Everything You'll Need:
| Light Pink- |  | OPI "Mod About You" | 3 coats |
| White- |  | OPI "Alpine Snow" | 3 coats |
| Dark Pink- |  | Zoya "Kiki" | 2 coats |
| Image Plates- |  | Konad M79 | (Polka Dots) |
 | Konad M14 | (Lollipop) | |
| Rhinestones- |  | Aurore Boreale (Swarovski) | 5MM |
 | Clear (Swarovski) | 9SS | |
| Stamping Polish- |  | Konad "Psyche Pink" | Over white/light pink |
| Konad "White" | Over dark pink | |
| Top Coat- |  | Konad & Seche Vite |
I saw this idea of a nail-art table at Lacquer Boudoir Blog. Genius, right? :) |
Inspiration
Lately, I've been obsessed with Japanese / Kawaii nail art. I love all of the embellishments (rhinestones, pearls, 3D acrylic accents, etc) and the fact that each nail is its own design but still, no doubt, belongs to the set! This is NOT my attempt at it. It's just me heading more towards that direction. I've also really been inspired by Emerald Sparkled Blog's skittle manicures. Check it out and you'll understand why!Make It Happen
I waste A LOT of time trying to decide what I'm going to do to my nails. I'm very indecisive. My thought process is a mess: "If this nail is light pink, that nail should be dark... but where is the white nail going to go? I don't want any patterns; it has to look random. Blah-blah-blah". This time I decided to start at the drawing board. I used Adobe Illustrator to create my plan of action! Below is a simple, colored illustration of my nails:
Do you pronounce it "Polka dots" or "Poka dots"? |
Saturday, November 27, 2010
I love all these different color pink! How interesting! Your application is very professional, I love it! xo Camille @ nevernaked.blogspot.com
Great post! And a loooovely design <3
So so pretty!
:) That is a really adorable mani!
I love the way you listed your polishes in your post!
Amazing!! Thanks for tutorial!
http://insideofmypurse.blogspot.com/
This is just ridiculously awesome. I always read Japanese nail art magazines and I've done a couple of manis inspired by them but never anything this awesome. I absolutely LOVE it! Oh, and I say 'poker dots' even though I know that's wrong. Haha :)
That's so darn cute!!! I specially love the lollipop and white background w/pink polka dots!!!! <3
Ok, now I want to do a mani with the polka dots + crystal in my ring finger...I had to add this comment :P
This is just amazing =) Adorable! I envy your skills, really! Your nails always look so perfect... <3
I also love the table idea, Lacquer Boudoir a great blog =)
That's a awesome mani! The dotted nails are fantastic!
Reminds me of Easter!
I fall in love in your nails, this is just too pretty, and tnx for description of the things you used =)
This is adorable! I've been thinking of starting to draw my designs out as well since I can't keep all of my ideas straight.
Pronounce it poka dots!! Hee hee hee! I love how you do the tabular format of data and nice little rectangular shapes. I've been doing a similar thing on 3 x 5 cards. Very nice!
That's really pretty! It's a super cute idea to incorporate rhinestones in konad designs. :)
really cute :)
Great manicure! Looks perfect :)
This is just plain adorable! :D I love how all the different designs are linked to make a whole.
So cute!! I love the pink girly lollipop idea!
this is so adoreable and i really like that chart. i know what you mean about being indecisive.
Very cute! I pronounce it "poka" dots. :)
Wow... is all i can say. I really love how this turned out! And extra points to u for the way you explain ur tutorials with images. haven't seen that anywhere. :)
I also love that u used that huge stone on the lollipop. I'd have never thought to do that
I have never ever in my whole entire life seen such perfect nails. I thought mine were ok and never really ever do anything apart from the odd coat of clear varnish. I can't believe it. I must book a manicure and transform mine into such magnificence. You may have well started a whole new obsession for me. Darn Blighty, it was from there that I stumbled upon this blog.
Looks very girly! Such adorable nail design!
those are soo pretty and girly!
cute..
i love it..
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Oh my lord, is this adorable. I also LOVE Emerald Sparkle .. Deniz is SO creative and talented. Her manis are so nice and she's just the sweetest girl. This one reminds me of her "bubblegum" mani. I fell in love with it when I saw it and I've recreated it a few times .. it looks really cute with "For Audreyish" colors too. :) This one is definitely getting bookmarked. :) Thanks for sharing!
i pronounse it poka ;) very cute nails, though! i really love it! it's definitely interesting how almost every nail is different, yet they all go well together. awesome job!
this is gorgeous! I love it! Great job!
So sweet!!
I love your "Everything you need" table! Great layout! The konad lollipop is too cute.
your pictures look soo fake! hahaha. perfect!! (i mean in a good way). i like your nail shape like that. soo pretty
shoo cute!looks fab..
Hey, I just found your blog. Your manicures are so cute, I love the pink base you used for these nails. Keep up the fabulous nail art! I'll stop by again for sure!
very kawaii! I love it!
I think you say polka dots. I love this manicure, especially the crystals part :)
U paint your nails so perfectly it makes me so jealous. Do you use a brush afterwards to clean up the area around ur cuticle?
This design is so cute I wanna smack myself on the head with it. (I don't know what that means, but it's what came to mind)
I pronounce it "poke-uh dots" :)
Oh beautiful! It looks so neat and professional :D I love the idea of the nail art table too, as well as the Illustrator plan :P I should try that some time, I'm always painting and removing my polish designs *is fickle*
I found this way late but I have to say it is SO PRETTY!!!! And inspiring too!
I'm going to follow your blog and catch up. :)