10.09.2012

Chanel - Dragon (stamping, not the best choice as you can see)

Orly - Glam Rock

07.09.2012

Caviar manicure lasted for 7 days and then I got bored of it and made this. I still are too quick to wait for stamped ornaments to dry :)

Orly - Cotton Candy
Chanel - Dragon

Caviar manicure - 5 days after

I expected my caviar nail to last maximum 2 days... So far 5 days have passed and no steel ball has fallen off. I am quite surprised for such long last. Only most balls have lost their colour and turned silver. I've decided to keep them as long as possible just to see how long I can keep them on.

Caviar Manicure

I am not big fan of cheap nail polishes, but I wasn't able to walk past this one. Purple is my weakness and this is the most beautiful polish I have ever seen. As yesterday I received my order of steel balls for caviar manicure, of course I had t try them :) So the result is such:

Photos really don't show the nce glitter in polish, it makes it look kind of dirty. The purple polish is Flormar nr 14.

About caviar manicure
I have had it on me for 13 hours, 7 of them in sleep, being pressed against sheets and sliding hand in hair a lot :) But all of balls seem to be in their place, even showering did nothing to them. It did feel very uneven when washing hair so I kept my pinkie as less as possible in them :D I had read that this manicure lasts up to 2 days. To prolong it I applied a bit of top cot along the tip of nail. But don't do it to whole nail - it really looks terrible, like frog eggs.

First tries at tape design...

Polishes - Sparitual "Shoot For The Stars" and "Enlightened Soul". I used a regular paper tape, made for medical purposes. The worst part was cutting it in strips that are similar. I took almost forever! Next time I will use special nail tape for this kind of manicure.

On my second try I used polishes Sparitual "Enlightened Soul" and Orly "Fresh".

This one I actually liked more. Colours seemed to work together really well.

French manicure

Every once in a while I get a bit tired of polishing all my nails. Then French manicue comes in handy. I really dislike working with white polish, as the one I have seems to be a bit too less pigmented and less lasting as I would want it to be. Glitter polishes, on the other hand, are very lasting ( actually I even have problems to remove them afterwards) so no problems with bad manicure after doing dishes. And if you have problems with making the perfect smile line - it will be less noticeable with such polish. 

Used polish - Sparitual "Looking Glass shimmer"

Magnetix polish

Polish - China Glaze "You Move Me".

I find working with magnetic polishes quite hard. Either I work too slowly or they dry way too quickly for me, or maybe both :) I got two magnetic polishes, "You Move Me" and "Drawn to You" - both really pretty.  But as they dry so fast I usually manage to get the magnetic effect only party on my nails so for a perfect manicure sometimes I have to even redo some nails 4 times...

For a prettier effect (at least I think so) I added rhinestones inside of every center of effect. They managed to hold on really good, even for a week with washing hair every other day and doing all the house works.