Purple Marbled Gradient with MoYou Suki 07 Stamped Swirls

Hi Everyone!

I hope your weeks are all off to good starts. Today I have a marbled gradient to share with you that I am quite fond of. I am huge fan of purple polishes and I have wanted to do a purple gradient for some time. I decided to do a marbled gradient instead of a sponged gradient and I'm so glad I did!

 

My tutorial for this marbled gradient can be found here....and it is a lot easier than you might assume! Has anyone ever tried out this alternate style of gradient? Which do you prefer (marbled or sponged)?

With the purples I think this manicure looks magical!

The Polishes used in order from light to dark were:

OPI: You're such a Budapest

OPI: Do you Lilac it?

China Glaze: Grape pop

OPI: Vant to bite my neck?

In order to enter this manicure into the MoYou December Pinterest contest I decided to stamp over it in Essie No Place like Chrome with a stamp from MoYou London's Suki Collection plate 07. I actually prefer the unstamped version where all the marbling of colours is easier to see...but oh well I still love them. Which do you like?

If you would like to vote for this manicure in the contest please like and repin here. 
There are lots of other amazing manicures to look at too!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by :)

Have a great week!

Chanfie

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The promised tutorial: Marbled Gradient :)

This is just a quick post to add a tutorial that I made for a previous manicure I did. I have added it to that post but I realise that people rarely read older posts (I think?).

About a month ago I entered into a nail art competition on Bloom.com called "Peace Love and Nail Art" which had an amazzzing prize- the whole OPI San Fran collection and a pile of stamping plates and nail art supplies from Cheeky.  I thought I had won and was so excited, but later found out that it was only open to US residents (damn fine print). If you are a US resident I recommend keeping an eye out on Bloom for more competitions as they seem to have really good ones regularly. 

Anyway I was a little sad, but my spirits were lifted when they emailed me to offer the 'press' portion of the prize. I decided that I would make a tutorial for their blog :) 

The nail art that had received so many votes in the competition was the red to black gradient I did a few months ago, and also posted in my Halloween nail art ideas post. Here's a pic if you don't remember...

To do this gradient I used a different technique from the regular sponge gradient. I used a sandwich bag to marble :) I got the idea when I did a sandwich bag marble and one of he nails looked a bit like a gradient (an awesome gradient...). Here's that post.

Anyway, so here is the tutorial, Halloween themed to boot.

Thanks for visiting :)

Chanfie
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More Sandwich Bag Marble and Cheeky Viva Mexico

I've been enjoying looking at all the lovely bright summery nail art that people on the other side of the world have been showing off for the last few months, and wanted to get in on the trend. 

I may have jumped the gun on the summer neons here in Perth, Western Australia... it's technically still winter, but on Saturday when I did this it was such a lovely sunny day that I couldn't resist.

At first I actually did all the nails with a marble, but I wasn't really liking it , so I redid most of the nails and kept the ring and index fingers. If you haven't been following my blog, the marble is done using a sandwich bag and I've been kind of obsessed with this technique the past weeks. I have a tutorial here on the technique. I have also used it to create a rather interesting gradient here. This time I used a glitter polish in the mix which was kind of cool, although I think it would have looked nicer with a metallic glitter rather than matte. 

Ok all the important info.....

The polishes I used were:

Bright Pink: China Glaze Heli-Yum

Bright red/coral: OPI- OPI on Collins Ave

Bright each/orange: China Glaze Peachy Keen.

The glitter polish is one I mixed up myself to match:)

The stamping plate I used was from the new 2013 Cheeky collection- The Viva Mexico plate.  

Both the images I used stamped beautifully. I stamped with the Heli-yum and OPI on Collins Ave (painted half the plate with one colour and the other half with the other polish to create the gradient effect).

Oh!!! This weekend I made an instagram account and also a tumblr page for my blog!

I got the advice from the lovely Natalia from Cats n Nails, a fellow Western Australian nail art blogger. I hope that if anyone is interested in my nail art that I will now be easier to follow :)

So far I'm loving instagram! Everyone seems very friendly, and I think I'm addicted already. 

The links should be up the top right of my blog. 

 

I made a new profile pic for various blog related things this week too! What do you think? I couldnt resist wearing some matching bright lipstick!

Thanks very much for reading :)

Chanfie xx

Sandwich Bag Marble Again!

 This Time a Vampy Gradient :)

After my last mani (here)  I was very excited about the sandwich bag marble technique. I think I mentioned that I was keen to try a gradient using the same method.

And I just couldn't wait!
Make sure you scroll down for a tutorial =D

I think the sandwich bag marble creates a much more interesting gradient than the normal sponging technique. 

I didn't have much luck capturing all the swirlyness of the colours mixing together on camera so you will just have to trust me =)

The polishes I used were:

China Glaze: Hey Sailor (bright red)

OPI: Kennebunk Port (Deep red)

Revitanail: Port wine (Metallic deep red)....mmmm Port

and OPI: Lincoln Park After Dark (Dark Purple -pretty much black!)

I think having a small amount of metallic polish really makes this marbling gradient pop! It looks amazing in the sunlight :)

I was feeling creative and edited my photos to only show the red ..  What do you think?

And here is the tutorial I have been promising forever. It seemed appropriate for the Halloween season and Bloom.com (Bloom beauty trends) kindly asked me if I wanted to write a blog post or tutorial for them :)

Notice I forgot to take a picture before I cleaned up... Don't worry- I'm not that neat!

Thanks for visiting my blog :)

Chanfie
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Quick Glitter Update on my Last Mani :)

Thanks to the advice from all the lovely ladies (and men?) from reddit laqueristas I decided to add glitter to my last mani after a few days of wear. Here are the results :)

Good advice I'd say!

The glitter polish is one I made myself. The names of the rest of the polishes and a tutorial on this marble-y swirly look can be found here  :)

The Sandwich Bag Watercolour Marble

Oceanic Fused Glass Nails: 

How to get a watercolour marble look with a sandwich bag

Sorry about the lengthy title for this post. I wasn't quite sure what to call this look. I got the idea from Polish and Pearls where she called this technique a no water watercolour water marble... she must have had trouble too!

So, I have heaps of pictures.... Its really really pretty and I didn't want to miss out on any angles!  I also made a tutorial, which you can find if you scroll to the bottom of this post. It was incredibly easy and actually quite fast as I just did it over the top of my last manicure (most of the nails were plain blue). All you need is nail polish and a sandwich bag (or anything similar..)

So here is the left hand: 

And the right hand. I love the middle finger here.... I think a gradient would look pretty with this technique.

and more pictures...

and more..

And then I went to the beach to take more pictures! This manicure made me think of a stormy ocean :)

 And here are the polishes I used :)

Dating a royal and Man hunt are almost identical. I had painted my nails previously with Dating a Royal (from my last post!) and it hadnt chipped yet, so I just went over the top. I used China Glaze Man hunt instead of the OPI as it's more pigmented. 

Anyway, especially with the colours I used, it reminded me of that really pretty glass jewelry where all the colours are mixed together. This is called fused glass. Here is some fused glass that looks kind of similar- it's actually a table top! The image should link to the website where I found it :)

And here is how I did these nails :)

As I said it was really fast. The actual marble/watercolour/smear...whatever you want to call it, took only  10 minutes. The clean up took about half an hour though!

Thanks for reading :)