Very Katy Perry Nails!!

I really wanted to try to copy Katy Perry's rhinestone nails. For those that haven't seen them, here's a picture from her twitter account;

Gotta love it!!

It looks like she is sporting a silver nail polish under, which I don't have... But I am still wearing my DS Classic by OPI and figured it might work ok if I just put the stones (or in my case the stickers) close enough to each other. I started by applying a thin layer of blank top coat just to make sure they would stick.

Then I started applying the stones (stickers) one by one and this was the results;

It took me about 20 minutes, to do one nail... And I ended up with 27 stickers... But it was definetly worth it.

I decided to do the other ring finger as well, but with larger bling;

 

Made me feel like a rock star <3

Thank you Katy Perry!!

Retro Nails revisited

I ordered a bottle of China Glaze - For Audrey on Amazon since I heard so many other bloggers praising this color. At first when I got it I thought it would not look too good on a full nail so I decided to give the Retro half moon look a try with this color, and it turned out quite nice;

Looks really good with gold =)

Retro Half Moon

My next experiment was a version of the french manicure, the so-called half moon. This is a reverse version where the bottom is left "nude" or in a contrasting color to the rest of the nail. This might sound very strange and I was skeptical at first but pictures of Dita Von Teese rocking this look made me want to try it out!!

I started out by cutting up and putting 3 ring stickers on the base of my nails. Then just applied 4 (!) strokes of Wet N'Wild nail polish in gold;

4 coats it took to get this color opaque...
This polish was recycled and replaced with an OPI! =)

Then I let it dry and put on new stickers a little bit over the gold before I painted over 

with H&M - Espresso Me; 

I just love the Retro effect the Gold and Dark brown creates!
Definetly doing this one again!!

This tecnique should also be good for layering =)