Fine French Crystal Nails

A Sparkly twist on a Classic French Manicure!

If you are bored of your standard french tip manicure and want something to jazz it up a bit, then try using these colourful crystals to add some pizazz and pep!

Get all the embellishments and decorations I used here from the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!

Enjoy!

Tutorial

1. Apply Base coat and growth stimulater to protect your nails and keep them healthy.
2. Apply 3 coats of pink iridescent polish over all your nails.
3. Apply 1 coat of white polish freehand along the tip of the nail in a french tip shape. (Don't worry about being perfectly neat.)
4. Apply 1 coat of pink holographic glitter tips of nails and all over ring accent nail.
5. Apply 1 coat of fine holographic glitter tips of nails and all over ring accent nail.
6. Apply a fast drying top coat to ring accent nail and add 2mm crystals from Born Pretty Store all over nail.
7. Apply a fast drying top coat to all nails and add 2mm crystals from Born Pretty Store along French tip separation line.
8. Done!

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy

Zoya Anchor base coat

First layer

OM SHE Nail Colour Illusion (3 coats)

Second layer (French Tip)

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On (1 coat)

OPI Teenage dream (1 coat)

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear Disco ball (1 coat)

Bornpretty Colorful Crystal 2mm Rhinestones SS10 from the Born Pretty Store along French tip separation line

Accent nail (Ring finger)

OM SHE Nail Colour Illusion (3 coats)

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear Disco ball (1 coat)

OPI Teenage dream (1 coat)

Bornpretty Colorful Crystal Rhinestones SS10 from the Born Pretty Store all over nail

Top coat

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

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Night Lights posted on Polishpedia!

I have another manicure to share with you that I created and was published on Polishpedia!

I wanted something simple and fun this weekend with glitter and sparkle, so I grabbed a royal purple polish, Buffy the Violet Slayer from Wet n' Wild, and layered it under a fabulous silver holographic hex glitter from China Glaze called Techno. Man, I've used a lot of this stuff and it's gorgeous, but takes a bit of patience to dab on the glitter instead of whip it on like a normal polish. However, it's totally worth it for the galaxyeque feel to this manicure and the silver next to the purple really makes it stand out.

Click the picture below for the full post on Polishpedia with more photos, product details and macro shots!

Click here for my other posts on Polishpedia.

I will say that Buffy the Violet Slayer drys really dark and turns into more of a blue than a purple after top coat. It could be the Seche Vite or it could be just the formula of this particular Wet n' Wild polish. I was disappointed cause the colour in the bottle and when it first goes on the nail is really pretty. It's really hard to find a purple nail polish that doesn't have too much red in it and is more cool toned but without going totally blue. But I have the same problem with eyeshdaows and lipsticks too. I guess I'm just very particular about my purple shades and am will always be on the never ending search for the perfect purple shades.

Fuchsia Glitter Splatter Nails on Polishpedia!

I have another manicure to share with you that I created and was published on Polishpedia!

This simple layered manicure was inspired by the Different Dimension glitter toppers that I got from Missi Barry’s Indie Nail Polish Etsy store which you can find here.

Click the picture below for the full post on Polishpedia!

Click here for my other posts on Polishpedia.

Golden Royalty Lip Text Tutorial

If you are interested in my Lip art that NYX Cosmetics and KarlaPowellMUA featured on Instagram, click to the link below or the picture and you can see the step by step instructions on Polishpedia.


http://polishpedia.com/lip-art-golden-royalty.html


I used Sugarpill Cosmetics Goldilux (a metallic gold pigment) and Eye Kandy Cosmetics Sour Grape (a fine bright purple glitter) and MUFE Aqua liner 08 (a purple metallic eyeliner).

The fabulous metallic gold eyeshadow I used on my lips from Sugarpill can be bought here, along with many other phenomenal bright and colourful eye shadows!

And the glitter can be bought at the Eye Kandy website here.


For this look I've only got a text tutorial, however in the future I will be making a video for YouTube and probably a pictorial too.

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Luminous Marshmallow Wedding Nails

Here's another of my posts on Polishpedia for my nail art addiction section of their blog.

This fanciful manicure with simple elegance and boisterous bling is called Luminous Marshmallow Wedding Nails. I made a custom polish out of Sugarpill Lumi and Eye Kandy Marshmallow sprinkles to go over Sally Hansen White on to make glitzy, holographic nails that complement the mega awesome Swarovski crystals.

The delicious sparkly Swarovski Crystals I used are from Born Pretty Store and if you want that much bling in your life click here and use the discount code MIHW10 at checkout for 10% off your whole order.

Click the picture below for the full post on Polishpedia!

Click here for my other posts on Polishpedia.



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Golden Royalty on Polishpedia

My latest post for Polishpedia as a guest artists is some funky lip art! I love to do designs on the lips and I'd definitely have to say it's my favourite canvass.

I titled the design Golden Royalty because the colours really had a regal feel for me. I love the way these complementary shades jump out at you and Sugarpill's Goldilux just goes amazingly well with the purples of Makeup Forever Aqua liner 08 and Eye Kandy Sour Grape sprinkles.

The fabulous metallic gold eyeshadow I used on my lips from Sugarpill can be bought here, along with many other phenomenal bright and colourful eye shadows!

Click the picture below to go to the full post on Polishpedia!

I have many more lip art designs for your viewing pleasure if you care to click here.


And click here for my other posts on Polishpedia.



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Midnight Sky Nails on Polishpedia

My latest manicure on Polishpedia as one of their guest nail artists to publish posts in the "the nail art for polish addicts" section of the blog. 

The design is called Midnight Sky Nails which I wore to the Black Sabbath gig and match with my gig makeup.

Click the picture below to go to the full post on Polishpedia!

Click here for my other posts on Polishpedia.


You can find the original Makeup and OOTD here.

Teaming up with Polishpedia!

I've been teaming up with polishpedia as one of their new nail artists to publish posts on "the nail art for polish addicts" blog. Here is the first publish article by yours truly and I hope to have many more.