Chill Out polishes with french tips

Hi all  

Don’t you just love polish swaps? Last year I did a swap with a lovely lady from The Netherlands and she sent me a couple of “Chill Out” polishes which were promo polishes and had no other details on them. I’ve tried to Google them and couldn’t find any info but here is a pic:

 

 

There was a gorgeous orange shimmer and a lime green shimmer. They are to die for! I wish I could get more of these babies but I’m happy hoarding these two beauties.

I finished the look off with black tips.

 

What do you think?

Em

NYC Color Pink Cheeks French Mani with Konad

Another Kate mani! My friend Kate just jetted off to America for two weeks, the lucky thing, so I did her nails for her before she left.

She felt like a simple, classic french made funky with a little Konad.

Here’s what we came up with:

Gorgeous! I used Manicare French White for the tips and NYC Color Pink Cheeks for the pink. Pink Cheeks was a little opaque to be used as a french pink and covered the white tips too much, so I freehanded another coat of white on top of it. I was surprised at how well I did with the freehanding.

I added a cute little bow onto each ring finger and then Kate said “man, it would be so cool if there were some way to make the centre of the bow silver”. No sooner had she spoke that I’d grabbed my dotting tool and Sally Hansen’s Celeb City and dotted the centre of the bow. It’s the little things that make a mani really pop!

I love doing Kate’s nails because, while she gives me free rein, she has some great ideas and we always have so much fun!

Em

Manicare French Manicure with Konad

I was jonesin’ for some simple, french nails this weekend.

I thought I’d try out this Manicare French Manicure collection that I got in Adelaide.

 

Not bad, not bad.

Beware of the nail guides they give you, though, because they are sticky mofos! I stuck them to my hand twice and they were still hard to get off! I buggered up my base coat a little pulling these strips off but it wasn’t too bad.

I did one coat of the white for my tips and touched up a couple of bald spots. Then I waited until the polish was completely dry, pulled the strips off and applied two coats of the pink.

 

Pretty I stamped the adorable owl on my thumbnails in Konad Princess Special Polish Warm Black with my new Konad m23 plate.

I bought this just for the two owl images I have no idea what some of the other images are and I don’t know the significance of the Chinese symbols. My partner suggested that it may be for the Year of the Owl?! Does anyone have any idea?

 

Do you know how hard it is to take a photo of a Konad plate?! It is so shiny!! So this plate has the owls, some flowers, a weird looking stork thing and this crazy looking man wearing a top had and holding up an umbrella.

What the?

Can anyone shed any light on what the other images on this plate are even for?!

 

Em