Betty Boop Nail Art + KKCenterHK Review

This week’s nail art was inspired by Betty Boop. A week or so ago I was talking to one of my teachers about nail ideas and she mentioned Betty Boop. I decided to attempt the idea.
The pictures in this post are a little on the ugly side. The lighting was terrible when I went to take the photos.

For the non accent nails, I used Nicole By OPI – Challenge Red-y with two coats of New York Color – Broadway Burgundy Frost for a bit of red shimmer. I then added square gold studs to all of my non accent nails. My two ring fingers consist of a base of Funky Fingers – Down to Earth topped with Sally Hansen – Set the Stage. I freehanded Betty and Pudgy. To fill the empty space with Pudgy, I added a star gold stud.
 
I was also sent this triangle dish by KKCenterHK for a review. I initially thought I would use it for glitter, but found that it works wonderful for studs that come in little bags.

The problem with the studs you buy in bags is that when you shake some out to use, they tend to get everywhere and you have to chase them around!

To combat that problem, I poured my studs into this triangle dish and was able to easily maintain and use my studs. However, when you pour out the studs, the majority of them like to face down. However, using this dish, I found that once you used all of the face up studs, you could easily pick up the dish and hit it lightly against your table, and more studs turn upwards. Easy as that!

Cleanup is a breeze too! Because of the triangle design, you can easily pour the studs (or whatever else is in the dish) back into it’s packaging!
I don’t normally rave about every new thing I get, but I absolutely LOVE this product! It’s so simple, but incredibly helpful! It’s the simple things in life!
If you’d like to purchase this triangle rhinestone placement dish (which I totally think you should!) for a whopping (kidding- more like incredibly low price) $1.35 USD, head over to KKCenterHK! You can even save 10% with my coupon code: nailtreasures
Thanks for reading!!
*Triangle dish sent for honest review. I am not being paid to make this post.

Faint Holographic Galaxy Nails

I’m finally able to post up to date nails because these don’t exactly have an expiration date like holiday themed nails. Actually, these were the nails I wore for New Year’s. They were originally inspired by Doctor Who because I was going to add a red bow towards the cuticle (to represent the 11th Doctor), but decided against it. Some other time, my dear. Some other time.

I used China Glaze – When Stars Collide for the base and sponged on China Glaze – Get Outta My Space, Cosmic Dust, Don’t be a Luna-tic, Take a Trek, Funky Fingers – Jester, NYC – White Tip, and Rimmel London – Silver Bullet. I also used KleanColor – Holo Chrome and Savvy – Touch of Glitter to accentuate some areas. I added some holographic star glitters and made some stars using a white striper. I added a coat of China Glaze – Fairy Dust over it all.

These nails were lots of fun an rather subtle. Next time I’ll use more white so it’s a little more visible.

Thanks for reading! I hope everyone’s doing well :)

Black and White Rainbow Birthday Nail Art

Today’s original post crashed, then my last minute plan crashed, so this is what we have today. Birthday nails. I can’t pass up an opportunity to paint cupcakes on my nails! They are just too cute :)

The white used is NYC – French White Tip. THe black used is Art Club – Black. The rainbow polishes are as follows (from red to purple): a red Lacura, Sally Hansen – Sun Kissed, Sally Hansen – Mellow Yellow, OPI – Green-Witch Village, Love & Beauty – Turquoise, L.A. Colors – Tropical Breeze. The gold polish is Funky Fingers – Down To Earth. The glitter on the cupcake is L.A. Colors – Sparkling Diamonds and Wet n Wild – Party of Five Glitters. The black and white glitter is one of my birthday gifts, and is Hard Candy – Black Tie Optional (my first black and white glitter! Whooo!!)

Tomorrow will be the last guest post of the week, and it’s just as lovely as the two previous manicures!

Have a great day! Do you own any black and white glitters?

Ripped Rainbow Animal Print Nail Art

 

Hey guys, today’s post is from a while ago, but I’m still trying to post all of my old manicures! This is a very summery gradient with torn scratch marks. I don’t know how much it actually looks like scratch marks, but I did get many compliments on it. I actually got the idea from this post from Rebecca Likes Nails. I didn’t have the plate she used, so I did a little free handing.

(Please excuse the orange cuticles! I didn’t have any acetone to clean them up!)

For the gradient I used Funky Fingers – Electric Sunset, e.l.f. – Neon Yellow, e.l.f. – Neon Green, and Sally Hansen – Blue Me Away! For the scratch marks, I used a black Stripe Rite Striper to create the outline, then filled it in with a white Stripe Rite Striper, then took my black once more to create the leopard spots.

I really like the colours used on this mani, and may be doing more neon nails soon. Neons just scream summer! I love it! Speaking of summer (or in some cases- winter), how’s everyone’s doing? Mine’s going well but fast :( I'll actually be camping most of next week with my friend, so I’ve been trying to conjure up some mani pedi ideas that will be camper friendly (we’ll be swimming a lot, so that means no embellishments :( Any ideas?

Thanks for reading as always and have a great day!

Nerds Nail Art

I don’t typically enjoy candy, aside from chocolate, but Nerds is a whole different story! I love Nerds! I enjoy all flavors, but had only the strawberry and grape flavor, so I modeled my nails after them :)

Ready for picture overload?

I had to have someone take pictures of my right hand and both hands together for me. I’d like to be able to take more pictures of both hands, but hate asking for assistance from others. If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know!

For my pink base I used Revlon – Sweet Tart (what a perfect name for Wonka inspired nails!). On the pink I put random spots of a nameless pink mini Funky Fingers polish to create a Nerd pattern. For my purple base I used LA Colors – Tropical Breeze. On top of that, I used NYC – Lavender Cupcake for my purple Nerd pattern. To add more dimension, I used a white Stripe Rite striper to highlight the Nerds.

As for the Nerd characters, I used black acrylic paint to create an outline. I then filled in the black with either pink or purple polish (the base colors), still leaving a black outline. I made white dots to create the eyes, then separated the toes and such with a black Stripe Rite striper. I finally finished them by using either my nameless Funky Fingers polish, or Lavender Cupcake to add highlights (and a tongue to the pink Nerd).

I am extremely happy with these Nerds nails. I think this was a perfect 100th post (yes, this is my 100th post :) ). And you? What do you think?

Breast Cancer Awareness Bra and Ribbon Nails

I wasn’t going to include “bra” in the title because I wanted to see if anyone could tell that what I painted was a bra, because I was shocked that the people I showed my nails to needed a lot of hints and guesses to tell that it was a bra on my index finger. I ultimately decided to include it in the title because what if someone was searching “Bra Nails” (very unlikely, but possible :) )? They need some key words to help them get here, right? You’re welcome to those of you who were, indeed, searching for bra nails :)

For my index and ring fingers, I used one coat of Wet n Wild – Black Crème as my base.

For my index finger I used Rimmel London – French Tip White Tip Liner to make my bra. I then used a nameless Funky Fingers mini bright pink polish to make the polka dots.

As for my ring finger- I made a basic ribbon using the nameless Funky Fingers, and then outlined it with my Rimmel London White Tip Liner to make it look like one side was crossing over the other.

For the rest of my nails, I used 2-3 coats of Sinful Colors – Easy Going, and one coat of Kleancolor – Take A Hint to complete my mani.

Have a great day!

Neon Paint Splatter Nails

Today’s challenge was to create nails inspired by a tutorial. I decided to use Kayla Shevonne’s Rainbow Splatter Tutorial. I think her nails look better. I really like the colors she used! Regardless, I’m still pretty happy with my nails.

I couldn’t stand the nails I had yesterday, so took it off once I made my blog post. I also couldn’t stand having naked nails, so I decided to just paint today’s challenge on my nails, yesterday.

I am not a very patient person. Especially, when it comes to waiting for my nails to dry, so that is why there is some smearing from my top coat. It kind of makes sense though; naturally, if you paint a wall, and there is a bead of paint, it will run down the wall. So,  my top coat must have been ahead of the game, and wanted to add a realistic effect :D

I used L.A. Colors – Energy Source for my white base, and E.l.f – Neon Yellow, E.l.f. – Neon Green, Sally Hansen – Blue Me Away!, and Funky Fingers – Power Play for my paint splatters.

Tomorrow is the last day of the 31 Day Challenge! The theme is to recreate your favorite challenge.

Super Natural Inspired Nails

Okay, so today is day 29, which meant supernatural inspired nails. Well, I felt kind of weird thinking of ghost and alien nails when it isn’t even Halloween, so I decided to cheat and put a space between “super” and “natural,” making it “super natural,” (as in super nature).

I tried to make my nails look like a super nature scene, with really green plants. (I tried making a dark green tree, but the green used for my grass and the green used for my tree were too similar, so I decided t make it a shimmery tree instead :) )

How super natural is this? Sparkly grass and flowers… Pretty super if you ask me!

I used Finger Paints – Go Van Gogh! for my green background, and used Finger Paints – Scenery Greenery for my grass patches. My shimmery tree was made with Wet n Wild – Jade. I’m not going to bother writing all of the polishes used for the flowers because I used multiple ones, and you can’t really see them very well, but if you have questions, you can always ask :)

Tomorrow’s nails will be inspired by a tutorial. That will be a little tough choosing one, because there are so many good tutorials out there!

Oh, and Happy Fourth of July to all of those celebrating!

Crackle Pattern Nails

Today’s challenge (day 26) was to create nails inspired by a pattern. I thought that was kind of silly because there was an entire category dedicated to pattern nails. I get what  you’re supposed to do- be inspired by any pattern, even if it was a pattern on your shirt. The problem was I wasn’t inspired by anything, and I have been feeling sorry for my one and only crackle polish I bought, when crackles were just becoming popular, that I’ve only ever used once! So, with that said, it is obvious that I wanted to use my crackle polish. After all, crackle is a pattern. I’ve seen many hair appliances with a crackle pattern on them.

I applied Funky Fingers- Cottage Stripes to my nails, then used one coat of China Glaze- Black Mesh. It was okay, but a bit boring, so I tried layering Wet n Wild- How I Met Your Magenta overtop of everything. I liked it better, but you can be the judge:

I think the picture above looks the prettiest :)

So, what do you think of my lazy way out of a challenge? I’m not too much of a fan of crackle on myself, but I believe it looks beautiful on others. Maybe it’s because I only own black. I think I would like a white better.

Tomorrow’s challenge is to create nails inspired by artwork.

Leopard Nails

Today is the 13th day of the 31 Day Challenge. The theme was animal print, so I chose to create a  leopard print on my nails.
 

I’ve never really looked at them, but I think these nails look like the leopard Sally Hansen Salon Effects. I always have a hard time picking different polishes for leopard nails, but I really like these ones. I’m sure you will be seeing this combination again :)
I used Funky Fingers’ Down to Earth as my golden base. I then added spots with Revlon’s Copper Penny, and finally added the brown marks around the spots with Wet n Wild’s Rustic.
Tomorrow is day 14, which means flower nails. See you then!

Funky Fingers’ Electric Sunset

This is day two of the 31 Day Challenge. The theme was orange, and since it’s [almost] summer here, I thought I would take this opportunity to use neon orange polish. In order for the orange to pop, I put white underneath it. This polish dries semi-matte, so I did put a coat of topcoat on (unlike yesterday’s).

I might put a coat of a glow-in-the-dark polish on for tonight!

Tomorrow’s theme is yellow. I don’t have many yellow nail polishes, but I do have a specific one in mind…

Golden Butterflies on NYC–Mint Macaroon

I typically do not look at my nails consistently throughout the day, but for the first two days of this mani, I did! I think it may have been the colors. I’ve had this polish for a while (not that long; just a few weeks), and finally decided to try it out. I am glad I did!

I wasn’t sure how I wanted to add some nail art to it, so I just decided on butterflies. I love butterflies, but am not very good at it. I must say I am getting a lot better at it, though.






How beautiful do they look with my necklace?

New York Color’s Mint Macaroon was my base color, and I used Funky Finger’s Down To Earth for the butterflies.