Christmas manicure

Hello my Sweet Nail-Art Lovers
I wish all of you great holidays and here is y christnas manicure. The idea of the car is "stolen" from some icture from interent, i loved it so much that could not resist to have it on my nails.

LAST OF CHRISTMAS 2010

I had a blast doing Christmas nails but I think I'm pretty much done for the year. I will be attending a nail workshop in January and one in February. I can't wait to see how I can improve my skills. It has been such a great year and I am so thankful for all of the clients that made it so amazing! I can't wait to see what 2011 brings :)

Some winter moode manicures

Hello My Sweet Nail-Art Lovers
Here are some manicres to inspire holidays winter modes. I did those in the last few weeks but nether had a chance to post it, so i hope you ll enjoy my nail art.

Congratulations to the winners

Hello My Sweet Nail-Art lovers!
I am hapy to prononce winners of flowers nail art contest.
The winne rof first prize (readers choice) is entrie number 2 made by super talented and very famoust Thriszha from Fub you nails blog. Congatulations !!!
The winner of the second prize (my choice) is entrie number 6 made by Ramona. She runs ANDAYN NAIL blog where she post tons and tons of mind blowing creative nail designs.
I choose this manicure because i believe it is very well excuted, consisten wiht the contest theme, very well executed and hase a personality. I really like it, so congrats to ramona.
Winners please e-mail me your mailing addresses so i can mail your prizes ASAP.
Great thanks for every contestents and Marry Christmas to everybody :)

Peppermint Swirls

I apologize for the too-bright pictures...my room lighting is just too low tonight. I think you get the idea though - fun red & white peppermint-y swirls! I had a ton of fun doing these, but I was up until 3am because, well, things have to dry, and clean-up, while much easier this time still takes...time. But I ramble.

I started things off with a base of China Glaze base coat topped with two coats of CG "White Out".

 

 You'll notice that my fingers are a little shiny. I was going to use cuticle oil to block the excess polish this time, but in light of our fruit fly problem (which has since been controlled, thank goodness), I decided to use petroleum jelly instead (no scent). For the record, it worked great. 

Then I had the brilliant idea to use glitter polish for swirling. I'll save you the whole sordid story, but just FYI - CG Ruby Pumps and Tinsel do *not* work for water marbling. I started over with Pure Ice "Platinum" and Sinful Colors "Ruby Ruby". Much nicer. 

I should have taken photos of the swirls - I used an orange stick and started in the center, just swirling the colors together. The first one came out a bit too wide:

The rest of my right hand went pretty well though - these fingers were done using red as the first color dropped (first photo above). Are you ready? I told you this was a messy job (ie, really fun!)...

Then I switched it up for my left hand, and dropped the white color first (2nd photo above). I also did the middle three fingers at the same time - worked great!

I look like a sick zebra. LOL After I got done dipping, I put on two coats of Zoya topcoat, and used Qtica half-time drops to dry everything quickly. After it was dry, I used a paper towel to just wipe away the excess polish along with the pet. jelly. The cuticles still needed a little clean-up in the shower this morning, but not much at all.

And voila! Peppermint swirls, all cleaned up.

I've got some Christmas decals for next week, appropriately enough. Until then, happy polishing!

Contest Voting

Hello Dear Ladies
Sorry for the short delay with posting all the contest entries. I got really sick this weekend :( Anyway, than ks to all of you who sent me your flower manicures. They all are very beautiful and creative, and the voting will be open until Midnight Saturday. The entree Nubder 16 came late, and i cant include it in the poll now, so if you want to vote for #16 leave a comment please.
LADIES! VOTING IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BLOG, VOTES IN COMMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED ONLY FOR NUMBER 16, TO VOTE FOR OTHER ENTRIES PLESE USE POLL ON THE RIGHT SIDE BAR. THANKS
So here are the entries for voting.
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Flowers Nail-Art Contest

Hello My Sweet Nail Art Lovers.
Great news!!! Here is you holiday treat from Nail Art World, participate in my Nail Art Contest for a chance to win new super hot “Flame” polish collection by Zoya. International followers are welcome!
First Prize - "Fire and Ice" collection by Zoya (6 polishes) (renamed as "Flame")

Second Prize my 2 of my favorite polishes from summer “Sparkle’ collection - “Charla” and “Mimi”


Here are some Rules:
The theme of this contest is "Flowers Nail Art", since i have been recently painting so many flowers on my nails, I am so curious what would my followers come up with. So, roses and daisies, colorful or monochromatic, romantic or Gothic, painted, stamped, decaled or marbled – everything that you only can imagine is welcomed to participate.
Protocol:
- Must be or become a follower to participate
- Please submit one entry per person to the nailartworldblog@gmail.com include no more than 2 pictures of your manicure. Subject line Flowers Contest, please also include your name and e-mail.
- It is preferable that you do new manicure specially for this contest, come on Ladies, lets have some fun doing the nails :)
- You can submit a second entry, if you post in your blog about this contest, please include the link on the post in the e-mail. However i encourage everybody to spread the news about this contest in your blog or twitter, and i appreciate your help with it.
SCHEDULE:
Contest is open until Saturday - December 11 2010
I will select a second prize winner, and 10 best entries, that will be published here for voting to win a first prize.
Readers will select a first prize winner. Voting will be opened from Monday – December 13 till Thursday- December 16, and the winners will be announced and notified by e-mail no latter then Sunday – December 19.
I hope that this is not too many rules :) Can not wait to see all those beautiful manicures !!!!

CARTOON CHRISTMAS