NAIL ART TUTORIAL: PURPLE GRADIENT
Julep week continues on PYP, this time we wanted to show you a design using only two shades that’s both easy & impressive looking! For some reason we don’t incorporate purple too much into our tutorials, so we wanted to show some love to the hue. Step 1: After applying a base coat, paint nails … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL: PAINT SPLATTER
Julep Week continues on PYP, Day #2 brings us paint splatters (& not the messy kind)! We’ve dabbled in different kinds of splatter patterns in the past (see: here, here & here) but wanted to try a controlled bright pop of colour splatter. We know a lot of darker Fall/Winter tutorials will soon start & we … Continue reading
SWATCH REVIEW: PRETTY PLEASE NAIL POLISH
You know when you find something really, really good on the internet and you immediately start emailing/texting people about it? We were introduced to Pretty Please nail polish & instantly fell in love. Pretty Please is a nail polish company that let’s you customize your polish – first choosing a numbered color & then letting … Continue reading
SWATCH REVIEW: LCN – COLOR ME UP
LCN is a European company that brings the secrets of German research across the pond to North America. Currently, LCN is the world’s 3rd leading manufacturer of cosmetic nail products (impressive!). We fell in love with LCN back when we saw a few sites posting the UNREAL Croco Effect top coat (stay tuned…) & couldn’t … Continue reading
SWATCH REVIEW: MAKE MY DAY
If you are not familiar with Make My Day, firstly – what rock are you living under? Secondly – you need to jump on board! Not only do they do some seriously eye-catching nail art, but we recently found out they make their own polish (double win)! Hailing from Argentina, this company does it all & constantly … Continue reading
TRENDING TIPS REPORT: COLOUR WHEEL WONDERFUL
If we learned anything from elementary school art class (other than how to trace your hand and turn it into a turkey) it was that if you mixed two primary colours the result would be an even better secondary colour. Now that we’ve all grown up and stopped tracing our hands we’ve learned that primary … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL: WINTER CHEVRON
It’s been awhile since we’ve had a tape manicure tutorial on PYP, so we decided to try out a classic chevron design using some winter shades. We love how Scotch tape can be used in so many different ways to create patterns on your nails, the only downside is the wait time. In between each … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL:THE TRIBE HAS SPOKEN
We recently got a request to incorporate a nail art pen into one of our tutorials, so we happily obliged! Sally Hansen makes the most well-known & affordable ones, with tips that look almost Sharpie like, giving you more control of your designs. We have tried (a few times) to use these pens, we purchased them when they … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL: RAINBOW CONNECTION
Somewhere, over the rainbow green frogs sing. After seeing The Muppets movie, ‘Rainbow Connection’ has been stuck in our head for weeks and from it came today’s tutorial. We are always trying to find ways to use the nail art tools that we have in creative new designs. We have a thing for polka dots … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL: INTO THE WILD
Another trip to the zoo! We’ve already shown you a leopard print tutorial, now it’s time to move to another wild animal friend, the giraffe. Typically, giraffes are beige/brown but we thought we’d spice it up with some of our new Zoya shades. Zoya polishes are a little more on a the difficult side to … Continue reading
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