- Sunday, October 12, 2014
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Ever since swatching the Models own ice neon collection I've
always wanted to bring it back out and use it for some sort of nail art.
Here’s a neon saran wrap I tried during the hottest days we
had this year. It would've been a mistake to not bring out those neons for it
to shine bright under the sun.
The base is Essie’s Blanc and using saran wrap or as we call it here in the UK, cling film, I dabbed MO’s Luis lemon first before going ahead and adding MO's toxic apple, the neon green after. This manicure turned out insanely bright but fun.
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| MO's Luis lemon and toxic apple saran wrapped over Essie's Blanc. Outdoor photo. |
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| MO's Luis lemon saran wrapped over Essie's Blanc. Light box photo |
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| MO's Luis lemon saran wrapped over Essie's Blanc. Outdoor photo |
What's your favourite neon shade?
- Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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I have been feeling ever so tired and lazy since my lesson last week and it's the same case with this week as well. Even though my eye's feeling a little droopy right now, I have to get this posted otherwise it'll be too late.
Products I used:
- Index: Three coats of Color Club's Blushing rose as base
Essie's Blanc for the dots
- Middle: Two coats of Blanc as base
Painted the lines with the help of striping tape using
Barry M's Papaya (Orange) and Prickly pear (Pastel purple)
Color Club's Blue-ming (Turquoise) and Blushing rose (Pastel pink)
Barry M's Pomegranate and Blanc for the flowers
- Ring: Two coats of Blanc as base
China Glaze's Blonde bombshell for the glitter
CC's Blue-ming for the dots
- Pinkie: Two coats of Blanc as base
Using striping tape, Barry M's Blueberry, Blue-ming and Prickly pear for the saran wrap effect
I tried to make the nail on the ring finger have that 'golden egg' look. It turned out alright and the dots in the middle makes me think of a Yoshi egg but it's just not quite there yet :D
I should've kept with all the pastel colours on the middle finger because the orange and red seems a bit too bold for this manicure. It's the part I dislike the most but in the end the whole look grew on me.
What did you wear on your nails for Easter? Did you do anything special for the occasion?
- Monday, April 01, 2013
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Oopsie poopsie! I said to myself I should try and post at least once every two days if I can't do everyday but seems like I just missed the time again. Lucky there's still two hours before Sunday ends so I can still say Happy St. Patrick's day. I don't celebrate this event but it reminds me of a friend who currently studies in Ireland so I thought it'd be a good chance to do my first PADDY-cure :D
Not really happy with every part of this manicure but some did come out how I expected like the accent nail and pinkie. The stamping on the middle finger did turn out to be a fail though.
I had to crop and resize all the photos to remove all the weird bits and make my hand look normal. Panicked a bit since I felt my hand position looked weird which would be horrible since all the photos waiting for me to edit has the same hand pose.
This is a short post because I'm dying to go out and start nom-ing on a muffin with a cup of tea!
Did you do a St. Paddy's day manicure? What do you think of mine?
Products used:
- Thumb: China Glaze's Glittering garland
- Index: Misa's Good to be green as base
Saran wrapped with glittering garland
Essie's Going incognito, Blanc and Barry M's Satsuma for the flag
- Middle: Going incognito as base
Clover image on plate BM03 stamped with Konad white and then traced with Essie's Blanc
Layered with Zoya's Opal flakie after
- Ring: Blanc as base
Water marbled with Going incognito and Good to be green
- Pinkie: Glittering garland sponged with Zoya's flare and China Glaze's Solar flare on tips
Not really happy with every part of this manicure but some did come out how I expected like the accent nail and pinkie. The stamping on the middle finger did turn out to be a fail though.
I had to crop and resize all the photos to remove all the weird bits and make my hand look normal. Panicked a bit since I felt my hand position looked weird which would be horrible since all the photos waiting for me to edit has the same hand pose.
This is a short post because I'm dying to go out and start nom-ing on a muffin with a cup of tea!
Did you do a St. Paddy's day manicure? What do you think of mine?
- Sunday, March 17, 2013
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A little late but this is the first
proper Valentines manicure I did this year and I wanted to keep
things simple. I’ve been meaning to try out the Saran wrap method,
also known as cling film here in the UK for a while now. It's fun and
super easy to master. Its interesting that something so ordinary
could create such a lovely pattern.
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| First photos taken outdoors, the rest taken indoors. Natural light. |
For the base I used two coats of China
Glaze's Something sweet which is your pastel pink crème. The colour
dabbed on top is China Glaze's Ahoy, a bright raspberry polish with
gold shimmers. If Ahoy was used as a full manicure the shimmers
would've been much more obvious but since it was dabbed on you see
very little of it in the photos and in person.
I wanted to add a bit more to it
preferably heart glitters to make it more Valentine-y, but before I
remembered to I'd already packed everything away and tucked myself
into bed with the heater on to save me from the falling temperature.
Since my right hand is the photo hand
I'm free to do some design try-outs on my left. I attempted a
tricolour Saran wrap design by adding another colour on top of Ahoy,
a red to be specific to keep with the Valentines theme. The effect
still looked cool except it seemed to overpower the other colours and
started to look a little like blood splatter nails. I might attempt
this again with other colours that compliment each other to see what
else I come up with.
Have you tried the saran wrap method? How did you spend your valentines?
- Sunday, February 17, 2013
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