Newspaper Nails. A few weeks ago I shared in this post that I learned how to do this amazing thing called "newspaper nails. " Since I love words, and reading, and books, it has inevitably become my favorite manicure. Want to learn the how-to? First, gather your supplies. You will need white nail polish, newspaper, rubbing alcohol, and clear shiny polish for the top coat. Step one: Grab some newspaper and cut it into pieces big enough to cover your nails. Step two: Paint your nails white.
Step three: Dip a piece of newspaper into the rubbing alcohol and saturate them well. Step four: Press the bit of newspaper on your fingernail hard for about three seconds and peel it off. Step five: Top coat time! Now admire your creation; and try not to chip your nails the first day like I all-too-often do. Galaxy Nails. How to draw hearts. Photos and post by Kristin Ess So Valentine’s Day has come and gone… but it’s never too late to learn how to do this! We got a lot of emails after Valentine’s Day asking how to make a heart on your nails. Love is a year ’round thing so here we go: TOOLS: Toothpick, polish, a piece of paper or foil. PREP: Pour a little puddle of polish on a piece of paper or tin foil. Using your toothpick dipped in polish, make a dot on your nail.Make a second dot next to that.Using your toothpick tip, drag one of the dots down at a 45 degree angle.Drag the other dot down at a 45 degree angle to meet the other side.
What else do you want to learn as far as nail art goes? Tags: DIY, heart, how to, kristin ess, mani monday, the beauty department, thebeautydepartment.com Related posts: Create your own Nail Polish. Here it is, finally! The Pigment Tutorial! For our purposes, pigment is a dry coloring material that can change the color or texture or a nail polish. Some pigment is loose, and some is pressed (think loose eyeshadow vs. the kind in the compact.)
Pigment can make a drastic change in the color of a nail polish. First, some pigments: TKB Trading Yellow 5, MAC, Fyrinnae. Pressed eyeshadows can also be a good source of pigment. However, there is one type of pigment that you should NEVER be putting on your body. Artists pigment. So, if you’ve got your non-toxic pigment, what else do you need? A little teeny spoon (I got this at a Japanese coffee shop) and silicone baking tins. Last, you need a spare bottle of clear nail polish.
The most basic pigment mixing is with clear polish. Left to right: MAC Teal, Fyrinnae Aztec Gold, Fyrinnae Boytoy, MAC Green Brown. Next, get ready to mix! 1. 2. 3. Voila! Here’s one coat (over the bright yellow I had on before!) With a coat of Seche. Like this: Owl Nail Art Tutorial. For this design, you will need several colors of polish, I used OPI San-Tan-Tonio, Color Club Almost Famous, Color Club Twiggie, Sally Hanson Lacey Lilac and a Black and white.
YOu will also need dotting tools, or your prefered method of making dots. I used a small detail brush for some elements, but you could also just use the dotting tools or a toothpick. I started with a base coat of San Tan Tonio, this color is prefection and a must have, in my opinion! I then used a large dotting tool to add two large circles connecting in the middle, this will make the mask for the owl, I used the same color and a detail brush to add the wings.
Next I added in white with the large dotting tool. The Usinga smaller tool, I added in the black to finish up the eyes I used yellow to add the little feet and a beak I finished up using the detail brush to add some lilac v’s, if you don’t have a detail brush, you could also just add some polka dots. Like this: Like Loading... How to: Remove Sparkle Nail Polish (aluminum foil method)...it really works! Sooooo I've been obsessed with sparkle nail polish!! Especially OPI's Sparkle icious... Sparkles are so fun and pretty on your nails... Except they are a biaatch to remove. We've probably all been there scrubbing at our nails with a mountain of cotton pads building up. Well I randomly came across a couple blogs that show you a fret free method of taking off the thick coats of sparkly stuff on your nails. It seemed too good to be true so I wanted to test it for myself....
So onto the tutorial ... these hideously chipped nails are ready for a fresh manicure! What you'll need: + 3 cotton pads + scissors + strip of aluminum foil + nail polish remover So what you do to prep is cut your strip of foil into ten rectangles. Now cut your cotton pads into quarters...I had a picture but I some how deleted it! Now soak your cotton pad quarter in nail polish remover, place it on your nail and wrap it in the foil. Ok, now that you've waited enough, you can remove the foil finger tips. NOTD: Gradient Holo Nails | The Nail Polish Project. I laid my hands on A England Saint George this week and I was so excited to get it that I decided I had to wear it before I wore Floam which was in the same package! I’ve actually worn it twice already – I’ve used it for stamping but the manicure chipped in a couple of hours boo.
So the next night I settled on the latest trend – a gradient – using Saint George and Color Club Wild At Heart. Scattered holo heaven! I have done a gradient manicure before back late last year, but that was before the revolution when it took forever to do a well blended gradient, one colour at a time. I don’t use the most common method of putting both polishes on a piece of plastic and pre mixing them. I love how this looks a bit like a duochrome polish at the same time – I kept flexing my nails expecting to see a colour shift! Holographic gradient manicure featuring A England Tristam, Saint George and Princess Sabra (Tristam Eyes) and a subtle stamping | The Swatchaholic . a blog about nail polish and makeup.
Gradient manicures are the current nail trend I can’t get out of my head so I couldn’t wait to try more gradient nails. I was especially curious about how a holographic gradient manicure would look. Because I wanted to experiment with two holographic/prismatic nail polishes with the same holo particles I picked A England Tristam and Saint George. After the gradient with Tristam and Saint George was finished I wanted to play a little more and stamped the gorgeous Princess Sabra (Tristam Eyes) with the reptile skin pattern from the Bundle Monster image plate BM 215 on top for a subtle look. Gradient nails with holographic nail polishes and a stamping? A guarantee that your camera will freak out while taking pictures. I love how the gradient manicure technique makes the two holos Tristam and Saint George look like a faux duochrome holographic nail polish.
The stamping adds a subtle extra to the manicure and also adds more holographic sparkles Coats used A England – Tristam: two. Jewel nail art.