Polish friend mail (swatches and nail arts)

Before Easter the kids and I weren't feeling so well.

My dear friend +bubica vucko decided I needed some cheering up and sent me some goodies.

They finally arrived on Saturday but they completely made my day as it was a quite cold one. 

I used the weekend to make some swatches and nail arts with these pretties.

 

Look how she packed the goodies!

She knows I'm a sucker for chocolate and this of course brought a huge smile on my face...almost tearing up I tell you.

Even my hubby thought this was very clever :D

 

This was revealed when opening the package.

+bubica vucko so clever!

4 Beautiful polishes and a very sweet card. Thank you so much dear friend ♥♥♥

 

Here are the 4 friend nail mail polishes:

- Miss Selene 147

- Classics 140

- Golden Rose Rich Color 48

- Classics Metallic 03

Swatches

This is 3 coats.

Number 147 is a very sheer pearly pink.

Feminine and great for sandwich nail art.

 

This is 2 coats.

Number 140 is a gorgeous blue shimmer polish.

I'm very much in love with this color!

 

This is two coats.

I'm not a fan of yellow polishes they just don't match with my skin tone.

Number 48 however isn't a plain dark yellow but has a very pretty golden glow to it...

making it very rich indeed.

 

This is 2 coats.

Number 03 is a very pretty duo chrome.

Bronze shifting to green.

 

I'm very happy with these +bubica vucko and I can't thank you enough for sending me these ♥

Nail arts

And of course I also made some nail arts with these beauties.

 

Marble nail art .

I used a sponge to create the marble effect.

Only You White French and Miss Selene 147

 

Nail art turtle.

This a free hand design using acrylics.

Classics 140

 

Sunflower nail art.

Free hand design using acrylics.

Maybelline 720 Green miracle topped with Catrice Limited Edition Million Brilliance (Luxury Lacquers) C03 Glitterama, Golden Rose Rich Color 48 and China Glaze Matte Magic

Isn't this golden yellow perfect for this nail art?!

 

Nail art tree.

This is a free hand design using acrylics.

Classics Metallic 03, China Glaze Matte Magic and Color Club 922 Nouveau Vintage

 

This is a heavy post but thanks again to +bubica vucko and if you have some free time.

Please take a look at her blog as well.

THANK YOU!

 

 

Day 270) Marbled fall nails

There are a lot of techniques which can be used to get that marbled look (saran wrap, dry marbling, sponging).
Today I used the sponging technique.
I simply applied 3 blobs of polish on the nail sized sponge (a reddish orange, yellow and green) and sponged it on the nails.
I pushed the sponge several times on the nail, while turning and placing the sponge in different ways.
I had to do this twice to get full opacity.

After applying topcoat and some drying time.
I decided to make a leaf accent nail.
Started with free handing the leaf outline but totaly messed up (pssst I'm not telling).
Then I decided to make everything around the leaf brown and...problem solved (yes, of course this has been absolutely on purpose).

 

Polishes used:

- Vernis POP FLUO no 01 (yellow)

- Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer 690 Fred Said Red (reddish orange)

- Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer Limited Edition Neo Geisha 05 Planet Tokyo

- Rimmel London 60 seconds 550 Major Brown

 

Day 195) Marble art (Sephora)

Thanks to Teresa Gardner and her lovely blogpost (which you can find here: boomernails) I've been looking for OPI's black spotted everywhere.
Haven't found it yet, but I did find Sephora's Marble Art topcoat, which claims to do the same thing.
For the price of 5,14 USD I thought I give it a try.

As base for my nail art I used two polishes also purchased at Sephora:

Left: Sephora - 84 Full moon party

Right: Sephora - 72 Tomorrow, detox!

 

Both nail polishes have a simularity with metallic polishes.

The left one can be described as a dark purple with multicolor glitter.

The right one is a petrol color with silver glitter.

 

I started with two coats of the purple polish and then placed some randomly areas of the petrol color.

 

After this simple base let's get to the most important part of this post:

Sephora - 07 Marble Art

 

The topcoat itself has some simularity to watercolor paint.

I applied a very thin coat of this topcoat (too thick will just make a black nail).

It immediately starts to make holes in it. No perfect dots, but more random shapes, revealing the underlaying surface of petrol and purple.

I haven't used a topcoat, but if you're satisfied with the outcome, I think you should.

If you wait some time before applying a topcoat, some more marble art topcoat will be gone revealing more of your base color.

I think the nail art looks better the next day (revealing more of your base), but it all depends on your own desires and also your underlaying colors I think.

 

I'm very happy with the two topcoats I bought at Sephora (also see previous blogpost about Sephora's Tie Dye topcoat).

They've turned out better than expected!!

 

Day 191) Nail art cat eye marble

It's just no fun working with nail polish with this kind of temperatures.
Before my brush even touches my nail, the polish on the brush has dried out.
Therefore my nail arts require the more watery polishes; for example the neons.
Today another neon nail art, this time inspired by a cat eye marble of the children.