Showing posts with label Konad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Konad. Show all posts
Monday, February 15, 2010
NOTD: Pink Zebra
2:31 PM | Posted by
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Hey guys!
Hope you all had a great weekend, I've been sick with a fever again! I've been too tired to do my nails so I was rocking No Way Jose for a few days, but yesterday I wanted to do something for valentines. But after paiting the base colour I wasn't feeling the hearts and cute stuff at all so I went with a zebra print instead!
Hope you all had a great weekend, I've been sick with a fever again! I've been too tired to do my nails so I was rocking No Way Jose for a few days, but yesterday I wanted to do something for valentines. But after paiting the base colour I wasn't feeling the hearts and cute stuff at all so I went with a zebra print instead!
This is 2 coats of Essence Most Wanted with Konad m57 and Konad Princess polish in Black. Most Wanted is a bit darker in reality, but I just couldn't get a good shot of it. The formula is great, was almost opaque in one coat!
My 200 followers/valentines giveaway is now closed! And I hope to bring you the winner tomorrow! Good luck everyone!
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
NOTD: Viva la Diva Fall #4 + Konad
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Hi guys!
The Orly colours will have to wait until the weekend when I'll have more daylight hours to swatch on. Today I'm wearing a polish from the Viva la Diva collection I'm giving away here. Of course I had to pick the only colour not in the contest, but #5 is a very close relative to this one. I wanted to add some Konad and it took 5 (yes, five!) tries to get the little bow straight, don't know what was up with me when I was trying to do this. Didn't clean up the old stamps enough either so after adding topcoat I saw the whole nail had a thin coat of silver shimmer. It would look nice, if it was on all nails!
The Orly colours will have to wait until the weekend when I'll have more daylight hours to swatch on. Today I'm wearing a polish from the Viva la Diva collection I'm giving away here. Of course I had to pick the only colour not in the contest, but #5 is a very close relative to this one. I wanted to add some Konad and it took 5 (yes, five!) tries to get the little bow straight, don't know what was up with me when I was trying to do this. Didn't clean up the old stamps enough either so after adding topcoat I saw the whole nail had a thin coat of silver shimmer. It would look nice, if it was on all nails!
Viva la Diva Fall 2008 #4
Viva la Diva Fall 2008 #4 BottleI've said it before but it's worth saying again, I really like this collection! The colours are nice and dusty, wearable almost all year around and they are opaque in one to two coats, I did 2 coats for this manicure. This purple is super pretty, I would call it a dusty grape. It's slightly more dusty than it shows in the picture, looks closer to the bottle picture. I was pretty uninspired with the Konad, but I really wanted some decoration so I used China Glaze Sci-Fi and m56 on the ring fingers and finished off by placing a little rhinestone in the center of the bow. That's all I had today, have a nice thursday everyone!
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Nail Art: Birthday Manicure, Star Gradation
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Hi guys!
Hope you all had a great christmas! I'm still wearing my birthday manicure. There's been alot of glitter gradations on blogs lately, the ones that start by the cuticles. Think they're so pretty and got really inspired by those but decided to try something different. I did Konad stars instead of glitter, there are a few things I would have done different if I'd do it again, but I was still happy with how it turned out.
Hope you all had a great christmas! I'm still wearing my birthday manicure. There's been alot of glitter gradations on blogs lately, the ones that start by the cuticles. Think they're so pretty and got really inspired by those but decided to try something different. I did Konad stars instead of glitter, there are a few things I would have done different if I'd do it again, but I was still happy with how it turned out.
I used the "star cluster" pattern from the m3 plate, but did one star at a time to get bigger ones at the top and then smaller ones towards the tip.
Used Viva la Diva #74 as the base and China Glaze Sci-Fi for the stars. These Khrome polishes are great for Konad!I just broke a nail, like 2 minutes ago, trying to cut a tag off a pair of jeans I bought today. Completely missed it and cut into my thumb nail instead. It's not completely off so I'm not sure if I should try and fix it with a wrap or just file them all down. Love the lenght of my nails at the moment, they're my perfect comfort lenght but hate uneven nails and not a big fan of wraps. I'll have to think about it :(
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Nail Art: Snowy Snowy Night
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Today I'm going to a family dinner at my grandparents. My birthday is coming up and unfortunately they wont be in town for that so they wanted to invite everyone for dinner to pre-celebrate me a little. I wanted to pretty'fie my nails and decided to do some nail art on the gorgeous blue from yesterday.
I love doing split designs with konad, it adds some more dimension and you can add other bling like rhinestones and bullions!
L to R: China Glaze Devotion, L.A. Girl Rock Star Punk, Poshé Top Coat
Materials I used: Rhinestones, Konad m59 , Silver Bullions and a dotting toolFor this I started with taping the parts of my nail I wanted to keep plain blue, added some Konad snow flakes then filled in the empty areas with dots using a dotting tool. Took the tape off, added bullions and rhinestones. Top coat and it's done! Easy!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Nail Art: Christmasy!
2:40 PM | Posted by
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Hi everyone!
I decided to do some nailart on yesterdays NOTD, and what is better on red nails than gold for a Christmas feel?
For this I used China Glaze passion with Konad m73, a thin striper brush and a dotting tool.
I really suck at using the striper brush, it's like it's too stiff and dont want to follow the line I want.
Not sure if I need a new brush or just practice :)
I love using the Romantique polishes with konad, they're really opaque and give crisp lines. Excuse the tipwear, been wearing Short and Sassy for a bit now.
China Glaze Short & Sassy and China Glaze Passion. And a very wrinkled background, any ideas on how to iron/straighten polyester? It's like it has a thin plastic coating on it and I'm afraid it'll melt :(
Special Guest Paw: Siri!
Thanks for reading!
I decided to do some nailart on yesterdays NOTD, and what is better on red nails than gold for a Christmas feel?
For this I used China Glaze passion with Konad m73, a thin striper brush and a dotting tool.
I really suck at using the striper brush, it's like it's too stiff and dont want to follow the line I want.
Not sure if I need a new brush or just practice :)
I love using the Romantique polishes with konad, they're really opaque and give crisp lines. Excuse the tipwear, been wearing Short and Sassy for a bit now.
China Glaze Short & Sassy and China Glaze Passion. And a very wrinkled background, any ideas on how to iron/straighten polyester? It's like it has a thin plastic coating on it and I'm afraid it'll melt :(
Special Guest Paw: Siri!Thanks for reading!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Nail Art: Ghetto Fabulous!
5:55 PM | Posted by
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Here's some nail art from my archives. I made this for a contest but at the last minuted I decided to enter with another design.
It's very Ghetto Fab, nothing I would wear out but I had alot of fun making it and would like to show it to you guys.
The pictures are pretty bad, and so is my clean up job it looks like :P
Indoors with flash.
For this fun design I started with two coats of China Glaze GR8, a gold holo. Stamped on the leopard print pattern from Konad M57 using ColorClub Black. Then I took Orly Golden Maharaja and painted on the different "tips", also used China Glaze Poetic on the pinky. Finished the design by placing gold bullions and amber rhinestones along the line diving the colors.
Thanks for reading!
It's very Ghetto Fab, nothing I would wear out but I had alot of fun making it and would like to show it to you guys.
The pictures are pretty bad, and so is my clean up job it looks like :P
Indoors with flash.
For this fun design I started with two coats of China Glaze GR8, a gold holo. Stamped on the leopard print pattern from Konad M57 using ColorClub Black. Then I took Orly Golden Maharaja and painted on the different "tips", also used China Glaze Poetic on the pinky. Finished the design by placing gold bullions and amber rhinestones along the line diving the colors.Thanks for reading!
NOTD: Classic French
2:19 PM | Posted by
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Hi everyone!
The past few days I've sported a classic french. This was my favourite look a few years ago but have barely worn it since so I thought it'd be a nice change from all the colorful nails.
For this I used 2 coats of Essie Blanc (white creme) for the tips and one coat of Essie Mademoiselle (sheer pastel pink).
I freehanded the tips and cleaned up with a manicure brush where it was needed. Don't really like those tipguides you sometimes get in french manucure sets, think they're not curved enough for my small nails and the "smile-line" turns out almost straight. I've seen some girls who get fantastic results with them tho, wish I would too. Bet it'd be a time saver!
Ignore the dry cuticles, saw it after I had moved the pictures to the computer.
It was so unusual to see my nails almost nude so I had to add a konad flower!
Used M36 and M36-1 (M36 reversed) with China Glaze Devotion.
Materials I used L to R: Nail-Tek f.II, Seche Clear, Essie Blanc, Essie Mademoiselle, China Glaze Devotion, Posché Fast Drying Top Coat, Konad M36-1 and a manicure clean up brush, this one from Debra Lynn.
I used Seche Clear instead of Orly Bonder for this, hoping it would brighten my nails some.. it didn't =(
Anyone have any good tips on how to brighten your nails? Anyone tried Color Clubs Milky White basecoat?
Thanks for reading!
The past few days I've sported a classic french. This was my favourite look a few years ago but have barely worn it since so I thought it'd be a nice change from all the colorful nails.
For this I used 2 coats of Essie Blanc (white creme) for the tips and one coat of Essie Mademoiselle (sheer pastel pink).
I freehanded the tips and cleaned up with a manicure brush where it was needed. Don't really like those tipguides you sometimes get in french manucure sets, think they're not curved enough for my small nails and the "smile-line" turns out almost straight. I've seen some girls who get fantastic results with them tho, wish I would too. Bet it'd be a time saver!
Ignore the dry cuticles, saw it after I had moved the pictures to the computer.
It was so unusual to see my nails almost nude so I had to add a konad flower!
Used M36 and M36-1 (M36 reversed) with China Glaze Devotion.
Materials I used L to R: Nail-Tek f.II, Seche Clear, Essie Blanc, Essie Mademoiselle, China Glaze Devotion, Posché Fast Drying Top Coat, Konad M36-1 and a manicure clean up brush, this one from Debra Lynn.
I used Seche Clear instead of Orly Bonder for this, hoping it would brighten my nails some.. it didn't =(
Anyone have any good tips on how to brighten your nails? Anyone tried Color Clubs Milky White basecoat?
Thanks for reading!
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