It's been a while since my last post, just was a bit busy these past few days, but I wanted to share with you this mani I did a week ago.
I wanted to try my new Brazilian nail polish by Impala for a while now, and I decided to go for a simple design with an accent finger.
I applied one coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme on all fingers except for the ring finger, and then added one coat of Impala Na Mira 3D, which contains dark silver holo glitter in black jelly base. It was quite sheer on it's own so I decided to layer it over the black base.

The formula is really good and the glitter coverage was great, but I was a bit disappointing that it was so sheer. I was hoping not to use a base coat for it but when I realized it would be a bit too sheer for me even after 3 coats.

The holo glitter was sooo sparkly and beautiful in the sun, it was a delight to look at it. In shade it was less impressive, it looked plain silver without the holo effect, but still pretty.

For the accent finger I applied one coat of Barry M Pomegranate which has really great coverage. I used striping tape to create the triangle shape, painted this part with black and once dried, I aligned the striping take around the existing triangle and painted over the black part with the holo polish. Once all dried I applied one coat of Poshe to seal the design.

I love how simple and pretty this came out, and you can never go wrong with a holographic polish, right? :)

For today's guest post I'm happy to have the awesome Sophie from My Awesome Beauty blog that you probably all know. Sophie's blog was one of the first blogs I've followed and she really inspired me. Looking at her perfect manicures and swatches made me finally start my own blog a while back ago, and I'm so happy I did! Not only Sophie is a great blogger and nail artist, but she's also super creative and a talented photographer, she makes really cool and easy-to-make tutorials and have I told you she has won the BeautyBlogger of the year award? If you haven't seen her blog yet, now is the time!

Hey everyone!

Thank you so much Natalie for giving me this opportunity. You have a wonderful blog and I love getting to be a part of it. :)

When I started my blog a little over a year ago, I set out to be known for something within the nail world. The first couple of months was just swatching and trying to find "my" photography style, but then I discovered striping tape.

In a matter of months I had made a whole ton of striping tape nail designs and that's what my blog got known for. The reason I like using striping tape instead of regular household tape is that you don't have to wait nearly as long because the striping tape is less sticky.

With this look, I started off with two coats of a while polish. After these two coats, I started hunting for my striping tape which I couldn't find anywhere. I looked and looked until I finally settled on using normal household tape. After 30 minutes, I cut a few pieces of tape off and used them on my hand a few times to unstickify (is that a word?) them and it it went fine. For the yellow color, I had to wait even longer, maybe 45 minutes or so. After I put the black color on, I had to wait 1,5 hours to even dare to try, and even then it got ruined! The tape brought up the color with it.

I got SO annoyed and started hunting for my striping tape again. After the whole apartment was upside down, I found it in my nail design-equipment drawer. Sigh.

I removed the whole thing and started over. It took me 1 hour in total and I was done. Ai ai, striping tape, how I love you.

I would love to see you all visit me over at my blog, My Awesome Beauty, some day, and thank you again for this opportunity, Natalie.

Awesome Sophie

I made this design for the competition that Sophie from My Awesome Beasuy is having at her blog. I bet most of you already know her fabulous blog, and you probably noticed that she really loves making designs with striping tape. So the challenge for this competition was to create a design using a tape method and 3 colors.

This is only my second design I've made with striping tape, and I gotta say it's a fun but very time consuming method (well I guess it doesn't have to be, if you use less tape than I did lol) but the result is fabulous!

For this design I've started with a white base, two coats of Wet n Wild White Creme. After it dried completely I used a thin striping tape to create a diamond shaped net. I filled the blank diamonds with my chosen colors which were Kiko 278 (Violet Orchid Microglitter), Wet n Wild  A Show At The Palladium (gold) and Color Club Beyond (black holo). After filling the spots I removed the tape and let it dry completely, and applied once coat of Poshe.

I really love how this design turned out, I think that the colors are working well together and it came out even prettier than I imagined, so I'm very satisfied with it. 

Be sure to check Sophie's blog to see the beautiful designs that entered this competition, and if you liked my design I would appreciate if you show your support at Sophie's blog :)

I got my Zoya polishes two days ago and I knew I have to use one of them (if not ALL of them) for my next mani. I've been planning to do this design for a while, I just wasn't sure what colors I should use, but then when I saw the gorgeous Zoya Storm with it's stunning holographic sparkle, I decided to combine it with another holographic polish.

For the base I applied one layer or Pupa - Violet 033 which is a lovely purple / violet holographic polish. It's holo effect isn't as strong and linear as I wish it was, but it looks lovely and the coverage is really good with only once coat. It's dry time is really fast too, which was great since I didn't have to wait long before using the striping tape.
After placing randomly the striping tape on the nails I applied two coats of the beautiful Zoya Storm. This one is simply gorgeous in the sun, it's a black base with scattered holo effect. It was a bit sheer, I did expect it to be more opaque with one coat, but two quick coats did the job (I only waited about a minute between the coats). Then I quickly pulled the striping tape off the nails and I got this lovely result. Lastly I applied one coat of Poshe over this design to smooth the surface.

I decided to join in on the awesome contest that Wacky Laki is hosting on her blog, and created my very first fashion inspired design, including a technique I didn't use before.

I found this cute black and white dress with the simple and modern print of a gradient and white stripes that create some sort of a net or squares, depending on how you look at it. Instantly I thought it would be great for my first striping design. I've never done before a design with a striping tape, and I wanted to give it a try.

I stared my design with one coat of Chic White Flag. Once it was completely dry (I waited about an hour, just to be sure, meanwhile watched the Titanic on TV lol, what a drama!) I placed my striping tape on each nail. I won't lie, it wasn't easy since I tried to place them carefully so I can get symmetric squares, but I think I managed to pull it off.

Once the tape was placed on all nails, I created over each nail a gradient using the same white polish and Catherine Arley 805 black holographic polish, which unfortunately looks like a plain black in these photos. I applied the gradient on each nail separately, and once I was done with one nail - I removed the tape and moved on to the next nail.
When I finished all the nails and let them dry, I applied Poshe top coat to seal it off and add some gloss to the nails.

I was really happy with how my design came out, even if it wasn't colorful and didn't have sparkles or glitters in it. I think it looks simple yet modern and sophisticated. It actually reminds me of the Azrieli towers in Tel Aviv, especially the third photo, with the nails facing up towards the sky ;)
I hope you liked this design, I would love to hear your thoughts on it. 

There are some fabulous designs in this contest, you can see them here.
If you would like to vote for my design, you can do this at the voting post.