Black Flowers Hand Painted

Hello Sweeties!

Today my mum and aunt (yes, they are twins) are celebrating their birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I wish I could be there, but we will celebrate on the weekend. I wanted to do a special manicure anyway and so I came up with this hand painted flower design. I included a little picture tutorial below.

The background is the glitterbomb gradient manicure that I showed you yesterday. 

-With a fine nail art brush I painted on four lines like you would for a spider web.

-Then I outlined my nails and drew curved lines on each side of every straight line to connect two of them to a petal shape. 
-Now I painted tiny lines in the center of each petal and filled in the gaps between the petals.

-To finish this manicure I used a toothpick and picked out white and pink glitter hexes of essence - lovely, maybe and placed them in the center of each flower. 

-Last but not least I added a layer of Seche Vite to bring my manicure together and blur the lines a bit.

The black I used for this manicure is essence - the black cat. I used a drop of polish thinner to make it more liquid and easier to apply with the nail art brush, and mixed them well on a little plastic palette.

I am totally in love with these flowers. It took a little time to make them, but they are worth the effort.

I hope you like them too! If you give them a try, I'd love to see your manicure.

You may also like:

• Red-Pink-White Water Marble
• Dotted Daisies
• Flowers & Butterflies

How to remove Glitter Nailpolish very easy

Hi everybody!

Today I want to show you how easy the removal of glitter nailpolish can be. There are a few metods that I can only recommend trying. After all it is the perfect season to wear some glitter polish.

First up is the well-known foil method. You only need some tin foil and a big ball of cotton. 

Pluck the cotton wool in ten pieces and rip the foil up. 

Use your polish remover to soak the cotton and put it on your nail. Then wrap around a piece of foil. 

Do that with all your fingers (I usually do one hand at a time because I can't wrap the second hand with that tin hats on my fingers. :-D). After a few minutes you can just wipe your polish off. Simply press down on your nail while pulling down your foil hat.

The second method is to soak your nails in a polish remover bath. They usually come in pairs for both of your hands, but I only ever use one for both hands. Otherwise it is a waste of polish remover.

After soaking my fingers for approximately 4-5 minutes I pulled them out and the polish of 2 of my fingers was completely gone. As for the others I only needed one swap with my soaked cotton ball to remove the polish. Only the bigger glitter parts stuck on a little longer, but where easily removed by gently rubbing over the nail.

Third I want to show you these soak-capsules.

 They come in packs of ten but I usually use them for accent nails only.

Just fill up one of these caps with polish remover, close the lid and put your finger in. You have to be careful and don't put in too much liquid. When your finger is in it might spill, when the cap is too full.

 After a few minutes the polish comes off easy.

That's all I've got! :-)

How do you remove your glitter polish?

Santa Claus - Christmas Manicure

Hello everyone!

I did a Santa Manicure last weekend and promised to do another one and include a tutorial.

Since I like to keep my promises here it comes. 

Today I therefore have something special for you: my very first tutorial!

This is what we're going for :-)

First gather everything you'll need for this manicure:

• basecoat, topcoat
• a nude colour
• 2 red colours
• black & white polish
• silver or metallic polish or striper
• 2 white rhinestones
• black and red caviar pearls
• acetone/polish remover
• tweezers, dotting tool and a brush for cleanup

I used essence all in one base, Maybelline - Ivory Rose (75), Wet n Wild - Jezebel(E463) and Burgundy Frost(E412A), NYX - White(NGP149), essence - Black Is Black (144), b.pretty Nail Striper - metall pearl (07) and Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

Step one. 

Paint the nail(s) you want to do the design on in a nude colour and all the other ones in a deep red (I used burgundy). The nude does not have to be perfect. If there is still some VNL that is ok.

Step two.

For your Santa face you have to paint the lower part of your finger in the lighter red colour (I used ruby). On one side brush down a little more. That is going to be tip of his hat.

It does not have to be perfect. 

For your Santa suit you need to paint the neckline and then fill the rest of your nail with red.

Step three.

Now the white is up. Make sure to use a very opaque one. You don't want to paint many layers.

Using your dotting tool (or the end of a bobby pin) draw a line of white dots underneath santa's hat. And then go on with his beard. Dot around the sides of your nails - leaving a little space between the tip of the head and the beard - and whiten your tips. Then draw a mustache and make two dots for the eyes.

Don't forget to cover your nailtips in the front. You don't want any red shining through.

For the suit, draw a line down the middle of your nail, cover the neckline and the border of his coat.

Step four.

Draw a black belt on Santa's belly. Approximately in the lower 1/3rd.

Put one black dot to the tip of Santa's hat and place a white rhinestone on it.

If you don't have rhinestones let the black dry and put a white dot on and if you want some silver.

Step five.

We're almost done.

Use a silver or metallic polish to draw the beltbuckle. I used a striper, but you can use a toothpick or a fine brush aswell.

Put one layer of topcoat on Santa's face and place two black caviar beads as the eyes and a red one for the nose on it.

If you do not have these little pearls simply use little dots of polish instead. (No extra topcoat needed)

Step six.

Let everything dry very well and then put topcoat on. 

FINISHED!

What do you feel about this little guy?

Please let me know what you think of my tutorial! I really would appreciate some feedback.