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Gradient hearts tutorial

Finally!
It was about time to publish this tutorial I promised more than a month ago.
Firstly I'd like to say, that this is not my idea. I saw it on YouTube ( click HERE), and because I really liked I decided to make a tutorial, with slightly different method.
*Because I had some issues with copyright I made a little bit different colour combination than in my previous post*
 
Here is the look I made:
 
Things you'll need:
-sponge
-scissors
-tape
-1 light nail polish and 3 for the gradient
-pen
-a bit of patience!
 
Now, let's get this nail party started!!!
 
Start off with light colour base!
 
I decided for Orly Pure Porcelain:
 
 
Prepare your protective/duct tape!
 
 Follow steps from 1-4
 
Step 1: Fold one end of tape, to get one none sticky end. It will come in handy when you'll try to "open the heart"
 
Step 2. Stick tape on your hand. Tape will lose a bit of stickiness, this lowers the possibility of ending up with glue residues on your nail, and prevents damaging base colour.
 
Step 3: Fold tape in half and draw half of heart on it. Cut it out!
 
Step 4: Unfold and paste tape on your nail. Try to put it in the middle. I think I've never succeeded =).
 
 
Prepare for the gradient!
 
I used China Glaze Ahoy, Revlon scented Mad about Mango and BarryM Peach Melba
Follow steps from 5-7
 
Apply gradient on your nails!
 
I did 2 coats of sponging, here is a picture after fist sponging:
 
Remove tape when sponging is still wet!
 
 
I was in a hurry when I made this tutorial, and because I haven't waited long enough my colour base is damaged because base was still a bit wet. Thank God for top coats!
 
Apply top coat!
 
 
 
As you can see, it didn't end up perfectly. Hearts are everywhere but in the middle, and my ring finger heart is completely crocked! I still like this gradient heart look despite that. Will you try it?
 
 
 
 
 
 

My big haul

As promised I'm going to show you what I bought this week

My first purchase was on Slovenian store ličila.si. They had the last summer action and I got quite a lot of items for free, but about the price I'll tell you later. Here is what I bought:

Sleek: Oh so spacial palette

I've had Sleek Oh so special palette on my WL for more than a year, and since Storm is probably the only MU product I use, I decided to buy this one for me too =). I'm not used to taking pictures of eye shadows so they lack in quality a bit.
Price: 11,95€
 Here is a picture without names, I already used some before photographing, because I'm just too curious sometimes =). 

What do you think about the colours?

BeautyUK west end girl

This set looked like a great set for fall and I think I was right. The shades are really fall like. Because I already have one set from BUK at home I knew that they are really good and shiny. 
Price: 9,95€

from L to R:
BarryM retro: Lady in Red (4,45€), BarryM: Peach Melba (4,45€), BarryM foil: Lilac Limited Edition(6,25€) and BYS: Pink Maniucre( 3,55€)

And the last item!
Beauty UK midnight mix.
I got this one as a gift
I was doing some math in the end of my purchase and I realised that I spend 1,9€ per a polish which is almost as cheap as Essence.

Was it a good bargain?


My second purchase was from Slovenian web store ZaPikoNaI.
Here is what I got:

From L to R:
China glaze: No Plain Jane(8€), China Glaze: Deviantly Daring(8€), Konad Specila polish in pastel pink ( 7,30€), OPI: Dutch Ya Just Love OPI (11€), Orly: Pure Porcelain (5€)

Quite pricey right? But that's just because of the shipping and taxes. I really hate this, but I can't do nothing about it. 

I'd like to say a few words about this store. This week I needed a little help with a purchase, because I wanted to gift my friend something special but I don't know nothing about MU, and I sent them a mail asking for help. They were really friendly! They asked their MU artist Petra for advice and she was so kind she sent me a mail with her perfect choices. I'm really grateful for that.

Petra is a great MU-artist that has quite a lot quality videos on YT, they are in Slovenian language, but I think that language isn't a limit when it comes to MU =)
Here is one of her latest MUs:

What do you think about my purchase?
Have you ever had such a lovely experience with a seller?
Which polish would you like to see on my nails first?

Three challenge part 2: ultra modern




I was supposed to publish this yesterday, but I've had a really busy day yesterday and I really didn't manage to prepare any posts, so I postponed them for today.
For this part of challenge I had to prepare something ultra modern. I really struggled with that one, and I must say that I'm really not pleased with what I came up, but I must admit, it is not a complete fail as well. 


I decided to go with this combination because:
  • I really think that this bundle monster design reminds me of something really modern
  • because I've never combined purple and green in my life, and since people really wear this combo it probably is modern ( or it's maybe modern only to me)

natural light

artificial daylight

Items I used:
Orly: Pure Porcelain
Bundle Monster 203 with Bichun(purple) and CG Jolly Holly

Stamping on this manicure is really crappy, but what the hell! This was my only idea and I really didn't have any spear time to correct it. 

What do you thing about my representation of ultra modern? Am I "altmodisch"( old-fashioned) ?

P.S. I'm really sorry for the horrible state of my cuticles. I'm really working on them( I was a bit to nervous on Tuesday) 


Here is the list of other girls that joined this wonderful challenge:


Mateji ustvarjata
Purple Glitters
Mimi's Vanity Box
Nailing Nail Art
all stars could be brighter
moonchild
 Taya
Beauty by Shortylegs
Deja Zu
Imagination In Colour
Cosas de Krystalmer
Nail Crazy
The Nail Buff
Beauty by Suzi
baroque fool
Hysteria Of Decay
aydii*- Girl with pink lipstick
Nail by Tinks
Mostly nail polish
cats-n-nails
Beautiful living
Manicura de fantasia

This is a bonus picture showing one of the reasons why I wasn't able to prepare a post



My best friend finished her diploma yesterday with 10, so we celebrated with cocktails. They were really delicious!!! 

Calypso Breeze is back!

Hi!

As promised I have to show you pictures of another manicure I did with Calypso Breeze.

Here it is:



I still don't know if I like Calypso Breeze, but because Orly Bottles are big, I think I'll have a lot of times to decide.

For stamping I used one of the BM plates( I'm too lazy to look the nuber up) and a mixture of Essence B&W LE White hype and Sally Hansen Blue it.


Do you like the final result?

I love dots! Do I ?

Hi!

This is another pre prepared post, because I'm in the capital, and I don't carry my lap top with me there so I have no other connection to internet but the library, but I think people will look at me like I'm a freak if I'd be writing a post about nail polish there, especially because it is a library for science geeks( chemistry, pharmacy, mathematics, physics, medicine, engineering,...). 

Today I have a picture of a manicure that I cannot decide if I like or not. Firstly is the base color( Orly Calypso Breeze), I'm really not sure whether I like this color or not. When I bought it, I liked it a lot, and than I was looking at it at home and I was thinking what the hell was I thinking to buy this one. It was the same when I had it on the nails, but the opposite, firstly I hated it, but than I liked it, and when I started to like the color, I made dots on the base and then I suddenly hated it again, and this story goes on and on... In the end I decided that I'm going to remove it, but when I looked at the pictures I said to myself that it wasn't so bad at all, so I decided that it needs a second chance, but this is a story for another post =).

All a have to do is to show you the pictures, and I hope you'll be able to decide if you like it or not, because I'm still undecided =)

I used Sally Hansen Extreme Wear: Blue it for and a tooth pick for dots =)

Of course I had to show you earrings that I made especially for myself =)

I just realised that I forgot to take a shade picture, because it is way darker in shade. 
Tomorrow I'm going to show you Calypso Breeze with konad =)

Click, look and love

Hi,

today I'm going to show you pictures first:




Are you in love? I'm definitely in love in this color combination. 
You are probably wondering why I named my post like that. I named it like that because you have click on the link that the post opens, than you look at the pictures, because I placed pictures at the beginning, and than you just love the combination. Yeah, I have a crazy day again =). 

I should probably tell you what I used for this manicure. I layered 1 coat of Orly Fantasea over 1 coat of Catrice Purposely Purple, and added a coat of my new TC. 
And you know what is the best part, that all pictures are realistic, because it changes when you look at your nails from different angles. My favourite look is on the 3rd picture. Which picture is your favourite?

I have an exam tomorrow, but I already know that I'm not going to pass because I didn't learn enough, so all I did today was looking through different blogs and look for some swatches of new essence products for March. I dicovered some pretty polishes so I just can't wait for them to be available in shops.

I changed my manicure today, and it was a really Valentine's day manicure horror. Can't wait to show it to you, but you'll have to wait for it until tomorrow. 

Ohh, did I already told you how much I like this combination? Neh, I probably didn't. So I'll tell it again. I LOOOOOOVE IT =). 
I promise I'll stop now. Have a nice day, and thank you for reading this =)
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