Konad nail design & more

Okay guys, I really want Konad nail polish & nail plates. They are up-the-wazoo expensive, but I think I may buy some polishes and plates anyway. Every time I try to use my nail polish on the design plates I own, it doesn't work because the polish wont stay on. So I realized I should try some of my 99 cent nail art pens/polishes and well, it wasn't half bad! The base coat here is 3 coats of OPI's Too hot pink to hold 'em. I used a baby blue nail design pen that I bought at a 99 cent store, but I know that tons of beauty supply stores sell these in any color, so I'm sure you can find them.

You can buy konad nail plates and knockoff ones on amazon.com. I don't have any actual konad plates because my ass is broke I haven't had the time, nor am I sure of which plates I want. The thing is, this manicure alone took me so long, and you really need a lot of materials, cotton balls, polish remover, q-tips, napkins, including whatever colors you want, your image plate(s) and the stamp and scraper. After each finger is done you must clean all your tools and do it again. Its fun- but by the end your finished, especially if you have made a mistake and need to start all over again. I had the OPI manicure on all day before and I didn't feel like changing polish, so I went ahead and put the design on top, which saved time, but with drying time and all that- your looking at one long manicure. That being sad, I love design nails, and thats why I love nail design stickers... so fast & easy.

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Konad design success.

After I had been messing around with the Sally Hansen Nail stickers, I wanted to generate new designs on all my nails with my ghetto konad I bought. Online you can get nail plates for Konad for like 20 bucks for 18 of them. And you can buy the stamp & scraper for five dollars. Otherwise, a konad kit will cost you upwards of thirty dollars, but it will probably give you better results than what I can show you in this post.

You get what you pay for. Konad basically, for those of you who don't know, is a nail art kit by which you can make designs. You paint the plate, scrape it off with the scraper and use the rubber stamp to pick up the remaining polish and place it on your nail. It can look really sick. Or it can look messy. You have to be good at arts n crafts and stuff like that to be really successful with it, but here are some picks of a design I was told was very "pop art".

Anyway, as you can see in the photos that aren't drunkenly blurred out of proportion. Its hard to get each design on each nail to be perfect. This is because the designs are rather small, smaller than like, my thumb nail for example so I always try to maneuver it so I can put them next to eachother to make the design bigger (hope that makes sense) but it never works.

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Sally Hansen Nail stickers

So I bought those stickers that my friend got. They are called Sally Hansen nail effects, google it. Honestly, they have some pretty lame designs and some neon colors. BUT they last for about ten days, with very little peeling and chipping. The first full day I wore them I got three complements within like two hours, it was awesome. The few designs they have that are unique I highly recommend. They have a lace one, a checkered one, jean design, different sparkle designs and then like twenty neon colors and some butterfly design. Some of the designs I feel are meant for little girls, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean that they are ideal for girls because they don't fall off, aren't messy, and can be a great activity for girl bonding.

I am also including a Nailene sticker I bought months ago and was inspired to use. This design was really cool because it had hot pink and mirror effect all rolled into one, but it peeled off within one hour of application, so DON'T buy it if you see it. I highly recommend Sally Hansen vs. Sephora brand. But I will do another post with a Sephora sticker and I also have these stickers I got from Urban Outfitters, so I'll give you the info on them also.

A note on application: All of these brands only give out like 14-16 stickers, not enough for two manicures. If you have slightly stubby nails like I do, you can cut them in half carefully with a small nail scissors and try to squeeze two manicures out of them. Otherwise, if you have long lovely nails that I dream for at night, your SOL.

I put some photos of myself with my Sally Hansen Manicure, and a blurry ass pick of the weird manicure that I bought with some nailene kit that lasted five minutes. Enjoy

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