Splatter nails

Today I have some blue and white splatter nails for you.

I made these with the purpose to matte them for the NPQ challenge.

I'll show you the shiny and matte version and have to say: the matte is the best!

 

 Polishes used:

- China Glaze 818 Snow

- Max factor 37 Prussian Blue

- China Glaze Matte Magic

The splatters are made by dipping a cut drinking straw in the polish and giving it a short, full blow.
Repeating the process when I wasn't satisfied yet.

 

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)

 

 

 

 

Disney Frozen Olaf nail art

Today I have another beautiful polish from Big City Nails

This one is called: Are you feeling blue?

 

Let's start with some swatches:

 

Picture taken with natural light.

 

Picture taken with artificial light

 

Are you feeling blue? is a beautiful shimmery blue polish with green undertones making it lean towards teal.

This duochrome polish has a satin finish.

I used two coats in the pictures above. First coat was quite streaky and didn't went on smooth.

Surprisingly the second coat made it opaque and a lot less streaky. Nothing a topcoat can't solve.

Pictures above are without topcoat.

Two out of three polishes are gorgeous...can't wait to try the last one...but that one has to wait till after my Autism challenge.

 

Now, for the nail art.

 I've been asked many times to make Frozen themed nails.

I actually bought the movie for my kids and they love it (and mommy too!).

However it's not really the time of year anymore to make nail arts with snow, frost and ice.

But I make an exception with this polish and this challenge.

 

Are you feeling blue?

Olaf will make you smile!

 

 

 

Street style Autism nails (graffiti)

Today's Autism nails for #paintitblue is a graffiti nail art.

I love graffiti!

 

Hope you like my nail art!

 

 

Polishes used:

- Bourjois 26 Blue no blues (background)

- Maybelline Color Show Street Artist top coat 04 Alley Attitude (background)

- Bourjois 06 Adora-bleu (letters)

- Rimmel 840 Blue Eyed Girl (outline letters)

- China Glaze 544 Liquid Leather (shading letters)

 

Blue holo flower nail art

I actually didn't want to do a nail art today.

For two reasons:

1) I'm not feeling very well :(

2) This polish doesn't need anything

 

Let's start with the polish.

This is my first Indie polish and it is from the Netherlands...yay!

Thanks to another blog...don't know the name anymore because I was on a huge Google/blog search for Dutch Indies :-/

I finally found Big City Nails

And ordered 3 beautiful polishes.

 

Today I show you "The sky is the limit"

 

 

Are you seeing the gorgeous holo glitter already?!

 

 

I love the bottle top. It's like a giant "The sky is the limit" gemstone.

In fact every nail polish bottle should contain this...don't you agree?

 

 

The hand written polish name...definitely Indie and personal :D

Oah and a little peek of the polish on the nails.

 

Here are some more swatches:

This picture is taken in the shade

 

This picture is taken in sunlight (but we didn't have much today).

 

The sky is the limit is a clear polish filled with a great amount of blue and holo glitters.

Pictures above are 3 coats and 1 coat of Seche Vite topcoat.

With the first coat I wasn't sure if I could get this polish opaque but it built up very quickly with the next coats and also dried a lot faster than other glitter polishes.

There wasn't much sunlight today but when this polish hits the light...ahum...breathtaking.

I bought it for €6,95 ($9,54)

For sure a polish and webshop I can recommend.

 

For the nail art I only did a simple flower on the accent nail.

 

 

Polishes used:

- Big City Nails - The sky is the limit

- Layla Holgram Effect 07 Ocean Rush

- Maybelline Color Show 661 Ocean Blue

- China Glaze 544 Liquid Leather

 

Blue and gold dragon nails

A dragon eye nail art was still on my "to-do-list".

And today I finally found the right spirit to do so.

I'm still in the #paintitblue challenge so of course it had to include some blue :D

 

The dragon eye nail art is a free hand design using different polishes.

The other nails have a 'bad' croco topper which I reviewed some time ago and can be found here.

 

 

Polishes used:

- Essence Effect Nail Polish (Jeans Sugar) 07 Blue-jeaned

- Catrice Limited Edition Glamazona (Crocodile Cracker) C01 Jungle Treasure

- Maybelline Forever Strong Pro 820 Winner takes it all!

- China Glaze 553 Sexy in the city

- China Glaze 554 Liquid Leather

- China Glaze 818 Snow

 

Blue squares nail art

For today I made a blue squared/color blocking nail art.

I've used different textured polishes and it turned out really nice if I may say so :D

 

 

Polishes used (middle finger):

Up left: Essence Effect Nail Polish (Metal Sugar) 04 Skyfall

Up right: OPI Brazil Beach Sandies mini set What's a Little Rain Forest?

Bottom right: Rimmel Sweetie Crush 012 Blueberry Whizz

Bottom left: OPI Mariah Carey Holiday Collection 2013 mini Kiss me at midnight

 

 

Nail art blue mermaid tail

Today's Autism nails represent a mermaid tail.

Before painting I had no clue what to do.

I simply displayed some of my blue polishes on my table and while looking at them they spoke for themselves...MERMAID.

Well, I'm not so good in painting faces so I only went for the tail.

 

I actually used some extra shimmer and holo glitter topcoat but because of a lack of sunlight I couldn't catch them on camera :(

 

My list of used polishes is way too long so I'm not even getting there :D

 

Here are 2 pictures of my free handed 'blue' mermaid tail nail art.

 

 

 

 

 

Blue water marble nails for Autism

In my last give-away I've asked people what they wanted to see in my next nail arts.

I found this very useful as it not only gives me ideas for next art but also what people want to see.

 

A few times they asked for a water marble.

 

To be honest:

I love the look of water marble nails!

 

But I hate the frustrations that it is giving me.

First 'the polishes'; not all of them work well for water marbling.

Second 'the design'; it almost never ever ends up the way I had in mind.

Third 'the outcome'; mysterious appeared bubbles, open spaces, awful design.

And last but not least 'the clean-up'; and this is with tape!

 

So, today's autism mani is quite perfect IMAO ;D

But it took me 2 hours of redoing which is more than a detailed mani will take...

 

 

 

For these nails I've used 2 polishes:

 

- Anny 385 Blue bikini girl

- Essence Beauty Beats 02 I'm backstage

 

April is Autism Awareness month

Light it up blue!

Movement meant to shine a light on Autism.

April is Autism Awareness month and for that people all around the world are lighting it up blue to show their support.

And of course the nail community can't pass on this.

More precisely I don't even want to pass on this.

Autism is everywhere around me.

Last year I joined this Facebook group which started Paint It Blue for Autism.

It was a huge success but this year we want it to be even bigger.

Who will join me for Autism?!

 

How?

- Join the Facebook group (isn't a must but would be nice as you can show of your nails there as well)

- Post your pictures anywhere (on your regular media with #paintitblue and/or #bluenailsforautism)

That's it :D

 

 

I'll try to do as many nail arts/swatches as I possibly can.

 

Starting with a simple mani created with a nail art set that I got from H&M (fashion store).

Containing a baby blue polish called "Blue" and blue iridescent glitter.

 

 

First a swatch of the polish:

 

 

I used the glitter as a gradient. Except for the accent nail which is all glitter.