Nails inspired by Revlon

Hey there!

How are you doing? It's getting colder here, but everything's just fine :)

As I told you in my guest post for Cristina of Let them have Polish, I'm generally inspired by textures, patterns, colors .. that I see on clothes or on other stuff. In fact, I'm inspired by everything that can be reproduced on my nails!

So, this weekend, while I was surfing on Youtube, I saw a review about a Revlon Colorburst lipstick. And I fell in love with the packaging! I had to try this on my nails! So here we go :

And here's what the lipstick looks like :

I also remember that The PolishAholic had done something similar to this recently with a great tutorial inside! She was inspired by a phone case for this one!

I love what I came up with, and I love this padded effect! I just think that maybe I should have listened to myself when I hesitated on cutting in half my striping tape to have something thinner! But I'm keeping this idea for another mani!! 

What do you think about this? Where do you get your inspiration?

Oh, and I almost forgot to say welcome to all of my new followers!! <3 

OPI - Brisbane Bronze

Hey girls!

So fall is here and it's been raining a lot lately. It's a very strange weather, a fall weather I guess. But I like fall because you can start burning some candles and prepare for winter!

My favorite color for fall is bronze. The coppery reflects make me think of the bright reds we see in leaves before they fall of trees. And one of my favorite bronzes is OPI's Brisbane Bronze. It looks perfects in two coats, but you can also apply it over a black base. And the black base gives it a completely different look.

To achieve this mani, I applied two coats of OPI's Lady in Black and one coat of my fast drying top coat. Then I taped my nails with some striping tape. I applied two coats of Brisbane Bronze and I gently removed the pieces of tape. I finished with my go-to top coat!

What do you think about it?

What are your favorite colors for fall?

xoxo

#TheSundayNailBattle - Mosaïc Nails

This sunday, for the Sunday Nail Battle Andreia and Odile gave us a new theme to play with which is Mosaïc Nails. We have to use at least three different colors to achieve this manicure.

When you google Mosaïc Nails, you can see really awesome stuff. At first I wanted to do really tiny mosaïcs on my nails, but I decided to go with bigger ones. Not only it was easier, but it also allowed me to be more precise. I applied two coats of my favorite black nail polish and then I took my Kiko holographics nail polishes to do this :

It's not as perfect as I would want it to be, but I really like how it looks.

And as it's sunny today, here are some additional pics under sunlight :

I hope you'll enjoy what's left from your weekend!

#TheSundayNailBattle - Back to School Nails

This week's theme for the Sunday Nail Battle is "Back to school Nails".

I've been thinking about what I was going to do for a while and I first wanted to draw some lines on my nails to do a kind of lined paper effect.
But as I was preparing my stuff to do the mani, I remembered that there was another course at school where we had to use a different kind of lined paper, which was music.

So here's what I did :

Can't wait to see the ideas people had for this battle!!

Good luck for those of you who are going back to school!

The Sunday Nail Battle - Skulls and Bones

This sunday's nail battle theme is "Skulls and Bones". And for this battle Odile and Andreia decided that we had to use at least black and white polishes.

So I put two coats of Essie's Blanc on my nails, and then I used my mat velvet top coat from Chanel to have a matte finish. I wanted to do a kind of french bones thing, which litterally means nothing but I think you'll understand when seing the pictures.

I also used two stamping plates for the skulls and here's the result :

And because you're a skull doesn't mean you can't be a princess, so I decided to add a little crown :

It's pretty simple, but I like how it looks :)

What do you think about it?

Bye!!

Thursday, it's Ok!

Last week I already showed you a black & white stamping and I decided to try it again this week!

And today I didn't have to remove everything because I wasn't completely pleased with my nails.

What's really great in working in the IT domain is that even if you sometimes have to deal with some withdrawn people or narrow-minded people, you also have the chance of working with very open-minded people that will encourage you to be creative and won't judge you just because you like to spend time painting your nails!

What I like even more is to be complimented by some men who usually think that doing your nails is just a waste of time. Not that I don't like when the compliments come from women, but it feels a little different!!

So let's go back to this stamping! After putting a base, I put 2 coats of Essie's Blanc, a pure white. I put a matte top coat and then I stamped with my black Konad polish. I found this design on the plate BM-221.

I really like how the black flowers show up very well on the white base. And I didn't mess my forefinger so everything is alright!! I'm all prepped for work now!

Lately I've been focusing on stamping because when I'm travelling it's really easy to bring what I need to stamp. But promise, next week I'll try my best to show you something different!

xoxo <3