August Nail Art Challenge : Ikat!

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

Swatches: Catrice Limited Edition - 'Crème Fresh'

Planned to swatch this set for a while now, and finally got the time to do it!

This limited edition consist of five light colored polishes, I bought four of the five. 

And since the weather in The Netherlands finally is getting a tad bit better these four colours are perfect to use for nail art or just to use by itself. Even on the greyer days these bright colours are guaranteed to get you in a good mood! 

Four creamy polishes, three light pastel-like colours and one bright dark pink colour. The dark pink doesn't really fit in I think. But it's still a beautiful colour!

Three coats of 'Make fast at Tiffany's'

Two coats of 'Evergreen 60s'

Two coats of 'Another Pink Panther'

And two coats of 'Light your fire'

Have fun painting and creating,

xoxo

Dutchnailss

#41 Water Marble March #2 ~ Two Colour ZigZag~

Second water marble tutorial for the Water Marble March month! Just a little blogpost with some pictures of the end result.

The colours used for this water marble are both from Catrice. The blue colour is called 'Denim Moore' and the orange-ish colour is called 'Love, Peach&Harmony' 

 If you want to see the tutorial for this look, you can click right here! Enjoy!

I challenge you to join me in the Water Marble March 'challenge'. It's not really a challenge but I don't know how to call it otherwise ;)

If you make a water marble nail art this month I want to see it!:D Tag #dutchnailss on Instagram, or post it on my facebook page. I'm really curious about your creations! 

Have fun painting and creating,

xoxo

Dutchnailss

#40 Water Marble March #1 ~ Two Colour Flowers ~

The first Water marble nail art for water marble march! It has been a while since I did a water marble nail art so I had to redo some of the nails because I didn't liked the outcome to much.. Maybe water marble isn't the best thing for a über perfectionist like myself ;) But I like water marbleing to much! 

I challenge you to join me in the Water Marble March 'challenge'. It's not really a challenge but I don't know how to call it otherwise ;)

If you make a water marble nail art this month I want to see it! Tag #dutchnailss on Instagram, or post it on my facebook page. I'm really curious about your creations! 

Have fun painting and creating,

xoxo

Dutchnailss

#39 Water Marble March - Prepping!

Before I start the water marble tutorials, I thought it would be smart to start at the beginning ;) The prep! 

I made a quick and short video on how I prepare my nails before I start with water marble. The things I use are:

1. basecoat, 
2. white polish,
3. tape. 

You don't have to use tape, you can also grease your fingers with vaseline to help with the clean up. How ever I prefer using tape. It dries out my fingers a little bit but thats using a little bit of handcream and the dryness is gone ;) 

Again you don't have to use a white polish as a base colour, you can also use the lightest colour of the colours you are going to water marble with. For instance: if you use two colours; a bright yellow and a green polish. You can use the bright yellow polish as a base colour.

The link to the tutorial (click here)


   

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

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

When I don't feel like doing my own nails...

...I just continue on some nail art tips! ;) Some things I want to try out on tips before I paint it on my own nails. Just to practice or just to see if the idea I have looks nice or not.

And this kind of flowers I wanted to create a long time. So I've been fiddling around with these flowers today and ended up with these two I really like!

Chances are that you'll see a nail art on my own nails with these kind of flowers very soon! ;)

 
 

#35 White hearts nail art: Valentine's Day Nail art #1

First of all, you might notice my nails are longer and all the same lenght. After a long time of thinking about doing gel/acrylic nails on my own nails I finally decided to apply tips on my nails. And maybe I will add gel/acrylic on top of it :) 

But for now, I made a nail art for valentines day. 

For this nail art I used the following polishes

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.

Basic zebra nail art

Somedays I don't feel like doing any nail art on my nails, but I almost always end up doing some doodles or something like that. Just like today, I was removing my previous nail art and after that I applied a hardening base coat. Like I always do even when I don't plan on painting my nails. 

But for some reason, I decided to paint my nails all white. I find that just plain white nails look beautiful, fresh and clean. But I thought they missed something. So I grabbed my black acrylic paint and started drawing zebra stripes on the white base. 

And now I do have something on my nails, even when I didn't planned that at all! ;) And I really like the original zebra stripes, they look like I used nail stickers or something like that not like i've painted them on my nails myself ;)

Sadly it wasn't a really nice day today. Grey and a sky full of clouds. So I'm not very happy with the pictures, but I have no other choice.. ;) 

Have fun painting and creating, 

xoxo

Dutchnailss

#34 Diamonds are a girls best friend

I saw a nail art with a diamond a few weeks ago. And ever since that moment I wanted to create my own nail art with a diamond shape in it.

Not long after I saw the picture I was organizing my polishes: I bought a new small cabinet for my polishes that didn't fit on my 'special' polish shelf. And found a perfect combo of polishes. A gold glitter, a gold-ish magnetic polish and a green polish. I immediately thought of the diamond nail art. These colors would be perfect for this nail art! So when I had the time I tried it out. This was the first time I made a diamond like this. I'm not a 100% happy about the result but they still look cool ;)

 

The polishes I used for this nail art are listed below:

 

And I could not finish this blogpost without sharing the person who inspired me to do this nail art: The amazing talented Wannaknowasecret on IG. She makes amazing nail art and has beautiful nails! If you didn't knew her already, make sure you go check her out! ;)

If you are curious on how I made this nail art. Do not fear! I made a tutorial for this nail art! 
Just click this link and you will go directly to the tutorial! 

Have fun painting and creating,

xoxo

Dutchnailss

Swatches: Catrice Limited Edition - 'Celtica'

I did it again, I was shopping with my mom and walked past the shelf with the Catrice products. And the I saw that Catrice has a new limited edition collection: 'Celtica'

Four beautiful soft colors. Three of the four have a little sparke in the polish. With makes the colors very nice and beautiful.

I had to buy them (of course!) and in the right corner of the shelving I saw some little boxes. I wasn't sure if this was something for make-up or for nail art. So I picked it up and opened the little box. In it was a small container with 3d flakes. They looked amazing! I shoved the container back in the box and bought that too ;)

Back home I immediately wanted to swatch these b-e-a-u-ties! But I coudn't! So today, when I was back home from work I immediately started painting my nails and making pictures of them. So here they are!

A purple color, named 'Paralilac'. With some really small silver glitter flakes. Sadly those glitters don't show on the pictures I took of this polish. I really like this color, even though purple nailpolish always make my hands look even more pale and cold. This color doesn't do that so much. And the color is just classy and neat.

The second color, named 'Love, Peach&Harmony'. A salmon colored polish. Again with some glitter flakes in the polish. But gold glitters this time. I find this a beautiful polish for spring. Or for a cloudy day that needs some happiness ;)

A light purple/lilac color, named 'LOVEnder' With silver glitters. I also think this color makes my hands look pale. But either way, this is a beautiful soft color. I like it!  

 

Last color, named 'Pinkadoxa'. And I must say. I never thougt I would wear a bright pink polish on my nails. I'm not a big fan of the color pink, never been. But this color.. wow.. just.. AMAZING. I'm converted! I'm definitely going to wear more pink colors on my nails! :D 

I couldn't finish this post without showing you the beautiful nail flakes that are also of this limited collection. The Celtic nail flakes:

 

Look at those flakes! A pearl shine and all different shapes and sizes. I couldn't resist any longer and tried them out on my nails.

Just look at this! the pictures don't do the flakes justice, but trust me. They look stunning! I'm so happy I saw them at the last moment and decided to buy them! 

Have fun painting and creating,

xoxo

Dutchnailss