Over The Rainbow

A few months ago, I found out that there is a nail-art related application for Android phones named: NailCatalog.

When you open NailCatalog, you'll find a huge collection of manicures sorted according to base (one color, gradient, french or other) or color (pink, blue, purple, white/beige, yellow, green, gold, orange/brown, red, black, colorful and silver). The manicures are created by various nail salon's in Japan. So if you click on one design, you get to see a larger image of the mani and information of the nail salon that created it.

Today's mani is inspired by the above mani:

I used 3 coats of KIKO no. 204 to draw the clouds. KIKO no. 204 belongs to KIKO's French Manicure line, because it's a milky white sheer. I could have picked a white cream instead, but I wanted to create that dreamy feel to the clouds...not really sure I've managed to do so =S

As for the rainbow, I used Dolly Wink no. 03 (pink), no. 07 (lilac) and no. 09 (green) and Models Own Lemon Meringue.

Have a nice one!!!  

Pastel Flowers

Just a simple flower-themed mani for today. Since it's spring, I took all my Dolly Wink's nail polishes out of my stash. It is time for them to shine!

These are colours I used:

Black ~ Catrice Back To Black
Blue ~ Dolly Wink no. 8
Lilac ~ Dolly Wink no. 7
Salmon Pink ~ Dolly Wink no. 3
White ~ Dolly Wink no. 2
Yellow ~ Models Own Lemon Meringue

The flowers are made using a dotting tool. It's easy and it doesn't require good nailart skills =P As base colour, I used one coat of Etude House LUCIDarling's WH001.

Have a great one!!!

Multi-French-Mani

As promised, I would swatch the Dolly Wink (DW) nail polish collection. Well, at least a little part of it.

Today's mani is inspired by the Vivid Dolly look from the Dolly Wink website:

http://www.koji-honpo.co.jp/tsubasa/lineup/nail/

Only 2 colors are featured in this mani from the DW collection: no. 3 (Salmon) and no. 8 (Blue).

From index to pinkie:
DW no. 8 ~ L.A. Colors 'Fun In The Sun' ~ DW no. 3 ~ Models Own 'Lemon Meringue'

The bottle in the picture is: Catrice 'Back To Black'. This is also the color that I used to do the black french.

What you do think of the multi-french-mani? What colors would you pick to create this look?

Have a wonderful day!