Vanitas on nails!

This stamping plate with skulls, skeletons and flowers reminds me of the Vanitas: a genre of still life painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. It included various symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and the worthlessness of wordly goods and pleasures.

A vanitas painting, while possibly containing lovely objects, always included some reference to man's mortality. Most often, this is a human skull (with or without other bones), but items like burning candles, soap bubbles and decaying flowers may be used for this purpose as well.

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Skeleton world L002 #5058p

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I love the fact that the plate offers so many combinations, there are full pattern to paint on the entire nail and some smaller elements such as geometric figures.

The polish used as base is the holo:

BP-FH01 Zeus Sword #42514

 

Tarot nails!!! Make your own Tarot with a stamping plate

 

You can create your own tarot with a stamping plate!!! Did you know that!? 

I have always been facinated by the art of Tarot even thought I am quite pragmatic girl who only believes what she sees.

The tarot (/ˈtæroʊ/, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarock) is a pack of playing cards, used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play games such as Italian tarocchini, French tarot and Austrian Königrufen, many of which are still played today. In the late 18th century, some tarot decks began to be used for divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy.  I know that they are used to read the future and give indications to the person asking some questions.

I would love to know more about this art but....I don't so I will keep the post just because if the aesthetic facinations that I have for Tarot. Some cards are simply beautiful and whimstical, they give a boho and dark vibe which I love.

Let's talk about the plate now!

The stamping plate I used in this nailart from Nicole Diary 162 and you can find it at @bornprettystore @bornprettystoreofficial www.bornprettystore.com 

Id products # 49300

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https://www.bornprettystore.com/nicole-diary-cartoon-nail-stamping-plates-rectangle-stainless-steel-nail-stamp-stencils-p-49300.html

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What  I love about this plate is that you can mix and match many different elements and create your own Tarot cart and stamp it on your nails. On the bottom side of the plate there is a set of card's outline and in the center parts some elements that you can place in the center of the cars.

On both sides of the stampint plates there are some full lenght designs of varius elements. I think this plate is so perfect for Halloween and wicked manis.

Blue stamping polish FW15 #47408

Gold BP-WN01 in Fire #42857

In this one there is a hand holdings cards

This hand holding a crystal stone

In this one you see a patter with hands and witch hats.

I hope you like the result

Reptile nails video tutorial

A short video to show how to create these reptile skin chrome nails with the bubbles techinque.
I used

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mirror powder id #40320 (use  coupon code RASX31)
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Chamelion Powder id #40603 (use  coupon code RASX31)
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Chamelion flakes id #40147 (use  coupon code RASX31)
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Elegant Halloween

Hello there!
Happy Halloween's Eve!
I feel I have already done many Halloween designs, the spooky night, the monster nails, zombie nails....this year I wanted something more sofisticated but still uncanny.

For this nail art I have decided to use this Born Pretty Store stamping plate. It is plate Texure L001 id code #46961 . It is a plate that is compltetely dedicated to marble designs. It is perfect to create an iper realistic marble veins desegn, or even opal or rose quartz or turquoise effect.


On the bottom part it has different marble pattern, in negative and positive so you can stamp on dark and light colours, it has also a design that mimic the water marble effect, so cool right?
On the top half it has a larger portion with singular marble veins and cracked lines, I think this part is meant to layered with different colours or colours with different opacity and pigmentation. Some marble veins are sheer and translucent.

 In the mood for  Halloween I used this wanderful marble plate to give the idea of veins and vessels.
I manly used the top part. I stamped over a clear fake nails with a pigmented red colour.
The I covered the entire nails with a glossy soak off top coat, then I painted the half of the nail with a dark red soak off polish from Mandam Glam, Queen of hearts. Then I secured the design with another layer of no wipe top coat.

Halloween night! Beauty Big Bang Halloween plate!

The first item I would like to show you is this amazing plate: form the halloween collection BBBXL-028. 

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 This plate came in a protective bag with a paper sleeve and the blue protective film. The company is putting a lot of effort in the presentation of the products and I appreciate it a lot.

 This plate is perfect  for setting the mood and making any mani into spooky nail art! Find inspirational Halloween nail art images galore on this plate and use it again year after year.

It has mixed designs all over the plate Halloween decorated trees, a spider web with spiders, few cute monster creatures, bats, a witch, the Death, cats, ghosts, owls and a tombstone and many more.


The size of this plate is 9.5 cm by 12 cm.

The base colour is a light beige from Mi-ny cosmetic called "Matisse".
Then I decided to do a double layer nail art creating shades with a colour darker than the base but lighter than black. The shade is "American Girl" and it is a taupe brown, then the last layer is in black "Black Rock".

The plate worked perfectly even with normal polishes

Glow in the dark Halloween nails with Beauty Big Bang product!

Hello,
I have recently received a nail mail from Beauty Big Bang.

Beauty Big Bang is a global online retailer for all things beauty, including cosmetics, nails, hair, health care and so on. Its motto is ‘Make a bigbang of beauty, you’re the beauties’. The company is committed to provide a wide range of trendy and high quality beauty collections at best price along with professional service.

Their site support PayPal as payment method, free shipping worldwide over 1 item, 2-4 weeks for delivery time.

In this nail art I used three products from his company.

 This amazing plate form the Halloween collection BBBXL-028 . I have already used this plate for another nail art, I think it is very versatile and I am sure you will get a million ideas for nail art only looking at it.


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As base for this nail art I used a set of  600Pcs Round Head Full Cover. id product J3160-2C

They came in a bag that contains 600 nails in 10 different sizes from 0 to 9. Nails are divided by sizes and you will have extra nails in size 4 and 5 because I think they are the most common sizes.

I have these nail in the transparent version and I decided I wanted to try these in white too. You can wear them as they are or use them as a white base for your nail arts or to practice your skills in free hand paintings.

You can use these to add length and salon strength to your nails instantly. These nails are easy to polish as desired. The shaoe is rounded and very natural but you can also easly shape them and cut them.

What I like about these nails is that they are soft, pliable nail bed for a great fit with a stronger tip to last.
They are flexible, comfortable nails mean longer wear and and a more natural look.

I prepared a base making a gradient with some dusty pink . I was very easy because the nails were already white.

Then I created a glow in the dark transparent polish with a luminous powder J2103-1A and a clear base coat.
Have a look to a previous blog post here: glow in the dark diy polish.

Then I stamped using a dark burgundy colour.

This is how it look in the dark.

This is how it looks on natural light

Radioactive monster nails! Luminous powder from Beauty Big Bang

 Another glow in the dark nailart with the nail polish I have made diy with the luminous powder  from Beauty Big Bang.
At first I wanted to create some lightning in the night but the final resul was similar to some radioactive or monster nails! :-) I don't know it turn out different form was I imagined in my mind.
I think this look would be perfect for Halloween.

  The item Id is SKU: J2103-3A
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