Femme fatale March hare and Infamous riddle swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings. I'm back from my vacation and finally have time to write a blog post. You will find below two gorgeous Femme fatale polishes from Mad Tea-party collection. First one is olive green with orange shimmer called Infamous riddle. This polish is very unique and looks great on my fingers. I applied two coats of this polish, took pictures and realized that it would be a great base for March hare. Therefore, one coat was sufficient to show all the beauty of this golden-brown polish full of holographic microglitters and intense green shimmer. Finally, I could not resist and added stamping design combined with some dotting to complement these pretties. Love how glitters sparkle behind stamped image. Check out my IG for video tutorial.

Results

 Figure 1. March hare and Infamous riddle.

40 great nail art ideas: Pink needle drag floral design

Introduction

Good day darlings. I'm on vacation in Russia, but I'll try to write couple blog posts and share some pictures on IG. This week challenge for 40 great nail art ideas was pink & lilac and my specific prompt was needle drag. I just received this gorgeous pink-lilac jelly with copper glitter - Wear it like armour Cadillaquer, perfect shade for spring and for this challenge. However it would not work as a base for needle drag technique as it requires 3 coats to reach opacity. That's why I did needle drag design using clear base polish and bright pink-magenta polish called Electra on top of the silicone mat, let it dry and applied as decals. Also, I added some individual glitters on top so that it would look like flowers. On pictures it looks a bit messy, but in real life those flowers looked wonderful. And did I mention that I'm in love with this particular shade of lilac? I'm sure you'll see it again on my blog.

Results

Figure 1. Floral dry marble design and Cadillaquer Wear it like Armour

Emily de Molly Calibrated and purple holographic glitter placement

Introduction

Good day darlings. I have another glitter placement design this time with holographic purple and gold glitters. Perfect background for this glitter is wonderful Emily de Molly polish - Calibrated. I could not resist and added some swatch pictures below. Calibrated is a purple jelly, but since it's full of multichrome flakies two coats were enough for full coverage. Oh and another important step, instead of regular base polish I used transparent peel of base and removal was super easy. Looks like glitter placement is going to be one of my favorite techniques. 

Results

Figure 1. Holographic purple glitter placement and Calibrated swatch.

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.

The Don Deeva polish Anita Woody and scale stamping nail art "Blue mermaid"

Introduction

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Good day darlings. I made these "Blue mermaid nails" using wonderful glitter from The Don Deeva polish - Anita Woody applied on top of the nude glitter base. For scales stamping I used Violet MdU and Gold El Corazon polish. Since gold stamping was a bit lost, I decided to sponge some more glitter on top of it. And voila mermaid nails ready, it was also super easy to remove all this glitter. Dance legend makes amazing glitter bases, they come off nicely, you just have to hold hands under warm water for sometime.

Results

Figure 1. "Blue mermaid".

Emily de Molly Rough sketch swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings. Today I have swatch of colorful Emily de Molly glitter called Rough sketch. It's a bright mint cream polish with added orange, purple and blue glitters or various sizes. In my opinion Hayley from Emily de Molly makes one of the best glitters among all indies and this one is not an exception. Application is super smooth and glitter shows up nicely in spite of quite opaque base. Also I love this unique color combination, which makes Rough sketch so special.

Results

Figure 1. Rough sketch swatch.

Born pretty scale vinyls review and coupon code "Rainbow mermaid"

Introduction

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Good day darlings. Today I want to share review of nail vinyls from Born pretty store. They do not look like regular vinyls, but more like holo stickers and that's what is actually written on the package. But it's incredibly easy to work with them and the holo finish is so pretty to look at (Figure 2).  There are 12 sticker in the package (size 21 x 25 mm). You have to cut them, it's pretty easy to do following guide lines. On my medium size nails I was able to use half of the sticker per nail and it was just perfect. This vinyls stick really well to the polish and it's super easy to remove them as  whole piece. Some of the other brand vinyls which I used before would tear apart while removing them, no such problem here. I highly recommend this product, it's on sale currently only 1,99 $ and you  can also use my coupon code PHDX31 to get 10% from entire store. Oh, and do not forget to check out video tutorial for Rainbow mermaid nails, which I did using these scale vinyls and Lost my marbles from The Don Deeva polish.

Results

Figure 1. "Rainbow mermaid" nail design using scale vinyls.

Emily de Molly Throwing copper swatch and review

Introduction

Good day darlings. Trowing copper is a dusty bluish grey with strong turquoise shimmer containing copper, blue and green glitters of various sizes. Two coats are sufficient for full coverage. Glitters do not sink with time and pop out on the surface after application, effect which I love, because it looks awesome on macros. But if you plan to wear this polish on it's own it's better to use top coat.

Results

Figure 1. Throwing copper swatch.

Liz Bein The Don Deeva polish and stamping nail art "Disintegratingillusion"

Introduction

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Good day darlings. Finishing this week with stamping nail design. Spirals for #clairestellechallenge and #stampingsaturday. Background is nude glitter base, 2 coats of wonderful holo/black glitter Liz Bein and stamping with black Mundo de Unas. I love this combination of images from MoYou London Illusion 02 plate and mini glitter background.

Results

Figure 1. "Disintegrating illusion".

Femme fatale Color4nails exclusive Ouija and Asphalt flowers nail art

Introduction

Good day darlings. Combined post for today. Swatch of incredibly beautiful holo glitter Ouija - Color4nails exclusive from Femme Fatale and nail art which I did with this polish as a base. Ouija has a dark grey base and is packed with holographic glitters, easy to apply and super sparkly. For nail art I used Croco polish from Russian brand Nail look, it cracks with very beautiful patterns, but you have wait about 4 minutes before application to let base polish semi dry. To finish this design I added some flowers using dotting tool, you can take a look at my video tutorial at the end of this post.

Results

Figure 1.  Ouija swatch and nail "Asphalt flowers".

Ivana Shagalot The Don Deeva and stamping nail art "Winter butterflies"

Introduction

Good day darlings. Nasty winter Sunday here, so I decided to cheer it up with Butterfly design using wonderful purple holo glitter Ivana Shagalot from The Brothel collection The Don Deeva polish and MoYou London Kitty plate full of butterfly designs. I wanted to use them all, but had to choose only two, one is a butterfly wing on my index, middle and pinky and second is little butterflies for ring finger and thumb. I love that this design turned out so airy like real butterflies.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Winter butterflies".

Femme Fatale Stand in the clouds and "Snow angel" stamping

Introduction

Good day darlings. It's orthodox Christmas today, merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it today!!! Specially for you I wanna share this simple stamping design "Snow angel". Base polish has very appropriate name Stand in the clouds and looks gorgeous, although it was quite sheer and required 3 coats. Next time I'm gonna use it on top of green base.

Results 

Figure 1. Nail art "Snow angel"Femme Fatale

"Starburst" water marble nail design using The Don Deeva Lost my marbles jellies

Introduction

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Good day darlings. Today I have fresh water marble design using The Don Deeva polish from Lost my marble collection. I used two colors blue and purple, both water marble flawlessly. For this design I made water marble decals, because I do not like to deep my fingers and prefer to apply marbles after they dry. I noticed that water marbles with The Don Deeva polish dry quite fast, also they are very thin and flexible, which makes it really easy to apply as decals. Check out my video tutorial at the end of this post to see it for yourself. Since this design was done for #watermarblepracticewed propmt "Starburst" I added some glitter stars and purple microglitter to complement water marble.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Starburst"

"Snowy day" stamping nail art with Ivana Shagalot The Don Deeva polish.

Introduction

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Good day darlings. Today I have simple but nevertheless gorgeous design inspired by wonderful snowy snowy landscape which I found online. Base color is one coat of Loves wound Femme fatale, on top I applied one coat of Ivana Shagalot, super beautiful holo/purple glitter from The Don Deeva. And I finished stamping large snow flakes from Pet'la plate using Aqua Mundo de Unas. This is my entry for #clairestelle8jan challenge. You can find all prompts at the end of my post.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Snowy day".

Nail art with colorful foil stamping fireworks "Happy 2016"

Introduction

Good day darlings. I could not resist and made another firework stamping to celebrate new year. I was inspired by awesome blogger Zlata and used multicolor foil with added round glitter on top to write 2016. Unfortunately after glitter placement, fireworks became less bright, luckily I took some pictures before. If you are interested how I do foils stamping take a look at my video tutorial. So many people ask me about it and what are the trick which I use, that I decided to make a Foil stamping troubleshooting tutorial, with pictures and real time videos. It's gonna take me some time to put all info together, but I hope to post it this month. 

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Happy 2016".

Glitter placement lead lighting with The Don Deeva collection Lost my marbles "Floral glitter lighting"

Introduction

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Good day darlings. I know you really loved my Christmas glitter placement and I also enjoyed wearing it so much. That's why I decided to make another design with glitter placement. And because it was not time consuming enough, I combined it with individual glitter lead lighting. I call it glitter lighting for short, omg... did I just invent new nail art technique??? And I just had to add some stamping on top, I'm a real stampaholic after all. For lead lighting I used outstanding neon jellies from The Don Deeva collection called Lost my marbles. They also water marble and have shimmer inside, wow. Before I used OPI tints for lead lighting and it was a pain, because as top coats they are quite sticky and if you are not quick enough tend to form tiny filaments, sort of like melted cheese. I hated it. There is no such problem with Lost my marbles, as they glide right on and covered each glitter effortlessly, I was super impressed. It was such a pleasure to lead light with them. Take a look at my video tutorial to learn more about "glitter lighting".

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Floral glitter lighting"

Challenge your nail art: "Silver & gold Christmas" with Mona Lott from The don Deeva

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Merry Christmas darlings, have a wonderful time with your family and friends. Here is silver and gold Christmas nail design which you might enjoy on this special day. I used wonderful silver glitter from The Don Deeva called Mona Lott on top of the nude peel of base and added some real gold particles using Gold leaf topper from Dance legend. To complete this look I also applied golden Christmas tree and snowflakes from Bundel monster. Using metallic confetti is really challenging for me, but I think this design turned out much better than last year. In fact it was super sparkly, but I completely failed to catch it with my camera. Next time I'm gonna use this glitter on a sunny day and you will see how gorgeous it actually is.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Silver & gold Christmas"

The Don Deeva polish The Brothel collection swatches and review

Introduction

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Good day darlings. Today I have swatches of wonderful glitters from The Don Deeva polish collection called The Brothel. These glitters not only look stunning, but they also watermarble easily. You can check out my Candy cane design to see it for yourself. The formula is very smooth and pleasantly thin, non surprising for polish which water marbles. These glitters glide on your nail effortlessly, such an easy application, I love it! Unfortunately some really large glitters are sinking. The good news is that shaking of the bottle helps to mix most of them back. In spite of thin formula these glitters are fully packed with holographic particles, flakies, microglitters and glitters of various shapes and sizes. For my swatches I applied two easy coats on top of the nude peel of base and covered them with Seche vite top coat. Let's look at each  polish individually.

 

HPB presents: Glitter placement nail art with Dance legend Mountain snow "Christmas glitters"

Introduction

Good day darlings. Today I have something special, my first real glitter placement nail design inspired by hand made Christmas ornament which I found online. I used 1 coat of Dance legend Mountain snow as background and placed white and pale mint green glitters on top. It was easier and not as time consuming as I thought, guess it's because these glitters are quite large. I love how sparkly and original my nails look, really like mini ornaments, ready for Christmas tree.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Christmas glitters"

December macro challenge: Vermillion vagabond Femme Fatale swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings. It's Monday again and I want to show my red/holo swatch for December macro challenge. I did these swatches during summer and never had a chance to share them. Vermillion vagabond is a gorgeous holographic red with holo microglitters and pink blue shimmer. Wow, so many different things in one polish, no wonders it looks so stunning. I tried to capture all aspects of this complex polish and hopefully you will enjoy my pictures.

Results

Figure 1. Vermilion vagabond Femme fatale swatch.