Showing posts with label Valentine's Day nails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day nails. Show all posts

Thursday, February 13, 2014

GOT Polish Challenge: Valentines - Lavender, white and MM31


Hello everyone!



For this Golden Oldie Thursday, I picked OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender. This OPI is a few years old, so no vintage polish today. Then I stamped with Konad SN White and the same stamping plate that you saw in my last blog post; MM31 from Messy Mansion:





As you see, this full nail image is also very detailed, and perfect for both tiny nails like mine and for those with long nails and wide nail beds. I used the purple rectangular stamper again. I have very curved nails, and this time I tried to roll the stamper sideways. It stamped perfectly, but then I managed to get some white polish on the index nail! :-( I tried to remove it, but now that I look at the pictures, I see that there's still some left...

I've written about Lucky Lucky Lavender and showed lots of photos earlier here. I have no idea why it's currently my most viewed blog post.







Here are the Valentine's Day nails I've made so far:

Valentine's Day nails 1: Heart of a Vampire
Valentine's Day nails 2: Purple holo with red hearts
Valentine's Day nails 3: Black holo+ holo glitter+ black hearts
Valentine's Day nails 4: Black/ white rhinestone hearts+ 3 Halo Hues
Valentine's Day nails 5: Hearts with Sweet Dreams
Valentine's Day nails 6: Hearts with Gold and Raindrops
Valentine's Day nails 7: Black Hearts & Sparkling Venus
Valentine's Day nails 8: Love is Love - Pastel Rainbow Hearts

And below you can see which old nail polishes the other participants used for their Valentine's nail art.

Lani


Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Valentine's Day nails #5: Hearts with Sweet Dreams


Hello everyone!




One of the manicures that I wanted to recreate was The Beauty Department's "Wasi Tape Glitter Heart" manicure. But I didn't have wasi tape, and wanted to try my new nail polish (Pieces Lilac Rose), and saw that the color of Deborah Lippmann Sweet Dreams is very similar. So I ended up with this monochrome fuchsia Valentine's Day mani. I used this step-by-step photo instruction from The Beauty Department, but I used different colors, and put one heart on each nail. Maybe I'll try to make an exact copy some time too.

Hearts with Sweet Dreams
Hearts with Sweet Dreams

Hearts with Sweet Dreams

I used:
Deborah Lippmann Sweet Dreams    (1 thick coat)
Pieces Lilac Rose    (I used 2 coats, but this is nearly a one- coater!)
Tape    (I made it less sticky before using it on the nails)
Scissors
Pen

As I have mentioned earlier, Pieces and Deborah Lippmann are not tested on animals :-D

This was used to make 'Hearts with Sweet Dreams'




What I did:

How I made 'Hearts with Sweet Dreams' 

How I made 'Hearts with Sweet Dreams' 


Wearing this made me realize how much I've missed Sweet Dreams. I don't know why I haven't used it more often. Maybe because I often use my untrieds?

Hearts with Sweet Dreams


Lani

Monday, February 11, 2013

Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts


Hello everyone!




Today I have one more Valentine's Day mani for you. I painted my nails with Color Club: Eternal Beauty, a purple linear holographic nail polish, and stamped red hearts over it. Then I used a holographic glitter top coat, and added red heart shaped rhinestones. If was my boyfriend who came up with the idea to use this image on all the nails.

Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts
Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts

Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts
Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts





List of what I used:
Basecoat for holographic nail polish
Color Club: #999 Eternal Beauty
Konad: Special Red Stamping Polish
Konad stamping plate: m59
INM Out The Door Northern Lights Hologram Top Coat Silver
Red heart shaped  rhinestones

Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts
Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts
Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts

Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts



Color Club: # 999 Eternal Beauty is a linear holographic purple nail polish from Color Club's Halo Hues 2013 collection. According to Color Club's website all nail polishes are vegan, and free of formaldehyde, toluene, DBP and paraben - and made in New York, USA, and not tested on animals :-)

If I understood it correctly, Color Club is a part of the Forsythe Cosmetic Group, which can be found on the Leaping Bunny list of brands that do not test on animals.

Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts
Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts

Valentine's Day nails: Purple holo with red hearts


I've been ill for a few days (but at the same time very happy since this polish arrived in the mail on Saturday!!!), and when I got my strength back it was dark, so the photos are taken inside. I used Ott- lite, a LED lamp, and a regular lamp with yellowish light. But when I looked through the photos, I liked just one of the Ott- lite photos, and that is the one with white background. The LED photos are the ones where you can see the holo best, but then the rhinestone hearts looked much darker than they do in real life.



Lani