Wednesday, December 18, 2013

12 Days of Christmas Tutorials: Day 6 Reindeer

Hey guys. I find it ironic that I am so ready for the holidays on my blog. I have nail art tutorials weeks before Christmas. But in my own house, I don't even have a tree up yet. Well hey, I haven't even gotten a tree yet at all. I did finish on of the paintings for my parents though! Painting nails actually doesn't transfer to some canvas skills! I might have some pics up in the next post!

Today I have the reindeer tutorial for you! Everyone knows about the reindeers and they pull Santa's sled and such. I mean, hey!, we wouldn't even get presents without them!

For this design you will need:
  • Base and top coat
  • Nail brushes
  • Nail dotting tools
  • A white, nude, brown, dark brown, black, and red polish.


 Step one: Paint your nails with a nude polish

 Step two: Take your brown and paint a half circle at the bottom of your nails

 Step three: Take a bigger dotting tool and make a circle on top of the half circle, connecting them as you do.

 Step four: Make a red dot at the bottom of the reindeer's head

 Step five: Take your white and make two dots right next to each other for the eyes

 Step six: Take a smaller dotting tools and make black dots in the white ones.

 Step seven: Take your nail art pen and draw two lines coming from the head, going up.

 Step eight: Try lines coming out of the original lines. Finish up with cleaning up and top coat!



Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

12 Days of Christmas Tutorials: Day 5 Santa's Hat

Hey! I'm back! I have a cute Santa hat tutorial for you guys! This is probably the easiest design I have come up with so far, and in my opinion, the cutest!

For this design you will need:
  • Base and top coat
  • Dotting tool
  • A white polish, a red polish, and a nude polish

 Step one: Paint your nails a light nude color

Step two: Paint a red triangle on your nails like the picture above.

Step three: Use your dotting tool and make small intersecting circle on the bottom of the red triangle.

Step four: Make a dot on the top of the triangle. Clean up and use top coat, then your done.



Thanks for reading and have a great day!

12 Days of Christmas Tutorials: Day 4 Christmas Water marble

Hey! I'm not going to make any promises about catching up on my tutorials any more, because life keeps getting in the way! I'm only one day late, so one of these days, I will have two tutorials in a day. I'm hopefully going to get my hair cut today for the holidays! I'm getting my side bangs back :)

For this design you will need:
  • Base and top coat
  • 2+ christmas polishes
  • A cup with filtered or bottled water in it
  • A toothpick
  • Clean up supplies

 Step one: Pick at least 2 christmas colored polishes. The best colors are red, green, a nude, or gold.

 Step two: Paint your nails white or a light nude.

Step three: Drop some polish in the cup like a normal design.

 Step three: Put a drop of polish in a different part of the water

Step four: Continue dropping polish in the water, they can overlap if you want to.

 Step five: Continue with the drops until you have filled up the water.

Step six: Take your toothpick and swirl the polish around. If you can avoid the first drop, but it doesn't make that much of a difference if you don't.

Step seven: Dip your nail into the part of the design you like best, then take a toothpick or q-tip and clean up the excess polish on the water. Keep your finger in while doing that.

 Step eight: Carefully pull your finger out of the water.

Step nine: Clean up your finger with a q-tip and acetone. Then use a brush and acetone for your cuticles. Add top coat and your done!





Thanks for reading and have a great day! :)

Monday, December 16, 2013

12 Days of Christmas Tutorials: Day 3 Snowflakes

Hey! I should have two posts today, so I can catch up! It's been crazy this last week and next week because of Christmas. I am painting my parents a landscape. Its funny because I paint my nails almost everyday, but I can't paint on a canves for shit. Anyways, today's tutorial is really easy. Snowflakes! What a surprise right? I feel like every blog has a tutorial for snowflakes.

For this design you will need:
  • Base and top coat
  • Nail art brushes
  • A white polish
  • A polish of your choice
  • Clean up supplies
Step One: Paint your nails a color of your choice.

Step two: Paint 3 lines like shown. You can totally do two lines or four, all snowflakes are different!

Step three: Paint lines coming out of the original lines. Sadly for me, my white is old and really thick so the lines turned out really thick and gross.

Step four: If you want to, fill your nails up with snow flakes! Add top coat and clean up. Then your done.



So what do you think? If you try the design send me a link or tag me in Instagram. :)

Sunday, December 15, 2013

12 Days of Christmas Tutorials: Day 2 Snowy Landscape

Hey! I'm behind on my tutorials already. Go me. I haven't even gotten day 3 (today) made yet. So it's going to be a long night for me. I hope you are all liking these tutorials because I sure am! They are lots of fun!

For this design you will need:
  • Base coat
  • Nail brushes
  • Dotting tools or a tooth pick
  • A blue and white polish (textured will make it more snowy.)
 Step one: Paint your nails a dark blue

Step two: Paint your tips white. It can be a little bumpy because the ground isn't perfect either.

Step three: Draw a tree. I drew a line up from the ground then mad little triangles coming from the line, in both directions.

Step four: Make different sized dots for the snow in the sky and your done. If you used textured polish, don't use top coat.



Friday, December 13, 2013

12 Days of Christmas Tutorials: Day 1 Christmas Tree

I'm back! I am finally caught up with all of my posts! Today I have day one of my 12 days of christmas tutorials series. I really love Christmas and giving to others. It is probably my favorite holiday of the year!
Today is a tutorial for a christmas tree!

For this design you will need:
  • Base coat and top coat
  • Clean up supplies
  • Dotting tools and brushes
  • A nude, green, and yellow polish
  • Your choice of 4 or 5 polish (I would suggest not to do green, because it will blend into the tree. 
 
Step one: Paint your nails a nude or white color

Step two: Paint a green triangle for the tree

Step three: Paint a yellow star on top of the triangle





Step four: Take your dotting tool and put random dots for ornaments on the tree


 Step five: Put top coat on, clean up, and your done!

Have a great day and thanks for reading!

Birthday Haul: Part 4 Sally Beauty Supply & Target

Hey guys! Today has been.... interesting. Friday the 13th came to bit me in the ass. I almost cut my finger, slammed my same finger in a door, and almost started a fire in my house. I left the microwave on for 40 minutes with pasta in it. Yeah, thats one of those moments where you kinda want to just go back to bed.

I have the last of the birthday haul swatches for you today! I got Seche Vite Top Coat, a clean up brush, OPI Nail Envy, Sally Girl Brainy, and Cover Girl Rogue Red.


Seche Vite Thoughts:

I was expecting A LOT more from this top coat. Its not bad but from hearing all about how great it is and how everyone uses it, it surprised me. Yes, it dried super fast. Like probably in a minute or two. My nails felt really smooth and slick with it. I'm just sad because it pulls the nail polish up from the tips of my nails. Other people probably can't see it, but I can and it annoys the crap out of me. I'm not really sure if I will buy it again or not.

OPI Nail Envy:

I have heard so much about Nail Envy. People basically bow down to this product and now I understand. My nails have always be very prone to breakage and stains. It seems like every time I get my nails to the right size, they break. It has made me mad for a while, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to spend $16 on this stuff. So when I got a Sally Beauty Supply gift card for my birthday, I jumped at the chance.

This stuff is amazing. I have been wearing it as a base coat for about a week now and holy crap. My nails already look a lot better. I will have pictures of before and after next week! I jammed my nails into my desk on day 3. I could have been sure that at least one nail would break, but they didn't! I'm super happy with this! Here are my before pics and a pic of about a week in!

Before

As you can see, my nails look REALLY BAD. I had stains every where and they are mostly gone now. My nails are a lot stronger and never break. Its only been a week!


See! Its already been a week and you can totally see the difference. Plus my nails have been growing like crazy. I had to file them twice this week.

Sally Girl Brainy:

Brainy is a glitter with small teal glitter and bigger blue glitters. It is basically a complete dupe of Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Dream. It has a lot of problems though. I thought you could maybe wear this one alone, but you can't I tried up to 5 coats then just ended up putting it over Essie Turquoise & Caicos. It is still super pretty. Here is 2 coats over Essie Turquoise & Caicos.




Cover Girl Rouge Red:

Rouge Red is part of the Catching Fire collection and is a shimmery red orange. It is sooo beautiful. This polish probably makes my top ten for this year. I love it, it looks so much like fire. The formula is great too and goes on in two coats. Here is two coats with top coat.




So that is it for my birthday haul! I got close to twenty polishes! I'm really happy with most of them. What do you think of these? Were you disappointed in Seche Vite too? Let me know in the comments!
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