My relation and history with nailpolish

Like all you girls I’ve been a polish-addic for a while now. I like to share my polishpast with you.

- First time wearing polish:

 I think I was about 8 years old. My mother does not wear any make-up or polish so I used a very old and thick polish my grandmother had laying around.

- First time experimenting 

 When I was 11 I went to a very oldfashiond all girls school with uniform!!!!We where not allowed to use any make-up or polish. So in the weekends I went crazy with blue, yellow, green, ….

I ALWAYS used polish on my toes, the nuns of my school could not see that…

- First time nailarting:

 I think I had to be around 16 years old. I used some stickers or just one color stripe… Kept it simple then.

When I was 18 I went to art school ( I have a master degree in arts now). There I started to use acryl paint and small markers to draw on my nails. Keeping the manicure intact was a big problem then, the topcoat alwarys smeard the whole design.

- How I met Konad:

 This is quit a special story! I had my first Konads in 2003!!! Back then I had never seen any sets or kits. I’m graphic designer for a toy compagny and one day we got an e-mail from a compagny in the east. They showed us some new stuff they had. And there it was. I searched on the net and placed an order with a company in Korea.

3 bottels of polish, 2 plates stamp and scraper ( the black plastic one, better than the metal scraper)

Then I stopped a few years with Konad because my polish chipped after one day… I just used polish and no nail art.

In 2007 I bought a house with my boyfriend (soon to be husband….) We worked every day very hard in it. I went for Acryl nails, and this way you polish can hold up to a week.

A good reason to start with nail art again. Now (I’m 29) we live in our beautiful new house and I enjoy to do my nails on a quit evening.

So for 18years there has not been a day without nailpolish, sometimes only the toes.

Frostbite

What I used:
-Base: China glaze White on white
-Sponge: Gosh metallic blue, Gosh blue monday
-Smooth out with white essence glitter polish
-Stamping: M59 with Konad white and blue, dark blue polish from New look
-Dots: Dotting tool plain white polish and dark blue polish

Purple rain

What I used:
Base: Catrice "plum play whith me"  and 1 layer gosh gasoline
Sponge: Catrice haute couture pink (you can see the pink under the white stamping)
Stamping: Konad plate 71 white special polish
Stripe: Silver striper from essence
Dots: dottingtool and catrice haute couture mixed with wihte for the light pink and for the hot pink I used it pure. On the silver stripe also dots in Plum play with me and catrice pink

An other red fail

After the bad zebra, I tried to fix my red design and tried something new.
This is also a big fail, I will show it anyway....

What I used:
Base: again catrice bloody marry to go with v for men matt coat on top
Freehand: 2way polish (bought on marktplaats.nl but low quality)
                in brown and yellow

http://nail-artwaterdecals.blogspot.com/

Shirley from Nail-artwaterdecals has here own line of image plates.

Here are some pictures from her blog.

Sneek preview ;-)

http://nail-artwaterdecals.blogspot.com/2010/12/coming-soon-my-own-made-image-plates.html

Red zebra with flower

What I used:
- Base: Catrice "bloody marry to go", V for men matt copcoat Nubar
- Stamping:
      - Zebra with again Catrice 'bloody marry to go" --------> fail... m57
      - Flower M39 white konad

Ice flower

What I used:
- Base: Gosh metallic blue (nice color but poor quality, not what I'm used of gosh)
- Stamping:
       - Blue: Bundle monster plate 08 with a cheap polish from chothingstore New Look
       - White: Konad plate M50 with a cheap 2B white polish