Twinkled T Nail Vinyls

While looking at all the amazing nails on Instagram I found the perfect nail vinyls: Twinkled T's Cyclone vinyls. I fell in love and found out they were available for a reasonable price via their Etsy shop. So a few minutes later I had placed my order. I added some stripes and chevrons too, because, you know how that goes, you just can't just buy one product.

They arrived quickly and I couldn't wait to try the cyclones out, so I used them over the nail polish I was wearing.

Products used:
Black: Orly Liquid Vinyl
Glitter: Orly Gold Prism
Gold: OPI My Favorite Ornament
Nail Vinyls in Cyclone and Chevron

This was just a little testrun on the vinyls, but I liked the result so much that I took some pictures to show it to you.

Using the cyclone vinyls took me some practice and patience, especially patience. These vinyls are very sticky. The first two vinyls got stuck on eachother when I tried to pick one off the sheet, The third got stuck on itself, it spiraled back after removing it from the sheet and when I tried to fix it I only made it worse and couldn't use it anymore.
Placing it back on my nail also required an insane amount of patience and a steady hand to get them in the right place and with the right spacing between the spirals, but the results are very much worth it!

Have you ever tried these cyclones? If you have, do you have any tips on placing them that might make it a bit easier? I used tweezers as they suggested, but it still took me some time to get it right.
If you haven't used them before and you want to try them, check out their website HERE  (worldwide shipping only $2)

Thank you so much for watching!

Have a great weekend :-)

Love, Inge (Polishsis)

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A colorful mani using rainbow nailfoil

About six years ago I once bought nailfoils with special glue to get the foil to stick. It was a horrible disaster. I watched the tutorials, but after many attempts to create something decent for my blog, I gave the foils and glue away. I didn't want it in my house any longer to remind me of the many failures with it.

Last year a few of my favorite bloggers did some amazing mani's with nailfoil without the glue, I drooled over their pictures. Again I bought some nailfoils and followed their tutorials...and this time it worked :-) 

Nailfoil without topcoat

How:

Paint your nails the way you are used to, wait for the polish to dry and harden a bit, but it still has to be a little sticky for the foil. Put the foil on your nails and rub over it with your nails or a hoofstick and watch the magic happen. If the polish dries too fast and the foil doesn't stick anymore, just add a thin layer of clear polish and repeat the steps.

Video tutorial by Kerri from The Nail Polish Challenge

Nailfoil with topcoat

The tutorial says the use of topcoat reduces the shine. I let you judge by yourself from the two pictures in this post. The first is without topcoat, the second with topcoat. My opinion is that topcoat gives it a much smoother and glossier look, which I prefer, Not to mention your mani wil last much longer.

So  yay for nailfoils! You can make any boring polish into a unique work of art, just by scratching a small piece of foil over your just painted nails. Love it. Now I only have to think of a way to use it in a manicure that is a little more Safe For Work.

I hope everybody had a lovely Easter.

And thank you so much for watching!

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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My first attempt using nail foil

So this weeks prompt is 'flowers' and 'light blue'. I use this challenge to inspire me to do new things (or just to pick a color, as I'm usually clueless about what to wear on my nails). I might do the flowers later this week, but for now the 'light blue' inspired me to try out the nail foils I ordered a while ago.

My boyfriends reaction when I showed him the pictures: "Is it supposed to look like that???"
LOL! Yes dear, it is supposed to be this random and I did not mean to cover the entire nail.

Products used:
- Hema light blue nr 83 (perfect coverage in 2 easy coats)
- nailfoil

I looked at a few Youtube tutorials about how to use the foil without using glue and it looked fairly easy, so I just gave it a go. It was indeed easy and alot of fun so be prepared to see more nailfoils around here!!!! (I have 5 more unused foils left)

You just paint your nails, wait a few minutes until the polish is dry, but a little tacky, then you put the foil an your nail and rub on it until it transfers on your nail.
I found this tutorial by The nail Polish Challenge very helpful.

I didn't try to cover the entire nail because I wanted the light blue base to be visible. But I guess if you really want to, you can reapply the foil a few times for a better coverage.

with topcoat

The tutorial said you shouldn't apply topcoat over the foil as it reduces the shine. After taking the first pictures I decided to apply some topcoat to see the result. Nothing bad happened as you can see on the picture above.

If you want to see more manicures with the theme 'Light blue' or 'Flowers', please check out the awesome ladies below: 

   

    An InLinkz Link-up

   

Thank you so much for watching

Have a great day!

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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Matte purple + metallic nails with smART Nails - Day 7

This is the last day of my smART Nais Week! Less than one hour left to enter the giveaway!

I saved one of my favorite manicures of this week for this last day: matte purple with metallic silver stripes

Ok, the people of smART Nails are not going to be happy with my next tip, but you can use one stencil several times. Why waste a perfectly good product??? The stencil sticks really well to your nails and if you make sure the polish you used is completely dry on the stencil, you can use it again easily, it keeps giving you a sharp design a second time around. And maybe a third also, but I can only say I used each stencil twice and that worked great for me.

 I'm seriously considering this my Chrismas manicure, it's classy with a touch of bling.
Or I could go really over the top with the bling ofcourse and forget about the classy...not sure yet, but this mani is in theory a perfect Christmas manicure.

It's as easy as the picture above: paint your nails, wait for them to dry, put on the stencil and add the second polish over it.

GIVEAWAY***

 >>>EUROPE, USA, CANADA, UK AND AUSTRALIA ONLY!!!!<<<

I have a lovely surprise for you: the creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers! 

The 3 winners each get to choose 5 designs that will be sent to them free of any charge.

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

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Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

Website: http://www.smart-nails.com/shop-online?refc=11

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSmartnails/videos

Twitter: @smart_nails 

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Magnet design from smART Nails + Giveaway -Part 6

This design from smART Nails is called "magnet", I don't know why it's called like that, but it does look amazing! I wanted to do something fun with this design and then I found this picture by Liana's Nails and I knew these were the colors I wanted to use.

I really love how this turned out, not as nice as the mani I was inspired by, but the colors work really well together!

I'm really tired, so I'm keeping it short today, here is another picture of this mani, this one is taken without sunlight (pictures above are taken in the sunlight):

no sunlight

One day left to enter the giveaway, fill in the rafflecopter below:

GIVEAWAY***

 >>>EUROPE, USA, CANADA, UK AND AUSTRALIA ONLY!!!!<<<

I have a lovely surprise for you: the creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers! 

The 3 winners each get to choose 5 designs that will be sent to them free of any charge.

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

Website: http://www.smart-nails.com/shop-online?refc=11

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smARTnails.Stencils?fref=ts

Instagram: http://instagram.com/smart_nails_stencils

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSmartnails/videos

Twitter: @smart_nails 

Thank you for watching!
Have a great day!

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Orly 'Miss Conduct' with golden chevrons by smART nails + giveaway - Part 5

I call these my Wonder Woman nails! I'm aware the logo of Wonder Woman looks different, she doesn't wear pink and certainly no glitter, but still this reminds me of Wonder Woman. I really like the old cartoon Wonder Woman, with the muscles and all, she's so bad-ass. Not at all as the pictures I've seen with Megan Fox as Wonder Woman, who doesn't look muscular and strong at all.

Products used:
Magenta: Orly 'Miss Conduct'
Gold: Orly 'Luxe'
Chevrons made with SmART Nails nailstencils.

Miss Conduct is a lovely magenta with amazing holographic sparkles. The holo is not the strongest one out there, but even when the holo doesn''t show up, you still get a nice sparkle from it.
This is also almost a one-coater, so lots of reasons to buy this polish if you come across it.

Even without sunlight, this is stull a lovely sparkly magenta polish.

Have I already told you how easy the stencils are? You just stick them on your nail, paint over them, peel the stencil off and *Boom* there are your fabulous nails!

The smART Nail stencil before adding the polish.

If you like the quick and easy chevron design I did, please check out the SmART nails website and/or enter the giveaway below.

***GIVEAWAY***

 >>>EUROPE, USA, CANADA, UK AND AUSTRALIA ONLY!!!<<<

The creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers!

Yesss, it's giveaway time ladies and gentlemen!

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

Website: http://www.smart-nails.com/shop-online?refc=11

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smARTnails.Stencils?fref=ts

Instagram: http://instagram.com/smart_nails_stencils

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/smartnails/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSmartnails/videos

Twitter: @smart_nails 

Thank you so much for watching

Lot's of love, Inge (PolishSis)

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Dots and splatters with SmART Nails + Giveaway! - part 4

Day 4 of my Smart Nails Week, have you already entered the giveaway???

If you didn't, what are you waiting for? :-)

Check the giveaway at the bottom of the page right now!

I really liked the SmART Nails splatter design, so I wanted to try a little more elabotare mani for this manicure. 

For the base I did a dotticure with 2 colors of blue. After that dried, I used the stencil to add the splats.

Unfortunately I smudged the splatter design a bit when I added the topcoat, So here is some free advise: don't use a thick half-dried-up topcoat over a wet design (stupid me). Wait until the design is dry OR use a topcoat that is in a better condition. (I couldn't find my good bottle, so I used the old one, big mistake)

Thank you so much for watching!

Be sure you enter the giveaway below!!! :-)

***GIVEAWAY***

 >>>EUROPE, USA, CANADA, UK AND AUSTRALIA ONLY!!!!<<<

The creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers!

Yesss, it's giveaway time ladies and gentlemen!

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

Website: http://www.smart-nails.com/shop-online?refc=11

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smARTnails.Stencils?fref=ts

Instagram: http://instagram.com/smart_nails_stencils

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/smartnails/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSmartnails/videos

Twitter: @smart_nails 

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Holographic nails with FUN Lacquer and SmART Nails + GIVEAWAY - part 3

Happy Sunday everybody! Tonight I went to see to see the musical Dreamgirls in StdsschouwburgUtrecht (theatre in city Holland), so I'm keeping it short and sweet for today's manicure with SmART Nails, because it's time to go to bed!

I did a lovely manicure with green, black and silver and a pointy nail stencil:

Product used
Green holo - FUN Lacquer 'Margarita Cocktail'
Black holo: Color Club 'Revvvolution'
Silver holo glitter (pinky) - FUN Lacquer '24K (H)'
Plain silver (index) - L'Oréal
Smart Nails Big Teeth stencil

Don't you just love the FUN Lacquer holo's? Margarita Cocktail is a lime green holo that needs at least 2 coats, but i did three, It looks amazing in sunlight (much beter than under the lamp I had to use because it was so cloudy)

24K (H) is the holo glitter on my pinky, it is very dense and can be worn on it's own in just 2 coats. There  are amazing silver glitter + holographic pigments in it! I wish the lamplight showed the holo better. Since I bought the 24K (H) this summer, FUN Lacquer killed me by releasing more insanely pretty holo glitters, I really hope to be able to buy some more real soon!

This is how the Big Teeth stencil looks in the package.

***GIVEAWAY***

 >>>EUROPE, USA, CANADA, UK AND AUSTRALIA ONLY!!!!<<<

Now I have a lovely surprise for you: the creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers!

Yesss, it's giveaway time ladies and gentlemen!

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

Website: http://www.smart-nails.com/shop-online?refc=11

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smARTnails.Stencils?fref=ts

Instagram: http://instagram.com/smart_nails_stencils

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSmartnails/videos

Twitter: @smart_nails 

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Colorful diamonds on white and glitter-gradient background. SmART Nails + GIVEAWAY - part 2

The nice people of SmART Nails offered to send me some of their stencils to try them out and give my honest review. I didn't have to think twice about their offer, because I already bought their product once and really loved how easy it was to use.

For this mani I decided to keep the background light and use a variety of neons over the stencil to make the design really pop.

Products used:

White: Misa 'Suited Perfectly'

Silver glitter: FUN Lacquer '24Karat (H)'

Different neons by different brands (I forgot which ones I used, sorry)

I drybrushed the holographic glitter over the semi sheer white background to get the gradient. I finished with a quickdry topcoat, waited a few minutes untill it was very very dry and then I used the stencil, a small brush and an assortment of neons.

This is how the stencils look in the packaging

This is how the stencil looks if you use it on your nail

***GIVEAWAY***

 >>>EUROPE, USA, CANADA, UK AND AUSTRALIA ONLY!!!!<<<

Now I have a lovely surprise for you: the creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers!

Yesss, it's giveaway time ladies and gentlemen!

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

Website: http://www.smart-nails.com/shop-online?refc=11

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smARTnails.Stencils?fref=ts

Instagram: http://instagram.com/smart_nails_stencils

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/smartnails/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSmartnails/videos

Twitter: @smart_nails 

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Spiders on my nails!!! SmART Nails + Giveaway - part 1

This week I'm showing you a few designs I made with SmART Nails; super easy to use nail stencils that can make every manicure look like you spent a lot of time and effort into doing your nails. '

I will be posting manicures with SmART Nails every day for a week and you can also enter the giveaway every day (read more about the giveaway on the bottom of the post).

I used the following polishes for this manicure:

Index- and ringfinger: OPI Liquid Sand 'Stay The Night'

Middlefinger: W7 matte black

Pinky: China Glaze 'Thunderbird'

I know Halloween was a couple of weeks ago, but wouldn't this make a great Halloween mani?????

It was as easy as painting your nails, wait for them to dry and then use the stencils to add the spiders to it.

Pictures above show the stencils on the nails.

***GIVEAWAY***

 >>> EUROPE, USA, CANADA, UK AND AUSTRALIA ONLY!!!!<<<

Now I have a lovely surprise for you: the creators of smART Nails are giving away 5 different stencils to 3 of my readers!

Yesss, it's giveaway time ladies and gentlemen!

Fill in the form below to enter the giveaway!

(only the first question is mandatory to enter the giveaway, it's so easy! Extra entries can be earned by following and retweeting)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Goodluck to all the participants! 

Don't want to wait if you are a winner and you want to buy your smART Nails right now???

Go to their website and get 25% off this november by using code NOV25

Website: http://www.smart-nails.com/shop-online?refc=11

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smARTnails.Stencils?fref=ts

Instagram: http://instagram.com/smart_nails_stencils

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/smartnails/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSmartnails/videos

Twitter: @smart_nails 

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OPI - Can't Find My Czechbook with Essence glitter gradient

OPI Can't Find My Czeckbook is the perfect light blue creme, it applies like a dream and it looks so smooth and glossy!!! I really like this polish!

I wore it as a full mani with a glitter gradient with Essence Not Punky Nor Funky, which is my favorite glitter polish by Essence ever, it was a limited edition though, sorry!

Can't Find My Czechbook wears like iron, 5 days without a single chip, another big plus for this polish! As if it wasn't already perfect. 

Thank you so much for visiting my blog!

Have a great day and I hope to see you here again :-)

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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W7 - Meteorite with distressed nails / brush stroke manicure

The distressed nails aka brush stroke manicures have been on the blogs for quite a while, but this is my first attempt.
I chose colors that matched W7 Meteorite: metallic gold, kobalt blue + black and white for the distressed effect.

W7 Meteorite is gold shimmer with kobalt blue holographic glitter. On the pictures you see more visible nail line than in real life. This is 3 thin easy coats.

The distressed nails / brush stroke nails are so much easier to do than I expected! You just watch the tutorial by Chalkboard Nails and that is all you need to get started. I used the same polishes on each distressed nail: creme blue, metallic gold, creme white, creme black. For my middle finger I used the creme blue for the basecolor and for my ringfinger I used the metallic gold as basecolor.

Picture above does not do the W7 meteorite justice. In real life the VNL was not that much visible. I chose to show you this picture because the distressed nails / brush stroke mani showed up very well on this picture.

Thank you so much for watching!

Have a great day! :-)

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge - May 1st - Flowers

This weeks theme is Flowers. I ordered some waterdecals from Born Pretty Store a few weeks back and used one of them for the nail on my ringfinger

On my index and pink I did a simple watermarble, which turned out quite nice on the indexfinger. On my pinky the watermarble didn't look the way I wanted it to, but this was only the second time I tried to watermarble, so it can only get better :-)

The waterdecals from Born Pretty Store are really easy to apply and you get a good wear out of them. Only thing is that they are probably made for those elegant small Asian nails and not for my big wide European nails. But there are enough decals that fit some of my nails, so I use them as an accent, not for an entire mani.

I think the floral theme is very well chosen on this first day of May!
I'm already thinking about my mani of may 8th as the theme is neon and I love my neons!

Want to see more Floral mani's? Check out these ladies:

   

    An InLinkz Link-up
   

Thank you so much for watching!

Love, Inge (PolishSis)

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Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge - 'Something Tropical'

For this weeks GOT Polish Challenge, the theme was 'something Tropical'.
I made a gradient inspired by a tropical sunset with flowers and studs.
It did not come out the way I wanted it to, but this is my take on this weeks challenge:

First I painted my nails white, when it dried I used a makeup sponge for the gradient. All polished used are several years old, as is the point with this challenge. After the gradiënt dried I stamped flowers on it with a Konad plate and Konad black stamping polish and added a bright blue stud on each flower.

In real life it looked amazing, trust me! The colors looked much brighter, the gradiènt looked smooth and the stamping looked great. and then came the macro-shot :-(
I hate the macro-shot for ruining my tropical mani.

Despite how my mani showed up on the pictures, I do like the gradient. I will do more attempts to get it perfect.

So this was my tropical manicure for this week. I'm not happy with how the pictures turned out, but still the colors look nice together.

I'm really looking forward to next weeks challenge, the theme for may 1st is flowers and I have some great decals I want to use for it!

Thank you so much for watching!!!

And don't forget to check out all the other participants in this challenge!

   

    An InLinkz Link-up

   

XXX Inge (PolishSis)

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Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge with Misa 'Party in the Masquerade' and Gosh 'Rainbow'

Pink is not my favorite color, unless it's a holo, glitter or neon (or preferably all of the above). For april 17th the GOT theme is Hot Pink, so I grabbed one of the best pink polishes I own: Misa Party in the Masquerade.

I actually wanted to do a totally different nailart, but I couldn't find my striping tape when I sat down to decorate the pink polish. So I just did whatever came to mind and this is the result. I'm not happy with it, but at least it photographed well enough to get some decent pictures :-)

With my limited nailart skills (and lack of patience and time to perfect them), I'm now looking at some very nice stampingpates from Dashica, check out her Infinity plates, how can you possibly choose just a few????
I think the weekly challenge will be less of a challenge with these plates!

For now, this is all I could come up with for the 'nailart' of this week. This challenge is good for my non-existing nailart skills, so the only way is up from here!
But I think the flakies from Gosh really saved the day in this mani!

Make sure to check out the other amazing ladies who are also showing you their take on Hot Pink this week! Links below!

   

    An InLinkz Link-up
   

Thank you so much for watching!

Have a great week everybody!

XXXX

Inge (PolishSis)

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