40 great nail art ideas: Spring sakura glitter placement and stamping nail art.

Introduction

Good day darlings. Today I have beautiful spring design combining stamping and glitter placement. First I applied on coat of each peach and green Loreal Flower bohem glitter toppers, avoiding large flowers. Next I stamped black tree branches using MdU polish. Finally, I added some large flowers on top and put yellow small glitters in the middle of each flower. Covered it with a generous layer of clear top coat and enjoyed this delicate Spring Sakura look. Please check out my IG if you want to see video totorial. Wishing all of you pleasant and jolly Easter weekend.

Results

Figure 1.  Spring sakura.

Color club Harp on it swatch and stamping nail art "Holographic love"

Introduction

Good day darlings. I finally purchased legendary holo polish from Color club - Harp on it. Today I'm sharing swatch and simple black stamping on top of this holo beauty. It was so sparkly, I could not believe my eyes. Love it and really need more holo Color clubs. Now I just have to try does it really stamp as good as rumor says ;)

Results

Figure 1. Harp on it and "Holographic love".

40 great nail art ideas: Films and glow in the dark "Dragon Haku" nail art

Introduction

Good day darlings. As soon as I saw "Films" prompt at 40 great nail art ideas, I knew that I'm going to make nail art inspired by one of my favorite anime movies "Spirited away" created by Hayao Miyazaki. One of the main characters in this Japanese fantasy is dragon named Haku, the spirit of the river. I adore him and luckily his image is included in the Miyazaki inspired stamping plate set from HeHe, which I bought as soon as it was released and use constantly. And I though it would be a nice opportunity to try my glow in the dark polish from Dance legend. Pink base polish is thermal and it was hard to decide which state I like more as a background. With pale pink it looked like fine delicate silk for vintage kimono, but images popped more on a bright pink background. I know one thing though, in the dark I could not stop looking at my nails. It was so fascinating to see different colors glow.

Results

Figure 1.  Glow in the dark "Dragon Haku".

Challenge your nail art: foil stamping nail art "Christmas presents"

Introduction

Good day darlings. Today I have another foil stamping nail design. It's called "Christmas presents" and is inspired by gifts which my little son got from Santa this year. I used two beautiful polishes with names which fit fantastically to this mani: pink shimmery polish Once upon a dream from Fair maiden and super interesting blue polish Up above the world you fly Femme Fatale. For stamping I used multicolor foil, which does not look super interesting on its own, but gives fantastic colorful images with stamping.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art  "Christmas presents"

Femme fatale Lantern waste and tribal stamping nail art with glitterplacement "Hunting Aztec"

Introduction

Good day darlings, non traditional take on Aztec nails today. First of all I wanted to combine it with glitter placement for our macro challenge prompt and second I really wanted to use those cute images of man and various animals on HeHe plate. So I decided to add little action to the tribal ornament from Bundle Monster plate. The glitter placement part was the hardest, as I have only really small glitters and making a full nail glitter placement was out of question with my skills. Stamping ornament and placing glitter on top definetly helped though. I'm really happy with final look, except that pastel pink MDU lost its colour after I applied top coat, it did not happen previously, so idk what really happened. Oh, and did I mention base polish Lantern waste? It looks so freaking amazing with all the flakies and shimmer, I simply love it.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Hunting Aztec"

Figure 2. More images with bottle.

Figure 3. And without.

Figure 4. Individual nails.

Figure 5. Macro images of stamping with glitter placement.

Materials and Methods

Nail Polish:

• Femme fatale cosmetics - Lantern waste (3 coats)
• Mundo de Unas - Pastel pink (!) it changed color after top coat application (stamping)

Stamping plates:

• HeHe 042 (middle and ring fingers)

• Bundle monster - BM 604 (index, pinky and thumb)

References

I bought this gorgeous polish at Color4nails and they gonna have restock soon.

July macro challnge: Picture polish escapade and stamping with Moon nails Salma "Playful kitty"

Introduction

Hello my dear readers, very short post today for #OMD3 cat prompt and July macro challenge brush shot. I did Ruffian nails with stamping using another polish from Moon nails supply called Salma. As you can see it stamps pretty good, but dependent on the image and stamper which you use might not be super opaque over very dark polish. I used soft creative shop stamper for kitty and firm Konad for bows, looks like result is much better with Konad. Please check out escapade brush macro at the end, it's not a standard shot, but i really love how it turned out.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Playful kitty"

Figure 2. One more images without bottle.

Figure 3. Escapade brush macro.

HPB presents: Picture polish Pshiiit and Paradise with teal pond nail art "Crowded with jellyfish"

Introduction

Ever since I saw Jellyfish pond nails created by @firefly5 it was on my "to do" list and finally 9 months later it's done. I really enjoy creating and looking at the pond nails and one of my  personal favorite manis is orange pond "Autumn leaves".  For this "Crowded with jellyfish" pond I stared with Picture polish Pshiiit, because i wanted to have more intense background with some flakies. I stamped corals and bubbles on each nail (or anchor on ring finger) and applied a layer of Paradise to add some glitter (which is not really visible in the final mani). After that I stamped 2-3 jellyfishes one by one and applied teal OPI sheer tint, this step was repeated 3 times. And I stamped snail on the thumb instead of jellyfish. This look is really pretty with shimmer adding extra touch to the depth of pond. I love how it turned out.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Crowded with jellyfish".

Mani swap: Green yellow and orange gradient with MdU stamping "Golden lotus"

Introduction

Something different today - my very first mani swap with awesome Sumeet from Tales of coffee lacquer and beauty. If you follow her blog (and if not, what are you waiting for?) you know that she does outstanding water marbles and gradients. For this swap we decided to do stamping mani, but I new right away that it will be one of her stampings over gradient, because they are so beautiful. It was hard, we do not have too many similar plates and I love so many of her designs. Finally, when I saw this gorgeous green to orange gradient I could not resist, even though my lotus and leaves are pretty different. But this color combo is divine, it glows on my nails. I love everything about this mani, thank you Summet for this opportunity to swap with you.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Golden lotus".

30 Days of Colour: Emily de Molly Ariel's realm nail art with Hehe stamping "Green neurons"

Introduction

May 30 days of Colour challenge is almost over and for today's entry we are supposed to show nail art done with favorite brand/technique. I chose both. My favorite brand is Australian indie polish Emily de Molly. And my favorite nail art technique is definitely stamping, which I love to combine with other techniques to achieve desired look. This particular nail art is inspired by my profession. I'm a neuroscientist and I always though that neurons are incredibly beautiful, and unavoidably they have huge potential for interesting nail art. This simple look actually has combination of stamping (green neurons), dotting (red spines) and a bit of free hand (neuronal bodies). You can find original picture of a neuron at the end of my post. I love how this turned out and want to make more designs inspired by neuroscience. Let me know what you think about it and if you do nails inspired by your profession how do they look?

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Green neurons"

Femme fatale Glass coffin and stamping nail art with Chez Delaney "River house"

Introduction

It's awesome when polish itself inspires nail art, as soon as I swatched Glass coffin I knew it would be perfect for gradient landscape. There was already a nice thermal gradient on my nails, but I added extra green shimmer in the sky with Green thumb of doom. I wanted to achieve peaceful pastel look and instead of white polish stamped with cream, while adding pastel pink color to the lotus flowers. Needless to say, I love final result and below you will find many pictures. Note that Glass coffin transitions from blue (warm) to purple (cold) and see how perception of nail art changes at different temperatures. Wonderful day and night effect.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "River house".