My 20th Birthday mani!

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

Pictorial on the 'Inspired by a picture'

Some of you asked me how I made this nail art! And since I never done a pictorial before I figured this was a good nail art to start with. 

For this nail art you need a white polish, a matte top coat, black and white acrylic paint and a glossy topcoat. Also I used two different kind of stiping brushes, one longer and one medium size and a small nail art brush

Brushes I used:

 

Have fun painting and creating,

xoxo

Dutchnailss

#38 Thermal flower Nail Art

First of all, you might have noticed when you've watched the tutorial that I changed some things in the video. I'm trying out some things and I hope you don't hate it too much ;)

Today I made a random flower nail art with a thermal polish base. I liked the idea of the thermal polish changing the whole look of the mani with just having warm or cold hands. 

This is how the mani looks like when cold.. 

And a lovely pink when warm :) 

 

And the transition between warm and cold. The mani look different every time! :D 

For the flowers I used a white, yellow and blue acrylic paint. And for the base colour I used the Essence Superheroes 'Fantastic Girl' polish. 

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. 

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

Have fun painting and creating,

xoxo

Dutchnailss

Nail Art Practice sheet

Just a little quick and short blogpost, but I think it will help you a lot, just like it helped me! ;)

If you make nail art regularly, this is a nice tip. I found this through google search and I wanted to share it with you.
It's a nail template with all empty nail shapes. And I find this very usefull for thinking what kind of nail art you want to make. This way you don't just start painting onto your nails just to find out it doesn't look good. 

The Template I found and think is very usefull is the following

 

I printed this out multiple times and just started drawing. It's a fun and easy way to create nail art. 

The link to this image: NailArtPracticeSheet

Have fun painting and creating,

xoxo

Dutchnailss

#37 Double Crackle Nail Art

Again a nail art inspired by someone else. This time I saw a tutorial on these nails on a youtube channel. The channel of ArcadiaNailArt. She makes amazing nail art and when I feel uninspired, her tutorials always give me the best ideas! 

This was the first tutorial I saw on her channel, and I wanted to try it out because I was convinced my crackle polishes couldn´t do this.

But they could! :D

The idea of this nail art is that you use not only one crackle polish, but two. You start of with a normal colour polish. I used Catrice ´ASHley´. A light grey polish. And I used two crackle polishes of Essence. The polishes don´t have a special name, just black and white. 

! This is very important if you want to try this out for yourself !
You need to apply a top coat polish in between the two crackle polishes, if you don't do that, the second crackle polish will just crackle the same way the first one did and you won't be able to see the first crackle polish. 

The polishes I used for this look:

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. 

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  

Have fun painting and creating, 

xoxo

Dutchnailss   

    

Inspired by a picture

Everyday when I wake up I always quickly check my Instagram. Just to see if anyone left a comment on a picture of mine and looking through the pictures people posted when I was sleeping. And just like today I was browesing through pictures of the people I follow. And I saw a picture. I immediately wanted to make this into a nail art manicure!

Some days passed and I finally had the time to make what I wanted. The picture that inspired me is from a lovely account named _JustMarina_ and it was this picture:

So I worked on this a for about a half day to make it the way I wanted it. But I'm SO HAPPY with the end result! I really really really like this nail art! 

So prepare for a lot of pictures! are you ready?! ;) I made pictures with a matt finish and a glossy finish. Personally I like the glossy finish better on this nail art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe I'll make a tutorial on this nail art. But I'm not a 100% sure yet. Anyway if you like this design and try to recreate it and post it to Instagram tag #dutchnailss and I'll see it! :D

Have fun painting and creating,

xoxo

Dutchnailss

Swatches: Fragrance nail polish

My third swatch post! I'm starting to enjoy these blogpost more and more. This time I swatched four fragranced polishes. I never owned or tried a fragranced polish and I always thought that the scent would be weird. 


When these polishes dry they all give off a
different scent. I bought this in a pak of four
different polishes.

The scents from left to right: Coconut, kiwi, strawberry and pineapple

The coconut scent polish is a transparent polish. Perfect to use as a topcoat. The scent actually is very similar to a real coconut. Of all the four polishes, this was the only one I thought the smell was the most similar to the real deal. 

Oh my.. The kiwi scented polish.. This one doesn't smell at all like kiwi! And I really can't  describe how it does smell. I don't like the smell but I do like the color a little. A nice green colour base for a floral nail art or something? ;)

The strawberry polish, this is a very bright pink! The scent of this one reminded me of the bubblegum I always wanted when I was a little girl. It smelled not like the real fruit but like candy. Not a let down though! I really like the scent actually and the colour is beautiful too.

The last polish of the pack: Pineapple scented polish. I never eat pineapple because I don't like the taste of the fruit. So I don't really know how a pineapple smells. BUT if a real pineapple smells like this polish does... I will never never never eat a pineapple! The smell is so nasty and fake. I do NOT like this one. And the colour.. well.. maybe it's nice in summer. But i'm not super
enthusiastic about this polish.

I didn't put a top coat over the polishes, just because I wasn't sure if the top coat would get rid of the scent of the other polish.

After swatching all the polishes I decided that I liked two of the four.(The kiwi and the strawberry) The other ones I really didn't like. One of the two almost made me nauseous. Luckely the scent wasn't too strong ;)



 

  

#36 Valentine's Day Nail art #3

I'm on a roll with Valentine's Day themed nail art manis! Still could do a lot more! ;)

I was so stoked to try this idea out on my nails, but somehow it didn't quite turned out the way I imagined. 

Sadly the weather wasn't really great this day, so the pictures look very odd.. And I don't like the way the colours look on the pictures. 

The polishes I used for this nail art are listed below

For this Valentine's Day themed nail art I made a tutorial, if you are curious on how I made this nail art just click here and you will go straight to the tutorial! ;)

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

Have fun painting and creating, 

xoxo

Dutchnailss 

Chain hearts nail art: Valentine's Day Nail art #2

A mani for Valentine's Day: Chain Hearts! I wanted to finish this nail art with a shiny top coat, but it just didn't looked as good when I used a matt top coat! ;) These nails were inspired by @Creatinails (link to her Instagram go check her out!)

 

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