New Years nails

Only a few hours until 2015, it's weird to think about the fact that in some places in the world it's already 2015.

#90 Getting Closer... Tick Tock...

As the year 2014 gets closer and closer of turning into the year 2015 I found some time to do a nailart for this event! ;)

Recap 2014!

I had this blogpost planned to write for a while now, but never had the inspiration to start. And now the new year is getting closer and closer I can no longer procrastinate writing this.. 

#89 Glitter Snowflakes

It snowed! It finally snowed! 

Then&Now: Candy Canes

I felt like recreating a nail art I did last year in december, and for this year I wanted them to be my christmas nails! Perfect time for a then&now comparison!

#88 Chevron lace nailart ~ First Moyou London stamping experience

About two months ago I posted a picture on my Instagram asking for some help about getting some stamping platen from Moyou London. The responses I got were all (really) positive and I decided to order some (read 10) plates...

Trip to London

I am back from London, I had a total blast with my best friend. We saw tons of things and walked a ton! This is a short blogpost about my trip to London. Not really nail related but I still wanted too share! :)

#87 Half Moon Wreath

All the radio stations are playing christmas songs, stores are packed with christmas decorations, so I think it's a good time to start doing some christmas themed nailart! But then work got in the way and I wasn't able to do any nailart in about two weeks! 

#86 Sheer Snowflakes

Today is the first day that I've tried out the Opi Sheer Tints. Well one of them. 

Colour comparison: Sally Hansens Pacific Blue vs. NYC Streetstylers

I had the luck to find the old formula of Sally Hansens Pacific Blue lying under a whole bunch of other nailpolishes in a drugstore a long time ago, and at the time I did not really knew what all the fuss was about so I bought the polish to try it out for myself...

#85 November NailArt Challenge: Polish name

This might be my first real nailfail... 

#84 November NailArt Challenge: Tape

Between work and other stuff, I still wanted to do a nail art. And the next challenge in the november nail art challenge was a tape nailart. I have painted my nails almost every day now to catch up with the challenge, I'm slowely catching up! But with every day that passes, I get closer to another challenge that I am behind on.. However I am still determined that I will complete the challenge for this month! 

#83 November NailArt Challenge: Plaid

Almost exactly a year ago I also did a nail art inspired by a plaid design, for my little baby nephew, who was just one month old that time. Last years design was posted on the 22nd of November, and today I am posting another plaid design.

#82 November Nail ArtChallenge: Geometric

I think it's getting more and more undeniable that I am never on time with any challenges. But I am still going to try to complete them all! Today I am sharing the second challenge with you: Geometric nails..

I got to see Linkin Park!

I don't think any of you know, but I am a long time fan of Linkin Park. So when a friend of mine ask me a while back if I wanted to go to a concert with her, I could not refuse!
And of course, I could not leave out a Linkin Park themed nail art, I kept it simple, but I do like the outcome

#81 November NailArt Challenge: Movember

Hello November! I'm going to try a nail art challenge again this month!

#80 Halloween nailart: Water Spotted Candy Corn

My last halloween themed nail art! 

#79 Halloween nailart: Bones and skull

Meet my friend George:

#78 Halloween Nailart: Black cats and stars

For this nailart design I was inspired by a picture I found on google..

#77 Halloween Nailart: Halloween Silhouette

I've been watching nail art videos on youtube all evening now, and I totally forgot to write and share this blogpost with you all! Whoops! 

#76 Halloween nailart: Blood Spatter

New halloween nailart! 

#75 Halloween nailart: Sweet Spiderwebs

It's Friday! Time for another halloween themed nail art!

#74 Halloween nailart: Pumpkins

I could not wait any longer to share this nail art with you all! I am pretty proud of myself!

Veggies & Vanilla nails!

Today is World Animal Day, so hug your beloved pet and give him/her a delicious treat! But today I do not have a animal nail art to share with you all...

#73 Raindrops

When I think about autumn, I think about the weather, and I think about rain! So why not make raindrops on my nails! ;)

#72 Autumn Leaves

It's the most beautiful time of the year, if you ask me, all the green from the trees turns into yellow, orange and red and the whole outdoors look completely different, and I love that!

NYC Peel off base coat ~ My Review

Something different that you'll see on my blog, and you've probably seen a lot of reviews on this peel off base coat already, but I also wanted to share my experience with the NYC peel off base coat!

I've been looking for a peel off base coat for soooo long now and could not find one anywhere! I've also searched online to make my own peel off base coat, but I could not find the glue that is used for that in any store where I live... 

#71 Mermaid Scales Nail Art

Hello ladies, good evening! I hope you are having a great day! Today I want to share a manicure I wore this whole week! 

Swatch: My first ever ZOYA nailpolish!

I have one Zoya nailpolish to add to my nailpolish collection! And it not just a zoya nailpolish....

 

#70 Abstract roses on holographic gradient

I never thought I would enjoy doing my nails this much after almost two weeks of being 'naked'...

August Nail Art Challenge: French Tip

Next and last challenge in the August Nail Art Challenge: French Tip!

August Nail Art Challenge: Pineapples

Next up in the August nail art challenge: Pineapples!

#69 August Random Nail Art Challenge: Fire!

Call the fire brigade! My nails are one fire!

August Nail Art Challenge: Tropical

While the clouds are grey and the rain pours down, I painted something with an extremely summer-feel on my nails!

#68 August Random Nail Art Challenge: Line Art

I'm extremely late with this but here are my line art nails!

#67 August (Random) Nail Art Challenge: Gladiolus + Outdoors

Combined the two challenges for todayy...uhh three days ago!

August Nail Art Challenge : Ikat!

Took a while, had some problems, but here are my Ikat nails for #nailartaug!

#66 Random Nail Art Challenge August: Orange

Yes,, I am doing two challenges again this month! 

August Nail Art Challenge: Classy

I've decided to do a nail art challenge again this month! 

Another Glitter Placement?!

I loved my last glitter placement nailart so much that I wanted to do a nailart similar to that again!

#65 Tribal tip

For this nail art I was inspired by a lovely person on Instagram @banicured_

MiniInTheBox ~ Nail Supply haul!

I got some nailmail yesterday, and I can not wait to try out some of the neon nail studs I got!

#64 Improvised Half Moon

~Inspired by @xtinemayyy ~ 

Nails for a wedding!

Not the nails of the bride, but the brides mom!

My nail tech exam pt.2

I'm a official nail tech now!

#63 Swatch + Leopard print nail art : Bleached Neons

I'm so sad about the fact that only four of the Bleached Neons collection were sold in the Netherlands, but that didn't stop me from buying the four which did get sold in the Netherlands! :D

#LookDutchnailss ~ Lava nails!

Everytime I see your recreations, I get a smile on my face! It literally brightens my day! Today I wanted to share the amazing ladies that made the lava nails! 

#62 June Nail Art Challenge: Picnic Day

I told you I would do these nails! ;) Picnic nails! 

#61 June Nail Art Challenge: Nude

It's official, I am a big fan of glitter placement!

#60 Chrome polish + nail art!

Still no picnic themed nails today, I hope I can do those today! But for now, blue flowers on chrome base! :D

Swatch: Chrome polish

I finally have a chrome polish to call my own!

My nail tech exam pt.1

Friday the 13th of June, I had my first of two exams for my nail tech license... 

#59 June Nail Art Challenge: Fathers Day

Today (when I post this it will be yesterday) is Fathers day, and for the nail art june challenge, this was a theme to do some kind of nail art!

#58 June Nail Art Challenge: Neon Gradient

I'm still here! Don't you worry! ;) A few days late, but here is my Neon gradient nail art!

#57 June Nail Art Challenge: Favorite Movie

Good afternoon ladies! (and gents) Tonight I finally have the third challenge for you: Favorite Movie and I chose...

#56 June Nail Art Challenge: Disney

Second challenge! With the theme Disney! And I must admit, I did not knew what to do! 

#55 Another month, another challenge! June Nail Art Challenge: The sky

Last month I enjoyed doing two nail art challenges, and at the end of the previous month I was thinking if I wanted to do another challenge for this month...

Nail Art Challenge May Completed!

It's getting near the end of the day for me here. And that means the end of the month May and the beginning of a new month! But first I completed both challenges!

May Nail Art Challenge: Cartoon

I'm done! With this nail art I've finished both of the challenges for this month! And I've already said it in the post about the other challenge, but I am kinda proud of myself for completing two challenges in one month!

May Nail Art Challenge: Nautical

Hello ladies! Did you have a good day today? I hope so! :)

The second to last challenge for the May nail art challenge. Nautical!

Random Nail Art Challenge: May - Completed!

Secretly I'm really proud of myself for completing this challenge! And almost completing the other challenge as well! (expect the final posts on those tonight!)

When I first started the two challenges I was already thinking that I could not handle two challenges at a time, that I would be painting my nails one theme and right after removing the nail art I made just to start with another theme. Fortunately that did not happen! I had a chance to enjoy all the nail arts I made this month! And I hope you liked them too :)

For Instagram I made a collage of all the nail art I made for this challenge! I'd thought I share them here too! 

 

When I look at all the nail art, I like the sunflowers and the paisley the most, but that does not mean I don't like the others ;) I like them all!

Let's hope the challenges for June are as fun! 

Have fun painting and creating

xoxo

Dutchnailss 

May Nail Art Challenge: Wild

Good afternoon ladies! With the clouds slightly disappearing and the sun finally showing his warm face, I have another nail art to show you all!

With the last challenge: wild I've completed the random nail art challenge! A day later than planned, but I did it! For the other challenge I still have two more nail art challenges to go and then I'll have completed both! I am still thinking about doing another challenge for june, not so sure still. But we'll see! ;)

Since the fruity nail art from before this nail art I am kinda liking french tips on my nails, so I've done a frecnh tip for this challenge as well. The nailpolishes I used for this nail art are: #809 by Hema; 'Minter Wonerland' and 'ApHolo 7' by Catrice and black acrylic paint.

I just love the simplicity of these nails :)

 

Have fun painting and creating

xoxo

Dutchnailss

 

#54 May Nail Art Challenge: Fruity!

Good afternoon ladies! On this rainy day I have some colourful nail art for you! For the first time I've tried out fimo's and I must say; I think I like these tiny tiny things! I hope the fimo fruit will stay on for a decent amount of time but I fear the worst.. If they survive the night, they have to survive me working tomorrow, so fingers crossed ;) 

For this nail art I used #809 from Hema 'High Line Green' by NYC 'Orange-Utan' and 'Bloody Mary To Go' by Catrice

For the tutorial on this fima nail art, you can click right here!

Have fun painting and creating

xoxo

Dutchnailss

#53 May Nail Art Challenge: Sunflowers

Second last challenge for the random nail art may challenge: Sunflowers! and oh my, I love the way these came out! So prepare for a ton of pictures! ;)

For this nail art I only used a nailpolish for the base: 'Planet Tokyo' by Catrice, and the other colours are all acrylic paints.

If you are interested in how I did this nail art, I made a tutorial and uploaded it tonight! For the video you can click right here, and you'll go directly to the video.

And for the pictures, I could NOT choose which pictures I wanted to share with you all. So I ended up with a lot more pictures than normal 

 

Have fun painting and creating

xoxo

Dutchnailss

 

May Nail Art Challenge: Dinosaurs

Another blogpost for you today! Another challenge for the random nail art challenge. 
The challenge for today was Dinosaurs!

I really struggled with this nail art, I had no clue how I could do something with dinosaurs on my nails, I searched WeHeartIt and Instagram for inspiration but didn't find anything of which I though I could use. 

So I kept this one really simple but I still think it came out ok. For this nail art I used only one nailpolish. 'Dirty Liana' by Catrice and the black is acrylic paint.

 

It supposed to be a dinosaur who has eaten all the leaves of the branch on my pinky and after that continued his walk with a full tummy ;)

Hope you like this nail art

xoxo

Dutchnailss 

May Nail Art Challenge: Yin Yang

Greeting lovely nailcrazies! 

Today I don't have a huge blogpost for you. We are closing in on the end of may, and the end of the challenges, but we still have some to go! Today I made a super simple Yin Yang nail art

For this nail art I used a black nailpolish #851 by Hema and 'Nickel Minaj' by Catrice.

Have fun painting and creating

xoxo

Dutchnailss

Pictorial on the 'Lava nails'

Good afternoon loves!

Almost a month ago I was inspired by a amazing artist to make these lava nails! At the time I didn't filmed it for a tutorial. Because I did not know if this would look good, or if it was a total nailfail! But when I applied the topcoat, I wished I did film a tutorial for this nail art.

So I decided to make a pictorial instead! 

 

The only nailpolish I used is the yellow 'Lexington Yellow' by NYC and the black, red and orange are all acrylic paint. 

1. Apply a base coat, let dry and apply two coats of yellow nailpolish

2. I always apply a matt topcoat on my nails before I do any nail art with acrylic paint, I find the paint is easier to apply when the nail is matt.

3. With the black acrylic paint and a small brush make some outlines where you want the lava rocks to be, make the rocks with sharp lines instead of smooth, round lines. 

4. Fill in the black areas

5. Apply some orange acrylic paint at random places around the black rocks, don't be too neat

6. Do the same with red acrylic paint, but don't use the red at all the same places you painted with the orange paint

7. Wait until the paint has dried and apply a topcoat, and you're done :)

I you recreate this design, I would love to see it! You can tag me #LookDutchnailss on Instagram or post the picture on my Facebookpage  

Have fun painting and creating

xoxo

Dutchnailss

May Nail Art Challenge: Triangles & Fashion

What a beautiful day today, I've spent the whole day outside, first painting my nails and after that I did nothing but sitting in the sun. Now I am sitting inside again because clouds are covering the sun.. 

Today I've combined two challenges into one nail art. 'Triangles' form the random nail art challenge and 'Fashion' from the may nail art challenge. I also used the dry brush/distressed technique again for this nail art. I think this technique adds depth in the nail art when you add something ontop off the distressed look.

For the fasion part I made the distressed look, and for the triangles part I made... Circles! :D Bad joke... of course I made triangles ;)

 

For this nail art I used for the base 'Blindfold me blue' by Rimmel London and used 'Breakfast in bed' by Rimmel London and 'Eletrix blue' by Catrice for the dry brush effect. The black triangles are made with acrylic paint. 

Next: Dinosaurs and Yin&Yang!

Have fun painting and creating
xoxo

Dutchnailss 

Nails of a friend!

Today I don't have my own nails to show you, but the nails of my friend! We hadn't seen each other for a while and today we went out for some dinner and after that I did her nails! :) We had lots of time to catch up and we did ;) We had lots of fun!

I used a gelpolish base and topcoat for this manicure to make this nail art last longer, the colours I used are 'My APPricot' by Catrice, 'Do not disturb' and 'Breakfast in bed' by Rimmel London Rita Ora Collection and 'Glamour girls' by Essence

Have fun painting and creating

xoxo

Dutchnailss

 

May Nail Art Challenge: Tattoo

A day late, but here is my 'tattoo' nail art for the Random Nail Art May Challenge!
I didn't want to take my previous nail art off. I like the aztec nails too much ;)

But I didn't want to stop with the challenges. So I eventually removed the aztec nail art for this simple but cute nail art.

The polishes I used for this nail art are 'My APPricot' and 'Kitch me if you can' Both by Catrice. And the black is acrylic paint.

I first applied two coats of the 'My APPricot' and when that was dry I added one coat of the glitter 'Kitch me if you can' And when that coat was dry, i went over it again with the 'My APPricot'. To make the glitter a bit less shimmery.

And I know what you are thinking, this has nothing to do with any tattoo whatsoever. But for me it does
Ever since we had to put our oldest dog to sleep I wanted to have a paw tattoo on my wrist. She was a beautiful and super sweet dog. But I haven't had the courage to go get it done. But I will!  

Next up: Fashion & Triangles!

Have fun painting and creating

xoxo

Dutchnailss  

#52 May Nail Art Challenge: Aztec

Today the challenge was to make a Aztec nail art and I really really(really really really) like to make any aztec or tribal nail art, it looks so nice in my opinion! So I was excited to do this for the may challenge.

For this nail art I used three nailpolishes and black acrylic paint. The polishes are named. 'Take it mint' 'Dirty Liana' and 'Holo in one' all by Catrice.

I also made a tutorial for this nail art, if you want to see how I did this, you can click right here and you'll go directly to the tutorial ;)

Oh, I'm so in love with this nail art especially the print on the middlefinger

 

Have fun painting and creating,

xoxo

Dutchnailss

 

May Nail Art Challenge: Sunset

Another challenge from the May nail art challenge. This time the theme was sunset. We're halfway into the month and I'm still keeping up with both of the challenges! ;)

For this nail at I was inspired by a picture my brother has made. And this is the picture that inspired me:











When I saw the challenge I immediatley knew I wanted to recreate a picture of my brother. So this is what I made on my own nails:

 

I'm kinda sad that the roe almost dissapears in the light that reflects on my nails, and I just could not find a better pose to fix that :(

The polishes I used for this nail art are #809 from Hema and on top of that I sponged 'Bloody Mary to Go' 'Orange-Utan' and 'Birdy Reloaded' all by Catrice.

I always have a hard time cleaning up my cuticles when I use a red for sponging (as you can see my cuticles are still kinda red) I wanted to try out a different technique to clean my cuticles up, but I totally forgot about that plan when I was sponging the colours on! Silly me ;)

I hope you like this nail art, plenty more to come this month! 

Have fun painting and creating

xoxo

Dutchnailss