artistique-meg Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Hello there, I'm back! I've been visiting my lovely boyfriend in Melbourne this past week so I haven't been doing anything too fancy with my nails. I did buy some polishes though! Two from Sportsgirl and another from Inglot. The poor bugger walked around with me in David Jones/Myer/Inglot scoping out polishes. I do love him so.

Anyway, so from Inglot I got myself their matte black which is freaking awesome! I want it in every colour or at least a top coat that will turn polish matte. That would be amazing. Black is a harsh colour and with my pale/pink coloring it tends to make my fingers look extra pink so I decided the best way to compliment my new polish would be with a little touch from Konad!


What I used: One-Two coats of Inglot's Matte Black 730. I used the Konad plate M19 for the "feature nail" and layered it, and M57 for the rest with NYC Color in Snazzle.

I really like this manicure however I'm not sure how long it will last since I can't use a top coat. We'll see!


artistique-meg Wednesday, May 12, 2010

I've wanted one of these sets for a long while now. I love the movie Coraline! It's so darn adorable and the score is beautiful. A French chorus...need I say more!? Anyhoot, this Konad kit is adorable with some gorgeous stamp plates and even fantasticer (a la Meg dictionary) special polishes!
Just check this shizz out!





$AU53.56 at Wowsocool.com
However Konad have been super crafty and created two kits....with different stamp plates. And you can't buy these nail plates separately. See what I mean? Super crafty. Because I love two plates endlessly...one is in Kit I and the other in Kit II

So that is why they're on my wishlist. Because I'll never really buy them lol I may try to get my hands on the special polishes though, one day!

artistique-meg Monday, May 10, 2010

Today's nail art is something I've wanted to try for a long time! It's not an easy design but I'm proud that I could do it. I want to practice it on someone else, one of my classmates will become my victim! Anyways so it's a lilac base with a Hello Kitty french tip, pretty cool if I do say so myself!


It's not perfect or totally neat but I think it looks good when you're not picking at every flaw! Here's a close up of the thumb so you can really see what's going on.


It was fun to do and it's super cute so all in all I'm pleased with it!

For this design I used: Ultra3 in Plum Violet for the base, Professional Nail Care in White for the tips, Hawley Manicure nail art pen in black and Claire's Paints in Rose, Violet and Sunshine for Miss Kitty herself :)

Ended up using a coat of Out the Door and Sally Hansen Double Duty to seal this mani up.

So that's it for today, hope you like the design! Thoughts or comments? Lemme know!




artistique-meg Sunday, May 9, 2010

My first nail art post is the nails I have done now. Marbling! Because it's simple (if you have the patience!) And you always come up with something different! Whenever I marble I always put some medical tape around my nail beds and fingers, it makes the clean up super easy!

With this mani I dunked my nail in a few times, layering the colours which turned out really cool!


For this design I used: Ultra3 in Honolulu for the base. For the marble; Ultra3 in Plum Violet and Rimmel London 60 Seconds in 430 Coralicious. As well as two glitters, Revlon Glimmer Gloss in Banana Blaze 615 and Sirray no. 117

The glitter is so subtle it's not even worth it! Next time I won't use those two polishes for marbling!

artistique-meg

So here it is, my first post on blogger! I've had this account for quite a while, I mostly follow nail blogs and I figured, why not do my own?! I love painting my nails, I try not to do it every day but I find that difficult at times! Haha

I'm currently a beauty student, make-up application and design and nail technology (who-da thunk it!?)

On this blog I'll be sharing all things nails! Nail polishes and products I buy, want to buy, nail art I've created, or acrylics I've done! I'll also list all the products I use, in case you spot something you like!

So without further ado, welcome to my nail blog, I hope you enjoy it!