The Nail Challenge Collaborative - Neons - Week 4

Hi everyone!

With this post, I'll finally be done with the Nail Challenge Collaborative's Neon month! Yay! And since this post will go online on June 30st, I'll even be done in time! This theme really wasn't my cup of tea, but next month's theme "Flowers" will be! So without much further ado... my final neon mani... that's not looking very neon, but was done using neon colors!

Mit diesem Post beende ich - endlich - den Neon-Monat der Nail Challenge Collaborative! Juhuu! Und da dieser Post am 30. Juni online gehen wird, bin ich sogar rechtzeitig fertig damit! Das Thema Neon war nicht so meins, aber das Thema für Juli, Blumen, wird es sein! Ich freue mich schon. Nun denn, dann hier die letzte Neon-Mani... die nicht sehr neon aussieht, obwohl sie mit Neon-Lacken gemalt wurde!

The base for this mani are two coats of Barry M Indigo. I really love this polish. Application is flawless, drying time could be better, but it's really shiny even on its own. I was lazy to take picture though. On top of Indigo, I pre-painted the pattern using white acrylic paint, because most of the neons I wanted to use are rather sheer and I wanted them to show up properly. I traced the white lines using the yellow Woo neon, Zoya Robyn and three unnamed Color Club neons (green, orange, pink). Some were easy, some were not. The yellow was too runny, sadly. But overall, I liked this mani.

Angefangen habe ich mit zwei Schichten Barry M Indigo. Ich mag diese Farbe wirklich sehr. Der Auftrag ist unkompliziert, die Trockenzeit könnte zwar besser sein, aber der Lack ist auch solo wunderbar glänzend. Ich war aber zu faul, um davon Bilder zu machen. Dann habe ich die Muster mit weißer Acrylfarbe vorgemalt, da die Neons doch etwas sheer sind und man sie ja gut erkennen sollte. Diese weißen Linien habe ich dann mit dem gelben Woo-Neon, Zoya Robyn und drei namenlosen Color Club-Neons nachgemalt. Das klappte je nach Farbe unterschiedlich gut. Das Gelb war leider etwas zu dünnflüssig. Aber so alles in allem war ich recht zufrieden mit der Mani.

What do you think? Doesn't really look neon, does it? :D
Was meint ihr? So wirklich neon sieht's ja nicht aus, oder?

Thanks for reading & bis zum nächsten Mal!

Fairy Tail inspired...

Hi everyone!

Some of you might know that instead of living in Germany, I would rather live in Japan. I have lived there before and I like it so much better than Germany (though I like Germany too). My love for Japan sprung from my love for anime back when I was a kid/teenager. I used to be a crazy Sailor Moon fangirl, when I was like 12 years old. Haha. I even studied a Japan related major and thus spent some time living overseas.
That's when I got over anime mostly. There's just too much animated stuff going on there, it killed it for me. But once in a while, I get in the mood to watch some anime.

Last fall, I did a crazy marathon watching an anime called Fairy Tail. In one of the boss fights, there were these weird foggy/jelly monsters that had this see-through thing going on that reminded me of jelly polishes. While watching this episode, I kept thinking how I could do this on my nails... and being a polish addict, I started working on it as soon as I finished watching.

So here are some Fairy Tail inspired nails. Weird monster inspired nails. :D

Since I did these more than half a year ago, I don't remember all the polishes I used for this one. I used the acid wash technique to create this look, so it involved a lot of layering. I remember two pinks and at least two purples. One of them Barry M Indigo, the other one was an essence polish. On top I sponged on one thin coat of H&M Urban Spirit to add some sparkles. Around the edges I added a thin stripe of black using a striper and on top of that one coat of the essence Smoky Topcoat, a sheer black jelly, to soften the black.

Instead of a Q-Tip, I used my clean-up brush and some acetone to dig trough all the polish layers. I'm not sure if all those coats of polish were necessary to create this. If you look very closely, you can tell that there's a "gradient" in those pink bolts. But honestly... if it's barely visible on zoomed pictures..?

I liked the look on my pictures, even though they didn't turn out all that great. The black around the edges and the vibrant Indigo... love! But in reality, I couldn't even stand the design on my nails for an entire day. It might have been different if I had purple jelly polishes at hand, but since I don't own any, I had to use cremes. That's what you get for trying to replicate some anime monster. Haha.

What do you think? Have you tried the acid wash technique at some point? Up to this point my initial acid wash manicure is still by far the most watched post of my blog.

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Zum Schluss eine Frage an die deutschen Leser. Anhand meiner Statistiken fällt mir auf, dass ich in letzter Zeit wieder mehr deutsche Klicks habe als amerikanische. Wie ist das mit dem Englisch? Passt das oder wäre es euch lieber, wennn zumindest eine deutsche Zusammenfassung im Post beinhaltet wäre?
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That's it for today. Time to get ready for work...