Nail of the Day!!

First and foremost, Happy April Fools Day! So, this is more like my nail of the week because I'm liking it a lot. I really wanted something different.

  

Thumb- Sinful Colors Black on Black and one coat of Wet n' Wild Spoiled Pet My Peacock

Pointer- OPI Alpine Snow

Middle- Sinful Colors Black on Black

Ring- Zoya Sooki (red), Milani Racy Green (green) and an Art Club polish in white for the detailing

Pinky- OPI Alpine Snow

Thumb- OPI Alpine Snow

Pointer- Sinful Colors Black on Black

Middle- OPI Alpine Snow

Ring- Zoya Sooki (red), Milani Racy Green (green) and an Art Club polish in white for the detailing

Pinky- Sinful Colors Black on Black and one coat of Wet n' Wild Spoiled Pet My Peacock

I don't really know what inspired me, I wanted my ring fingers to be kind of tribal looking then kept the others just pretty normal, but then I added glitter to two of my fingers just to make them all a little different. I really wanted every finger to be different, which is also why I alternated black and white on each finger on each hand. 

I can't really see changing it any time soon, but I did buy Essie Good to Go to try out, so I'll have to redo some fingers (most like the black or white ones) just to test it out lol

Until next time,

The Wicked

Spider Web nail art!

So this is a really quick spider web that I did literally right before this post.

Two coats of OPI He's My Boo, then I used Sinful colors Black On Black with a very dirty nail art brush and just free handed this spider web design. I apologize that it's kind of sloppy because my brush was pretty dirty. So, there you go, I did this pretty quickly because I've just been really swamped this week. Not much else to say. It's easy to do, just make sure your brush is clean! I do like it though.

Until next time,

The Wicked

Blood Splatter nails!

I've been wanted to do a real splatter mani for a while now, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. I tried about three different techniques and seriously nothing was working. You might remember the Paint Splatter nail art that I did a while back, which was hand made splatters, I wanted organic splatters this time. I saw a video of someone doing paint splatter with a pen, and I needed to try it. It was my last hope.

Success! The base is two coats of OPI I Only Date Werewolves for the black and for the white, two coats of OPI Mummy Knows Best. For the blood splatter I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Cherry Red. Then a coat of Seche to finish it all off. 

To do the actual splatter, I took apart a clicky pen and used the hollow pen shell (shown above) like a blow pen. So you just dip the tip of the pen into the polish and you blow into the pen like a blow pen! Be careful not to have the pen too close to your nail or you'll get big blobs, which you can see on my index finger. Also, you need to work a little quicker with this because the polish starts to dry and it just won't work. But it's really simple to do, takes really no effort and comes out awesome. I love how it looks like organic splatter.

I love this. It seriously looks like blood. It's cool and creepy and just plain awesome. These pictures are after 5 days of wear, and I only had minimal tip wear. I think that it looks a little bit better on the white, because you get more of a contrast and can see the smaller splatters a lot better. So, if I were to redo this, I'd probably just use white as a base. 

Until next time,

The Wicked

Tribal Nails!

I've been meaning to do a tribal pattern for a long time, but just haven't gotten around to it, but recently I've been pretty bored with my vast nail polish collection so I decided to finally take some time out (while I was supposed to doing a paper...procrastination to the max) and actually do it. Yay!

This one looks a little dark.. I don't know why. My phone usually hates me when I take pictures with it.

Anyway, the base coat is actually a custom nude shade that I created in my kitchen and I do have tutorial for it that I will put up as my next post. For the details I used OPI Alpine Snow, Sinful Colors Black on Black and MAC Mischievous Mint (love it so much). Oh and I used one of the art club detail polishes in white. For everything else I used detail brushes that I have.

So I first did a base coat, then one coat of my nude shade. Then I did all the details, Mischievous Mint took more than one coat wherever you see it other than the dots. After I did all the detail work I did a thick coat os Seche Vite to smooth everything out. I really like how it came out. What do you guys think? Also, If you want a tutorial on how to do any of these patterns I can do a video.

Until next time,

The Wicked



Nailtastic!! LA Splash Retro and Metalmania

I received nail products from LA Splash in order for me to review them. They send me two nail polishes, a top coat and two nail art glitters. I will be reviewing one nail polish( Retro) and one glitter (Metalmania) below. 

This is what I received:

 Nail art glitter in Metalmania

Here I have two coats of Retro and a coat of LA Splash's top coat. For the glitter I used one coat of the top coat and then dipped my nail in the little container. Then I shook off any excess glitter and finally put a top coat. It dried very quickly, I was pretty surprised. 

On my other hand I tried other designs.

Here I put another coat of the top coat on the tip of my nail in a straight line. Then I dipped it in the glitter and put a top coat on my entire nail.

Next I put top coat in a diagonal  and dipped it in the glitter. Then put a top coat.


I really love Retro, it's a creamy minty green color. Also I only needed two coats of it to get the color and it dried fairly quick.

By the way I bet you are wondering why these nails look different than from the previous post, is because I am the one who post on makeup. However, I was sent these samples from LA Splash and then did this post. For my next post I will be reviewing the other nail polish and glitter they sent me.

Check out LA Splash's website to see there other nail polishes.
LA Splash

Until next time, 

The Wicked 

Nail Art: Paint Splatter!

This is the final design that I tried! I know I'll be doing at least one more, but that'll be sometime next week. 

(not sure why I took it at the angle)

I have a base of OPI Alpine Snow and as usual, my various other colors. You can use any colors you want for this. All you need is a pin or tooth pick. What you do is put a little glob of polish on your nail and then spread it out in a paint splatter type shape with the tooth pick/pin. Make sure you have enough polish so that you'll actually be able to spread it. Very simple, very easy. Anyone can do this and it's really cute. My mom even thought I used a stamp for it! 

Until next time,

The Wicked

Nail Art: 21st Birthday!

It was my friend's 21st birthday a month ago and I did these sweet birthday nails and forgot to show them to you!

The base for all of them is OPI Alpine Snow and a slew of other colors for everything else. 

Thumb- Sinful Colors Black on Black for the words then a coat of Sally Hansen In the Spotlight

Index- Sinful Colors Black on Black and Revlon Silver Dollar

Middle- OPI You Don't Know Jacques for the frosting (supposed to be a cake lol) and Sinful Colors Black on Black and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Lightening for the candle

Ring- a bunch of different polishes, including Sally Hansen, Revlon and Orly for the balloons and Sinful Colors Black on Black for the strings. Oh, and I used Alpine Snow to highlight the balloons

Pinky- Orly Frisky for the box and OPI Siberian Nights for the ribbon and bow.

And of course, trusty Seche Vite to finish everything off.

Until next time,

The Wicked

Nail Art: Cherry blossoms!

So after my minions I went on a nail art kick and I saw a picture of these cute cherry blossom nails, so I had to try it out.

The base is Orly Ancient Jade, two coats. Then I did the branches using a thin brush with Sinful Colors Black on Black. For the petals I used OPI Alpine Snow, and just made dots using a brush, a dotting tool would work but I forgot to look for one at the store. Then I used my unnamed Milani pink for the middle of the flower, and I just used a brush again to dot it on. I did prime each nail with a base coat before hand and then did a coat of Seche on top. 

When doing nail art in general, it is easier to do one hand completely and then the other hand. Also, it is best to do it stages, using one color at a time on each nail before moving on to the next color. 

I really liked how it came out, and I was pretty proud of myself for being able to do it with my left hand. It's all about practice! 

Until next time,

The Wicked

Pirates, Orly and an Announcements!

So I ended up adding to my POTC nails because I liked my thumb too much to change it lol.

I did change three of my fingers as you can see.

index: 2 coats OPI You Don't Know Jacques

middle: 1 coat Nicole by OPI Razzle Dazzler

pinky: 2 coats OPI You Don't Know Jacques

Then I used the Kiss nail art pens. I used the white one for the skull and the black one to make my You Don't Know Jacques nails to look like wooden boards (hopefully that was easily figured out).

Next on the agenda.. Orly! So after I took the above picture I decided to redo my nails, and I could not figure out what to do for longest time. I wanted something sparkly but couldn't decide on what. Finally I just decided to do the Milani jewel fx Gold on all my nails, but I left my POTC thumb lol. Of course, as my luck goes, 20 minutes later the doorbell rings and it's my Orly polishes! So I ended up having to swatch all the colors on only my thumb (I'll do full swatches later on).

From the Precious Collection:

Royal Velvet, 3 coats

Ancient Jade, 1 coat

Pure Porcelain, 2 coats

Gilded Coral, 3 coats

 From the Pinup Collection:

Bubbly Bombshell, 3 coats

So these are the introductory swatches and the amount of coats I have on. I will be doing full swatches and I'll go into more detail with each color. But overall all the polishes have really nice formulas, smooth and good coverage. The more frosty/ iridescent colors are on the sheerer side so they do need an extra coat or thicker coats to be completely opaque. The cremes are great and are pretty much opaque in 1 coat, which is pretty impressive. I liked that a lot. Also the range of colors in the collections was great. Also, I thought it was worth mentioning that Bubbly Bombshell was amazingly easy to remove. As you can see, it is a glitter and glitter is usually a pain to remove, but this one removed just like a normal polish. Awesome. Probably one of the best features about this polish, I haven't seen that with a glitter before.

And now for the announcements! Firstly, today is my birthday!! Yay! Just had to get that out there in this special post. Secondly, We are the Wicked will be going on a short 10 day hiatus. We are going to be in Denmark and Sweden so starting tomorrow we won't be posting for 10 days. But there is plenty of other stuff to check out here! We will try our best to find something interesting stuff and possibly post from there, but no promises. Maybe Swedish and Danish trends? Hmm? Possible. 

Until next time,

The Wicked

Pirates of the Caribbean!! Skull and Glossbones and Gold!

As you all probably know, today the 4th Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out and in celebration I have done this POTC inspired mani!

Here we have two coats of Skull and Glossbones of three of my finger and about 3 or 4 coats of Milani jewel fx Gold. Skull and Glossbones is an obvious choice and Gold reminds me of gold coins, which ties in to the 1st movie. I like it, it reminds me of pirate treasure and skulls and other piratey things. 

Now for the kicker! I got some Kiss nail art pens today (I'll review them another day) and I did my best imitation of the POTC font. The thumb also has two coats of Skull and Glossbones and a top coat and I did the writing over that.

Here is a semi blurry close(r) up of my thumb and the writing. I think I did a pretty good job! Props to me.

So I hope you all go see the movie! I'm not sure if I should do another POTC mani or a birthday one for sunday. Opinions? Suggestions?

Also, I want to remind everyone to follow us, there's a snazzy "follow" button on the right hand side at the top of the page, so totally click on that.

Annndddd, a special announcement, Zoya is having an awesome deal this weekend. Buy anything (besides their color spoons) and get Zoya polish in Caitlin and Dove for free! Yes! 3 for the price of one! Visit http://www.zoya.com/ for that!

Until next time,

The Wicked

Nail Art Options

When thinking about nail art, most people don't realize how many options there are, but there are SO many! I'm sure some people like to have their nails just one color, but others need some options (like myself). So, I'm going to go through some different options for jazzing up our nails!


1. Nail Art Pens/ Polishes

 
So, these are pretty simple to understand. They come in a variety of colors and are made for detailing.

On the top are the Sally Hansen nail art pens that came out a few years ago. They're pretty interesting. After you use them, you need to do a top coat of they will actually wash off, which is super strange. They run about $6-7 and you can find them anywhere.

On the bottom, are LA Colors nail art polishes. You can see that the brushes are thin and pointed and they come in a variety of colors. There are lots of brands that have these kinds of polishes, they're also widely available. I actually haven't seen the LA Colors in stores, but I saw another brand and each one was $2.99


2. Nail Stickers

Also super simple to use, nail stickers are a great quick fix when adding to nails. There's no drying time or really any effort at all. You can find tons of these everywhere and pretty much any kind you want. These are really easy and are great for kids (and adults!).

I really love these, I might have to find them lol








3. Rhinestones

 Ahh, rhinestones. I do love sparkly things.

You can get rhinestones 2 ways: stick-on or not stick-on. The sticky backed ones come in sticker form, while the other ones come just like you see here
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They come in all different shapes and sizes and colors and are relatively easy. Obviously, ones with sticky backs are like stickers and therefore easy to adhere.







4. Stamping

Probably my favorite way to decorate my nails. This picture is of a Konad stamping set, but other companies do make these types of plates, people tend to call them "fauxnad" plates. Such simpler to use than it seems, it just takes a little practice. When buying Konad specifically, you can usually get bundles that include some polishes, plates and the stamper and scraper. I do recommend getting the Konad polishes because they dry on contact, but any polish will work. Because they dry so fast, you do have to work faster when using them.

You can get Konad on various websites. I use http://www.ocnailart.com/.

One alternative to Konad that is an awesome deal comes from Bundlemonster. It's 21 plates for $17. Yeah, awesome!



5. Nail Polish Strips

This is the newest thing when it comes to decorating nails. They are nail polish strips, no polish necessary. It completely simplifies the way you do nails. I'm not sure how the application is or anything, but I think it's a good idea, especially for people who don't have time to do their nails all the time. You can see that there are TONS of options here, some of them can be achieved with Konad, while others are definitely original.

When going with these I would suggest getting something original, like the butterflies, flowers or lace (my favorite!). Getting a plain color or even glitter wouldn't be worth it in my mind. They're $7-8 and I think you get one use out of each pack.


Until next time,
The Wicked