Damn it I'm a couple hours late!!! I just missed the day of the challenge AGAIN!!! I'm so sorry you guys! I'm on vacation and its hard to keep up. The only good news is that I'm getting a lot of new nail polish!! So I will return with a lot to do and try!! It's Christmas for me!!!! Today as I was paying for a Halloween bowl and some nail polish the associate put all my nail polish inside the bowl :) I couldn't help to think that that would be better for me than candy!!!!
Ok so stop the bla, bla, bla and on to the challenge!
So... I began this challenge without any motivation, tried some gold and blue combo that was a total fail, and gave up. I chose to do something different instead and applied one of my untried colors: 669 from Maybelline.
I absolutely LOVED this color. The formula is very thin which allows it to dry super fast and yet it has a good coverage. I did two coats. It also has a semi-matte finish which goes really well with the shade. But I wanted it to shine, so I applied a coat of Seche Vite.
Then I also wanted to try Black Out by Kleancolor. A black and silver chunky glitter and I used it for my accent nail. It was only a couple hours later that it occurred to me that I could use this beautiful shade of grey to try to do the half moons again. I did it and I fell in love!
For the half moons I used Lush Lavendar by LA Girl Color Craze.
I liked the end result, and discovered a new pattern to love!
Happy Friday everyone!!! Today we have one of the most femenine topics in the challenge: flowers! I am not a fan of this pattern particularly, but I liked the subtle look I achieved. Look!:
Hola!! Ya listas para el fin de semana? El día de hoy presentamos flores. Un tema súper femenino pero por alguna razón no es de mis favoritos. Así q elegí hacer las flores en un color muy similar a la base para que fueran casi imperceptibles, y debo admitir, mis flores no son nada perfectas es la primera vez que las hago y así quedaron pero creo que se ven aceptables, ustedes dirán:
Base: 142- Bissú
Flower Petals: Classy-Revlon
Center of the flower: Live- LA Colors Color Craze
Ya vi y las demás chicas hicieron unas cosas IM-PRE-SIO-NAN-TES!!! las puedes ver en los siguientes links:
Ohhh!!! animal print! so lovable, even more leopard print!, haha. I had planned to do a zebra print today, only because I've never tried it before, but hell noooo!! I want leopard! hee hee :D...so here it is!
I used all Revlon polishes: Sugar Glaze (Scented) as a basecoat, Stormy for the spots and Espresso for the outline of the spots (both Top Speed). I looooove my mani today!!! ^^
I also wanted to tell you that I now have a Facebook page. You can check it out clicking here.
As you may have noticed, now I'm back to writing in Spanish, that is because I feel that there are sooo many tutorials and blogs in english but so little in spanish! so I'm thinking it could be a lot more helpful to write it in Spanish, but there's still the 'Translate' tool on your right so you can also check out what I write in Spanish ;)
EN ESPAÑOL:
Hola chicas! El tema de hoy es estampado animal o animal print. Tenía la idea de hacer uno de zebra pero no! la verdad es que me encanta el estampado de leopardo y pues ni modo así quedo:
Hoy les explicaré como se hace esto es tan sencillo como los puntitos y en realidad no requiere gran habilidad porque las manchas de los leopardos son al azar, no tienen una forma específica asi que eso lo hace muy sencillo de hacer.
1. Pinta tu color base. Yo usé Sugar Glaze de la línea perfumada de Revlon...yummi
2. Dibuja manchas del color que quieras. Yo usé Stormy de la línea Top Speed de Revlon. Para hacer esto puedes usar cualquier palito que tengas desde un palillo hasta un lápiz, pones unas gotitas de esmalte en una superficie y de ahi vas tomando con el palillo como si fuera un pincel y pintas sobre tu uña.
3. Con el mismo palillo o lo que estes usando dibuja el contorno de las manchas con otro color. Yo usé Espresso tambien Top Speed de Revlon.
4. Agrega unas rayitas y puntitos para hacer el look de animal print más natural, limpia el contorno si es que pintaste accidentalmente tu cutícula (como yo jeje) y aplica brillo y listo!!
No te pierdas las demás creaciones de mis colegas en el reto con el tema de animal print y también si intentas este look enseñamelo en la página de Facebook!
Hello ladies! just a quick post. I can't believe how much 'on trend' nails, nail polishes and nail art are! It was just a couple of weeks ago that Michelle Obama called a lot of attention with her greyish blue polish everybody wanted to have...and now...a NAIL CAM on E!??!!! wow!! that was absolutely awesome!!! That surprised me last night watching the Emmys 2012 and it was oh-so-cool for us nail polish addicts!
I came to the conclusion that definitely, whether you're obsessed or not, you just can't forget about your nails to complete your everyday look. Great!
Hi ladies! today is day 12: ...STRIPES!! so many cool things can be done with stripes it was hard to decide! I chose to go ahead with this design I had seen a while ago on Pshiiit's blog that is done with striping tape. I did like the end result but I would recommend (if you choose to try it) to use really bright colors underneath, maybe even neon because otherwise they don't really pop.
I used purple, hot pink, red, orange and yellow but they all looked pink on the pics! This time i won't name the polishes because I think you should use other ones.
If you really like black nails this is a cool twist, check it out:
EN ESPAÑOL:
Hola chicas! que tal? les gusta este look? No es muy difícil de lograr. Sigue estos pasos:
1. Pinta una línea de cada color que escojas, no es necesario que quede perfecto porque encima irá el negro asi que no te preocupes. Yo usé morado, fuscia, rojo, naranja y amarillo, pero te recomendaría que usaras tonos más brillantes que los que yo usé porque como podrás ver no sobresalen mucho al contrastar con el negro :( . También te recomiendo que tengas mucha paciencia al hacer esto porque al terminar de pintar estas líneas hay que esperar a que sequen COMPLETAMENTE!! si no, ni te cuento...se arruinará todo tu trabajo!. Espera al menos una hora para pasar al paso dos, o si no lo puedes hacer en la noche y al otro día continúas.
2. Ya se secó bien? seguraaaaa?? bueno, entonces vamos con la cintilla. Corta pequeños pedacitos y colocalos como tu quieras. Asegúrate que quede bien pegada en las orillas de las uñas.
3. Aplica tu color de encima (yo escogí negro y apliqué dos capas). También aquí debes esperar otra vez a que seque suuuuper bien.
4. Listo! quita con mucho cuidado la cintilla, despacito para que no se despegue tambien el esmalte.
En esta ocasión no nombraré los esmaltes que usé porque dudo que quieras usar los mismos! (ya ves que no resaltan gran cosa)
Mano izquierda / Left hand
Mano derecha/ Right hand
Have a beautiful weekend and check out the rest of the ladies' creations:
You probably noticed how I rebelled and didn't do Sunday's challenge Gradient Nails...oopsie! I just really wanted to enjoy my patriotic mani last weekend I'm sorry!! But I will do it....soon....I hope! ;)
So today we are on the day 11 and that means we are beginning with the patterns! Though as you could see, we've all used some patterns for our past creations in the challenge... but it's fun to know that now we can use any colors we want which makes this a whole lot more fun because I get to use my untrieds!!!! Yay!!!
For example this color: Spanish Moss by Revlon. I had had it for a while and never used it before and I kept seeing that Zoya Evvie and couldn't help to think of this shade. I wanted to wear it so badly!-specially since Zoya is not available in Mexico :(- I have been pleasantly surprised by the line Colorstay of Revlon. The application is good, the brush is great to work with and the formula is so pigmented I did ONE coat. Can you believe it? It's a great cheaper choice!
Look at it isn't it the perfect shade for transitioning to fall? I'm sooo loving it :)
*I realized in the pics this color looks grey! but it isn't, it is green...just so you know
On my accent nails I used two coats of Whimsical by L.A. Girl a great nude shade and used two dotting tools of different sizes with Spanish Moss.
A day later I went on with my original idea, but I guess I still like more the look above!
Así que hoy estamos en el día 11 lo cual quiere decir que empezamos con: patrones!!! Siiii!!! Me late mas esta idea porque ya podemos usar los colores que queramos y yo puedo usar al fin los que tengo y nunca he usado por ejemplo: Spanish Moss de Revlon. Es un verde militar cremoso muuuy de moda para el otoño que desde que lo vi me encantó. Además de que esta muy pigmentado y con una sola capa cubre muy bien.
Para el tema de hoy que es "Uñas con Lunares" hice primero solo la "accent nail" con base Whimsical de L.A. Girl, es un color carne. Y al día siguiente prosegui con mi idea original y tambien le hice puntitos a las demás uñas aunque creo que me gustaba mas antes!
Hacer los lunares es muy fácil, yo uso el palito de madera que es para bajar la cuticula. En el paquetito que compré vienen 4 y tienen diferente punta lo que me permite hacer puntos grandes y chicos con uno y otro.
What? What? Day 28? Haha, I'll explain: tomorrow is Mexico's independence day, but the celebrations begin tonight at midnight so I had to be prepared with my nails! And I remembered that further along on the challenge we have this topic so I will get a little bit ahead on this one.
This is Mexico's flag:
So I took the colors and came up with this:
The colors I used were:
-White On- Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear
-White Cap- China Glaze
-Cherry Red- Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear
-Bright Green- L.A. Colors Art Deco
I first painted my nails white and then put a coat of White Cap which is a beautiful gold shimmer. Then I painted my tips diagonally with Cherry Red and finally with bright Green. At the end I put golden striping tape I got at Sally Beauty Supply. I came up with this design because I didn't want to do the flag so literal.
Then I got a little crazy and with an Ultra Fine Tipped Sharpie wrote ¡¡¡Viva Mexico!!! on my ring fingernail!
Hey girls! Today's menu: Rainbow Nails. I must admit I was not excited about this challenge and I postponed it as much as I could because I was thinking: rainbow? that reminds me of me in kindergarden carrying around my Rainbow Brite doll!-don't get me wrong I loved her so much, but this week I had to go to take care of some affairs and I kept thinking: the people at the offices are going to look at me like: what's with this lady and her toddler nails?!...
Aww!! Remember??
So I tried to think of a way in which I would enjoy them and I came up with the spun sugar nails!!! And now I love the way they look!!!^^
I first put all the drops of all the colors at the same time on the surface (a yoghurt cap) and waited about 5 minutes for them to dry and become "stringy". I used about 4 large drops of every color on each hand.
The colors I used were:
-Base color: White On- Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear -Noite Quente- Maybelline Colorama -165-Bissú -Green with Envy -Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear -Sunshine Sparkle- Revlon -Snappy Sorbet- Sally Hansen Insta-Dri -Cherry Red- Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear
I know, I know. The rainbow should have 7 colors but I wanted to do only the colors we have done in the challenge :)
I didn't go nail by nail but color by color. Which means I did all the purple on the 5 nails of a hand, and then blue, and so on -to save time AND polish!-
When I finished I felt like if I didn't apply a topcoat it would be too vulnerable and I loved this mani so much I wanted to protect it. But I must say it is hard to apply a topcoat on this spun nails!!! And in the end I regretted it because it totally takes away the cool 3D effect the chubby strings had (shown below). Now they just look like plain lines :(
I also would like to say that this dries fast! I thought it would take forever but no, even before I applied my topcoat it was already superdry to the point that I could squash the little clumps and nothing happened o.O
It took me overall about two hours, but I had my baby running around and even had to change a diaper! Lol!!
Anyhow I love it!
EN ESPAÑOL:
No tenía nada de ganas de hacer este reto. Pensaba: Uñas de Arcoiris? me recuerda al jardín de niños y a Rainbow Brite. Y no es que no me gustara, pero esta semana tenía que hacer unos trámites y me daba un poco de vergüenza ir con mis uñas aniñadas.
Así que me puse a pensar de que manera podía hacerlas de un modo en que las disfrutara y entonces me tope con este vídeo en el que enseñan la técnica de "algodón de azúcar" refiriéndose a los hilitos que lo forman.
El resultado es impresionante y en 3D! Hacerlo es sencillo aunque un poco tardado. Empecé por poner 4 gotas de cada color en una superficie (por ejemplo, yo use la tapa de un yogurt) y esperé aprox unos 5 minutos a que se hiciera "chicloso" al moverlo con un palillo.
Empece a pasar los hilos color por color en todas las uñas, pero tu lo puedes hacer como te acomode, puede ser mejor uña por uña, el chiste es que funcione para ti y bueno, yo lo hice así tratando de no desperdiciar mucho esmalte ^^.
Después de limpiar lo que queda en la piel y admirar esta hermosa técnica, mi cabeza no dejaba de pensar en aplicar el topcoat (brillo). Así que lo hice. Y me arrepiento, porque le quito lo "gordito" a muchos de los hilitos :( ahora solo parecen líneas....
También quisiera mencionar que no tarda mucho en secar. Aunque parezca que esos hilitos gordos no secarán nunca, sí lo hacen.
Bueno, de cualquier modo yo quedé fascinada por el resultado ;) hasta la próxima!
I know, I stole some of my baby's toys for the pics! ^^
I will be checking out what the rest of my partners did!!
Hey guys!! Doing this nails was such an adventure! When I started setting up all my materials to paint my nails in the dining room table my husband passed by and said "Careful not to knock the remover over on the table"...to which I responded "of course not, it is closed, look" ...then I began to paint my nails.
Remember I told you about Lush Lavendar a beautiful silver-lilac shimmer polish by L.A. Colors color craze? Well I did two coats and it was still very sheer and since I definitely didn't plan to put 5 coats on I changed plans. I decided to apply a coat of Grey Matter by Rimmel underneath which is -as its name indicates- a plain creamy gray.
I ended up a bit disappointed because even when it did cover up well it made my Lush Lavendar look just silver! It took away all the reflections it has. :(
I did an accent nail with a lightning bolt and it was so hard to do!!!! Lol! I guess it was because I was a bit impatient and ruined it the first time so I had to do it again. It turned out ok I think.
And just when I reached for my Seche Vite guess what happened? I knocked over the polish remover on the wooden dining table!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! I had opened it when I corrected my lightning bolts and didn't close it!!!! The worst thing was that I tried to dry it with the first thing I could grab: cotton. Worst idea ever because it removed a layer of the paint. Oops! Catastrophe!
I guess if I hadn't done that it would've evaporated and not done so much damage but well, what's done its done. I'm telling you this to remind you to be extra careful when you're working with nail polish remover and nail polish. :( though in mind I think my husband jinxed it! Lol!
Well, that was my accident with these metallic nails.
Have a beautiful week and please don't forget to check all the other metallic manis!
Hey ladies!!! TGIF right?? :) so today we're doing the classic combo of black and white and I think maybe because of the mimes in their black and white striped shirts it reminds me of France.
When I saw this post I definitely fell in love with it and I took this theme as an opportunity to finally try it. I was a bit scared that it wouldn't turn out very well because white has always been a pain in the back to apply for me. This formula wasn't the exception. I used Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear White On. I had to apply it in 3 fast streaks. I did two coats and then the dotting with Circuits from L.A. Girl Color Craze and 2 different sized dotting tools. For the accent nails I used the colors the other way around.
Finally don't forget to check my partners so you can get tons of ideas of black and white manis!!
