Practicing hand painting

Today i am posting some more of my hand painting exercises, i am definitely getting better at performing basic strokes, however i see now that i have to work on my composition skills. I also have got some more paint, and keep practice on paper too. I hope that you ll like those designs, and i hope that i ll keep improving my painting skills :)
Also today made some nails for my frieds, and i am going to post it tomorrow, so stay tuned.

Emerald in Gold

Today abstract and crazy manicure!
And i don't even know if i like it or not.
I used a golden foil flakes for this look, and this was actually my first experience with the foil flakes. So what i did is just using the instrument that use to correct my eye brows and chipped parts of the foils and located it randomly on the nails.
I also used Black and white liner to make some drawing to complement the foil.
I really did not figured out yet what is the way to use those flakes, but it definitely look amazing on the nails.

Water Marble

Here is my probably the finest attempt of water marbling. I think i am starting to really learn how to do it and don't repeat mistakes. The crucial turn for me was watching Nihrida's Tutorial .
I realized that i don't have to use a lot of polish, i can only make 2 drops of polish (instead of 5-6 as i used to do) ,and having a smaller dish for water really helps too.
I also used a lip balm around my fingers and cuticle - it makes cleaning a lot easier.
I like the result, but however where is still room for improvement :) And you know what?
People who think that Konading is messy, probably nether tried water marbling - for me this experience was very super messy and extremely time consuming - i spent liek 90 minutes making this look, and after all teh cleaning arround fingers, cuticul area is atill not very clean.

Right hand
For this look i used Orly "Polo Princess as a base color" and Zoyas"Vanessa"and "Purity" for the marbles.

I am so Back

Hello My Sweet Followers!
Now my contest is over and i guess i am back to regullar blogging. Again a greate thanks to everyone who took time to participate in my contest ,i am planing to have more contests and giveaways in the nearest future.
Also as you can see i have been working recently on the redesigning the blog, i made a new header and found a nice matching background, but reorganizing gadgets is still in the process.
Please let me know how do you like new design?
Now back to Nails:
I have a bunch of nail-arts from last week, so i ll post 2 set of pictures today, to catch up a bit with the recent lack of posts.
Here the base coat is China Glaze "Millenium"


And here base coat is OPI "Russian Navy"

Congratulations to the winners!!!

It was really hard for me to do my job and chose one winer out of all the beautiful manicures. All of you, guys are so talanted!!!
And the winners of the "Winter Nail-Art" contest are:

1st Prize(My choice) - Mae E. from "Art of Nails"
and her Mr. Snowman Manicure :)

I choce this manicure as a winner because Mae did awesome job with multilayered stamping and sponging. I also really loved her choice of colors and jewels. Her snowman look very creative and wintery. And i just fell in love with the thum design :) She have managed to create a very professional and creative look .

2nd prize (By voting results ) Edita from "All You Desire" with 332 vote , so Zoya glitters are going to Czech Republic

Congratulations to the winners, please e-mail me your shipping adresses so i can send you your prizes :)

And again thanks for evryone who entered the contest, keep up; good nail job, and be prepared for more comtests and giveawys at Nail-Art World.

I also would like to give credit to Jessica . Here is her beautiful entry, that unfortunately was not posted for voting (my bad, and i already apologized for her), but at least we all can enjoy her nail-art. Please also check out her blog.

Nail-Art Contest Voting

First of all i d like to thanks everybody who have entered my Winter Nail Art Contest, all nails are super creative and beautiful. This is amazing how talented are all of you. The first prize winner of my choice will be announced on Friday.
Today , as it is scheduled, i am posting contest entries for voting.
The author of the entry that will earn most votes will receive second prize - 3 Zoya Glitters polishes. However i decided to post all the entries rather then just 10 ,because i decided that everybody should have a chance, and i just can not eliminate any of nail design because they all are super talented and i see how much effort you , guys, put on it. So i hope you don't mind this little adjustment of the rules.
Since the choice is really tough, the voting will be opened until midnight of Thursday.
So, don't forget to tell all your friends to vote for your entry, and i am super excited to know who is going to win second prize.

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