Rainbow Nails

Hello everyone! :)

  I'm sorry if I didn't came here too often, but I've been full of work to do and it became impossible for me to come here and post new nails. I'm so tireeeed... But well, it doesn't matter. 

  So, this time I got inspired by the big blue sky and this beautifull rainbow I've seen the other day, it was sooo pretty! 

  I think my picture is a little blurred, so I'm sorry for that.

  And now, the how to do these nails!

  It's easy to do but it requires tons of steps, I think, so far, these are the nails with more steps I've ever had. They take no time at all to do.

  1) Take a good care of your nails and apply a base coat to protect your natural nail. Apply two coats of a sky blue nail polish.
  2) With a toothpick or a dotting tool, apply red dots in a irregular way. But make sure you have space enough for the other colors.
  3) Again, with a dotting tool, apply orange dots underneath the red ones.
  4) With a light yellow, again, apply dots underneath the orange ones. Attention, at the end of all these steps I painted again with yellow 'cause I wanted it to stand up a little more.
  5) This time, with green, apply a few dots underneath the yellow.
  6) After green, apply blue dots to your nail.
  7) At last, apply purple dots on the bottom of your nail. Besides adding yellow again to the design, I've made a few smaller red dots on the top of my nail, and a smaller purple dot on the bottom. Apply a top coat to protect your design.

  They are extremely easy to do and they look fancy!

  Kisses,
  Patrícia :)

Chocolate and Vanilla Nails

Hello everyone! :)

  It's been really hot these days, and all I wanted to do was to eat icecream! (hihi) So, why not inspiring myself in my favorite flavors? Chocolate and Vanilla! Yummi. 

  I've added some circles and stripes 'cause I thought that only brown and yellow, wouldn't look so good. Ain't that good looking?

  Well, I can't really explain to you every single nail, 'cause I did each one different from the other.

  To this chocolate "french nail" you must:

  1)  Take a good care of your nail and apply a base coat to protect your natural nail. After that, apply two layers of yellowish/vanilla polish.

  2) Apply a chocolate brown polish on the top of your nail and make a french manicure. Make sure to make it large.
  3) At last, apply a stripe of each color you wish on top of your french manicure. Don't forget to top coat your nail, to protect your design.

  To my only nail that is completly brown:

   1) Take a good care of your nail and apply a base coat to protect your natural nail. After that, apply one or more layers of chocolate brown nail polish.

  2) Apply a stripe of each color of polish you wish on your nail, and keep doing it until your nail is over. Apply a top coat to protect your design.

  Really simple, right? This is a really good design to use your imagination! Hope you enjoyed it.

  Kisses,

  Patrícia. :)

Gradient Nails

Hello everyone! :)
 

  This time I've tried something completly different from what I have done so far. I saw a similar picture on Facebook and I wanted to try that out with some different colors. 

  I think they turned out to be really simple to do, and they look amazing. 

  How about that? You can mix up any color you'd like. I mixed hot pink with a yellow, 'cause they remember me of California Beaches.

    So, to do there nails you will need some Scotch Tape.

  1) Take a good care of your nails and apply a base coat to protect your natural nail.

  2) Apply 2 times a light pink nail polish, or whatever you'd like.
  3') With the scotch tape, make a triangle on your nail. Remember, make it wider on the top of your nail, and smaller on the bottom. Try not to touch your cuticle with the edge of the triangle.
  3'') With a makeup sponge and a little bit of hot pink, paint the top half of your triangle, try to make a gradient with it, darker on the edge, lighter on the middle.
  4) Again, with a makeup sponge, apply yellow on the bottom half of your triangle. And again, make a gradient, darker yellow on the bottom, lighter on the middle.
  5) At last, apply a top coat to protect your design.

  Hope you liked it! 
  
  Kisses,

  Patrícia. :)

Polka dots and Glittery Nails

Hello everyone! :)

  So this time I decided to make up some new designs that I've never used before, and they turned out to be beautiful. 

  It's been a warm temperature nowadays, so I went to the beach a few times and I fell in love with a polka dots swimsuit I've seen there. So, as you can tell, I was inspired by it! 

  

  Now, to explain you how I've made my design, I will tell you first about my thumbs and ring fingers nails, and then my other nails. It's really simple to do!

  For my thumbs and ring finger nails:

1) Take a good care of your nails and apply a base coat to protect your natural nail.

2) Apply a few layers of white polish.

3) Right after applying the white layers (be carefull and don't let it dry!), dip your nail onto the glitter and let it be for a few seconds. And apply a top coat to prevent the glitter from falling.

  For the remaining nails:

 1) Take a good care of your nails and apply a base coat to protect your natural nail. Apply a few layers of white nail polish.

 2) With a makeup sponge (like one of these: 

http://shop.cinemasecrets.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/s/p/sp001.jpg), start making a gradient between a sweet purple and white, by applying gently a few layers of purple from the top of your nail, to the bottom. 

 3) With a dotting tool, make tons of white dots. Apply a top coat to protect your design.

  Really simple to do, right? Hope you enjoyed it.

  Kisses,

  Patrícia :)

Psychedelic Neon Nails

Hello everyone! :)

  So these are my weekly nails. I needed something to cheer me up lately, so why not some psychedelic nails? Hehe. 

  It ain't great for formal events, but, if you want something to use casually, this is a really good design.

  To make these nails you'll have to follow some steps, at the beggining they can turn out to be super confusing, but the result it's just beautiful.

1) Take care of your nail and apply a base coat to protect your nail. After that, apply a white coat.

2) Start by making a swirl with a really neon pink polish. Try using a thin brush. In these nails I used an old brush and cutted out leaving just a few hairs. 

3) Make a new swirl, around the pink one, with a bright neon yellow-orange.

4) Around the yellow-orange swirl, make some blue and green stripes. 

5) I didn't enjoyed the way that green stripe was looking, so I corrected it with a darker blue. Apply a darker blue on top of the blue stripe. Paint the remaining white with a sweet purple.

6) Make some black stripes to help your design to look less filthy and make some dots to make it look funny. Last, but not least, apply a top coat to protect your design.

  Didn't that turned out to be really funny? Hope you enjoyed it.

  Kisses, 

  Patrícia :)

Strawberries Nails

Hello everyone! :)

  I've been really sick so I haven't been able to come here and make some new posts.

  But... Today I'm feeling better and I can now show you my sister's nails.

  These ones are really simple, cause she's only 9 years old, so I decided to make her some designs that didn't look so heavy on her nails.

  I got inspired on the up coming summer. When I think of summer I remember fruits, mostly strawberries and watermelon. They're so yummi!

  And now, explaining to you step by step:

  At first, the thumb and ring finger:

1) Take some good care of your nail and apply a base coat to protect your nail.
2) Make a green stripe on the tip of your nail, some call it a green french nail.
3) With a tooth pick or a dotting tool, do a rounded shape with some red nail polish.
4) Apply a green leaf on the top of the circle and make some black dots to make it look like a strawberry.

  To the remaining nails:

1) Take some good care of your nail and apply a base coat to protect your nail. After that, apply a green coat.

2)  Make 3 stripes on your nail with a red nail polish.

3) Apply 3 dots between each stripe with black.

  Last, but not least, apply a top coat, on every nail, to protect your design.

  It ain't much of a deal, but I enjoyed it. Hope you liked it too! 

  Kisses,

  Patrícia. :)

Green nails with White Daisies

Hello everyone! :)

  Today I'm gonna show you my favorite nails so far. They seem really complicated to do, but in fact, they're extremely easy to do! 

  

  This time I took pictures of my nails step by step to help you out. :)

1) At first I took care of my nails to make them really confortable to my work, I can't let my edges sharpened 'cause I keep breaking them.

2) Apply a transparent base coat to protect your nails. After that, apply a green coat to every nails of yours.

3) With a thin brush and white polish, make some flowers. I did them this way 'cause I thought that they realy looked like daisies. Ain't that pretty?

4) With my dotting tool, I applied a green circle on the inside of every flower to make it more complete and more fancy.

5) At last, apply a transparent top coat to protect your design.

  See? Ain't that really easy to do and don't they look so beautifull?

  Hope you liked it!

  Kisses,

  Patrícia. :)

By the way: my inspiration to this nail art was Robin Moses. I love her designs.

Daily tip - Acetone or Nail Polish Remover?

Hello everyone! :)

  Well, I've been working with acetone on my laboratory, on college, and I kept wondering if such a powerfull solvent would harm my nails. So I've been thinking a lot in how bad am I doing to my nails everytime I clean them with acetone. And today I went for a little research. I'll just post it in here so you can be aware of everything.

  "Acetone is a clear, harsh-smelling and highly flammable liquid. It's a solvent, capable of disintegrating even plastic. This explains why it works so quickly breaking apart and removing your nail polish. Isopropyl alcohol is typically used in the making of acetone.

   The key active ingredient in non-acetone removers is usually ethyl acetate. Made from ethanol and acetic acid, ethyl acetate is colorless and also flammable. In addition to also being used as a solvent, its fragrant smell has led to its use in perfumes.

  Most of your nail polish removers are going to include solvents as ingredients. If you can remember your lesson about polymers from high school chemistry class, think of it like this: Your nail polish remover is an organic liquid solvent. Nail polish is a hardened organic polymer. When the remover is applied to the polish, the molecules of the solvent will force their way through the polymer molecules, causing the polish to disintegrate.

  Because of acetone's strength as a solvent, it shouldn't be used on your fake nails. The solvent in the polish remover will weaken your extensions and cause them to separate from your natural nail. One of the reasons non-acetone nail polish removers were created was to be used on nail extensions.

  But for removing sparkly, glitter nail polish, it's best to go with the big guns -- acetone polish remover. The chemicals in glitter nail polish make it more difficult than other polishes to break down.

   If you have strong health concerns about the chemicals used in both acetone and non-acetone polish removers, you should consider switching to a nail polish remover that doesn't use toxic ingredients. There are also many polish removers on the market today that boast of being fully "natural" and biodegradable."

  Hope it was usefull.

  Kiss,
  Patrícia :)

Daily tip - Nail art tools

Hello everyone! :)

  I'm always talking about brushes, dotting tools, and other stuff like that all the time, and I bet some people don't have a clue about what they are or where and how to use them!

  So today, I've decided to tell you and to show you some of the tools I use more often. If you don't have these tools, there's always something you can make at home to end up with the same result!

  This is a dotting tool. Each tool has two different sizes allowing you to design any sized circle. I only have one dotting tool, but with extremely caution and dealing the right amount of pressure in my nail, I can make any sized circle. This tool allows you to create unique designs and manipulate your nail at your will, this will help you a lot and it will make your work a lot easier. If you don't own a dotting tool, or you don't want to spend any money, you can always use a tooth pick or a hair clip. Of course the result won't be the same, but at least you can make everything you wish with the tools you have avaiable at home! 

  
 
      Some people think that these kind of brushes can be used with the same purpose. I don't really share the same opinion, 'cause if I use one of the tools to make a thing that stays more perfect with another tool, I won't enjoy it, and I think you won't either. With the longest brush, you will have details with more precision than maybe with a shorter brush. Per example, to make a French Nail Design I recommend to use this brush, because you only need to move your finger (that's being painted), and not the hole hand. I mostly use the shorter brusher to make small stripes, flowers, any kind of small detail that only need to stay pretty and not really very precise. If you don't own these kind of brushes, or you don't want to buy any, you can always get one from a regular painting brush. Either from a nail polish or another kind of brush. The only thing you need to do, is to cut most of the hairs of the brush, leaving only a few or more hairs, depending on the thickness of the details you want to make.

  I hope this tip has been usefull to you!

  Xoxo,

  Patrícia :)

Black nails with fancy roses

Hello everyone! :)

  This will be my second post of my own nails, made by myself. I try everytime to explain how I do them, but it's really hard to do it 'cause, beyond having portuguese as my main language, it's really really hard to write everything down word by word, there's some words I don't know how to write them, or maybe you don't understand, stuffs like that. But I always try my best. 

  For these nails I followed a tutorial I found on Youtube. I'll leave you the link below. I recommend this nails artist because she makes really beautifull designs and she is one of the girls that actually help me doing my stuff. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU2bynbe7Os

  So this is how my nails turned out to be:
      

1) Apply a base coat to protect your nail.

2) Paint with a black polish all of your nails, one or two times, depending on the polish. In my case I only had to paint one time.

  To make the roses - I chose to paint only my thumb and ring finger because I wanted something simpler than having roses on all of my nails, but if you want, you can make in every nail, just like it's shown on the video.

3) With a light pink, make a circle shape on your nail. On my thumb, I made two circles with light pink, and one with a darker pink between the other two.

4) With a darker pink and white, add some details to the circle, trying to make it more similar to a rose. 

To the leaves:
5) Do some leaves with a light green, to add more details to your nail.

6) After that, with a darker green do the rib of the leaves.

7) Last but not least, and extremely important, apply a top coat to protect your design.

  Hope you enjoyed it!

  Kisses, 

  Patrícia :)