Dating a laser mani

Hi guys! For this post I have a laser mani to show you. I used yesterday's mani for it, OPI Dating A Royal. And on top of it I used China Glaze Jitterbug, a stunning must-have polish, in my humble opinion. It has a dark grey base with a foil-like shimmer finish, which looks edgy on its own, but matches any other color as well. I like it a lot :) To make the laser pattern show up better I added a matt topcoat afterwards, the one I use is from Essence.

If you like to do this look yourself, just have a look at the tutorial. It's quite simple and a fun way to combine different colors or finishes. Thanks for reading!

Comeback of the laser mani

Hi guys, it's been a while since I did my last laser mani. Guess its moment got stolen by the mummy and the lightning bolt design, haha. Anyway, it was great to do this design again. It's probably my favorite tape pattern, because it's so simple and easy to achieve. Today I used OPI Big Apple Red for my base color and China Glaze For Audrey on top of it. Everytime I use For Audrey as top color, it amazes me how opaque it is. Because it's a pretty light color, you'd think it could be sheer, but as you can see it prefectly covered Big Apple Red. The color combination of the red and turquoise blue is pretty odd, yet I'm very attracted to it. I don't know why, but it just works.

So if you feel like doing a laser mani yourself after reading this post, just check out the tutorial if you haven't already, it might be useful ;) Cheers!

That's one crazy mani...

Okay, guys, I have no idea what I was trying to do here... Just experimenting a bit and this is what came out. I really don't know what to think of it, so I'll just let you decide, haha :)
Polishes I used are Color Club Almost Famous, Barry M Cobalt Blue and three China Glaze polishes: Lemon Fizz, Four Leaf Clover and Designer Satin.

So guys, what will it be, hot or not?

Holographic laser mani

Hi guys, right now you're looking at a new version of my laser mani. Holographic polishes are just perfect for tape manis. Though they don't always cover in one coat, they sure dry fast. The one I used is Gosh Holographic, it was opaque in two coats and ready to be taped in approximately 5 minutes. On top I used a beautiful purple shimmer from Art de Lautrec, #34 which is a lot less blue in real life. Unfortunately the shimmer isn't visible on the pictures and I didn't use topcoat because that would take away the holographic finish.

I'm loving the final look, holographic polishes are such an easy way to make the whole more interesting, so definitely recommended (for tape manis).

Have a nice day!

Tutorial: laser design tape mani

This blog was made to share nail designs, so today I want to show you how I make a laser tape mani with one layering color. Continue reading »

Katy Perry mani

Yesterday I went to the Katy Perry concert in Amsterdam, which was awesome and so in the style of KP. The air was filled with a sweet candy scent, the stage was turned into a colorful (cotton) candyland and her outfits were an explosion of color and LOTS of glitter. I even caught myself fantasizing about having her glitteroutfits on my nails, lol. I actually am a huge glitter lover, though you wouldn't say so with not having done a single glittermani so far. But I will, promise :) To the mani!

For the concert I already knew what outfit I wanted to wear, it was a creme white tube dress with different colored hearts from Miss Selfridge (see last picture). I wanted a stunning mani to match the dress so I chose for a tape mani in the sort of same colors as the dress, and this is what I came up with:

Polishes I used: the grey is from Miss Sporty, the dark purple from Hema and the blue and pink named Turquoise Kitty and Kitty Queen are both from H&M. Kitty Queen is also the pink I used for the Extravagant checkers. The white base color is Essence's Stamp me! White.

Dress from Miss Selfridge

Thanks for stopping by!

Spotlights mani

The other day I had a 'laserbeams'-mani, today I have a metallic version but with gold 'beams'. So I asked my boyfriend what he would call this look and he came up with: the spotlights mani! And I can't think of anything better than that, it really does look like golden spotlights beaming through a bright blue night sky.

This is another tape mani, I think it will take a long, long time before those will bore me, lol. The gold you see is China Glaze 2030, my favorite gold next to Midnight Kiss. 2030 is perfect for tape manis like this one, because it's opaque in one coat and it dries so fast! That means you only have to wait 2-3 minutes before you can place the tape on top. The blue is a namesless polish from a brand called KBY,  this is also the blue I used for the futuristic French. Because I like the not so glossy finish of the metallics, I didn't use topcoat.

I'm really digging these tape manis, they're so simple, fun enough for a party and if using one-coaters (which usually are fast drying), shouldn't take that much longer than a regular mani. So if you like this look, you should definitely try it sometime :) That's all, folks!

Laser mani

Laserbeams! That was the first thing that crossed my mind after I removed my tape and saw the pink lines cutting into the blue. This mani looks very '80s with the abstract pattern and the bold colors. The pictures aren't very color accurate though. Both colors are much brighter in real life, especially the neon pink is a lot pinker, like a highlight marker.

I was satisfied with the blue and pink, but the glossy finish of the topcoat really just distracted from the whole laser-look. So I mattified it with Essence Matt topcoat, which I think brings out the cross patterns much better. The pink neon is Warhol from Color Club, the blue is Essence's Caribbean Sea from the Show Your Feet-collection. Caribbean Sea is a nice aqua blue shimmer and it covers in one or two coats, but it stains so, so bad... Don't forget that basecoat, folks!

Thanks for reading :)

Rock on

Hello everybody, for today a silver mani.
I'm really loving this edgy mani, I like the grungy look to it. I used Millenium for the stripes and the background color is a dark silver foil from Hema, a local store.

This is another tape mani and it was supposed to be a regular triangle mani like I did before. But as I was taping my first hand in the usual, same pattern, I thought it would look cooler if I just placed the tape randomly on the nails. The result is visible on my right hand in the picture below. I like it a lot more than my left, it's more dynamic, not so predictable. Do you like this rockin' mani as much as I do?