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Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Tribal Galaxy!

Hello girls!

When I saw the tribal galaxy design that Mr Candiipants achieved inspired by a society6 phone case, I immediately wanted to make a try:


Sadly my acrylic paint pen (POSCA) wasn't opaque enough and crackled with my topcoat :/


I used a lot of colors for this design, starting by one coat of a dark green crème from Avon.

I sponged other colors from Avon: a light grey crème, a navy shimmer (similar to China Glaze - Rodeo Fanatic) and a purple glass fleck (similar to CG - Senorita Bonita).
I also sponged Orly - Butterfly and Biguine Makeup Gloss & Shock - Blue Lagoon.

Then I added one coat of China Glaze - Fairy Dust (thank you Nikki!) to give it a lot of sparkliness!

I decorated this galaxy using my white Posca and some holo gold hex glitter, then Out The Door Top Coat ;)


Did you liked it? I am disapointed of the opacity and crackling of the white paint but I think these are cute! Not as badass as Mr Candiipants' but a little more detailed :)

Have a great day!

Candy


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Monday, September 24, 2012

Prada Chevron Mani with my Blueberry Glitter Franken!

 Hello everyone!

I hope you're doing allright! I'm working hard for my studies, but still had time for nail art!

I wanted to use my lastest franken and things happened that I had two untried colors that were making the perfect combination :D So I gave a try at the Prada pattern Sophy Robson introduced to the nail art world ;)


I'd describe my franken as a blueberry fine glitter mix. The polish is clear but packed with glitter. I mixed black, duochrome, bright blue, purple and blueberry holographic glitter.

Do you have a name for it? I was wondering about blueberry and cats (all my polishes have names about cats)... ?


Here is how I achieved the look:

I started with PVA glue as basecoat (my first try wasn't convincing :s). I applied one of Rouge Baiser - Gris Lavande to give more opacity before the coat of my franken (only one!).

With the polishes Kiko - 274 and Biguine Makeup Gloss & Schock - I freehanded the "V" lines.
Then I used a black marker to outline the geometric shapes.


Do you like this nail art? I'm a bit sad the lines aren't really sharp and contrasting, but I liiiiike it!

I hope the PVA glue basecoat won't make it pop off, I already have a chip on both my thumbs...

Have a great day!

Candy


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Monday, September 17, 2012

Dream Catcher! Final of My Favorite Things Nail Challenge: Favorite Mani!

Hello everyone!

Long time no see! I'm sorry I've been busy this week because I'll be back to school in 2 hours!
I'm feeling lazy ><

BUT today I've got some badass nails for you! I'm showing you the latest mani of My Favorite Things Nail Challenge: MY FAVORITE MANI! (right now?)


I did these nails with the home made decals technique ;)

My background color is OPI - Skull & Glossbones (2 coats).
I freehanded the feathers using China Glaze - Purrfect Plum , Rouge Baiser - Gris Lavande, OPI - Fly , OPI - Did it On'Em , and OPI - Alpine Snow.
I outlined with Wet'n Wild - Black Crème.


These nails were inspired by the accent nails on this mani by Astro Wifey (which is SO talented!).
Do you like them? I'll never want to take them off !! :D

Thank you thank you Kelly for this fabulous challenge! I'm so sad it is over!


You can find more informations on the challenge here: Ohlalapolish's Nail Art Challenge



Have a great day! <3

Candy



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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Vintage Flowers for Day 9 of My Favorite Things Nail Challenge!

Hello everyone!

Today is the day of floral nails! And I had tons of ideas for today, but after I saw a tutorial from Robin Moses I picked this vintage design. It is kind of abstract so it was quicker to do than every idea I had ;)



I only used nail polishes so it was quite different to do than with acrylic paint on Robin Moses video ;)
Almost everything here is a mix of color:
-background: Wet'n Wild - Black Crème
-background highlights: Wet'n Wild - Black Crème , Essie - Navigate Her
-roses: China Glaze - Adventure Red-Y, OPI - Hot & Spicy , OPI - Alpine Snow
-violets: Rouge Baiser - Gris Lavande
-leaves/plants: OPI - Uh-Oh Roll Down the Window , China Glaze - Kahalari Kiss , Modelite - Yellow


Here is an extra picture because I realized during shopping that my nails were matching my wallet!


I really love these nails I think they are romantic & classy.

I just thought of maybe adding the Louboutin touch to my nails, what do you think?

I'm really sad it's almost the end of the challenge, I really had fun doing it!!



You can find more informations on the challenge here: Ohlalapolish's Nail Art Challenge



Have a great day! <3

Candy



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Friday, September 7, 2012

Heart Print for My Favorite Things Nail Challenge Day 8!

Hello everyone!

It's now time to day 8 of the challenge which meant heart &/or love! I wasn't so inspired by the love theme or romantic so I went to this modern geometric & fall appropriate print I saw on Louis Vuitton shoes:


I started the design with two coats of OPI - Skull & Glossbones (you've seen that guy often recently!).

To execute the print, I used a medium brush and freehanded two drops for every little heart, using both China Glaze: First Mate and Purr-fect Plum. You can achieve it with a dotting tool, it's that simple!


I really like this weird association of colors :) What do you think?



You can find more informations on the challenge here: Ohlalapolish's Nail Art Challenge



Have a great day! <3

Candy



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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Serape (fail) - My Favorite Things Nail Challenge Day 6 "Stripes"

Hello everyone!

Today I'm showing you my entry to the "Stripes" day of the challenge!
I'm very late, & sorry, because I've been doing several craft projects this week and I had no time (and clean hands!) to do my nails! No my projects are over but I'll make a post to show you what I've done ;)

For today's challenge, I wanted to do serape inspired nails! These are the mexican blankets you might have seen before. This kind of pattern always make me think about Peru, and Peru makes me think about one of my favorite animals: Llama! So I wanted to give a try, I hope it does look like a llama!

Today was also my first try at one stroke and it was a success, I was really proud of my mani... before my topcoat! :( It made the paint crackle... 


I started with ONE coat of China Glaze - Adventure Red-Y.
All the stripes are done with gouache paint, but the llama is done (in order from darkest to brightest) with E.Pinaud - Chocolat, China Glaze - Desert Sun and China Glaze - Kahalari Kiss.


I'm really proud of this mani, but also sooo disapointed  :(
What do you think?



You can find more informations on the challenge here: Ohlalapolish's Nail Art Challenge



Have a great day! <3

Candy



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Thursday, August 30, 2012

CMYK! My Favorite Things Nail Challenge Day 5 "Polka Dots"

Hi everyone!

Sorry my post is a little bit late during the week but I have been overwhelmed by painting projects and my hands never got clean. I'll make a post about those projects at the end of the week!

Today I'm showing my entry for Day 4 of My Favorite Things Nail Challenge, which theme was "polka dots"! I had the idea for this manicure for a looong time ago, at first I thought I was gonna submit it for Chalkboard Nails Dotting Tool Contest!

I was inspired by the pattern we see when we look close to a CMYK printed poster! And I thought this was the occasion to take a try to the newspaper technique ;) On to the pics:


To achieve this look, I applied two coats of OPI - Alpine Snow.
Then I took my colored polishes and I mixed every one with some Seche Restore. I used Rimmel - , OPI - Fly, and.
I grabbed my biggest dotting tool  and started dotting, making sure that the dots were overlaying each others.

For my accent nail, I applied two coats of OPI - Skull & Glossbones.
Then I cut a piece of newspaper, dipped it in medical alcohol and transfer the letters ;)


Did you liked this mani? It is so eye-catching!


You can find more informations on the challenge here: Ohlalapolish's Nail Art Challenge



Have a great day! <3

Candy



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Monday, August 27, 2012

Guest Post at karinea0a.blogspot.com !

Hello!

Recently Karine from karinea0a.blogspot.com contacted me because she was going in vacation and was needing a guest post! I am really honored to be featured on her blog!

You can find my post here (link inside!). Enjoy!

Sneek Peak:


Have a great day!


Candy


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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Trendy Geometric Design!

Hi everyone!

Today I'm gonna show you some nails I did in the middle of May! I didn't have my blog yet, but I thought the design was worth pics!

I was scrolling trough pinterest when I discovered this design by the talented Madeline Poole. I fell in love with this design and wasn't able to imagine other colors than the ones she used and get the same effect! I even mixed different polishes to get the particular shades of Madeline Poole's mani.


So I started applying two coats of China Glaze - First Mate (you see it a lot on my blog!) for 3 nails and two coats of Gosh - Fossil Grey for 2 nails.

Then I applied some tape in the diagonal of my nail to make the checkered pattern with Sally Hansen - Blush & Gosh - Fossil Grey for the blue based nails. For the other nails the checkered pattern is done with an anonymous burgundy & China Glaze - First Mate.

I freehanded the ruffian styled stripped with an anonymous red & Wet'n Wild - Black Crème topped with China Glaze - Senorita Bonita (for the blue based nails). For the other nails I used a green mix and again Wet'n Wild Black Crème ;)



I hope you liked this mani, I really did!
I find this design really classy, innovative, elegant.  So thank you Madeline Poole for this amazing inspiration you give us!

xoxo


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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Gradient & Zigzags with Floam!

Hello!

I hope you are having a wonderful day! Sorry, I meant to post this nails yesterday but I haven't been able to take pics! This is a mani I imagined a long time ago and I was really excited to do it!


I started with two coats of China Glaze - First Mate.

Then I applied Nail Venturous - Floam in a gradient design, and I created a zigzag design for the accent  nail!


I hope you like it!

<3


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Saturday, July 14, 2012

14th of July Nails!

Hello!

I hope you are having a good day :)

Today is the French National Day! I took a lot of time to think about what my nails should look like, but I wasn't inpired by the flag. I imagined a manicure with the important events celebrated but it was complicated and finally I was almost sure it would be messy, not aesthetic.

So I went simpler and I'm really satisfied with how it came out!


I used a lot of polishes to do this nail art!

I began with a gradient using:
a mix of an anonymous red polish, OPI - We have a purple, China Glaze - Papaya punch
OPI - Alpine Snow
Sephora - Jacuzzi Bubbles
China Glaze - Rodeo Fanatic
Wet'n Wild - Black Crème

Then I freehanded the Eiffel Tower silhouette with WW - Black Crème.

The fireworks are made using Layla Cosmetics - Mercury Twilight, or Orly - Rock It (+ MT), or Nail Venturous - Floam (+ MT).


I hope you like this nail art as much as I do, I really like the fact that for a National Day design, I went original and cute!

Then I realized that my nails were the same exact color than one of my tees! I'll be wearing it today ;)

Did you liked that design? Are you doing french nails for today?

Happy polishing!


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Saturday, July 7, 2012

My mani for the 4th!

Hi everyone!

Maybe you noticed I wasn't really present this week for my blog. As you may know, my cousin from RI is in France this week so we were out all the week. So I didn't have time to you my 4th of July mani!




I was really excited to do this design with different hands! :)



For every hand I started with two coats of OPI - Alpine Snow. I just got it this week and it is a dream to apply!

Then I freehanded the lining of the stars with China Glaze - First Mate and a tiny art brush, and filled in directely with the brush from the polish bottle.

For my left hand I used tape but wasn't really happy, the lines are not as straight as I wanted, so using tape wasn't worth it. The red nail polish is anonymous.



The last picture was taken into my sister's Instagram ;)

I hope you liked this mani, I'm still wearing it because I like it a lot! :)

Have a wonderful day! <3


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Friday, June 29, 2012

Guest Nails: Aztec

Hi everyone!

This week I was at my grandparent's with my sister, so I did her nails! She wanted some aztec nail art, with that bright orange!




I started with one coat of OPI - Fly. Then I added stripes with OPI - Hot & Spicy (2 coats!) and Rouge Baiser - Gris Lavande.

I freehanded the pattern with Wet'n Wild - Wild Shine - Black Crème, and I made the dots with a dotting tool and Seche - Blanc.




I though about doing an aztec nail art lately and my sister showed wanting me to do it on her nails. I'm happy about how it turned out! :)

Do you like it?


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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

From the Vault Peacock

Hi!

Today I'm showing you some nails from the vault! I've been really busy packing and cleaning my appartment for the summer (we rent it to a friend). Yesterday I was officially on vacation because we projected our short film (link if you want to see it). So I had a lot of things to do and no time to do my nails before tonight!

The mani I'm showing you was made in September 2011! I followed a video from Robin Moses to achieve the look:


The base color is Confetti - Moonstruck. I used Seche - Blanc for the white, Stargazer - 237 for the gold (mixed with a black nail polish to get the dark bronze color).

I used a lot of blue and green nail polishes to make a gradient, mix them to get the colors I wanted: Wet'n Wild - Wild Shine -Caribbean Frost , China Glaze - First Mate,  Biguine Makeup - Gloss & Shock - Dark Green and an unnamed "bambou green" by Modelite.

I added glitter to the feathers with a nail polish packed with gold and hex holo glitters from a Love & Beauty Set (from Forever 21 last summer).


I hope you liked this mani, I was really in love! For my right hand what I did was feathers for every nail. I remember I kept this mani 10 days!

Let me know if you like it and if you try it!

Have a good day,

Candy <3


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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Blue PCB Nails!

Hi everyone!

Today my nails aren't purple!
I've been wanting to make these nails for a while. They are printed circuit board inspired, but in blue tones. The inspiration came from the walls of the labyrinth in our short film! I chose the texture and really liked the pattern.




So here we have two coat of OPI - Fly (from the Nicki Minaj collection). I think I'll need to buy a full size bottle, I've already used half of my mini.

I freehanded the pattern with a tiny art brush and China Glaze - First Mate.


I was waiting for today to make this nail art because we have our projection and presentation tomorrow morning, wish me luck!

I hope you liked these nails, let me know if you try that design ;)

Happy polishing,

Candy <3


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Sunday, June 17, 2012

From the Vault: Abstract tree

Hi all!

Since I lost hope in getting my old posts on this new blog, I decided to keep them to make "From the Vault" articles. Today is one of them!

This is a mani with just one accent nail that I litterally copied from Nailsymo. Google this name, this girls always make AWESOME manis! It seems like she has stopped to post nail art but I love her work!


The greyish lilac I used here is Gris Lavande (litterally the translation of "greyish lilac"!) from Rouge Baiser.I put two coats, but it's pretty opaque. :)
I freehanded the abstract tree design with Seche - Blanc, a tiny art brush and a dotting tool.
Rhinestones are the tiny silver ones from Swarowski.


Do you like this mani? Have you ever tryed to remake one of Nailsymo's manis?

Have a good day! :)

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