Liquid stone

It has been over a month since I did this one, but it is one of my favorites.

After many trials, I managed to do the liquid stone nailart. And I did try quiet a few different gel paints and curing times and various foils..

For this design, I made a french manicure with blue polish and a little bit of glitter. For the thumbnails I did a white shellac french, only because I had no time to wait for polish to dry completely..

Then I used a details brush and black paint gel from starnails.gr, a local supplier, and made a simple design. I cured for 2 minutes and applied a special gold foil. The foils that can be used for this type of nailart are super thin, and form little "breaks" easily. Most of the foils that I have from dollarnailart and other online suppliers don't work at all..

Then I used the same blue polish to fill the pattern, applied some mylars and filled with transparent IBD gel, so that the final result was a custom made jewel. I covered with a soak off top coat, so that I wouldn't ruin the foil look.

If you want to check the video on youtube, click here.

Easy delicate french with glitter and flowers

I had a request to show how I did this french manicure. The original was on my sister, Maria, with NSI gels.

This time I used polish and acrylic paint. First I covered all nails with a french pink polish, Korres "washed off pink". I had to do this, because on my right hand I have a gel overlay with a dark pink shade, so this made them both look the same. If I hadn't, I would use a normal french pink and continue with the french with Seventeen N.103 (white). Since my nailbed was too dark, I used Korres " Pink Shamagne" over the darker pink.

I applied some glitter diagonaly, and covered with topcoat. When it dried, I started painting the easiest flowers ever: daisies. Some dots and scrolls to fill the pattern and make it look more delicate, a rhinestone in the center and the final top coat.

These are the products I used:

 I have already uploaded the tutorial on youtube,
if you are interested, go check it out by clicking here.

My next tutorial is a Valentine's design, in the "no tools" category, and it will be uploaded on Tuesday.  

Valentine's collaboration with Kannucreative Sharma

I was very happy for this collaboration. Kanika is a beautiful sweet girl and a great person that I met recently on youtube. She loves nailart and makeup, and has a youtube channel with such videos.

She made a cute design with smiling hearts, full of color and joy:

And here is my version. I used a method I've recently seen on a video (I am sorry, but I don't remember where..) and applied white polish on a ziplock bag. When I applied a second coat, I spread some white glitter, and covered with white polish. I let it dry overnight, and the next day I had a big sticker of white glitter (approx. 4cm x 2,5cm). I peeled it from the plastic bag and cut heart shapes with scissors. I applied those with clear polish.

I have also tried to make water marble stickers with this method, but it wasn't a big success. I left the water marble dry on the cup, and then tried to pick it up and place it on the plastic bag, but I ended up with a mess. I will try again:)

On each hand, there are 2 fingers with one color (pointer and little one), and the other 3 with the other color. Switched colors for the other hand. I love glitter, and normally can never say it is too much, but for this design, I wish I had one of the two colors, red prefferably, in plain or metallic, so that the textures would contrast as well. The red glitter I used is by Cuccio N.6024

This was also the last design I did before cutting my nails back to square:)

 
Here is the link to my video, where you can also find links to Kanika's nailart and channel:

Classic french

A friend of mine works for a company with strict policies regarding nails and makeup. She wanted her nails to be a little bit longer though, so we used NSI Balance body builder gel in "Cover Pink- warm" to elongate her nails. Since she had 3 days off, I proposed a classic white french with polish, something that she could easily remove herself. This way they would all be happy:)
Here it is:

The same thing I did for another friend a few days back. I applied Indigo gel polish N.12, and polished with Vinilux Serene Green on top of it, because the dress she would be wearing that night was dark green. I have no pictures of that, sadly, but both colors were beautiful..

Rainbow leopard print

I needed some color, so I decided to give in to colorful, bright, summery animal print.

I used white polish as my base color, silver, glitter and 5 different polishes for each nail.
Especially on the thumb, I used a color changing polish by Ruby Wings, the "Wild Flower".

The tutorial was uploaded on youtube today : http://youtu.be/8vGmD31q0c8
Here are some pictures with different light, I hope you see the sparkles:)

  

White glam wedding nails

Who can say no to glitter? Certainly not me..  This is a combination of polish, glitter, stamoink and painting, tutorial on youtube: http://youtu.be/7vYpTgTU3iU

Products used: