Nail Passion

Nail Art is my passion! This blog is all about nails :) I wanted to share my passion with others and be able to connect and follow others who share the same interests! I hope you enjoy my blog :) Feel free to comment, like, share and/or give feedback. (You can also find me on Facebook and Pinterest).

Sunday, July 12, 2015

PINK HOLO FLOWER NAIL ART

Hello there :) Today I have a short post for you. I was in desperate need to do my nails the other night (because they're in really bad shape lately), and I wanted to share this simple design with you.



I played around with colors for about 2 hours (literally! I know because I watched an entire movie before I knew what I was going to do with my nails). I finally came up with this combo and I love how soft and pretty it is :)

The white base is Funky Fingers, Gesso and the pink is ILNP, Cutie Pop. The stamping plate I used was from BornPrettyStore, link here: http://www.bornprettystore.com/wave-texture-patterns-nail-stamp-template-image-plate-born-pretty-l005-65cm-p-17923.html

The plate itself is $5.99, and you're welcome to use my code 'UTG10' for 10% off of your entire order!

I hope you enjoyed this design! Have a great week :)

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

GRADIENT PALM TREE NAIL ART

Hello again! Today I have a fun hand painted gradient design to share with you :)



 I was inspired to do this design because I haven't done a hand painted design in awhile and palm trees are quite easy, and beautiful over a gradient :) 



I started off with a white base to make my gradient colors pop more, then I sponged China Glaze For Audrey and Sinful Colors Innocent over the top. I painted the palm trees with white and black acrylic paint using a liner brush from Winstonia.

I hope you guys like this design! Let me know if you have any design requests :)

Saturday, July 4, 2015

LONDONTOWN LAKUR 4TH OF JULY POLISH SWATCHES & REVIEW (PLUS DESIGN & VIDEO!!)

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!

I hope you all have plans to be with your loved ones today :) I wanted to quickly share some Beautiful polishes with you guys. These 4 polishes are part of LondonTown Lakur's 4th of July Collection, and I have to say, they are stunning!!

**These polishes were sent to me for review. Please see my Disclosure Policy listed in the tabs above.**


Chelsea Porcelain, Londoner Love, Beau of the City and Dishy Splendour




Chelsea Porcelain is not your average white polish for the 4th of July. Normally you'd go with a stark white, but this is more of a cream...which I actually really really like!




Londoner Love is a beautiful bright red. Most of the reds you see for the 4th of July are a little bit of a deeper red, so for me this one really stands out.




Beau of the City is such a Gorgeous blue!! I'm in love with blues...and if you've followed me for awhile you probably know that by now. This one is no different. Its such a nice royal blue.




 Dishy Splendour is SOO PRETTY!! I've never been big on silver polishes, but from the second I started applying this one I had hearts in my eyes :P

I thoroughly enjoyed applying all of these polishes! The application was smooth and even. They self leveled and overall I think they're the perfect 4th of July polishes because they are a little bit different than what you'd normally expect. 

Btw, I have a little bonus post for you today ;) Since I got my new camera I had to give videos a try, so I recorded the swatches for these polishes. I'm still playing around with the lighting, so don't mind the flickering in the video. It will be up later today, but you can watch that on my YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hIAFK8oLzM

Even though it's now the 4th of July and the main reason to have these polishes is for wearing them today...I still absolutely recommend getting your hands on them! Before LondonTown contacted me a few months ago to do reviews for them I had never heard of them before, and I am shocked because they have such beautiful polishes with amazing formulas!


Happy 4th of July!! 

Friday, July 3, 2015

CIATE LONDON SUMMER COLLECTION SWATCHES & REVIEW

Happy (almost) 4th of July!! I hope you're all doing well.

I recently received these polishes from Ciate London. The polishes are inspired by looks off of the runway and are part of their Summer Collection. 



They also sent a Base and Topcoat that are meant to give you the long lasting effects that Gel polish gives you, without having to use a Gel kit.




I really like this white polish, the formula is really great. It applies evenly and self levels. It goes on pretty well in about 2 coats, but I applied 3 because it was still a little sheer around the tips of my nails.



The black is the same as the white, it applies smoothly and self levels. The first coat was pretty sheer, but by the second coat it was pretty opaque. I applied 3 coats for this one as well just to make sure my entire nail was completely opaque.



Here are 2 of the designs I created using some of the vinyls that were sent in the kit :) I had a lot of fun creating these and I loved them so much more than I expected!

The Gel base and topcoat work pretty well, although the first time I applied the topcoat I forgot that it was different than most of the topcoats I use...so I applied it kind of thick and and then I had bubbles in my design. But overall, it's a good topcoat :)

I'll be posting a video of swatches as well as a tutorial for my Tribal design (hopefully) in the next few days so make sure to subscribe to my YouTube Channel so you can see those :) (Link below).