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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Gold & Black Pin Stripe Roses ft Born Pretty Store & F.U.N Lacquer

I have a tutorial to show you featuring these pin stripe gold and black nails with accents of these Born Pretty Roses. These nails work in any colour scheme and as simple or with as much 3-D embellishment as you like.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Get Born Pretty Store products here http://bit.ly/ihBHUJ
-Use the discount coupon code "MIHW10" at checkout for 10% off any order.

Products Used

Nails

F.U.N Lacquer Belle

F.U.N Lacquer Gold mark glitter polish

Black acrylic paint for details

Glitter Gal Serpent Black

Embellishments

Black Roses from Born Pretty Store at cuticle

Gold 3mm studs from Dollarnailart.com

Tools

Nail art brush for details

How to Use ScraPerfect Embellie Gellie: A Quick Tutorial

I use this awesome tool in a lot of my 3D lip art and nail tutorials so I thought I would make a quick video showing how you prepare the Embellie Gellie for use. It's a great tool for 3D Nail Art, Lip Art, general Arts & crafts, and anything that needs rhinestones or embellishments stuck to it efficiently and easily!

Get ScraPerfect Embellie Gellie here
http://scraperfect.com/products-2/embellie-gellie/

This is not a paid advertisement, just a quick tip!

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Violet Roses & Caviar Nail Art ft Nail Pattern Boldness & Born Pretty Store

I wanted to recreate these nails I wore a while ago cause I liked the glitter placement and playing with micro beads. I used the same techniques in my lizard inspired Godzilla nails seen here. I thought I’d do a tutorial and also change up the colour scheme with some gorgeous purples from Nail Pattern Boldness, plus add these sweet as hell 3D roses from Born Pretty.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

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!

Products Used

Base Coats

OPI Nail Strengthener

Essie Grow Stronger

First Coat

Nail Pattern Boldness Tyrion Purple

Zoya Harmonie  

Second Coat

Nail Pattern Boldness Alpha Nail

Embellishments 

Silver & Violet Nail Art Hexagonal Glitter Powder Sheets in a set of 12 from Born Pretty Store

Caviar/Micro Beads from eBay

Purple #11 & Silver #4 3D Nail Art Sweet Color Flower Nail Decoration from Born Pretty Store

3mm Purple Square studs from dollarnailart.com

Glam Nails nail Glue

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

Flaming Gradient Spiked Nails ft Born Pretty & ScraPerfect

I wanted to check out how a few of my shimmery polishes would look as a gradient so I created this gold to red no sponge gradient nail with an accent nail of red square rhinestones and little gold spikes from Born Pretty Store with the help of Embellie Gellie from ScraPerfect of course!

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial 

Get Embellie Gellie and more ScarPerfect essentials here.

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

Products Used

Gradient Nails

OPI Goldeneye

Glitter Gal Fiery Furness Brilliant

Zoya Kimmy

Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Accent Nails

Zoya Kimmy

Glitter Gal Fiery Furness Brilliant

OPI Goldeneye

Optional

Gold Acrylic Paint & OPI Goldeneye stripes up the nail

Embellishments

Scraperfect Embellie Gellie

Square red rhinestones from eBay along cuticle

3mm Cone spikes in Gold from Born Pretty Store

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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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Nail Tutorial: How to Fix a Broken Nail

I had cracked my nail and wanted to forgo the big chop off, so I employed this great method for holding the nail together and thought I'd share it with you. It works very well and uses a few items you should have lying around the house. And if you use non acetone nail polish remover it can last 2-3 nail polish changes and otherwise it holds your nail together until you change your manicure.

By the way, so far it has latest for 5 days as has my latest manicure and I really recommend the method if a nasty crack befalls your nail.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Products Used

Tea bag
Scissors
Glam Nails Nail Glue

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy 
Essie Grow Stronger

The manicure I'm wearing at the end of this video has a tutorial which is here.

Rainbow Glow in the Dots Nail Art ft Born Pretty & Sally Hansen

I wanted to play with some glow in the dark polishes cause I am quite obsessed and can't get enough of the fun in the dark. So I whipped out my Born Pretty Candy Colours nail polishes and created a gradient with a sponge and added a polka dot design in various colours for some crazy gradient and polka dot nails!

I totally recommend the Born Pretty Store 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!

Enjoy!


Video Tutorial

  

The camera can't stand the neon shades either and it goes nuts like this half the time when trying to capture the amazing glow!

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy Strengthening Base coat

Essie Grow Stronger

Gradient Nail

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On (2 coats)
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #02
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #16
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #04

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear Black Out (For dots)

Pink Accent Nails
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On (2 coats)
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #13
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #09 (For Dots)

Black Accent Nails
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear Black Out (2 coats)
For Dots

Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #02
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #16
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #04

Top coat

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

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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

Review: Born Pretty 3D Nail Art Roses

I received these beautiful roses from Born Pretty Store and wanted to share a review and a few manicures with you.

I was contacted by a lovely lady named Cynthia from the Born Pretty Store about reviewing some products. As I have bought some nail art items from them before, and had a good experience, I thought I'd take the chance to try some more of their wares to review/use on my blog and YouTube channel. All the opinions given are without pressure from the company and are my own.

I totally recommend the Born Pretty Store 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 on this affiliate link http://bit.ly/ihBHUJ and type in "MIHW10" at checkout on any order!

Nail tutorials where I have used these roses are Golden Leopard Nail Tutorial & a future nail tutorial with pin stripes which I will update here when it comes out.

Feel free to click on the photos below for better quality and more accurate colour.

Enjoy!

Video Review

I received 5 red roses and 5 black roses. The listing for these babies is "5pcs 3D Nail Art Sticker Sweet Color Rose Flower Nail Decoration" and they come under numbers of which the black are #10 & the red ones are #12. At the time I got these the price was $1.58 but at the moment they are on sale for USD$0.99 and I am totally going to pick up some more of them.

Born Pretty Store has free international shipping or you can choose to have your items faster and pay a small amount for shipping depending on where you are in the world. I don't mind waiting and opt for free shipping on the items form Born Pretty cause they are so cheap and I wouldn't want to ruin the economy of the order by adding more shipping than the product cost.

The roses stick off the nail with a raised profile of roughly 0.5cm and gave a diameter of 1cm, however aren't too large on small nail beds or short nails to get in the way of the design it overshadow the nail itself. 

Pros

-Spectacular addition to a special manicure.

-Amazing for vintage or pin-up style nails.

-Gorgeous metallic finish. I love the red tone and the black ones are fantastic too.

-Come in different colours to suit your taste and style.

-Shiny finish brings light and dimension to the rose structure so you can see the petals nicely.

-Can look elegant or flashy depending on how you style the rest of your manicure.

-They can bring a subtle sprinkle of zest by adding a single rose to a manicure or go all out and decorate ever nail with these fabulous pieces. 

-Stay adhered well with nail glue. 

-They have a decent sized surface on the bottom of the flower that makes it easy to place them on your nail and keep then there with your glue of choice.

-The fine delicate metal looks dainty and not chunky. It's very light weight and my fingers weren't hindered by the sweet flowers.

Cons

-Great for special occasions but not every day wear.

-Sit up off the nail and can get caught on hair or loose threads on clothes.

-Need special care as all 3D Nail art does. If you are doing gardening than this is really not the style for you and if you work a lot with your hands these won't last very long but for a special occasion they are awesome.

-They have sharp edges so can scratch you if you run them along your skin.

Conclusion

I honestly love these roses and will use them again and buy some more for myself. They come in a variety of colours as seen below and I am endeared by many of them.

The roses are delicate so can be squashed or damaged if you're not careful, as in if you sit on your hands or bash them against something. However, as they are malleable you can bend them back into shape if they aren't broken. I never managed to break one, even though I did actually accidentally sat on my hand 😜 The rose did come off but I was able to nudge it back into shape and it looked good as new.

I didn't wear them to bed as I didn't want to wake up with one embedded in my butt or something like that and I suggest you do the same cause as I mentioned they are relatively sharp. I removed them with an orange-wood stick before going off to bed but just using gentle leverage.

I managed to use each set of roses twice and maybe they can get up to three uses if you take care of them, however it could be less as they can be damaged during wear. They are definitely perfect for a special occasion when you need that extra something to put your nails over the top. 

I have created a couple of different manicures around these roses.
See the blog post where I create the nails above called Golden Leopard Nail Tutorial 

For the other red and black nails I added some elliptical rhinestones also from Born Pretty Store which doubled as petals for this look and are a lovely way to add glitz while changing it up from the standard shape. The hex glitter on the thumb accent nail was placed by hand (I may do a tutorial on this method some time) and it makes for a polka dot effect that is in playful contrast to the stripes.

Click here for the blog post for these nails with more information.

I totally recommend the Born Pretty Store 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 on this affiliate link http://bit.ly/ihBHUJ and type in "MIHW10" at checkout on any order!

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