So where do I begin this week..... let's do my videos first!
Now this design here didn't turn out exactly as I had hoped. Although I managed to get the mylar pretty flat and not sticking out, something about it was getting to me and I ended up only wearing this design for a day. Its not often that I end up disliking a mani, but it does happen! The reason I keep a prototype for showing clients and the reason I still shared the video is because just cos I ended up not liking it greatly, that doesn't mean others will not be in love with this mani. I feel this would of worked better embedded in acrylic or gel and would certainly love to try it out on someone in the future.
Ah so many goodies in this video. I am in LOVE with banggood.com. Honestly the way I go on about it you'd think I was sponsored by them but I assure you I paid for everything myself and I genuinely like their nail products. Some items I got for use with my college nail project I'm working on. I will eventually have a video for this BUT it won't be until May as the nails will be done on a person on May 1st. I can't wait to be able to show it to you!
Here was a cute gold and silver combo I did not too long ago. The gold was OPI Goldeneye and it is an amazing shade! I have been trying to use some of my less common colours I own as I want to get use out of all my polishes! I should count them one day... but I'm a bit scared too haha!
My second "How to celeb nail art" went up too! This was a really simple Rihanna design. I want to do more celeb art but finding close up/clear pics is harder than you would think! This was a mani that didn't stay on too long either, I couldn't cope with the spikes. I would poke myself with them when I was getting dressed! Spikes aren't for me.
The last of my catch up vids in this Naio acrylic powder. I've been wanting to try them for a while and never got round to buying any but I was craving some new colours so figured why not use this time to try them! I filmed a vid the other day of me doing nail art using some of these. Compared to NSI colours I found these ones a bit more runny in consistency but not so much that it was in an unworkable manner. This actually made them really good for use as blending and the pigment of colour was still strong too. I only had NSI liquid to use so perhaps using there own brand liquid would of affected the consistency.
So thats all the Youtube stuff caught up on! Now there is the matter of pictures... this could be long!
So I've been getting lots of practice in at college so let me pop those pics altogether!
This was an infill back fill assessment which I then added some quick nail art to.
This was my first full hand try at sculpted acrylics. This sculpting thing is tricky but I can't wait to get better at it.
I had another go at sculpted acrylics here.
This was done today, full set of sculpted gel. It wasn't too bad for a first try but plenty room to improve. My structure was off on some of the nails and the room was a bit hot and messing with the gels didn't help me out either! Its all about practicing though and I'm confident I will get there!
On to other things I've been messing around with in class is some nail art. This was a technique I saw done by Absolute Nails on youtube and I wanted to give it a try. My downside - I had no drill so had to hand file this down! I know the shape isn't perfect but if you go check out her vid and see what you need to do, you will understand why I got fed up filing! It is definitely a fun technique and I would love to do it some more after I get a drill.
After sharing some amazing 3D sculpted work on Facebook I tried some out. Now my butterfly turned out nothing like the superb, lifelike one in the picture, but for a first try it was ok! You can't just get it right on the first try now can you? :) The mouse/rat was just a spur of the moment try since I was doing other 3D but this is something I would like to try out again!
Lastly I will share with you the art I have worn recently!
My jumper even matched when I took this! I love the studs but I had one gripe! The pink coating on them came away (a lot on some, small parts on others) so the only way I see around this would be embedding them under gel or acrylic. If I was to wear them again on myself, I would pick silver ones only so that I wouldn't have to worry abour the colo9ur chipping .
I loved these! The glitter on the tip I had just picked up and was dying to use, combined with the stud wheel that was also crying out to be used I came up with this! the stars stayed on really well until I got one caught on my clothes and it pinged off, but that was after 5 days wear.
I did my toes again! It's been a while but I wanted to do something and I wanted to do that something with foil! so here are my gel foil toes. I'm finalising the video and it will be up this weekend to watch.
Also on my "to do" list is a slideshow video showing off my work in acrylic and gels. Since I don't wear those myself (outwith some gel on my toes occasionally) I wanted to find a way to share my other work with those who follow me on youtube only.
I feel like this has been one big epic update! I will say it again... I will try write these more regularly!! Thanks for reading if you got this far :)
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