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. ;)

Under The Blue Blue Sea

I decided to spice up my blue nails from the previous post with a cute and fun design, so I reached for one of the new Born Pretty Store stamping plates and created this fish skeleton mani.

For the base I applied two coats of GA-DE Melody Blue, then I stamped the cute fish skeleton images from QA62 stamping plate using Essie No Place Like Chrome as the stamping polish. 

The QA62 stamping plate has some really cute designs on it like fish and fish skeletons, penguins and cute water drops with faces. These are quite funny designs with a bit of humor, so I really liked them.

The designs on this plate are a bit small, but as you can see I managed to stamp the full nail design with a single application, but if you have longer nails than mine, you can use these patterns easily twice on your nails without having weird patchy look.

For the thumb I used the large skeletons and stamped a few of them to create this pattern, but of course you can stamp a single image if you like.

For the ring finger I applied one coat of Essie Stroke Of Brilliance over the blue base, to add a bit of sparkle to the design. It also reminded me of water bubbles, but this is kinda cynical since these are fish skeletons. ;) 

To seal the design I applied one coat of Poshe.

So this is my fun and easy designs. I hope you like it and find inspiration in it.

Thanks for reading!

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and various stamping accessories.

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