Monday 20 January 2014

Time for an update!

Hello readers,

So last week when I did my nails I made a start on my "How to: Celeb nail art".  I'm quite excited for this series!  I started out with a set worn by Rita Ora and this was probably my most bling design I've ever worn!





 The original picture I found of these I was struggling to come across again when it came time to do these (cos bright spark me didn't save the page like she thought she had!) and it had only 1 hand on show.  I had assumed the other hand was the same and would of done them like that had I not then found this!  So in a way I am glad I did lose the original picture since I found the nails in full as shown here!
I am going to upload this video tomorrow as I have it edited and ready to go!  I am going to also try and have a small haul vid up of a few things I have purchased recently. I am going to show off these 2 new polishes also:




I am so excited to find these in Sally's!  I have heard of this brand before but it seemed to be an American product so I was really surprised to see it.  It was a one off shipment I was told so I picked up a couple to try out!  They were from a cupcake style range and not only do they change colour but they are scented and omg the strawberry cheescake smells so yummy!  The other is chocolate mousse.

Working wise I did my cousin nails for a Wedding she was attending!



Sparkly purple glitter acrylics anyone?!  She's a bit of a nail biter so very short nails to work with especially on the ring finger!  It's really only my second time doing a nail biter so there is room for improvement but I was happy with the end result still.  It's one thing to learn HOW to deal with bitten nails, its another to ACTUALLY do them!

I had a mother and daughter duo come over for what was to be glitter gel toes only, turned into gel toes, paraffin wax and some fingernail art!







The art was just done on the thumb and ringfinger to keep it nice and simple :)  Sometimes simple is all you need!

Nail art related:  I have been working on my creative nail unit design at college and have decided on a masquerade theme!  This is the start of it:




I'm really proud of this so far!  The black nail is full acrylic with sculpted 3D flower and shapes and then I took a silver striper to highlight it as I felt there was something missing!  The other nail has embedded silver holographic glitter and then I sculpted the mask on it, added white detail and a feather finishing touch!  I need to come up with the other 3 nails now.  I think 1 shall be embedded lace, the others I'm not sure yet.

 
This is the nail art I had on last week.  Perhaps not the best picture to show it off but the gold and silver combo was really amazing together!

Lastly here is the vid I put up recently!

And since I am terrible at keeping up to date... here is the other one!



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Thursday 9 January 2014

New Year New Post?!

Yeah I guess I do kinda suck at making up titles!  So it's been a little bit since I posted on here.  That's us into the new year.  2014 is gonna be quite a year for me.  I graduate from college in June and I hope then to be able to go self employed as a nail tech with a specialized interest in nail art!  Ah so scary all this big grown up stuff of trying to go self employed.  It's not gonna be easy that's for sure!

So let's see what I have been up to!  If you follow me already on my social media most of this is gonna be reposts for you guys!  (If you don't... why not?!)

This is a really quick and simple design.  I was just having one of those weeks where I was really not coming up with anything super amazing so this was the result.  It's not one that I can say I was overly fond of but I did wear it for the week.  I find myself struggling recently when trying to think up designs and then I get frustrated with myself.  I wanted to try making a little series kind of thing for my youtube; how to nail art: "famous person".  Now the problem I'm having with this is actually finding clear enough pictures to allow me to replicate!!  So far I have found a good picture of a Ke$ha and Rita Ora design so I might do those soon.  If anyone have any suggestions or links to where I can find what I'm after please let me know, it's driving me nuts!

Yesterday I tried out something I had been wanting to do for a while now.

Full 3D acrylic nail!  I was so proud of this even though I see improvements I can do!  I watched this be done by NovaInc and hers is amazing.  I'm considering making a video of me doing it but not sure if it is worth it since this person already has a video on it.  However we might have different subscribers so this could be new to you!  On the right I have a nail with sequins embedded.  I was just messing around here and the shape isn't right on it but I will keep trying.  The nail trainer hand is one of the best nail related items I have bought and worth the money in my opinion.





I'm proud of this set here!  We have been practicing french acrylic for the past few weeks.  Our assessment is to be on a nail biter so the pink shade used in this set is actuall a cover pink.  It's called Rose blush by NSI and I actually just love it as a stand alone colour!  It really compliments a pale skin tone.  My smile lines are getting crisper too so very happy with my progress on this :)



Now this design I did yesterday...and I'm now no longer wearing it xD  It was complemented a few times when I was out and it was well recieved on my facebook page but I just was not overly happy with it.  I can't even fully explain why but I knew I couldn't leave it on as it would drive me nuts.  The myler was a little jaggy even after 3 top coat and some soft filing and that might have been a contributing factor to me not liking it but either way it's not on any more haha!  I still made a video for it thought and I will get round to uploading it.




This was the nail art I had on previous.  I always like the effects you can get using striping tape.  I do sometimes use it as it was probably more so intended (stuck on the nail) but I find that after a couple days the top layer starts to want to come away and thats with a good top coat.  No mater what I do it just eventually peels away taking some of the colour of the tape with it so I find myself only using it to do things like this where the tape goes in the bin after.


This was a cute acrylic set I done for someone!  My camera sucks at picking up the amazing sparkle of the glitters.  Maybe that's the next thing to be on my list!

Well I shall leave this post here for now!  Watch out for my new nail art video tomorrow and come check me out on my social media!
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