Mirror-Mirror on the nails...

I have played around with the Marcelline mirror image polishes that i also have got from Broke. Boy or boy - this stuff is fantastic!!! It would nether catch my eyes in the bottles but when i finally tried it on i was really impressed and committed some experiments. I liked it so much that i have it now on my finger nails and on the toe nail too :)

This is a 2 step process, the base goes first and then the silver color. First time you put in on it looks more matte then shiny, but once dry it is very very shyny. My husband even asked me if i glued some aluminum foil on nails this time :) But this describe it so well - it does really look like aluminum foil, so it is kind of hard to catch this shines on picture, but i did my best.



This is a very first design i made on my great discover - i certainly just stamped it with the 2 tones color. By the way top coat application doese not afect the shines significantly. On my all designs i used only one coat of base and one coat of silver.
Here is what i have on my toes

So stamping the images on the mirror is just a piece of cake, especially because it dyes really really quick. But then i went even further, and stamped my nails with the mirror polishes. The base is a really important step, because just silver without the base soes not shine as it suppose to. So applyed the main black color, and then i applied the mirror base on it. At first it look a little nasty, and give you some licking of color, but don't worry, it all is gone once mirror base drys

So when the base dry i stamped nails with silver mirror polish. Stamping is a little tricky, sometimes you don't get thick enough layer of polish and you dont get the shine, my recommendation is to put a really thick layer on the image plate, sometime even scrape it twice - apply polish in the image plate, scrape, and really quick apply again and scrape again, so the layer that you pick up with stamper is thick enough.



It look really good, isn't it? :) You can do it not only on black but also on almost every color, even on the light once it usually works fine. except may be white. But another really cool way to stamp your nails like this is to do french. After drowning the white smile on the end of nail cover all the nail with the mirror base - in fact it really gives you nice smoother effect on the nail and on the smile too. Once it all dry simply stamp the nails this the mirror silver. I didn't do a really good job on stamping this time, so you can see that it is not really shiny - the problem is that the layer of silver was not thick enough as i disused above. But if make a good stamping it look really adorable.



And finally the pictures of what i actually have on my nails right now. I love this shiny manicure and i see a great potential of the mirror image from Marcelline for nail decorations . In other worlds - i just love it. !!! hope this post will make some of you find your dusty mirror kits and try to make some designs using it, because this is really good stuff. And huge thanks for Brook :0)

Gradation nails ( by hands)

As i bet any of you i have quite a collection of polishes , with the bad level opacity.Those are type of polishes that takes more then 2 layers to get any solid color, but even fter hours of drying all those tons of layers you still can see what is going on under the polish .
Now here is a bright idea how to tern whose whose useless polishes into the powerful nail-art tool.Those polishes are just perfect to do the graduation on your nails, so i hope you didn't throw all of them away.
I played a little with this idea and here are some result.




You can easily create the graduation by following those steps:
1. Find the right polish, it must be very transparent, polishes without glitter or chips works the best.
2. Put the really thick layer of the transparent polish on the entire nail, and let it dry just a litle
3.Put the next layer on the 1/2 of nail, starting from the middle and going up, let it dry just a little again.
3. Put the 3 layer of polish on the 1/3 nail.
4. The best result you get if you use a glitter top coat, however you can use a regular one too.
As a top coat i used the one i have got from Brook "Colorama top coat" by maybelline

Tender pink nails

Could not resist to try my stamping kit again! I am absolutely in love with tis product. This time doing those nails took me about 20 minutes only. I found online an advise to use stamping kit with the turned off air condition.Sounds crazy, but this time it all worked just fine, even the green side of the stamper. And also this time i made much less mess. The trik is to use a paper towel to clean the scraper instead of the cotton party, so the fibers wont stik on the scraper and image plates. I am absolutely in love with my nails with this design. Base coat is Loreal 230

Konad Stamping nail art

Yestoday received the package with my Konad stamping nail art kit.

I have ordered it from www.wowsocool.com, and i am very satisfied with the service and quality of the product. Service was really amazing, they kept in touch with me all the way - sent me lots of notifications on e mail, and i even get a chance to talk with them on the phone. The package was delivered in only 3 days from California to Colorado. So i advice this company for everyone who would like to order konad stamping nail art. And i swear that this is not a commercial but just a summery of my own my honest experience.
Actually this is the one of only 2 sites i have found on the interent that allow you to build you own kit. Even though the other site seem to sell it cheapper, i have red a bad reviews about them, that they sent just a regular nail polishes, which is useless, instead of the "special ones" And after all this other company is located in Singapore.

So i didn't really order a kit, but i have got all the polishes plates and tools separately, and for my 45$ - i have got 3 image plates ( M53, M60, M36), 3 special nail polishes (white, Dark purple and Gold), Image plates holder, scraper, and 2 sides stamper. Actually getting a 2 side stamper was the mail reason was essential for me, since my own nails are really small, i expected that smaller green side may be more comfortable to use fro me.
Sertanly as soon as i got my package i immediately started to play with it. Even though where is a lot of complains in the internet that it is hard to make this stuff work, i didn't find any difficulties with it. Nice, fast and easy. In the beginning it turned to be a little messy, but i believe with practice i ll get better with not making a mess. Also in my very first try for some reason, i couldn't make the image stick on the stamper. Later i realized that the only reason it wont stick, is because i had to use stamper faster - as fast as it possible, right after scrap a polish from the image plate. Another thing is that you have to scrap it really fast too or not all the polish will be removed. But once picture is on the scraper, you don't have to harry any more, even after five minutes it sticks on nails just fine.
i also have tried to use it with the acrylic paint instead of the special polish, it worked, but not as good as with special polishes, so i don't really think that acrilic paint can be an option. In fact the thin layer of the polish that last on the image plate, turns into a thin plastic film, and sticks on the stamper. This is pretty much like making your own nail stickers, except that it is much thinner.
As about polishes my only disappointing is gold one. I actually mentioned before - watching numberouse examples of designs, that most of them use white, black, dark purple ( which in fact look more interesting when just black) red and blue. And in fact i think that all those pink, blue ad reds, does not provide and impressive effect. The best look is with withe and dark purple. But i still decided to try the gold one. Well, it is absolutely useless on the light polishes, and you actually can see it only on black. It even does not seem to be visible even on the dark red and and blue base polish :(
Actually interesting detail is that you can mix the polishes and make a new colors.
Here are the pictures of my very first try of this product, and in fact i d like it a lot, and i do not think that it is bad first try.