Hello lovelies and happy Sunday! I hope everyone is safe with all the snow that's been falling in the last few days. We'we had some over here too and it's supposed to snow again today, but nothing as serious as in some other parts of the world. Today I have a blue mani for you. It's gonna be a double dose of blue since tomorrow is Monday Blues time. The one from today is a mix and match type of nail art but not too out there. I'm kind of OCD when it comes to the symmetry of my manicures.
I've never been a fan of rhinestones on nails, but recently I've seen a lot of rhinestone manicures from Gosia and I fell in love with them. So I had to get some from eBay and of course I got a ton in different shapes and colors. I really like the square or rectangular ones like the ones I used for this particular mani.
The starting point for these nails was Barry M Denim, a polish that I saw recently and remembered how much I loved. You can see it on the middle and ring fingers. It only took one coat to cover the nails completely. I put a tiny drop of top coat at the base of the nails and then placed the rhinestones on top using a toothpick. I finished with one coat of Seche Vite all over the nails.
The remaining 3 nails have 2 coats of Rapsodi 340 as a base. I used China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara on top, but instead of doing glitter tips I brushed it at the base of the nail. To be honest, I really wanted to do this in the form of a gradient but the glitter is so dense in this polish that it went on opaque no matter how much I wiped the brush. It really is an amazing glitter.
The shimmer in Denim is gorgeous and Lorelei's Tiara is just dreamy. But I can't tell you how much I love these rhinestones. I can't believe I haven't tried them before. Can't wait to use them in a ton of manicures in the future!
Unfortunetaly I'm not a fan of rhinetosnes, but I do love the sparkle on your nails. It's like frost, it's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a rhinestone fan either, but I can definitely appreciate pretty manis like this!! This turned out great Mihaela!
ReplyDeleteOmg, Lorelei's Tiara is my favourite silver glitter! I find that whenever I topcoat rhinestones, they turn cloudy );
ReplyDeleteLove the sparkles :)
ReplyDeleteaaaaaah!!!! you got the rhinestones!!!!! yay!!!!!!!! and they look FABULOUS on you!!!! and you know what, I don't have any rectangular rhinestones, so now I will have to get some!!! And I'm trying to ignore that gorgeous Denim.. gah!!!! I'm cutting up all my credit cards!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I agree that they aren't for everybody. I didn't like them either until now.
ReplyDeleteThank you Marisa! Maybe you're gonna change your mind. Gosia made me change my mind and now I love them!
ReplyDeleteThat's nonsense. You need Denim! No seriously, it's amazing.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I actually ordered from 2 sellers and I didn't get the package from one of them. It was square and triangular stones. He's sending it again and this time I hope it gets here. I really love these. Oh and my favorite ones are black rectangular ones. Those are so cool!
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteMine too! It's so beautiful and the fact that it has tiny blue glitters makes it even better. Yeah, I guess they do turn sort of cloudy. Maybe that's why I like them now. I used to find them tacky before. And I don't have an alternative for top coating them, otherwise they would fall off.
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