Popular Summer Colors

People are becoming more and more bold with their nail polish

color choices and I love it.

Popular Colors at the moment:

- Teal 

- Bright Purple

- Yellow

- Minty Green

- Yellowish Green

- Hot Pink

- Salmon

- Orange

etc !!!

Have fun with it

DO NOT BE AFRAID TO STAND OUT

embrace it !!! 

Dont forget to always use Base Coat : )

Gothic Lolita Nails

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" Lolita Fashion (ロリータ・ファッション ) is a fashion subculture in Japan that

is primarily influenced byVictorian children's clothing as well as costumes 

from the Rococo period. Lolita has made this into a unique fashion by adding 

gothic and original design elements to the look. "

I made nails influenced by the clothing - not by what sort of nails

they normally have cuz I have no idea what they look like. lol. 

P.S - I totally freaked myself out at the end of this video. Lol ! 

Im wearing the hat from my halloween costume - I was a gothic lolita last yr. 

Piano Nail Tips + Ways to use a pen for Nail Art

I used a periwinkle by Etude House

A good purple to use could be

'Done out in Deco' by OPI

If you cant find a nice periwinkle

White - Sally Hansen

Black - Art Club - has thin brush

I love that stuff

Then I jazzed it up with purple

rhinestones

Ways to use a plain ole' pen for nail art !

1. Use it as a Nail Dotting Toll

2. Use it to pick up Rhinestones

3. Use it to paint various shapes on nails.

Here is my video showing how I made these nails.

Its not perfect but I had fun doing them !

Online Nail Order

I ordered billions of things from this site

last night.

http://fullmoon07xxx.ocnk.net

They have such cute lovely stuff for your nails !

They have all you need to make those Japanese style nails.

I really wanna try Hime Gyaru nails. 

Hime Gyaru = lots of white, pink , bows , lace , fluff 

Basically princess-like. 

A lot of people in Japan dress in this Rococo influenced style. 

Here are some of the things I got

I got lots more things but you will see later.

The last pic is stuff to decorate your ipod, camera 

or whatever you want.

Gonna buy some epoxy glue and try to decorate

an ipod case.  

I saw nail techs in Japan decorating their phones

like this when they had no customers.

Cute ! 

Heres an example of what I wanna do:

My Mac is Nail Polish Proof !

Um.. So I spilled Nail Polish on my beloved computer...


Once I did that with my old HP and I put a little

nail polish remover on a q tip and tried to rub it off and it

totally discolored my comp.
Eek !!! But with this aluminum comp it worked like

a charm. Horray !
I love you my darling mac.


P.S - Im in love with this new skin I bought yesterday.
Hot Pink with a touch of Salmon.
I think I will do a nail tutorial using colors of this family
next. Kind of a sunset/island/tropical flavored look.

: )

Ocean Gradiation

I love gradiation nail art. Its so pretty ! You can use many different colors
& use glitter/rhinestones to dress it up.
For this tutorial I wish I had star rhinestones or something else fun

Maybe I should just paint a fish on one of my nails
to make it extra ocean-ish : )

Here is my basic guide in in the form of a diagram :

1. Blank Area
2. Light Color
3. Mix of Light & Dark Color
4. Dark Color
5. Dark Dark Color


After I finished I swiped a silver glittery color
all over the nail to give it more of a fun look.

Shapes & Peeves

Everyone has a naturally different nail shape. 

It is determined by the width or length

of your nail bed.  But no matter what you can 

always buff and file your nails into a desired shape.

There are even nail polish tricks to make your nails

look a better shape. Google it.  

No matter what nail shape you choose please dont be

ridiculous and have super long nails. 

They will get in the way not to mention look horrid. 

Haha ! 

“Squoval” Nails seem to be most popular right now.

As you can tell by the name the nails are squared off

but not harshly.

The edges are a bit rounded off.

They look clean cut and modern and not tacky.   

Speaking of tacky...

Can people PLEASE get over these kinds of acrylic nails?

 

Hello ?! 

How much more fake can they look ? 

Yes, a lot of the nail designs on various acrylic nails

is well done...but the length and shape of the actual

fake nail always looks so hideously tacky.

Its so easy to grow nails out to the perfect length.

In one month you could have a good length nail.

Why pay for ghetto-ness..

P.S - Im also over the classic french manicure.

Im sorry , I just am ! 

Okay, I feel better now : ] 

Ooooh You know who always has nice squared off

wonderfully polished nails ?!

Miss Chievous - Youtube Guru 

She buys Nail Polish from the following sites:

http://8ty8beauty.com/

http://head2toebeauty.com/

http://www.transdesign.com/

Now I shall leave you with this :

Disturbing Nail Photo Du Jour

Zebra Nail Fun

I felt like doing something summery and different.

I have an addiction to pink nails and wanted

to break out of that box for a moment.

I used Yellow, Hot Pink,  Teal, Orangey-Red & Taupe 

for the base colors.

You could try this with just 1 or 2 colors as well.

You could draw your own guide

or use this one roughly.

Draw these sort of lines in a miniature form

on your nail. Any combo of these lines

will come out looking good. 

I used a Black Nail polish with a thin brush from

Etude House on my left hand

& after I filmed the video I tried out a

black from Color Club on my right hand. 

It worked perfectly as well. It had a long thin brush 

but I still felt like I could control the lines.

Have fun !

Heres the video of me doing mine.

It was kind of difficult to show. Hope you can get it.

Once you start it becomes easier. Practice on paper first !