Day 364) Funny 2014 nails

When I came across this image:

 

I think it's needless to say that I wanted to recreate this to a nail art.

 

 

 



Day 362) Fireworks nail art

Not so unique but it is beautiful and quite easy to achieve.

Use a dark background (black, dark blue, matte, glossy, sand, glitter)
Use bright colors to paint the fireworks.
The fireworks look can be achieved with dots and lines placed in a circle, umbrella shape, opening flower shape or like rain.
It doesn't really matter what you do. This time a year using a dark background+bright colors makes everyone think about fireworks immediately. So, just have fun with it!

Here are some swatches of my background color.
Rimmel London Space dust 005 Total Eclipse

"Total Eclipse" is a black based polish with teal glitters that light up in artificial light (pictures above).
It dries quick and like a textured polish. Two coats is enough for good coverage.
In natural light the polish looks like this:

 

To make the bright colors of fireworks pop extra I've used a white polish first.

Here is my nail art without and with topcoat. In the picture without looks better I think but in real life the topcoat made the colors more bright and therefore prettier.

 



Day 361) New Year nails champagne

New Year has to start with a popping bottle of champagne!
I'm not really a fan of expensive champagne but I do love sparkling wine (the cheaper version) and some have a cork so we can still pop it ;D

Here are my champagne nails.
All free handed except for the ring finger nail; this is a water decal.

Day 360) 2014 Fireworks rockets

I'm planning to do a fireworks nail art later.
So fo today I chose to do a more abstract versio of rockets (fireworks).

I started with a nail art brush and white polish to make the outlines of the arrows.
This doesn't need to be perfect yet. But this way you can make sure the arrows run nice over all the nails.
Then I colored the arrows in with the same white.
After this I took a black polish to paint the rest of the nail.
Black goes easy over white so the black is used to make the arrows perfect.
Last I gave the arrows some different colors.
The white background makes them pop even more and if there is still some white on the outsides it gives the arrows a NEON lights effect.

Polishes used:
- Only You White French
- Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer 39 Black To The Routes
- Bourjois 06 Adora-bleu
- Casuelle Neon nailpolish yellow
- Casuelle Neon nailpolish pink
- Bourjois 27 Green fizz

Day 311) OPI Mariah Carey Holiday 2013 Collection (mini pack liquid sand)

OPI recently came out with their new Holiday/Christmas limited edition.
Again, they joined forces with Mariah Carey and to be honest when I think of Christmas I have good memories of spending time in the bar with my friends and singing along with Mariah's 'All I want for Christmas'.

The collection is quite big for a limited one and consists of
- 12 full sized bottles

 

 



- A special PURE topcoat
A luxurious clear topcoat with flakes of genuine 18K white gold and silver

- And 3 mini packs

4 mini nail lacquers of the regular full sized bottles











3 mini liquid sands which are exclusive for this mini pack

 



 

3 mini liquid sands which are exclusive for this mini pack.

I've used the last mini pack for today's nail art.
If you have any requests for swatching one or more of these, please let me know!

The mini pack contains 3 mini liquid sands:
- Emotions; a black liquid sand with small round black glitters
- It's frosty outside; a silver liquid sand with small round silver glitter
- Kiss me at midnight; a blue liquid sand with small round silver glitter
Two coats gives an opaque outcome.

For the nail art I also used another OPI mini liquid sand; OPI Couture de Minnie Magazine Cover Mouse.

As inspiration for today's nail art I used the names of the lacquers.
On the nails you'll see a night sky with blue full moon (midnight) and silver dots representing snow (frosty). On the pinky I used several colors to make some fireworks for New Years Eve (midnight). In front of the blue full moon I painted a silhouette with santa hat which is blowing frosty air filled with hearts/love and a kiss (emotions and kiss at midnight)