31 Day NA Challenge - Day 13: Animal Print

Hello, my dear readers!

Quick post today, I'm not feeling very well and I did my nails just a few minutes ago, so I am sorry for the late post.

Today's challenge is Animal Print and anybody who knows me, knows that I adore animal prints! I even have a zebra print on the walls and of course clothing etc. 

But I decided to do a leopard print instead of zebra ;) 

I used Essence Plum Perfect as a base, Essence Candy Crush for the light spots and Essence Black is Back for the outlines.

I love colorful animal prints on my nails, that's why I rarely go with the classic colors :P 

Thanks for reading and see ya soon! <3 

Zebra Swimsuit Nail Art Tutorial! =)

Hello, my lovelies!

Here is the tutorial for my latest nail art! Enjoy :) 

1. Apply a base color of your choice! 

2. Tape your nail off diagonally and paint the nail with a white polish. If you don't want to use tape, no problem! The line doesn't have to be perfect, cause it'll be covered up anyway ;) Just use a nail art brush and freehand it!

3. Paint the zebra print with black ... or you could do a leopard print as well! ;)

4. Now take a thin nail art brush and paint a thin line with a sparkly color that matches your design along the white part of your nail. 

5. Let it dry a little bit and add a top coat of your choice! And you are done :) 

Pretty easy but so eye-catching! You could do many different designs on the white part though! Leo print, dots, stripes ...you name it! :) 

Here is a pic of the end result again (sorry for the tip wear, but I wore it for 3 days now!)

I hope this tutorial was helpful to some of you! :)

Have a nice weekend! :*

Zebra Swimsuit!

Hey there! 

I would have posted something earlier but I wore one of the Mirrorball polishes I swatched in my last post for a whole week and now that I took it off, I finally have something new to show you! ;) 

Oh boy, I love O.P.I's Swimsuit .. Nailed it!, the polish I used as a base for this nail art. It's probably my favorite blue ever !! (Thanks again Kaki for this beauty!!) 

I mean, look at that shimmer and that perfect shade of blue ... so beautiful! But enough about that. So, I used that polish (hence the title :D) and Essence Silver Surfer, Flormar Black Tip Painter and Nail Collection Nr. 1.

I don't know why my skin looks a bit green-ish ... maybe I should stop taking pics at night?!

Anyways, I would love it so much to have a swimsuit with this pattern and color! Now that would be amazing! ;) 

I hope you like it, my lovelies! And I also have a tutorial for this nail art, that I probably post tomorrow :) 

Thanks for reading and see ya! :*

Berrylicious Leopard

.... or should I say: Dirty Leopard? Meeh, no, ... rather Berrylicious Leopard ;) 

Why this weird title? Well, because I used Catrice's Dirty Berry and did a leopard pattern on it :D

I used Catrice Forget-Me-Not for the spots and Essence Mysterious Black to outline them. I like my purple leopard very much :) Animal prints will always be my favorite nail designs!

I mentioned that I got my 4 wisdom teeth pulled out a few days ago and I can't even open my mouth to eat stuff. So my meals consist of this:

 Baby Food! Mhmmm I love it :D And because I love chocolate too much, I knew I couldn't resist 1 week without it...but I can't eat it, because it's to big...so what do I do? I cut it in little pieces :P

Haha, I just wanted to share that with you guys ;)
So, do you still have your wisdom teeth ? :D

A new leopard design :)

Hey everybody!
I think you all know by now, that I love animal prints .. I can´t help it :P So here´s another manicure with leopard design :

I applied my base color, taped it off, added some metallic black and finished it by adding the leopard design. I used: Essence - White Hype (base), S-he 471 (silver), Essence - Fatal (leopard outlines) and Essence - Metal Battle.

Simple but eye-catching :P Some people actually asked to see my nails, so they could take a closer look :D 

Also ... it´s Tuesday! Yep, that´s right, you have the chance to tell me a number between 1 and 226, and decide which polish I wear tomorrow! :) Can´t wait to see, what it will be ;) 

Thanks for reading and have a great day! :-* 

Nail Art Tutorial: Zipper Zebra

Good morning, my dear readers! :)

I just woke up and thought: let´s do another tutorial! :P The Zipper Zebra Manicure was on the second place in my poll and it´s my favorite, so here it is!

 

Step 1: Apply a base color of your choice, best would be a light color, to create a good contrast to the zebra pattern. I used 2 coats of Essence 50´s LE - Ahoy! 

Step 2: Cut a piece of scotch tape in a triangular shape and put it on the tip of the nail. Make sure the polish underneath is completely dry! The tape is hard to see in the pic, but I think you get the idea ;) 

Step 3: Now cover the whole nail with another polish of your choice, I used Essence - Purple Diamond. 1 coat should be enough, especially over a white or a light base.

Now to the fun part: remove the tape slowly, while the polish is still wet!

Voilá! It´s not a problem, if the lines are not perfect, cause you will cover them anyway :)

I don´t know how I managed to make this dent in the polish, hm..weird :P

Step 4: Now take a tip painter or a small brush to make some thin lines. A black polish is the best choice for this step, but you can be creative ;) First outline the triangle and then draw a straight line to the base of the nail. Basically you have to paint a "Y" on the nail :)

Step 5: This step can be done in many different ways. You can leave the plain polish to have a simple zipper mani, you can do a zebra pattern or a leopard pattern or just dots. Just do it the way you want it :)

Step 6: Last but not least: put some dots along the "Y" - shaped lines to make the zipper look more realistic. If you drew the lines to thick, the dots won´t show that good, but hey...practice makes perfect ;)

That´s the final result :) Have fun recreating this look and let me know in your comments how it worked out for you! :)

Have a nice day! :-*

Turquoise Animal

Hello, everybody :)
I´m finally back on track with my blog and I wanna apologize for that last post, I was in a bad mood when I wrote it ^^ Well, here I am with my latest manicure, which I just don´t wanna take off...ever ! :D I love the color combo and the pattern and it just looks awesome :)) I was inspired by the m78 Konad Plate, I love that combination of zebra and leopard pattern, but unfortunately I don´t own that stamping plate...so I had to do a freehand design :)

The polishes I used are all from Essence: You Belong To Me (53), Trust In Fashion (54), Bella (06) from the Nail Art Twins Collection and the Tip Painter - Mysterious Black.

The zebra pattern is not that perfect, because I was kind of in a hurry when I did it, but from afar it looks good ;)
Tomorrow I will finally post the tutorial you voted for and now I´m gonna work some more on my Stash and Blogroll-Page :) See ya next time and thanks for reading! :-*

A hint of Zebra . . .

Hello ladies (and gentleman) :D
Hope you had a great day today ;) I removed my flower manicure, so I finally can do something new! I wanted to try a zipper manicure for ages, I don´t know why I didn´t do it until now, cause I freakin' love it ! To make it a lil more interesting I also added some zebra print. Here is my new favorite manicure :D

   

Maybe it looks complicated, but it´s really simple! First off you start with a white base. I used Catrice - Lavender Breeze, which should have a hint of purple in it, but mine is really white :P After it dries, you add some triangle-formed scotch tape to the tips and paint the rest of the nail any color you like. I used P2 - Charismatic, which is a gorgeous metallic-red. And now for the fun part: take a small brush or use the Essence Tip Painter in black and paint a "Y". Also paint the zebra print on the white part and then you are done! Well, not quite ;) Grab a dotting tool and put some dots on the Y, to make it look more like a zipper. Now you´re done! :)

It takes a lot more time to explain, than to actually do it :D I will try this in the future with some other color-combos and maybe some other animal print :) How do you like it? Will you try to recreate this? Let me know, if so...cause I would love to see the results! :)

Was a bit much today, but thanks for reading! See ya next time ;)

Blue Leopard

Hello! :)
As promised, I show you some nail art today. This one was inspired by a dress from Blumarine´s 2011 Spring Collection:

I loved the combination of turquoise and leopard print, so I decided to do this design on my nails as well :)
I used 2 coats of Essence - BBC Splash Refresh as a base color and for the leopard pattern I used P2 - Soulful, Essence - Fatal and a TC to smooth it all out. Leopard pattern is one of the easiest things to do. Just grab a dotting tool, or a toothpick, some nailpolish and get started :) First you do some random brown dots, they don´t have to be perfect, the more uneven the better :) And with a black polish you draw some circles, or lines around the dots. Aaaand you´re done! :)

So here is my version: 

My brown is a little bit darker, than the one on the dress, but I don´t have another brown polish :P
That´s it for today, my dear readers. Thanks for reading and see ya next time ! :)

Some random pics of my nails ...

Sooo.... da ich zur Zeit noch keine aktuellen Bilder meiner Nägel hab, hab ich 2 rausgesucht die ich vor kurzem getragen habe :)

Als erstes diese Leo-Zebra-Mix Nails, handgemalt, da ich die Konadplatte mit diesem Muster noch nicht besitze ;)
(Zum vergrößern einfach auf das Bild klicken)

Ich entschuldige mich gleich für das blöde "Wasserzeichen" aber ich hab bei vielen Blogs gesehn wie Fotos geklaut wurden ... :(

Als zweites hab ich eins meiner Lieblings-Designs

Inspiriert von http://chloesnails.blogspot.com/ , die eine Meisterin ist in der Verwendung von Tesafilm und Nagellack :) Schaut euch ihren Blog unbedingt an !

So, bald kommen dann auch aktuelle Nageldesigns ;)

Lieben Gruß, euer Nagelfreak ;)