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