Here is a mani I did a while back. I think it is the second one i took a photo of....I was quite proud of it & decided I should take a picture before all my hard work chipped off! O.K. it may look complicated, does it? Well it's pretty easy, if you can do one stamp...why cant you do a second stamp?You will need a base coat and gold & black polishes for the Konadding.
1. Apply your base coat, I used Orly Minds Eye for this mani2. Using gold, stamp the fancy scalloped design on m57 along the bottom of nail, close to the cuticle. When I saw this design, I felt a little left out. My nails are so short, I thought it wouldn't work at the tips, but here's a great alternative!
3. On your thumb, use the butterfly on m25. It looks good centered on small nails because it covers a pretty big area.4. then for nails 2-4, use the larger butterfly on m36. I stamped it on at an angle on the outside of each tip. This butterfly is too big for my pinkie, so I decided to use just the mini butterfly for the pinkie.
to pick up only one butterfly at a time, just paint that image on the plate, & scrape AWAY from the other butterfly. If you accidentally pick up some of another image, wipe it off the stamp before transferring to nail.
In 4 steps, your done with a layered konadicure. Very fancy...and easy...shhhh, no one will ever know!
10 comments:
Yet another beautiful mani and you are right it looks quite elaborate but you make it sound so easy to do!
I have a question: do you use only konad sp polishes or do you sometimes use other polish brands to stamp your nails?
That's beautiful! The gold really stands out against your base color. I love all of your detailed instructions, very helpful :)
Very cute! Nice colours and a nice finish :D Btw I am totally loving your blog!
I like this, looks beautiful!
What a beautiful design! I love it! : )
Chocaddict- actually I do use Konad for the white and most other colors....however, I've tried others for black silver & gold. The thick ( as in opaque, and saturated color, notglossy) work well. i have found that the skinny nal art bottles work well aslo, only black & metalics. Just found a walmart brand I.C.E in silver and a really cool metalic lavender/pink....it works GREAT! The next konadicure might feature it/! for a very complete list of tested polished compatable with Konad....see sassy's blog. i have it listed to the right.
Wow, your konadicures are beautiful! And your blog is so informative. I added it to my blog roll. :)
Love this Konadicure. Pretty designs and colors. This looks so complicated but your instruction make it seem easy.
thanks for your advice :o)
i was wondering what polish you used because the designs you stamp look so "sharp"
Hey! Love your konadicures!
Regarding the picture taking of the image plates, I took it at an angle and zooming in on the image plates. For all of the image plates I have (except m19) I used my brother's Nikon SLR camera (very high-tech and such) and it's awesome to get tiny details without having to be so close to the object.
For the m19 I just took it at an angle, and used the MACRO setting (I now use a regular digital camera), I find that the Macro setting sort of zooms in on the item and makes it look bigger, And I just adjusted the angles until the camera doesn't show up on the plate.
Hope that helps! =)
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