Blue and Yellow Flower Nails - Inspired by a book

Today my design is inspired by a book. This is what happened when I am out of ideas and look for inspiration around me. I looked through my book shelf's to find a book with a cool cover you could make a great design out of. After a while I found one and this is the results of that.

The book I got inspired by is this book 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'. It's a great book by Jenny Han, which I recommend to all teen girls out there. 

To do this design I started with a base coat and then two layers of white. Then to make it pretty easy for me I used a dotting tool and started making yellow dots over the nails. Then with a striping brush I made blue stripes from the yellow dots. I didn't do them perfectly because I thought it brought a little charm to it. Then I added another yellow dot over the old dot to hide those blue stripes that came over the yellow dot. 

On my ring finger I only made one a little bigger flower to make it some kind of accent nail. 

The nail polish I used of this is -

Base coat - Isadora - Second Nail

White - Nail Girls - Snow White Tips

Blue - China Glaze - Flyin' High

Yellow - Face Stockholm - 171

Top coat - Nails Inc - Caviar Top Coat

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Nails inspired by art by Keith Haring.

Trying to come up with new design I looked through my memory to find some thing to get inspired from. Then I remembered this artist that we talked about in art class years ago. I remember he had some cool theme through his works. My problem were just that I didn't remember his name. So I spent some time searching through the world of internet and then I found it. The artist was Keith Haring. So here comes the results of my nails inspired by Keith Haring.

This is the work that inspired my nails.

To do this nails I started of with a coat base coat and then two coats of white. Then I used a thin brush to paint all the characters and then with a striping brush I did all the black lines around them. The heart I did with a dotting tool though. Topped it off with a top coat and its done!

Giving you a picture of my thumb too, just because I'm feeling generous. But it looks a little weird though haha. 

The nail polishes I used - 

Base coat - Isadora - Second Nail

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Orange - Isadora - South Beach

Red - Gina Tricot - Formula One

Yellow - Face Stockholm - 171

Blue - China Glaze - First Mate

Green - Sephora - Picnic In The Park

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black 

Top coat - Seche Vite

Thanks for looking in here and I hope you liked what you saw. 

Star Nail Art - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

The nails I wanna show you today came into my nails when I was home sick with a bad cold and fever. I was feeling down and just needed some color to cheer me up. So colorful nails was what I wanted. The design wasn't the easiest design and it didn't make it better that all my nails are so short. They all broke when I wasn't wearing nail polish for a week, shame on me.

Painting stars aren't my biggest talent let me tell you that, and painting them with a small striping brush didn't make it easier. But I did my best. I started with base coat and then two layers of white. Then with my three colorful nail polishes I made different sized stars over my nails. 

Then with a small dotting tool I made dots with the same three colors just to fill up the blank spaces. On my right hand I just made dots, didn't even dare to try painting stars with my left hand. 

The nail polishes I used -

Always start with a base coat.

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Pink - OPI - Suzi's Hungary Again!

Blue - Nicole By OPI - My Lifesaver

Yellow - Face Stockholm - 171

Top coat - Seche Vite

Please leave a comment below about what you think about this design. 

Easter Nails - Colorful Polka Dots Nails with Gradient

I hope you all are having a great easter weekend so far. I thought I would share my second and last easter designs for this year. I wanted to do more, but unfortunately my fantasy ended here and all my ideas just reminded me of the one I already did so I thought I would draw the line here.

This design is pretty colorful, which I think is very suiting for easter. I don't know why but I see easter as a colorful holiday. This design consist of gradients and polka dots. I even did something I don't usually do, I did the nails matte. I usually wear the design a while with regular top coat and then do it matte.

I started with base coat on all the nails and then two layers of white. Then I did gradients with a different color on every nail. The gradient I did with a make up sponge which I used to dab the colors on the white nails. Then with a dotting tool I made white polka dots all over the nail. 

I think it had gave a great affect with the white polka dots with the color to white gradient. 

The nail polishes I used for this design is these -

Always use a base coat first.

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Green - Sephora - Lime Cocktail

Purple - Rimmel - 312 Ultra Violet

Yellow - Face Stockholm - 171

Orange - Isadora - South Beach

Pink - Gina Tricot - Candyfloss

Matte Top Coat - Essie - Matte About You

Please leave a comment about the design, I would mean a lot to me.

Easter Nails

Easter is here and I'm finally allowed to do Easter design, which I love. Easter is colorful and pastel colors fit perfectly here.

For this design I started with five base colors, one for every finger. And these colors where the main colors in my design which I used the most of. Then I added two accent nail where I added some other colors.

I started with painting all the nails with base coat and then every nail with the base color I decided for them. I went on pretty light colors, like pastel like. I did my pinky blue on purpose to continue with the blue pinky challenge, which you can read more about in last post. The thumb that you can't see on this picture is the green polish that you can see on the rest of the nails. The three nails are then suppose to look something like an Easter egg. So with the five base colors I made some zigzag lines and straight lines with a striping brush. Then some random dots with a dotting tool. Added some white dots too to fill the empty spaces because I didn't want the to use the same color next to each other. 

On my ring finger is then suppose to be the Easter bunny. I started with painting the shape with a striping brush and then with a larger brush I filled it in. Then I did the eyes and nose with different sized dotting tools. Take notice its not skew-eyed like it usually is haha. Then I added the whiskers and then with a dotting tool I added some light pink on the cheeks and ears. 

My thumb have a little chicken on it. The body is made with dotting tools and also the eyes. The hair, neb and eggshell is made with a striping brush. 

The tons on nail polish I used for this -

Don't forget the base coat. 

My five base colors.

Green - Mavala - Pistachio

Pink - Essie - Splash Of Grenadine 

Orange - Mavala - Fresh Melon

Purple - OPI - You're Such A Budapest

Blue - China Glaze - Kinetic Candy

Brown - OPI - You Don't know Jacques

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black

Light Pink - Ciaté - Cutie Pie

Darker Orange - Ciaté - Speed Dial

Yellow - Ciaté - Big Yellow Taxi

Top Coat - Seche Vite 

Thanks for checking out my blog!

St. Patricks Day Nails

Tomorrow is Irelands national day, also called St. Patricks Day. It's the day you are suppose to wear green, or else people have permission to pinch you I just read online. So you better wear green if you don't wanna get pinched, haha.

I just had to paint my nails for this occasion. So I took all my green polishes and put them in front of me, trying to come up with something to do. Put then I just thought I want colorful, so I grabbed loads of other nail polishes too. It was a hell putting them all back later, just fyi. But then I came up with something. So I hope you like this.

So lets first talk about my accent nail. I just love doing accent nails! But after the putting base coat on I painted my ring finger in a light blue color. Then I started to paint a rainbow with a striping brush. You have no idea how many times I have to start over with this nail because apparently I don't know which colors and where they are in the rainbow. But after I finally got it right, I hope, I made a kettle with the brush on the nail polish and then with a dotting tool I made some gold over it.

For the rest of the nails I started with a light green color. and then with two darker shades of green and a dotting tool I made some clover alike things over the nail. A little failed but that's how it is. 

On my thumb I made a little fail Irish flag, made with the nail polishes brushes. 

The nail polishes I used was -

Always start with base coat!

Red - Claudia - All Red

Orange - Ciaté - Speed Dial

Yellow - Face Stockholm - 171

Green - Ciaté - Mojito

Blue - Sephora - Curaçao

Purple - H&M - Purple Portion 

Green - Viva La Diva - 056

Green - Sephora - Picnic In The Park

Green - Mavala - Pistachio

Top coat - Seche Vite

Blue - China Glaze - Kinetic Candy

Gold - Sephora - I'm A Rich Girl

Brown - OPI - You Don't Know Jacques 

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Please leave a comment just telling me what you think about this design, ask me anything or just wanna say hey or whatever, haha. 

Spring Nails - Colorful Flower Nails

Spring is finally here. This morning my thick winter jacket went into the closet, the sun is shining and the birds are singing their songs. This I'm celebrating with some new nails. I'm gonna apologize for my lack of inspiration lately. Hoping I full of inspiration now when the gray winter days are over.

When I did these nails I wanted color, fun colors, springy colors. I couldn't chose just a few ones, I wanted as many as possible. These nails even gave me a little vintage feeling over these, but maybe that's only me? But I'm satisfied with these and think they are pretty .... springy?

Also apologizing for my cuticles. Can't find my cuticle cream, I'm almost panicking. Then the flash makes it even worse. You have to look at my nails extra much, and I will try finding a new cuticle cream!

For this I started with base coat. Then I painted all nails with two layers of white. Then two shades of the color you want from the flowers and the green for the leaf. One light and one darker. You can do all the flowers in on color if you don't want to. I just wanted to be really colorful. The flowers are done with a a kinda big dotting tool first with the darker color. Then with a smaller dotting tool I made some pattern with the lighter color. 

With a small brush I painted the leaf with the dark green. Then I made some thinner line with the lighter green over that. It doesn't really show in the picture put it looks good in real life. 

My thumb is checking in too, to show you another color combo. 

The nail polishes I used for this is - 

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Dark orange - Ciaté - Speed Dial

Light Orange - Mavala - Fresh Melon

Dark Blue - Sephora - Curaçao

Light Blue - China Glaze - Kinetic Candy

Dark Yellow - China Glaze - Sunshine Pop 

Light Yellow - Ciaté - Big Yellow Taxi

Dark Purple - Rimmel - Ultra Violet

Light Purple - OPI - You're Such A Budapest

Dark Pink - H&M - City 

Light Pink - Gina Tricot - Candyfloss

Dark green - Viva La Diva - 056

Light Green - Ciaté - Mojito

Top coat - Seche Vite

I hope you like this design as much as I do. 

Might write here that you can follow me on instagram - elinbeliebs. There come up some behind the scenes sometimes and sometimes designs come up here sometimes earlier then here.

Colorful Striped Nails

Here comes an new design that I have no idea what to call. It's a pretty abstract, and very colorful. Which I like, to light up the ugly gray weather outside. Really don't want more snow now.

The design is inspired by a painting I saw on instagram which you can find here.

To do this design I started with base coat to protect my nails. Then I painted all the nails with 2 layers of white to have a good base so I didn't have to use how many layers of the colors I used over it. Then when it was completely dry I took a brush and just started to doing different triangle shapes over the nails in different colors. 

After some time when I finishes all the triangles in all the different colors, I took a striping brush and first painted black lines around the edges of all the colors triangles. Then I did lines inside the triangles. 

I'm really happy with this design, it took some time but it was all worth it I think. 

The nail polishes I used are these -

Base coat - Isadora - Second Nail

White - China Glaze - White Out

Pink - Essie - Splash Of Grenadine

Blue - Ciaté - Headliner

Purple - H&M - Liberty Girl

Yellow - Ciaté - Big Yellow Taxi

Pink - H&M - Pink Preppy

Green - Mavala - Pistachio

Blue - H&M - Turquoise 

Purple - H&M - Lilac Plum

Beige - Ciaté - Cookies And Cream

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black

Top Coat - Seche Vite

What did you think of this design, please leave a comment below!

Cupcakes Nails

Todays nails is inspired by a cookie jar I got for christmas present. I like the print on it and thought it would be a good nail design.

I thought it came out pretty well, makes me really want a cupcake. I tried to match the colors as well as I could but I might have a lot of nail polish but I don't have every colors. I used one of the lightest green for the background, so I didn't have a green for the cupcakes so I made them blue instead. 

I thought I ruined it when I added the black lines around everything. But on the cookie jar the lines are a little sloppy so I did them a little sloppy. But I think it ended pretty well anyway so I'm satisfied. Don't think it would have been much better if I did the lines perfect.

The nail polishes I used -

Base Coat - Isadora - Second Nail

Green - Sephora - Lime Cocktail

Brown - OPI - You Don't Know Jacques

Light Brown - H&M - Nude Dude

Blue - China Glaze - Kinetic Candy

Yellow - Ciaté - Big Yellow Taxi

Purple - H&M - Liberty Girl

Pink - H&M - City

Light Pink - Gina Tricot - Candy Floss

White - China Glaze -White Out

Red - Claudia - All Red

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black

Top Coat - Seche Vite 

What you think about this design?

Happy New Years - Firework Nails

These nails were suppose to go up yesterday but got in a hurry to leave for the new years celebration. But here comes my new years nails.

To do these nails I started with base coat and then two layers of a really dark blue. Then with a dotting tool and loads of different colors I made a firework kinda thing over the nails and then wrote 2013 over it. My index finger is a little messed now because my brother touch it before it had dried. 

This is how the the fireworks looked like. 

Here is the nail polishes I used -

Base Coat - Isadora - Second Nail

Green - Ciaté - Mojito

Yellow - Ciaté - Big Yellow Taxi

Orange - Ciaté - Speed Dial

Blue - Sephora - Curaçao

Green - Sephora - Picnic In The Park

Red - Claudia - All Red

Purple - H&M - Lilac Plum

Pink - H&M - Pink Preppy

Dark Blue - China Glaze - Up All Night

White - China Glaze - White Out

Top Coat - Seche Vite

Hope you all will have a great 2013!