Showing posts with label gio de giovanni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gio de giovanni. Show all posts

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Moon Manicure and my favourite base/top coat

 

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It came out kind of Christmas-y, but oh well..

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I would really like to get my hands on the real moon manicure stickers.

Which, as you can see are in the shape of perfect circles.

 

 

What I did luckily manage to get my hands on a golden nail polish. It’s from Rimmel London and it’s called 525 Gold’n Rock. It was 4 Euros and has a domed brush which helps with the application, but the application is by no means 1 second long, that’s just marketing BS.

Now on to my favourite top/base coat,

It is Sally Hansen Nailgrowth Miracle, now I had this nearly 2 years ago, but didn’t repurchase simply because I lacked the means, it has quite a hefty price tag of 12 Euros. Makes the manicure very long-lasting, has a high-shine finish and makes nails very strong. I’ve had the longest natural nails with this polish, a definite A+ from me.

Hope everyone is well.

With love,

Janne.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Sparkle explosion nail tutorial + quick fix for feet

Instead of studying for my Math exam, I decided to make a quick nail tutorial. This is really easy and you probably have everything to make this tutorial already.

Now as your first step apply base coat (optional) and polish your nails with your favourite nail polish. Make it completely opaque, as you will be able to see the streaks.

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After that use a darker tone to draw random lines along the edges of your nails like this.

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Now I added a dark blue tone to give it some more dimension, you can omit this if you want to.

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And then I used a silver sparkle nail polish. This may be your last step.

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But I wanted to make it a bit more special, so I glued rhinestones on my nails. Adding rhinestones certainly doesn’t lengthen the longevity of this manicure, as they come off pretty easily and rip off nail polish under it. I used Depend Nail Glue and after 24 hours 3 rhinestones were missing. Try to add rhinestones after you have washed your hair, because that rips the stones off.

And this picture was taken after using Essie Fastest Drying Top Coat. Super shiny!!

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And the products I used

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This is so easy that you will have a hard time to screw up your dominant hand. I’m strongly right-handed and my left hand was pretty decent.

And now for the feet.

My feet were in a really bad state- tired, dry, covered in blisters( yes, I wore my Nazi shoes again). So they really needed a quick pick-me-up.

I did a foot soak with sea salt and added a bit of olive oil. I soaked my feet for a couple of minutes, used a pumice stone to remove some harder skin. Soaked my feet for another couple of minutes and just dried them off. No need to add any cream, just pop on a pair of cotton socks and if you can, sleep with your socks on.

This made my weary feet pretty amazing, just give it a try and tell me what you think.

With love,

Janne.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Ornithologists dream

When my cousin Elise (who is studying ecology) saw my mani, she said they looked like seagull eggs. I googled it and here they are..

Seagull eggs vs my mani

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This screams for a punch line I currently can’t come up with..

And here’s what I used

base and topcoat Artdeco nail wonder

the white- Carlo di Roma pure nailpolish ( Selver’s Uhuu? sale sth like 1 Euro)

the black glitter- Gio de Giovanni in 129 (Selver and cost me 1 Euro)

 

Looks like just my kind of freaky, I’m totally in love with this combination.

 

Have a nice Mothers Day moms and future moms!!