Swatches!

Quick one as I'm off hiking tommorow with Duke of Edinburgh. This is the Boots No 7 colour I've been raving about. I'm going to do some nail art on it, but isn't it PRETTY?
Goodnight!

Pedicures!

I tried out the Boots colour that I talked about in the earlier post on my feet - (because tommorow is a Monday and I'd never get away with it on my fingers) and then on the left foot, one coat of the Maybelline Tropical Peach and another of some sheer pink Sally Hansen that seems to be popping up everywhere. At the moment I'm too lazy to go get the bottle but when I do find the inclination I'll post it here :P People hardly ever see my feet anyway as I hate wearing sandals but I just couldn't wait to try these out!

Goodnight all!

KONAD Nail Art | Spring / Easter Nail Art

Okay so I wanted to do a nail design for spring or easter that wasn't so literal. Instead of doing flowers, and easter eggs, I just decided to use spring-y colors instead.

What I Used:

**Base Coat - Sally Hansen (Hard as Wraps)

**All over nail - Sinful Colors (Easy Going)

**The colors I used for stamping was Konad Special Nail Polish in (Black Pearl), Pure Ice (Pussy Cat), Pure Ice (Outrageous), Sinful Colors (Innocent)

**Konad Image Plate M76, M54, M77 & M60

**Top Coat - Hard as Nail (From Sally's Beauty Supply)

How To Do:

1, Apply Base coat to nails and let dry.

2. Apply 2 coats of Sinful Colors (Easy Going) all over nail.

3, I started using a green polish, Sinful Colors (Innocent), and Image plate 76 (the image with leaves and stars) and applied the polish to half of the design. I stamped the image on the lower right corner of my nails.

4. Next I used a purple color, Pure Ice (Outrageous), and used Image Plate M77 and applied the polish to only half of the design and stamped the image on the middle-left of my nails.

5. Using Image Plate M54 I took the swirly design under the tulips, (image above butterfly), with a blue color, Pure Ice (Pussy Cat), I stamped the upper right corner of my nails.

6. Next I used Konad Special Polish in (Black Pearl) and Image plate M54. I used the entire design on my thumbs, and just the smaller design for the rest of my nails.

7. Apply top coat and allow to dry.

This is my favorite nail design I have done so far. I will be doing another spring look later this week.

Konad Pedicure

Our feet aren't the prettiest parts of our bodies, so I think it helps pretty them up when you have nicely pedicured toes. This is only my 2nd time using Konad, so if you haven't been able to tell, Konad is very easy to use. When I was doing this design though, half-way through, the bow image did not want to pick up!! I waited for an hour or so and tried again and was able to get it to work. I have also noticed that the small (green) side of my stamper does not pick up the images nearly as good as the big (pink) stamper. Anyway .. heres what I used ..

What I Used:
**Base Coat - Sally Hansen (Hard as Wraps)
**All over nail & for the tips on the big toe- Pure Ice (Love)
**All over nail on big toe - Sally Hansen (Cotton Candy)
**Konad Special Polish in (White) and (Psyche Pink)
**Konad Image Plate M77 (Bow design & Part of Flower design) & M60 (Plaid Stripes)
**Nail Art Striping Polish in Silver. (I bought mine from 5Below)


How To Do:
1. Apply Base Coat to All Nails.
2. Paint all toes, except big toe with Pure Ice (Love) 1-2 coats.
3. Apply a coat of Sally Hansen (Cotton Candy) all over big toe
4. After the polish has dried on the big toe, apply a strip of Pure Ice (Love) to the tips.
5. Once all the nail polish has dried, take Konad's special nail polish in (white) and Konad's Image Plate M77 and stamp white bows on all your toes except the big toe.
6. Using the same plate and white special polish, use the flower design on Image Plate M77 (left to the bow) and stamp only the swirly stem part of the image (everything but the flower) and stamp the image on the corner of your big toe.
7. Now using the white special nail polish and Image Plate M60 use the plaid stripes design. With the image long-ways on your stamper, stamp the image only on the pink tips on your big toes.
8. Go back to your M77 Bow image, and using special nail polish in (Psyche Pink) stamp the bow over the swirly white design you did in step 6.
9. Take a silver striping nail polish, and apply a line below the tips on your big toes. This will also help cover up any boo-boos from not applying the plaid design perfectly on the tip.
10. Wait for the silver stripe to dry, then apply a top coat over all toes.

This is a really pretty, flirty, design for your nails or toenails. Feel free to leave me a comment with any questions.

One of my first Konadicures

I will be posting a Konad review very soon. In the meantime, this is only my 3rd konadicure. These are my beautiful mom's nails that I just did the other weekend..

What I Used:
**Base Coat - Sally Hansen (Hard as Wraps)
**All over nail - Sinful Colors (Forget Now)
**Konad Image Plate M77
**Konad Special Nail Polish in (White)
**Top Coat - Hard as Nails (Once again, I am not sure the brand or price, but I bought it from Sally's Beauty Supply)

St Patty's Day Nails

I know, I know, St. Patty's day is already over. Sorry I didn't post the pic earlier but I have been super busy. I figured I would still post it to give people some ideas for next year. Also, please note that this picture does not do any justice for how pretty these colors looked in person.

What I Used:

**Base Coat - Sally Hansen (Hard as Wraps)

**All over nail - Jordana (Shining Star) Bought from Sally's Beauty Supply

**On the tips - 1st -Sinful Colors (San Francisco)

**On the tips - 2nd -Sinful Colors (Call you Later)

**For Clover - Sinful Colors (Innocent)

**Hard as Nails - Top Coat (Not sure the brand of this top coat, but I bought it at Sally's Beauty Supply)

How to Do:

1. Apply a base coat to all of your nails and allow to dry.

2. Apply 1 coat of

3. On the tips, apply a strip on Sinful Colors (San Francisco) or any other green color of your choice, and allow to dry.

4. Over the green tips, add a strip of green glitter. I used Sinful Colors (Call you Later)

5. Most people use a dotting tool and reccomend a toothpick if you do not have one. I don't have a dotting tool, and a toothpick does not work so great, so I would suggest using a BOBBY PIN for the clover or any dotting nail technique. Bend the bobby pin straight, apply Sinful Colors (Innocent) to the tip of the bobby pin and make 3 dots on the bottom corner of your nail. To make the stem of the clover, add another dot of green color in the middle of your clover and slide the bobby pin in a downwards motion to create the stem. Allow 10-15 mins to dry completely.

6. After the clovers have dried, apply a small dot of clear top coat in the middle of the clover. Pick up a green rhinestone and apply in the middle of the clover. Repeat for all your nails, or just your middle finger and thumb.

7.) As soon as the top coat to apply the rhinestones has dried a little. Apply a top coat to the entire nail and allow to dry.

I hope you like it! If you had any questions just leave me a comment. ;)

Haul!

So recently I've managed to acquire loads more nail polishes - five half used base coats (fine by me :D) and a load of new colours which I'll show you now. A really good family friend used to be a nail technician a while back and didn't use these any more...so she gave them to me. I am so pleased :)

Here we have: two Maybellines, three Avons and one nail polish from Boots.

This is what looks like a glittery purple topcoat (from Avon).

Here's the topcoat again with it's buddies - Avon Minimilastic Peach (which I showed in an earlier post) and Flash. Both look like they'll be good colours for school. The formula on Minimalistic Peach is absolutley gorgeous. The ball bearings literally fly through the mixture yet on your fingers it's not runny at all. Good coverage. I haven't tried Flash or Glittering Purple yet but I'm sure they'll live up to expectations.

The Maybelline colours really caught my eye! There's an orange (Tropical Peach, hmm, a lot of peaches hanging around here!) and a turquoise (Jelly Bean). The colours are both lighter than they appear in this photo. Again, haven't tried these out yet but expect swatches soon! Both of them look like they have very interesting hints of shimmer in them.

Last but not least, a dark metallic blue from Boots named "Oceanic 625." Mysterious.

This also seems to have quite a bit of shimmer in there.

Like I said earlier, swatches soon! I'm really pleased with these and I thank her for her generosity :) For a student on a budget these are a serious godsend. Oh, and on Tuesday, I'm leaving for my Bronze Duke of Edinburgh expedition (for those that don't know what that is, it's a British thing, google it because it's quite hard to explain) and I'll be back on Wednesday...we can see how whatever colour I'm wearing holds up against that terrain...

Purple Franken

Yeah. Look at that bad boi.

This is my second franken. I should have written down a recipe but I literally took an old, empty w7 nail polish bottle (base coat with ginseng) and added some blue nail art glitter, some green nail art glitter (from the nail art pens from Hong Kong, I never use the glitters) a relatively sheer Sally Hansen Diamond Hard (some of it, not a lot) and some Barry M in Raspberry and a whole lot more. The result was meh. I really wanted a duochrome but I don't/didn't really know how to go about making one of those and the Internet, for once, was no help. If anyone has any tips, please share! :) This is what it looks like though:

It's a lot more blue on the hands than the picture above shows.

It doesn't seem to mix very well but I don't have any ball bearings. Oh, and it dries satiny. Very nice :)

Do you guys think those two polishes look similar? The china glaze one is waaaay darker, of course, but the glitter...
Like I said, if anyone could give me pointers as so making a duochrome - much appreciated. Thanks!

Acrylic Nails, inlay nail art - TWINKEL NAILZ

Did tis set of Acrylic extension few weeks ago.Finally did inlay nail art on customers!

Learn inlay few months ago from my nail school but till recently then start to do it on customers.Inlay needs more time to do it on, i will only recommend to customers

who can wait patiently.

April Promotion !!! - Twinkel Nailz

Hi ladies ,tis set of Pinky acrylic glitters extension with 3D Ribbons with crystals will only cost u $80 for full set on April promotion.(exclude uv gel top coat)

Book ur appts now!

Acrylic Nails- By TWINKEL NAILZ

Tis set of Acrylic set with lotz of handmade 3D heart-shapes took me 4hrs to do it.

NICE????

Pinky glitters extension with simple 3D Ribbons .

Handmade 3D roses and lotz of blings blings on it. :)

Sheers for School - Avon Colour Trend Minimalistic Peach

Hi! Today I went to school with this colour on - a recent acquisition from a family friend. It's a great, very light pearly pink.

That was three coats, and there is still VNL but it's just so pretty! I couldn't stop staring at my nails, they reminded me of Mother of Pearl or something.

 

Do you guys thing this suits me? It looks very golden in this picture but it's not really.

And a bottle shot:

Frankens and Konad!

My school's production of Les Mis ended a week ago and since I was involved (playing the violin in the orchestra, it was great fun!) I went to the afterparty at the boy who plays Marius's house yesterday :P Was great fun, but this is how my nails looked like:

That was the design on my right hand. See, as I was getting ready for the party I frankened this polish out of an old eyeshadow:

Yeah, I love it too. Reminds me of chocolate :D So I Konaded over the top of it with a baby pink Nails Inc. polish.

On the left hand, I painted the nails the same Nails Inc. baby pink colour, but simply Konaded over it with this brown polish like so:

The rose on the index finger went slightly wrong, so I stuck a couple of Fimo shapes over it.

All in all, I'm quite pleased with the effect! I got quite a few compliments - well, before everyone got too drunk to care, haha. Anyway, what do you think about my first franken attempt?

St Patrick's Day!

Little late, I know, but here's my offering:

Quite messy but was done on the go :P A little shamrock on the thumb to go with the rainbows...not enough room for a pot of gold!

Nails Inc Sloane Mews

Managed to obtain another Nails Inc polish today! It's named Sloane Mews and looks very white in the bottle but once on the nail it was very sheer. Like, really sheer. It took another coat for a passer by to notice, though it was very school appropriate - noticeable, but not. Perfect for Mondays.

It's very hard to capture...on the nail, it looks like quite a translucent white with some very pretty shimmer but this doesn't seem to translate on the camera...

Gotta love Hong Kong

Goodies! I have loads of new stuff off eBay which took ages to arrive (fair enough, seeing as it's from Hong Kong) but is well worth the wait! First off, a lovely set of five Konad plates. Two are French Manicure ones which are slightly tricky to line up but look great, and the other three are a mixture of flower designs, Chinese characters and the greatest HELLO KITTY plate – yeah baby :P I also have a pink plastic stamper and scraper.

Next, I have a set of twenty five Fimo nail art canes. There are three flower canes in purple, yellow and pink, but the rest are different fruit shapes such as watermelon, apple, bananna, strawberry…list goes on. Good buys seeing as I got the whole lot for much less than seven quid. Expect to have your eyes assaulted by my nail art :P