Halloween

“Trick or treat” step by step.

The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day.

Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31. Are you ready for it?

Here’s some design ideas for this holiday – your clients will definitely love it!

This step by step design is done by Luksha Anastasia and Makhitarova Tatiana.

To create this design you’ll need:

Purple glass paint

Purely Pink Masque powder and Totally clear powder

Technailcolor powders: orange, green, brown.

Acrylic paints: black, white, orange, green.

1. Prep the natural nail as usual.
2. Fit the Platinum nail form. Using Purely Pink Masque, extend the natural nail bed.
3. Add three drops of purple glass paint to the Attraction liquid. Using Tottaly Clear and colored monomer sculpt the free edge and leave a small spot in the corner clean. Sculpt that corner using Totally Clear with pure liquid.
4. Gently pinch the nail. File and shape the nail, buff the surface with a 240 grit buffer.

Now it’s time to create the design.

1. Using orange acrylic powder, sculpt the circles imitating the shape of the pumpkin.
2. Sculpt the second row – the lobules. Add the leaves using green acrylic.
3. Sculpt the scape of the pumpkin using brown acrylic. With black acrylic paint draw the nets in the clear corners of the nails.
4. Add some shades and accents with acrylic paints; draw the rest of the nets and the spiders.
5. Draw the pumpkin’s faces. Add some white spots on the nets with white acrylic paint. Use orange acrylic paint to draw the pupils and teeth of the pumpkins, rood on the back of the spider.
6. Cover the entire surface with gel top, excluding the pumpkins. Condition the cuticle with the nurture oil.

The design is done!

Watercolor

Watercolor, also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle. The traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, fabric, wood, and canvas. Watercolors are usually transparent and it allows light to reflect from the surface of the paper. This gives a luminous effect.

Today, when the nail products give us endless opportunities, it is possible to create a pure watercolor effect using acrylic.

Who to achieve it?
Follow our step by step guide “Acrylic Watercolor” and you will find out!

1. Prep the natural nail as usual. Fit the Platinum nail form to sculpt the stiletto. I used two forms and sticked them together, in order to make it longer.


2. Extend the natural nail bed, using Purely Pink Masque powder.



3. Using Winning White powder mixed on the same bead with the Totally Clear, to achieve a light marbleizing effect, sculpt the free edge of the nail.



4. Cover the entire surface with the Totally Clear, file, shape and buff the nail.



To create a watercolor effect you should use only semi-translucent acrylic powders. There is also a way to create such kind of powder by yourself.
Take 6 parts of Basic Black powder, from Technailcolor collection, and 1 part of Opal Shimmer glitter and mix them together.

1. Create the first petals of the flowers using Basic Black mixed with Opal Shimmer.


2. Make the second row of the petals.


3. Add some leaves and lines to finish the composition.


4. Using black acrylic paint, make some accents on the flowers and leaves.


5. Cover the surface with Glaze ‘N Go, leaving some areas inside the petals as they are. Place rhinestones in the middle of the flowers.



For those who prefer some abstract lines and compositions to the floristic style, here’s another one.

1. Create some abstract lines with the Basic Black, leaving them dark on the one side, and going transparent form the other side.


2. Using acrylic black paint finish the composition.


3. Cover the entire surface using Glaze ‘N Go, leaving some areas as they are.



The design is done.

Bronze winner on Nevskie Berega International Cup!

Open Cup of Russia Independent Championship on Hairdressing, Nail-Design and Make-Up – took place in St. Petersburg, September 15th-18th, 2011.

Tatiana Machitarova, Nail Couture student from Moscow took 3rd place in Mix-Media nomination in Veteran category!

Tatiana’s work “Jurassic Park”

Part 2. How to create acrylic laces

1. Take the paper from th nail forms and place the wet consistency bead of Winning White near the fold.

2. Fold the paper and roll the acrylic inside it using the handle of the brush.

3. To make polymerization run faster you can place the folded paper between the light and carcass of the table lamp.

4. Carefully open the folded paper and here it goes – freshly done acrylic laces!

5. If you rolled the acrylic really thin, you have some time while it will stretch and take the shape of any surface.

6. Now we can cut the acrylic laces into smaller pieces and place them on top of color beads (see “Sea Foam” step by step).


And the final result!

"Sea Foam" step by step tutorial

Prep the natural nail, fit the form.

Using Purely Pink Masque powder, extend the natural nail bed.

Using Clear powder, sculpt the thin base layer of the free edge of the nail making the “pipe” shape. Mix blue Ultramarin (that’s the name of the color) glass paint with the monomer. Place beads of the different size on a base layer.

Create the thin piece of acrylic imitating laces with white powder. Place them on the top of the blue beads and also in the gaps.

Fill the whole free edge with the Clear and monomer with the glass paint.
File and shape the nail, than buff it.

Cover the nail with the Top Coat.

Happy St. Valentines Day! New Step by step!

 Every service, we start with sanitizing both your and your client’s hands.

1. Remove the shine from natural nail surface using 180 grit file. Place the form on the natural nail. Make sure that it’s going straight, looking form the upper and the side view.
2. Using EFexclusive powder “Hot Pink” form a free edge in the square shape and stretch it up to the natural nail. (It’s strongly recommended to put the first thin layer of the clear powder only to the natural nail bed). When it’s set a little bit, pinch it using the special device or your own fingernails. Than, using white powder with small shiny particles, put a bit of it to the free edge, and stretch it up a little bit, right to the center of the nail. If you don’t have such powder, you can mix it by yourself, exactly like I did: I mixed EFexclusive white powder with a little bit of “Opal Shimmer” by NSI.

3. When it sets a little bit, make a different size hearts, using a special device, called “Dots”. You have to work fast, as the acrylic polymerizes, by the next heart you have less and less time to push it.

4. Cover the entire surface of the nail with the clear powder. When it sets a little bit, you can pinch it again, to make the C-curve look more esthetic and nice.

5. File the shape and the surface of the nail using 150 and 180 grit file. Finish using less abrasive files, 220 and then 280 grit.

Cover the nail with any UV Top coat to give it a high-gloss shine.

Nails for St. Valentine's Day!

Have you made up St. Valentine's Day nail designs for your clients already?

 Here's couple ideas of the "Lovely" nail art!