Day 266) Be loud!

Essence came out with another trend edition "Be loud!"
The name says it all: Essence is calling all beauties to be loud, be free, be you!
Today's generation is independent, strong and assertive and this power needs to be expressed with a cool look too.
Camouflage prints and expressive colours are all the rage.

This trend edition comes with 4 nail polishes and a special effect topper (glitter graffiti):

From left to right:

- 01 Riot @ ♥

- 02 Orange is the new black

- 03 Riot grrr-een

- 04 Like a stone in the wall

- 01 Not punky, nor funky

I don't have the graffiti topper yet, but I will get it and probably show it around the Holidays (Christmas).

I do have single nail swatches of the other polishes:

 

The polishes are a little jelly which makes them almost opaque in 1 coat, but I've used two in the picture above.

I'm not sure if I dare to wear the darker colours plain...it isn't really my taste. But I guess that if you like such colours you'll love them.

To my surprise I totally loved the orange. Again not my colour but it looked great (bright, daring and fits quite good with my skin tone).

Well, and of course the dark purple is just fab but I love purples, so that's no surprise.

I've chosen to do single nail swatches because I took more time for the nail art ☺

Hope you like it! I used to following image of this trend edition as my inspiration:

 

I started with making camouflage nails.

I've used a striper brush and the following polishes:

- Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer Limited Edition Eve in Bloom - C01 Bloomynous

- Catrice Ultimate Natural Nail Lacquer Limited Edition NEONaturals - C05 Have a good day

- Essence Trend Edition Be loud! - 03 Riot grrr-een

- Essence Trend Edition Be loud! - 04 Like a stone in the wall

Then with the same striper brush and a white polish I've made the letters "BE LOUD!"

 





 

Simular to the image I wanted to create the same camouflage effect in the letters.

Polishes used:

- Catrice Ultimate Nudes - 02 Don't tell Mademoiselle!

- Catrice Ultimate Nail LAcquer - 850 Aretha's R.E.S.P.I.N.K

- Essence Trend Edition Be loud! - 01 Riot @ ♥

- Essence Trend Edition Be loud! - 02 Orange is the new black

 

After this I applied the black around the letters and made some other little details from the image; spray, smiley, buttons with stars, arrow and music note.

 



 

 

To all my readers: BE LOUD! BE PROUD! BE YOU!

 

Day 151) Nail art Graffiti

When I was a teenager my wish was to master the art of graffiti.
I was always jealous of the people who could do those awesome graffiti letters.
And I too wanted to secretly paint some graffiti on a wall.
It never happened...
I can still appreciate the art of graffiti, especially the big colorful drawings. Those really color the world!

For today's nail art I tried to translate a graffiti to my nails.
I've used an image for example because I'm still not good at painting graffiti.

Here is the image I've used:

Source: http://kids.flevoland.to/kleuren/valentijn/graffiti-love.shtml

And this is the nail art I've done:

I really like them! Do you?

See you tomorrow. I will announce the winner of my 'remake' give-away!