Born Pretty Store Neon Nail studs review + Skull Nail art

Hola!!!!!
Otra vez ya estoy aquí con un nuevo diseño y para mostrarles otro de los maravillosos productos de la tienda online Born Pretty Store la cual me envió este producto como press sample :)

Hoy les voy a mostrar unos estoperoles o Nail studs los cuales vienen en 6 colores diferentes pero en 2 formas: cuadrados y redondos!! son 400 piezas de 2mm.

En cuanto vi los colores tan brillantes supe que tenia que hacer un diseño punk!! con alguna calavera, y buscando por pinterest me encontré una foto y fue mi inspiración para este nail art

 Primero hice un water marble con los colores neon y sobre esa base pinte la calavera, utilicé el esmalte Avery de la marca Julep  y Platinum magic base coat de Pure ice (esmalte blanco) y un esmalte de fuller Black cat, después aplique los nail studs.

Pueden adquirir estos nail studs y muchos mas productos para nail art en Born Pretty Store, son de muy buena calidad, faciles de usar, y puedes utilizarlos para decorar lo que quieras!! el precio de estos nail studs es de 5.99!! por 400 piezas! y no olviden que pueden utilizar el codigo YHL91 para obtener un 10% de descuento en su compra!!

Que opinan???

Spring flowers-Flores de primavera-Stamping Sunday

Hola!!
Espero que estén teniendo un buen inicio de semana, ayer tenia que publicar este diseño para el reto de ''Sunday stamping'' pero no pude mi hijo estuvo un poco enfermo de gripe.

Para este diseño supe que tenia que hacer un gradient!! hace mucho tiempo que tenia ganas de hacer una manicura con colores pasteles que cambiaran gradualmente el color, y para estampar las flores usé esmalte blanco, aunque no se ven mucho por que los colores son todos claros de todas formas me encanta!!

Utilicé los siguientes esmaltes:

• Sinful colors-Beautiful girl
• Sally hansen xtreme wear-Mellow Yellow
• Sinful colors-Innocent
• China Glaze-For Audrey

En ese mismo orden hice el gradient con una esponja de maquillaje,luego estampé con esmalte de Pure Ice en color blanco usando el plato Mash-24. La verdad creo que el diseño se ve mucho mejor en persona ya que en la foto parece como si estuviera borrosa pero la verdad es que batalle mucho para tomar buenas fotos y pues estas fueron las que mejor se veían. Espero que les guste :D

Studded Nails with Pure Ice Scream

Good Morning Lovelies! Happy Tuesday! It's going to be another busy day here at KLK - I have even more awesome new polishes to show you so I'll be working on some of those today.

This morning I have a manicure I wore a few days ago to share with you. I've been really missing nail art lately, so I decided to break out my old, neglected striping tape as well as my brand new studs that I received from KKCenterHK and play around a bit.

I started with Finger Paints Paper Mache as my base, then laid out my striping tape pattern and polished over that with Pure Ice Splash. Then I added some of the dark grey/black studs within the tape pattern and sealed it all with top coat.

I love the finished design, even though I had some issues with my striping tape. I bought my striping tape on E-Bay, and this particular roll was a bit wonky. The pieces of tape were never the same width, and when I went to remove them they broke into pieces even though the polish was still very wet. This left less than neat lines, which caused some smearing. Needless to say I'll be investing in some new striping tape ASAP!

The studs were incredibly easy to use, which I was very excited about since my other studs are from a drugstore brand and are a pain to use. The studs that I received from KKCenterHK are actual metal and are easy to pick up and place onto the nail. They are very smooth and rounded on top, with a flat bottom that has no glue or sticky padding. I love studded nail art and after trying these out I will definitely be ordering more shapes and colors!

All photos are 2 coats Paper Mache, 1 coat Pure Ice Scream:

Despite all the problems I had with my striping tape (not from KKCenterHK) , I really love this design. And I really love these studs!

You can find these studs by at KKCenterHK's website, item number NNAIL-DRN666, or by clicking here. These studs come in packages of 50 and retail for $4.73. KKCenterHK is now carrying all different sizes, shapes and colors of studs as well as thousands of different nail art accessories. They offer great pricing and free worldwide shipping, so check them out!  You can also save 10% off your entire order by using code KIMBERSKORNER at checkout.

What do you think of studded nails?

Stay tuned for some new Polish TBH this afternoon!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

Geometric nails-31 Day Challenge

Hola!!
Hoy toca el tema ''Geometric'' en el reto de 31 días, debo decirles que no sabia que diseño hacer, tenia varias ideas en mente pero al final creo que me gusto el resultado, simple pero llamativo a la vez.

También quería darle un efecto tridimensional, espero haberlo logrado jeje. Los esmaltes que utilicé son:

• Pure Ice-Platinum magic base coat
• China Glaze-Pink Voltage
• China Glaze-Turned up turquoise
• China Glaze-Coconut kiss

Espero que les guste :D

les pido una disculpa por el estado de mis cutículas, ya iba de salida cuando tome la foto y no me fije que estuvieran bien limpias.

French manicure with hand painted lace

Hola!!!!!!
primer lunes de otoño yay! mi estación favorita del año, adoro el clima y los colores de los arboles en este tiempo :D
Como todavía no he hecho diseños para esta temporada les traigo uno neutral, con blanco y negro, un french pero con encaje pintado a mano, clásico, simple y elegante tanto para una salida a cenar como para el trabajo.

Para este disenio solo utilicé: color club-frenchy, platinum magic base coat-pure ice y pintura acrílica negra de la marca Mizza. solo como observación quiero decirles que el esmalte frenchy de color club cubre perfectamente en dos capas, y se los digo por que mis unias en esta foto estaban manchadas por pintar cabello sin guantes jeje (usen guantes siempre :s) y como pueden observar no se ve nada de manchas !!!

31 Day Challenge (v.2)! Day 1: Red Nails

Good morning, ladies! Despite it being a Monday, I'm feeling happy and excited! It's Day 1 of the 31 Day Challenge, and I can't wait to check out everyone's red nails!

For my Red Nails, I decided to do a tape mani. I used Wet N Wild Megalast in I Red A Good Book, an awesome red Jelly, as my base color, then added chevrons using scotch tape and Pure Ice Silver Mercedes and Orly Liquid Vinyl.  This was the first time I've done actual tape Chevrons, and they came out much better than I expected.

I did have a hard time getting decent pics of this mani, though. Could have something to do with trying to take photos with my eyes half closed at 2 am!

I'm really happy with how this turned out! Not bad for my first Chevrons right? Although that little ding in my ring finger is driving me nuts! I have a bad habit of whacking the table as soon as I finish applying top coat. It never fails!

Be sure to check out all the fabulous Red Nails everyone is posting today! Just clicky the links below:

-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 

Our Next Challenge day will be Thursday. Orange Nails! Woohoo!


Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing! 
-Kimber

Unias De Bigotes Neón- Mustache Neon Nails

Hola!!!
ya por fin puedo sentarme a escribir un nuevo post :D Ya pasó mi ultima semana de escuela solo falta que me entreguen mi certificado de estilista!!! ha sido un mes muy loco y apurado y mi celular ha muerto :'( mi bebe no se ke le hizo y lo descompuso.

Hoy les traigo una manicura Neón aunque ya esten empezando a salir colecciones de otono todavia seguire poniendo unas de verano hasta que empiece la otra temporada ;)

De repente se me ocurrió hacer bigotes neón pero como mis unas estan muy largas en este momento decidi hacerle este diseno a mi sobrina.

Esmaltes utilizados: ademas también usé un dotter tool o una herramiento para hacer puntos pero puede ser lo que tengas a la mano

1. Finger paints-lavender highlights
2. Nina Ultra PRO-punki pink
3. Orly-sol cabana
4. Color Club-twiggie
5. linea de oro-sin nombre pero es un amarillo neon
6. Nails academy-top coat
7. Pure Ice-platinum magic base coat (esmalte blanco)

PURE ICE Vinyl RemiX-craquelados a otro nivel!

Hola!!!!!!
Estoy muy contenta de escribir este post pues hace un mes que me envio la compania de la marca Pure Ice 2 esmaltes de su nueva coleccion ''Vinyl Remix'' los cuales son craquelados pero no son simples craquelados sino que cuando los pasas sobre una capa de esmalte blanco revelan poco a poco un color entre las manchas negras!! que tan cool es eso!! Estos esmalte son ideales para muchas que todavia estan igual que yo que seguimos amando los craquelados  pero como ya paso de moda no los usamos.

En el paquete venian 4 esmaltes empacados por pareja: uno con platinum magic base coat (blanco) y el otro con ''emcee me'' y el otro combo traia tambien el esmalte blanco junto con ''Glam Rock'' y ademas cada combo traia una lima en forma de disco :D *Estos esmaltes fueron enviados de forma gratuita por la compania 


Honestamente a me han gustado mas de lo que imaginaba, todo mundo noto mis unias, estoy muy contenta con los resultados que dan y los disenios que se pueden crear con ellos!

glam rock y emcee me

 mano izquierda

mano derecha

Nail Mail: miren lo que llego en el correo

Hola!!
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!! 

Super Nubbins! Stamping with Spoiled Black Mamba and Pure Ice Outrageous

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Hi Ladies! Hope you all enjoyed your weekend! This post is very late due to Saturday being my daughter's birthday and she had a sleepover, rendering me pretty much useless outside of providing snacks and transportation for a couple of tween girls.

Anyway, these are the super nubbins I've been crying about lately. Thankfully they have already grown enough that I'm no longer totally miserable over them. Although in all honesty, I still have yet to forgive the toaster oven for tearing my nail down to the quick and forcing me to super duper nubbinize.

I wore this mani about a week ago, and loved it, despite the super nubbins. I chose Spoiled by Wet N Wild Black Mamba as my color and stamped using one of my Mash plates and Pure Ice Outrageous. I love Pure Ice polish anyway (so many great colors, low low price, and you can find them anywhere), but their metallics are amazing for stamping. Right up there with the CG Romantique Collection IMO. I love this particular pink, and really wanted to pair it with a Charcoal Grey. Black Mamba is a lovely Charcoal shade with an abundance of Silver fleck. It's a fabulous polish, but again....the brush. Thankfully I now have 2 brand new brushes (thanks Julep!) that I plan on using with my Spoiled polishes, so you won't have to deal with my complaining about the brushes anymore! ;) The polishes themselves are pretty awesome, and Black Mamba was no exception. The only issues I had were application problems due to super short nubbins. I cannot tell how how frustrating it is to try and wrap your tips when you have negative free edge (yes, I wrap them when they're short. I had to go back to wrapping my tips at least partially since I couldn't handle how fast they chip otherwise)! Thank god my nails grow fast and they're already looking like normal nubbins instead of super duper nubs! They're almost at the point where I can work on the shape again, since my nails grow kind of sideways so when I nubbinize they're totally uneven for a bit until I get some free edge back.  My poor traumatized cuticles are healing up nicely as well. Still a bit dry and scraggly, but after being attacked by evil, unwanted shrubbery what did I expect? Note to self: Buy welding gloves for the pointy, stabby weeds! The worst part of the nubbins has been the dry skin that was under my nails. Unsightly!! Ick! So embarrassing. It's hard to post pics with my hands like this! But here we go.....

Details:
1 coat OPI Nail Envy Matte
1 coat Orly Bonder
2 coats Spoiled Black Mamba
Stamping with Pure Ice Outrageous
1 coat Seche Vite

I do really love this combo! I loved this enough that I wore it for 3 days, which is a record when I have nubbins. I think I had maybe one chip when I removed this, which was pretty impressive! I really do dig Spoiled polishes. Great colors, great price. Now if they could just fix that brush!! ;)

Hope you're all break-free and thanks for stopping by!

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

Pure Ice Crackle & Ice Duo: Strike A Pose

Hi guys! Hope everyone had an awesome weekend!

Today I have one of the Pure Ice Crackle duos to share with you. I know, I know..most everyone is so over Crackle. And for the most part, I am as well. But...I never really used it much so on occasion when I want something quick, easy, and still eye catching, I'll pull out a crackle. The Pure Ice Duos are actually pretty interesting. I'm drawn to crackles with eye catching color, and these little duos have just that.

This particular duo is a Silver Glitter polish (It's actually Pure Ice Beware) matched with a striking shimmery bright blue crackle. I like the look of glitter under crackle, so this was naturally the first of the 3 duos I have that I tried out.  Here, have a look!

Oops! I managed to whack my ring finger against the table right as I finished this mani! Good thing about crackle is that that little ding was only noticeable in pictures. :)

I love the color combination of this silver glitter with the bright blue crackle. This is one of the few crackles that I have worn that didn't glop up on me.  The crackle dried very quickly though, so you do have to work fast. I used a thicker coat on this swatch since I like larger cracks and really wanted to show off the color of this crackle. I tried a thin coat on my thumb, and it led to smaller, spidery cracks. Still looked great, but the color wasn't as vivid. I actually liked the Pure Ice crackle much better than the Sally Hansens, which glop up quickly and tend to be very thick. And for the price ( I think these were around $2.99 at Wal Mart), these little duos are certainly worth a wear.  I picked up the Gold/Red combo and the White/Purple combo as well. After wearing this one, I'm actually looking forward to trying out the other 2.

Happy Monday! I hope your day is less crazy than mine is slated to be!

Happy polishing!
-Kimber

Petite's Daze and Mermaid Tails

Hi guys! I seem to be recovering from the evil stomach bug! Yay! I swear, if this year continues on the path it's been headed down, I'll be in the looney bin by March. Ugh!  But enough whining, onto the polish!

Today I have a really awesome little drugstore polish to share with you, Petites Daze. Daze is a bright yellow based green glitter/foil that caught my eye on a trip to Wal Mart awhile back. There were a ton of newer petites colors (newer to me at least, wal mart usually only has a handful of petites colors out here), so I picked up as many as I could. At $1.29 a pop, I figured even if I hated them, they were worth it. Daze is certainly the standout among the Petites colors I picked up, being the only bright color and one of the 2 that isn't a creme. I still couldn't tell you if it's a glitter or a foil, since it has glittery particles suspended in a sheer green base, but is very foil-like. I'll call it a Gloil. Close enough, right? Anyway, check out this dazzling little beauty!

Taken in lightbox - sorry for weird lighting! I think it's time for a new daylight bulb!

I love this green! It does cast a bit of a yellow glow on my cuticles, but it's such a fun color that I'm willing to overlook a little cuticle jaundice.  Formula on this was much better than I had expected. It did need 3 coats to look somewhat even, and as with any glitter it left it's fair share of glittery residue on my fingertips (I maintain it's festive), but it went on smoothly and stayed where I told it to. Wear wasn't too shabby either. I wore this alone for a day without any tip wear or chipping. Of course, since it's such a bright and shimmer color, I had to play with it a bit. I decided to  add a sponged gradient using Essence Choose Me, then double stamped using both Essence Choose Me and Pure Ice Silver Mercedes. I topped that off with a quick coat of Pure Ice Heartbreaker and some SV and voila! Mermaid Mani!

I don't think it came out half bad! Some of the stamping smudged a bit, but I also stamped directly onto the sponged polish - limited time frame and impatience on my part. :(

First, my Left Hand:

And my rarely seen Right Hand! Funny, lately when I stamp my right hand comes out better than my left!

I had a blast working on this mani. What do you guys think?

Hope you're all having a fabulous Friday!

Happy Polishing
-Kimber