Today was the first snowy day here in Israel (well, I didn't see much snow from where I live, but there are some colder cities like Jerusalem which were covered in white), and I think it's the perfect timing to share with you my snowy nail art!

For this design I decided to stamp white snowflakes over a textured base. I chose Zoya Nyx as the base for this nail art and stamped the snowflakes with Konad's White stamping polish. The plates I used are Bundle Monster BM-323 and Gals GA41. To preserve the textured effect I did not apply a top coat over this design.

I found that Zoya Nyx was a quite sheer for me, even with two coats, so I decided to layer it over a light blue base. Lucky for me the color on the nails turned out to be pretty close to the color in the bottle, so I was pretty happy with it eventually.

I really like this textured effect combined with the snowflakes stamping, it sparkles nicely and really makes me think of snow covered places. I love how this macro shot shows the texture of this polish and even of the stamped design that has a bit of texture too. I don't know if you can see the glitter in the polish on the nail, but it was very sparkly in the sun, which unfortunately didn't really translate to the photos.

Zoay Nyx is a pale dusty blue with a textured effect. It has a jelly like base with fine square silver glitter, and once dries it has a sand/sugar texture. This polish was one of the first colors that Zoya released under the Pixie Dust line, their textured effect. 

I wasn't sure if I loved this color at first, and when I saw it was relatively sheer I was a bit disappointed, but when I tried it with a similar color underneath I instantly loved it!

Although it might not be my most original design, I really loved the final look and I think this polish gives a nice touch to my snowy manicure.

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!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Oh how I wish we had this awesome holiday here in Israel, it always looks so fun and I just love the spooky decorations and costumes.

So I thought I should try to create another Halloween inspired nail art while I still can, and this is what I came up with.

I created this textured spiderwebs nail art with black and orange textured polishes, and stamped silver spiderwebs design over it. I really love how this turned out, and I hope you'll like it too. 

My previous Halloween manicure got many great comments and was shared by so many people, which I really appreciate and was super happy about by the way, so thank you all so much!

For this manicure I used two textured polishes - Zoya Destiny and Chic Sugar Baby 07, and created a gradient with these two colors. This was my first attempt creating a gradient with textured polishes, I was prepared for a hard and messy work but this turned out to be quite easy. I decided to use a bit different technique for this, I painted each half of the nail with a different color. Once the polish was relatively dry, I sponged both colors over the middle to merge the colors. I have to admit that I am pretty pleased with this gradient.

Once the base was dry, I stamped a spiderweb design from Bunny Nails HD04 plate with Essie No Place Like Chrome. I didn't use any top coat for this design to preserve the textured effect.

I wanted to show you a little closeup of Chic Sugar Baby 07, just to show you that it's not a regular black sand polish, but it actually consist of tiny shreds of glitter / micro flakes in various colors like orange, blue and pink, all mixed up in a black jelly base. I tried to capture the polish on the brush so you could see how beautiful and interesting this colors is. When it dries it also shows all these colors, but it's a bit hard to capture. A while ago I posted a macro shot of this polish on Instagram, so you can check this photo to get a better idea of how this polish looks like.

I hope you liked my Halloween nail art, and that you are having a wonderful and fun holiday!

I would love to hear what you think about this design, also feel free to share with me your Halloween manicures, I would love to see what you are wearing on your nails for this holiday.

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. ;)

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'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!

For today's post I have for you another design I made with one of the Nailz Craze plates.
When I reviewed the China Blue kit by PUPA in the previous post, I just knew this stamp will look great over this color, so that's what I decided to do.
For the base for this design I used PUPA's #701 dark blue and #805 holo glitter (full review of these colors can be found here) and then I stamped the flowers design from Nailz Craze NC03 plate with Konad White stamping polish. I topped it with one coat of Poshe.
I love how the white stamp pops against the dark blue base, and the tiny holo glitters really adding depth to this design.
I've made a nail art with this design and similar colors before (which can be found in this post) but these two look quite different.
Hope you liked this manicure, let me know what you think! :)