The Digi Nails - A Hybrid Manicure & The Hybrid Chick I’ve been seeing lots of outrageous nail art lately on pinterest. One hot new product that’s really caught my eye is adhesive nail polish strips. I love the funky designs and bold colors with these products, but they’re usually a little spendy for me. I have a great alternative and I’m super-excited to share with you a really fun, new way to use digital scrapbooking supplies! To begin with, you will need the following: light color nail polish (white, light pink, cream, pale green, light turquoise, you get the idea….)rubbing alcoholsmall cup (I used a medicine cup.)digital supplies (laser print or copy)nail polish topcoat 1) Before getting started, quickly measure your fingernails. 2) Open a new Photoshop document and create for yourself 10-15 boxes that are a little larger than your nails. 3) Find some great papers that you’d like to have on your nails. You will likely want to reduce the scale of your paper so that the design will better fit your nails. 4) Print your page. A few thoughts:
How to Apply Liquid Foundation: Makeup and Beauty Blog: Makeup Reviews, Beauty Tips and Drugstore Beauty Finds Written by Sam Sam is a 17-year-old, oddly tall guy whose love of all things skincare, makeup, and fashion started when he entered the modeling world at 14. Since then, he’s established himself as a freelance makeup artist in the theatre and fashion worlds, and started his own blog to preach the wonders of orange eyeshadow, Asian skincare, and designer fragrances to the masses. You can also follow Sam on Twitter. Liquid foundation is one of the ficklest products to apply. But after years (literally, it has been that long) of trying different methods, brushes, and foundations, I think I finally have it down to a handful of simple steps that can make all the difference in the world. 1. Grab your favorite liquid foundation. 2. Take a dense, flat top brush (my favorite is the Sigma F80), and dip it into the foundation. 3. Starting at the nose, stipple in small, tight areas, moving to the cheeks and the borders of the face, stippling product inward towards the center. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
nail insiration ♥ - Polyvore - StumbleUpon 350 272 991 510 746 2076 173 926 70 63 210 591 245 769 236 262 1513 623 598 177 1348 830 1208 893 629 527 514 241 71 168 527 541 334 2019 1714 36 185 56 286 100 45 80 54 94 50 52 202 83 214 401 786 35 175 155 596 363 241 45 188 74 1164 178 25 268 1513 481 762 789 606 91 79 1204 920 Secrets learned at makeup artist school You could say that I have a love/hate relationship with makeup. Some days I enjoy playing with all the different colors and get excited when my smoky eye turns out perfectly. But then there are those days when my liner refuses to go on straight, my bronzer makes me look like an Asian Snookie, or my lashes refuse to curl. I had one of those days last week, and after walking into work wearing two very different winged tips on my eyes, my editor assigned me a new story: Go to makeup school and write about it. Want to see the best techniques I picked up without spending the thousands of dollars (and crazy amount of time) it takes to go to makeup school yourself? Lesson No. 1: Spend some bucks on your tools At Napoleon Perdis' Makeup Academy in Hollywood, Rebecca Prior, NP's National Educator, begins the first lesson by introducing us to our tools. Here are the eight basic brushes you need: 1. Once you have your tools, you need to know how to hold them. Totalbeauty.com