Dutchnailss: December 2013

Dec 31, 2013

#32 New Years Eve Nails!

And just like that, Christmas is over and we almost get to leave the year 2013 behind us and start fresh new year!

I wanted to do so much more Chistmas themed nail art! But I underestimated how busy I was before and during Christmas and just hadn't had the time to do all the designs I wanted to do. Lesson learned for next year: don't plan a lot when you have absolutely no time to do all! ;)

For New Years Eve I wanted to keep it simple but sparkly(I don't even know if that is a word!) At first I wanted to make this nail art without the black base colot, but it's for New Year Eve! And when I think of new years eve, I think about black skies with intense lights and colors! So black base color it is ;)

This look is so versatile, you can make this with darker colours like I did for my New Years Eve manicure. But you can also replace the black with a lighter polish and use different glitters! Or replace the silver colours with golden colours to make the manicure a bit 'warmer'

So this is my last manicure for the year 2013. I started this year with my youtube channel and my (you can almost call it an) obsession with nail art. And I regret nothing! The nail art community is a wonderfull place with wonderfull people. And I'm glad I am a part of this AMESOME community!

To all a blessed and awesome New Year!

And to even more nail art :D

Link to the tutorial (Click here)

Polishes I used for this look:

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Dec 26, 2013

#31 XMAS!

Inspired by the Cartoon nails by Professionaldq I made xmas cartoon nails!

A little later than planned, but I still wanted to place this blog/tutorial this year. So late or not, here are my Cartoon Xmas nails!

Polishes I used:

Dec 14, 2013

#30 Snowflakes!

I'm not exaggerating when I say that I'm SO PROUD about this nail art!

With the smallest and thinnest brush I carefully made these snowflakes, not out of glitters this time, but out of acrylic white paint. I had so much fun making these! And I think I like these better than the candy cane nail art I did a week or so ago ;)

The products I used for this awesome(!) nail art are listed below:

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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Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Dutchnailss

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Weheartit: http://weheartit.com/Dutchnailss

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#29 Ice Crystals

Second Christmas themed nail art!

This time I created a nail art with diamond shaped glitters. It was a little bit of a pain to place the glitters on the nail, but with every placement it got easier.

The products I used for this mani are listed below. I used a dark blue for my base, but I think that if you want to use a red color for the base this manicure will stil look awesome!

Dec 7, 2013

#28 First Christmas themed mani: Candy Canes!

Sweet, sweet candy canes, almost want to eat my nails ;)

It's december, the time for christmas themed manis! And I have SO much ideas! Can't wait to show you all!

The first mani I made is this candy cane madness! I used a magnetic polish for the base and some red and white acrylic paint to make the cany canes. I never used the magnetic polishes I own. I have three magnetic polishes, didn't liked them at the start, but when I was looking for the polishes I wanted to use for this nail art I saw this kinda red purple magnetic polish and figured 'Why not?' and I'm glad I did! It's a subtle effect underneath the candy canes. But I think it finishes this nail art!

For the first time I made pictures outside, and wow what a difference. It was cold and a bit cloudy. But the pictures are still better than the ones I made inside. It's a bit sad that I discover this when it's getting really cold outside and getting darker earlier.

I made a lot of pictures of this mani because I really like the outcome of this one! Before and after I added the candy canes! ;)

Just look at that ring!

#27 Matt green and blue dots!

These were just to try out something, but I ended up liking them a lot!

I always look around on Instagram, Tumblr, WeHeartIt and Youtube for inspiration on nail designs. And I found a mani with a white base and all different sizes of dots. In different colors. I thought it looked awesome and wanted to try it out. The image I found was with the colors yellow, red and orange. But I decided to try it out with just two colors: a light green and a blue.

A few days before I made this mani, I bought new dottingtools! I already wanted to try them out, but somehow couldn't decide on what to make with them, so this came right on time ;)

Also I wanted to use this mani for a (sort of) contest for a toyshop here in the Netherlands. In this toyshop they have a little 'beauty department' with a small amount of nailpolishes, jewelry etc. On one of the shelving there was a note. On that note they were asking for someone who wanted to make how to video's with those products, all you had to do was make a tutorial video and upload that on your youtube channel and send an email with the link to that tutorial video to the organizers of the contest. I wanted to join immediately because I just thought it would be fun to try.

I made this tutorial for this contest, but ended up not sending the mail with the link to the organizers of the contest. I wanted to, but when I got time to edit and upload this video the contest had already ended.. :( Well I don't mind to much, I had fun making this and now it's just a tutorial for my channel! ;)

I didn't use a lot of polishes for this look, for the dots you can just go for one color, or like I did two. But I think you can use a lot more colors and this mani would still look cool!

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