DIA DE LOS NIñOS- bubble gum nail design (inspired by robin moses)

Hola!!!!
Queee???? otro post??? jejeje pues siii, como hoy es ''dia del niño'' aqui en México y ya que yo tengo un precioso niño en casa pues quise hacer una manicura especial, anoche estuve viendo unos tutoriales de la maravillosa Robin Moses en youtube y vi uno que tenia una maquina expendedora de chicles de bolita!!!
me enamore de ese diseño y se me hizo muy apropiadon para este dia tan especial!!

Aqui les dejo el linbk del video de Robin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q42dxDfqTao

Cuiden y amen a sus hijos, respeten a todos los ninios ya que, aunque se escuche muy trillado, ellos son el futuro del mundo y ellos tambien tienen derechos, digan NO AL MALTRATO INFANTIL!!

De base para este disenio use un esmalte de kleancolors llamado ''cream pearl'' que yo creo es un dupe o copia de ''i juggle...men'' de OPI pero eso es otra historia :p

FEATHER MANICURE/ Manicura con plumas

Hola!!!

Recuerdan que ayer postie sobre OPI ''stedy as she rose''?? bueno pues lo que no les conte fue que sobre ese esmalte hice mi manicura con plumas!!!! Esta es otra tendencia del 2012 que se ha puesto bastante de moda en el mundo del internet y la blogosfera, asi que decidi unirme a esta tendencia tambien y aqui les dejo las fotos y los materiales que yo utilicé.

Les aseguro que es la manicura mas facil que he hecho, se los juro!!! dure como 2 segundos con cada unia, solo les recomiendo usar plumas no tan gruesas y si pueden encontrar como la que use yo que es super delgada y muy linda de puntitos les quedara super bien.

Aqui les dejo el link de un tutorial: http://www.refinery29.com/coachella-nail-art-designs/slideshow?page=3#slide-2

 Los materiales son: tijeras (de preferencia pequenias), lima, top coat, plumas, esmalte del color que gustes.

Gothic prom look no 1

Hello everybody! :)

So now I'm starting my tutorial series for different kinds of prom makeup looks. I'm starting off with a quite extreme look since this is probably what I would wear myself. :)

What do you need to think about when doing a look for prom or a wedding?
Most people would like to say that you should wear something natural so that you won't look at your prom-photos when you're 45 and wonder what the heck you were thinking. Somewhat, I can agree but that of course depends on who you are and what makeup you normally wear.
If a lot of makeup makes you feel uncomfortable then you shouldn't put on to much just because it's prom. Don't wear anything that makes you uncomfortable!
And the same is of course true for the opposite; if you normally look like Razor Candi and feel comfortable with that you shouldn't "make-down" just because it's prom (or your wedding).

So here's the look we're doing today.

If you're wearing a glossy black lip, be sure to find a lipstick that doesn't bleed. This liplook is made of eyeliner and lipgloss and bleeds like crazy! Bleeding is when the lipstick doesn't stay put, but wanders off into the fine lines around your lips. Not cute! :S 

Step 1. Prime your eyes with a good primer. Priming is essential for a prom makeup look since you want it to last all night without creasing.

Step 2. Sketch the rough outline of the cateye shape with a black eyeliner pencil.

Step 3. Clean up the shape and fill in the outer part with the eyeliner pencil. Blend inwards with a synthetic angled brush.

Step 4. Apply NYX Jumbo pencil in Milk on the inner part of the lid and blend it out gently.

Step 5. Fill in the black part of the cateye with black eyeshadow. On top of Milk, apply MakeupGeek eyeshadow Mercury with is a shimmery silver. Blend it into the black. In the inner corner, pop on some matte white eyeshadow (you could use shimmer if you'd like).

Step 6. Fill in the upper and lower waterlines with a black eyeliner pencil. Trace the lower lash line with a black eyeliner pencil and create "wings" in the corners. Go over the eyeliner pencil with black eyeshadow to set it. Line the upper lash line with black gel liner.

Step 7. Apply mascara and add a pair of false eyelashes. Fill in the eyebrows.

Step 8. With a black liquid eyeliner paint on the dots. :)

So that's all for this prom look! :D If you have any requests for special prom looks that you'd like to see a tutorial for, please just let me know. :)

Have a nice day everyone!

OPI- steady as she rose (swatches)

Hola!!!!!!!!!! (mi saludo de siempre jeje)

El dia de hoy les traigo un esmalte de mi marca favorita!!! yay!! OPI de la coleccion de los piratas del caribe: ''steady as she rose'', un color rosa muy clarito con tonos grisaseos con un acabado crema, me encanta este esmalte!! con 2 capas queda listo y seca super rapido, ademas es un color casi nude que queda perfecto para cualquier ocación.

Betsey Johnson Nail art TUTORIAL

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Mil disculpas por la tardanza del tutorial para la manicura anterior de betsey johnson estos dias no han sido mis dias definitivamente jeje, he tenido una semana muy rara, pero bueno aqui esta espero les guste :D

Yo usé de base el esmalte ''neon yellow'' de la marca kleancolors, la base de las rosas es de sinful colors ''24/7'' y las ojas de las rosas son dos tonos de verde (claro y oscuro) 2 esmaltes de art deco ''rosa y negro''

Glowing embers

Hello everybody! :)

Now I've made so many wearable looks lately so it's time for something that most people wouldn't call wearable.

The inspiration for this look actually came from a look that I encountered on the fabulous makeup site the Makeupbee.
Here's the look I was inspired by:

https://www.makeupbee.com/look.php?look_id=7675&qbt=likedlooks&qb_lookid=7675&qb_uid=25242

It's an amazing look, but I didn't want to copy it 100% so I made my own version. :)

My skin is a disaster right now, but luckily it doesn't look to bad on the photos (at least not if you watch it from a distance...). I really need to find a better foundation but most foundations are not light enough. I'm thinking about trying Illamasqua Skin Base because it is possible to get it in a very light and even a white one. We don't have Illamasqua here in Sweden though, so I would have to order it from their website and wouldn't be too happy if it turned out to be a bad foundation for my skin...

I realized today that I feel very, very comfortable with black lipstick. Black lipstick can goth up practically any look. :) 

On the lid I'm wearing Shimma shimma by MakeupGeek, which is a gorgeous champagne color that would look awesome for a prom look. Since it's shimmery it's very easy to blend it with darker colors. 

A tip if you want darker brows but are afraid it will get too dark is to fill them in as usual with a color matching your natural brow color and then apply a black (tap off the brush to remove excess eyeshadow) on the "tail" of the brow, creating a gradient. 

In the future I intend to do more lip-looks. I usually don't spend too much money on lipsticks, since eye-makeup is more fun, but recently I've discovered that lip-looks can be fun as well. :)

Face

*Everlasting foundation Ivory (Clarins)

*Studio finish concealer (M.A.C.)

*Compact white powder (Stargazer)

*Blush Glow (e.l.f.)

Eyebrows

*Charcoal brown (M.A.C.)

Eyes

*Fluidline Blacktrack (M.A.C.)

*Shimma shimma (MakeupGeek), frosty champagne, lid.
*Pigment Amethyst (Ben Nye), purple, lower lashline.

* Flamepoint (Sugarpill), orange.

*Gesso (M.A.C.), matte white, inner corne/brow highlight.

*Pollution (MakeUpStore),  matte black, cateye.

*False eyelashes #13 (Red Cherry)

Lips

* Inliner Indian ink (Isadora)

*Clear lipgloss (Isadora)

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That's all for today! :) Next time I'll probably be back with a not-so-wearable prom look.

Have a nice day!

BETSEY JOHNSON inspired manicure #1 / Manicra inspirada en Betsey Johnson

Hola!!!
Siento como si hubiera pasado mucho tiempo desde que hice el ultimos post jeje pero no :p ayer no entre todo el dia a la computadora tuve que estudiar para un examen de enfermedades capilares.

Este disenio que les traigo hoy me encanto y recibi muchos alagos de mis unias, esta inspirado en una foto que vi en el muro del facebook de la diseniadora Betsey Johnson (mi favorita ) abajo les voy a poner la foto, y es super sencillo de hacer, una amiga me pidio un tutorial asi que tambien lo posteare aqui.

30 Days of Blue: Gradient and Stamping

As you guys know from my previous post, I am very sick at the moment, so I'm keeping this short and sweet.

Awhile back I came across Oooh, Shinies! and just fell in love with this woman's stamping. Seriously, if you haven't seen her manis, you are missing out! Anyway, I came across an awesome stamped gradient that she did, and I just had to try it out. I used different polishes, but the end result is what I was looking for. Now if only I wasn't attempting this mani while struggling to breathe and so loaded up on medications that I shake like a Parkinson's patient. No, really. The high doses of Albuterol have my hands so shaky that was literally the best images I could manage while stamping. It's sad, but at least IRL the smears and inability to line up my stamps very well isn't noticeable. In fact, this mani received a ton of comments while in gradient form during my 6 hours in the ER yesterday, and even with it's funky stamping job it's been noticed today. I can't wait to be back to normal and be able to stamp normally. Seeing all those awesome stamping manis really makes me want to whip out my plates and play!

So here is the gradient: I used 2 coats of Wet N Wild Megalast I Need A Refresh-Mint, then sponged on Heaven Nail Lacquer in Honolulu Orchid, and added some Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Blue Me Away! on the very tips. I apologize for how unforgiving my macro setting is. Makes the gradient appear all lumpy! I promise I top coated it to smooth it out!

 And here it is with the ultra shaky stamping: After 2 days of wearing just the gradient I finally grabbed my Konad Special Polish in Black and stamped with the Zebra image from Bundle Monster plate BM 223. I'm so bummed that these meds make me so shaky since I just love how this looks! Sometimes I get caught up in sharing my latest and greatest polishes and forget how much I love to play with my polish and create awesome, bright, fun manis. I really need to get back in touch with that. The entire reason that I started really getting into polish again was due to manis like this! How soon we forget, right? You guys don't mind if I do fun manis, do ya?  Anyway, feel free to point and laugh at my wonky lines and inability to keep from smearing my darn stamps! Yikes! Oh! Also enjoy how unforgiving my macro setting is. Dig the drops of cuticle oil that you can actually see hanging out on my nails! *head desk* See how sloppy I am when I'm sick? I'm playing. Trust me, I know just how sick I am and these are great shots of one hell of an amazing mani considering how close to hospitalization my happy ass is. :)

Hope you are all having a better week than I am, and thanks for dropping by!

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

Quick update

Hi guys,

Just a quick update post for the moment. I have been crazy sick since Friday, so I haven't been able to manage a proper post for today. I finished the gradient part of my nails and took some pics,  but have yet to attempt the stamping part.

I have a pretty serious lung infection going on and it just doesnt want to respond to treatment, so I am moving very slowly and feel horrible. I spent time in Urgent Care on Friday, but was back in the big ER yesterday (for 6 hours!), going through constant breathing treatments and IV steroids. After all of that my O2 sat was still low so I am still on home treatments and tons of antibiotics and oral steroids. I'm feeling the slightest bit better today (actually managed a shower, yay!), but am still nowhere near 100%. I m hoping to at least finish this darn mani today sometime and then just rest for a bit. Of course, with a hubby working full time, my own business and 2 kids? Rest isn't in abundance.

Hope you all are well. Keep your fingers crossed that I can finally kick this evil virus!

-Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

Spring is bursting out

Hello everybody! :)

In my town the leaves have just started to burst out on trees and bushes and that was what inspired me for this look. Some parts of spring I like, as the warmth and lightness that you feel when the days grow longer. Some parts of spring are just terrible though, like the allergies and having to apply sunscreen all the time not to get burned. My skin is very sun-sensetive so I have to use spf 93840 or something like that whenever I'm going to stay outside more than 15 minutes. :)

I wore this look yesterday when I was trying to look as "normal" as possible (try that with purple hair...), since I was out looking for a job. It's a pity that it has to be that way, people judging you just because you have a style that's outside the mainstream range.

Hope you like the look! :)

I thought I'd place the pictures in an order different from the one I usually place them in. :)

On my lips I'm wearing nothing but ordinary lipbalm. A pink lipgloss would look great combined with the eye look too, but I just didn't feel like it.  

I'm beginning to like this way of experimenting with color, brown or gray in the outer corner and a bright color in the inner. It makes a very wearable but still fun and colorful look. 

On the waterline I have applied Nyx Jumbo Pencil in Milk and then Lucky green on top of it. I would have preferred using a green eyeliner but I don't have one that's suitable for this look so I did it this way instead. :) A darker green eyeliner like NYX Jumbo Pencil in Rocky Mountain green or the Urban Decay 24/7 glide on eyeliner pencil in Graffiti would have looked great on the waterline too! 

Face

*Everlasting foundation Ivory (Clarins)

*Blush Matt glory (MakeUpStore)

Eyebrows

*Latte (MakeupGeek)

Eyes

*Fluidline Blacktrack (M.A.C.)

*Jumbo Pencil Milk (NYX), inner corner, waterline.

*Latte (MakeupGeek), medium brown, outer part of lid blended above crease.

*Mocha (MakeupGeek), dark brown, outer part of lid.

*Cocoa bear (MakeupGeek), red brown, outer part of crease blended upwards.

*Fuji (MakeupGeek), matte apple green, inner part of lid.

*Lucky green (M.A.C.), shimmery lime green, on top of Fuji, waterline, lower lash line.

*Gesso (M.A.C.),  matte white, brow highlight.

*Shimmery white from Isadora, inner corner highlight

*False eyelashes #110 (Ardell)

That's all for today! I hope I'll be back tomorrow but my dog, Ester, is going to have dental surgery so I don't know if I will have time. 

Have a nice day everyone! 

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The brushes used to create the Early spring banner comes from:

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