Konad Failure, Nail Tips

So the other day I tried, and tried, and tried to create a cool design using my ghetto konad image plates and stamp. I never seem to be able to get the polish quite right, so I'm seriously considering purchasing some things from their site, but I don't want to break the bank. I must have done my nails at least five times each, but I wasn't focused and by the end of it I was so tired I didn't know where my nails ended or began. Anyway, I googled some easy designs after that and decided to create a two color design, one side glitter and one side my favorite violet Essie shade. I painted my nails the whole color, then drew a diagonal line and painted from that upwards, diagonally dividing the nail into two colors, then I put glitter on the top color, and it actually didn't look that bad based on the fact that it took me five minutes.

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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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