Stripped nails

Hi! Happy Monday!

Today as usual I was wandering around youtube and came across this easy and quick tutorial on how to do stripped nails. It looked pretty cool so I decided to try it out!

Apply a base coat to protect your nails and paint them a light color, I used light blue nail polish. You can wait until it is completely dry, but it's not necessary, if you don't wait you will get an interesting texture too. Then take a flosser brush similar to the one I have in the picture and paint a bit of darker color (I used darker blue) on the floss. Brush it on your nails multiple times creating stripes. Keep reapplying the darker color on the floss as much as needed. Then take another dark color, you can of course use any colors you want, I took grey color and apply on the same floss and stripe it some more across your nails. Take one brighter color, I used coral nail polish, apply it on the brush and again create as many stripes of that as you want. I applied three on each nail. Then seal your design with a top coat to protect it from chipping too soon! If you get any nail polish on your fingers around the nails (I got a lot!) just take a cotton swab soaked into nail polish remover and remove it!

It's actually very quick to do and I think it looks great!

Let me know what do you think and if you try to recreate, show me!

Galaxy manicure

Hello!

I'm so proud of myself for doing my manicure this way. It was my first time trying and I think it turned out pretty well. I know for some, it might look a little bit... interesting. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of nail art like little flowers etc. But I was trying to experiment and that's what I came up with!

This might look like a lot of work, but it's actually very easy.

Apply base coat (1) to protect your nails. Paint your nails dark purple color (2). With a pair of tweezers (4) take a tiny piece of a make-up sponge (3) and dip it into white (5) nail polish. Pat it on your nails. You can make each of the lines different. Dip the same make-up sponge piece into any yellow nail polish (6) and pat it onto the white nail polish design. Do not pat all over the white, let it peak quite a bit. Then take light rose nail polish (7) and dip in onto the white/yellow one, letting both colors be visible. Dip sponge into a pink (8) nail polish and dot a few times over the design we did. Then take light purple nail polish (9) and pat it on the edges of the white, so we blend it with the dark purple. Take any dotting tool or a toothpick and dip it into a white (5) nail polish. Quickly dot it over the dark purple nail polish so we make little stars. Then dot a few bigger "stars" on each of the nails, so it looks more realistic. Paint over your nails with a top coat to give more shine and protect the design. You're done and you have a beautiful galaxy design on your nails!

If you try this, show me the pictures, would love to see it!

My Fall nail polish picks!

Hi! Happy Monday!

Today I'm showing you my fall nail polish picks! It's mainly about the colors, but I do enjoy the quality of each of the polishes too.

For fall, I tend to go a tiny bit darker with my nails, but sometimes I might just wear a bright coral color if I'm in that kind of mood :)

1. Wet N Wild Megalast in Private Viewing. It's more nude than it looks in the picture. A classic nude color. This is also the only color that took me two coats to get the color it is on the a display.
2. Wet N Wild Megalast in Through the Grapewine. It's one of the bright colors that still is great for fall.
3. Milani in Sail Away.  It's a pretty metallic dark blue color.
4. Boots No.7 Stay Perfect in Highland Mist. Shiny pinky nude color.
5. Rimmel 60 seconds in Grey Matter.
6. Orly nail polish. The color of it worn off, sorry! But it's a pretty dark grey color with a ton of shimmer.
7. Revlon Colorstay in Blue Slate. Nice greyish blue color.
8. Nicole by OPI Kardashian Kolor in Here We Come A-Karoling. Nice reflective dark purple.
9. Orly in Ruby Passion. Beautiful shimmery red that I love to wear any season!
10. Wet N Wild Megalast in On a Trip. Great liughter purple color.

All of these nail polishes are great quality and I do not see a difference between for example a Wet N Wild nail polish and Orly nail polish. Both stay equally well on the nails as long as you use a great top coat. Seche Vite top coat is a bit pricy, but amazing! My nail polish usually lasts about a week. It might even stay longer without chipping, but I have to re-do them because my nails grow pretty fast.

These are my picks for this Fall season, tell me what color you like wearing the most??

Friday nails

Hi!!

Hard to believe it's been a week since my last Friday nails blog post! I'm trying to keep this weekly. Let me know if you like that!

Today I felt like trying something new so I went with this nude color all over my nails and then painted the tips of the three nails this mint green color. A step-up of the classic french manicure.

I never use french manicure stickers to paint my tips, because I just don't like the harsh line they make. And I think it's an additional step so why waste my time if I can make a pretty normal tip without the stickers. 

Both of the nail polishes I used were from Wet n Wild Megalast line which I really enjoy. The nude color is called "Private Viewing" and the mint one is "I Need a Refresh-Mint". Those nail polishes don't chip for quite a while and you only need one coat to get the color to show up.

What color are you wearing on your nails tonight?

Friday nails

Hi!

Today I wanted to get myself into the fall spirit, even though it was sunny outside... So I decided it was time to paint my nails darker! To be honest, I'm one of those persons who will wear bright coral shade on her nails in the middle of winter if I feel like it - could not care less! But this time, I took this dark purple and it almost felt too dark so I added some sparkle on all of my nails except for my ring fingers - kind of an accent nails. I used Nicole by OPI nail polishes and the names of them in the pictures below!

Do you go darker with your nail polish when the fall comes? Tell me!