My 20th Birthday mani!

Yesterday was my birthday (26th of February) and I made this nail art for this day! :)

#24 Galaxy nails!

To Infinity And Beyond! 

These galaxy nails,,, I like the way they turned out! ;) I wanted to do this nail art for a long time now, but for some reason never did. But here they are! And even better I could've ever imagine. This manicure is really suited for fall and winter.... and spring... and summer... so i guess it's a manicure that you can do throughout the year!

I used a little sponge and various colors to make my galaxy nails. The colors I used to create this AWESOME mani. (can you tell i'm excited about this nail art ;))

If you feel inspired by this look and recreate it, I would love to see what you did! If you have instagram, just use the hashtag #dutchnailss and I will see your design! :D

I made a tutorial for this manicure. If you want to see exactly how I did this you can click right here and you'll go to my youtube channel. 


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#20 Spider nails ~ Nailart for halloween

Spooky, slimey and dark nails. It's time for Halloween nails!

It's October, the month were soo many things happen: World Animal Day, Breast Cancer Awareness month, Thanksgiving and soooo much more. And of course, the reason why I made this manicure: Halloween! 

I our family we don't do anything with Halloween, but I just liked to paint my nails in a Halloween theme ;)

 I bought the orange color one day before I made this mani, I thought the orange color almost screamed HALLOWEEN! I don't know why, but I had to buy it and make a halloween mani with it ;) 

The polishes I used for this manicure are

If you feel inspired by this look and recreate it, I would love to see what you did! If you have instagram, just use the hashtag #dutchnailss and I will see your design! :D

I made a tutorial for this manicure. If you want to see exactly how I did this you can click right here and you'll go to my youtube channel.

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Instagram: http://instagram.com/dutchnailss# 

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDutchnailss

Black & White challenge! Completed!

I've Finished the challenge list! Whoo!

The challenge is supposed to be completed in 10 days. But I didn't wanted to change my nails every single day. So I decided to paint my nails every Wednesday and Sunday. I liked some of the endresults I made, and some I disliked. I made a top 10 of the manis starting with the one I liked the best and ending with the one I disliked. 

#1 The Mix n Match manicure!  (Tutorial)

#2 The Sheep nailart manicure! (Tutorial!)

#3 The Cow nailart manicure! (Tutorial!)

#4 The Black & Yellow water marble manicure! (Tutorial!)

#5 The Tiger nailart Manicure (Tutorial!)

#6 The Dots dots dots manicure! (Tutorial!)

#7 The Black, White and Gold manicure! (Tutorial!)

#8 The Melting nails manicure! (Tutorial!)

#9 The Classy black & white nailart manicure! (Tutorial!)

#10 The little rhinestone manicure! (Tutorial!)

I highly recommend doing this challenge for yourself! It's a fun and quick challenge to do. Even though I really look forward to start doing manicures with some more colors! Fall has started so that means warm colors! 


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Black & White Challenge! Part 6! #11

I'm getting near the end of the Black and white challenge list. But not quite yet! :)

After this one I'll still have four more Black & White mani's to create and share with you!

This time I had to make something with a colorfull base and white decorations. So I made these adorable sheep nails inspired by the amazing JuliaMll 

If you want to see the tutorial I made for this mani, click right here to go to my Youtube channel. The exact names of the polishes are listed below

 

Black & White challenge! Part 4! #7

It has been quite some time since I last postd a tutorial. I have been really busy and just didn't had the time to edit. I filmed it some days ago and now i finally got the time to edit the tutorial and upload it on Youtube! 

Part four of the Black & White challenge: A white base with color. And this is what I made for this challenge

You can watch the tutorial on this design if you click right here!

The products I used on this design

Sensationail kit!

I got this starterskit about one and a half weeks ago.

My parents bought me this as a late birthday present. And I am so happy with it! It is a easy way to quickly make some beautyfull nails that will last two weeks. (I wanted to test if that was really true, I kept on the polish for about one week and maybe two days and then I just wanted to paint my nails another way. But the polish still looked like I painted them the day before!)

In the starterkit you will get a color of your choice, a LED lamp, primer, base/top coat, some lintfree whipes, gel cleanser and a file. You also get a manual where you can follow the step by step instructions to get the best results.

As I have told before, my nails are extremely fragile and thin. This is why I wanted to try this kit out. With this gelpolish on my nails they feel a lot stronger. 






This is how my nails looked when I just painted them!

The red color really pops! and the shine didn't dissapear when the polish dried. I really like the result. But the removing of the polish... It was a pain! You have to use pure acetone and let the acetone 'soak' your nails and after that you have to scrape off the polish with a special tool. My nails looked so bad after all the polish was removed :(

I do think I'll do this again even though I really hated to remove the polish. But that doesn't change the fact that I really like the shine and the durability of the gelpolish!

Black & White challenge! Part 3! #6

I MADE A MISTAKE! OH NOOO!

This nailart should be a black base with colors design (the third one on the challenge list) But for some reason my mind just decided that I should do a color base with black (which is the fifth challenge on the list) And I made this

And I didn't even noticed I made a mistake until I finished editing the how-to of this nailart... sigh...

But then I decided to just switch the two challenges. This way I can keep this nailart on my nails and I already had a hard time thinking about what I should make with a black base and color. So now if have some more time to think about that and in the mean time, I have this amazing tiger look on my nails!

So the list you saw on the first post when I started this challenge is slightly changed. The third challenge became the fifth and the fifth challenge became the third challenge, as easy as that!

Even though I wasn't supposed to do this nailart. I still like it a lot! I chose two intense colors for this look. Both are polishes from Catrice. These polishes were a limited edition and I just had to have them :)

If you want to see how I made this design click here! 

The polishes I used to create this look are listed below

- A base coat,
- Catrice: I'm a survivor
- Catrice: Like a jungle drum
- NYC: City Blackout
- Top coat. 
 

Black & White challenge part 2! #5

My second nail art design of the Black & White challenge!

This time I had to make a design with a black base and white decorations.

I had a really hard time to come up with a design, I just couldn't think of a design to make with a black base and white decorations. But I eventually came up with this design

I think this is a real classy and at the same time cute design. I used black and white (of course) because this was the point of the challenge. But I think this design will look good in colors too! Maybe just in blue colors, or in multiple colors! This design can be made in many ways! That's the way I like it ;)

If you would like to see how I made this design. Click here to watch it!

#3 Blocky Colors!

Here's another one! A new DIY

A colorful and fun design! It may look like it took ages! But it really is a quick and easy design to paint on your own nails! 

If you click right here you will go to my Youtube channel to watch the howto!

The colors I used are listed below:

- Base coat
- Pastel yellow: Vanille love by Catrice
- Black polish
- Pink: Wheels on fire by Catrice
- Lighter pink: The Salmon Dance by Catrice
- Green: Green Days by Catrice
- Top coat

Special Effect Polish: Holographic nails!

A few days back I bought two holographic nailpolishes. A holographic blue and a holographic copper.

Once I got back home I immediatly tried the colors on fake nails, because I already had a nice design on my real nails I painted on them the day before. I often use fake nails to practice design and to see how a color looks on a nail. This saves me some time and of course a lot of nail polish remover! ;)

I've never been a big fan of glitter nail polishes, but these ones are truly awesome!

The blue and copper are both really beautiful colors. I love the blue one a little bit more than the copper one, but that's a matter of taste really. I've applied a two layer coat of the polishes, this way the polish becomes more opaque. 

Two days later I couldn't wait any longer and painted these amazing colors on my nails

I liked these polishes so much that I got back to the store where I bought these and I bought all the other colors too! Whoops! ;)

#2 Newspaper nails with cartoon flowers

My new howto: Newspaper nails with cartoon flowers!

I used acrylic paint for the cartoon flowers. You can use normal nail polish of course. I just think little designs like these are easier painted on nails with acrylic paint. The news paper technique really makes this design stand out much more!

If you click right here you will go to my Youtube channel to wacht the tutorial!

The colors I used are listed below:

 Nail polishes: 
- Base coat
- A pastel Yellow: Vanille love by Catrice
- Top coat

Acrylic paint:
- Black, red and orange paint 

  Hope you liked this DIY!

#1 Simple flower

My first ever tutorial video!

This is a real easy and fast design. You can paint all your nails this way or the way I did with a accent finger.

If you click right here, you will go to my youtube channel to watch the how to! 

The colors I used are listed below:

- A base coat,
- Blue coat. I used Denim Moore by Catrice
- Pastel yellow coat. I used Vanilla Love by Catrice
- Any glitter polish. I used a glitter polish by Miss Sporty
- A white coat
- Black polish. I used a black polish by NYC
- and finally a top coat

Stash!

Since this is an nailart blog, I think it's smart to show you my nailpolish stash!

These are all the polishes I own. I think I have a decent stash but when I look at videos on Youtube of other nailart artists.. pfew.. I still have a long way to go! My collection is growing gradually though. Everythime I go to our town I can't go home without buying some new polishes. Unfortunately I still don't have a good place to store all the polishes.

I love the polishes of Catrice. These are really affordable polishes. I don't know if they are sold in the United States. But here in The Netherlands you can find them almost everywhere.