Orecchini Floreali



Orecchini in gel UV interamente fatti e dipinti a mano da me...

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Sephora Giveaway Reminder


This is a reminder that The Great Sephora Giveaway is ending Saturday. Really, it ends midnight the 31st but midnight makes it September 1st, right? Either way, this is just a reminder to get your entries in before it ends.

I also want to thank all those who have already entered. Over 2500 entries? Nearly 300 GFC followers, 225 on Tumblr, and 29 Hellocotton as I'm typing this?? Plus all those who follow invisibly? You all have made this an amazing giveaway, and I couldn't possibly love you more!! ♥ I hope you all find something about my blog that will keep you following me. :)

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Mini MIYO arvonta!

* Arvonta on päättynyt *

Heips! Palasin juuri parin viikon matkalta takaisin Suomen kamaralle ja nyt on taas juttua jonoksi asti. En oikein ehtinyt nettiin matkalla, jos ihmettelitte kommentteihin hidasta vastaamista, ja sain vain yhden postauksen sinä aikana julkaistua. Mutta nyt minulla onkin vähän normaalia kivempi postaus teille tänään! :) Muistatteko kun jokin aika sitten esittelin Face Helsingiltä testaukseen saamiani lakkoja? Noh, arvatkaa mitä? Nyt teillä on mahdollisuus voittaa kolme niistä itsellenne! :) Sain näitä siis Face Helsingiltä kaksin kappalein, joten teille lukijoille lahjoitetaan toiset :)

Arvottavana siis kimalteleva turkoosinsininen MIYO  Jupiter, kultainen glitter MIYO Glitzy Gold ja tuoksuva vihreä MIYO Mini Drops Papaya/Mango. Näistä lakoista kahta käytinkin jo tuossa edellisen postauksen liukuvärjäyksessä :)


Arvonnan säännöt:
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  • Pakkaan lakat mahdollisimman hyvin (niinkuin aina), mutta en ole vastuusta postin kämmäyksistä.
  • Voin postittaa lakat myös ulkomaille, jos siitä aiheutuvat postikulut pysyvät alle 15 eurossa. Tietääkseni kirjeen postitus ulkomaille pitäisi onnistua alle tuon määrän, mutta en ole varma onko  postilla joitain erilaisia hintoja eri maihin, joten varmuuden vuoksi laitan tuon rajan. En ole vastuussa toimitusmaan tulleista tai muista kuluista/ kielloista joita kyseisessä maassa saattaa olla.
  • Arvontaa saa mainostaa blogissa ja sosiaalisissa medioissa lisäarpojen kartuttamiseksi. Tällöin lomakkeeseen tulee täyttää toimiva linkki mainostukseen.
  • Täytä lomake vain yhden kerran! Useamman osallistumisen lähettäminen tulkitaan vilpin yritykseksi. Jos et ole varma oletko jo osallistunut, niin laita mieluumin kommentti tai sähköpostia...
  • Aikaa arvontaan osallistumiseen on sunnuntaihin 9.9 klo 15.00 asti!

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Ugly Doll Nails Tutorial

A while ago on Tumblr I posted these nails before I started this blog and recently someone asked me to do a tutorial for them. I'm afraid it's only a picture tutorial but I hope you like it :) tutorial is after the jump!





First of all paint your nails black, I used Barry M - Black for this design


Next, using the brush in the nail varnish, paint a squoval shape on the corner of your nail, it's best to use an opaque colour for this if you're using a black background, I used Barry M - Blueberry


Next, using a small dotting tool make the ears and arms (Don't worry about it being completely even as the top coat will even it out later)


Once all the blue is dry, take a large dotting tool to create the eyes using white nail varnish (I used Rimmel). Then using the thinnest dotting tool you have, create the nose using red nail varnish (I used Barry M) and using the same dotting tool create the pupils of the eyes using black. 
Then, using a thin paintbrush, or (if you wish) the dotting tool again, paint a thin black line for the mouth and add small white dots for the teeth using the same brush/tool.



Then finish off with a topcoat and you're done, you can also do this with other colours and body shapes as in the first picture using a similar technique. 





I'm sorry it's a bit rushed towards the end, I didn't have much time, but I hope this was helpful!
Alice

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Watermelon Nails

Wow, is it time for another post already? I was going to use yesterday to get my pictures all nicely resized and watermarked and, if I had some extra time, get a few posts typed up for auto-posting ... yeah, that didn't happen. Lol! I spent the past two days doing extreme cleaning. I don't know about you but cleaning makes me hungry and there's nothing better than a nice refreshing watermelon!


nails nailart nail art Spellbound mani manicure watermelon fruit green China Glaze Holly-Day Sally Hansen Green with Envy Funky Fingers Kingston realistic

This design was originally done by The Polish Well. I fell in complete and total love with this idea after seeing her nails posted on Beautylish. I debated doing them on my own nails since she had already done such an amazing job on them ... but you should know by now that I have no impulse control. I couldn't resist.


nails nailart nail art Spellbound mani manicure watermelon fruit green China Glaze Holly-Day Sally Hansen Green with Envy Funky Fingers Kingston realistic

I knew immediately that I wanted to use Funky Fingers' neon Kingston for the flesh of the watermelon. For the skin, I decided to go slightly more realistic by using China Glaze Holly-Day as a base and dabbing on a light speckling of Sally Hansen Green with Envy. I also used this color to draw the squiggles onto the watermelon.

I wish I had had a watermelon on hand (no pun intended) so I could have pictures of this mani next to a real watermelon. My family were amazed at how real they looked when we went shopping while I was wearing this mani.

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Scrabble love nail set

So a while ago on tumblr I posted these nails and they became my most popular post ever. I don't really know why because I almost didn't even upload them because the background to the picture annoyed me. Anyway, I decided to redeem that picture by doing them in the form of a new set that's now available on my Etsy.




Alice

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Neon Sunbeams

I'M BAAACK!!! Well, I've been back for a week but I needed time to mourn the loss of the beach. I missed it horribly this week. Gasp, I didn't even want to do my nails this week! However, that's over with, and I'm ready to get back into my usual posting schedule. I have a few nail designs saved up for you but I want to share my beach nails in this post. The design for this post was inspired by Neon Rays by Chloe's Nails. I thought they were the perfect nails to arrive at the beach with. And these nails are amazingly easy to do. The hardest part was actually cutting the tape since I don't own any striping tape.

nailart nail art nails mani manicure Spellbound Neon Sunbeams Rays Sunrays China Glaze Funky Fingers Color Club Taped Taping Tape orange green yellow pink hot black white Sun Worshiper Kingston Yell-Oh!

I'm not sure where the idea came from, I remember reading it on a blog somewhere, but the easiest way to cut the tape is to take a strip of the tape and place it on a sheet of wax paper. That way the tape doesn't stick to your scissors and you can get nearly perfect 'beams' every time. Simply peel them off once your base polishes are dry and create the beam pattern. I used the fairly standard beam pattern but you could turn the beams around, do different beam patterns on different nails or even do something else like zigzags.

nailart nail art nails mani manicure Spellbound Neon Sunbeams Rays Sunrays China Glaze Funky Fingers Color Club Taped Taping Tape orange green yellow pink hot black white Sun Worshiper Kingston Yell-Oh!

Speaking of the base polishes, you gals should know by now that I always use two (or more) coats of white to make the neons pop. This time I used two coats of China Glaze White on White. The neon polishes are China Glaze Sun Worshiper, Color Club Yell-Oh! (which looks slightly green to me and these pictures agree), and Funky Fingers Kingston. I didn't do or use anything special to get the polishes lined up on my nails. I tried using a nail art brush but they were simply too small to work with so I used the polish brush and carefully painted stripes on either side of my nail and finished with a stripe down the middle. These colors took two coats and I was extra careful with the final coat to touch up any mistakes I made with the first. It may sound daunting and there is a moment of panic before you begin (how could such a large brush make three lines without overlapping horribly?) but it's really not once you start! Trust me! You will want to be careful with the wider brushes such as some of the Sally Hansen brushes and the Wet n Wild Pro brushes. If you just have to use one of these brushes try tipping the brush in it's side. That will give you a slimmer brush to work with.

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Let your base polishes dry. You can add a top coat before taping for extra protection against chips and bleed through and also to give a smoother finish if you like. After your polishes are dry simply tape your pattern. Make sure the tape lays flat and remember to fold the ends of the tape over your nail tips and work it into the creases of your fingers. Coat your nail (and the tips of your nail between the tape) in your top polish. I chose black but again it doesn't have to be black. Once you have your top polish on immediately remove your tape. I use a pair of tweezers to grasp the tape (less messy and a smaller chance of smudging already completed nails) and get best results when I pull the tape slowly and smoothly back over my nail from the tip ... much like waxing in slow motion. :)

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