Patriotic 4th of July Nails

Over there in the big country across the Atlantic Ocean the holiday 4th Of July is being celebrated. Although I'm not living there anymore I just had to join in on these celebrations, and it's kinda started to become a tradition for me to celebrate this holiday with some great nail art. So why break it now? I'm still hoping I will get a chance to celebrate 4th of July right there in America, hopefully in Texas, but this will have to do until that day when I actually will do so. 

I was in a kinda glittery mood when I chose out the colors for this design, so its a nail art full of glitter! Since glitter nail polish isn't always super compact I started of with a layer of white nail polish to have a base for all the glitter that is in this. 

The design is pretty easy, not much tools where used for this patriotic Nail Art. Everything but the stripes and dots are made with the brush in the nail polish. I guess you can even say that the stripes was made with that too because I was using a striping nail polish - very thin brush in the nail polish. 

For this I did 3 nails with both blue, red, stripes and dots. The stars had to become dots because I'm really not that good to make that small stars. The third one that you can't see on the picture is obviously the thumb. The two other nails I did concentrate on one of the colors. Since the blue polish I was using was more glitter then color, compared to the red one, I did a glitter gradient. Then with the smallest dotting tool I have I added dots over it. With the red one I did the whole nail and the added stripes. 

I hope you liked the Patriotic 4th Of July Nails! For everyone other there that is celebrating it today, what have been your plans for the days? I'm pretty curious to know, so if anyone got something exciting to share please leave a comment for me!

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. 

Tribal Nails

Sorry for not updating in a while. Been working, been on vacation and just been general lazy. I haven't even painted my nails in so long which isn't alike me at all.

But now I'm back and I'm back with a tribal printed nail art. Some girl even asked me if they were stickers when I was out shopping. I guess that's something good, haha.

I know the lines aren't the straightest lines and the cleanest clean up, but it's what I got for you today. For this design I used a striping brush and a dotting tool.

The nail polishes I used for this design -

 Don't forget base coat to protect your nails.

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Pink - Essie - Watermelon

Blue/Green - Essie - Turquoise & Caicos

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black

Purple - H&M - Lilac Plum

Top coat - Seche Vite

Sorry for being away so much, but I will try to make it better for you!

Black and white Nail Art

Today I wanna share an easy design. Not the most colorful one but I like it. Looks kinda cool according to me.

To do this design I started with a base coat as usually. Then I painted two layers of black. Once it was completely dry I freehand painted with a thin brush and then added some dots with a dotting tool just to make it a little prettier. 

Then I just added a layer of top coat for the finishing touch. 

The nail polishes I used -

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

Black - Isadora - Gothic Black

Vit - OPI - Alpine Snow

Top coat - Seche Vite

Thank you for checking in, and I would love if you left a comment for me. Requesting a design or just letting me now what you think of this one!

Cartoon Nails

Been really busy with school the last few days. But now graduation is just around the corner so hopefully I will have to update the blog more often from now on. This post wont be so long because I don't even have a proper picture of this design. So you have to be satisfied with a cell phone picture, taken before clean up. Soooorry.

They are suppose to look like nails from cartoons.

To do this nail I started with base coat. Then I painted two layers of pink nail polish. With a striping brush I painted the black on the nails edges. With the same brush I added some white thingy on the nail to be a reflection. 

Sorry for the bad post and I hope you forgive me for this!

Prom Nails - Lace Nail Art

Todays post is my prom nails. Inspired by my prom outfit.

I'm currently out in the woods, hiking, so this will be a mobile post. So I will just include a picture of my nails and my prom outfit.

I was suppose to wear a lace thingy over so thats the point with the lace on my nails. 

Band Nails - One Direction Nail Art

Tomorrow I will be on my way to Denmark to go on a concert and I just had to paint my nails for this special occasion. I'm going to see One Direction, my favorite band. I seen them before and then I had nails inspired by them too.

Since all the nails are different I will explain how I did them one by one. First I put on base coat on all my nails. 

On my index finger I have the Irish flag, because Niall in the group is from Ireland. I started with two layers of white. Then I actually used the nail polishes brushes to paint the green and orange on it. 

For the middle finger I started with two layers of red and then with a striping brush I wrote TMH which stands for Take Me Home which is the name of their newest album and the tour. 

On the ring finger I painted the british flag because the four other members are from UK. For this I started with two layers blue and with a a striping brush I painted the white and then the red on it.

And then my pinky I wrote the first letter of every member. I started with two layers of white and then with the colors I used for the rest of the nails I wrote it with a striping brush. And then with a small dotting tool I made a heart. 

And on my thumb I did One Directions logo with a striping brush. Started with two layers of red first. 

The nail polishes I used- 

Don't forget base coat.

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Red - Claudia - All Red

Blue - H&M - Turquoise 

Orange - Ciaté - Speed Dial

Green - Ciaté - Mojito

Top Coat - Ciaté - Seche Vite

American Flag nails - French Manicure Twist

Todays nails are inspired by flags and none other then my favorite country's flag, USA's flag of course.

I done familiar nails before for fourth of july last year but when looking back at them now I'm not so proud of them haha.

Oh gosh no, we shouldn't look at them. Lets go on to todays nails instead. But I guess this means that my nail art skills have grown better and thats always something good. 

With this nails a did a little twist of the classical french manicure. I started with base coat as usually, and then I did two layers of white nail polish. Then with a striping brush I made the red lines all over the nails. Once those were completely dry I took some french manicure templates. The package I have had 2 different kinds, curved and straight, and I took the straight ones. Which I think are for you toe nails actually but who cares? I painted the tips blue and later when it was dry I did small dots with a dotting tool over the blue to symbolize the stars on the flag.  

After a while I decided that I might look cool matte. So I made them matte. It's not often I have matte nails but it looks cool so I should probably do it a little more often.


The nail polishes I used for this is -

Don't forget base coat all times to protect your nails.

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Red - Gina Tricot - Formula One

Blue - Sephora - Curaçao

Matte topcoat - Essie - Matte About You

Which way did you like more - shiny or matte?

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. 

Butterfly Nail Art

It seems like spring is finally here for real this time. I think I may have celebrated it a little to early when I said it the last time, of course it started snowing after that. But now this good weather been holding on for a while so I think it's finally time to celebrate that spring is here, for real this time.

Because of this I wanted to do something springy, and purple. That's what I had in my mind so that was what I did.

I started thinking about this design I seen everywhere on the internet already. When I think about spring I think about the flowers which starts blossoming and the animal life wakes up after the cold winter. So that's why my nails currently have a butterfly design on them.

For this design I started of with a base coat, which is a must to protect your nails. And then I made a purple gradient. I don't think I really gotten the hold of this gradient thingy, but I still keep doing it. But practice makes perfect right? I did the gradient with a make up sponge which I used to just dab the lighter purple on the darker purple.

Then I took a striping brush and with black nail polish I first made a curved line at the bottom of the nail. And then from the curved line I made more curved lines to the tip of the nail. After that I made some small curvy lines between the curved lines. And this is starting to sound pretty funny, loads of curved lines. Then I painted black on the tip of the nail from the small curved lines and up. With a dotting tool I made white dots on the black tip. 

This is how it looks when you see it from the right side. 

The nail polishes I used for this design is -

Don't forget the base coat. 

Darker purple - Mavala - Samarkand

Lighter Purple - OPI - You're Such A Budapest 

Black -  Isadora - Gothic Black

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Top coat - Seche Vite

Thanks for checking out my blog, you are welcomed back anytime. 

Herringbone Nails

I hope everyone of you had a great easter. I had a great one, except I ended up with the flu which isn't that much fun.

For this design I started with picking up a nail polish which I knew I wanted to use. I just got the nail polish in the mail not so long ago. I bought it online because you can't really get it here in sweden. But the brand is Nicole By OPI and it's from their Kardashian collection and it's a really barbie pink color. So I started painting my nails with this polish without having an actual plan about what I was suppose to do. Which was such a smart move from my side, or not. But in the end I decided I would do some kind of herringbone design, and it turned out pretty good if I can say so myself.

I started painting all the lines with a striping brush. My pinky didn't turn out that great, but I have to live with that. I added on white nail with pink lines instead like an accent nail. 

I added some glitter and some mini herringbones in the design and voila - this was the results of that. 

The nail polishes I used in this design was - 

Don't forget the important base coat when you paint your nails.

Pink - Nicole By OPI - All Kendall-ed Up

White - OPI - Alpine Snow

Glitter - Nails Inc - Abbey Road

Top Coat - Seche Vite

Please leave me a comment below, tell me what you think of the design, if you got a design you want me to do or if you simply just wanna say hey. I appreciate every single comment! 

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.