Natural Nails 2011
Beautiful Natural Nails
Your natural nails are just as important and can be just as beautiful as acrylic nails—if you just know in what directions to take them. First of all, you need to take care of your nails. This means that you shouldn’t bite them, leave them submerged in chemicals, or let them break. However, sometimes this may seem like it is something that is much easier said than done. What you may not realize is that if you just concentrate on caring for your natural nails in 2011 could be the year that you no longer have to go searching for nail salons to have fake nails applied! Instead, you can use the nails that you have naturally to decorate and help to accentuate the beauty of your nails.
Secondly, you need to make sure that your nails look pretty. If you’re looking for shine without the damaging effects of nail polish, you can use vitamin e oil or some natural oil on your nails instead. Not only will it make your nails look super pretty and moisturize them, but it will help you to get into the routine of caring for your nails since the oil wears off after a day.
Lastly, make sure when painting your nails to only use nail polish remover to remove any nail polish once and a month and to allow your nails to breathe for a few months in between polish applications. This will help to keep your natural nails looking beautiful all year round.
Glittery Pink Nail Art
Latest Glittery Pink Nail Art Designs
There is a love-hate relationship between the color pink and women. Many women love pink because of its girly-girl feel to it. Others do not like it because of the same reason.
Nail Art
In nail art, pink is not one of the underrated colours. Actually many women do not just colour block the nails with this colour. Many prefer mixes with other colours to soften the girly-girl feel to it. One way to do it is to add use it as accent. Using pink minimally can actually make your nails look fab. One way to add glamour to it is to put glitters between the pink nail color and the other color. The best way is to put a colourless base and add pink across your nails, like the one you see above.
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If you want nails that would call for attention, why not add a twist to the basic French manicure. Instead of the colourless base, why not make it hot pink. Color the tips with black dots using a nail art pen. This should be over the pink overlay. Pink and black look good together.
Nail Art
Here is another twist to the French manicure. If your nails are long, colour it with a colourless base and the tips white with pink accents. To make it over the top, add nail art like glitters and flowers to make it very feminine .
SKATER NAIL ART DESIGN
SKATEBOARDING NAIL ART DESIGN
Skateboarding is usually thought of as a guy thing. But that is about as far from the truth as you can get. There are plenty of girl skaters who are excellent at their hobby and some are even better than the boys! But just because a girl skateboards does not mean that she can’t enjoy some beautiful nails. There are lots of colors and designs that will suit a skater girl well while not detracting from her bad girl image.
One great design uses red, white and black acrylic paint, a detail brush, and top coat. This design is excellent in this color scheme but if there are colors that the skater girl prefers over these then more power to her. Pick and choose the colors that suit you best. This bold design is excellent for any skater girl who is looking to be feminine while still being tough. After all, what could be tougher than a skull and tribal markings? Add flames behind the skull if you prefer the flames to the tribal markings and you will look just as tough.
To make this design, first paint the nail red. Then use a small detail brush to apply white acrylic paint in the shape of a skull and the black acrylic paint in tribal markings that appear to go behind the skull. Use the brush to outline the skull in black acrylic paint and to add the teeth, eyes, and nose on the skull. Now go over it all with more black paint, adding detail to make the skull look more fierce. More white paint will help you add a bit more depth to the image. Add top coat to protect the design. You can add the skull on only a few fingers or all of them, whatever suits your fancy best.
HEALTHY NAILS FOR BEAUTIFUL FINGERS
HEALTHY NAILS FOR BEAUTIFUL FINGERS
Healthy nails make your fingers look beautiful. Some people have stumpy fingers, which not very appealing. You can keep your nails healthy to make sure that your hands are good looking. This makes your wrists and arm as whole look healthy; and you can wear any clothes that you want.
Here are some tips that you can follow to have healthy nails:
• Avoid the nail polish that will make the color of your nails turn. The dark colors make your nails turn yellow. You can use lemon to bring the color of your nails back.
• Use castor oil on your nails. It works well to keep your nails healthy. You can use a piece of cotton wool to apply the castor oil on your nails and cuticles.
• You should always use a nail polish that does not contain acetone. Acetone ruins the health of your nails. It makes them brittle and ugly.
• Use a nail file if you have any hand nail. This ensures that your nails remain in good shape; you can use nail sheen to keep your nails shining. This is essential if your nails are recovering from yellow coloring caused by nail polish.
• If you do not like the French look on your nails, you can get a small white pencil and use it to color the underside of your nails. This is usually done if you find French polish too much for your nails. You can combine this with buffer to keep your nails healthy. It is all simple and very good for your nails.
These tips can help you keep your nails healthy. They are affordable and you can do it by yourself. The health of your nails tells a lot about you. It is good to give a good impression by ensuring that your nails remain healthy.
ACRYLIC NAIL SUPPLIES
ACRYLIC NAIL SUPPLIES
Acrylic nails are in great demand today. Many people have discovered the secret of enjoying beautiful nails using fake nails. This has made many salons run out of the acrylic nails supplies. You have to know the places to get the supplies to make your salon efficient.
Here are some of the places you can visit to get the acrylic nail supplies:
• If you want to buy the latest acrylic nail designs, just go to the nearest beauty shop. You must have the time to go to the beauty shop. You have the advantage of getting the supplies immediately unlike buying online where you will have to wait for some days as the supplies are shipped. You can get answers to any questions you have from the shop attendants who usually know about the beauty products.
• If your nail salon is too busy, you may not have time to go to the beauty shops. This leaves you with the option of buying the products online. This ensures that you attend to your clients all time. You can use your business credit card to pay for the supplies. You can have the goods delivered on time if you use express option. If you do not need the supplies urgently, you can wait for seven to ten days as the goods are shipped.
• You can also buy the acrylic nail supplies using catalogues. They are not commonly used today but they remain effective. Payments for goods are different depending on the company you buy from.
You can use any of these ways to buy your acrylic nail supplies. This ensures that your salon has all the required supplies to keep them coming for more services. Good acrylic nail supplies are the most important when you want to make your a salon a choice to many.
SIMPLE NAIL ART DESIGNS, EASY TIPS
SIMPLE NAIL ART DESIGNS, EASY TIPS
Almost everyone likes properly made nails. Today, even men want to have beautiful nails just like women. It may be hard for you to keep going to the beauty parlor to have your nails done. You may need to know some simple nail art tips to keep your hands beautiful throughout.
Here are some tips that can help you do that:
1. You can do the French manicure. It may not be easy for you do it like the beauticians, but you can use scotch tape to separate lower part of your nail and the upper part. This helps to apply the nail polish without moving the upper part diagonally.
2. There is the vertical slash which is also part of nail art. This gives you a chance to pain your nails to use many colors on them. Use the fast drying nail polish when doing this at home, it ensures that your nail polish is perfectly done. You start fro the bottom by painting a dark color diagonally and then paint a lighter color on top part of your nail. Do it diagonally too. You can use more than two colors. This depends on your personal taste.
3. Straw berry nail art design is also another simple nail art. You use a pink nail polish and then add some green color on the upper part of your nail. It looks like a French manicure but you will add some black dots and put a line to separate the two colors. Use a nice top coat to finish the nail art.
4. Ladybug is also a simple nail art. You use the red and black color. You then put a white line in the middle of the black paint on your nail.
Ladybug Nail Art
5. There is also the stitch nail art. You paint white on your nails then draw a tic tac design using a tooth pick.
KONAD NAIL ART
KONAD NAIL ART
If you want to spare the time going to a salon to get your nails done, you can try purchasing a Konad nail art kit. It is an inexpensive way to change nail designs every now and then if you want to. They offer a stamp nail art where you can literally imprint various designs on your nails in a matter of minutes.
Konad nail art allows you to have instant beautiful nails that can be conveniently done at home. Their available designs are quite elegant even though they are ready made. You will surely love their various image plates that you will have a hard time choosing which one to wear for today.
At first, it can be difficult to position the nail designs so that it would appear symmetric but once you get the hang of it, you will finish designing your nails in no time. After applying the stamp, you need to wait about a minute or two for the design to stay in place. This is to prevent the design from being smudged when touched while freshly stamped. A top coat is to be applied for a long lasting effect.
There will be no need to apply too much pressure when stamping the design as you can do with giving it a rolling stroke. It also comes with a French pen corrector that is great for erasing errors you have done on your nails. In a nutshell, the Konad nail art kit is a must for every woman who likes to have an instant attractive nail art..
BRIDAL NAIL ART 2010
BRIDAL NAIL ART 2010
For a woman, her wedding day is the most special event in her life. And for sure, any bride wishes to look astounding. On her wedding day, the bride is the heart of attention. Guests usually will examine her whole image, and also the tiniest features, such as her wedding dress, her make up, the bride’s flowers, hairstyle, and the sanctified wedding ring. However, those are not the only details of which a bride’s beauty is taken notice of, but also her nails.
Nails also play an important factor to a woman’s exquisiteness, and having long, beautiful bridal nails adds much to that. There are a lot of bridal nail art to choose from, although these styles have come and gone, the French manicure still has its claim of being classic. A style that is idyllic to for every bride and works well for a traditional day wedding.
Despite the fact that French manicure is a classic look, brides need not fret if they want to add more variations to their nails. A trendy bridal nail art are accentuated by using pictures and ornaments.
For brides who prefer an ornamental manicure to be done, the manicurists will make certain that the right mixture and combinations of manicure colors as well as other accessories with wedding image are well blend. From jewelries, flowers, dress decorations, et cetera.
All depends upon the brides’ taste, fancy and boldness, yet of course it has to go well together with her overall image and appearance.
