Blue nails with hearts accent

I'm having such an off-day.

I think I did about 15 designs today but it just didn't work for me.

I had no inspiration...and was even a bit done with the blues.

 

But whilst I was making dinner I suddenly remembered this picture I saved with hearts and I just went for it.

 

 

Polishes used:

- Maybelline Color Show Brocades 222 Beaming Blue (nails and 4th heart at the bottom)

- H&M Nail Polish Blue (accent background)

- L'Oréal Color Riche 624 Island in the sun (1st heart from the top)

- Big City Nails Are you feeling blue? (2nd heart)

- Big City Nails The sky is the limit (3rd heart)

- Maybelline Color Show 661 Ocean blue (outline hearts)

 

 

 

 

Essence Trend Edition Love Letters

Essence says:
"Let's get romantic with the trend edition Love Letters. We're heading towards Valentine's Day and it's all about traditional love letters. These gorgeous products have such a cute love of detail, you're sure to find the right words for beautiful compliments."

This trend edition brings 5 longlasting nail polish colors and a stampy set.

I didn't get the stampy set but I do have the 5 polishes for you.
Here are the swatches:

Essence Love Letters 01 Rosy in love

 

Essence Love Letters 02 I got a crush on blue!

 

 

Essnece Love Letters 03 Grey-headed lovebird

 

 

Essence Love Letters 04 Dear peach!

 

 

Essence Love Letters 05 Inkheart

 

 

All the polishes appear to be very fluid but it tends to get tacky in a short period of time.

Therefore I recommend to apply two thin coats for all the polishes and also wait with the next coat until the first one is completely dry.

I haven't tried it yet but I think these polishes (all of them) could be great for stamping and sugarspun nails.

The colors are very beautiful and have a shiny finish (the stampy one a little less shiny).

They remind me of Vintage colors and ballet.

 

 

Of course I also made a nail art with this trend edition. I did add one other Essence color.

Essence Trend Edition Beaty Beats 04 Groupie at heart

 

 

Index: Hand painted Vintage roses

Middle: Hand painted Love Letters design

Ring: Sponged background+stamping

Pinky: Hand painted hearts

 



Swatches Rimmel Sweetie Crush

Rimmel London just released a new limited edition called "Sweetie Crush".

This collection holds 5 sugary textured polishes in sweet candy colors.

Perfect for Spring, Easter and of course Valentine.

Source: veracamilla.nl

From left to right:

008 Sherbet Sweetheart

009 Candyfloss Cutie

010 Frizzy Applelicious

011 Violet Swizzle

012 Blueberry Whizz

Now, I've been in a lot of stores but could only find 3 of 5 colors.

Some didn't have this edition at all, others just two colors.

I like to make this collection complete especially after my experiences.

Perhaps with the next arrivals?

As soon as I have the other two colors (blue and purple) I will update this post.

 

Here are the swatches of the 3 colors that I did get (all are two coats):

 

008 Sherbet Sweetheart

 

 

009 Candyfloss Cutie

 

010 Frizzy Applelicious

 

 

And of course I made a very sweet nail art for you :D

 

Update

Here are the swatches of the last two colors...I finally could get my hands on them ;D

 

011 Violet Swizzle

 

 

012 Blueberry Whizz

 

 

I am very happy with the Sweetie Crush line by Rimmel London.

Colors are gorgeous. Beautiful sand texture. Two coaters.

Well done!

 

Valentine nail art

Hi lovelies,

I'm trying to find a new balance between getting my driving license, having fun with the kids, spending time with my hubby and doing nails.
It's very hard for me because nails are in my blood right now and it feels I have to choose between many things I love.
I came with a (not yet) satisfying solution: I will be doing nails in the weekend...my hubby likes to sleep in...my kids love that they are free from school and have lots to play with...so nobody really misses me at that time ;D

Meanwhile when I find some extra time I'll be swatching, nail arting and reviewing for you.

Let's start with a swatch of a beautiful Spring color from BeYu.
I totally fell in love with this at the store.
BeYu Long-lasting Nail Lacquer 568

 



Too bad my camera couldn't catch all the beauty of this polish.
On the swatch it just looks like a beautiful shimmery/pearly pink but in real life the polish has a very iridescent effect.
Like oil effect but then with pink and teal like colors. So so pretty!
I've used 3 coats not really because it needed to but I don't like the tip to see through and two coats was just too sheer for me.
One coat would be pretty for the nude look; subtle pink, subtle shimmer.

I also took a picture of the bottle because you can see a little of the effect in the middle on the image.

 

For the nail art I used this image as my inspiration:

And this was the outcome:

 

I'm in desperate need of new nail art brushes.

If you know any good brand and/or webshop where I can get them, please let me know!

I'm looking for a very thin detail brush and am not able to buy from Amazon, eBay or any other which recommends creditcard or PayPal.

 

Pretty Polish gift

With the #sharethelovefest I thought it was a nice thing to do to share also links of my favorite nail related websites and webshops.

Many of my more expensive lacquers come from Pretty Polish.
Beautiful products, good service and fast delivery.

So. I shared her link and asked her if she could share mine back.
She answered me with the words: I can't share links because I'm a webshop and want to keep the page focused on that.
Totally understood this and this would have been fine.
But instead of leaving it like that this totally awesome person decided that she wanted to do something back and send me some products for my blog.
Well...some products turned out to be this:

 

* China Glaze nail art set "It's in the stars" with:

  - 2x China Glaze 544 Liquid Leather (normally it's 1x Liquid Leather and 1x Fairy Dust but I am actually more happy with the black as I use black a lot for my nail arts and never seem to have enough of it)

  - China Glaze 553 Sexy In The City

  - China Glaze 175 Reggae To Riches

  - 10x Sponges

 

 

* Seche Vite 25035 Collage Overlay (I think as compensation for the Fairy Dust)

 

Too much of course but I'm very happy with it! ♥

 

I decided to make Galaxy nails with this set...mostly following the step by step on the package.

I have some other ideas for this set but that will have to wait for another time.

I started with applying the Liquid Leather.

From all the blacks I've tried so far this is the best. I used two thin coats but it could easy be a one coater.

Here are two swatches (first in artificial light, second in natural light):

 



 

 

According to the step by step you now put two blobs of polish (Sexy In The City and Reggae To Riches) on to a flat surface and take the sponge and sponge the colors on.

First Sexy In The City, second Reggae To Riches.

I didn't change the order but I do think it's a waste of polish to put a blob somewhere.

I simply use the nail polish brush to slightly brush on the sponge (see image).

 



 

Sponge carefully on the nail. Make it as crazy as you want...circle shaped, area's of sponging, stripe shaped. Just play a bit around. You can always sponge some black back on the nail.

If you wait a bit and then sponge again the color will be brighter.

 

 

And the same goes for Reggae To Riches

 

 

 

I don't own China Glaze Fairy Dust but I have a very good dupe which I decided not to use ;P

and one which is even prettier:

Morgan Taylor 50069 Fame Game:

 

 

This holographic glitter is somewhat more opaque. Therefore I sponged this polish as well instead of applying it as you would have done with the Fairy Dust.

 

 

As finishing touch I applied one coat of Seche Vite Collage Overlay.

Collage Overlay is a clear base filled with large white hex glitters, big prismatic hex glitters and prismatic bar glitters. Fishing for the hexes is needed.

After Seche Vite I also did the clean up.

 

 

Do you like my galaxy nails?

I'm still loving the look!

 

Of course I also wanted to share something new with you guys...

There are so many love quotes with stars that the galaxy nails are just perfect for nailing a Valentine nail art.

"Trying to explain how much I love you, is like trying to count the stars. You can try...but it's impossible."

"If you be my star, I'll be your sky."

"I love you more than all the stars."

"Yes, love can reach to the stars."

"When I look at the stars I think of you."

"Our love...It's written in the stars."

And so on...

 

 

It's in the stars: "I love you!"

 

Thank you very much!

Pretty Polish

 

Valentine Nails "Follow your heart!"

Okay...up front...this is not my best work.

My arm is okay though. I'm not in any pain anymore and I was able to make a nail art :D
But I am feeling terribly sad about my short nails...if I could only speed up the growth ;D

These Valentine nails are easy to do...especially when you leave the words out.

I started with a white base. Then made a trail of black dots ending with a bright neon pink heart on the pinky. Along the trail I decided to paint the words "Follow your heart" but I think it's not necessary to do this.

Day 334) Nail art winter love

Yes, another winter nail art.

This time about winter love.

I was inspired by this image:

 

 



 

Day 250) Nail art blowing heart bubbles

As inspiration for today's nail art I've used this image

Changed it a little trying to make it more sweet.

 

Day 229) Tutorial video fan brush design and stitched looking nails

Sorry for the late update!
After my INAD nails I've been asked to write a guest post for Salon Fanatic
Super of course but it had to include a tutorial for the stitching part.
Now, up front, after my slideshow and a bad video tutorial about the Essence magnet pen I consider this as my first serious YouTube tutorial...
Still not quite there because I had to film with my smartphone and without a tripod so you can imagine this isn't easy.
Also editing and things like that aren't really my thing yet.

But I hope you like it!

And here is today's nail art:

 

Day 217) Nail art love birds

Starting with another swatch again:

 

Claire's - Product code 55164 Pink Glitter 

 

 

 

This sweet polish needs a sweet nail art right?!

 

I found this image of sweet little love birds which was just perfect for today's nail art.