With Christmas around the corner I thought it would be fun to make a nail art matching this time of the year. I used a technique I’ve also used here and here. I use this technique often because it’s really quick but more important very easy: you don’t need a lot of skills to make your odd hand as pretty as the other one.
You can find the tutorial for this nail art at CosmOpinie and my YouTube.
Step into Christmas.
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Last week I did my first caviar manicure! I wanted to try this manicure for so long but the Ciaté ones are a bit hard to get for me so that didn’t work out. A few weeks ago I saw these little bottles with beads in Superdrug at the MUA stand and well.. I couldn’t help myself and bought two of them!
Here I used ‘Pisces’ because, well, I am a Pisces, haha. I also bought Gemini but I’ll show you that with another nail design. The base colour I used is O.P.I ‘My Boyfriend Scales Walls’ from the Spiderman collection. I totally understand if people think it’s a bit of a boring colour but I actually really like it! It’s an off white colour, slightly grey. This makes it more wearable for autumn and winter, it looked absolutely amazing with my navy blue shirt this week.
You can view the tutorial for this design on CosmOpinie or my YouTube channel.
Caviar manicure.
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I gave my own twist to the spun sugar nails. Not so many strings and more variation in the thickness of them. It’s not as hard as it looks, it just takes a lot of patience. Most people say they don’t have the patience to paint there nails and I have to say, I don’t have a lot of patience, but painting my nails is quite relaxing. You can shorten the time it takes by using the base you’ve already on your nails. My nails were already painted in this greenish-grey colour, I only had to add the “spun sugar”!
You can watch the tutorial on CosmOpinie or my YouTube channel.
Spun sugar nails.
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Unlike the last Design + Style this one is a bit tricky to do! I got inspired by the Prabal Gurung AW12 show where he used a blood drop design on the models’ nails. I don’t think the person who made this design used a toothpick to paint it on the nails but since I don’t own fancy nail art brushes (no, I really don’t) I have to be creative with the gear I do have.
This was actually my first attempt to do this specific design and I think it turned out pretty good. The picture shows my second attempt (because I was stupid enough to remove everything from my nails, only then realising I forgot to take pictures) and it was a lot easier to do. The trick is that you have to work fast, but not too fast. The first time I was too worried about how the drops had to look which resulted in my nail polish getting a bit thick because the bottle was open for too long – don’t worry: this is just temporary. The second time I painted without thinking about the actual look of the drops and that’s why I worked a lot faster.
This design is even more suitable for Halloween then the Emma Watson inspired I did, are you going to give it a try?
This tutorial can be watched on CosmOpinie or my YouTube channel
Bloody Halloween.
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Emma Watson ELLE UK November 2011
Opzoek naar inspiratie voor een nieuwe nail art tutorial kwam ik een leuke shoot tegen van Emma Watson voor het ELLE UK november nummer van vorig jaar. De shoot ziet er weliswaar leuk uit, haar nagels vielen me het meest op! Niet iets wat je elke dag tegen komt en zeker leuk om eens te proberen!
Als je naar de fotoʼs kijkt zie je dat alleen langs de nagelriem kleur zit en deze een beetje naar het midden van de nagel is vervaagt. Omdat het aan het eind van de maand Halloween is heb ik het design (echte nail art is het natuurlijk niet) wat aangepast naar een iets meer grungy look in plaats van een “ik heb niet al mijn nagellak afgehaald”-look. Zo ziet het er wat minder sophisticated en meer Halloween-proof uit.
Het is iets waar je van moet houden. Want ja.. voor de een is dit artistiek, voor de ander gewoon alsof je je nagellak hebt afgeveegd. Ik hou ervan. Hoewel het inderdaad lijkt alsof ik halverwege ben gestopt met de nagellakremover heeft het wel iets. Maar zoals ik al zei: misschien iets voor Halloween?!
De tutorial voor dit design is te vinden op CosmOpinie
Design + Style #18.
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Hello! I am Bodine, a 20 year old student living the London life for five months! As often as possible I write an update about my life here but I think you can imagine it's more important to enjoy my time here and do as many things as I can!
