Million Dollar Holo- Fun Lacquer Polishes

Hello everyone! Today we will once again be going over the two Fun Lacquer polishes, Million Dollar Dream and How Deep is Your Holo, that I bought a while ago that where very glittery and I was just having a hard time trying to get them to look good and not so thick on the nails. Well today I gave them another try and this time I felt like it turned out much better. 

 

Fun Lacquer Polishes- How Deep is Your Holo? and Million Dollar Dream   

 

When I first ordered these polishes from Live Love Polish I applied these like it says on the website along with what YouTuber Simply Nailogical. They said to first polish on a thin layer, then take a makeup sponged and sponge on the secound layer and then polish on another thin layer, then finally apply a top coat. (as show on the left in the photo above.) 

I did this and as you can see from the photo above it looks and felt thick. This may have also been a user error on my part. I cut a small piece of sponge and dabbed it that way, when maybe it would have go on better if I had used the full sponge.  

 

 

 Fun Lacquer- How Deep is Your Holo?

So this time around I first applied two coats of a base colored polish, Zoya's Estelle that matched the Fun Lacquer polish, then I just polished two coats of How Deep is Your Holo and I feel like it turned out much better, it looked and felt smoother.

 

I also gave Fun Lacquer Million Dollar Dream another try again as well, this one was my third time try this polish out. This polish also looks so amazing, but was a pain in the butt try to take a photo of.

 

 

Fun Lacquer- Million Dollar Dream

Just like How Deep is your Holo I applied it the same way. I applied one coat of a gold base polish Revlon's Gold Coin and then polished on two coats of Million Dollar Dream. Once again I felt like the looked much better, it was not thick, it looked and felt smooth.   

 Fun Lacquer- How Deep is Your Holo?

 

Fun Lacquer- Million Dollar Dream

I know their was not much to this post, but I really wanted to give these polishes another try and show all of you.

Hope all of you enjoyed this secound or third try of these very shinny, beautiful holographic glitter polsihes!   

See you next time for more nail fun!  

Let it Burn- Fire Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a simple nail design that is kind of abstract, a fire/ flame nail design. This design is inspired by a design that I saw on YouTube from a professional nail tech, her name is Suzie from Nail Career Education and she created a cool red hot flaming nail design like this one. She used gel polish for her design, we will use regular polish for our base color and acrylic paint for the flames. I just thought this design look so cool and that it would be fun and easy to recreate. 

 

Fire Nail Design

Here is the nail polish, paints, and tools used for this fiery nail design:  

 

Base and Top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat. 

I always use the same top and base, these work great for me so I see no reason to try anything new. 

Nail polish- Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart. All you will need is a black polish.

Acrylic paint- red, yellow, and orange (I use red and yellow paint to make the orange.)

Nail art brushes- a thin detail brush and a thin stripper brush.

Other- small cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Let's start this fiery hot nail design!

    Fire Nail Design, left hand

As always start off by applying a thin layer of base coat to all of your nails, and then let it dry.

Once your base coat has dried, polish all of your nails black. I personally think Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart is one of the best black polishes out their, it covers in one coat like a black polish should, and it is only a $1.99!

Let the black polish dry and then we will start to create our flames.

  

 Fire Nail Design, right hand

For the flames take three colors of paint yellow, red, and orange. With your detail brush with a lot of paint on the brush (you need a lot of paint to make sure the colors swirl together will), near the cuticle or tip of the nail (I started near the cuticle) make three lines of color right next to each other using the red, yellow, and orange. 

Then with your stripper brush start to swirl the colors together from side to side, and also make sure to make points at the end that look like flames.  

If needed you can always add more of one or more colors, to add more to the flame if you fell like the flames are lacking in color in certain areas. Their was a few times when I added a little more of each color, most of the time I felt like the flames needed more yellow.  

Fire Nail Design, left hand

 

Fire Nail Design, right hand

Once you have your flames as fiery red, yellow, and orange as you want apply a top coat to seal in your design. 

With any design that you use acrylic paint, make sure to apply enough top coat over the acrylic paint, so it does not look matte it looks shinny, this helps so your design will not rub off when you wash your hands or just use your hands in general.

 

 Fire Nail Design- left and right hand, right hand design looks more like flames? 

When I did this design on my right hand I actually like how it turned out better then on my left hand, I felt like the flames looked more flame like then on my right hand.  

Here is a link to Suzie's from Nail Career Education YouTube channel, where I got the inspiration for this design. Red Hot Flaming Nails- Nail Career Education  

Hope all of you enjoyed this nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Safe In My Shell- Turtle Nail Design

Hello everyone! Sorry that once again I have gone missing for a few weeks, life has just been kind of stressful and allergy season has really been bad for me. Anyways for this week we will be creating a cute turtle nail design, this design is inspired by my favorite online T-shirt company TeeTurtles. They have the cutest mascot, a turtle and I thought it would be cool to create a turtle nail design inspired by their mascot. 

 

Turtle Nail Design (Cute TeeTurtle Plushies)   

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used for the cute turtle nail design:  

 

Base and Top Coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Polishes- Colors by llarowe- Arturo, KBShimmer- Peridot- August Birthstone, OPI Hawaii- My Gecko Does Tricks, and Sinful Color- HD Nails.

Acrylic paint- black, green, and yellow.

Nail art brushes- thin detail brush and a stripper brush.

Other- small cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Let start this cute turtle nail design!

  

Turtle shell nail design

As always start off with a thin layer of base to protect your nails and to help your polish to last. As always I used CND Stickey Base Coat, I love this base coat and don't want/ need to try any more base coats.

Let your base coat dry.

Once that has dried, we will polish our base colors, on your thumb,index, ring and pinky finger nail, polish that a light blue (I used Colors by llarowe- Arturo) and for your middle finger nail, polish that with a glittery green polish (I used KBShimmer- Peridot- August Birthstone.) Also for some reason the two KBShimmer birthstone polishes that I purchased a few years ago changed colors, which has never happen to any of my polishes.

Once your polishes has dried on to the fun part, the nail art. On the index and ring finger nail we will be create the turtle's shell. I used two different colored green polishes but you don't have to. On the index nail take a dark green polish (I used Sinful Color- HD Nails) and make a circle shape with the brush that is in the polish. Then if you would like, do the same thing with that same polish or a light green (I used OPI Hawaii- My Gecko Does Tricks) on the ring finger nail.

 

 Turtle shell nail design, left hand 

 

 Turtle shell nail design, right hand

Let the green circles dry and then with black paint outline the circle, then in the middle you can create a diamond shape or a rectangle in the middle of the circle, then make four lines going from each corner of the diamond or rectangle out toward the circle. 

   Turtle on thumb nail 

Last but not least is the cute turtle on the thumb nail. Make a medium size circle in the middle of the nail for his head and fill that in twice to be fully opaque, then make an oval shape for his body fill in his tummy with yellow, them make two arms and two legs, then on his tummy make a checker board pattern. Then lastly make to black dots for his eyes and a curved line for his smile. 

 

      Turtle Nail Design

Once you have your cute turtle nail design the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your design and help it to last. 

 

Turtle Nail Design, right hand design

Also here is the design that I created on my right hand, basically the same design just the turtle shells have rectangle in the middle. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this cute turtle nail design! 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Lava Meets Water- Gradient Nail Design

Hello everyone! Sorry that it has been a few weeks since I did a post, my allergies have really been acting up for the longest and I finally decided to go back to the allergy specialist and I unfortunately have to get allergy shots now, but hopefully they will help. Also work has been very stressful as well. 

Anyways this week I wanted to do another gradient, their is a color combo that I have been wanting to do for the longest with some of the polishes from the OPI Hawaii collection that came out back in 2015. I saw the polishes Go with the Lava Flow and This Color's Making Waves made on Pinterest a few years ago, and it was put together to create a cool looking gradient, and I didn't get around to do it, until now. 

OPI Hawaii, Go with the Lava Flow and this Color's Making Waves Gradient 

Here are the few polishes and nail art tools used for this gradient nail design: 

Base and Top Coat - CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Nail Polishes- OPI Hawaii- Go with the Lava Flow and OPI Hawaii- This Color's Making Waves.

Nail art tools- Liquid latex for easy clean up (if you have a latex allergy do not use this!) and makeup sponge to create the gradient.  

Other- Tweezers to peel of latex (not in photo above)

That's all you need! 

Let's start this colorful nail design! I don't know about all of you, but I am tired of this long never ending winter and just wanted to create a colorful nail look.

 

OPI Hawaii, Go with the Lava Flow and this Color's Making Waves Gradient 

Start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nail and to help your polish to last.

Let your base coat dry, and then polish all of your nail with This Color's Making Waves a blueish- green polish with some gold shimmer in it, Go with the Lava Flow the pinkish, Coral, orange (it depends on the light) with gold shimmer in it, we will use for the tips of the nails.  

Let this dry as well and then we can start the gradient part. Also just to make the clean up a little easier we will put liquid latex on the sides and near the cuticles, that way we can just peel for the mess. Make sure to put two layers of the liquid latex on, I made the mistake of only putting one layer and I still had a big mess to clean up around my fingers.

 

 OPI Hawaii, Go with the Lava Flow and this Color's Making Waves Gradient

Now take your makeup sponge and polish the two colors, This Color's Making Waves and Go With The Lava Flow overlapping each other, then place the sponge on the nail and start to blend the polishes together to create a gradient, you will need to do this one more time to be opaque. 

I often find that this does not always work as well for me, so I did the above step and then sponged on each color one at a time for the secound layer, starting with Go With The Lava Flow near the tips of the nails, then taking This Color's Making Waves and slightly over lapping the sponging with Go With The Lava Flow, to try and get the two colors to look like they are blending together.

Once you have your gradient the way you like with some tweezers peel of the liquid latex, hopefully you will not have as big of a mess as I did after, it was kind of a pain to clean up with acetone and a clean up brush.      

 

   OPI Hawaii, Go with the Lava Flow and this Color's Making Waves Gradient 

For this design it is fine to top coat when it is not fully dry, I always like to wait until my nail polish it pretty much dry before top coating, but in this case it is okay to top coat sooner because it seem to smooth out the sponge marks that are sometimes left behind.

Hope all of you enjoyed this bright gradient nail design, here at M.M.M we are all about the bright and fun colored polishes!

See you next time for more nail fun!