Day 319) Essence trend edition Beauty Beats

Essence came out with another trend edition called Beauty Beats (Girls on tour with Justin Bieber).
As an official make-up partner they present this edition inspired on Justin Bieber's world tour "Believe".
Partnering with whomever, doesn't mean you can't buy/like it!
So, this edition is for all the beauties and J.B. fans.

This edition comes with 4 polishes:

From left to right:

- As long as you love me 03

- Groupie at heart 04

- I'm backstage 02

-  Baby, baby, ooh! 01

 

These polishes all contain a very subtile shimmer (which doesn't show good on the pictures) and even in real life you'll have to look up close.

Colorwise (but this could be due to the overload on the recent fall colors) I really love the middle ones.

For the nail art I decided to stay with the theme: Justin Bieber's world tour 2013 "Believe"

but to create also something that everyone can like (even if you're not a Belieber).

 

Day 148) Summer nails (watercolor technique)

Yes, we finally had two days of summer weather and now we're back at rain again.
But for today it felt like summer.
So, here is an idea for summer nails.

Step-by-step:

Step 1:
After the basecoat apply a light colour. I used a light yellow one because of its coverage (only 1 coat!)

Catrice Soft Nail Lacquer Limited Edition Candy Shock - C04 Vanilla Love

For the next steps...first a pic of the material used:

• Tape
• Konad stamping promotion kit
• Grip seal bag/ zipper bag
• Scissors
• Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer - 02 Pimp My Shrimp
• Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer - 27 The Pinky And The Brain

Step 2:

While your base colour is drying, use the tape for covering cuticles and fingers.

Step 3:

Take the scissors and cut the grip seal bag into pieces (bigger than nailsize)

Step 4:

Apply some drops of nail polish (mentioned at material) on to the nail

Step 5:

Take a piece of plastic (from your grip seal bag) and gently place it on your nail. Give it a little push without moving it around. Then remove it again by carefully lifting it up from the nail.

 Step 6:
Remove the tape from your fingers and clean up any mess.

Step 7:
To add some extra 'summer' detail I used the Konad stamping kit for stamping the two butterflies on to the nails.

Bright and lovely, what do you think?