Dry water marble nail art

Hey lovelies!

I hope life is treating you all well :) I'm still in my PJs and enjoying my day off. I decided to do a fun nail art since today is a completely stress-free day for me and my BF. 

The colours I've used are Samarkand from Mavala, one of my all-time favourite purples and Mint for life from Maybelline. 

I tried a new technique for this nail art. It's called dry water marble and it's similar to needle dragging. The only difference is that when doing needle dragging you do it on your nails. With dry water marble you apply polish onto a zip-lock bag and create your desired pattern on the bag. Then you let it dry and gently remove the nail polish design from the plastic bag and apply it on your nail. I used my regular base coat as glue and sealed the design with one coat of fast drying top coat from Glisten & glow. The technique was super easy and fun, I really enjoyed doing it. I found this amazing pictorial, I thought it was helpful, I hope you guys enjoy it. 

That's all for now. Have a great day and I'll talk to you tomorrow. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, @cilp, if you want sneak peaks on upcoming manicures :)

Lot's of love

Christina

Nail art Sunday - Stamping failure

Stamping plate sent for my honest review. 

Ugh, not very pleased with todays mani. I wanted to do something fun and different but I'm not really pleased with the stamping. This was my first time doing a stamping design with "lines" and it was super tricky. I guess I need to practice more. 

The plate I used was sent from Born pretty store for me to review, it was given the personal name "QA84". I really wanted to try the plaid pattern. It was easy to pick up the design from the plate but it was tricky to get the design straight on the nail. 

The base I stamped on is a mixup with three of OPI's tinted top coats. I used all except the yellow one. I applied them over a white polish and blended them gently with the help of their brushes. The polish I used for stamping was Samarkand from Mavala. It worked really well. 

If you want to see more awesome nail art designs head over to Lelack's blog. Don't forget that you get a 10% discount when using my code CYX31 at Born pretty store. 

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

Dance Legend - Alohomora

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This might be my absolute favourite layering of all time. You're looking at Alohomora from Dance Legend layered over London from Mavala. The combination almost looks like a burning Phoenix. 

Alohomora applied just as smoothly as Avada kedavra. I decided to apply two thin coats because I love flakie-effect. Alohomora shifts from green to yellow to orange, unfortunately I didn't manage to capture the green :/ 

I have two thins coats of TC since it does dry a bit gritty. Overall I'm really pleased with this polish and I definitely need more flakies in my collection.

What do you think about flakies? Hate, like or love them? Let me know bellow :D

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

Nail art sunday - Prettypots Polish swatch

Hi lovelies!

I've got  pretty simple nail art to show you for todays nail art Sunday. Made with polish from some pretty cheap brands I tried a different type of swatch today. I really like swatches that aren't just "plain polish swatches" so I decided to try it out myself. On my middle and ring finger I'm wearing Prettypots Polish - Candy peach. A peachy pink shimmer creme with pink, purple and blue glitters. I choose a couple of polishes that matched the glitters and the base colour of Candy peach and tried a few different techniques.

The colours that I used are Mavala - Samarkand, H&M -Nail him, H&M - Check me out and Nordic Cap - NP14.

On my index finger I simply applied layers of the different colours, starting with the lightest one and ending with the darkest. Then I finished it of with three big pink dots.

On my pinkie I started with a purple base and painted horizontal sloppy lines with the help of a nail art brush.

On my thumb, that you can see in one of the pictures I used a dotting tool and added a few studs in some of the dots.

None of these techniques are particularly tricky, but the end result looks kind of impressive :)

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

Valentine's day contest

Hey cuticle cuties!

So I have realised that not all of you love Doctor Who as much as I do. Teherfore I decided to post a non DW post :) I was on IG a couple of hours ago and saw that Polish alcoholic is having a valentine's day contest together with Luchessa. I though it would be fun to participate, and so should you guys :) 

I've used the following polishes:

Pop Culture Cosmetics: Pink drink, Red carpet and Magical valentine , CbL - Leather & Lace, Mavala - London, Orly - Beach cruiser and Nordic cap - NP13 (basic white). 

From index to pinkie, this is how I did the manicure.

My index finger is a two coloured ombre. Closest to the cuticle I have Red carpet and at the free edge I have Pink drink. I blended the two colours by slightly overlapping them. With the help of an orange stick I placed out red and pink sequins in a relatively straight line. 

On my middle finger I started of with a white base, then I placed red caviar beads as a heart shape and added pink caviar beads in it. I didn't feel completely satisfied so I applied my CbL holo TC around the heart. 

I love glitter gradients so that was pretty much a must-have for this mani. As base I used a hot pink and when it was dry I dabbed on the valentine glitter.

I thought I needed more hearts so I decided to give my pinkie some love. Starting of with a white base I used a dotting tool to create a big red heart. Around it I added dots in different pinks and reds. Finally I placed a pearly white heart glitter in the middle of the red heart.  

That's all for now :) I hope you enjoy the pictures.

This picture is taken with flash so you can se the holo TC in action :)

Until next time, take care!

/Christina

Nail art sunday - Leopard print

Hey guys!

My BF and I are having a slacker day. He's playing GTA5 and I'm doing some serious backseat gaming, lol. He's wearing his forth Doctor robe and I'm wearing my Stormtrooper robe hehe, nerd alert :D

Oh well enough about unimportant stuff like that, time for todays manicure. I have done a funky french with a accent nail. As a base I used two coats of Mavala - Arosa, a peachy crelly. For the spots I used Mavala - Samarkand (the darker purple) and Sephora - Let's dance (the lighter purple). Doing leopard prints was so much easier than I thought. With the help of a dotting tool it's almost failproof. Since there are so many great tutorials on the Interwebs I'm not even going to try to explain it for you. Of to the google machine and I promise you will find awesome help :)

If you want more nail art inspiration check out Lelack's blog, there are so many great entries today! 

Until next time, take care!

/Christina