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Friday, August 19, 2016

by Kitties26 on Friday, August 19, 2016 4 comments

Digital Dozen does Negative Space Day 5 featuring Fairy Dust Glitter and Cats

My day 5 nails bring you my favourite negative space look of the week, plus I played with some of that new fairy dust (aka mermaid powder) glitter too. Oh and CATS!

I used some cat nail vinyls that I received a while ago from Loki's Nail Vinyls. They are adorable and were a nice quality to pull of this design with.

For this look I used a combination of different polish types. On my nails that were full coverage, I used a peel off base and then white gel polish. I rubbed the fairy dust glitter into the sticky layer and all was great.

For my kitty nails I really struggled with getting them to work. I wasn't able to get the vinyls to work with gel polish, even only curing it for a short time then peeling the vinyl didn't work. I ended up using the Dance Legend glitter base again. I had to pull the vinyls off when the glitter base was still wet and then time it really carefully to ensure the glitter base was sticky enough to grab the glitter but not too sticky that it rubbed away. I did some of the kitty nails about 4 times, but it was so worth it in the end.

Next let's talk about the actual Fairy Dust glitter. I bought mine from Daily Charme. When I first saw it I wasn't able to really find many reviews that actually described what it was. All I knew was that it looked so pretty and fairy like and that I needed it.

So what the hell is fairy dust? Well its actually just micro fine iridescent colour shifting glitter. This one has a very strong red to green shift. When applied over a pale colour the iridescent glitter tends to glow blue where the light hits it and shifts to pink and purple on the edges, but over a dark colour its behaves more like your traditional red to green colour shifting pigments.

These swatches show the fairy dust over a black gel base, where I rubbed the glitter into the dispersion layer. The colour shift goes from red to copper to gold to green.

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Thursday, May 5, 2016

by Kitties26 on Thursday, May 05, 2016 2 comments

Holo droplets feat. stencils from What's Up nails

Argh, what is this with the 11.30pm quick blog post before bed. Usually I do a blog post before I go paint my nails, but tonight I painted them first (and they took ages (and I don't like them very much)). I have a few edited photos of different manis to share, but they are needed me to do something extra, such as edit a video.

I just edited my video for these, and all up it took me 25 minutes to do all the trimming, editing, adjusting speed, adding watermarks etc to the video. Who has time to do this! I don't know how those girls with millions of follows manage to post nail art with tutorials every day! They mustn't have demanding jobs or children!!

As the title suggests for this mani, I used some nail vinyls from What's Up nails for this look. I started with a solid blue creme base, I used Pretty Serious Type 40. I then applied the nail vinyls and used three of the blue holos from the China Glaze Hologlam collection to create a soft holo gradient.

I've used the What's up nai vinyls before and they are good quality. They are easy to peel away from the backing paper without having to push out every hole cause the cuts are precise. They also last well when you have thin sections of vinyl (like between these drops) and then apply lots of polish on top. They don't melt and stay strong for a good peel off.

Don't forget to jump over to Instagram to see the video for these. I can't wait until Instagram rolls out the 1 minutes videos to everyone. Then I wont have to do these lightening fast tutorials that are done in 15 seconds. It's not fair that they have rolled it out to some special users and not everyone!

Nail vinyls provided for consideration.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

by Kitties26 on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 6 comments

What's up nails - Hypnose vinyls, hot and cold gradient.

What's up nails recently sent me a little package with a selection of their nail vinyls to try out. The first one that really caught my eye was this Hypnose design with a a crazy jaggered edge swirls.

I thought the design of the vinyl really lent itself to a couple of circular gradients - similar to a previous design I here with aqua shades, but this time I chose contrasting warm and cool colours to really make it pop!

The vinyls are a nice quality and worked wonderfully for this design. They stuck down securely and mostly gave really clean and sharp edges, especially considering that I first sponged on some white before doing the blue gradient. I only had one or two spots where the colour leaked underneath.

This is what the sheet of vinyls looks like. You get 16 stencils on a sheet, so enough to do a full mani, as well as a bunch of feature nails too.

These hypnose vinyls are available from Whats up nails and are $3.75USD a sheet.

Vinyls provided for consideration.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

by Kitties26 on Thursday, July 30, 2015 6 comments

Vinyls and stamping decals

Every now and then I do a design where I even impress the pants off myself! I pride myself on my nails always looking pretty fine, but this was one time where I told myself, girl - you really nailed this shit today!

This nail art look was a combo of nail vinyls and then stamping decals. The white base is Face of Australia Miss Congeniality (one coat). I then used the zigzag design nail vinyls from Xroma Polish and Vinyls. While they were drying, I prepared some stamping decals using the butterflies from Messy Mansion Plate MM42. I coloured the decals in using three of the Pipedream ANIVC neons.

Tonight you get two tutorial instavideos! First one creating the stamping decals and then one showing the vinyls and decal application. Enjoy.

A video posted by More Nail Polish Blog - Cathy (@morenailpolish) on Jul 29, 2015 at 6:04am PDT

A video posted by More Nail Polish Blog - Cathy (@morenailpolish) on Jul 29, 2015 at 2:21pm PDT

Saturday, July 25, 2015

by Kitties26 on Saturday, July 25, 2015 3 comments

Face of Australia - Iconic nail art

I recently got the full Face of Australia ICONIC nail art collection, which is a collaboration with Miss Universe Australia. The collection has 12 polishes, so I'm still working on swatching them all, but I do have some nail art which used three of the colours.

The white base I used here is called Miss Congeniality and I've mentioned it already before, but this is a fantastic one coat white. Its become my go to white base polish for all my nail art recently and I've put a very good dent in the bottle. The dark pink, slightly coral shade is called Pageant Queen. I also used a the very pale pink called Picture Perfect in the gradient that I sponged over the nail vinyls.

The glitter accent nail is Emily de Molly Stockpile from her latest releases.

I have an instavideo tutorial too. I used nail vinyls from Xroma Polish and Vinyls. I love how large these vinyls are because I can cut them in half and they still fit my nails. That means I get twice as many manis out of them.

A video posted by More Nail Polish Blog - Cathy (@morenailpolish) on Jul 25, 2015 at 6:50am PDT

Friday, July 10, 2015

by Kitties26 on Friday, July 10, 2015 3 comments

Pipedream Polish ANIVC with thin straight vinyls and FUN Lacquer Mistletoe

Hey hey everyone, and welcome to the end of the week. Yippee. I'm so looking forward to the weekend because it's the middle of the school holiday's here, which means no kids sport first thing in the morning and nothing else planned! I can sleep in on both Saturday and Sunday. I'm so lucky that my husband is one of those people that automatically wakes up at the same time every day, so he is awake when the kids wake up. Me? I'm able to easily roll over and go back to sleep. Man I love sleep. My kids don't seem to understand how awesome sleep is, they always want to stay up late and don't understand what a sleep in is. I'm guessing sleep doesn't become awesome until your a teenager!

Anyway, I'm pretty excited to say that I finally got the Pipe Dream Polish A Night in Vegas Collection. I had a very quick fingered friend in the USA that managed to get them for me during the last restock. The ANIVC restocks rival the Enchanted restocks for craziness from what I've read, so I'm eternally grateful that she managed to get these for me.

I had to restrain myself very hard not to do a watermarble first up. I mean everyone does a watermarble with ANIVC and I needed to something a little different. But of course I did have to use every colour. The way I ended up doing it was using some thin straight vinyls that I got from Xroma Polish and Vinyls. But don't worry, it is inevitable that I will do a marble with these very soon.

My base polish is FUN Lacquer Mistletoe which is a very blingy lime gold holographic glitter bomb.

I actually took photos of this as I went to do a photo tutorial. So here goes.

Apply a fully nail of thin straight vinyls.

Peel off the middle vinyls to leave the gaps.

Use a thin brush to apply each colour between the vinyls. Once both sides of the vinyls is painted, remove the vinyl.

Before top coat its going to look a little chunky.

But after top coat is applied, the thick edges from the vinyls smooth out nicely.

Nail vinyls provided for consideration, other polishes were bought by me.

Saturday, July 4, 2015

by Kitties26 on Saturday, July 04, 2015 2 comments

4th of July nail art

Happy 4th of July to all my American readers. I just love creating flag designs on my nails, they provide so much inspiration and there is so many ways you can interpret them.

This is one of the most literal interpretations I've done before of the American flag, and I really love how it turned out.

I used nail vinyls from Xroma Polish and Vinyls again for the red and white stripes. I also used Color4Nail Crystaline Veil, which is a latex nail barrier. It works beautiful well, just like other latex barriers. Other products are: Red - OPI Big Apple Red, Blue - ulta3 Blue Marlin and White - Face of Australia Miss Congeniality from the new Iconic collection (it's a great one coater too).

A video posted by More Nail Polish Blog - Cathy (@morenailpolish) on Jul 4, 2015 at 5:17am PDT

Thursday, July 2, 2015

by Kitties26 on Thursday, July 02, 2015 6 comments

Watermarble over nail vinyls

I recently got a fantastic package of differen nail vinyls to try out from Aussie brand Xroma Polish and Vinyls I received a great variety of vinyls, straight, chevron and tribal to mention a few, but these curved zigzags were the first ones I tried.

The vinyls on this sheet are very generous in width. I was actually able to cut these down the middle. They are also long, so with my length nails I was able to do two and a half nails using each half a panel. Then, when you use the middle wavey bits that you pull off on your other hand, you are able to do a full ten finger manicure using only one of the four sections on the nail vinyl.

For this look, I started with white base and then applied the vinyls. Next I applied a latex barrier. There are heaps of them out there now, and I've got four different ones I use, the latest one is from Dance Legend and its called Pure Manicure - I've got a review of the four I have coming up soon.

Then I did a regular water marble using some custom Paws polishes I mixed up that work nicely for marbling. Finally pull of the vinyls and the latex barrier and apply top coat.

The white base I used for this was a new one I just got from the Face of Australia Iconic Miss Universe collection. I'm still in the process of swatching the 12 polishes, but this is an amazing one coat white.

A video posted by More Nail Polish Blog - Cathy (@morenailpolish) on Jul 2, 2015 at 5:38am PDT

Xroma Polish and Vinyls are available from their etsy store.

Dance Legend polishes are available from the Dance Legend website.

All products provided for consideration.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

by Kitties26 on Thursday, May 21, 2015 7 comments

Holo + lightening bolt vinyls + gradients

I have a real pretty one for you tonight. I'm very much in love with how this came out.

My base is FNUG Psychedelic. I then used lightening bolt nail vinyls to mark off sections on my nails. I then used a bunch of pastel shades to create two different gradients across my nails.

On the purple, blue and green nails I used China Glaze That's Shore Bright, Ulta3 Blue Heaven and China Glaze Highlight of my Summer. On the pink, apricot and yellow nails I used China Glaze Bottoms up, Sun of a peach and Ulta3 lemon tart.

The only way I could have made this look better is have been able to photograph it in the sunlight.