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Showing posts with label red nail. Show all posts

4 July 2013

4th Of July Manicure

I deserve some credit for my dedication. 
I made this manicure 2 months ago cause I was afraid I would miss it. I was just not having it. 

This manicure had to be made. 

I used two coats of H&M - Red Nail, for the french, then made a ribbon using ESSIE - Bobbing for Baubles, and finished it all off with a white nail sticker I got from Ebay.

Happy 4th of July!



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17 May 2013

Norways National Day - Flag Nails

I needed something special for the National Day, and I wanted it to look different than the one I did for the French National Day. Which also happen to be in red, white and blue. 
On the French National Day, I painted "Le Bastille" over the colors, see post here. So, I though, why not just flag nails ?

And so she did.


I went over with the blue striper twice to build some colour. 


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6 March 2013

Violet Beauregarde - inspired manicure

Violet Beauregarde, also known as the "blueberry girl" in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.
I decided to go for the Original movies when doing this manicure. After all. It's the first. Pictures at the bottom of this post.

This movie is from the inflation scene. 


I had been asked to do a tutorial on this nail art, so here it is:



Hope you liked it :)

Pictures:

An idea takes shape.

First step.

Direct Sunlight.

Indoors.

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1 March 2013

May the fork, be with you.

TGIF!

This week has been oh so stressful. It's just been one of "those" weeks, where everything seems wrong and hard. Today has been a lot better, and I was very excited cause its Friday, and that means Cheeky Girl Challenge with Mishka from Lacquer or Leave Her!

Today we are stamping using Cheeky plate CH42 with the cutlery image. Fork, spoons and knifes, the chicken always cluck twice...
(erhhm) maybe not. Trying to be funny there.

Lets get over to some nail art shall we, and ignore my attempt to be funny. Cause it wasn't really.

I used two coats of Kicks - Metro Grey, and stamped using H&M - Red Nail.





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18 January 2013

K is for Kit Kat

I am so trilled over how this manicure turned out. It will be sad to have to remove it.
I haven't done much freehand manicures since I started with this, but lately I have been drawn to my brushes and pencils, and nail art pens and stripers.

First I painted my nails two coats of Snow Me White - Sinful Color.
Then I went in with a medium pencil and Red Nail - H&M, and did a reverse writing. That means that I only left the gaps that would make the word, and not actually writing anything, just fill out the space around the word. I build it up slowly letter for letter. Tried to get them somewhat alike, and straight.
I allowed it to try for a while, and then when in again with Snow Me White - Sinful Color to correct any mistakes done with the letters. It's not perfect, but I did my best.

After being bent over my left hand for a good 2 hours, I decided to keep my right hand white with random lines of red on them. They remind me of candy, or a simple watermarble. It got some charm.



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28 August 2012

Summer Challenge - Fruit Salad

So this was also one of the Challenges I just didnt have time for, when it arrived.
But here it is.

I used a ton (!) of polish for this.

ESSIE - Licorice  (dots on strawberry)
FNUG - Clogs (dotted grapes)
FNUG - Bandana (dotted blueberry)
L´oreal - Green Couture (leaves on strawberry, top on banana and random "grass")
H&M - Red Nail ( Strawberry)
H&M - Yellow (banana)
Rimmel - Chic Cherry ( grapes)
L.A. Colors - Current (base color)

You might not see what I had in my mind making this, but even thou, its really pretty.
So lets just enjoy the view.





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14 July 2012

Summer Challenge - Bastille Day

Bonne fête nationale!

When I heard we where doing a Bastille Day - mani for the Summer Challenge, I knew I had to, somehow, incorporate something french, and not just the flag, like I did for the 4th of July - mani. I don't have "french" stamps either, so it had to be free-hand.

Lets take a look.


I started out painting my nails in Blue, White, and Red, like the French Flag.  I was really hoping that LA Color, would be the right shade of blue, but by the look of it, it`s a miss.

Then I took out my new stripers, and went from simple nail art, to crazy. Even my bf approved of it, to be some of my best work.


Taken in the sunset. Ye,bright.


Its Bastille! Formally know and Bastille Saint-Antoine.
For Bastille Day, I have painted a "bastille" (fortress), named Bastille Saint-Antoine.


HaHa
I`m so funny...


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3 July 2012

Summer Challenge Independence Day

I happend to have the right  Konad - stamp for this themed mani. The M14.
I wanted to do it cool, but still not having to redo all the nails. So this is my first "recycling mani", I kept the 3 black nails from last night, and painted the two others in white.

So for this mani, I used ESSIE - Licorice, Sinful Color - Snow Me White. I stamped using two images from the M14 konad plate, using H&M - Red Nail, ESSIE - Little Brown Dress ( U.S.A ), and IsaDora - 626 Blue Sky. I could of used a darker blue, but I didn't have a blue that matched.

So I'm still trying to get used to the new camera that I`m borrowing. I swapped the lens, and I am now using a Canon lens, instead of the Sigma lens, that we use when we take pictures of houses. ¨

Don`t mind the paper-cut on my finger, there...

So lets see what we got.



Check out the other girls nail art for today.

Debbie @ The Crumpet - http://thecrumpet.blogspot.co.uk/
Alyssa at Fancy Phalanges - http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com/
Lucie @ Lucy's Stash http://www.lucysstash.com/
Vic @ Glowstars http://glowstars.net/ 
Rychelle @ Colorsplash Nails- http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com/
Missy the Manicured Maniac @ http://melissahenderson95.blogspot.com/
Nayade @ Toxic Vanity http://www.toxicvanity.com/ 
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2 July 2012

Olympics themed mani

Imperfectly Painted asked on FB and her blog today, for  Olympics themed manis.
I love an excuse for a themed mani. And as I saw the blog-post, I knew right away what I wanted to do.

I grabbed my Depend 246, H&M Yellow, ESSIE Licorice, L`oreal Green Couture, and Red Nail H&M.

May I just say, that I HATE the brush that comes with ESSIE Licorice. Its so thin, it could be mistaken for a striper, but to thick to be one. Blargh.

Back to topic
Olympics nail art




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15 June 2012

Summer Challenge - Ladybirds


As todays challenge, we where going to make Ladybird / Ladybug. So here is my take on the challenge.

For this mani I used NYX Matte - Red, Wet n Wild - Creme Black and Depend - French White ( for the eyes). I finished this mani pretty late so I missed the sun, will see if I can get a better picture with some sunlight tomorrow morning.







Check out the others that participate in the Summer challenge.

Debbie @ The Crumpet - http://thecrumpet.blogspot.co.uk/
Alyssa at Fancy Phalanges - http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com/ 
Lucie @ Lucy's Stash www.lucysstash.com
Vic @ Glowstars http://glowstars.net
Rychelle @ Colorsplash Nails- http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com/ 
Missy the Manicured Maniac @ http://melissahenderson95.blogspot.com/
Nayade @ Toxic Vanity http://www.toxicvanity.com 
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7 June 2012

Baby Pink - Matte NYX


Using Red - H&M and  Matte Polish Baby Pink - NYX, and golden beads.
Three coats of NYX was needed, even thou its called Matte, it dried with shine.
Looks great with a Matte Topcoat, but didnt use that here.
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