My first tape mani

Erika, the one behind the blog Chloe's nails, makes great manicures using tape. I finally decided to give it a try myself, on my sister's nails. I decided to use a glitter polish, because that's in this case more fool-proof I believe. Plus, painting someone else's nails is always a fantastic opportunity for using glitter, since I will not have to take it off myself! ;)

Because I think they fit together so well, I used the same colours as I used here. This includes OPI Show It and Glow It, again, yes. It's the only glitter polish I have that is opaque after one (thick) coat, and that's neccessary for this tape manicure.

This is how I did it: after painting the nails pink, I put a piece of tape on it (I used normal tape, not the so-called Scottish tape as Erika uses), painted glitter over it and removed the tape as soon as possible. (That's why a one coater is needed: you can't wait for the polish to dry to add another coat because when you remove the tape once the polish is dry, more polish will stick to it and come off too.) By clicking on the picture, you can see properly where I put the tape.

I admit, I'm not as good as Erika yet, but I like it for a first try! For great tutorials and much more ideas with tape, see here. Erika is the queen of tape!

My first tape mani

Erika, the one behind the blog Chloe's nails, makes great manicures using tape. I finally decided to give it a try myself, on my sister's nails. I decided to use a glitter polish, because that's in this case more fool-proof I believe. Plus, painting someone else's nails is always a fantastic opportunity for using glitter, since I will not have to take it off myself! ;)

Because I think they fit together so well, I used the same colours as I used here. This includes OPI Show It and Glow It, again, yes. It's the only glitter polish I have that is opaque after one (thick) coat, and that's neccessary for this tape manicure.

This is how I did it: after painting the nails pink, I put a piece of tape on it (I used normal tape, not the so-called Scottish tape as Erika uses), painted glitter over it and removed the tape as soon as possible. (That's why a one coater is needed: you can't wait for the polish to dry to add another coat because when you remove the tape once the polish is dry, more polish will stick to it and come off too.) By clicking on the picture, you can see properly where I put the tape.

I admit, I'm not as good as Erika yet, but I like it for a first try! For great tutorials and much more ideas with tape, see here. Erika is the queen of tape!

My first tape mani

Erika, the one behind the blog Chloe's nails, makes great manicures using tape. I finally decided to give it a try myself, on my sister's nails. I decided to use a glitter polish, because that's in this case more fool-proof I believe. Plus, painting someone else's nails is always a fantastic opportunity for using glitter, since I will not have to take it off myself! ;)

Because I think they fit together so well, I used the same colours as I used here. This includes OPI Show It and Glow It, again, yes. It's the only glitter polish I have that is opaque after one (thick) coat, and that's neccessary for this tape manicure.

This is how I did it: after painting the nails pink, I put a piece of tape on it (I used normal tape, not the so-called Scottish tape as Erika uses), painted glitter over it and removed the tape as soon as possible. (That's why a one coater is needed: you can't wait for the polish to dry to add another coat because when you remove the tape once the polish is dry, more polish will stick to it and come off too.) By clicking on the picture, you can see properly where I put the tape.

I admit, I'm not as good as Erika yet, but I like it for a first try! For great tutorials and much more ideas with tape, see here. Erika is the queen of tape!

Happy 2011!

My New Year's Eve manicure! I HAD to use my new OPI. Today is the last day I can use as much of it as I want withouth my nails looking overdone. And today absolutely needs glitters! So I added it to every nail with a dotting tool, unfortunately this picture doesn't show that properly.

A little explanation:
Thumb: pink and golden fireworks, made with a pink striper and a small dotting tool (I don't have a golden striper).
Index: made with a striper, no further explanation needed I guess.
Middle: these are oliebollen, Dutch food we traditionally eat at New Year's Eve. With icing sugar! I used a dotting tool for the oliebollen and a sponge for the white sugar.
Ring: champagne! I used Essence's great nail art pen for the glasses.
Pinky: it's almost twelve o'clock! (Well, some kindly mentioned that it's more like eleven o'clock...) Again, Essence's nail art pen helped me out.

Happy New Year!

Happy 2011!

My New Year's Eve manicure! I HAD to use my new OPI. Today is the last day I can use as much of it as I want withouth my nails looking overdone. And today absolutely needs glitters! So I added it to every nail with a dotting tool, unfortunately this picture doesn't show that properly.

A little explanation:
Thumb: pink and golden fireworks, made with a pink striper and a small dotting tool (I don't have a golden striper).
Index: made with a striper, no further explanation needed I guess.
Middle: these are oliebollen, Dutch food we traditionally eat at New Year's Eve. With icing sugar! I used a dotting tool for the oliebollen and a sponge for the white sugar.
Ring: champagne! I used Essence's great nail art pen for the glasses.
Pinky: it's almost twelve o'clock! (Well, some kindly mentioned that it's more like eleven o'clock...) Again, Essence's nail art pen helped me out.

Happy New Year!

Happy 2011!

My New Year's Eve manicure! I HAD to use my new OPI. Today is the last day I can use as much of it as I want withouth my nails looking overdone. And today absolutely needs glitters! So I added it to every nail with a dotting tool, unfortunately this picture doesn't show that properly.

A little explanation:
Thumb: pink and golden fireworks, made with a pink striper and a small dotting tool (I don't have a golden striper).
Index: made with a striper, no further explanation needed I guess.
Middle: these are oliebollen, Dutch food we traditionally eat at New Year's Eve. With icing sugar! I used a dotting tool for the oliebollen and a sponge for the white sugar.
Ring: champagne! I used Essence's great nail art pen for the glasses.
Pinky: it's almost twelve o'clock! (Well, some kindly mentioned that it's more like eleven o'clock...) Again, Essence's nail art pen helped me out.

Happy New Year!

Less Than 700 More Fans Needed!

Less than 700 more fans needed before OPI release the OPI Retired shades and award 100 lucky fans with a set of all six!! Tell your friends to 'Like' OPI, tell them Kimberly Grell sent you and enter-to-win on the 100,000 Fans tab.

Click Here to view more info!

Less Than 700 More Fans Needed!

Less than 700 more fans needed before OPI release the OPI Retired shades and award 100 lucky fans with a set of all six!! Tell your friends to 'Like' OPI, tell them Kimberly Grell sent you and enter-to-win on the 100,000 Fans tab.

Click Here to view more info!

Less Than 700 More Fans Needed!

Less than 700 more fans needed before OPI release the OPI Retired shades and award 100 lucky fans with a set of all six!! Tell your friends to 'Like' OPI, tell them Kimberly Grell sent you and enter-to-win on the 100,000 Fans tab.

Click Here to view more info!

BlackBerry manicure

I got it! OPI Show It And Glow It from the Burlesque Collection! It costed €14, but it's worth every cent! After spending the afternoon shopping in Amsterdam withouth having bought a single thing, I thought I deserved this polish. I've been craving it ever since I saw a picture of it.

And I decided to do a Blackberry manicure with it:

Black·Ber·ry man·i·cure Noun  /ˈblakˌberē ˈmaniˌkyo͝or/
Manicure with the tumbs painted in a flasy color that's different from the rest of the nails, so they stand out when typing on a BlackBerry.

I have a phone from Stone Age, but it has the same effect - I almost get blinded by a blur of bling when sending a message. It's impossible to secretly send a message when in college, friends have been asking why my messages contain so many mistakes lately and I'm considering wearing sunglasses even though it's snowing here in Holland. But I love it! I even think I will be able to handle the hell that will arise when I have to take it off...

My photo doesn't show all of the awesomeness of the polish, so I'd like to refer you to pictures of others who have been succesful in capturing the glitter overdose in a picture. I love it!!

BlackBerry manicure

I got it! OPI Show It And Glow It from the Burlesque Collection! It costed €14, but it's worth every cent! After spending the afternoon shopping in Amsterdam withouth having bought a single thing, I thought I deserved this polish. I've been craving it ever since I saw a picture of it.

And I decided to do a Blackberry manicure with it:

Black·Ber·ry man·i·cure Noun  /ˈblakˌberē ˈmaniˌkyo͝or/
Manicure with the tumbs painted in a flasy color that's different from the rest of the nails, so they stand out when typing on a BlackBerry.

I have a phone from Stone Age, but it has the same effect - I almost get blinded by a blur of bling when sending a message. It's impossible to secretly send a message when in college, friends have been asking why my messages contain so many mistakes lately and I'm considering wearing sunglasses even though it's snowing here in Holland. But I love it! I even think I will be able to handle the hell that will arise when I have to take it off...

My photo doesn't show all of the awesomeness of the polish, so I'd like to refer you to pictures of others who have been succesful in capturing the glitter overdose in a picture. I love it!!

BlackBerry manicure

I got it! OPI Show It And Glow It from the Burlesque Collection! It costed €14, but it's worth every cent! After spending the afternoon shopping in Amsterdam withouth having bought a single thing, I thought I deserved this polish. I've been craving it ever since I saw a picture of it.

And I decided to do a Blackberry manicure with it:

Black·Ber·ry man·i·cure Noun  /ˈblakˌberē ˈmaniˌkyo͝or/
Manicure with the tumbs painted in a flasy color that's different from the rest of the nails, so they stand out when typing on a BlackBerry.

I have a phone from Stone Age, but it has the same effect - I almost get blinded by a blur of bling when sending a message. It's impossible to secretly send a message when in college, friends have been asking why my messages contain so many mistakes lately and I'm considering wearing sunglasses even though it's snowing here in Holland. But I love it! I even think I will be able to handle the hell that will arise when I have to take it off...

My photo doesn't show all of the awesomeness of the polish, so I'd like to refer you to pictures of others who have been succesful in capturing the glitter overdose in a picture. I love it!!

Festive Fingers!

Just in time for the holidays, Nicole by OPI is holding a Festive Fingers Giveaway! Win a custom-made Nicole by OPI stocking including Nicole’s Yule Jewels, Tinsel Tips Minis and a mystery pack full of six Nicole Lacquers, by uploading holiday-inspired nails on Nicole by OPI’s Facebook wall.

Check it out here and please feel free to share this with your readers.

Happy Holidays!

-TheNailGoddess

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Festive Fingers!

Just in time for the holidays, Nicole by OPI is holding a Festive Fingers Giveaway! Win a custom-made Nicole by OPI stocking including Nicole’s Yule Jewels, Tinsel Tips Minis and a mystery pack full of six Nicole Lacquers, by uploading holiday-inspired nails on Nicole by OPI’s Facebook wall.

Check it out here and please feel free to share this with your readers.

Happy Holidays!

-TheNailGoddess

Click to enlarge

Festive Fingers!

Just in time for the holidays, Nicole by OPI is holding a Festive Fingers Giveaway! Win a custom-made Nicole by OPI stocking including Nicole’s Yule Jewels, Tinsel Tips Minis and a mystery pack full of six Nicole Lacquers, by uploading holiday-inspired nails on Nicole by OPI’s Facebook wall.

Check it out here and please feel free to share this with your readers.

Happy Holidays!

-TheNailGoddess

Click to enlarge

Quidditch

Last week I went to the new Harry Potter movie with a friend and I made her an appropriate manicure. Ah well, I know that Quidditch isn't played at all in the seventh movie, but I really liked the idea and wanted to make it.

The gorgeous blue sky is What's With The Cattitude from OPI, with sponged clouds. With a nail art pen I painted two players on broomsticks (one from Griffyndor (Harry!) and one from Slytherin, as you can see from the colours of their capes) and the six hooped goal posts (three on each side). The balls are done with a dotting tool: the red Quaffle and the two black Bludgers (one of which is chasing Harry), and did you already notice the Golden Snitch? The player from Slytherin is just flying away from it... Haha.

Quidditch

Last week I went to the new Harry Potter movie with a friend and I made her an appropriate manicure. Ah well, I know that Quidditch isn't played at all in the seventh movie, but I really liked the idea and wanted to make it.

The gorgeous blue sky is What's With The Cattitude from OPI, with sponged clouds. With a nail art pen I painted two players on broomsticks (one from Griffyndor (Harry!) and one from Slytherin, as you can see from the colours of their capes) and the six hooped goal posts (three on each side). The balls are done with a dotting tool: the red Quaffle and the two black Bludgers (one of which is chasing Harry), and did you already notice the Golden Snitch? The player from Slytherin is just flying away from it... Haha.

Quidditch

Last week I went to the new Harry Potter movie with a friend and I made her an appropriate manicure. Ah well, I know that Quidditch isn't played at all in the seventh movie, but I really liked the idea and wanted to make it.

The gorgeous blue sky is What's With The Cattitude from OPI, with sponged clouds. With a nail art pen I painted two players on broomsticks (one from Griffyndor (Harry!) and one from Slytherin, as you can see from the colours of their capes) and the six hooped goal posts (three on each side). The balls are done with a dotting tool: the red Quaffle and the two black Bludgers (one of which is chasing Harry), and did you already notice the Golden Snitch? The player from Slytherin is just flying away from it... Haha.

Opi - Russian Navy (Suede)

Opi - Russian Navy (Suede) is het tweede Suede lakje welke ik bezit, naast deze liet ik jullie de vorige keer ookal We'll Always Have Paris zien, en vandaag is het de buurt aan Russian Navy (Suede)!

Opi - Russian Navy (Suede) is the second Suede polish I own, I've got We'll always have paris (Suede) too, you can find that one here! So today it's time to show you Russian Navy (Suede!)

Russian Navy is een blauwe lak die mat opdroogt. De eerste keer was ik net zoals bij We'll always have Paris een beetje sceptisch of ik de lak wel zo geschikt en leuk vond.. Na hem een jaar verstopt te hebben in mijn kast besloot ik hem weer eens uit te proberen. En raad eens? Ik vind hem helemaal leuk nu! Soms moet je een lak dus gewoon een tweede kans geven :-)! Matte lakjes vond ik in het begin helemaal niet mooi, maar de laatste tijd begin ik het steeds leuker te vinden!


Russian Navy is a blue polish which dries matte. The first time I used this one I didn't really knew if i liked it or not... So I put it away for about a year, and now I decided to take a look at it again. And guess what? I really like it now! Sometimes you've got to give a polish a second chance! I didn't like the matte polishes at first sight, but now I totally like them!

Hier kun je Russian Navy nogmaals zien. Haha op de achtergrond zie je het pootje van mn kat! Ze vind het altijd erg interessant als ik foto's aan het maken ben! Goed de applicatie van deze lak is echt geweldig, je hebt maar 1 laagje nodig! Streeploos, mooi dekkend en hij droogt mooi mat op, als je niet zo van mat houdt kun je er natuurlijk een topcoat overheen doen. Dan komen er ontzettende mooie glittertjes tevoorschijn!


Here you can see Russian Navy again. Haha you can see the paw of my cat at the background! She's always very curious when I make pictures of swatches! Alright application of this polish is amazing! You just need one coat, it's not streaky, its opaque ánd it dries matte very good! If you don't like matte polishes you can put a topcoat above it, after using a topcoat you'll see very nice glitters!

En als laatste nog even een snel fotootje toen mijn kat het swatchen niet zo leuk meer vond. Dit is geen goede foto om de lak op te zien, maar het leek me wel leuk om even te laten zien hoe boos onze kat kan kijken :)!


Hihi and for the last time a pic when you can see my cat, when she didn't like all that pictures anymore, it's not a good picture, so it's just for fun to show you how angry my cat can watch :)!



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Opi - Russian Navy (Suede)

Opi - Russian Navy (Suede) is het tweede Suede lakje welke ik bezit, naast deze liet ik jullie de vorige keer ookal We'll Always Have Paris zien, en vandaag is het de buurt aan Russian Navy (Suede)!

Opi - Russian Navy (Suede) is the second Suede polish I own, I've got We'll always have paris (Suede) too, you can find that one here! So today it's time to show you Russian Navy (Suede!)

Russian Navy is een blauwe lak die mat opdroogt. De eerste keer was ik net zoals bij We'll always have Paris een beetje sceptisch of ik de lak wel zo geschikt en leuk vond.. Na hem een jaar verstopt te hebben in mijn kast besloot ik hem weer eens uit te proberen. En raad eens? Ik vind hem helemaal leuk nu! Soms moet je een lak dus gewoon een tweede kans geven :-)! Matte lakjes vond ik in het begin helemaal niet mooi, maar de laatste tijd begin ik het steeds leuker te vinden!


Russian Navy is a blue polish which dries matte. The first time I used this one I didn't really knew if i liked it or not... So I put it away for about a year, and now I decided to take a look at it again. And guess what? I really like it now! Sometimes you've got to give a polish a second chance! I didn't like the matte polishes at first sight, but now I totally like them!

Hier kun je Russian Navy nogmaals zien. Haha op de achtergrond zie je het pootje van mn kat! Ze vind het altijd erg interessant als ik foto's aan het maken ben! Goed de applicatie van deze lak is echt geweldig, je hebt maar 1 laagje nodig! Streeploos, mooi dekkend en hij droogt mooi mat op, als je niet zo van mat houdt kun je er natuurlijk een topcoat overheen doen. Dan komen er ontzettende mooie glittertjes tevoorschijn!


Here you can see Russian Navy again. Haha you can see the paw of my cat at the background! She's always very curious when I make pictures of swatches! Alright application of this polish is amazing! You just need one coat, it's not streaky, its opaque ánd it dries matte very good! If you don't like matte polishes you can put a topcoat above it, after using a topcoat you'll see very nice glitters!

En als laatste nog even een snel fotootje toen mijn kat het swatchen niet zo leuk meer vond. Dit is geen goede foto om de lak op te zien, maar het leek me wel leuk om even te laten zien hoe boos onze kat kan kijken :)!


Hihi and for the last time a pic when you can see my cat, when she didn't like all that pictures anymore, it's not a good picture, so it's just for fun to show you how angry my cat can watch :)!



Vergeet niet om mee te doen met de winactie! Je hebt nog maar een paar dagen de tijd!/Don't forget to enter the giveaway! It ends in a few days!