#52WPNMC - BROWN - Caramel Apple Nails - inspired by @polishpdxnails - #31Nails2014 Day 13: DRIP & Day 31: Recreate someone else's mani

Hello everyone!

This is supposed to look like red, green and yellow apples with caramel. I've never tasted caramel apples, but I love caramel, and when I saw a photo of  @polishpdxnails' Caramel Apple Nails, I wanted to try too. I had bought a caramel colored polish, and I should have done it then, when my nails were super short, and looked more like round apples.

With Seche Vite over the "caramel"

This nail art is for 3 challenges:

*BROWN is the theme for this week in the 52 Day challenge: The 52 Week PICK N MIX Challenge (#52WPNMC).

*And DRIP was the theme for Day 13 in the 31 Day challenge I tried to do in January: Nails Magazine's 31 Days of Nail Art Challenge 2014 (#31Nails2014). Better late than never, right?

*And #31Nails2014 Day 31: Recreate someone else's mani. @polishpdxnails' Caramel Apple Nails lookes more like the picture below, so I kind of made my own version.

Products used:

Base:
OPI: My Boyfriend Scales Walls - white
Yes Love: #007 - pastel green (pinkie & index finger)
Yes Love: #008 - yellow/ pastel orange (thumb & middle finger)
Yes Love: F21 - pastel coral (ring finger)

For the rough gradient:
Fan brush & non woven swabs
A stamping plate as pallette
GOSH: 610 Blissful - red
H&M: Amazon - bright green
Gina Tricot: #17 Aspen gold - yellow
HEMA: #443 - pastel yellow
HK Girl top coat
GOSH #600 Matte Effect top coat

For the caramel drip:
OPI: Going My Way Or Norway - pastel brown
Seche Vite top coat

The Yes Love nail polish was bought on the Friday market in Mogan, Gran Canaria. It was only 1 Euro for each! :-)

Lani

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The Tri- Polish Challenge, Day 9: Hearts with Gold and Raindrops. Valentine's Day nails #6

Hello everyone!

The three new colors in the Tri- Polish Challenge (TPC) for May are red, grey and blue. For those colors I chose these polishes: IsaDora #743 ORIENT EXPRESS (red), GOSH: #594 MISS GREY (grey), and mi-ny: #177 BLUE SKY (blue). And as usual we have free use of white, black, gold, silver, and clear based glitter. I had actually planned to make this mani with red hearts for Valentine's Day. But a blue heart on an accent nail turned it into a TPC mani. I was inspired by a cup I got for Christmas. I took photos inside. But after a lot of rain, the sun decided to help me.

(I made this nail art last week, so you might have seen the photo above on facebook already.)

Here I zoomed in on the raindrops from the first photo

What I did:

I started with white nails, and used a small round brush to paint the red and blue hearts. Then I used a gold polish (H&M: Back by Noon) and a yellowish gold (H&M: Run Baby Run) and BM-316 and MM02 to stamp the gold pattern.

I've been asked how I paint my nails, and I don't think I do anything special, but I always clean around the nail/ cuticles before and after applying top coat. A good top coat also helps a lot. And I look at the photos before I remove the polish.

Used:

OPI: My Boyfriend Scales Walls (white)
IsaDora: #743 ORIENT EXPRESS (red)
mi-ny: #177 BLUE SKY (blue)
H&M: Back by Noon (gold) -the bottle to the left below
H&M: Run Baby Run (yellowish gold)
Stamping plates: BM-316, MM02
Stamper & scraper from KKCenterHk

What I used

So as you see, I only used two of the TPC polishes this time. I have written about the blue mi-ny polish before, and will hopefully show you swatches of the red and the grey soon. I had planned to make three more TPC manicures in May...

Holding IsaDora: ORIENT EXPRESS

Holding OPI: My Boyfriend Scales Walls

Holding: mi-ny: BLUE SKY

Animal testing:

I have tried to use products that have not been tested on animals. H&M and IsaDora can be found on the animal organization's cruelty- free lists. My bottle of OPI is also cruelty- free, because it was bought before OPI was removed from the cruelty- free lists. OPI is bought by a company that do test on animals, but I have not found OPI on the animal organizations' lists of brands that should be avoided yet. I have not seen mi-ny on any lists yet. My source is their answer when I asked them on facebook :-)

How to follow me (after Google Reader is gone):

If you read my blog trough Google Reader, I recommend you to start following "Nailphotos by Lani" on Bloglovin', because Google Reader will be taken off this summer. You can also find my future blog posts on facebook, G+, and Twitter. It's also possible to follow "Nailphotos by Lani" by email.

Don't forget to take a look at the other TPC Day 9/ May #1 nails below!


Lani

Back to Nature- Polish Days February

Hello everyone!

Back to Nature- Polish Days February

The tree is inspired by Robin Moses. I learned how to paint a tree in the snow from her Christmas tree nail art tutorial. Only  it's not Christmas. We are just out for a walk by the the forest. It's a regular winter day, a long long time ago. The sun is going down, making a beautiful yellow sunset sky, and the horse is eager to get home... This is what I try to fit into these nails, after being given this months Polish Days theme; "Back to Nature"

Back to Nature- Polish Days February

If you want information about Polish Days and how to join in, just click on the Polish Days badge :-)



These nails are made by a mix of different techniques; some freehand painting (tree, snow, hare, fox), some stamping (horse), and some sponging (sunset). I used a base of nail polish, and painted with acrylic paint. I was not sure if I should paint the fox, or something else, or just change the snow on my pinky. I included two photos from before the fox was painted too. So now you can see what you like best. What would you have done with the pinky?

Back to Nature- Polish Days February

Back to Nature- Polish Days February

List of what I used:

Nail polish:
Gina Tricot: #Aspen Gold (yellow)
Gosh: #001 Lavender Love (blue)
Gosh: #598 Bubble Gum (pink)
OPI: My Boyfriend Scales Walls (white)
Konad:  Special Polish Black (black for stamping)

Acrylic paint:
white, black, sap green, emerald green, burnt sienna

Sponge
Tiny round brush
Dotting tool
Palette
Acetone and Q- tips to clean the stamping equipment

Stamper and scraper from KKCenteHK (mine is plastic)
Stamping plate: N.NAIL stamping plate SPPMB114 from KKCenterHk. But the stamping plate is labelled B114.

If you want to buy something from KKCenterHk, you will get 10% off with the coupon code Nailphotos by Lani.

Back to Nature- Polish Days February

After watching Les Miserable, a commercial with a winter setting, and very beautiful sunsets lately, it wasn't difficult to get inspired. I must say I admire people like Bear Grylls and the couple from Man Woman Wild, who travel to different parts of the world and manage to survive alone out in the nature. Although they have tried to teach us all of their tricks, the most important thing I realised/ learned is that I will probably not manage to survive without modern equipment and a house. Even they had to give up, and call their team of helpers a few times... So I have become much more careful, so that I don't get lost or something.

Back to Nature- Polish Days February

Back to Nature- Polish Days February

Now I'm very curious about all the other participants nails! You can find their thumbnails with links to their posts below!

Lani

Sat- ART- Day Club: Magnetic color blocking

Hello everyone, and happy 12.12.12!!! :-)

Magnetic color blocking, Sat- ART- Day Club

I like that I get to try new techniques in the Sat- ART- Day Club. I do have a "to do list", but this challenge helps me to get started. For Saturday we were making a colour blocking mani. I'm going to use magnetic nail polishes to add a little pattern, and because i want to use an untried magnet and two untried magnetic nail polishes.
This mani is inspired by this post by Esmaltes da Kelly who was the first I saw to use several magnetic nail polishes on the same nail with one pattern. My mani started out as a color blocking mani, but evolved into something that I'm not sure if can be classified as color blocking any more. Anyway, here's what I made on Saturday:

Sat- ART- Day Club: Vampires- inspired by Fleury Rose

Hello everyone!

Vampires- inspired by Fleury Rose

It's Saturday again (and let's pretend it still is...), and today's Sat- ART- Day Club theme is "Vampires", as you hopefully can see. And if you have a feeling that you have seen this before, it's probably because you have. I have tried to remake Fleury Rose's Vampire Kiss nails. I used her Vampires Kiss tutorial that I found on the blog Fear no Beauty.

Nails and Stuff's Summer Nail Art Contest: Flowers

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This is what I made for the Summer Nail Art Contest, hosted by Shannara from Nails and Stuff. The deadline was August 21th, and the time for voting ends by midnight CET tomorrow (Friday 24th).

Thank you for hosting this contest Shannara!

Summer Nail Art Contest: Flowers

To see all the entries, and vote for the one you like best, click here. There are some very beautiful entries.

#2 Finger Painted Contest- Dromedary Caravan

Hello everyone!

This is part 2 of my Finger Painted Contest series. We are now moving from the South Pole (entry #1) to Africa.  Now we have reached the Sahara desert, as you hopefully can see from the photos. Here is my entry #2:

Entry # 2 from Lani

#1 Finger Painted Contest- Emperor Penguins

Hello everyone!

Finger Painted is celebrating 400 followers with a nail art contest and a giveaway. What's very special about this contest is that we can enter as many times as we like! So this is my entry #1.

The theme is anything safari/ jungle/ animal inspired. I really liked the theme, and it has made me think and think. I've had very many ideas, but it was more difficult to paint on my nails than I had expected. So my first entry is one I made in April for Penguin Day:

Entry #1 from Lani

Entry #1 from Lani

These are emperor penguins. The ones with yellow on their necks are grown ups, the one swimming is a juvenile, and the grey ones are chicks.

In this competition we are asked to tell about our inspiration.

My inspiration: I have seen the movie "March of the Penguins", some YouTube videos like the one about Lola who lived in Japan, and the story about Happy Feet who was saved from a beach in New Zealand. To draw these penguins I looked at some photos.

Edited August 2019:

"For the middle finger I was also inspired by a painting. If I ever find it, I will update this post.

I think the first time I saw a penguin manicure was in the Let it Snow! 2011 Winter Collab. Robin Moses (Robin Moses Nail Art on YouTube) and Beth (ProfessionalDQ on YouTube) came up with the idea for the collab. I want to say "Thank you!!!" to Robin Moses and Beth! I also want to thank Collette (My Simple Little Pleasures  on YouTube) for spreading the playlist! If it wasn't for the 3 of you I probably wouldn't have thought of painting penguins on my nails.

So I want to say "Thank you!" to everyone who had something to do with what I mentioned above!!!" :-)


Thank you Lexi for having this contest/ giveaway! Congratulations on getting 400 followers!


Lani