Fresh Summer Nails - Palm trees and Watermelon

Hey there muffins :p


So for today I have a nail tutorial. It's really fresh, bright, fun and summery :) This is one of my fav ways to spice up my nails for the hot season. So without more talking here it is .... the Palm Watermelon Nail Art
Despite the fact that the designs look complicated they are really easy to be done. So if you want to know how to give yourself a nice bright manicure here are the things you'll need:

• Base coat - Perfect
• Bright blue nailpolish - Rimmel 842 Too cool to tango
• Yellow nailpolish - Golden Rose Fantastic color 01
• Red nailpolish - Golden Rose Rich color 61
• Pink nailpolish - Golden Rose Rich color 50
• Green nailpolish - Golden Rose Rich color 36
• Black striper - Golden Rose 
• Makeup sponge
• Thin striper brush
• Top coat - Golden Rose Quick Dry Top coat
• Quick dry nail spray (optional) - Avon

So let's get started ... Shall we :)

1. Start with clean nails, use nail file to shape your nails if necessary. Apply your base coat and let it dry. My trick: if you want to prevent the nail polish from chipping at the beginning of the nail apply the first layer of base coat on the bottom part of your nail, after that apply the second coat on the entire nail. 

2. Apply two coats of the yellow polish on the ring finger and the thumb. To all of the rest nails apply two coats of the blue polish. Let them dry for a few minutes.

3. Take your makeup sponge and place a stripe of red and yellow polish next to each other and blend the lines to make a nice transition. Using the sponge, with the red polish on the tip of your finger apply using tapping motion. Do so until you like the result.
4. When you are happy with the look take a black striper and draw some palm trees. It's really simple just look at the picture. Once you're done with the palms let the design dry for as long as possible before applying the top coat to prevent  from smudging.

5. Take the black striper again and draw small triangles on the blue nails, like it's shown on the picture - these are going to be our watermelon slices.
6. Take a clean striper or toothpick if you don't have striper. Dip it in the pink polish and carefully fill in the little watermelon triangle. After that do the same using the green polish and fill in the little rectangle. You can use dotting tool or toothpick again to make little dots inside the triangle to make the seeds if you want to. Let the design dry for as long as possible.
7. Finally apply top coat very carefully on all of the nails. Use fast drying one or use a drying spray. I'm using both for even faster effect.

So this is how tou can achieve this incredibly fun manicure for the summer months. Don't forget to share with your friends if you like it. And if you recreate this nailart I'd love to see it, so you can Instagram it with #alekssnails so I can see them.
If you want to see more of me and my nails you can follow me on instagram : aleks_stancheva

See you soon :)

                          xo xo Aleks

How to: Ombre Dreamcatcher

He there my lovelies,

 Spring is coming so it's time to bring out the bright colors and the crazy patterns and enjoy the warm weather. Today I have for you a colorful and really easy nail tutorial. I love green, blue and minty colors so I did an ombre look with these colors. For an accent I chose a simple dreamcatcher design because I love dreamcatchers and i like how the look with the background colors.



The nail polishes I used for this look are :
   *Picture 1 - Moda Matte Mint №306; Maybelline Colorama 120 Urban Turquoise;
   *Picture 2 - Colden Rose Red №23 ; Flormar Navy Blue №398; the two little jars are full of little beads which I decided not to use.
   *Things I forgot to make picture of: nail art brush; makeup sponge

First apply a base coat. I recently bought this Regenerating base by Perfect. In the bottle it looks like it has a color but it doesn't as you can see on the second picture. If the nail polish you're using won't stain your nails you can skip this step ( most light colors don't stain the nails) but I recommend using base everytime because it makes your nails harder and the nail polish stay longer.

On this picture I'm only with the mint nail polish that I'm using for a base color. It dries matte but that doesn't bothers we because I'll be using a top coat. I love this color for the spring and summer.

The most important part is the ombre look. To achieve that you'll need a makeup sponge. To do it easier for both of us I wrote the instructions on the picture. It's just that simple!

To create the look just dab the sponge on your nails and you're done. Once you do that the surface of your nails will be rough but the top coat will smooth it. Now just draw the dreamcatcher on your ring finger (or any finger you'd like). I kind of mess up the design with this dots but ... I still like it. here you can add color to your drawing by making small dots but my didn't turn out very good ...

To finish everything apply a top coat - mine is from Golden Rose. I hate waiting for the nail polish to dry so I spray my nails with my favourite Liquid freeze nail dry spray by Avon. It is quite oily so it makes my hands soft and smooth.

This is what the finished manicure looks like. I realy like the combination of the ombre and the dreamcatcher, even though I mess it up. I hope you enjoy it!

                                                                                                                  xoxo Aleks