It's been a while since the last Jewelry & Nail Art post, so I figured it's about time to make a post for this delicate manicure I did a few days ago. I already showed a sneak peek picture with this mani on Instagram and I loved it so much that I even used it as my Facebook page cover, so finally this design gets the post it deserves.

This nail art was inspired by the beautiful opal ring that I got from HW Star. I felt that this delicate ring deserves a matching delicate nail art, and this is what I came up with.

You probably remember seeing this gorgeous polish  Zoya Payton in my blog a while ago, but since this was such a great color and this shade has a beautiful effect, I had to show it once more time before I let it sit in my Helmer's drawer for a while. (Oh I wish I could use it more, but I have so many new and unswatches polishes to play with, I can't resist it!)

Just like I did with Zoya Dream, I decided that some stamping will bring a bit more glam to it, and so I used one of the Nailz Craze plates to create this manicure.

For this design I applied two coats of the fantastic Zoya Payton, then used Barry M Gold Foil to stamp the diamonds designs from the Nailz Craze NC04 stamping plate.
Zoya Payton is really beautiful on it's own, but I do think that these delicate golden diamonds were a nice addition to this manicure. I love the gold against this dark berry shade, and the holographic flakes of Payton sparkling right trough the stamped design were so pretty!



This probably isn't the sharpest image I could get (I hate it when I am finished taking photos and them realize that some images are completely unusable), but I just wanted to show you how gorgeous the holo flakes up close. This is such a rich color and the effect is a stunner, one of my all time favorites.
I hope you liked this post although it was a short one! Let me know what you think about this mani.
I also want to wish you all a Happy Thanksgivukkah (Hanukkah and Thanksgiving), and for those of you who are not celebrating anything at the moment - just have a fantastic weekend! ;)

I decided it wasn't enough to show the amazing Zoya Dream only once at the blog, so today I'm going to share with you the dreamy mani I did with this dreamy polish. You are welcome to take a look at the full review of Zoya Dream at my previous post.

Although this polish is beautiful on it's own, I felt that adding some stamping over it could give a nice touch and make it even prettier!

On top of two gorgeous coats of Zoya Dream, I added some stamping - I used the swirly stamp from the Nailz Craze NC02 plate, this is one of my favorite designs that I have used so many times already, and I can never get enough of it. Obviously my color choice for the stamp was silver to match the silver holographic particles in the polish. For stamping I used Essie No Place Like Chrome.

I think this combination works really well and the holo particles sparkle so pretty through the stamped design. I just love it!

Before I finish this post I had to add this macro shot to show you how beautiful Zoya Dream is up close. It's just spectacular and I feel like I can stare at it all day long.

Hope you enjoyed this post and liked this mani, thank you for reading!

Hello there lovely ladies!
In this post I want to share with you another butterfly wings manicure I made with the Nailz Craze NC01 plate, this time I did a neon version to suit the summer time.
I had also attempted to film a video tutorial for you to demonstrate how I work to apply this design, but unfortunately this was quite a bad turnout and I realized that filming tutorials is just too hard for me. I get all so nervous and self consensus, everything is going so wrong, it's just a complete disaster! I might ask someone to try and film me in the future, maybe it will go better, but for now I will stick to creating manicures and taking photos of them, and maybe occasionally make pictorials.

Lucky for me (and you!) I found an awesome video tutorial made by missdrea33 on YouTube, demonstrating how to create the butterfly manicure in a few easy steps. I have to admit, I couldn't have done it any better myself! She does such a great job explaining how to use the plate and the stamper, how much polish to use and how to work best with the scraper. Her work technique is the same as mine, so I defiantly recommend you to check this butterfly wings stamping tutorial to learn how to work with this plate and get good results. If you are relatively new to stamping, it will take a bit of practice to align the design perfectly, and you might need to make a few touch ups, but I think it's worth giving a try to get these pretty wings on your nails.

To create this design I started with a white base (Wet n Wild French White Creme), and picked two of my favorite neon colors for the gradient - China Glaze Shocking Pink and That's Shore Bright.

I applied one coat of the beautiful Barry M Diamond Glitter to add some sparkle to my design.

I stamped the butterfly wings from Nailz Craze NC01 plate, using Konad's Black stamping polish. For the white dots I used the same white polish as I used for the base.

To seal the design I applied one thick coat of Poshe Top Coat.

It was quite difficult to capture the neons on camera, the colors just didn't look true to life so I had to work on the photos a bit to get a better result that will reflect the real colors, and still the colors were much prettier in real life.

This is actually my third recreation of the butterfly wings design, and it's kinda funny to see how much I improved over this past year and half, when I first started blogging. The first time I created this design was a year and a half ago, when I just created the Nailz Craze brand and the first plate, and I was quite new to stamping then (geez, what's with the huge watermark?!). 

The second attempt was a little less that a year ago, which I was also pretty proud of at the time, but looking back, I totally like the current version on this manicure.

I hope that showing you these old designs of mine will make you keep going and practicing even if you don't get it perfect at your fist attempt. And don't forget to have fun! After all, it's just nail art.

I hope you enjoyed my butterfly wings design, hopefully you didn't fell asleep while reading this post. ;)

Hello ladies!

I'm very excited about this post, as I was invited by the lovely Samantha from The Nailasaurus to write a guest post at her blog!

For this occasion I've decided to create a Circus inspired designs with one of my newly released Nailz Craze plates.

Be sure to check the full post at The Nailasaurus blog, and let me know what you think about this design.

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Hello lovely ladies!
Today I have another post for you featuring a design from my new Nailz Craze NC06 Tattoo plate.
I know many of you were curious about the sugar skull design, so I decided to create this colorful manicure for you to see this image in action.
I wanted to create something bright and fun, so I did a neon sugar skull mani, and this is how I've created it:

I applied two coats of my favorite light base - Lime Crime - Milky Ways to all my nails, and then I applied one coat of Out The Door - Northern Lights, just to add a little holo sparkle to it.
I picked the beautiful Lush Lacquer - Clowning Around as the colorful inspiration for this design, and applied one coat of it to the nails, leaving the ring finger and thumb blank for the stamping.

For the For the sugar skull designs I used the Nailz Craze NC06 Tattoo plate, and picked a few neon colors for the stamping: 

China Glaze - Hanging In The Balance

China Glaze - That's Shore Bright

Etude House - Scandalous Pink

Barry M - Key Lime

Lucky for me, these colors worked pretty good for the stamping, even though they are not meant for this job, and some of them were not as thick as stamping polishes are. I personally don't rush to buy special stamping polish, I prefer to experiment with the colors I already have, and actually the only stamping polishes I own are black and white from Konad, because it was hard for me to find these colors from other brands that will stamp well.

The image of the skull transferred really good, so I was very pleased with these polishes as with the design.

I applied one coat of Poshe Top Coat to seal the design and smooth the surface of the glitter.

The final look came out very fun and colorful, I love the neon colors of this mani and I'm so happy with how the sugar skull image came out.

I hope you will like this designs as well, I would love to hear your thoughts on it :)

Thanks for reading!

xoxo

So I made a quick tutorial for you girls to explain how I did the rose decal from my previous Tattoo inspired design.

Hope this will help you to understand how this method works, and if you still have questions after reading this tutorial, please feel free to ask!

Here we go :)

What you will need to create a stamping decal:

Rubber stamper + scraper

Stamping polish

Nail polish in colors of your choice

Fine nail art brush or toothpicks

Tweezers or a needle

Clear nail polish

Step 1

Pick a stamping plate with your desired design. Note that if you want to create a colorful decal, you should use a design that has lines that can be filled, like the rose outline for instance.

The plate I used for this is Nailz Craze NC06 Tattoo plate.

Step 2

Transfer the design to a rubber stamper with a stamping polish.

Let the nail polish dry a bit before moving on to the next step. 

You can blow on it or wait about a minute.

The polish I used for stamping is Konad Black.

Step 3

With a fine nail art brush, fill the inner lines of the leaves with a green polish. 

The polish I used is Barry M Watermelon.

Step 4

Repeat step 3 with the rose itself, this time painting the inner part of the rose with a red nail polish. For larger areas you can use the brush of the nail polish itself, and then fill the delicate areas with the fine nail art brush or a toothpick with small dabbing motions.

The polish I used is Barry M Pomegranate.

Step 5

Wait for the nail polish on the stamper to dry completely, then apply a clear nail polish.

After that, wait a couple of minutes for the decal to dry on the stamper.

I used Poshe Top Coat for this step but any clear nail polish will do the job.

Step 6

Lift the decal from the rubber stamper. You can use tweezers or needle to pick the corner of the nail polish decal, then it will lift easily. 

Note that this is a very delicate decal, so be careful when handling it.

Step 7

Your decal is ready for use!

You will notice that it has a bit magnified finish, because it dried on the rubber surface.

When placing the decal on the nail, you want your nail polish (on the nails) to be a bit tacky (a bit sticky, if you touch it with your fingertips it will leave a finger print on it). Place the decal onto the nail, smooth it with your finger or a q tip, and apply a top coat once you are done.

I hope this tutorial was helpful and that you will enjoy using this technique.

Thank you for reading!

Today I have a special post for you, introducing a design made with one of my new Nailz Craze stamping plates. This is the new Nailz Craze NC06 Tattoo plate, with various tattoos designs.

For this post I made a vintage style tattoo inspired design, featuring the LOVE letters and the rose from the NC06 plate.

I know that a lot of you are very curious to see the new plates in action, so I will do my best to create and post several manicures with the plates so you can get a better idea of how the images will look on the nails.

For this designs I started with a light beige base - Barry M Lychee, one of the new Gelly Hi-Shine polishes which I absolutely adore. As most of the polishes from this collection, it had a great and opaque creamy formula, super shiny finish and quick dry time.

To create the half moons at the cuticles base, I used French manicure tips stickers and applied Barry M Pomegranate, which is a rich creamy red. 

To stamp the LOVE letters I used Konad's Black and the Nailz Craze NC06 plate.

To create the rose I used the stamping decal method, which I will explain in my next post. It's a simple technique in which you transfer the image from the plate to the stamper, and then paint the inner part before transferring it to the nail.

The colors I used for the rose were Barry M Pomegranate and Barry M Watermelon.

Once I was done with the design, I sealed it with my favorite to coat - Poshe.

I was very pleased with this design, it's always exciting for me to use the plates I create for the first time and see my ideas for manicures get executed. This finished design was even prettier than I inagined it to be, so I hope you will like it too.

Thank you for reading, I hope to share with you some more of the new designs soon!

 My dear friends, I want to share with you some very upsetting news about my Nailz Craze stamping plates.
About a week ago it came to my attention that someone is selling replicas of all my four Nailz Craze stamping plates on Aliexpress and eBay. They just copied the entire design from each plate, and of course erased my logo from them.

I can’t explain how upset and angry I was when I first found out about this, and even now, each time I see this or have to deal with it, it makes me so angry I just want to cry.
I just don’t understand how someone could steal my work like this. It’s upsetting enough to see a picture you took stolen and reposted somewhere else without a credit, it’s upsetting to come up with an idea and see someone recreate a their version of it, but to have your entire work just replicated and sold by someone else? That is just too low.

I’m currently doing what I can from my side to stop this, but to tell you the truth, I’m not very optimistic about this. Even if I somehow get them to remove these listings, I feel like this would be something temporary until they relist and sell them again.
I’ve seen that they already sold a couple of these plates, hopefully to people who had no clue that these aren’t the original plates. Not that there’s any comfort in this…

It’s really important to me to get your support in this situation, so I ask you not to buy these plates (or anything else at that matter) from this seller and support their horrible actions. Please know that I do not sell my plates on eBay or Aliexpress.

I can’t express how frustrated and broken I am, after working so hard on these plates, coming up with creative and original designs, and now seeing them stolen from me like this, it just breaks my heart.
I really hope to get your support on this, and I hope to get this matter fixed soon. I will not post the links to the replicated items, and I’ll ask you to do the same. I’m pretty sure that you will recognize the plates once you will see them.
I would like to thank you for your attention and support, that really means a lot to me.

Hope to post soon with some better news.
Thank you,
Natalie

Today's nail art is inspired by the fabulous Lime Crime purple lipstick with the silver unicorn imprint.
I actually came across this idea on Instagram, originally made by @vixen_nails, and once I saw this I knew I had to recreate this design.
I actually borrowed this gorgeous lipstick from a fellow polish friend, who I must thank once again for her help, and also a huge thanks to vixen_nails for the inspiration for this nail art.

I wanted to recreate the design and make it as close to the original product as I could. I was happy to discover that one of my recent purchase, China Glaze That's Shore Bright was a great fit for this nail art, and that my Nailz Craze NC02 stamping plate was just perfect with it's unicorn and stars designs.
I was surprised to discover that in real life, the polish I used was the exact same color as the lipstick, what a perfect match!
To create this simple yet gorgeous design I applied two coats of China Glaze That's Shore Bright and stamped over it with Essie No Place Like Chrome (I preferred to use a solid silver rather than a holographic color, which I felt wouldn't give me the perfect coverage). Then sealed the design with one coat of Poshe.

I was really happy with the final look of this design, it was super easy to execute and it resembled so much to the inspiration, so for me this was a success!
Would love to hear what you think about my Lime Crime inspired design ;)

I wanted to share with you my manicure from the past few days. Actually I made this design on Tuesday and removed it today so I can do some swatches, so I can definitely say it stayed with me longer than usually.
I really wanted to recreate a delicate design with the dandelion from my Nailz Craze plate (last time I did a mani with this design was a year ago, wow!), and I wanted to combine it with a light and fresh color, so I picked China Glaze Kinetic Candy. It's a dusty light blue, a bit green tinted. I would say it's some sort of minty color, but the "mint" range is so wide  you never know whether it's mint, green or blue. It's a beautiful shade in any case!
I applied two coats of Kinetic Candy, then added silver holographic glitter to the top, I wanted to create a reverse glitter gradient. It didn't turn out as I wanted, it just looks like I painted half of the nail with the glitter, but at least I tried lol. The glitter is from a Korean brand called A'Pieu aמd the polish name / number is SV01.
Then I stamped the dandelion design from the Nailz Craze NC01 plate with Konad White, and applied one coat of Poshe to seal the design.
I really love how delicate and sparkly this looks, it wasn't exactly what I imagined but it came out lovely and I received many compliments for this one, so I was happy with it even more!
I hope you liked it too, would love to hear what you think. Thanks for reading and have a lovely week!