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