Edgy design: Spikes on my nails

For today I have an Edgy design with Spikes.

For the last nailartchallenge for the month May, the prompt of a challenge was 'Edgy' and when I was planning this design, I immediately thought of the spikes that I've bought a long time ago and that I've only used one time before.

The spikes and sequins are are dark, so I wanted to use some bright nailpolishes and the polishes I used are Kleancolor 'Neon Amethyst' and 'Silver Purple'

Because I only wanted one nail with all spikes, I used black holographic sequins for some extra 'edgy-ness'
I've tried to get the holo-goodness on photo, but that was almost impossible, so only in one picture you can see some of it.

I put some Seche Vite on the sequins to adhere the spikes and that worked really well!

I love the endresult and because of the different kind of design then i usually make, I tried some different handposes and I think the 'claw' is a fitting pose for this design!

NOTD Silver Tribal

 My NOTD is this Silver Tribal nailart and is for #glamnailschallenge on Instagram.

My basecolor is a beautiful silver polish, made out out micro-glitter from the Hema.
This is 2 coats of the polish which dries really fast.

When the polish was drying, I stamped a tribal image from BornPrettyStore BPL-010 stampingplate and filled that in with on the stampinghead with Dashica 'Neon Yellow' and 'Neon Red'.

To make a sticker, I polished the image with the Silver Hema-polish and let that dry thoroughly.

With a tweezer I then lifted the image from the stampinghead and placed it on my nail. 

With a scissor I cut the image in my nailshape and with a brush with acetone, I cleaned up my cuticles.

Because the silver polish is made of glitter, I could not get my cuticles as clean as I would have wanted....

Zodiac waterdecals, review for Born Pretty Store

For today's blog, I have a second BronPrettyStore.com review and it is of waterdecals with Zodiac-signs.

And I can tell you already: I love them!!!

The only negative I can think of is that my sign, Gemini, misses the starsigns and the Gemini-image.

And because of that, I decided to use my husbands zodiac, which are Pisces.

I searched online which colors are the colors of Pisces and that are blue, grey and white (depends on the website) so I used Essence Cinderella 'Prince Charming' for the base and then dabbed with a piece of make-up sponge with white and grey to get a 'cloudy'-basecoat.

When the base was completely dry, I cut out the images on the sheet which I wanted to use for this design. I used all the Pisces-images, because, why not ;)

Before I put the images in water, I peeled of the plastic overlay, because if you forget that, you can trow away the decal...

Once the plastic sheet is peeled off, I put the decals in water and after about 10 seconds, the image comes loose and I picked them up with just my fingers.

I then placed the decals on the nails I wanted them.

To take off the last droplets of water, I used a qtip and when my nails were completely dry, I topcoated my design.

I love these decals! 

They are easy to use and you have instant result.

To bad about the Gemini, but all other Zodiacs will have a blast with these waterdecals!

You can find the Zodiac-waterdecals on BornPrettyStore.com with itemnumber #20072  (click to go to the BornPrettyStore)

If you use my code, LWGK31,  you get 10% of your whole purchase.

What do you think about these Zodiac waterdecals?

Cuticle Tattoo, review for Born Pretty Store

Hi guys!

For today I have a review for you. I was contacted by BornPrettyStore.com if I wanted to review some products from their site and I could not say no ;)

So i choose 3 products and these Cuticle Tattoos are the first I will review. 

The Tattoos i used for this review are NCT-008 with itemnumber #19807

I've seen a lot of people use temporarily tattoos in their nailart and when i saw these, I wanted to try them out! 

When I received my package, I wanted to try these tattoos first.

I've made a neonpink and white base with Catrice LE 'Bright, Brighter, Brightest' and SinfulColors 'Snow me White' 

Then I stamped with BPL-018 and Dashica stampingpolishes 'Neon Pink' and 'White'

I topcoated the design, so I could be sure the polish wouldn't be affected by the water from the decals.

When the topcoat completely dried, I cut the decals and peeled off the plastic sheet and placed them on my nails.

With a q-tip with water I saturated the paper and held the paper on it's place on my nail. 

After a couple of seconds the paper started to move, the sign that the waterdecals transferred to my nail. 

I slided the paper off and the waterdecal was good and firm on its place.

Because there was a bit water left on my nails, i used a q-tip to gently pat it off, but (as you can see in the pink close-up) the decal crinkled a bit.

So i let the rest of my nails dry on its own. 

On this close-up you can see the beauty of the waterdecals best. 

I thought I had placed them really nice in the middle, but I have to practice placing a bit more, but that's no problem, because there are still lots of decals left on the sheet.

I am really pleased with the Cuticle Tattoos. 

I didn't use them for my cuticles, but as you can see, they are perfect for nailart too!

There are 8 different designs to choose from, so you will find a design of your liking!

Born Pretty Store Cuticle Tattoos

*If you like these  Cuticle Tattoo Nail Art Stickers Water Transfer Temporary Decals Lace Flower Patterns, productnumber #19807, you can get this and a whole lot more at @bornprettystore and if you use my code, LWGK31,  you get 10% of your purchase*

What do you think of these decals?

Holo dotticure over a Duochrome-polish

In natural light

May is a month full of nailchallenges and this is the design I started this month with: Holo dotticure over a duochrome nailpolish.

The duochrome nailpolish is Kleancolor ‘Bright/Moody’, a blue and purple polish, which I could not get on photo with a real good look at the colorshift.

In my lightbox

Then I dotted with Color Club ‘Cherubic’ and made a kind of gradient with the dots. This is the easiest way to use a dottingtool, because the dots don't hacve to be even, so just dot away!

Close-up in my lightbox

It was difficult to get all the different colors in one photo, so I made several, using my lightbox and daylight lamps as well as natural light from the sun.

I noticed that you can see designs better with artificial light and if I want to capture all the colors in a holographic polish or duochrome polish, natural light works best.

Close-up in natural light

So, how do you like the holo dotticure over a duochrome polish??

Flakies!!! Who doesn't love Flakies!!!

Catrice's LE Million Styles Effect Topcoat C04 'Shake it! Flake It!' 

This will be a pic-heavy post, but look at the beauty of these Flakies!!!!

They deserve a lot of pictures to show you their gorgeousness.

The Flakies I've used for this design are in Catrice's LE Million Styles Effect Topcoat C04 'Shake it! Flake It!' 

I don't think you can buy them anymore, so i'm sorry if I made you want them.....

To make the gold-red-green shine pop, the basecolor I've used is Kleancolor 'Dark Red' a deep red that is opaque in 2 coats and is so dark, it almost look black.

 Close-up

Because Flakies also look very good when they are mattefied, I've used Essie "Matte About You' as a matte topcoat. 

As you can see, the Flakies are still gorgeous, but the colors are different. Not better or worse, just different. And i couldn't find the green effect when mattefied. 

But look at all that Flakie-goodness!!!

Mattefied with Essie "Matte about You'

This design was for a nailchallenge on Instagram, so I wanted to spice this mani up with a leave-stamping, because the Flakies remind me of a forest pond with all the leaves floating in it.

I stamped with Essence White Stampy and BornPrettyStore stampingplate BP-30 and now i think it really looks like a forest pond.

What do you think about these Flakies? Love them or hate them ;)

30 minute manicure with Color Club Halo Hues

The prompt for one of the nailchalleges of a FaceBook-group i join, was 'Make a 30 minute-mani'.

So the challenge was to pick out polishes that dry very fast and make something pretty in the same time.

My Color Club Halo Hues dry very fast, so that was an easy decision, but what color?

Recently I've used a lot of these gorgeous holographic polishes, but 'Eternal Beauty' stood a long time unused, so that was my base.

Because i really like to stamp with the holo's because of the good coverage, i decided to use 'Beyond' with this design.

I've received new nailplates from BornPrettyStore last week, so i used an image of stampingplate BP56.

The base was just one coat, which was a little surprise because it usually takes 2 or 3 coats for full opacity and holo yumminess, so that was an bonus in the time department.

The next step is the stamping, which was easy, because all the holo's stamp like a dream!

Just some minor cleanup was necessary, a coat of Seche Vite and my 30 minute-manicure is done!

Close-up

What do you think of this simple, fast and beautiful mani?