Nail Nerd (nail art for nerds) » holo http://www.nailnerd.com Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:38:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-nails/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:26:38 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=6765

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Hopping on the bandwagon, I had to do my own Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer nails — and even watched the tv special the other night just to refresh my ol’ brain.  Started with a three coat base of China Glaze Unpredictable, another little holo from the Bohemian Collection.  I know I mostly covered it up, but [...]

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Ok I was wrong about getting caught up on everything last weekend.  :)  Ended up taking a mini-vacation (NEEDED!!!) and am just now getting back online and into the swing of things, so thanks for bearing with me.  This mani sort of reflects that; easy, sparkly, the layers of crashing water…. with a hint of [...]

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]]> http://www.nailnerd.com/sea-party-nails/feed/ 7 Flakie Swirl Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/flakie-swirl-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/flakie-swirl-nails/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:17:36 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=5443

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This… this was full-on doodlebuggin’.  I was at the store yesterday and one of the checkout ladies mentioned that she had sat down the night before, didn’t know what to do with her nails, and wound up just painting them all different colors.  Her hands looked so happy and fun, and I realized it had [...]

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It’s pretty and easy — pretty easy!  Started with a two coat base of a-england King Arthur (I’ve used this one before, still love it) then went in and applied some little floral decal stickers when it was almost set.  I bought a whole bunch of them off eBay ages ago, but you can probably [...]

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]]> http://www.nailnerd.com/floral-dream-nails/feed/ 8 Pepe the King Prawn Muppet Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/pepe-the-king-prawn-muppet-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/pepe-the-king-prawn-muppet-nails/#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:30:15 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=4762

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I actually wanted to do Beaker but I couldn’t find that polish for some reason, so here’s the next one down the line: OPI Pepe’s Purple Passion.  It went down as expected, a rich finish in two coats, crammed with sparkly flecks for extra wow.  And if that wasn’t enough flash, I added China Glaze [...]

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Sometimes quick and easy is just the way to go!  I started with a 2 coat base of the ever lovely OPI DS Magic — you just can’t go wrong, this is one of my favorite deep blues.  Once that dried I added (what I think looks like) a pebble stamp from BM-211 using China [...]

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The sun is out!  The sun is out!  Time to put something blingy on your nails!  I started with a 3 coat base of Sephora by OPI Teal We Meet Again from their Havana Nights collection — wish it didn’t take 3 coats, but it was a lovely sea-blue shimmer number once it got on: [...]

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I know, I know, I’ve done the blue flower thing a few times before — what can I say, I like ‘em!  This was mostly dinking around with acrylic paint — the blues and yellows/orange are all acrylic, then I went in with the Migi pen in black for outlines and swirly business.  Afterwards I [...]

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The base on this one went on as expected, with a little more vamp than the bottle indicated: Material Girl Phantom is a sort of black chocolate number with sparkles thrown throughout; black/brown on first glance but then amps up a little under the right lighting.  Once a couple of coats of that dried I [...]

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Ooooooo ahhhhhhhhh it’s HITS Zeus Holographic nail polish!  Went for three coats of this charcoal holo just to be sure (don’t want to shortchange a holo!) and it pulled off brilliantly — beautiful holographic effects in full light and wonderfully sparkled without the glare of direct light.  And since we’re creeping up on Halloween I [...]

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