Ninja Turtles

The other day my friend had these cool Ninja Turtles nails made by a friend of hers. 

Inspired mani SSK

Hi guys!
Last Tuesday the swimming season started where Stine and I work, so we decided to do a mani for the occasion.
Our swimming clubs' colours are bright orange and black.

The base colour is Depend - 133, a neon orange that dries matteish. 

Thumb: the logo of the swimming club, index: SSK, short for Solrød SvømmeKlub(Solrød (the citys' name) Swimming Club), middle: a man swimming crawl, ring: a head dive and little: Solrød

  For the water: Barry M - Indigo

Rainbow nails

So I wanted to do a different neon rainbow than I use to and here's how it turned out. 

Lacquers used from yellow to green:
Depend - 35
Depend - 133
Depend - 34
Rimmel - 605 Purple Reign (on right hand mixed with Rimmel - 312 Ultra Violet)
Sally Hansen - 130 Blue Me Away!
Dearlee - 016

Do you guys like neons and do you also make these 'rainbows'? :)

Leopard print

I wanted to try to make a leopard print in three colours but it didn't get quite as good as I wanted it to be :b

I used H&M - Ocean Sand as base, Pieces - Golden Chokolate for the print and Tiger - 17 as highlighter.
Does any of you have tips for how to make a good leopard print with three colours? :)

A bit more manageability in my lacquers

At the moment my lacquers are lying randomly in a big box/case, which makes it pretty hard to see all the colours and find the right lacquer.
To make it easier I got ten display wheels from eBay.
It took a whole day and half a bottle of polish thinner to go through all of my lacquers and paint the wheels.

Wheel 1 to 6  

Wheel 7 to 10. And the picture just wanted to rotate -.-'

Wheel 1: the black and blackish lacquers

Wheel 2: The green lacquers.

Wheel 3: The blue lacquers.

  Wheel 4: The purple lacquers.  

  Wheel 5: The pink, pinkish and red lacquers.  

  Wheel 6: The metallic lacquers, gold, silver, bronze..  

  Wheel 9: The crackle lacquers.  

  Wheel 10: The stamping lacquers and nail art pen.  

  Wheel 8: The turquoise lacquers.  

  Wheel 7: The yellow, orange, brown, white lacquers and flakies.  

 

A survey of which polishes that are on each wheel :)

This was also the perfect opportunity to count my lacquers so I did. I have 127 coloured lacquers(I've got three of Depends neon yellow) and that includes 5 stamping lacquers and a nail art pen. Besides that I have 10 transparent lacquers, base coats, top coats, you know :) That makes a total of 137 lacquers today :b
I think I'll separate my lacquers into smaller boxes after their brand, now I have my overview.
How do you ladies keep track of your lacquers? :)

Very first leopard print

So I finally got some real nail brushes - a set of 15 brushes very cheap on eBay.

For the following design I used the first brush from the left.

Polish: H&M - Aqua, and the black: Rival de Loop - 30.

This is my very first leopard print ever. I started on my thumb and worked my way to my pinkie. I think you can see it gets better after a few nails :)

So what do you guys think? And do you also hand paint you leopard prints? :)

Crackle gradient - or at least a try

A few days ago I made my nails glossy with my nail buffer. Here's how they turned out, very shiny and it's with no polish on ;)

So I hadn't had black nail for a looong time so that's what I put on. As you might be able to guess, it wasn't enough, I had to do something on top of the black.

 So I got this idea, a crackle gradient. On my left hand I think the gradient looked nice but there wasn't very much crackle.

 On the other hand I thought the crackle went much better but not the gradient. Well, I'll have to do it again some other time to try to make it better.

The lacquers I used are: Rival de Loop - 30 and OPI - Turquoise Shatter.