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Art Deco Taped Nails
I used a lot of sticky stuff for this look! Ring reinforcements, french tip guides and striping tape! In hindsight I really should have completed one nail at a time, I ended up covered in bits of striping tape, I even found some in my hair!
The base colour is Strap On Your Moon Boots from China Glaze, and I used Black Magic from Revlon for the detail.
I used topcoat to stick on the studs! and another coat to finish it of, The color Club topcoat did dull the Holo effect of the polish a little, But other than that I really love how this turned out!
Art Deco Taped Nails
10 Comments | tags: Black, blue, China Glaze Strap On Your Moon Boots, Color Club Topcoat, Holographic, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Studs, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, Revlon Black Magic, Stripe, Striping Tape Nail Art | posted in Nail Art
I have wanted to do some sugar skull nails for ages! And I have finally got the chance to do them 😀
Sugar Skulls
I started with two coats of Poke from Illamasqua. Poke has to be one of my favorite purple varnishes! It’s so vibrant 😀 for the skulls I made decals using this technique here! I used Ivory Skull from Sally Hansen and Hot Like Lava from Color Club along with Konad special polish in black for the stamping!
I used plate BM-413 from the Bundle Monster CYO set. I found that the large skull image was fine for my thumb nail but it was a little bit wide for my ring finger. it took a bit of repositioning the decal before it looked right.
on my other fingers I used one coat of Black Magic from Revlon topped with Chit Chat Pink Glitter!
Sugar Skull nails
I am definitely going to be doing something like this around Halloween! 😀
12 Comments | tags: Black, Bundle Monster CYO, Chit Chat Pink Glitter, Color Club Hot Like Lava, Halloween, Illamasqua Poke, Konad special polish Black, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, purple, Sally Hansen Ivory Skull, Skull | posted in Nail Art, Nail Stamping
I have some subtle grey and silver nails today, they actually turned out to be a lot more subtle than I was expecting!
I started out with three coats of Pelican Grey from China Glaze, It’s a lovely pale grey with a slight silver shimmer, then I used Cosmic Dust which is also from China Glaze, to create the gradient and stamp the accent nail.
My camera was actually behaving today! so here is a bonus close up of the stamping 🙂
The plate I used is from Messy Mansion MM16 it is available here.
I finished it off with a coat of Seche Vite.
I’m so not used to not having bright colours and black on my nails that my hands don’t look like my own oO I’m not sure that I like it lol
7 Comments | tags: China Glaze Cosmic Dust, China Glaze Pelican Grey, grey, Holographic, Messy Mansion, Messy Mansion MM16, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, Seche Vite, silver, silver nails, silver shimmer | posted in Gradient, Nail Art, Nail Stamping
Here’s week three of the GOT polish Challenge! Today the theme is Blue!
I have a lot of blue polishes so today I’m going to show you my favorite blue polish ever! This shade is called Bleu Cosmos from Bourjois and it was sadly discontinued a long time ago!
Bourjois Bleu Cosmos
It’s a lovely dark rich blue, almost black, jelly with huge amounts of blue, silver, purple and green iridescent glitter.
Bleu Cosmos Bottle
When was the last time you saw one of these bottles in a shop? Lol
This is three this coats over base coat, as I remember this polish tends to stain a bit. Even with no topcoat it’s still really glossy.
Unfortunately It had gone all thick and gooey so I had to thin it a bit before using it. but I have to say with how old it is, and how much I used it in the past, I’m surprised it wasn’t solid! 🙂
Look at the sparkles!
It’s so sparkly! I don’t think I’m ever going to find another bottle of this polish 
but I will keep looking! 😀
Have a look at the Pinterest Board with more amazing GOT Polish nails! 🙂
6 Comments | tags: Black, blue, Bourjois Bleu Cosmos, Glitter, GOT Polish Challenge, iridescent, Jelly, Nail polish, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, swatches | posted in Challenges, Swatches
I’m not really going to do science, just some science inspired nails 😀
The plate I used today is from Messy Mansion, its plate MM25 and you can find it right here. 😀
Science Nails!
I started by painting my thumb and ring finger with two coats of Revlon Black Magic
On my other fingers I added a coat of French White from Nina Pro with two coats of Barry M Acid Yellow over the top, I used the coat of white polish to make the yellow really glow!
When that was all dry I topped it off with a coat of Barielle Shades Stardust for some sparkles and then and then a thin layer of topcoat.
Science!
For the stamping I used Barielle Shades night moves for the silver and Konad Special Stamping Polish in Black for the images over the yellow.
Then a coat of color club topcoat to seal in the design, there was a tiny bit of streaking form the konad polish
I didn’t really like this when I had finished it I think it was because of the colour and that I ended up using a lot of polish it felt very thick
But now that I’m looking at the photographs I really like it! 🙂
11 Comments | tags: Barielle Shades Night Moves, Barielle Shades Stardust, Barry M Acid Yellow, Black, Glitter, iridescent, Messy Mansion, Messy Mansion MM25, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, Neon, Nina Ultra Pro French White, Revlon Black Magic, silver, Yellow | posted in Nail Art, Nail Stamping
Something rather strange happened today… I was planning on creating a stamped gradient but I did the sponging and my nails where so pretty that I just couldn’t bring myself to stamp over them! oO
Blue Black Gradient
I started with two coats of Black Magic from Revlon, and made the gradient with Sally Hansen Diamond Strength in Pure Midnight and Cold Metal from Color Club.
It’s so shimmery and sparkly! 😀
Blue Black Gradient
I think this is a case of less is more!
5 Comments | tags: Black, blue, Blue Black Gradient, color club, Color Club Cold Metal, Foil Polish, gradient, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, Revlon, Revlon Black Magic, Sally Hansen, Sally Hansen Pure Midnight, Seche Vite | posted in Gradient, Nail Art
The Adorned Claw 