Fabiana's ManiSwap with Keely's Nails

Hi, Everyone!

This weekend was great and I am sorry it is coming to an end. I have been busy with the #ManiSteals and will have a few more to share. :) But for today, I want to share with you my #ManiSwap with the wonderfully talented Keely from Keely's Nails.

Keely chose my ILNP multichrome gradient.

For my choice, Keely had done a beautiful design inspired by the Christmas song "Fairytale of New York". Being a huge fan of New York imagery, I just fell in love with it at first sight. She captured New York on her nails with the Fall colors and evocative silhouettes.

I did my best, but my nails are shorter than Keely's so the effect was not quite the same. Still, I love it! :)

It was all freehand, and the star is Essie "Shine of the Times". The color shift is what adds the Fall colors to the mani.

Polishes:

Essie "Shine of the Times"
Picture Polish "Darcy"
Essie "Aruba Blue"
Sally Hansen "Pixel Pretty"
Acrylic paint

Here is Keely's original mani:

Definitely check out Keely's post with her recreation of my multichrome gradient. :D

Here are the four manis.

For now, I leave you to enjoy what is left of Sunday.

Much affection, Fabiana.

Mags' Freehand Lemon Nail Art

Hello Everyone,

here is a quick blog post on my lemon nail art. It's freehand, so there's not many things to talk about!
Just a tip though, do not do your nails, with tiny details when you haven't eaten anything all day, the shaking is quite difficult to work with ;p

Catrice - Blurred Limes
Claire's Neon - California Girl
Essie - Blanc
P2 Perfect nail hardener base coat
HK Girl Top coat
Picture Polish - Monroe
ESIS color 44

My dominant hand, a bit more shaky than usual (lesson learned, eat first, paint after)

I had to do a lemon shot, didn't I? 

Hope you all had a great weekend!
-Mags

Mags' Mix & Match Nautical Nails

Hello Everyone!

I have a nautical nail art for you today! I absolutely LOVE nautical manis! I think it is my favorite kind of nail art to wear! So as soon as summer starts, it's only natural for me to create one. This year is no exception!

As you can see I went for a mix and match kind of mani. There are usually not my cup of tea but I couldn't decide on one design so i did them all :)

Before I go into the manicure detail, I want to take a moment to express my absolute adoration of Kiko - Electric Blue! It's hands done my favorite polish of all time! That color is magnificent and I always reach for it whenever I want to do a blue nail art or when I just want plain nails. It's Glorious!!

For this look I used Essie - Blanc as a base for my ring and middle fingers. I made a gradient using Kiko - Baby Blue, Kiko - Electric Blue and Barry M - Blackberry and topped it with a little gold shell from Born Pretty Store.

For the middle finger I used nail vinyls again from BPS and Barry M - Blackberry, and topped the look with a anchor metal sticker. The metal anchor was such a pain to use, I should have curved it before applying, but i ended up managing to stick up fairly well.

You can see that the anchor is a bit damaged from me trying to stick it down! You live and learn :)

The rest of the fingers were less complicated to make, just few dots here and there using Catrice - Goldbusters. I ended up adding a thin layer of a shimmery polish from Berangé called Bleu Désir on top of Blackberry on my little finger.

With this kind of design, it is quite easy to do your dominant hand:

Everytime I look at my nails my mind  wanders on faraway beaches and sunny skies! Oh how am I longing for my holidays! To pass the time, bringing the holidays to my finger tips was the only thing to do!

I couldn't resist taking a macro shot of the little shells studs!

Until next time!
-Mags

Fabiana's ManiSteal from Elie Corzo

Good afternoon , everyone!

First...  I thought I could put "Fabs" on the post title. Turns out I can't. I thought I could... but while others can call me "Fabs", Fabiana does not call herself "Fabs". Fabs feels silly that way. :P And I am referring to myself in the third person... #FACEPALM!

Before you ask... no, I don't like green eggs and ham either.

For this post, I want to share with you my recreation of one of Elie Corzo gorgeous manis. It was not easy choosing one of Elie's manis. They are so beautiful... and featuring a dazzling array of neons. Which brought me to a discovery. A massive, until now unnoticed, gap in my nail polish stash.... neons...

I knew I had three for sure. Color Club "Warhol" and "Glitter Envy", and Orly "Glowstick". That's it... This situation is going to be rectified in the next few days... completely unacceptable!

However, as of the past Sunday, doing one of Elie's rainbow neon manis was out of the question. That led me to look for one of her other manis. I REALLY did want to do one of the neons... perhaps later. :)

My choice came down to what I could do with what I have. I decided to do her stamping mani of gold over Sincerely Polish "Put a Spell on You". I do not have the divine Sincerely Polish... or her stamping plate so I improvised. I loved how it came out. :) Cirque "Magic Hour" gave it the exact right touch!

Polishes:

Cirque "Memento Mori"
a-england "Bridal Veil"
Cirque "Magic Hour"
China Glaze "Passion"

Stamping Plate:

MoYou Artist Collection 02

Photo in shade

Photo in sunlight

Elie's original mani.

(Details here)

With that, I wish you all a wonderful evening!

Sincerely and faithfully, Fabiana.

Fabs' Maniswap with Deinitisa

... and I wanted  to add unicorns (but there are no unicorns)

A good morning to everyone!

Lately, I have really been enjoying challenging myself with #ManiSwaps!

For my first official post on the blog, I thought I would share with you my maniswap with the lovely Deinitisa Amarawi on G+. She asked if I wanted to do a maniswap and I jumped at the idea. Her nail art always has a wonderful, fresh feel to it and I couldn't wait. She chose my holo chevrons with neon accent. I chose her beautiful rainbow mani dry brush stamped with black. Her mani just made me happy. :) 

The two top ones are the recreations and the originals are below.

A big thank you to the lovely and talented Deinitisa! (Check out Deinitisa's G+ post for details on her recreation of my mani.)

For my recreation of her mani. I used the following polishes:

Zoya "Sooki" 
Deborah Lippmann "Lara's Theme"
Deborah Lippmann "Dear Mr. Fantasy"
Deborah Lippmann "Weird Science" 
Color Club "Almost Famous" 
Cult Nails "All Out" 
Nubar "Pasadena Purple" 
Kiko 336 
BarryM "Guava" 
Serum No. 5 "Pure Glow Getter" (Yes, it does glow in the dark...)

Stamping plate:

MoYou Kitty Collection 02

It was so much fun to do this mani! Now, you will notice that Deinitisa chose polishes with a little glitter. I only noticed this after I was done. I know... No one has ever accused me of being overly observant. :P 

I also used the dry brush technique (here is a tutorial by The Lacquerologist). I started on my left and then did my dominant hand and because I am not used to doing dry brush, my dominant hand came out better than the left (submissive? less dominant?...) as I got more comfortable with the technique. But of course, silly me, I did not take a photo... Queue the eye rolling.

The only thing that made me a little sad was that I did not have the same stamping plate so I could not make it an exact replica, but I loved the final product anyway. :) 

Remember I mentioned that it glows in the dark? Well, it does... but I was not impressed with the effect... Am I wrong? I don't know. Just looked messy to me. Although the Serum No. 5 base "Pure Glow Getter" is just to die for!! 

(I know... I remember to take a glow in the dark picture while I am not excited about it... and I forget to take a photo of my dominant hand... Yay for me)

With that, I leave you all, wishing everyone a wonderful day.

Until next time, faithfully yours, Fabiana.

Mags' Reverse Stamping Rainbow Abstract nail art

Hello Everyone!

Doing my nails lately felt so much like a chore to me! So I rocked plain black for the past week and finally today i felt the need and will to do something a bit more creative!  

It's supposedly the first day of summer and we're starting it with... RAIN! blah! So i added some bright rainbowy colors on my nails to lift up my mood!

The two accent nails are done using the reverse stamping technique. On a plastic bag (the ones you use to freeze food) i started by applying a layer of HK Girl top coat , then once dry I stamped using Moyou Artist collection plate 2 .

Without waiting I filled in some rectangles randomly using rainbow colors polishes. And once it all dried, I added a thick layer of Essie - Blanc.

And at that point the waiting game began. It gave me time to do the dishes and others chores that you never wanna do just after you have done your nails! About 2 hours later it was time to play!
On bare nails, I put a layer of base coat on 1 finger than placed the decal right away and smoothed it out with a Q-tip. Topped it HK Girl top coat again and then I cleaned the surplus of decals off my cuticles. And then only did i move onto doing the next one, and then the other hand.

I added the black nails afterwards to avoid any mess or drama!

The great thing about this technique is that it allows you to do your both hands easily, no more struggling with your dominant hand.

This is my left hand which is my dominant hand

Close up of the reverse stamping decal

I hope you'll get inspired to try this technique if you haven't done it yet! Let me know if you do.

-Mags

NPQ Challenge - Palm Trees - Showcase

After a long run of wonderful challenges, Palm Trees is our last Weekly Challenge. Thank to all those who participated! Here are the manis from the challenge.

Dante Bianchino

Elie Corzo

Crystal “The Polish Plebe” Bond

Anatasia Kamelia

__________

Keely Gallagher

Fabiana N

Mags N

And with that... we have the last mani from none other than our own Mags.