diy nail stamping

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WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- base coat & top coat nail polish
- any base colour of nail polish
- konad special nail polish in white
- konad nail plate (we used m59)
- konad nail stamping kit (includes a scraper and stamper)
- nail polish remover
- cotton pads and cotton swabs



[ BASE COAT ] – Start with a clear base coat to protect your nails from turning yellow! Then paint on a few coats of whatever colour you want. We used turquoise & caicos by essie. Grab a magazine or your favourite blog & wait… make sure to let this dry completely before proceeding.


[ PICK DESIGN ] – You can purchase dozens of different designs of nail plates from konad. There are endless designs to pick from, but we decided to use plate m59 for the cute little snowflakes.





[ APPLY ] – Take your Konad Special Nail polish and apply it over the entire design you picked. Konad brand nail polish works best on these plates, but some other nail polishes can be used to stamp with— it depends on the consistency of the nail polish, so it’s a bit of trial and error if you want to try other polishes.



[ SCRAPE ] – Now take your scraper and scrape off any excess nail polish in a swift, firm swipe. It’s best to have a scrap piece of paper under your plate because the excess polish will end up off the plate.


[ TRANSFER ] – Now take the stamper and immediately transfer the design from the plate to the stamper by pressing it firmly on the plate. You have to be really fast between scraping & stamping or the thin coat of polish will dry onto the plate instead of transferring to the stamper!




[ STAMP ] – Take your stamper and carefully press the design onto your nail!







[ REPEAT ] – Between each stamp, clean your stamp, scraper and plate with some nail polish remover on a cotton pad & then repeat the stamping process on each of your nails.






[ REMOVE ] – If you stamped some of the designs at the corners of your nails, you’ll inevitably have some messiness around your nails, just use a cotton swab and nail polish remover to clean them up.





[ TOP COAT ] – Use a quick dry top coat & paint it on in quick swipes. Try not to go over the same spots twice and try not to paint too slowly because the stamps can still easily smear at this point.




[ GET CREATIVE! ] – Use your stamps with different colours & in different formations. You’ll be addicted! :)

277: tutorial - snowflake nails

Tired of all that Christmas shopping yet? I sure am. So why not take a moment and slow down and do your nails? Time to be festive; today's manicure will be snowflake nails with the help of Konad of course!


Here are the completed snowflake nails. Perfect for the holidays!


What you need: Base coat, Red Nail Polish, Konad Special Nail Polish, Quick Dry Top Coat, Konad Stamp Plate, Konad Stamper, Konad Scraper


Today we'll be using the snowflake stamp!


After a basecoat - do one to two coats of red (or any colour of your choice!)


Wait for nails to dry and prepare to be quick at stamping!


Apply Konad Special Nail Polish to Konad Plate


Scrape away excess nail polish


Quickly stamp plate


Make sure that the nail polish has transferred onto stamp with no imperfections


Transfer stamp to nail - do not centre


This is the challenging part. Stamp second snowflake directly beside other one try place it as close as possible without overlapping the first stamp. Repeat on all nails, wait for the polish to dry completely. Apply quick dry top coat as fast as possible. If you apply top coat too slowly, it will smear the detailed Konad stamp.


There you go, amazing Konad Snowflake Nails! Now you can throw on your Ugly Christmas Sweater and attend your next Family Potluck dinner!

276: tutorial - gift box nails

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT CONTINUED!
This week, I'm working on finishing all of my Christmas gift giving-- so I wanted to keep my nails festive to go with it & did this look:


pretty little packages!

Here's how we do it:


Start with a base coat, a light base colour, red, white striper and a top coat


I started with a base colour of turquoise


The taking the deep red, I drew on some squares at the corners of my nails


Continue drawing boxes on all of your nails


I randomized the directions of the boxes so they weren't too uniform


Take your striper brush and draw crosses on your boxes


Then draw a bow on top by drawing a super wide & short "X" shape


Then topcoat with a quick dry & you're done!


Festive right?!

Are you done your holiday shopping yet?! eek!

xoxo

275: diy shoeaholic christmas stocking

Check out our new tutorial on Everybody Is Ugly!





Learn how to make your own stylish shoe stocking!
Check it out, make it your own, share your art, comment, vote, and favourite!

274: tutorial - peppermint candy nails

It's the holiday season and I absolutely love the candy canes and peppermint candies involved. Who doesn't? So with the holiday season upon us we thought that peppermint nails would be a more than suitable tutorial.



You'll need:

-Base Coat
-Orly Instant Artist polish (or another thin brush nail polish)
-Red Nail Polish
-Quick Dry Top Coat


Apply base coat, let dry and then paint nails red


Let red coat dry, start painting diagonal lines


Continue painting lines in various thicknesses 


Allow nails to dry and apply Quick Dry Top Coat


Voila! Perfect nails for any holiday get together. It's so simple but we're sure you'll love the results!!