Red & Black Distressed Nails Mad Max inspired ft Sally Hansen & Zoya

I went to see the new Mad Max movie and I created a red and black distressed nail design to match my Mad Max inspired Road Warrior makeup look and you can see the tutorial for that here.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Sigma brushes & makeup I use click here!

If you love the smooth matte shadows I used for this makeup check out Sugarpill's site here.

For the spikes I used in the makeup, check out the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!

Products Used

Essie Grow Stronger Base coat

Zoya America

Sally Hansen Black Out

Crown Brush IB129 Taklon Liner Brush

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Glowing Daisies Nail Tutorial ft Born Pretty Store

Ok, so it's quite obvious if you've ever seen my fingers that I really like bright ridiculously obnoxious glow in the dark colours. So I whipped them out again to create this in your face french tip manicure with daisies using dotting tools and some crystals in the centre.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

I got most of this stuff from Born Pretty Store. I love their polishes and embellishments and suggest you check them out here! And to save on pretty things for your fingers, I have a code for 10% off at Born Pretty, so just click here and type in "MIHW10" at checkout on any order!

Here's what the nails looked like before the french tip. 

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy Strengthening Base coat

Essie Grow Stronger

First Layer Nail

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #09

French Tip
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #02

Accent Nails

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #02

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #04 (For Leaves)

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #09 (For Daisies)

Embellishments

Bornpretty Colorful Crystal Rhinestones SS10 from the Born Pretty Store

Top coat

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

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My Nail Polish Collection in 2 Parts

Here's my Nail Polish collection in a two part video to break it up and make it easier on the eyes. I'll go through all my polishes ranging from drug store to indie brands and some nicer stuff in there as well and also show swatches of almost all the polishes too.

Enjoy!

I recently moved and had to reorganise my polish collection and so I'm going from all this laid out on the table....

...to this all neatly in a drawer!

Nail Polish Collection Videos

Part 1

Part 2

List of polishes

Part 1

The Basics

OPI Nail Envy in Original

Essie Grow Stronger

Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

BK Super Matte Surface Oil

Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter A-Peel

Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food topcoat

Creams

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Black Out

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear White On x 2

Nails INC Gloss Lacquer Chloe

Revlon ColorStay Longwear Nail Enamel 060 Café Pink

Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Anime

Color Club Jackie OH!

Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Radiate

Zoya America

Zoya Sooki

Zoya Carmen

Glow in the Dark Polishes from Born Pretty Store

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #04 

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #16

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #02

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #13

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #11

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #09  

Purple Shimmers

Zoya Harmonie

Wet n' Wild Fastdry Buffy the Violet Slayer

Nail Pattern Boldness Tyrion Purple

Revlon Scented Nail Enamel Grape Fizz

OPI Grape...Set...Match

Glitter Gal Brilliant Wild Violets

Glitter Gal Holographic Crushed Ego

Glitter Gal Holographic Dark Purple

Thermals

F.U.N Lacquer Purfect for me 2014 Love Collection

F.U.N Lacquer Secret Admirer 2014 Love Collection

F.U.N Lacquer Icy Snow 2013 Christmas Collection

Crackle/Shatter Polishes 

OPI Red Shatter

OPI Silver Shatter

Pinks

F.U.N Lacquer Aurora 2013 Princess Collection

Glitter Gal Holographic Fucshia

Color Club Wink, Wink, Twinkle

Zoya Charisma

Color Club Ultra Violet

Orly La Vida Loca

Zoya Lola x 2

OPI La Paz-itively Hot (Matte)

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Hot Magenta

Shimmery Reds

Nail Pattern Boldness Inner Beauty is for Amateurs

Zoya Carrie Ann

Glitter Gal Type O

Zoya Kimmy

Glitter Gal Brilliant Fiery Furness

Glitter Gal Red 3D Holo

Part 2

Holographic Polishes 

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Celeb City

GOSH 549 Holographic

F.U.N Lacquer Diamond Holo Top Coat

F.U.N Lacquer Glow Diamond Top Coat 

Chanel Le Vernis Nail Colour 531 Peridot

F.U.N Lacquer Belle 2013 Princess Collection

Glitter Top Coats & Pearl Polishes 

OM She Nail Colour Illusion

Nail Pattern Boldness Alpha Nail

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Disco Ball

Finger Paints Flaky Motley

Finger Paints Flaky Asylum

OPI Goldeneye

F.U.N Lacquer Gold Mark 2013 Christmas Collection

F.U.N Lacquer Winter Wonderland 2013 Christmas Collection

China Glaze Techno

OPI Servin' Up Sparkle

OPI Crown Me Already!

OPI Rainbow Connection

Nichole by OPI Confetti Fun

Pink & Red Glitter Top Coats

Different Dimension Social Suicide

Painted Polish Twisted Melon

Painted Polish Rainbow Chip

OPI Teenage Dream 

OPI I Lilly Love You

Different Dimension A Love Hue

Nail Pattern Boldness Madam Rose

OPI Gettin' Miss Piggy With It

Dark Glitters

Delush Polish Born in Blood Dexter Collection

Delush Polish Time to Kill Dexter Collection

OPI Divine Swine

Revlon Nail Enamel 761 Scandalous

OPI Merry Midnight

Delush Polish Tonight's the Night Dexter Collection

Delush Polish Angel of Death Dexter Collection

GRWM Birthday Barbie French Tip Nails ft OCC & Sally Hansen

Here's the last part of my GRWM Birthday edition with the nail tutorial for the pink and white french tip nails to match the makeup tutorial and outfit which is here.

I really love the OCC Anime nail polish but it freaks my camera out, something rotten and looks a lot more hot pink than it is in real life. the photos below don't show the colour as it really is but the nails still look cool anyway.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy

Essie Grow stronger

First layer

OCC Nail Lacquer in Anime (2 coat)

French Tip

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

Butterfly Babies in Silver from dollarnailart.com along French tip separation line

Top coat

Seche Vite dry fast top coat


Coupons & Codes for nail stuff

I have an offer from ScraPerfect for US & Australian customers below. Limit 1 coupon per person. ScraPerfect Coupon Codes Expire October 31, 2014.

US customer receive $5 off (Minimum order $35):
Use the code: MichtyMaxx_Rocks_America

Australian customer receive $10 off. (Minimum order $35)

Use the code: MichtyMaxx_Rocks_AU

Get Embellie Gellie and more ScarPerfect essentials here.

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

Fine French Crystal Nails ft Born Pretty, Nail Pattern Boldness & ScraPerfect

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!

I used Born Pretty Store Crystal Rhinestones with ScraPerfect Embellie Gellie to quickly and easily add the embellishments and I have coupon codes below for both stores.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

I have an offer from ScraPerfect for US & Australian customers below. Limit 1 coupon per person. ScraPerfect Coupon Codes Expire October 31, 2014.

US customer receive $5 off (Minimum order $35):
Use the code: MichtyMaxx_Rocks_America

Australian customer receive $10 off. (Minimum order $35)

Use the code: MichtyMaxx_Rocks_AU

Get Embellie Gellie and more ScarPerfect essentials here.

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

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy

Essie Grow stronger

First layer

OM SHE Nail Colour Illusion (1 coat)

Nail Pattern Boldness Alpha Nail (2 coats)

French Tip

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

Nail Pattern Boldness Alpha Nail (2 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

Adhesive
GlamNails Nail Glue 

Tools
ScraPerfect Embellie Gellie

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Hovering Holo Leopard Print Nails ft FUN Lacquer & Sally Hansen

I've always loved the way leopard print nail designs look on top of a glitter top coat and I finally gave it a try.

I got out my fun Lacquer Winter Wonderland and thoroughly coated my nails over Sally Hansen's Celeb City to provide a glitter base for the black acrylic paint leopard design using a simple dotting tool. 

For the accent nails I switched out the colours and used Zoya Lola & Winter Wonderland for the spots and on the ring finger and Sally Hansen Black Out with the silver acrylic paint for the details there.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial


Video Demo

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy Base Coat

Essie Grow Stronger Base Coat

First layer

Sally Hansen Xtreme Nails Celeb City (2 coats)

Glitter layer

F.U.N Lacquer Winter Wonderland

Leopard Details

Black Acrylic paint

Accent nail (ring finger)

Zoya Lola (2 coats)

F.U.N Lacquer Winter Wonderland for dots

Accent nail (thumb)

Sally Hansen Xtreme Nails Black Out (2 coats)

Silver Acrylic paint

Tools

Dotting Tool

Top coat

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

Pink Punk Americana Nails! GRWM Nail Art Tutorial ft F.U.N Lacquer

I was going to the Kid Rock & Bon Jovi gig that night and needed a manicure to go with my pink punk skirt that I just bought from Dolls Kill. So I found some polishes that went with the tartan fabric, including the hot pink Sally Hansen Magenta, F.U.N Lacquer Aurora and to lighten up that pink, I added some of the Glow Diamond from F.U.N Lacquer too.

I also added some stars and studs from Dollar Nail Art to embellish the nails adding an americana flair and edge. And the Embellie Gellie applicator/manipulator is from scraperfect.com which is very useful if you like to apply rhinestones and stuff like that to your nails.

Also, I do speed tutorials on my Instagram page, so you can get a preview, extra makeup looks & every day shenanigans or find out when my videos or blog posts come out. I'm Michty Maxx on Instagram or you can click here and follow me there.

And if you like what you see, feel free to visit my YouTube Channel, slap & tickle the like/subscribe button, and leave a comment. It would make me smii-iile! ;-D

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy Nail Strengthener

Essie Grow Stronger

First layer

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Magenta (2 coats)

Accent nail (Ring Finger)

F.U.N Lacquer Aurora (1 coat)

Second Layer

F.U.N Lacquer Glow Diamond (1 coat) 

Top coat

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

Embellishments
3mm Black Square Studs from Dollar Nail Art
Flat Black Stars from Dollar Nail Art

Embellie Gellie & Stick from Scraperfect

Glowing Acid Wash Nails

I thought I'd have a go at an acid wash design adding some funk with neon polishes and totally rad glow in the dark awesomeness! I saw this cool effect in a MissJenFABULOUS Tutorial and loved the 80s style of the manicure.

I used the awesome Born Pretty Store Candy Colors Luminous polish layered over Color club Jackie Oh! to get a juicy coral/hot pink shade and Sally Hansen White On for the white layer. And I switched it up for a reverse accent nail for extra fun! My boyfriend says they look like candy and now I want to eat them! xp
 

I totally recommend the Born Pretty Store glowing polishes so check them out here! And I have a code for 10% off at Born Pretty so just type in "MIHW10" at checkout on any order!

Also, check out my video tutorial of the Glow in the Dark Acid Wash Nails in action below!
I will never get sick of Glow in the Dark nails!!!

If you like what you see, feel free to visit my YouTube Channel, slap the like or subscribe button, and leave a comment.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Tutorial

1. Apply Base coat and growth stimulater to protect your nails and keep them healthy.
2. Apply 2 coats of a coral pink polish over all your nails except the ring accent nail.
3. Apply 3 coats of a hot pink glow in the dark polish over all your nails except the accent nail.
4. Apply 2 coats of white polish to the ring accent nail.
5. Let the polish dry for about 10 minutes.
6. Apply 1 coat each of the coral pink & the hot pink glow in the dark polish to the accent nail.
7. Apply 1 coat of white polish over all your nails except the accent nail.
8. Let the polish dry for 10 minutes then dunk your tips in ice water to speed up the drying process.
9. After the polish is no longer tacky, use a cotton bud saturated in polish remover to rub off some of the top layer of polish to reveal the colour underneath.
10. Apply a fast drying top coat to all nails.
11. Done!

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy
Essie Grow Stronger

First layer

Color Club Jackie Oh! (2 coats)

Candy Colors Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow In Dark Varnish #13 (3 coats)

Second Layer

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

Accent nail

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On (2 coats)

Color Club Jackie Oh! (1 coat)

Candy Colors Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow In Dark Varnish #13 (1 coat)

Top coat

Seche Vite dry Fast Top Coat

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Spook me in the Dark Nails!

A Glow in the Dark Spider web Manicure perfect for Halloween!

Here is a scheme that captures Halloween on the nails. Not only is it a fun and cute cartoon spider design that will look great at your Halloween party, but it will also rock when the lights go out!

This is my first try at doing spider web nails and although it's not perfect I think it turned out pretty cute. And the best tip I could give is use a striping brush or very thin nail art brush for best results. I used a detail brush and it was hard to get the spider web lines fine enough, but it worked well for the spiders themselves.

I got my glow in the dark polishes from Born Pretty Store and you can check them out here! And for an extra special something for you, use the code "MIHW10" at checkout for 10% off your whole order if you purchase anything from Born Pretty!

Enjoy!

Tutorial

1. Apply Base coat and or growth strengthener to protect your nails and keep them healthy.
2. Apply 2 coats of white polish over all your nails.
3. Apply a horizontal striped gradient of orange, yellow and green Glow in the Dark Neon polish over nails (except accent nails) using the sponge method.
4. Build up coats using the sponge until desired opacity is reached.
5. Apply Green Glow in the Dark Neon polish to thumb.
6. Apply Yellow Glow in the Dark Neon polish to ring finger.
7. Use a Nail Art brush to paint the spider web with Black Acrylic Paint on nails.
8. Use a Nail Art brush to create the cartoon Spiders with Black Acrylic Paint on accent nails. 
9. Use a dotting tool with a white polish and make the large cute eyes of the Spiders.
10. Use a dotting tool with Glow in the Dark Neon polish to colour Spider's eyes.
11. Apply 1 coat each of the Flaky Topcoat polishes to all nails.
12. Apply a fast drying top coat to all nails.
13. Done!

Products Used

Base coat
OPI Nail Envy
Essie Grow Stronger

First layer (White Base for all nails)
Sally Hansen Xtreme Hard as Nails White On

Second layer (Gradient)
Candy Colors Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow In Dark Varnish 7ML Orange #16
Candy Colors Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow In Dark Varnish 7ML Yellow #2
Candy Colors Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow In Dark Varnish 7ML Green #4

Accent nail (ring finger)
Candy Colors Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow In Dark Varnish 7ML Yellow #2 (2 coats)

Accent nail (thumb)
Candy Colors Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow In Dark Varnish 7ML Green #4 (2 coats)

Spider design
Black Acrylic Paint - for spider web and Spiders
Sally Hansen Xtreme Hard as Nails White On - for Eyes
Candy Colors Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow In Dark Varnish 7ML Pink #13 - for Eyes
Candy Colors Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow In Dark Varnish 7ML Orange #16 - for Eyes

Third Layer
Finger Paints Special Effects Flaky Polish Asylum (1 coat)
Finger Paints Special Effects Flaky Polish Motley (1 coat)

Top coat
Seche Vite dry fast top coat


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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

Disclaimer: Affiliate links are contained in this post.