Tutorial: How To Do Water Marbling

Hey Sweeties :)
Tonight's Tutorial is going to be all about Water Marbling. Water Marbling is a nail art technique that involves putting drops of nail polish into water, creating a design and then putting your nails into the water over the part of the design that you want on your nails.

Water Marbling might look difficult, but its actually very easy to do. If you want to learn how you can create unique designs with Water Marbling, just keep reading :)

♥ Start of by applying a base coat to protect your natural nails. Apply any nail polish of your choice, this is going to be our base color for the Water Marbling design that we are going to create next. I'm using Steady As She Rose by OPI. Apply some tape around all of your nails to prevent a huge mess, your nails should only be showing. 

♥ Take a cup and fill it with room temperature water. Make sure that your cup is big enough to fit your finger in it. Then add a drop of nail polish in the water. You will see that it will create a circle. Keep adding drops of colors until you are happy with how it looks. Make sure that the nail polish lids are open. You have to work fast because the nail polish is going to dry completely and then you have to start over again. 

♥ After you have finished adding the colors of your choice, take a toothpick or an orange stick and lightly drag it around in the nail polish to create a design. When you are happy with how your design looks, dip your nail into the design.

♥ With your nail still in the water, take your toothpick or orange stick and swirl it around your finger so it don't mess up your design. The orange stick picks up all the excess polish so your design won't be ruined when you remove your finger from the water. 

♥ Let the design dry a little before you remove the tape. After you have removed the tape, take some nail polish remover on a cotton pad and clean up any trace of nail polish around your nails. Finish of with a top coat to prevent your design from chipping away :) 

 Products I used: 

♥ NYX Ridge Filler Base Coat. 

♥ OPI Steady As She Rose. 

♥ China Glaze Laced Up. 

♥ Wet N' Wild Ebony Hates Chris.

What I love about this nail art technique, is that every design you create is going to look different on each of your nails. You can get very creative with Water Marbling which I think is super fun. You might have to give it a few tries before you get the hang of it, but when you do, you are going to have so much fun with it :)

Have you tried Water Marbling before? What do you think about my design? Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment :) Xoxo, Christine♥

Tutorial: How To Remove Glitter Nail Polish Using Foil

Hey Sweeties :)

I love wearing glitter nail polishes but we all know how ''fun'' they are to remove. I came across this awesome trick on how to remove glitter nail polishes using foil and I thought it would be perfect to do a Tutorial showing you how easy it is to do. So if you want to learn how you can remove your glitter nail polishes in only a few minutes, just keep reading :)

 ♥ NYX Nail Polish in Multi Glitter & Chanel's Rose Insolent. 

 ♥ 1. Pour a good amount of nail polish remover on a cotton pad.

  ♥ 2. Place the wet cotton pad on your nail, make sure your entire nail is covered and that the cotton pad is pressed against your nail.

  ♥ 3. Rip a piece of foil and wrap it around your fingers like this.

  ♥ 4. Leave the foil on your nails for  3-5 minutes before you remove it. If you are working with a really thick glitter nail polish, you might need to leave the foil on a little longer so the nail polish will loosen completely.

  ♥ 5. Now you want to pull the foil off your fingers. If there is any nail polish left on your nails after removing the foil, just take a cotton pad with some nail polish remover and go over that area.

Products Used: 

♥ NYX Ridge Filler Base Coat.

♥ NYX Advanced Salon Formula Nail Polish in Multi Glitter.

♥ Chanel Nail Polish in Rose Insolent.

♥ Cotton Pads.

♥ Nail polish Remover.

♥ Foil.

I love this Multi Glitter nail polish from NYX. Its a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Happy Birthday which is a really popular nail polish. I love layering Multi Glitter on top off other nail polishes, it gives them that extra spark that I'm always looking for :)

Do you love wearing Glitter nail polishes? Have you tried out this technique before? Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment :) Xoxo, Christine♥

Tutorial: How To Create Converse Shoe Nails

Hey Sweeties :)
This Tutorial is inspired by Converse shoes. I wear Converse shoes a lot during the summer because they are really comfortable and they come in so many cute colors and patterns. I just saw pictures off the Pastel Collection and I absolutely love the colors. I need the mint green pair!!!!! 

I hope you like this Tutorial, to learn how you can create fun Converse shoe nails, just keep reading :)

 ♥ 1. Start off by applying a base coat to protect your nails from staining. When your base coat have dried, go ahead and paint all off your nails black. 

 ♥ 2. Take a white nail polish and swipe it across the tip off your nails like this. You might have to go over the tip a few times to get it to look opaque.


♥ 3. Take your silver nail polish and your dotting tool and create six small dots on each side.

♥ 4. Now we are going to work on our shoe laces. Take your white nail polish striper and start connecting the dots like this.


♥ 5. Take your dotting tool and place a small black dot off nail polish  inside the silver dots.

 ♥ 6. Create a thin, curved black line across the white tip to complete this look. Finish off your design with your favorite top coat to protect it from chipping away.

 Products I used: 
♥ NYX Ridge Filler Base Coat.
♥ L.A. Colors Nail Polish Striper in Black.
♥ L.A. Colors Nail Polish Striper in Silver Glitter. 
♥ Elf Cosmetics Nail Polish in White.
♥  Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

 

Here is the finished look, what do you guys think? I really like this design a lot, I think its really cute! This is definitely the most difficult design that I have created so far and I'm not 100% happy with how it turned out. I definitely need a little more practice when it comes to this design :)

If you think its a too much with having the Converse shoe design on all off your nails, try painting your nails black and just create the design on your ring finger for a more toned down look. Its very wearable and it looks super cute :)

What do you think about this design? Will you be trying it out? Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment :) Xoxo, Christine♥

Tutorial: How To Create Strawberry Nails

Hey Sweeties :)
I was eating strawberries the other day and I thought to myself, how fun wouldn't it be to do a strawberry nail tutorial? I can't believe that May is already here and that means that Summer is right around the corner. Hopefully this fun and cute design will get you in the Summer mood :)

If you want to learn how you can create these cute and fun Strawberry nails for Summer, just keep reading :)

 ♥ 1. Start off by applying a base coat to protect your nails. 

♥ 2. Paint your nails with a strawberry red nail polish.

♥ 3. Now, we are going to work on the strawberry leafs. Take a green nail polish and your nail polish striper and paint 4-5 triangles and then fill them in. Since the green nail polish that I'm using is very sheer, I used a white nail polish first because that is going to make the green color pop and look a little bit brighter.

♥ 4. Now its time to add the strawberry seeds. Strawberries have yellow seeds, so go ahead and pick your favorite yellow nail polish. I used a dotting tool to draw the seeds, but you can also use a toothpick :)

♥ 5. Finish off your design with your favorite top coat to protect it from chipping away.

Here is the finished look. What do you think? I'm not completely happy with how it turned but the design is still super cute. I love doing these nail art tutorials so if you have any requests on different nail looks you want me to do, please leave them in the comments below :)

 Products I used: 
♥ NYX Ridge Filler Base Coat.
♥ Essie Nail Polish in Lolipop.
♥ China Glaze Nail Polish in Entourage.
♥ China Glaze Nail Polish in Lemon Fizz.
♥ L.A. Colors Art Deco Nail Art Striper in White.
♥ Seche Vite Top Coat.

 What do you think about the design? Will you be trying it out now that the Summer is right around the corner? Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment :) Xoxo, Christine♥

Tutorial: How To Create Cute Cupcake Nails

Hey Cupcakes ^_^
I have a new nail art tutorial to share with you guys tonight. This one is a re-creation off a few cupcake designs I recently came across on Youtube. I love cupcakes and I really like this design so I thought this tutorial was perfect!

I hope you enjoy my post and if you decide to give this design a try, please feel free to leave the link to your blog post in the comments below. If you don't have a blog, please Tweet me a picture off your design, I would love to see it :) 

If you want to learn how you can create these super fun and cute Cupcake nails, just keep reading :)

♥ 1. Start off by applying a base coat to protect your nails from staining. Now, paint all off your nails pink, except for your middle finger, create a french tip on it instead.

 ♥ 2. Use a dark pink striper and create vertical stripes on all your nails. Since I dont have a dark pink striper, I just cleaned off my white one and used it to create the vertical stripes.

♥ 3. Now we are ready to work on our little cupcake design. Take your dotting tool and create three white swoops that slightly overlap the pink and fill in the top off the cupcake.

♥ 4. Add a pink heart on top off the cupcake. Use a light pink and decorate your cupcake with some fun sprinkles.

 ♥ 5. Finish your design with a top coat to protect it from chipping away.

Here is the finished look, what do you guys think? I absolutely love how the design turned out on my nails. I used one off my nail wheels to practice on the cupcake design before trying it out on my nail and this actually turned out much better than the ones on my nail wheel :)

 Products I used: 

♥ NYX Ridge Filler Base Coat
♥ OPI Nicki Minaj Pink Friday
♥ China Glaze Laced Up
♥ L.A Colors Art Deco Nail Polish Striper in White
♥ Essie No Chips Ahead Top Coat

What do you think about the design? Will you be trying out this design? Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment :) Xoxo, Christine♥

Tutorial: How to Create Fun Spring Nails Using a Round Band Aid

Hey Cupcakes :)

So, I recently came across this little band aid trick and I thought I would do a nail art Tutorial and share it with you guys. If you want to know how you can create this fun and different nail look for Spring, just keep reading :)

 ♥ 1. As always, start off by painting your nails with a base coat to help protect them against staining. Now, paint all off your nails white. They have to be 100% dry before you do the next step.

♥ 2. Take out one off your round band aids. What I like to do first, is to place it on my skin and then remove so that it wont be as much adhesive left on it. The reason why I do it is because I don't want my nail polish to come off when I remove the band aid.

 ♥ 3. When you have placed the band aid on your nail, take a bright/pastel Spring color off your choice. Remember that some band aids have tiny holes in them so don't paint over the entire band aid. Now, slowly pull off the band aid and ta-da, your finished :)

 ♥ The Finished Look.

Products I used: 

♥ NYX Ridge Filler Base Coat

♥ H&M Nail Polish in Pure White

♥ Jesse's Girl Nail Polish in Cupcake Frosting

♥ China Glaze Nail Polish in Lemon Fizz, For Audrey & Entourage

♥ Miners Cosmetics Nail Polish in Coral Cutie

 I think this is such a fun look for Spring.You can definitely play around with different colors and combinations and just have fun with the band aid look. My next look is going to be a black one with no base color or maybe a fun pink look, what combination do you think will look cute? :)

If you have tried out this look, please leave the link to your post in the comments below or Tweet me a picture on Twitter, I would love to see it :) 

What do you think about this little trick? Have you tried it out yet? Thanks for stopping by :) Xoxo, Christine♥

Tutorial: How To Create Effie Trinket Inspired Nails

Hey Cupcakes :)
Its time for another nail art tutorial and this time it's inspired by Effie Trinket from The Hunger Games. I saw the movie a couple off weeks ago and I really liked her nails. I thought I would try to re-create her nails from the movie. If you want to learn how to create these fun Effie Trinket inspired nails, just keep reading :) 

 ♥ 1. Start off by applying a base coat to protect your nails. 

♥ 2. Paint your nails with a medium dark fuchsia nail polish. 

 ♥ 3. After your nails have completely dried, take a gold nail polish and a makeup sponge, and create a gold gradient.

♥ 4. Sponge the first layer off gold nail polish two thirds off the way down your nails. Now, sponge a second layer half down your nails and finally a third layer only on the tip off your nails. 

 

♥ 5. Add a layer off fine glitter nail polish to complete the gradient. Since I don't have one in my collection, I decided to make one myself. If you want to see a DIY post on how you can create your very own glitter nail polish, let me know in the comments below.

♥ 6. Finish with a top coat to protect your design from chipping away. Now your design is finished and you can rock your Effie Trinket inspired nails :)

Products I used: 
♥ NYX Ridge Filler Base Coat.
♥ Wet n' Wild Nail Polish in FuchsiaRama
♥ Fine Glitter Nail Polish created by me. 

I actually don't like how my design turned out. It was really difficult to get the gold gradient to look exactly like I wanted it to look like and it was also my first time using a makeup sponge. But I guess it turned out okay, I definitely need more practice :)

Have you seen The Hunger Games? What do you think about the nail design? Thanks for looking :) Xoxo, Christine♥

Tutorial: How To Create Easter Bunny Nails

Hey Bunnies :) 

It's Easter and I have a really cute nail art design to share with you all today. I love Pink and I like bunnies so I thought this design would be perfect. If you want to see how you can create this really cute Easter nail art design, just keep reading :)

♥ 1. Start off by painting all off your nails with a base coat to protect them from staining.

♥ 2. Paint all off your nails with a medium pink nail polish except for your ring finger, that's where our bunny design is going to be :)

 ♥ 3. To make the cute bunny, create a half circle on the tip off your ring finger using a white nail polish.

 ♥ 4. Take the nail polish brush and use it to create two long ears.

 ♥ 5. Use your dotting tool to fill in the bunny ears with the same medium pink nail polish you used on your other nails.

 ♥ 6. Create two big brown eyes and a tiny pink nose. Don't forget to add two tiny white dots inside the brown to complete the eyes.

♥ 7. Finish with a top coat to protect your design from chipping away.

♥ The finished look.

I really like how this nail look turned out and it was extremely easy to do too. I didn't want to overdo it with the bunnies so I just added two bunnies on my nails instead off doing them on all my nails. I paired the design with Pink Friday from the OPI Nicki Minaj Collection and I think it looks really cute, what do you think? :)

Products I used: 

♥ NYX Ridge Filler Base Coat. 

♥ OPI Nicki Minaj Nail Polish in Pink Friday. 

♥ Elf Cosmetics Nail Polish in White. 

♥ H&M Nail Polish in Dust & Diamonds. 

♥ Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

 How is your Easter going so far? What do you think about the design? Thanks for looking :) Xoxo, Christine♥