Showing posts with label nail art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nail art. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Discover the DIYer secret weapon and make a pair of studded earrings


Learn how to turn some harmless pearls into these spiky mines.
Firstly I'll give you a good excuse to buy new nail polish. From now on we are not only using them to paint our nails but also as a diy secret weapon. New shades for nails are out very often. There are almost an infinite variety of colours, some very sophisticated, chromed or iridesents, with glitters. The vast majority of nail polishes are inexpensive and sold in small sized bottles, perfect for your diy projects. Shortly nail polish can be a good alternative to paint sometimes: it's cheaper and you can buy it almost everywhere. Let's face it: we'll always have more bottles of nail varnish than cans of paint.
In addiction I'll show you a little trick to keep rounded surfaces from rolling while you paint them. 

Oggi vi mostrerò come trasformare delle innocue perle in un paio di orecchini decisamente aggressivi.
Ma prima vorrei fornirvi una buona scusa per comprare altri smalti per le unghie. Anche se pensati per decorare le nostre unghie, a volte gli smalti possono essere una furba alternativa alla vernice. Pensateci: esistono in mille colori diversi, alcuni molto sofisticati, cangianti o pieni di glitter; sono venduti in piccole dosi, perfette per i vostri progetti fai da te e spesso sono economici. E poi ammettiamolo: avremo sempre più bottigliette di smalto in casa che lattine di vernice. 
In più vi mostrerò un piccolo trucco per impedire alle superfici tonde di rotolare mentre le dipingete.


You'll need:
nail polish
2 pearls
chain
2 earring hooks 
glue gun
glue
metallic wire 
pliers

avrete bisogno di:
smalti
2 perle
una catenella
2 ganci per gli orecchini
colla a caldo
colla
filo metallico
pinze

Plastic pieces from cocktail forks, previosly used to make crystal earrings

 ho usato delle punte in plastica ricavate da delle forchette da cocktail che precedentemente avevo usato per realizzare degli orecchini trasparenti

To keep pearls and other stuff from rolling while you're painting them you can temporarily glue them on a piece of paper using the glue gun

Per evitare che le superfici tonde rotolino mentre le dipingete potete incollarle temporanemente su un pezzetto di carta con della colla a caldo

Your sparkly nail polish will make these pearls shine
Il vostro smalto glitterato farà risplendere le perle
 
Good pearls gone bad: Paint the plastic forks pieces with black nail polish and then glue them onto the pearls

Stendete lo smalto nero sulle punte e poi incollatele sulla perla


Once everything is dry insert the metallic wire into the pearl and make a loop with pliers. Connect the spiky pearl to a piece of chain. Add a earring hook and you've done.

Quando la colla sarà asciutta  inserite nella perla il filo metallico e realizzate un gancetto. Collegate la vostra "mina" ad un pezzetto di catenella e la catenella ad un gancio per gli orecchini.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Houndstooth nails DIY



After a coat of white take a pin (or a nail pen if you have) and draw and fill little squares with black polish. Connect those squares with a / (slash) and your Houndstooth manicure is done!
The strong black and white contrast will make your nails the center of attention,give it a try!

Dopo aver applicato uno strato di bianco prendete uno spillo (o una penna per la decorazione delle unghie) e disegnate dei piccoli quadratini equidistanziati con lo smalto nero. Connettete i quadratini tra loro con una diagonale, disegnate uno / e la vostra manicure pied de poule è pronta!
Il forte contrasto del bianco accostato al nero metterà in risalto le vostre unghie mettendole al centro dell'attenzione, provare per credere.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Sequin nails

Fishscale nails by Deez Nails
 Sequin nails by Glammed up

Sequins are going to be a hot trend this winter so why don't glam up our nails with sequins instead of just sparkly glitters? I have to say that these nails found surfing the web really grab the attention.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

DIY ombrè nails

two colors of your choice and the top coat
due colori a vostra scelta e il top coat


 start applying one color on your nails and let it dry
stendete il primo colore e lasciatelo asciugare



apply the second color at the end of the nail and before it dries apply the top coat insisting with the brush at the point where one color changes in the other you'll see the 2 colors blending together
if you don't get it right the first time keep trying!

 applicate il secondo colore sulla punta dell'unghia e prima che si asciughi stendete il top coat. Ripassate più volte sulla linea di separazione tra i due colori e noterete i due colori mescolarsi.



here's the two colors blended,the effect should be one color changing into the other and the ombrè manicure is done!

ecco i due colori mescolati, l'effetto che dovreste ottenere è l'illusione di un colore che sfumi nell'altro e la vostra manicure è finita!

Friday, April 1, 2011

Monday, December 6, 2010

Cher is 500 years old and met Leonardo da Vinci


Ok this post is not properly about fashion but about a 2 icons of beauty of their eras.
While Jack Mcfarland in one episode of Will&Grace discovers that Cher is God(she appears in one of his dreams)someone else had some fun discovering how it would look like Monalisa if lived nowadays and underwent plastic surgery.Brow lift,rhinoplasty,lip augmentation,cheeks implants,some make up on and what comes out? That is Cher.
It seems that Cher goes beyond time :P
Leonardo da Vinci was seduced by the classic beauty of Gioconda and painted her in a potrait ,i wonder if today he would potray Cher.
the mona lisa plastic surgery

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Lanvin at H&M:This is Sparta!



As you may have noticed i haven't blogged yesterday because i was out on a shopping mission:lanvin at h&m. It wasn't for me of course was for the chronicle...ehm....no one bealives that! I hit the city of Rome that was one of the selected one, of course is the capital!
I have chosen the shopping center instead of the city centre because i tought that women couldn't sleep overnight outside of a closed parking, i was wrong. They slept there and they had the bracelets distributed at 6 am in the morning. Ouch!
When i arrived (early but not enought!!)no bracelets were left. A big group of women came out of h&m with lanvin bags even if all other shops in the mall were closed.There were bouncers everywhere in the shop keeping people calm like there was Lady Gaga in the fenced area. The lanvin area was blocked off all sorrunded by women of all ages and the discontent could be felt. The H&M staff was constantly picking dresses from shelfs and giving them to people with that lucky bracelet while dissasembling shelfs.These women inside the box were waving dresses in front of the nose of those outside the cage.The exposition was dramatically decreasing. I asked if the stock was low and at 10 in the morning almost everything was gone and on a big poster i read:having the bracelet does not guarrantee the purchase.
I wanted to take home the zebra trench so i waited until the gateway was opened. What happened later i call it sparta. It was a battle really. All the women invated the fenced area like crazy, i had my hand stracthed while i picked the trench and missed to take the pink necklace. I grabbed a pair of shoes and then i got an idea:i'm going to exchange them with something else! I was there with my sister and cousin and we couln't leave without anything!
All the deluded women with nothing in hand guarded the empty shelf waiting if someone changed idea and left something.
I found myself pulling a hanger from one side and another girl pulling the other side, i left those hangers to maintain some dignity. A girl said me threateningly in roman:"Do you know that i've been here for 2 hours?" that sounds like this "Ah bella, io sto qua da du ore"
I thought: 2 hours? Lady i've been here since forever now
The following 2 and half hours were implied in speaking with other womens,in exchanging a dress with another until we got what we wanted, we managed to succeed!
When i saw the queue at first i tought we could not buy anything.
Finally we got to the cash desk, the cashier told me the jimmy choo's collection was even more messy and crowded, a old lady touching my zebra trench asked if i was buying it even if i was at the cash. We made that harmful payment but we were happy. With every dress we received a hanger, a garment cover and the paper bag.
We got a slice of pizza at the end, we totally forgot to have lunch!
Next i'm going to tell you everything about dresses, fabric quality, style fitting, i'll take some pics of my buys and then i'll tell you how to buy lanvin if you couldn't finding for you some low cost ebay listings.Stay tuned!
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Fenced area shopping

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more windows

http://i747.photobucket.com/albums/xx113/annanever1/manicure.jpg?t=1290681673
my dedicated manicure

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Galaxy nails





I saw this manicure found by the blog shampalove, it's unbealivable, maybe it has been printed on nails,wow!