Day 180) Nail art holo rose see through

After a very nice flight we've landed safely at Lisbon Airport.
We are staying at my parents place in Batalha.

We left The Netherlands with rain, wind and cold and now we are at a very sunny and hot Portugal.
Quite a change I think...but for the better of course ;D

At the last moment I changed my mind (about not taking any nail polish with me) and rapidly threw two holo's in my suitcase.

So, that's what you're getting today!

Step 1:
After the basecoat I applied a glitter holo (about 4 coats):
Kleancolor Nail Lacquer - 234 Chunky Holo Purple
Step 2:
Topcoat:
Essie - Good to go
Step 3:
With a striper brush and silver holo I made accents on the nails:
KOH Colours! - Platinum Silver! 133

On 4 nails I did a kind of diagonal French manicure with tiger stripes.
On the ring finger I did an accent nail with a rose see through.

That's it for today. Hopefully I can get some nail polish tomorrow!

Day 178) Featuring rhinestones (1)

Today and tomorrow will be all about rhinestones.
Tomorrow will be the last day before we leave for our 3 week vacation and there is still a lot to do.
Rhinestones are easy and quick to use and therefore perfect for these two days.

And to be honest...they are so easily forgotten.
Ages ago I bought a big nail art wheel with about 2500 rhinestones in different shapes.
I maybe used 10 of them and then forgot all about it.

And I am not sure why...
Rhinestones can be so pretty and just give a nail art the elegant touch.

Before I show you my nail art, I have some swatches of China Glaze Holographic - 1171 Infra Red 81159 (which I used as my base color):

The next pictures were taken under a bright light

 

 

Although it's a pretty holo, I've seen better. Outside I had to twist my hand again and again to find the holo. But maybe direct sunlight will do a better job...

 

Now, for the nail art. I will not just apply some rhinestones, but try to do some elegant painting as well. I hope you like the ideas!

Thumb: Abstract with rectangular rhinestone in the middle

Index: Butterfly with rectangular, rain-drop and teardrop rhinestones

Middle: Frame with rectangular and square rhinestones

Ring: Snaky design with round rhinestone

Pinky: Leaf with a flower rhinestone

 

Day 163) Nail art outline

Nail arts with outlines are there quite some time now and maybe even on their retour again.
I'm not really into outlines, especially those with a black outline and inner nude colour. It looks like you have a very huge health problem I think :-/
I do like the more classy ones with matte and glossy, gold and silver or the more cartoon ones.
Today I've tried to make my own unique outline nails. I hope you like them!

I created a colorful outline using 6 colours of nail polish:

1. Bourjois 1 Seconde - 27 Green fizz
2. Essence Colour & Go - 133 Oh my glitter!
3. Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer - 02 Pimp My Shrimp
4. Etos quick dry nailpolish - lightblue
5. Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer - 27 The Pinky And The Brain
6. Essence Colour & Go - 137 Wanna be your sunshine

You don't have to worry about the inner side of your nail. This will be covered soon. Just make sure your outline is neat.

Then I painted the inner side of the nail with a black nail polish, following the shape of my nails (Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer - 39 Black To The Routes). In this step you'll create your outline.

You can keep the nail art like this, but I had two reasons not to:

1. I thought the black was too dark compared to the bright colours of the outline
2. I wanted to try my new nail polish on a black background (Kleancolor Nail Lacquer - 234 Chunky Holo Purple), which is a holographic glitter nail polish.

Too bad the holo effect isn't well shown on the picture. Hopefully I can make a better one using daylight because I really love this nail polish and the holo really is there!

Day 158) Holo with corner frame

Yeah!
I finally got my first holographic nail polish.
It's pretty hard to get in The Netherlands. Especially a good one.
I've been in love with holo's for a very long time now; I just love the effect it has!

First some swatches of my holographic nail polish:

KOH Colours! - Platinum Silver! 133

I think holo's are just like effect topcoats, which means that it is nail art by itself.
Therefore today's nail art is a modest one.
It's all about this great nail polish!