Zooey Deschanel inspired nails-Tuxedo Nails

Hola!
Espero que estén muy bien, hoy les mostrare algo de 3D, este diseño lo hice para un concurso de la revista InStyle donde el tema era hacer unas uñas inspiradas en el diseño que usó Zooey deschanel en los Golden Globes pero también ponerle algo de creatividad de nuestra parte.

Quise hacer un diseño que todavía se viera elegante como para una ocasión como los Golden Globes jeje o por lo menos una celebración importante (boda, XV años, etc..) y también no quise cambiar el diseño básico por que entonces no serian inspiradas por el de Zooey.

Así que empecé pintando mis uñas con Nicole by OPI Silver-Ella un esmalte holográfico linear de color plata que ya he mostrado antes en varias ocasiones, después con esmalte negro pinte un french ni muy grueso ni muy delgado, luego añadí glitter hexagonal negro holográfico de la marca Republic nail para usarlo como botones, por ultimo un poco de glitter en el french negro y esculpí el moño con acrílico negro también  de Republic nail. 

Que les parece?? :D Espero que les guste y no olviden visitar mi página de Facebook!!

Nicole by OPI ''Show you care'' y Candy lacquer ''rubies & hearts''

Hola!!
Ha pasado ya una semana desde mi último blog post, la verdad es que he andado super ocupada por que ya estoy trabajando en mi estética y aunque es desde mi casa si es un poco agotador pero amo mi trabajo :D

Como no he pintado nada decidí mostrarles mi manicura actual, estoy tratando de disfrutar mas mis esmaltes y dejarmelos puestos mas de un día jeje, y el esmalte que les mostraré es el primero que compré cuando empezó mi obsesión por el nail art, lo vi en el anuncio de la revista seventeen y era el que estaba usando la modelo y no se que fue pero me gusto muchisimo.

El nombre es ''Show you care'' y es de la marca Nicole By OPI, es un color morado muy oscuro, algunas veces se ve negro, creo que es muy parecido a ''lincoln park after dark'' de OPI pero tendre que compararlos después. También apliqué una capa de ''rubies & hearts'' de Candy lacquer y creo que le dió un toque gótico. Y pues esta es la manicura que estoy usando hoy, ya tengo 4 dias con ella jeje y vaya que son bastantes para mi.

disculpen si no lucen muy bien mis uñas en esta foto, apenas la tomé hoy pero fue solo para que vieran mi manicura :D

butterfly stamps over holografic nails-mariposas usando mi stampink kit

Hola!!!
Hace unos días les mostré las uñas y algunos de los peinados que hice para la quinceañera de mi sobrina, pero no les mostré mis uñas que me pinte para esa ocasión.

Estaba guardando esta manicura para un post separado. Que tiene de especial? pues que es la primera vez que me pinto un  diseño con un stampking kit! La verdad prefiero pintar a mano con mi pincel, pero quise hacer algo diferente para este festejo, y crean me que quede muy contenta con el resultado!

Ya le voy agarrando el gusto a estampar sobre las uñas, mi stampikg kit no es muy caro solo costo 10 dlls, pero funciona muy bien.

El tema de la fiesta eran las mariposas y los colores morado y plateado, así que eso fue lo que hice  en mis uñas :D.

Los materiales que utilicé fueron:

• Esmalte Nick's sticks-silver-ella
• Esmalte Revlon-not shrinking violet
• Stamping kit ''Salon Express''
• Top coat de Nail factory

Espero que les guste, díganme que opinan :D creo que no salio tan mal para ser mi primera vez no??

stamping plate SE18

nicole by OPI ''silver-ella''

breast cancer awareness pink manicure

Hola!!!!!!
Antes de que pasen mas días y se me termine Octubre jeje les traigo mis uñas en apoyo al cáncer de mama, no soy tonta yo se que poner unas uñas rosas en mi blog no va a curar cáncer pero si muestra solidaridad con todas las mujeres del mundo, y aunque (gracias a Dios) yo no he sufrido esta enfermedad con nadie cercana ni conmigo misma se que nadie esta exenta de sufrir cáncer de mama.

En lugar de pintar un liston rosa en mis unias quise usar un esmalte brillante y ROSA!! algo muy simple para dar mi apoyo a esta causa. Hace mas o menos 4 meses que me regalaron este esmalte de Nicole by OPI, es de la colección ''Kardashian Kolors'' y se llama: ''Wear something spar-kylie''. Basicamente es microglitter rosa un poco salmón y un poco de plateado suspendido en una base rosa trasparente. Cubre perfecto en 2 capas y no se descarapela, es muy resistente incluso sin top coat.

Espero que les guste tanto como a mi, no soy de las que les gusta usar rosa muy seguido pero este en verdad me gusto!

31 Day Challenge: Animal Print

I've been waiting for this day in the challenge!

 I've always been far to intimidated to post any animal prints. They usually end up all lumpy and nasty looking but this time it worked out well for me.  At least as far as the lumpiness goes.

The full nail is in 'Baby Blue' by Nicole.  The leopard dots are in Quo 'Blue Skies' and another no name mini bottle of Quo.

Make sure to check out the other fine ladies animal print

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
-Robin Sparkles  

glitter tips y 2 esmaltes nuevos

Hola!!!!!

Solo queria dejarles esta foto de mis unias, son las mismas del post anterior pero les anadi un esmalte de glitter de Nicole by OPI ''Snow-man of my dreams'' el cual fue lanzada la navidad pasada, me encanta por que es como una fiesta de colores!! principalmente tiene plateado y azul pero tambien amarillo, rosa, verde...

Estas son mis compras de la semana: pegamento para pestanias, pestanias individuales, top coat ''pink'' de nail factory, esmalte de la coleccion de spiderman de OPI ''number one nemesis'' y un esmalte magnetico de republic nail

Untrieds! Nicole by OPI Respect The World Matte

Hi Ladies! Happy Thursday!

Lately I've been trying to work in some of my untried polishes. I have hundreds of untrieds, some of them have been sitting on my shelves for over a year. They need some love, right? I figure now is a good time to wear them since I'm not feeling alot of the fall collections at the moment.

Today I have Nicole by OPI Respect The World Matte to show you. RTW is a stunning silver blue with a Matte finish. Actually, since it's shimmery I'd call it more of a Suede, but the bottle says Matte, so we'll just roll with it. ;)

Details:
1 coat OPI Nail Envy Matte
3 coats (total) NOPI Respect The World (Matte)
No Topcoat

I have to tell you guys, I adore this color. I'm a sucker for blues in general, but a silver blue? Yes please! I don't wear alot of Matte polish since I'm a serial moisturizer and that just kills the matte finish, but I really enjoyed wearing this. I think I prefer Matte polish when it's a color I'm drooling over.

Formula:
Despite the gorgeous color, the formula on this girl was a nightmare! Thick and goopy. That combined with it's insanely fast dry time is a recipe for disaster. I loved the color enough to tough it out, but I don't see myself wearing this often due to the horrendous formula.

Application:
Given the thick and goopy nature and fast dry time of this girl, obviously application was not pleasant. It took 3 goopy coats to even this lady out, which was frustrating since this polish is opaque enough to be a 1 or 2 coater tops. I did add some thinner to my bottle, but it really didn't help at all.

Unfortunately this girl is going back on the shelf until I decide that I really need to wear this color again (and have forgotten how irritating it was to apply this!). Do you have a polish that you love but has the worst formula ever?

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!

-Kimber

Bubble Gum Bubbles Nails

Hello kids! ;)

Today I have an 'off the top of my head' manicure for you.  After I was done it kind of reminded me of bubble gum.  Who doesn't love bubble gum, right?!

I used five different nail polishes for this look.  The base is in Orly's 'Decades of Dysfunction'.  I started off making the largest dots in Quo 'Tease'.  This helped to make the path I created from the first nail to the last. I tried to make it as though the dots were flowing through to each nail.  After the large dots I used smaller dots to follow the trail and fill in spaces. I find going from largest to smallest gives it the best look.   For the smaller dots I used Nicole's 'Stolen Kisses', Essence 'Ultimate Pink' and Essie's 'Watermelon'. 

I'm impressed with it I think.  I love using the dotter.  Not just because it's easy but I love the look.

Striping tape? No striping tape?...you be the judge!

Second post for the day. 

I did this design last night. It was one of those ones that you don’t know what you are going to do  so you just start making dots!  I actually had a lot of fun with it.  I used Nicole’s ‘Baby Blue’ for the base. It’s weird because originally I didn’t like this polish but I keep going back to it.  I’m really attracted to light blues recently. I’m trying to do nails in other colours than blue but I can’t help it. 

I started by making dots across the corner of my nail with Quo’s Steel Heart leaving spaces in between. I then went back and filled them in with more dots in the original  Baby Blue that I used for the full nail. 

I took pictures as usual but decided it needed a little more. I added black striping tape along the edge of the design.  What do you guys think? Striping tape or no striping tape?

WITH STRIPING TAPE

WITHOUT STRIPING TAPE

Revlon 'Whimsical' and 'Scandalous'

I figured I’d make this the first of two post today. Chances of me posting tomorrow are slim to none seeing were moving.

Last night I did two swatches of Revlon Nail polish in ‘Whimsical’ and ‘Scandalous’.  So long story to these nail polishes.  Before attempting my first jelly sandwich manicure I was searching the web looking at them.  Whimsical seemed to come up a lot.  All of the sudden I needed it! It’s funny because I can recall seeing it at Shoppers Drug Mart and every other place I went with polish.  I thought to myself who would by this(this is pre nail obsession)  Well once I saw the jelly sandwiches I needed it! Of course when I went to buy it it was nowhere to be found. I went to a couple different Shoppers Drug Mart, drugstores and even Walmart. I don’t like to buy things from Walmart so that’s proof enough how much I wanted it.  

Well finally I found it at well.ca I put it in the shopping cart but waited while I surfed the rest of the site.  When I went to checkout they said it was no longer available :o( Finally a week later they had it back and I ordered it along with Revlon ‘Scandalous’.  I was sooooo happy.

I  got it in yesterday!  I had to try it right away(at work).  Three coats on of ‘Whimsical’ and it was looking pretty crappy. I figured I’d need a coat of colour first anyway.  So when I got home I put on a base of Nicole’s ‘Baby’.  I also had to put on a top coat because Whimsical did not have a very nice finish.  I’m still happy with it though.  What do you guys think? Was it worth the hassle?

Sorry the picture is a little blurry

For Revlon 'Scandalous' I used a purple base.  Don't ask me which one because I forget ;oP

Dotticure!

I really love this manicure.  The pictures don’t do it justice.  It was rainy and clouded over yesterday so these were the best pictures I could get. (I really need to make that light box)

 I was so excited to play with my new dotters I got in from Nail Polish Canada.  Now I have ten different sizes of dotters!!! It was like Christmas morning! 

I started off with two coats of Orly’s ‘Decades of Dysfunction’.  I’m really liking this polish as a blank canvas when doing nail art.  It’s very subtle and work appropriate.  For the dots I worked my way down from largest to smallest making sure not pass the middle of my finger nails both at tip and cuticle.  As I applied I tried to keep it in a half moon shape. 

What do you guys think? I know I’m pretty proud of myself :o)

Nail Polish used for dots.

Revlon provence

Nicole 'Fanatical Fuchsia'

Essie 'Bahama Mama'

Urban Outfitter's 'Bandeau'

Just playing around......manicure :P

Today’s post is something I did on the weekend. I was just playing around and came up with it.  Although not my favourite I really liked the look and will definitely try something like it again.

It was very simple. For the full nail I applied three coats of Revlon nail polish in ‘Provence’.  I find it very sheer so that’s what I required three coats.  With my dotting tool I created the lines alternating between Essie’s ‘Bahama Mama’ and Nicole’s ‘Baby Blue’.   I made sure to overlap each new line just a little over the previous to give it that cloud effect.  I’m saying cloud because that’s the only word I could come up with. There must be a name for this look. Anybody know? Maybe ruffles???

Nicole By OPI Silver Texture- Craquelado plateado

Hola!!!
Ayer subi un post con mi manicura usando CHINA GLAZE ''turned up turquoise'', bueno pues decidi tratar otra vez de usar mi craquelado plateado de nicole by opi, y funciono!!!!!! por fin logre que craquelara bien.

Y es que este esmalte y yo no nos llevábamos bien, he intentado 3 veces usarlo pero nomas no funcionaba, solo se veian pequenias gritas pero no parecia un craquelado como el black shatter de OPI, no entendia por que hasta que lo use sobre una unia falsa y como estaba muy larga la pinte con pequenios brochasos y voila!!! ahora lo amo!! jeje y asi fue como logre el efecto de grietas en mis unias, con brochasos cortos.
No se si alguien mas ha tenido este problema con estos esmaltes que en la marca de NICOLE BY OPI  se llaman ''Texture Coat''

aqui les dejo una foto de mis bellas unias! Adoro como se ve sobre el color turquesa, todavia sigo usando esta manicura hasta ahorita :D es un record ya que tengo casi una semana usandola.

Nicole by Opi in "Baby" blue(Justin Bieber line)

I thought I would share this swatch.  I picked up this colour because I haven't been able to get Essie's Bikini so Teeny.  Apparently this polish is by Justin Bieber :os  I thought that was quite amusing and almost did not buy it for that fact.  lol  This took four coats! I had a hell of a time applying it.  I will probably only ever use it for water marbling. Either it was a bad bottle or just bad polish. I generally like Nicole polishes so it was disappointing

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Nail Mail: miren lo que llego en el correo

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Solo queria compartirles lo que me llego en el correo: 2 sets de la nueva coleccion de los esmaltes Pure Ice VINYL REMIX art in motion, esperen muy pronto una manicura con ellos por que son muy diferentes a los demas craquelados :D.

Y también quiero mostrarles como quedaron lindas mis botellitas de nic's sticks, asi se tiene una mejor aplicacion y mayor aprovechamiento del producto que como ven es muy poco y como son mis unicos esmaltes holograficos debo cuidarlos mucho!! jeje definitivamente seguire convirtiendo mis esmaltes en presentacion de pluma a botella.

TIP: para limpiar las botellas de esmalte que ya esten por acabarse o que simplemente no te guste y quieras usar el contenedor para otro esmalte solo necesitas tener acetona pura y un Q-tip, al principio limpi la botellita para mi nic stick enjuagandola varias veces con acetona pero gaste mucha, despues tube que limpiar otra para convertir mi nic stick ''silverella'' y como ya tenia que dormir decidi vaciar lo que restaba del esmalte y llenarlo con acetona pura, lo deje toda la noche reposando y al dia siguiente quedo limpio! solo con un cotonete limpie y seque bien la botella y listo!! 

mis ultimas adquisisiones-nicole by opi y republic nail

Hola!!!!!!
este es un post super rapido, solo queria mostrarles lo que he adquirido ultimamente, no es mucho ya que he andado mas enfocada en la escuela de cabello comprando tijeras, cepillos, etc. Pero mi madrina me trajo un esmalte nuevo de Nicole by Opi y yo por fin me compre un esmalte que brilla en la oscuridad de Republic nail, asi que aqui les dejo las fotos

Essie PLay Date and some random layering

Hi guys! Happy Mother's Day to all my lovely lacquered mamas!

Today I have Essie's Play Date from the Go Overboard Collection to share with you.

I have been dying to wear this color since I picked it up, but since I was doing a full month of blues, it just sat in my untrieds for awhile, staring at me and whispering at me to wear it. I finally gave in this week, and boy am I glad I did!

Play Date is a lovely dusty purple crelly. It reminds me of the lilacs that used to grow in our back yard in upstate New York when I was around 7 or 8. I am loving spring colors right now, and this lovely purple was spot on for what I was looking for! But don't take my word for it, take a look!

Play Date is brighter IRL, but my cameras (all 3 of them) just didn't want to focus in direct lighting. Either way this purple is absolutely gorgeous, and one of my faves.

Formula on this girl was a dream, gliding onto the nail like butter, not too thick, not too thin. It did take 3 coats for opacity, but if you don't mind some very minor VNL you could get away with 2.  Dry time was average, but I also used a non quick dry topcoat at first, and that was slightly detrimental to my mani. I have no patience and am spoiled by SV, so I managed to give my nails a few dents and smudges here and there. Oops!

In order to remedy my boo boos, I decided to play with a little layering. Awhile back I picked up an awesome layering polish by NOPI, and I decided to see what it would look like over Play Date. The result is a lovely pink/purple duochromy look that just wowed me in sunlight. Unfortunately i had managed to kill my camera battery and didn't get any pics of the layering on it's own. I did manage to snap a couple pics of the final mani, which is LA Splash Nail Art Glitter in "Trickery" (sent to me by the lovely Marisa of Polish Obsession), over NOPI Count on Me ( a flipping stunning pink/purple duochrome sheer), over Essie Play Date. I love this look, however this was 3 coats of Play Date, 2 coats of Count on Me, loose glitter sponged on with clear polish, a coat of Gelous and a coat of SV so my poor nails look ultra thick. The upside to that is that this mani lasted 4 days with ZERO chips or tip wear!

I can't wait to play with Count on Me again. It is an amazing layering polish and I highly recommend picking it up. Cris from Let Them Have Polish did some layering with Count on Me recently, and her pics show just how awesome it is over a darker color. It's like Beetle Wings! So many possibilities with this girl. For me, it's up there with Pure Ice Heartbreaker as far as must have layering polish.

Hope you all are enjoying your weekend and having an excellent Mother's Day! I'll be hanging out with my hubby and kiddos today, as well as painting my nails here in a few minutes. We are also celebrating Dex's 2nd bday today (it's actually tomorrow, but it's hard to gather everyone on a weeknight), so lots of fun will be had! I plan on posting some pics of the festivities, since I realized I have yet to share my family with you guys!

Coming up:

New Maybelline Color Shot swatches and review, Seche Recondition review, NYC In A New York Minute Quick Dry Top Coat Review, and some holographic goodness!

Also, you may have noticed that my blog is now part of the BlogHer Network. I did not make that decision lightly, and chose to go with BlogHer due to their excellent reputation and content. When they first approached me I spent hours on their site checking things out and doing research. I'm proud to be a part of their network. Feel free to check them out!

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber