Nail Nerd (nail art for nerds) » ZOYA http://www.nailnerd.com Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:38:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 How To: Mardi Gras Harlequin Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/how-to-mardi-gras-harlequin-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/how-to-mardi-gras-harlequin-nails/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:52:40 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=6879

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With Mardi Gras fast approaching (heck, it’s really sort of already here — Krewe of Nyx just had their ball last night), it’s time to start playing with the Carnival-themed manicures!  The lovely folks over at halloweencostumes.com sent me a pair of harlequin shoes for inspiration (seriously, how cute are these?!  I love that they [...]

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Happy weekend all!  Just a quicky explanation on this one (*somebody* fell down some stairs with their butt taking the brunt of it, so sitting here at the computer is a little… ouchy): got a request in for some Marilyn Monroe themed nails last year, so instead of doing full on portraiture stuff I thought [...]

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Having thrown my back out (this, I suppose, is the downside of aging), I’ve been spending a fair bit of time in bed with a heating pad plowing through my Netflix queue, and yesterday was digging through the back seasons of Peep Show.  When I got to the University Challenge episode, I got all distracted [...]

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]]> http://www.nailnerd.com/betty-blue-nails/feed/ 11 My Little Pony Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/my-little-pony-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/my-little-pony-nails/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:08:33 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=5321

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Back to the request pile! These are on a two coat base of ZOYA Kimber, a lovely rosey shimmer number. With that dry, I used acrylic paint to add in some My Little Ponies on each nail (because who didn’t have a collection of these growing up?!). The faces were… tricky, but whatever, it’s cute! [...]

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]]> http://www.nailnerd.com/my-little-pony-nails/feed/ 11 The Little Prince Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/the-little-prince-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/the-little-prince-nails/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:46:47 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=5282

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I grew up with a deep adoration for The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — it was one of the first books I can remember that made me cry.  I’ve fallen in love with the book repeatedly in my life: while learning French and being able to read it in another language, as a [...]

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]]> http://www.nailnerd.com/the-little-prince-nails/feed/ 6 Gradient Animal Sparkle Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/gradient-animal-sparkle-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/gradient-animal-sparkle-nails/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:40:59 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=5267

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I kicked this one off with a pink gradient using some of the bright happy colors from ZOYA’s Beach Collection: from light to dark, ZOYA Shelby, ZOYA Lara and ZOYA Reagan.  Then I added some leopard circles using black acrylic, laid down a slow-drying topcoat and started dropping mini pink rhinestones into the center of [...]

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]]> http://www.nailnerd.com/gradient-animal-sparkle-nails/feed/ 1 Winnie the Pooh Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/winnie-the-pooh-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/winnie-the-pooh-nails/#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:26:26 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=5180

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I’ve received a number of requests for these, and have been meaning to do them anyway since last year, so here we go!  The base on this (that I hadn’t meant to so thoroughly block, but there you have it) is two coats of ZOYA Tracie –really nice minty floral tone with a bit of [...]

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A lot of small hitters came out to play for this one!  Started with a 2 coat base of Material Girl Guilty Conscience — truly, it was almost perfect in one coat, but I was so put off after that 4-coat Essie fiasco the other night that full coverage is where it’s at right now. [...]

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]]> http://www.nailnerd.com/i-heart-cherry-nails/feed/ 5 How To Do Corpse Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/how-to-do-corpse-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/how-to-do-corpse-nails/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:03:17 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=4177

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I got a note last week after posting the Bettle Burnout Nails asking what I meant by corpse nails.  Since I woke up a little early today (and was confident my doctor’s office staff had a good sense of humor) I decided to do a quick tutorial on how to sponge in this zombie-like manicure. [...]

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Here’s my thought for the day: life doesn’t have an undo button, and neither does nail polish. So since you can’t delete mistakes (you can remove them, but dang, then you’re just starting over again and there’s no fun in that) sometimes you’ve just got to roll with them.  Like this colorful mess.  It began [...]

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