used to use fake nails ..now i try to do my own..got a few attempts


first attempt


trying to do something more complicated..

mine is a 3D one with crystals and 3D flowers...haha

ok first post here!!!! ^.^''

here are my nails I did them my self. *so proud* lol.
These are the only ones I've taken a picture of. T.T

the only ones i've taken a photo of. my webcam is bad, sorry =(
diagonal white stripe across the tip, lined with red for the left hand and just two diagonal stripes white and red for the right---as you can tell, i'm right handed.

haha like everyone has said, your nails are GORGEOUS!!! XD

i dont think i can live with fingernails THAT big
its very very prettY! : D

happy_mim, i love your nails~!! <33 they're simple yet gorgeous =]

i got my nails re-done...will post pictures later =D

[EDIT]

here are my newly done nail fingers~!
hand done, real nails, 1 hour~!
done for my graduation~!!!!! <33
inspired by Japanese nail art magazine =P
i should scan those example...they're so pretty...






i also did my toes!
sorry for the ugly feet =[




hope you like!

don't all the decorations weigh ur nails down a lot?

maybe my nails r weaker than normal

personally i dont lik gettin my nails done i just lik looking at them :]
maybe cus everytime i go to my moms nail shop
she always bothers me and asking me if she can do my nails so its a pain
but looking at them is fun
theres so many pretty nails that are done

taped on fake nails. just put it on to take pictures. tape sucks. lol

i did polka dots on my toes...
well my sister in-law did them
she just used a tooth pick or
something with a small tip
and dab the tip into any colour
nail polish on my nails,
she did it in a sort or pattern,
it's best to do few then a lot =P
and it's better to use one light colour
and one dark colour though...
so it can show up =P
[scroll up to my previous post for example]

lol i dunno it looks nice to me but i doubt if it'll stay on?


ok this has probably been asked alreadyyy but WHERE can i get the konad set thing for nails in toronto?
i remember some of u saying it's across pmall ...but which way? u mean the one next to it? or across across from it?
i'd like to know cuz i don't really know that area well =_= ~ so i don't really want to take hours just to find the place =(

It's across from pmall.. not market village but the new one across from it.. Don't know what its called thos but its new so u cant miss it... and when u go into the mall turn right and you'll see it.. forgot the store name tho

^ ok thanks a bunch!! lol i dind't even know theres a new mall across from it ..

How do you guys get your tips so freaking straight?

Question! Do you guys have any tips for nail stickers - (diamantes, to be specific)? I want them to last longer and not fall off within the span of 2 days. =__=
What I did was stick them on and apply 2 layers of clear coating. Is there any better way?

Haha thanks everyone for the nice comments ^^

And lol nope my nails aren't exactly being weighed down by those rhinestones, pearls etc. Maybe it's cuz I've got used to it. Got to take special care though, can't afford to have any part of it chipped off!

i was taking a picture of my shoes but it has my toes too xD
haha; i was superrr bored

my nails these days are too boring to post, just colors

icefrostedd : where do you live? xD, i wanna get my nails done there
haha, super cute

I did mine by using a nail filer and filing your nails directly straight on the top and then a bit on the side, then i buffed them with a buffer to make it look better =P


you can buy a stronger clear nail polish like OPI-Nail Envy Natural Nail Strengthener//Base Coat (can use as a top coat too) or Sally Hansen Diamond Strength clear nail polish. Even though they are strengtheners, they help make the nail polish last for a long time while making it stronger. You can also re-apply the polish every week or so, so it can stay on better. This is what my in-law sister (a professional nail painter person...no clue what they are called) told me and for me, it can stay on as long as 1-2 months =P

@ RAINii : wow that's freaken adorable!

wow, everybody has such hooot nails
i usually just paint my nails black or white

i've been looking for a silver color like that, the one i picked up was too dark and looked like metal.
what color is that and what brand is it?

I read from other people that its in the mall across the street from pmall. Its called Spendid China Tower, (stupid name for a mall lol), and there's only 1 nail shop in that mall so it shouldn't be hard to find. Its also in the lower level. I haven't checked it out personally yet.


Haven't done much to my nails in a long time since I have keyboard class in school. =X lol. I got these rhinestone things from the dollar store and just wanted to try them out.

Here's my current nails: white tips, flower stickers and rhinestones



I bought OPI nail polish today for $6.50 USD (tax included) each today ^-^ The guy says he wholesales so I think if I was to buy more, it'd be cheaper..

just got dem done today by me ... ^-^

I got my nails done awhile ago and got a picture of them when i first got them done... but I never posted a picture up. well here it is.


^sorry for the blurry picture... they look a lot better in person

I liked them and they stayed on for hecka long, got them done back in may... actually... they still on now, too lazy to take them off but they look kind of yucky now since you can see my real nails...

I don't really do my nails. Actually i never quite do it them at all. Anyways, my friend goes to beauty college and she told me a cool hint about acrylic nails.

If you have cool eye shadow colors then you can scrap parts of it off into the powder you use for the acrylic part. This will give you like... basically permanent colors for your nail. I thought that was a cool trick(:

done two days ago by my friend

Sorry I'm such a noob at nails, but how do you do those polka dots on your nails? ♥

I already answered this question ^0^...hehehe~ this is how I do it...don't know about other people =P



You can also use a little brush and dip
it in the nail polish, any little brush will do
Example of how I've done it

haha, don't worry, i am too!
my friend did it and what she did was she put pink nailpolish all on my 10 fingernails
then she got a little brush- (from those liquid eyeliner) and she dabbed it in white nailpolish
then she made white circles all over my nails

that's about it LOL

^ or you can buy a dotter. those thing make it soooo super easy to make dots
& they come in different size so you can make big, small, med, or whatever size dots you want
haha ~for my toes, i used a dotter


well, i got jealous after looking at all these cute nails so i decided to do my hands too; haha
i did the fade again except with a light pink color <33 it is such a nice color; lovee it


it being summer and me being bored like heck; i'm redoing my nails (the fade) on monday afternoon
I'm also going to go buy some stones and ect so i'm recording a video tutorial for my youtube blog
i know my skills aren't up there yet but if you guys are interested, i'll post it here

^^^

awesome!!!
you should add a nicer top coat to give it a nicer gloss, it works better for the fading effect!

jwing
buh if you get them done
`nd get lyke tips added
how do you get them off ?
i`ve tired hot water
buh it didn`t work that well ._.

^ soak them in polish remover liquid
even at the salon, they take about 1 hour + to get them off
unless you want them to pull them off = pain
omg, when i got my tips taken off, my old boss used a fake nail tip and just went under the nail with it
>,< don't know how to describe it but it didn't hurt at all!!
tho my nail beds were really damaged..


suki: def, those were just practice fingers xD

this isn't double posting, i swear xD
i did my friends nails today ~ black as the base and silver/lilie color fade on top


and some other stuff ~ & my flower & pink french




i made a video tutorial for the fade (^ the black one) and the polka dots and flower (except solid color, you can make it two tone by adding another dot inside the first one) but youtube has a 100mb limit so i can't upload it yet T_____T

i'm looking for a compressor or convertor ~

I didn't do it, but the lady at the nail place was so into drawing the flower. I love it though, but now I'm scared I'll mess it up.

RAINii- I'm totally lovin' your designs. You did the fading nail polish one so beautiful. I tried to do it for my friend's sweet sixteen party and it turned out realy bad. Haha.

^ hehe; thank you, you get use it once you try it a lot of times? i reallllly want to upload my video but youtube is so booy

spoiled brat: she did the same flower i did (the pink and white one on the pink tip); hahah ~ it's supppppper easy but she waited too long so the polish was too dry to drag out ~_~ or she didn't put on enought polish
& you have pretty toes xD haha



if i can go to my sister's salon, i can record / take picture of REALLY cool nail designs;
i will try to drive there this week ~_~..

ahahahah, thanks..
I don't know, but it was fun watching her, cause she was so concentrated.

man.. japanese people really do go crazy with that nailart shizz but i think its soo pretty o.o;; im thinking about gettin me some for when skoo starts!~ lol

but anywho, i ALWAYS try to grow my nails out long.. but like im one of those people who sees this little.. difference, and gets irritated and have to do something about it.. so if i feel that the left thumb is rounded and the right thumb is square i will file the left thumb til its squared like the right but then i'll notice i squared it too much so i try the right thumb but then it becomes round.. so in teh end, i cut them all off.. lol

Happy Fourth of July!
3 cheers for the red, white and bluuueee~



A lil messy b/c it was before I cleaned up around the edges...plus I'm probably just going to change them in 3 days

that's H O T

anyone try OPI`s 'Up front and personal'?
i just bought it yesterday. i like it. it's kind of a glittery sheer but with a tint of gold.

---+EDIT

actually i have a question. when you guys do the tips of your nails, how do you paint it to go with the natural curve of your nail ? like the white tips of your nails it may curve a little, mine curve but i have no choice but to make it square-like since i use tape.
tips pleaseeee.

^ slight curve, just make sure your natural white tip doesn't show

kk; got the video up. i didn't realize how crappy they were till i uploaded it and watch it haha
fade nails: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3vu9qL9CxI
flowers/polka dots/ect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAzmzgf5x-U

& yeah i know a slight curve, but how?
do you need to freehand it? iono, using tape makes it square-y so i can`t do curve. ahh i suck at freehand.

PM me if anyone is interested in purchasing this set.
$36 shipped

oh, I suck at freehand too...if you purchase a little 'french manicure' set, they come with curved stickers that you place on top of your first dried coat and then use as a stencil for the tips...then just peel is off after the tips dry.

Me and my cousin was bored... at her shop.. so she just did my nails..haha



Ps sorry about the poic quality... sucky webcam

RAINii: quoting ~ Bunnylicious ~ and paris hilton..that's hottt

oh really? ahh ~ i've gotta go hunting for those. do those french manicure sets come with fake nails ? because if so, meeeh i don't use fake nails since i'm not allowed. do they sell those kind of stickers by itself? if so, where?

thanks ~

haha ^; thanks (my friend, the one that i did that on, she doesn't like it -,-'' she doesn't like nail polish period. hahah, she thinks it's too girly. i only did it to record the video than i took it off afterward =,=^) i need someone girlier to practice on ~_~

and yeaa, it looks better if you do it freehand..
you can get the sticker tho at walmart
i'm planning to do a french (or color tip) tutorial soon ^^
wait for it, it takes practice but it's really not hard at all!!

brittany, that set is sooo hot
but my nails aren't in good shape nowadays after i took off my fake nails
hope you sell it soon, than that person could post model pictures for us xD

my nails now; it took soooo long to put on the stones (esp the lil one)
look at one of my retarded ring finger.. i close the car door on my finger =,=''

^ i love the pink color..looks nice :]