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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The Spike Lips ft Melt Cosmetics & Born Pretty Store Lip Art tutorial

I love using the lips as a canvas and it’s a great way to express your funky side with Crazy Lip Art! I'm here to share these the Spike lips. They're based on the Jeffrey Campbell The Spike Lita boots and I used my new Melt cosmetics Bane lipstick with the Born Pretty 3m & 6mm silver spikes.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

For the Sigma brushes & makeup I use click here!

If you love the colourful shadows I used for this lip check out Sugarpill's site here.

Get fun embellishments for nails and lips from the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!

Products Used

M.A.C Prep+Prime Lip Base
Urban Decay 24/7 eye pencil in Perversion
Melt Cosmetics Lipstick in Bane
Born Pretty 3mm & 6mm spikes in Silver
Duo eye lash glue in clear
Sugarpill Eyeshadow in Bulletproof to set glue

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GRWM Rolling Stones Gig Makeup ft Sugarpill & Urban Decay

I'm heading out to the Rolling Stones gig tonight and created this make up look inspired by the red, white and black colours that their famous lips and tongue logo sports. I used my favourite shadow from the Urban Decay pallet called Slowburn and a mixed that with Love+ from Sugarpill and a bit of shimmer on the lid too. I went heavy on the lower lashline with some black and didn't go for the winged liner one would usually expect, to change it up and focus on the rounded crease shape.


Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

For the Sigma brushes & makeup I use click here!

If you love the pigmented matte black eye shadow I used for this look check out Sugarpill's site here.

Get the rhinestone I used for bling in this look from the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!

And here's my pit pass and VIP ticket stuff and the gig was great from in side the tongue pit. We also got a tongue covered tote bag and a mega cool hard cover program with many fun glossy pictures.

Products Used

Eye Primer
Two Face Shadow insurance


Lid
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Diamond Eyes inner 2/3 of lid

Crease
Urban Decay 24/7 pencil in Woodstock
Urban Decay Electric Palette eyeshadow in Slowburn
Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Love+

Brow highlight
Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette eyeshadow in Strange

Lower lid
Inglot matte gel eyeliner in #77 along lashline, waterline & tightline
Sigma eyeshadow in Eiffel along lashline
Urban Decay Electric Palette eyeshadow in Slowburn to blow out lashline

Tear duct
Milani Liquid eye pencil in Silver
Urban Decay Electric Palette eyeshadow in Revolt

Eyeliner
Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid Liner in Perversion

Brows
Benefit Brow zings in Light
Benefit Gimme Brow in Light/Medium

Lashes
Cover Girl ClumpCrusher mascara in Black


Embellishments
Born Pretty Store Red Rhinestones
Duo Lash glue

Lips
M.A.C Lip pencil in Cherry
Lime Crime Velvetine in Suedeberry
Lime Crime Velvetine in Red Velvet

Face
Benefit Pore-fessional primer
M.A.C Pro Longwear Concealer in NC15
Bourjois Healthy mix foundation in 51 Vanilla
Purely Cosmetics Diamond Perfect Finish

Cheeks
NARS blush highlighter in Albatross as highlight
NARS blush in Orgasm as blush

Brushes
Sigma brushes: PE=Performance Eyes kit. MrB=Mr Bunny kit. 

Eyes
Urban Decay Eyeshadow brush for lid & lower lashline
Real Techniques Base Shadow brush for crease 
Sigma PE E47 Shader Crease brush for crease 
Sigma PE E56 Shader Lid brush for tear duct
Sigma E50 Large Fluff brush for brow highlight

Face
Sedona Lace 928 Flat Kabuki brush for foundation
Real Techniques Setting brush for powder under eyes
Sigma MrB F40 Large Angled Contour brush for setting powder
Hakuhodo S113 Highlight brush for cheek highlight
Real Techniques Contour brush for blush & contour


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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

Stones n' Spikes Lip Art Tutorial ft Born Pretty & Sugarpill

I have had a few ideas floating around my head involving spikes and bold colours such as black and silver. So instead of doing a rehash of my Abbey Dawn Spiked lip (which you can find here) and checking out what silver spikes look like over a black base (which I will end up doing one day), I decided to do this fierce segmented lip art combining rhinestones, spikes, black and silver!

I delved into my cache of 6mm silver spikes which I bought off Born Pretty Store and also used some hex glitter to add reflection and shine to the bottom lip over the Sugarpill Tiara pigment which is my silver of choice for lips and eyes!

For the black lip, I used some 3mm black rhinestones I bought off eBay for a couple of dollars on top of a black glitter from Dollar Nail Art and Portland Black Lipstick Company Black Lipstick.

I think it came out pretty well and the abrasive roughness of the style works well with my go-to gothic smokey eye which you can find the tutorial for here.

I have an affiliate link for affordable Nail Art & Makeup products at Born Pretty Store if you click here and use the discount coupon code MIHW10 at checkout you will get 10% off any order. You can use this link and code as many times as you like and I hope you enjoy the stock at Born Pretty as much as I do.

And if you dig on bright metallic pigments and smooth easy blendable matte shadows check out Sugarpill here.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Products Used

Lips

M.A.C Lip Conditioner

NYX Lip pencil in Black berry to fill upper lip

Milani Liquif’eye pencil in Silver to fill lower lip

Portland Black Lipstick Company Black to fill upper lip

Ebony Glitter from Dollar Nail Art

3mm Black rhinestones from eBay over upper lip

Born Pretty hex glitter in Silver over lower lip

6mm Spikes from Born Pretty over lower lip

Duo Lash glue to adhere embellishments 

Embellie Gellie to pick up rhinestones

Brushes

Sigma E46 Shader inner Corner Performance Eyes Kit 

M.A.C 266 Angle brush

Tutorial for the Eye Makeup

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Lip Art Tutorial: Space-age Holographic Lips

Here is the Space-age Holographic Lip Art that I came up with quite a while ago (Here's the original blog post) and I finally made the tutorial for it! It's a cyber-spacey look that would rock at a club or a gig, and anywhere there is light to make the most of the reflective glitter!

For the sparkly silver in this look I used main 3 products, MAC 3D Glitter in Silver, Eye Kandy sprinkles in Confetti and Sugarpill Tiara pigment.

And to make the holographic glitter really stand out I used a black base of Portland Black Lipstick Company Black lipstick. It's is so inky and pigmented, lasts a long time on the lip and is great for this purpose because it helps glitter adhere really well.

Check out the video tutorial on my YouTube Channel here or below for the details on this glitter madness!

I also have a tutorial for the simple fresh violet makeup I'm wearing in this video which is coming out soon.

And if you love shiny metallic pigments like Tiara, check out Sugarpill here, along with many other matte shadows & false eyelashes!

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Products Used

Lips

M.A.C Lip Conditioner

M.A.C Prep+Prime Lip

Inglot AMC pressed powder #59

Milani Liquif'eye metallic eye liner pencil in Silver

NYX Lip pencil in Black berry

Portland Black Lipstick Company Black

Sugarpill Chromalust loose Eyeshadow in Tiara wet with M.A.C Fix+

M.A.C Glitter Brilliants in 3D Silver

Eye Kandy sprinkles in Confetti

Brushes

Sigma brushes: PE=Performance Eyes kit

Japonesque Lip brush

Japonesque Concealer brush for the glitter
Sigma E05 PE Eye liner brush

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Winter's First Snow Nail Tutorial ft F.U.N Lacquer

I've got a special manicure to show you that may look simple and it is easy to create but has a intriguing twist that is pretty darn fascinating.

For the main shimmery blue colour I used a thermal polish form F.U.N Lacquer called Icy Snow that changes from light blue to bright medium blue. It's quite gorgeous either way and is fun to play with the changing shades. And you get a neat surprise depending on the room temperature and a varying manicure all throughout the day!

The glitter action comes from Winter Wonderland which is an amazing silver holographic glitter. I like to use it over a silver base coat so you can get a full on glitter party but not have to go too thick with the glitter polish if it doesn't cover every nanometer of your nail.

You can find F.U.N aka Fabulously Unique Nail Lacquer polishes on storenvy here and also there are many swatches and behind the scenes shots on Instagram.

Check out the tutorial video below or on YouTube where you can find more makeup, fashion and nail adventures with Michty Maxx!

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

This is Icy Snow warm! The violet duo chrome is so lovely and comes through when the polish is under warm conditions mainly around the edges of the nail. It adds an adorable sweetness to the paler colour.

And this is Icy Snow cold and the almost royal blue is quite fetching. I'm not normally a blue person, but I really fancy this shade.

I have some awesome macro pictures and footage of Winter Wonderland showing the large hex pieces and smaller square and tiny hex pieces bits in there. You can apply it in a thin layer and get a demure spattering of glitter, or dab it on to get a solid coverage of glorious sparkle!

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy Nail Strengthener

Essie Grow Stronger

First layer

F.U.N Lacquer Icy Snow (thermal) (3 coats)

Accent nails

Sally Hansen Celeb City (1 coat)

F.U.N Lacquer Winter Wonderland (dabbed on)

Top coat

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

New Years Eve Makeup 2014

Here's my New Years Eve makeup for 2014 and I went all out big time with silver holographic glitter and a dramatic cut crease. I took the photos at the end of the night after falling asleep in my makeup unfortunately but it actually still looks pretty good.

I chose to go for my all time favourite glitter in MAC Reflects 3D Silver and used the best silver ever in Sugarpill Tiara. Then to match with the glitter best I chose Poison plum and Bulletproof in the crease with Inglot matte gel eyeliner in #77 to cut the crease and last quite well on the waterline.

I had to go for a purple lip with this glitter and crease look so my favourite purple lipstick is MAC Violetta and to give some sparkle to the lips I used Funtabulous Dazzleglass.

You have to go big for NYE and chunky holographic glitter really does is for me for the party festivities.

I have a short demo video for the glitter so you can see how sparkly and holographic it really is on YouTube here or you can scroll down and see the embedded video.

If you are in the mood for a solid silver and matte shadows that totally kick ass, check out Sugarpill here!

Enjoy!

VIDEO DEMO

Makeup

Products Used

Eyelid primer

Two Faced shadow insurance

Lid

Milani Liquif'eye Metallic eye liner pencil in Silver

Sugarpill Chromalust loose eyeshadow in Tiara wet with Eye Kandy Liquid Sugar
M.A.C Reflects 3D Silver glitter

Glitter Adhesive

Fyrinnae Pixy Epoxy

Crease

Inglot eyeshadow #113R as transition shadow

Inglot matte gel eyeliner in #77 to cut crease

Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Poison Plum

Sleek iDivine Acid palette purple shade to blend out

Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Bulletproof deep crease

Brow highlight

Inglot eyeshadow #113R (lightest shade)
Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Tako over top

Lower lid
Bourjois Regard Effet Duochrome Eyeliner Pencil in 59 Violet Rose along lashline

Inglot matte gel eyeliner in #77 on waterline & tightline 

Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Poison Plum along lashline
Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Bulletproof close to lashes
M.A.C eye shadow in Vellum along inner 1/3 of lashline
Sleek iDivine Acid palette purple shade to blend out lashline

Tear duct

Milani Liquif'eye Metallic eye liner pencil in Silver

Sugarpill Chromalust loose eyeshadow in Tiara

Eyeliner
Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid eyeliner in Perversion

Brows

Revlon ColorStay Eyebrow liner in Blonde

Benefit Speed brow

Lashes

L'Oréal Telescopic lashes mascara

False lashes from eBay cut in 1/2 (Listing "10 Pair Eyelashes X2")

Ardell Duo lash glue

Lips

M.A.C Prep+Prime Lip
M.A.C Amplified Lipstick in Violetta
M.A.C Dazzleglass in Funtabulous

NYX Slim Lip pencil in Purple Rain to define lips

Face

Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser illuminator/brightener
Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser concealer in Light

Bourjois Healthy mix Foundation in 51 Light Vanilla

Purely Cosmetics Diamond Perfect Finish powder

Cheeks 

Inglot AMC Pressed powder in #59 for cheek and cupid's bow highlight

Bourjois Healthy Balance Face powder in 56 for blush & contour and nose contour

Sleek Candy collection blush in Dolly mix along cheekbones
M.A.C Mineralize blush in Gentle on apples of cheeks

Brushes

Sigma brushes: PE=Performance Eyes kit. MrB=Mr Bunny kit. 

Eyes

Sigma F70 Concealer brush for lid, glitter, lower lid & tear duct
Sigma E25 Blending for transition, crease and brow highlight

Sigma E30 Pencil brush for crease & lower lashline
Sigma MrB E05 Eye Liner for inner crease

Face

Sedona Lace 928 Synthetic Flat Top brush for foundation

Sedona Lace 224 Synthetic Small Tapered brush for concealer

M.A.C 224 setting powder for concealer under eyes

Sedona Lace 919 Synthetic Large Paddle brush for setting powder

Hakuhodo S113 highlight for cheek highlight

Napoleon Perdis 20b Reflective contour brush for blush

Sedona Lace Midnight Lace Kabuki brush

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Holo Rainbow Chip Nails!

I wanted a quick manicure and looked to my amazing GOSH Holographic nail polish for an awesome result that's quick and easy to get and I paired it with the delicious Rainbow Chip glitter top coat from Painted Polish.

I had to share the fabulous linear holographic effect that can only be fully realised in video so here's a quick tutorial showing off the rainbow magnificence that is this polish.

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, tickle the like/subscribe button, and leave a comment. It would make me smii-iile! ;-D

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

And if you want to go all out with
Painted Polish Rainbow Chip!

Tutorial

1. Apply Base coat and growth stimulater to protect your nails and keep them healthy.
2. Apply 1 coat of Silver polish.
3. Apply 3 coats of Silver Holographic polish.
4. On the Accent Nail, dab on 1 coat of colourful glitter.
5. Apply a fast drying top coat to the Accent Nail only, as the top coat diminishes the holographic effect of the silver polish.
6. Done!

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy Nail Strengthener

Essie Grow Stronger

First layer

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Celeb City (1 coat)

Second Layer

GOSH Holographic 549 (3 coats) 

Accent nail (Ring Finger)

Painted Polish Rainbow Chip (1 coat)

Top coat (Only on Accent Nail)

Seche Vite dry fast top coat