The Digit-al Dozen Does Colour Contrast! - Colour Blocking

Hello lovelies!

I'd like to close this awesome series of Colour Contrast manicures with some colour blocking. So I went back to the roots of it - to Mondriaan, a fellow Dutchie, who mastered the art of colour blocking a century ago:

Red Coat Tuesday, Negative Space & Multichrome Flakies!

Hello lovelies!

Language is hard tonight, so I'm going to keep it short, for your benefit ;) This is my mani tonight!

FoF: Pink Cherry Blossom

Hello lovelies!

Today I have a summer design I did for a friend. It's a simple cherry blossom, inspired by Robin Moses. 

Tutorial Tuesday: Funky Vintage

Hello lovelies! 

This tutorial will be about creating the vintage mani I have done a few times (here and here), and now I will explain how! This time, I decided to make it funky... ;)

Polishes used for this mani: Sally Hansen Miracle Cure base coat, W7 White, Etos black striper, Paris Memories 236, Hema no. 23 (dark blue), Rimmel "Out Of The Blue" (medium), Essence "Sure Azure" (light blue), Etos Quick Dry 115 and Seche Vite. 

So here's the tutorial!

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xoxoxo

Captain

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FoF: Hot Pink & Black Lace

Hi lovelies! 

Time for another Friends on Friday! My friend went on holidays and the sea did wonders for her nails; they grew! So she kept them long for me until I could pain them. I saw something on Oh My Gosh Polish's IG, that she in turn had based on @Ra_Dina. This is my take on the matter!

The base colour is Catrice "The Pinky and the Brain" and the black is done with a striper and a dotting tool.

What do you think?

xoxoxo

Captain

Friends on Friday: Bluetiful Flowers

Hello lovelies!

Today's FoF features one of my regulars :) I had already done a similar design on another friend's thumb, but I needed to try it on all ten digits for once :)

I used Catrice "It's All I Can Blue" as a base, and white, pearly white, black and silver stripers to create this. I'm working on a tutorial for you, I will post it tomorrow :)

EDIT: tutorial can be found here :)

xoxoxo

Captain

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Swatch-It Sunday: Hunkemöller Sexy Nails Summer Collection

Hi there and welcome to another Swatch-It Sunday1

Today I have the whole summer collection of Hunkemöller Sexy Nails for you! My aunt got them for me, so sweet! So I went on swatchin' :D

First up is "Bright Pink", a - doh - bright pink creme that is opaque in 2 easy coats. It applies nicely and lasts for a good time!

Next up is Mint Green, a nice light minty blue with a frosty finish, opaque in 2 coats and gorgeous in sunlight (by the time I swatched these, I had had to have switched nail shapes, due to a chipped of corner):

Vintage Pink is the third beauty, a nude pink with also a frosty finish. Nice application, 2-coat opacity, or one thicker coat, as shown here, all nails have 2 thin coats, except the ring finger, it has one easy thicker coat:

Look, pretty! 

And last but not least: "Cobalt" and "Coral". Now the coral, I must say, is really more orange. But it looks great with the bright cobalt. Both apply nicely and have also 2-coat opacity. 

So I did some nail art with a white and black striper:

My overall impression is very good! Al polishes have an easy 2-coat opacity and last quite a while. So go get a matching one for your bikini! They are available online and in the Hunkemöller stores for 2.99 euros a pop.

xoxoxo

Captain

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Silly French Tips

Hey!

Another quicky post:

This was what I did when I was wearing my frankened polish Silly:

I applied matte top coat from HEMA onto the polish and then freehanded the tips with a black striper from Etos. On the ring fingers I added a starry rhinestone from Pink Tease.

xoxoxo

Captain

Hot pink pleasure and random skittle fun!

Hey beauties!

So last week there was a family gathering, and I did my cousin's nails. But as I was doing that, two ladies insisted on me doing theirs as well! Now I had not counted on that, and had only brought really bright colours (and not more than 10, which is NOT ENOUGH!), but they did not care. This is what happened:

For this I used "Aretha's R-E-S-P-I-N-K" from Catrice and a black striper. Now the other lady wanted all different nails, so this happened:

The caviar is from Max Make-Up, the blue is Miss Sporty 320, the red is Essence "Kiss on top of the Rock" with l'Oreal Confetti top coat. The pink is the one from Catrice again and the orange is Miss Sporty 323. I used a black and white striper and a dotting tool to add the art. It is a super fun mani, if I say so myself! Each nail is totally different, so I succeeded :D

That's it folks!

xoxoxo

Captain

Skittled It!

Hey hey!

How you doin'?!

Last weekend I had a family party and my second cousin had asked me to bring some nail stuff. So I did and she came up with this!

I used NYC "City Blackout" for the black, Catrice "Aretha's R-E-S-P-I-N-K" for the pink, a black striper, l'Oreal "Confetti" top coat, Essence "Party All Night Long" for the pink flakie gradient and multicoloured caviar from Max. 

xoxoxo

Captain

Ten Tuxedos

Hey lovelies!

Just got back from a wedding. It was marvellous. The bride was gorgeous and the groom very handsome. He is my cousin. It was a great party and I'm typing this with one eye already shut (litereally). 

So in short. One of my sisters was wearing black and white, so I decided to do a tuxedo mani (which had been on my to-do list forever:

I used Etos long lasting white, a black striper from Janet for the contours, Essence "Ticket to the Show" to fill in the tuxedo and for the bow tie I used Essence striper "Mysterious Black". For the button, I used a bobby pin (I was being stupid and couldn't find my dotting tool) and Ticket to the Show, again. 

I really love it. It is how Zooey Deschanel had her nails a long while back.

Ok that's it, ladies, my other eye is falling down too!

Lots of xo's, 

Captain

Swatch-It Sunday: Catrice "Mint Me Up" and vintage nail art!

Hey lovelies!

Are you ready for another Swatch-It Sunday? Today we have one of the new Catrice polishes of their regular collection: Mint Me Up. It is a dark mint green polish with a golden shimmer and with bronze flakies. Say what?! Yes exactly, I have not seen anything like it, ever, so it is a must-have ;) It retails for 2.99 euros. So let's have a look!

With Flash:

 

Daylight:

Application was easy, and it is opaque in 2 easy coats. Let's have a closer look at all the goodness!

Daylight:

Artificial light:

Even though the polish alone made me stare at my nails constantly, I needed to do some nail art. The varnish colour made me think of old wallpapers, and then I thought about one of the Nailasaurus' nail designs, and inspired by that, I went to work. This is the result:

 OMG look at that, SUNSHINE!

I used a white striper, some white polish and a dotting tool, and for the roses I used NYC "Revolving Red" and Essence "A Walk In The Park" and a little brush and some of the white polish. The mani started chipping after 2 days, that was a bit sad, because I loved it so much! What do you guys think? Will you buy it?

xoxoxo

Captain

Swatch-It Sunday: HEMA Glitter nail polish (part 1)

Hello beauties!

This might be especially interesting for those of you who live in The Netherlands, Belgium, France or Germany. I will review and swatch 2 of the new nail polishes of HEMA, glitter nail polishes called (first time ever they have names (albeit not such exciting names) instead of just a number!) "Glitter Pink" and "Glitter Fuchsia". HEMA has a whole range of new nail polishes, including holos, duochromes and pastels, and a huge amount of fast drying polishes in flashy colours. But first, the glitter:

Let's start with Glitter Fuchsia:

This is two coats over one coat of NYC "Fashion Ave Fuchsia", adding the base to ensure opacity, although I'm not sure it really needed it. Then I added some topcoat and could NOT stop staring at the beautiful sparkles... <3 It's a deep fuchsia jelly with tons of silver glitter. Application is very easy, no dabbing needed. 

But as with all nail polish, I must try some nail art. I did a simple cloud mani with two other Hema polishes, namely no. 22 for the green and a black one. But first I used a matte top coat, also from HEMA, to mattify the glitter... WOW! Look at it!

I adored this mani, but, as with all manis, it left me after 2 days (that is because I do dishes and clean stuff, but have not found gloves yet that fit my tiny hands). But no worries, I had another glitter bomb! This is Glitter Pink in direct sunlight:

Sparkle sparkle sparkle! This is two coats over Bourjois "Rose Cupcake". The polish consists of a light pink jelly with silver and pink iridescent big glitters and silver micro glitter. Application is good, sometimes it needs some dabbing but that is not a problem. The different glitters are even better visible in daylight (so out of direct sunlight):

Again, some nail art, with Hema no. 12. and a silver striper from Essence. I taped off all parts but where the blue is and hence created a v-gap and then added the silver.

So that's it! I can't wait to acquire the other new HEMA polishes, so if money permits, you'll be seeing more of them :)

xoxoxo

Captain