the answer is YES!!
I used very thin paper to make the circles.

What you need: thin paper, a thin brush.

Colors:

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  • Base Coat: Debby nail THERAPY smoothing base + minerals
  • Light Blue: KIKO No. 159
  • Yellow: RIVEEL No. 190
  • Lilac: DEBORAH 7 Days Long No. 827
  • Green: DEBORAH 7 Days Long No. 793
  • Pink: RIMMEL 60 Seconds Vinyl Stars No. 633 STARLIGHT
  • Silver: DEBORAH Shine TECH No. 22
  • Silver Glitter: RIVEEL No. 131
  • Top Coat: KIKO Extra strong & hard No.04

How to:
  1. 02b Apply your base coat.
  2. 03b Apply two coats of white polish.
  3. 04b Cut a few circles of paper and, with a clear polish, apply them on your nails. Be sure to make them stick perfectly to your nail.
  4. 06 This is the result after I made all my nails. I already liked it like this but I wanted to give them a glitter touch.
  5. 05b I added a few lines of polish of the same color of the circles and a few lines of silver polish. On the circles I added some silver glitter. When everything was perfectly dry I applied my top coat.

2009/09/10

MINT RIBBON {2 versions}


This nail art is really funny and cute.

What you need: a thin brush, some rhinestones.

Colors:

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  • Base Coat: Debby nail THERAPY smoothing base + minerals
  • Light Green: KIKO No. 268
  • Green: RIVEEL No. 121
  • Fuxia: RIMMEL Lycra PRO No. 402 URBAN PURPLE
  • Glitter Pink: KIKO No: 241
  • Top Coat: Deborah 7 Days Long No.00

How to:

  1. 02b Apply your base coat.
  2. 03b Apply two coat of light green.
  3. 04b Draw the tip with a darker green.
  4. 05b With the thin brush draw a line with the fuxia polish.
  5. 06b On the ring finger and the thumb I added a small ribbon. It isn't an easy thing to do so if you are not skilled I suggest you to leave the nail like that. I hate when I mess up a nail and I have to start again.
  6. 07b Here my thumb. In the end I added also a glitter pink polish over the fuxia to give it a 3D feeling and in the end a little rhinestone.

I took my inspiration from a Japanese magazine. Here is the original:


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This is a more "darker" variation".