Well I finally have a widget for my new shop, Pattycake's Vintage. Please feel free to steal that code and add it to your blog:) The lovely Leigh-Ann over on FreckledNest created that for me! It is just what I needed. You can find the widget and its code over in the right side column of this blog. I highly recommend Leigh-Ann for all your designing needs! Just shoot her an email!
So tomorrow night me and my boyfriend will be attending a Christmas in July party. I wanted to do something festive with my nails and I came up with a very sparkly, snowy white look inspired by a friend from Brooklyn. Last week when I was out on Shelter Island I hung out with my friend Eileen and she had this very cool stone embedded sort of mosaic thing going on with her nails. Now I am not about all pretty pretty, floral and over done acrylic nails, but I do love to paint my nails different colors and keep them at a good length. I loved this particular look, it is very artsy and fun to me, and there are so many ways to go about creating a look like this. Yesterday I tested it out and today I decided to go with a white "winter wonderland" look for the party:)
So tomorrow night me and my boyfriend will be attending a Christmas in July party. I wanted to do something festive with my nails and I came up with a very sparkly, snowy white look inspired by a friend from Brooklyn. Last week when I was out on Shelter Island I hung out with my friend Eileen and she had this very cool stone embedded sort of mosaic thing going on with her nails. Now I am not about all pretty pretty, floral and over done acrylic nails, but I do love to paint my nails different colors and keep them at a good length. I loved this particular look, it is very artsy and fun to me, and there are so many ways to go about creating a look like this. Yesterday I tested it out and today I decided to go with a white "winter wonderland" look for the party:)
I wanted to share a little tutorial on how to do this, just in case you wanted to do it yourself. I know, I know this is totally different for my blog or me, but I just had to share, who can say no to art, or nail art at that?
Here is what you will need:
1. First of all you want to wet your Q-tip, this is to help pick up all of those tiny rhinestones and place them on your nails. You will also need to prepare your rhinestones(I used self adhesive rhinestones which I cut from the design and also picked off as well), gemstones, whichever stone you choose. Have them all ready to go, you do not want to be peeling off or digging for rhinestones with wet nails, no good!
2. Start off with a clean, polish free nail. Choose a color of our choice an d paint all of your nail's that color. Allow that to dry.
3. Paint on a generous coat of glitter polish, this will sort of be like your glue to adhere on those stones. Do not allow to dry, I did one nail at a time with this step so there was no time for them to set before I got to them with the rhinestones.
4. Use the wet tip of your Q-tip to pick up one stone at a time, placing it dome side up on your nail. I did this part with no rhyme or reason, just a spattering of stones. Go back on those stones and press them down gently, being sure not to slide them around on your nail, messing up the bottom coat of polish.
5. After you applied the stones to your nail, take your base coat and apply a generous amount onto your stone encrusted nail. This will act like a sealant on that nail, attaching the stones even better so they last longer.
6. When the base coat dries, you can go back and then add another coat of glitter to make them extra sparkly.
7. That's pretty much it! They will last a long time if you do all of the above steps. To remove just soak in some nail polish remover and use tweezers if need be to remove stones.
2. Start off with a clean, polish free nail. Choose a color of our choice an d paint all of your nail's that color. Allow that to dry.
3. Paint on a generous coat of glitter polish, this will sort of be like your glue to adhere on those stones. Do not allow to dry, I did one nail at a time with this step so there was no time for them to set before I got to them with the rhinestones.
4. Use the wet tip of your Q-tip to pick up one stone at a time, placing it dome side up on your nail. I did this part with no rhyme or reason, just a spattering of stones. Go back on those stones and press them down gently, being sure not to slide them around on your nail, messing up the bottom coat of polish.
5. After you applied the stones to your nail, take your base coat and apply a generous amount onto your stone encrusted nail. This will act like a sealant on that nail, attaching the stones even better so they last longer.
6. When the base coat dries, you can go back and then add another coat of glitter to make them extra sparkly.
7. That's pretty much it! They will last a long time if you do all of the above steps. To remove just soak in some nail polish remover and use tweezers if need be to remove stones.
Have fun and experiment!!!!
7 comments:
So, will have to try this miss Patty Cake:) I just love the new blog name. I can't calling you that. It is so cute:)
how come my comment didn't post from yesterday?
I said, bring that stuff with ya next weekend!
how come my comment didn't post from yesterday?
I said, bring that stuff with ya next weekend!
oooooh! love.
Danielle! You posted that comment on my Flickr!!! haha
patty, those nails are outrageous! i stole your widget for my blog :) love it.
Oh my gosh, those nails are so so pretty! I found you through Freckled Nest and you have such a cute blog! :)
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