Totally Cool Nails

Kleancolor Chunky Black Holo

2012-05-16T06:07:00.000-04:00

I've fallen in love with the brand Kleancolor recently. I ordered a bunch of colors off of Ebay after I seen some wonderful swatches on Tumblr, and had to get my hands on them. One of which was this gorgeous Chunky Black Holo... it reminds me quite a bit of flaky polishes like Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure and Essie's Shine of the Times but instead of flakes it's larger and smaller glitters. It's also not really my idea of a holo but it is still beautiful none the less.

I started by painting my nails two layers of a black polish. (Here I'm using Pure Ice)

I added a thick layer of the Holo and this is the result.

At an angle you can see a lot more green.

In the bottle you can see some gorgeous blue reflects that don't tend to show up on the nail in most lights.

I also picked up a few more glitter polishes I can't wait to swatch, so far loving this brand!

Caviar Nails Inspired

2012-05-06T23:01:00.001-04:00

Hey guys, so I've been seeing this "Micro bead manicure" everywhere and I've been wanting to try it ever since. I already had some micro beads in a bunch of different colors that I bought from Ebay a while back and I hardly used so I decided to try it out today.

So here is how I achieved this awesome manicure.
First I'm using these colors of micro beads and as a base color I'm using China Glaze's Pink Underground.

Apply one coat of the nail polish you're going to be using for the look.

Use something really small to mix the beads in, I'm using the lid to a hair spray.

Paint another layer of nail polish and pour the mixed beads onto the nail, filling in all the gaps.

Apply a top coat to just the tips of the nails.

And that's it! It's actually really simple and didn't take as long as I thought it would. I absolutely love the look of it!

Ombre Nails (Browns)

2012-02-26T20:19:00.000-05:00

So I've always wanted to try this trend out but didn't really feel like hunting to the perfect shades to match up for the ombre look. I recently did a Lalaloopsy nail art design inspired by the dolls and I actually mixed a dark brown with a light beige color to create a dark skin tone color. I loved that it turned out so well and so I figured mixed two more shades wouldn't be too hard... So what I did was mix the colors together on a piece of paper but if I had some empty nail polish bottles I would have definitely mixed to make whole bottles. Nude shades are always beautiful and I loved all these.

For this look I used these two colors, Revlon's Hot For Chocolate and Sally Hansen's Beige Blast.

I started by painting the pinky nail with the beige and the thumb with the dark brown.

For the ring finger shade, I mixed a very tiny amount of the chocolate color and a large amount of the beige.

This is how the color turned out.... but I would have liked it to be a little darker after I was done with them all.

After each color I mixed I made sure to wipe my brush off on the paper very well to prevent ruining the color.

For the next color I used equal amounts of both colors.

And more dark brown for the final color.

Here is how they turned out. I was pretty pleased with them and it makes me want to get started on mixing a lot more polishes.

Nail Polish Haul (Sally's)

2012-02-06T19:25:00.003-05:00

I picked up a flaky polish from the brand FingerPaints that's supposed to be a dupe for Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure which is a beautiful blue and orange flaky polish.

The other two are from Christmas collections I believe and I got them at a reduced price of 2 bucks each, which was awesome!! Lol

The first color is a beautiful dark green by China Glaze in the color Holly-day. I don't have a color like this so it was a goo find.

I applied one coat of Flashy from Finger Paints over the green to try it out.

The next color, Orly in the color Le Chateau. In the bottle it looked like a tealish blue color and it looked beautiful.

But on the nails it looked find of black, I was a little disappointed, because other than in this light the color would just look like a solid black color.

Again I applied the flaky polish over this one, it gave a nice effect also.

Finally I painted my nails black and applied about 3-4 coats of the flaky polish and it looked wonderful, I love the effect of it and the many layers of it gave it a closer look to the Hidden Treasure polish.

Overall considering the price I paid for them all together, I think it was a deal.

NOTD: Bermuda Breakaway by China Glaze

2012-01-22T21:26:00.000-05:00

I've had this polish for a while in my collection and rarely wear it on it's own, I usually wear it in the background of a nail art design or incorporated into it, but today I decided to try it on again and see how it looks alone.

I really do love the color, it reminds me of dark blue pen ink and I really like that for some reason. It applies really nicely and I got it completely opaque with only two thin coat which both dried pretty quickly. I'm always remind of a nautical scene when I look at it, and from the color name, which is how I was inspired to create these Nautical Themed Nails. It's a fun shade and it makes me miss summer!! Ha :)

Welcome!!... Again. :P

2012-01-18T18:13:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone! Welcome to my blog! Well.. I've have my blog for quite some time now and I haven't been keeping up with it. So I decided to start fresh and revamp this blog... I will be posting about my nail tutorials here as well as posting swatches of new nail polishes and/or old polishes I just have and want to swatch. I'll also be doing reviews and such, I hope you stay and find something interesting! :) Thanks!