Lovebirds - Valentine's Day Nails #11 - stamping nail art

Happy Groundhog Day!

I made this neon pink lovebird mani today. I stamped the black images on and added three rhinestone hearts. I used a marshmallow stamper to shrink the image on my index finger. I used a Konad stamper and added more black with a brush on the ring finger. On my screen this looks a little orange, but I hope it looks pink on yours.

Products used:

Ruby Kisses: RHDP01 Hot Pink Obsession (neon pink)
MoYou London: Tropical Collection 06 (lovebirds, hearts)
MoYou London: Explorer Collection 23 (flying bird)
MoYou London: Heartshaped rhinestones
Mundo de Uñas: 2 Black (stamping polish)
XL marshmallow stamper (shrinking)
Konad stamper

The MoYou plates are available in this size and XL size. So remember to measure your nails before buying them.

I really like these bird images, but I wish they were smaller. Luckily I can use this image, but on Tropical 06 most of the images of the birds are to wide for my small nails, and it was difficult to shrink an image without distorting it. (This is not a problem for most of you, because most of you have bigger nails than me.)

But if you are reading MoYou, please make the important part of each image small, and if you add a leaf or something, please include the whole leaf, and keep everything very detailed. That way it's easier for both us with small nails and those with bigger nailbeds to use each image successfully.

I had planned to make a Groundhog day mani, but let's hope I'll do that next year... Did you see the movie? It's very romantic, so it would be perfect for a V- day mani.

Lani

NPL - Black roses - pink version

Hello everyone!

I made this in June when we made flowers, and roses was the theme, in the group Nail Polish Lovers (NPL) on G+. This is a pink version of the pastel turquoise nails with black roses and teal leafs that I made for ovarian cancer awareness a long time ago. But I didn't add flakies, and my nails are longer here. It was interesting to try the new IsaDora gel nail lacquers that dries in normal light, and can be removed like normal nail polish. They're supposed to last a week, but I had a different challenge to do, so I had to take it off earlier. You can read more about their gel lacquers here.

Products used:

IsaDora: Gel Lacquer #222 Pink Bomb
IsaDora: Gel Lacquer #210 Top Coat
Messy Mansion: MM07
Konad SP: Violet Pearl
Konad SP: Black

I had planned to publish more pink manis in October... I hope you've seen enough pink this year to remember to check your breasts regularly. If you haven't seen the video I've showed earlier, click here.


Lani

52 Week PICK N MIX Challenge - PINK - Skittlette with purple studs, 2 versions

Hello everyone!

It's week 2 in the 52 Week PICK N MIX Challenge, and today I want to show you this pink and blue/ purple nail art that I made this summer. With the garden full of mostly blue and pink flowers, I wanted to make something with these square studs that KKCenterHk sent me all the way from Hong Kong last year. It feels special to write about something that came from Hong Kong after seeing the news about the demonstrations this week. I hope it will end peacefully and democratic.

I tried to stamp this design from Cheeky Jumboplate 10 on all my nails, but it was too difficult to line it up correctly. So I ended up with a skittlette for once. I made one version with studs in the center of the stamped image, and later I added studs to the pinkie and index finger as well.

Again I used a polish from China Glaze's Romantique collection for the stamping. This time I used Admire. I liked this pink metallic on it's own too. I wonder how Mundo de Unas' metallic stamping collection is compared to the Romantique collection.

The studs:

Last time I tried to use these studs, I learned the hard way that I shouldn't drag them in place. Just put some top coat where you want your stud, and dip a dotting tool in it, so that it's easier to pick up the studs. Then try to place it exactly where you want it, and press down gently, and apply top coat.

The bag contains about 50 studs. The size is 3mm, and they consist of circular areas that shine in different shades of purple. They are a little pyramid shaped, and that make them stick better.

When I removed this with acetone, I noticed that the studs turned silver, but they kept their shape. So if you wonder if these can be used again, I would say yes, but as silver studs.

Products used:

Duri Rejuvacote (base coat)
Gina Tricot Beauty Nails: #139 Purple Mint (purple)
China Glaze: Admire (pink) -used for stamping and on the index finger
Cheeky Jumboplate 10
N.NAIL Studs Square Laser Purple 3mm Nail Art Decorations NNAIL- DRN656 (purple studs)
Seche Vite (top coat)


 Here you can compare the two versions:

Thank you KKCenterHk for giving me these beautiful studs! ♥

October is breast cancer awareness month, so I hope to wear pink again this month. I'll let the cute men in the video show you how to check your breasts, and an app to remind you to do it.

Press PLAY and learn! LOL



Lani

An InLinkz Link -up

GOT Polish Challenge: Brown

Hello everyone!

This is the last day of the GOT challenge this year, so I'm a little sad that I didn't do all the themes, and use those oldies... I had no problem finding old brown nail polish in my collection, Today I wanted to use my vintage Guerlain N°3 Brun (click to see my blog post about it), which is my darkest brown.

I stamped with Color Club: Miss Bliss (click to see my blog post about it), a pink linear holographic polish, and two stamping plates from MoYou London; Sailor Collection 03 and 07 (XL). I used one pattern from 03 on 3 fingers, and a similar pattern (from 07) that nearly looked reversed on the thumb and ring finger.

After I applied Seche Vite, it looked like the brown polish turned the holographic pattern into a darker pink, and I think it looked better that way. It also dulled the holo a little, but without top coat it wouldn't have lasted long.

I've been thinking a lot lately about which challenges to choose now that this one is over. There are two interesting ones, and in addition there are new challenges each week in the groups I'm participating in on facebook and G+, and I have a lot of nail art ideas. But probably I won't be able to publish blog posts every week, so I'm a little sad that I probably can't participate.


Will you be participating in any nail art challenges this autumn?

More brown nail art below! :-)


Lani

An InLinkz Link-up

Vintage Flowers - freehand nail art - inspired by xoJahtna

Hello everyone!

In one of the groups I'm a member of, flowers is the theme this month. "Vintage flower" was the theme last week, and "vintage" is the challenge in a different group this week. So I'll show you the rose, lilly, and daisy nails I made later. I must admit that I didn't know what "Vintage flowers" was until I saw the examples and videos we were given. I'll include the video tutorial made by xoJahtna, that helped and inspired me, at the end of the post.


What I did:

For these "Vintage Flower" nails, I applied Deborah Lippmann Blue Orchid, and made the flowers with acrylic craft paint and a toothpick. I used Seche Vite top coat. After a while I added silver holographic glitter; INM Out The Door Northern Lights Top Coat Silver.

Some photos are with holo glitter and some are not. It rained constantly the first day, but I got some photos without rain the second day, and then, to my surprise, the sun came back. So I hope you are ready for many photos! ♥

with glitter

without glitter

without glitter

without glitter

I was inspired by this video tutorial made by xoJahtna:



The plan was to do exactly what she did. But because of thunder and lightening I had to turn everything off, so I couldn't look at it when I struggled and had mixed the colors to much...

Nearly ready, before top coat:

Before top coat

Products used:

Duri Rejuvacote (base coat)
Deborah Lippmann: Blue Orchid (blue periwinkle cream) - Used before. To see it click here (Easter chicks) & here (LIVE ♥ laugh ♥ love)
Toothpick
Pallette
Acrylic craft paint (from Panduro):
-Titanium White (white)
-Rose (dark pink/ red)
-Emerald Green (green)
-Burnt Umber (brown) -used mixed with green and white
Seche Vite (top coat)
INM Out The Door Northern Lights Top Coat Silver (silver holographic micro glitter)

I hope you like this nail art. Did you notice that I didn't tell you which flower this was supposed to look like? LOL.

If you have any tips or tricks or favorite acrylic paint, I'll be very happy.

Lani