Texas Nail Art

I have since a few months back worked on becoming an Au Pair in the US, and last week I finally found my host family. So in less then a month I will be going to Texas to work as an Au Pair there for the next year. My updating might be really bad during that time but I will try to update some. So to celebrate this I did Texas nails, with the Texas flag. And I know the flag is wrong for this angle but from my angle the flag is right. So you just have to imagine it or turn your computer upside down or something.

To do this nails I started with base coat and then two layers of white. Then with the red nail polish I painted half the nail, using the nail polish bottle brush. Then with a pretty thin brush I painted the blue on freehand. 

Then I thought about painting white stars on the blue but then I decided to just use some star charms on instead. Taking the easy way out. 

The Nail polishes I used are these -

Don't forget to use base coat to protect your nails.

White - OPI - Alpine Coat

Blue - China Glaze - First Mate

Red - Gina Tricot - Formula One

Top Coat - Nails Inc - Caviar Top Coat

Galaxy Nail Art - My nails are out of this world

Today I thought I would share this galaxy Nail Art which I made. I'm pretty satisfied with these nails, except for the fact that the glitter I put on top of it was to compact. Which I didn't really know before. But other then that its a pretty easy design all you need is some cool nailpolishes and a make up sponge and then you are good to go.

To do this design I started with two layers of a dark blue with a little bit of shimmer in it. Then with a make up sponge I put on a little pink, a light blue and then at last purple. Then to top it all of and give it that 'Out of this world' feeling I added some holographic topcoat. 

Then with a white striping nailpolish I made some stars on and then made some smaller stars with a dotting tool. And then I did that thing I regret the most, I wanted more glitter so I grabbed this new glitter striping nailpolish and made some random things on the nail. Lucky me it didn't look so bad in real. 

To end it all I added a layer of topcoat, to just put the finish touch on it. Making it all smooth and shiny.

 The nailpolishes I used for this design is these - 

Base coat - Isadora - Second Nail

Dark Blue - China Glaze - Up All Night

Pink - Essie - Cute As A Button

Light Blue - China Glaze - Flyin' High

Purple - Mavala - Samarkand

White - Kiss Nail Art

Glitter - Kiss Nail Art

And then I realized I forgot the top coats I used -

Holographic - Ciaté - Halo

Top Coat - Seche Vite 

Please leave a comment saying what you think about this design, thanks.

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

Thank you for checking in and please do it again!

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. 

Cherry Blossom Tree Nail Art

Here comes a fast post, because I'm exhausted after a long day. If I'm gonna be honest I only painted one hand so I could show you all here on the blog. I apologize for the pictures here in forehand because I been playing badminton all evening and my arm is tired. Could barely hold the camera still because my arm was shaking so much, haha.

Todays design is a cherry blossom design. I'm pretty satisfied with it, it looks cool.

To to this I started with base coat and then two layers of a light blue nail polish. Then with a striping brush I painted some branches. Then with dotting tools I first made dark pink dots on the branches and then lighter pink dots around that. Then I just finished it off with a top coat to smooth everything down and make it shiny and pretty. 

The nail polishes I used for this design -

Always use a base coat too.

Blue - China Glaze - Kinetic Candy

Light Pink - Gina Tricot - Candyfloss

Darker Pink - H&M - City

Top coat - Seche Vite

 Thanks for paying a visit to my little world of nail polish. 

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.

Pastel Tribal Nails

Finally here you go a new design for you. For this design I used the nail polish OPI - You're Such A Budapest which I swatched for you last week. It's like purple pastel color according to me. I wanted to match this with other light colors and get a colorful and light design to chase the boring winter weather away. But apparently it didn't work so well because there came even more snow today. Don't want more snow now, it was fun for a while but now its not anymore. I thought this ended up being a good design and it was a good color match.

To do this design I started with three layers of the purple, over the base coat of course. Then I did gradients on all the nails except my middle finger. I did gradients in two different colors, the blue and pink. The with the a striping brush I did the tribal prints with white nail polish. I even added some dots with a dotting tool. 

The lines are not the straightest once and I got a little tip wear because I was to lazy to take pictures when I finished them and waited 2 days. Shame on me.

The nail polishes I used for this design is - 

Don't forget your base coat. 

Purple - OPI - You're A Such A Budapest

Pink - Essie - Splash Of Grenadine

Blue - China Glaze - Kinetic Candy

White - OPI - Alpine Snow 

Top Coat - Seche Vite

Please let me know what you think of this design by leaving a comment, I would really appreciate it.  

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!

Gradient Cheetah Nails

Today I wanted to do something easy so I did something I really know how to do so I made a cheetah print design. But to do it a little funnier I added a gradient background to it all.

I did the cheetah prints with a dotting tool and the gradient with a make up sponge.

I think the gradient made it a little funnier.

The nailpolishes I used -

Base Coat - Isadora - Second Nail

White - China Glaze - White Out

Purple - Ciaté - Cabaret

Silver - Isadora - Silver Sparkles 

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black

Top Coat - Seche Vite

Please let me know what you think of this design?