Strowberry Shake

Still waiting for summer :) Base is Orly "Polo princess" and the green details is a color club glitter.

Pink Lace

My memory is so overloaded with all that stuff that we study at school, so i can't really think of anything else. I dont know if i have ever mentioned here that i attend a very hard and intensive graduate program on computer information system, and gosh - this is hard. Sometimes i feel that my head is just going to blow up. But the good news is that after the end of this semester i ll only have 2 classes left, so i am planning to graduate this December.
Good for me , doing my nails helps me relax and reboot :)
This particular design have helped me to solve the huge problem with my homework. When i was doing homework i get really stocked with one of the problems,so i decided to do my nails.



After nails was done, i solved the problem really quick, and also my computers fan, that blows like a space ship, makes my desk a perfect place to dry nails :)

And just to give you an idea what i am going thruw, pictu of nails with my books :)

As pastel as it gets :)

Here is a nice pastel nail design that i made yesterday. By the way i used green franket that i made earlier to draw the flowers. Aren't those both colors goes just so cool together?
Just in case someone still don't know how to draw flowers like this:
1) i used the tooth picks for dots and for marbling, since i don't have real tools
2) to make dots i just cut the end of the toothpick with sezards
3)First let the base color dry, then make a dots, and marbl it toward the center while it is wet.
4)The center may look little ugly, this is why you ll need to put another color in center
5) Let your flowers dry well and only then apply the top coat, if it is not dry, top coat will wash out the texture from the leaves.
6) Try it, it is really easy. Have fun !

Violet mood

My mind was seriously about to blow up this weekend ( as well as all last week) , when i was trying to work on my data base assignment for school.
And my weekly nail play turned out to be a mess too, i guess it all related.
This is what i have for today

Gradation nails ( by hands)

As i bet any of you i have quite a collection of polishes , with the bad level opacity.Those are type of polishes that takes more then 2 layers to get any solid color, but even fter hours of drying all those tons of layers you still can see what is going on under the polish .
Now here is a bright idea how to tern whose whose useless polishes into the powerful nail-art tool.Those polishes are just perfect to do the graduation on your nails, so i hope you didn't throw all of them away.
I played a little with this idea and here are some result.




You can easily create the graduation by following those steps:
1. Find the right polish, it must be very transparent, polishes without glitter or chips works the best.
2. Put the really thick layer of the transparent polish on the entire nail, and let it dry just a litle
3.Put the next layer on the 1/2 of nail, starting from the middle and going up, let it dry just a little again.
3. Put the 3 layer of polish on the 1/3 nail.
4. The best result you get if you use a glitter top coat, however you can use a regular one too.
As a top coat i used the one i have got from Brook "Colorama top coat" by maybelline

Simple mess

Oh yeah! i am almost back on the stamping marker.
As you may mentioned from the pictures here, i used to have a stamping kit, but left it in russia , because my friend wanted it so bad, so i decided that i may get another one here. But, you know all this economy stuff.. so haven't got one yet, but i was struggling so much without it. i mean no creativity can really replace good old stamping, especially when you ahve so little time for nails.
So yetoday my second excitement was gettign a new stmping kit.
I have got a chep one from e-bay, and i am not recomending it at all, plates are so poor, and polishes dont work at all, very transperent, you cant see it on any color. And moreover the colors i have got are not the colors i inteneted to have according to the sellers picture. But on the other hand it worth trying,m because it only was like 5 buks.




But where is another one comming. With more plates and polishes, so i will only keep stamp and scraper from this one.
I wanted to see if this cheap one will work, so i can tell my friends get it or not.
Since polishes wont work, i used regular polish and surprizingly it worked pretty good.
So here is my pink mess.

Not the best, but not the worst

Whose strips always work perfect on my little nails, when i run out of ideas, or too busy to do real art on nails.

Cherry - Spring is comming !

Red one didn't live a long life, yesterday came up with an idea and couldn't wait to see what it is going to look like. Honestly i love it. Very easy to make, First i put a base color, then i took a brush ( can use also a pen or a pencil or anything) and made a dots of red polish using it upside douwn , then drow green and wite with acrilick paint, with the same brush, but using the right side now.
Yeah.. i know that i should get a real tools and stop using evrything i can find in my desk drower... just waiting for the right moment to get some real tool.
Hope you like it. If you will try this design yourself, take a pictures and let me know, really want to see it. May be we even can organize a cherry week or something like this - little flash mob, when all the readers will have a cherry nails in the same time :)

Flowers

Whose 2 design are based on the same idea of dots. The best way to make dots like this is cut the end from the teeth pick :)
It ujually works good on my tinny tyny little nails, but to be honest i didnt like both of those , but, you judge yourself

Color Expotion on the nails

After couple weeks that i was playing with the stamping kit, i finally et missed to the real hand painting nail art, which result in this crazy "color explotion" desighn. By the way right now i am all in the pink color, like trying to catch leaving bright summer. So i think that with pink outfit those nails may look interesting. I used regular wet technique .

Simple lines

This design works on any polish color, any nail shape, any ocation and even on any moode.
Really easy and fast to do, so i call it lazy solution he he. I just drow black and silver curved lines on the pastel purple base.

Purple Butterfly Wings

Tender pink nails

Could not resist to try my stamping kit again! I am absolutely in love with tis product. This time doing those nails took me about 20 minutes only. I found online an advise to use stamping kit with the turned off air condition.Sounds crazy, but this time it all worked just fine, even the green side of the stamper. And also this time i made much less mess. The trik is to use a paper towel to clean the scraper instead of the cotton party, so the fibers wont stik on the scraper and image plates. I am absolutely in love with my nails with this design. Base coat is Loreal 230

Toe Nails Stamping

Another try of stamping, now on my pincky toes. For some reason it was harder to place the image on the toe nails, and for sme reason the smoller side of stamper does not stick the image any more. I think my mistake was to clean it with the polish remover. Well, anyway, i still in love with this product. Here is the result of 30 minutes of hard work lol

Flowers on the nails

Inspired by the flower that drow to Oksana, did those nails for myself. May sounds silly, but i really for years didnt know how to drow the flowers like this, even thouth i knew the "wet manicure" method. And i am not a big fan of wet nails, because it is messy, and hard to apply on my smoll nails. But this flowers openings and new horisonts for wet technics now for me, and i allready ahve an idea that i will try preaty soon.

Very beautiful flower design