#52weeknailchallenge: easter

Gosh you guys, can you believe that we up to week 16 already? So as Easter was this weekend, it's kinda obvious that it should be the prompt for this week.

I started with two coats of Hean City Fashion 176 on my thumb, middle finger and pinky. My index and ring finger has two coats of I love Hean 880 from the pastel collection. I top coated that for vinyls. While that was drying I made some Easter egg decals using my mat.

Stamping plate is BP-60 and I used essence stampy polish in white for the eggs, which I then coloured in using I love Hean 881 and 876. Once my base was dry, I laid down some ziggy zaggy vinyls from becauseishop. I then painted a coat of City Fashion 171 over that, removing the vinyls immediately.

That funky looking bunny was stamped using essence prom-berry. And then I added my eggs.

So what do you think? Easterey enough for you?

Thanks for reading guys!

#52weeknailchallenge: inspired by a fictional character

Ah man I am so annoyed with myself, I had this post ready for some time and I just never posted it. So here it is, very late.

I started with two coats of Starrily bioluminesence.

And since this is a holo polish, here is the flash shot.

First I just added some silver bubbles that I stamped using plate hehe 60 and nubar silver mist.

I then added a stamping decal a couple of days later as I wanted to add the character that I had in mind.

So that is Ponyo, from the movie with the same name. You can't really see the face very well, but my polish I used for the stamping was not quite opaque. I used Tip Top mango tango for Ponyo and then coloured in her dress with essence santa baby and she is coloured in with I love Hean 871 from the pastel collection.

Ponyo is one of my favourite Studio Ghibli movies. She starts out as a fish that wants to be human and her dad, a wizard, voiced by none other than Liam Neeson, makes that happen in the end, all because of love.

What do you think? It could have been worse... Yip that's me looking on the bright side.

Thanks for reading guys!!

#52weeknailchallenge: inspired by a blogger

So me sitting down and thinking: 'what would Cassis P do?' totally counts right? Right? Well it kinda has to. This isn't inspired by a specific design, but more by her techniques.

I started by painting coats of essence absolute pure on my miracle mat and then stamping with Nubar silver mist and BP-L003. Once that was dry I painted a coat of OPI eurso euro, Hean City Fashion 43 and Essie leggy legend over each of the stamped images. Once that was dry, I peeled them up and trimmed them down to shape.

My base is two coats of I love Hean 873 from the pastel collection. On my index finger I placed eurso euro, middle finger is essie and thumb and ring finger is CF 43.

On my pinky I made two small dots with eurso euro. I liked this mani while I was wearing it, but the question is, does it pass?

What do you guys think? I'll be back again on Friday for our Triad post, so see you guys then.

Thanks for reading!

#52weeknailchallenge: valentine's day

Happy Valentine's day I guess... I'm not very excited by this, since it's just a normal day. I still have to work and deal with shit.

Anyway, first up I have a swatch for you. This is I love Hean 876 from the pastel collection.

Two coats and no top coat. It's a little thin on the first coat but it levels nicely. This is a very pretty pink!

I then used some ziggy zaggy vinyls from becauseishop and I love Hean 877 also from the pastel collection on my index, middle and ring fingers. Removing the vinyls immediately while the polish was still wet. I then top coated my middle finger as I was going to use another vinyl.

On my index and ring finger I added some decals I got some time ago from BPS. On my middle finger I used a stencil from Revlon and SC snow me white. I added some decals over that too.

I can't believe we up to week 7 of the 52 week challenge already. Mind you this month is already on it's last legs.

What do you think of my valentine's day mani? I know this one passes, but what's your opinion?

Thanks for stopping by!

#52weeknailchallenge: French Tip

Hey everyone, happy new year to you all. Finally all is back to normal after all these holidays. I almost feel like there's been too many. Working the one day off the next one and then working two and off again. Confusing.

Polish Portfolio started a 52 week nail art challenge. So I'm going to try and stick to it as much as I can. For the first week the theme is french tip. I obviously completely forgot about it, but I had a mani I still had to share that can be considered french.

I started with two coats of Hean 873 from the pastel collection on all my nails. Once that was dry, I did a gradient with 873 and Sinful Colors snow me white. I tried to concentrate snow me white on my tips.

I then added flower decals from aliexpress.

What do you think? Think this could pass for french? I'm slightly disappointed with the gradient, but I got tired of trying to get it perfect and I left it as is.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Blue Skitlette

This is another mani that was more or less inspired by Joyce... I sat down and thought " What would Joyce do?" "What colours would she use together?" And this is what I came up with.

I started with two coats of OPI Eurso Euro on my thumb and index, two coats of I love Hean 870 from the pastel collection on my middle and ring finger and two coats of I love Hean 854 from the sugar collection on my pinky.

The stamp is plate BP-L003 and I used Eurso Euro to stamp with. I then added two flower decals that I bought a whole bunch of from Aliexpress.

For some reason this pic looks very blurry and I have absolutely no idea why. Anyway, what do you think? Does this count as a skitlette? My first one ever (nevermind the one I copied from Joyce).

I really like how this turned out. I'm actually busy doing a couple of reviews for you. I'm hoping to have the first one up by next week. Hoping being the key word here.

Thanks for reading!

Itsy Bitsy Spider

So I'm kinda running out of days before Halloween to post my mani's... Got something special lined up for Monday, I just hope I don't forget it.

For today's mani I started with two coats of I Love Hean 870 from the pastel collection on my middle and ring finger. The rest is sporting two coats of I love Hean black.

For the spider webs I painted a layer of clear polish on my miracle mat and stamped using SC Snow me White and QA26 from BornPretty. Then I painted a layer of I love Hean black over the web part, once it was dry, peeled it off and positioned on my nail still showing the base colour.

For the spider I used stencils from Revlon. I only saw these for a limited time at Edgars' and then never again. I stuck the stencil on my miracle mat and used Essie Leggy Legend. Once the spider was dry, I peeled it off and stuck it on my nail. Top coat and Voila!

What do you think? Oh you see my thumb nail... Bugger tore off. Kak (really) sore and yes there was blood. Real Halloweeny. So for the moment I have to rely on Ms Cindy to make an appearance.

Thanks for stopping by!

Rosey-ish

I've been staring at this minty colour polish from the I love Hean Pastel collection and I was itching to use it. And when I did I was slightly disappointed, as it required 3 coats to be opaque, but this is only my laziness showing. It's a beautiful colour though.

So I started with the three coats. While that was going I used my Simply Neat mat to make the decals. I used my white Essence stampy polish and BP-73. I then randomly coloured in the roses with I love Hean 877, 874, 876 and 871, all from the Pastel Collection.

Peeled off the decal, stuck it on my nail and then, because I felt like it, dotted two flowers on my index finger.

The roses didn't quite come out the way I wanted, but it was easy and cute. What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by.

Bubbles!!

I haven't had much inspiration when it came to do doing my nails lately, most of the time I'd leave it to late to take proper pics or I'd not even bother with taking pics. Anyway.... This was another quick mani.

I started with two coats of I love Hean 879 from the Pastel collection. Then stamped bubbles from HeHe 66 with Tip Top Astronaut.

Then used my dotting tool to make dots on my ring and pinky. Yes, this was super quick. And required no effort.

What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!

Paisley nails

More short nails for you guys. I started with two coats of I love Hean 872 from the Pastel collection on all my nails. I was going for something simple, as I didn't want to make the difference in nail length too obvious. I made a decal on my Miracle Mat using my Essence black stampy polish and BP-L024. The paisley design has caught my eye so many times and I finally decided to use it.

I used 878 and 879 to fill in the gaps. There's always been some questions as to how to make decals on mats and stampers and all that. What I do is, I lay down a coat of clear polish (Essence Absolute Pure) on my mat, stamp, colour in my design and another coat of clear polish. I then paint my nails, do a bit of clean up and by that time my decal is dry. So waiting time is about 10 mins, but if you want to wait longer you can.

I then trim my decal a bit and then stick it on my slightly tacky polish. Clean up the edges. Here I used Essence's satin matte top coat on my ring finger. I think this was kinda cute. It made me like simple nail art again.

What do you guys think?

Welcome to the nub club

I've been MIA for a bit, but I'm hoping to be back to normal posting soon. I had a tear (again) and I shortened my nails, like very short, and then I had another tear and had to shorten them again... So I didn't not want to post, but I ended up doing exactly that. So I will be doing something that I don't normally do, I will be posting but not all my nails will be the same length. Which is super frustrating.

I started with two coats of I love Hean 870 from the Pastel collection. And used my Essence stampy polish in black and BP-14.

I added a random dot here and there. And that's it. Super quick and easy.

And maybe just because I didn't know what to do. So what do you guys think?

Thanks for stopping by!!