Nails At Home: 2011/06

2011/06/21

Kpop Nails | f(x)'s Hot Summer Inspired Nails

Finally, a mani inspired by f(x)'s "Hot Summer" music video.

Every nail is inspired by one of the outfits of the girls. For Amber I used her hat in the close-up and for Luna I chose her shirt changing a little the colors.

I have to say that I'm not totally satisfied with this mani. The nails are ok individually but I don't like them as a whole mani. Maybe I will do a second version, I still don't know.

Well, I hope you will like it, especially Cheryl!

Step 1: apply your base coat, then apply white polish on your pinky and index. Use green polish for your ring finger, blue on your middle finger and black for your thumb. Let it dry.

-White: basic no. 35-

-Green: KIKO no 296-

-Blue: KIKO no. 295-

-Black: Deborah Shine TECH no. 30-

Step 2: On my pinky I sponged some orange and purple glitter.

On my ring finger I used a marker to draw some very thin lines. I tried to follow Sulli's dress print.

On the middle finger I made some white dots. I made them parallel.

On my index I made an orange french, as you can see I messed it up a bit but that's ok because we will fix it in the next step.

On the thumb I used a white striper to make a heart.

-Orange glitter: KIKO no. 112-

-Purple glitter: Deborah Shine TECH no. 60-

-White: basic no. 35-

-Orange: KIKO no. 280-

-White striper: KIKO no. 203-

Step 3: I used the black marker to make a lot of tiny triangles and try to recreate Amber's hat.

On the ring finger I filled in the squares like a chessboard.

On the index I painted half of the white with black polish.

On my thumb I applied hot pink polish over the white heart.

When it dries apply your top coat and your done!

-Black: Deborah Shine TECH no. 30-

-Hot Pink: KIKO no. 283-

In the music video I really liked the striped tank so I made a pedi.

(sorry for the crappy picture, but I took it at night with artificial light and by myself because all my family was already sleeping!)

2011/06/20

Summer Confetti {mani+pedi}

For this nail art I took inspiration from a Japanese magazine (I don't remeber which one!)

I really like these nails, they are so fun. I just think that using a lighter blue would have been better.

-White: basic no. 35-

-Pink: KIKO no. 283-

-Yellow: KIKO no. 279-

-Blue: KIKO no. 295-

I also made a combined pedi!

Kpop Nails | Block B's Freeze! Inspired Nails

As requested on my Youtube Channel from xxWhiteSnow, these nails are inspired by Block B outfists in their first music video "Freeze!"

It wasn't easy came up with some ideas for this mani because their outfits are relatively simple.

I took inspiration from Kyung's black pants, B-Bomb's sweater, Zico's white pants and U-Kwon's red pants.

This is a "sample" mani. I think that making a full black/silver or white/gold mani would look better!

I applied black, white and red polish. When it dried I sponged some silver polish on my pinky and some gold polish on my middle finger.

On my ring finger and index I added some silver and gold dots. As a finishing touch I added a silver star.

For my thumb I used a black striper to make the strings and added some silver dots on the sides.

-Black: Deborah Shine TECH no. 30-

-White: basic no. 35-

-Red: RIMMEL LYCRA PRO no. 323 Riviera Red-

-Silver: basic-

-Gold: KIKO no. 307-

Jpop Nails | BENI's Suki Dakara. Nails

This mani is inspired by the actress' nails in BENI's video "Suki Dakara."

She has a pink mani with little black stars. On her index finger she has a glitter polish with something written on it. I think it's the actress name so I wrote my name with a marker.

In the pictures my index finger looks very reddish, in real life it was more pink.

My stars are as crappy as ever so please ignore them!

-Light Pink: Deborah Pret a Porter no. 31 Ballerina Tutu-

-Pink: Odille no. 42-

-Pink Glitter: KIKO no. 241-

OMG! Deborah - Prèt à Porter

OMG! I can't believe I found these!

I knew Deborah released a Limited Edition called Prèt à Porter, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

The other day I went to the supermarket with my mom and found them. I never expected to find them there, I didn't even hope about it because usually it takes months before the new arrivals are available.

Luckily, it seems my supermarket is starting to get more and more Deborah nail polishes. In the past month I bought only Deborah polish.

But now let's see these beauties!

There's a total of 40 new colors and you can see them on their official site.

The bottle is 4,5 ml and it's €3.90.

I bought the above six.

I swatched them very quickly so my impressions might change when I swatch them properly!

-no. 22 flip flop green: in the bottle it looks lime green, on the nails it's totally yellow. It's a nice summer color. The finish is creme.

-no.23 it's evergreen: in the bottle this color remind me of a swamp. On the nails it's a beautiful shimmer green that reflects a lot of light. Super pretty.

-no.26 stardust: how can I describe such a color? it's a light blue polish with silver shimmer. The finish is almost foil. It's definetely eye-catching and my mom already tried it on her feet.

-no.13 love at first sight: in the bottle this color is super pretty but when I tried it on my nails I was bit disappointed. It's sheer and the glitter is too big. When it dries it's rough and not shiny.

-no.31 ballerina tutu: I'm very satisfied with this polish because I was searching for a baby pink polish for ages and always failed to find the hue I wanted. This is perfect.

-no.34 '70 grape sweater: I really like this color but I'm not sure about the finish. It's a sheer creme, almost jelly. I hope that with a few coats it will get better.

If you have the chance to buy these polishes I recommend you Stardust, It's Evergreen and Ballerina Tutu, these are my favorites for now!