El Corazon Fenechka № 423/122 & 423/124

While summer is still here, I decided it's a good time to create another neon combo and play with the beautiful El Corazon polishes from the Fenechka collection.
These are such pretty "glitter" polishes (it's always a bit odd for me to refer to this kind of matte glitter, as they don't sparkle, but still this is glitter I guess), their formula and application was a delight. Despite the creme-jelly formula these two have, I got a great coverage with just two coats. I thought about layering the yellow neon over a white base in case it will be too sheer, but I was happy to see it was great on it's own.

The two colors I chose for this fun manicure are El Corazon № 423/122 - a yellow neon and № 423/124 a pink neon, both polishes contain the same mix of black & white matte glitter, same as the rest of the Fenechka collection.
For the photos I applied two coats of each polish, and topped them with one coat of Poshe Top Coat.
I hope you'll like this bright neon mani!

Neon Butterfly Wings

Hello there lovely ladies!
In this post I want to share with you another butterfly wings manicure I made with the Nailz Craze NC01 plate, this time I did a neon version to suit the summer time.
I had also attempted to film a video tutorial for you to demonstrate how I work to apply this design, but unfortunately this was quite a bad turnout and I realized that filming tutorials is just too hard for me. I get all so nervous and self consensus, everything is going so wrong, it's just a complete disaster! I might ask someone to try and film me in the future, maybe it will go better, but for now I will stick to creating manicures and taking photos of them, and maybe occasionally make pictorials.

Lucky for me (and you!) I found an awesome video tutorial made by missdrea33 on YouTube, demonstrating how to create the butterfly manicure in a few easy steps. I have to admit, I couldn't have done it any better myself! She does such a great job explaining how to use the plate and the stamper, how much polish to use and how to work best with the scraper. Her work technique is the same as mine, so I defiantly recommend you to check this butterfly wings stamping tutorial to learn how to work with this plate and get good results. If you are relatively new to stamping, it will take a bit of practice to align the design perfectly, and you might need to make a few touch ups, but I think it's worth giving a try to get these pretty wings on your nails.

To create this design I started with a white base (Wet n Wild French White Creme), and picked two of my favorite neon colors for the gradient - China Glaze Shocking Pink and That's Shore Bright.

I applied one coat of the beautiful Barry M Diamond Glitter to add some sparkle to my design.

I stamped the butterfly wings from Nailz Craze NC01 plate, using Konad's Black stamping polish. For the white dots I used the same white polish as I used for the base.

To seal the design I applied one thick coat of Poshe Top Coat.

It was quite difficult to capture the neons on camera, the colors just didn't look true to life so I had to work on the photos a bit to get a better result that will reflect the real colors, and still the colors were much prettier in real life.

This is actually my third recreation of the butterfly wings design, and it's kinda funny to see how much I improved over this past year and half, when I first started blogging. The first time I created this design was a year and a half ago, when I just created the Nailz Craze brand and the first plate, and I was quite new to stamping then (geez, what's with the huge watermark?!). 

The second attempt was a little less that a year ago, which I was also pretty proud of at the time, but looking back, I totally like the current version on this manicure.

I hope that showing you these old designs of mine will make you keep going and practicing even if you don't get it perfect at your fist attempt. And don't forget to have fun! After all, it's just nail art.

I hope you enjoyed my butterfly wings design, hopefully you didn't fell asleep while reading this post. ;)

El Corazon Fenechka collection sneak peek

Today I have some gorgeous polishes to share with you, these are a few of the new El Corazon (Russian brand) polishes from the Fenechka (Фенечка) collection.
This collection is inspired by the friendship bracelets aka Fenechka in Russian, these are all creamy polishes with black and white matte glitter. This combination creates a fun and cute look, the company defiantly did a great job with these colors!

There are 11 colors in this collection, in this post I'm going to show you five of them which I received from the company for a review. I'm also going to make swatches of these to show you how fun and pretty they are on the nails, but for now I hope you will enjoy these bottle shots I've made.

Коллекция "Фенечка" El Corazon

Fenechka № 423/124

Fenechka № 423/122

Fenechka № 423/129

  

Fenechka № 423/130

Fenechka № 423/121