WonderNails

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Simple Love

Difficulty : ★

Hey girls ! I just wanted to inform you that I've just uploaded my first VLOG ! So if you want to check it out, go ahead. And I'm going tu publish youtube tutos very soon, just the time to get a tripod ! so enjoy !

Today's weekly manucure is from far the easiest since I've uploaded my very first tuto. So anygirl can really do this.

For this manucure you will need : two nail polishes and a dotting tool.

To get started, apply your base coat on each of your nails. Once your base coat is dry, you can apply your first coat of nail polish on each nail. Once dry, apply your second coats.

So there's the funiest and easiest part : grab your dotting tool and just make 3 dots on each of your nails with the other nail polish.
Then, all you have left to do is apply your top coat !

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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Pink Aztec

Difficulty : ★★★★

Hey girls ! This weekly manucure is quite the same as last week's, but a tiny more complete. It's less difficult, but you still need to remain patient though. Let's get started !

For this manucure you will need : a pink nail polish, a purple nail polish, a taupe nail polish, a white liner and a dotting tool.

First, start by applying your base coat. Then paint each of your nails in pink. Once your coat is dry, paint a second one. When your second coat is dry, take your purple nail polish and draw a thick line in the middle of your nail.

Then follow each of the steps below :

For your thumb and your ring finger : With your white liner, paint two thin lines surrounding your purple thick line. Then, draw thin lines in the purple spot shaping like triangles (like on the picture above). Take your little dotting tool and with your taupe nail polish, draw tiny dots on the pink space. Once your dotting tool cleaned, draw little dots on the white lines surrounding the purple line.
For your index and your little finger : This step is surely the shortest and easiest ; with your dotting tool and your taupe nail polish, draw dots in the center of your nail !
For your middle finger : To finish your manucure, take your little dotting tool and your taupe nail polish, and draw a dotted pattern on your entire nail. Keep the spaces between the dots as equal as possible, as well as their sizes. I have to admit this is quite hard :p

To end this tuto ; take your top coat and paint your nails with it once they all are dry.

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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Yellow Ts

Difficulty : ★★★★

Hey guys ! After a little extra "How To N°1 : A Perfect Nail Cession" ; Here's the new weekly manucure !

For this manucure, you will need : a yellow nail polish, a black nail polish, a white nail polish, a blue nail polish, an orange nail polish, 3 different sized dotting tools and a white liner.

First and foremost, start by applying your base coat.

Then, take your main nail polish (yellow for me) and paint your first coat. Once your first coat is dry, apply your second coat.

Then, take your black nail polish and draw a thick line in the middle of your nail with your nail polish's brush. Then, take a white liner and surround your black line with medium thin lines. Then, draw lines in the black spot ; they're meant to turn out as triangles. Once you've done that, trust me, the harder part is done, all you have left to do is making dots ! So take a little sized dotting tool, and take the last two nail polishes left. Just draw dots on the white line and switch colors each time (like on the picture above). Then, take a bigger dotting tool and draw two white dots inside the triangles, only on one side. On the other one, draw a few tiny white dots. Then, take a medium sized dotting tool and draw black dots inside the white dots. And then we're done !

To end this manucure, apply your top coat when your nails are dry !

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

How To N°1 : Nail Polish Cession

How to make a perfect nail polish cession.

This extra article is to help you guys how to make a perfect nail polish cession. I'll be giving you a few tips so you can keep getting better !

Tip n°1 : Don't ever ever forget to put on a base : If you want your nails to be kept clean (white) underneath your nail polish, it is important to put a base on. Never neglect this aspect of nail polishing.

Tip n°2 : When laying down your base, make sure you make apply a thin coat.

Tip n°3 : Paint your first coat thin : If your first coat is too thick, there will be two consequences to that. The first being, you will take a whole day waiting for it to dry, but MOSTLY : The final result won't be clean, your nail polish will have little splodges of air in it.

Tip n°4 : ALWAYS wait for each coat to dry before painting another one over : If you do want nice clean nails, wait for each coat to dry (From the first, to the last one). Otherwise, the result in tip n°3 will be the same for this tip.

Tip n°5 : Paint your second coat thicker than the first : Once your first coat is entirely dry, you can paint on your second coat. To make sure the color you want is really the one on your nail, you have to apply a thicker coat. (Thicker, but not really THICK. Just less thin.)

Tip n°6 : Top coat ! : Once you've done your manucure, wait until it is ENTIRELY dry. Otherwise, the nail polish will go away while you'll be applying your top coat. If you guys want a clear schedule : Wait one whole hour before applying your top coat.

Tip n°7 : Just for the knowledge, a manucure takes around 6 hours to dry. For instance, if you take a fork and try rubbing your nail polish off with it, it will barely do anything. But, if you do anything else during the 6 hours, it's no problem if you just watch out.

So guys that's all for today's extra article, next etra article will be a surprise ! I hope you liked reading and see you guys soon for the weekly manucure !

Friday, November 21, 2014

Crazy Red

Difficulty : ★★

Hey girls ! This weekly manucure is all about striping and dotting. Really fun, not so hard ; if you've been doing last week's manucure, this one is just as easy !

You will need : two different nail polishes, different sized dotting tools and a striping tape.

Start by applying your base. Once it is dry, you can apply on your thumb, your middle finger and your little finger two coats of your first nail polish. For your index and your ring finger, you can apply two coats of your other nail polish.

For your thumb : Take your dotting tool and your second color, and draw dots going from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. Make a few big dots, surrounded by a few little dots.

For your index : Take your striping tape and draw 3 lines pointing in the same direction (see picture above). Then, apply one or two coats of your first nail polish and take off the striping tape immediately.

For your middle finger : With your second nail polish and a big dotting tool, draw 3 big dots on the edge of your nail. Then, draw 3 middle sized dots above those 3 big dots. And draw smaller dots on top of the previous ones, and then tiny little dots on top of the small dots. Once you're done, take the first nail polish and draw smaller dots in each row like on the picture above.

For your ring finger : Take 4 stripes of your striping tape stick two vertical lines close one to each other, and do the same horizontally. Then, paint one or two coats of your first color, and take off the tape as soon as possible and very quickly.

For your little finger : All you have left to do is take a big dotting tool with your second nail polish and draw a huge dot in the middle of your finger. Then, take the same dotting tool but with the first nail polish, and draw a huge dot on the half of your first dot ; it shapes like a moon !

Then, like always, apply your favourite top coat !

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Bubbly Pink

Difficulty : ★★

Hey girls ! This week's manucure is mainly done with a dotting tool, so it is easy, and very fun to do ! You will need three different nail polishes, a dotting tool with different sizes and striping tape

First, start by applying your base coat. Once it is dry, apply a first coat of your nail polish on each of your nails except your ring finger, and once it is dry, apply a second coat. For your ring finger, take a mettalic color and apply two coats.

Then, with your dotting tool and your second color (a darker color ?), draw loads of dots on the bottom of each of your nails (except your ring finger) and then make fewer and smaller dots as you go up towards the top of your nail (like on the picture above).

Then, take your first nail polish and draw smaller dots into SOME of the previous dots you've been doing before.

RING FINGER -TADA- : Take your striping tape and stick a line onto your nail. Then, take your first nail polish and paint one coat. Then, take IMMEDIATELY the striping tape off ! -Wow, what a clean line :) ) I've added a little bow for nails with nail art glue, but even without it, this manucure is just as pretty !

When you're done, finish by applying your favourite top coat.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

In The Moonlight

Français

Difficulty : ★

Hey guys ! This week's manucure is a design i've uploaded in my very first article, but without a tuto. So this weekly challenge is to reproduce this one ! 4

For this manucure, you will need : two nail polishes, a dotting tool with a large size and a little size.

First and foremost, start by applying your base coat. Once you've done this, apply your first coat of polish with the lightest color. Once your first coat dry, apply a second coat. Then, take your other nail polish and cover two thirds of your nail with it. (I chose to change side on my first two nails, to make it look a little harder than it really is)

Once this is done, take your big dotting tool and make a big dot with your first color on the darker side ; your dot must be really close to the edge of the dark side. Make 3 or 4 dots drawing a vertical line. Then, take your little dotting tool, and draw 6 or 7 little dots on the edge of your nail, on the dark side (like on the picture above).

You can now take your bigger dotting tool once again, but this time with the second color, and draw a big dot on half of each of your big dots ; these dots need to get on the lighter side of your nail : Your first dots will look like moons and half of your last dots will trespass on the other half of your nail. To get done with this manucure, take your little dotting tool and use it with your first color. All you have to do is draw little dots into the big dots we've made. All you have left to do is apply a top coat !

Tadaaa ! You now have dashing nails !

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Friday, October 31, 2014

Special : Halloween nail art !

Difficulty : ★★

This weekly nail art design is out earlier because you girls need to prepare for halloween ! So I've decided to make a halloween design really fun to do and as easy as ABC.

For this design, you will be needing : two nail polishes, a black one and a white one, a dotting tool and a medium thin nail art brush (check out the references below tuto)

Start by applying your base. Once it is dry, apply a first coat of white nail polish, and then apply a second one.

Once both of your coats are really dry, follow the instructions below :

For your thumb, your middle and little finger : start by taking your dotting tool, and draw two splodges like on the picture above, for the eyes. For the nose, just draw to little dots. Then, take a nail art brush and draw lines on the bottom of your nail for the "mouth", and with your nail polish, fill in black both sides on the edge of your nail. You can now see a skull through all of these lines and dots !
For your index and your ring finger : Crazy easy frankenstein : start by drawing two big dots for the eyes, and then just draw a line for the mouth. Just add lines on the mouth to make it look like a monster !

Once you're done, don't forget to add on your top coat to make it nice and shiny !

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Friday, October 24, 2014

Puzzled Love

Difficulty : ★★

This weekly nail art design is a puzzle !

It's really fun and easy to do so grab two nail polishes and a dotting tool !

First, start by applying your base coat. Then, once this coat is dry, grab both of your black and white (or beige) polishes, and paint half of your nail white, and the other half black.

Then, keep both of your nail polishes, and paint the bottom quarter of each nail in the opposite colour. For instance, on the white half, paint the bottom in black, like on the picture above.

Once you've done that with each of your nails, take a dotting tool. With each part of your nail, make a big dot on the other part of each colour. (For instance, with a black part, make a black dot spreading towards the white part ; see picture above)

When you have done a dot for each part of each nail, apply a matte top coat on top of your nails !

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Friday, October 17, 2014

Make It Short Til Spring

Français

Difficulty : ★★★

Hey guys !
This weekly manucure is so called so, because I know we all want this heavy weather over so we could enjoy the sun again and AGAIN !
However, you will be needing five different nail polishes, a dotting tool and a nail art brush. (Check the references down below the tuto)
First and foremost, start by applying your base. Once it is dry, apply one coat of your green nail polish. Wait until it dries (if only autumn and winter go past as quickly as you're waiting for your coat to dry...) And then apply a second coat.

Once you've done that, take your nail art brush (a thin one !!) and draw colourful leaves and a few flowers with your pink nail polish on all of your nails, with no specific pattern. Then, take your purple nail polish and draw very thin lines in the leaves and the flowers you've drawn to give them perspective, and make them more "realistic". Once you're done with that, grab your dotting tool and a yellow nail polish, and just make dots here and there next to your flowers and your leaves ; I also did a dot in the middle of each flower if you look carefully. Then, just to finish your nail art, take your last nail polish and make just a few dots. Then we're done, you can just finish by applying your top coat !

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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Fall Nail Art

Français

Difficulty : ★★

Hey guys !

This weekly nail art is fall inspired ! So much darker as I usually do, but really loads of fun to do !

For this nail art, we will be using 6 different nail polishes and a thin nail art brush.

Start by applying your base coat. Once this is done, paint each of your nails with a black nail polish.

Once your coat is dry, follow the instructions below :

For your thumb : Take a pink nail polish, and using a nail art brush, just do thick lines reaching towards the ends of your nail. Once your lines are dry, take a light brown nail polish and draw thiner lines into the pink lines we drew earlier.
For your index, your middle finger and your ring finger : With your silver nail polish, draw a a medium sized line in the middle of your nail. Then, grab your nail art brush, and draw really thin lines (those lines being irregular with different sizes) reaching towards the black sides of each nails. The effect expected is similar to a gradient (like on the picture above). It's really fun to do and really easy !
For your little finger : You just have to apply a matte top coat on top of it. When your top coat is dry, take your black nail polish and draw a thick line at the bottom of your nail, just like a french manucure.

Once you're done with each of these steps, you can apply your shiny top coat on each of your nails except the little one (which already has been matified).

TADA !

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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Pink Power Gradient

Difficulty : ★

Hey Guys !

This weekly manucure is a pink gradient !

For this manucure you will need : a make up sponge, two nail polishes (check the references down below) and a top coat.

First and foremost, start by applying your base coat.

When you're done, take your make up sponge and your two nail polishes and apply a thick layer of each nail polish on your sponge. (Just like the picture below)

Then, press your sponge onto each of your nails as many times as you need until you get a satisfying gradient.

---My piece of advice on gradients : To protect your fingers while pressing your sponge onto your nail : put a few pieces of scotch around your nail ; the polish won't get onto your finger

If you have pale colors, I suggest you put on a white base first, then the colors will be brighter

Don't hesitate to start over again until you get the perfect gradient---

Once you've got the perfect gradient, apply immediatly your top coat ; Your colors will fade in each other better.

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Essie's Dots

Français

Difficulty : ★

This weekly nail art design is called Essie's Dots because I very mostly used Essie nail polishes.

For this manucure, you will need : three different nail polishes and a medium sized dotting tool ! (Find the brands down below)

Start with your base ; once your nails are all dry, take your first nail polish and paint your thumb, your index and your little finger. Grab your second nail polish and apply it on your middle finger and your ring finger.

Once your first layers are dry, apply a second layer on each of your nails.

Once you're done, take your dotting tool and follow the instructions below :

Thumb : Take your second nail polish and start by drawing dots on the right edge of your nail leaving space between each of them. Then, take your third nail polish and fill in the blanks we left !
Index : Do the exact same thing but instead of drawing dots on the right edge, draw the dots on the left edge of your nail.
Middle finger : This time, take your first nail polish and start by drawing dots on top of your nail leaving blanks bewteen them like we did the last time. (I did a few more rows, you can do as much as you want). And let's fill in the blanks with the third nail polish (using our dotting tool of course) !
Ring finger : The pattern here is basicaly the same as the middle thinger except that we draw the dots on the bottom edge of our nail. (Look at the picture)
Little finger : This pattern is similar to the second one, but instead of drawing a straight column, draw the dots from top left to bottom right

Once you're done with all your nails, wait for them to dry and then apply your top coat !

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Friday, September 19, 2014

Manucure Lune

Français

Difficulty : ★★★

Hey guys, as promised the tuto from the VERY FIRST nail art manucure ever done : The "Manucure Lune" !

For this manucure you'll be needing : one OR two nail polish including a nude and and red or coral ; your top coat and your base.

First start by applying your base. Then, what is particular is the nail art is that I've decided to add my own touch to it. So I've put a nude nail polish as a color base. You can either do it, or let it be natural.

Once this is done, you have to make a choice ; You can either take an eyelet to help you with this design OR you can also just do the curve with your nail polishs' brush.

So take your second nail polish color (it may as well be your first), and fill in the rest of your nail leaving the base of your nail clear.

Then, when your layer is dry, paint a second layer to make sure it is smooth.

And once we're done with that, apply your top coat to make it nice and shiny.

This week's nail art design was indeed special and I'm looking forward to receiving all of your recreations of this design so I can maybe post them on the blog if you're okay with that.

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Saturday, September 13, 2014

L'histoire du vernis à ongles EN FRANÇAIS !

Coucou les filles !

Pour vous remercier de votre fidélité, je vais cultiver un peu votre girl-power et ce : EN FRANCAIS

Vous avez été nombreuses à trouver dommage le fait que vous ne puissiez pas tout comprendre en anglais, je l'ai bien entendu. Alors j'ai décidé de vous faire un petit cadeau et celui-ci, vous est totalement accessible.

Si vous êtes des Nail Art Lovers alors vous allez adorer lire sur les origines du vernis à ongles by WonderDelphine !

De nos jours, nous connaissons de multiples types de vernis à ongles ; Crackelé, Fluo, Gel, Matte, Irisé... La liste n'en fini pas. Mais Au tout début du XIXème siècle, le vernis à ongles n'existe qu'à travers l'huile rouge parfumée ; et en guise de top coat ? Des mouchoirs en cuir ! Les femmes se frottaient les ongles avec.

Au XXème siècle, Les femmes se limaient les ongles aux ciseaux ou avec une lime en métal. La crème et la poudre faisaient guise de vernis, malgré leur maigre tenue qui n'étaient que d'une journée...

C'est en 1925 que les premiers vrais vernis font éruption ! Ces couleurs classiques (rouge, rose) ne s'appliquent qu'au milieu de l'ongle, laissant les deux extrémités naturelles. Dans ce courant là, la manucure lune apparaît ! --Et pour honorer cette première apparition du nail art dans l'humanité, je lance un tag à toutes les visionneuses de reproduire cette manucure TRES SIMPLE à faire. Je vous en ferai un tuto si besoin et en publierai ma reproduction--

En 1930 la manucure lune est revisitée par Hollywood avec des teintes de rouges plus affirmées, dans un style un peu plus moderne !

En 1940 le courant de la manucure lune évolue vers les manucures basiques de nos jours, l'ongle est entièrement peint sans laisser la base naturelle.

Je préfère vous passer l'épisode sur l'apparition des faux ongles, car c'est absolument tout ce que je n'aime pas ! C'est pas pour rien qu'on fait du nail art les filles ;)

En 1972 c'est la révolution des couleurs, les vernis métalliques aux couleurs variées font jour ! Le choix est vaste !

En 1980 le nail art perce de plus en plus grâce à ses accessoires, strass, utilisation des pinceaux, stylo à vernis... La liste se fait longue !

Et en 2000 notre fierté nationale : LA FRENCH MANUCURE.

Entre temps nos amis les crackelés font leur apparition, et c'est seulement en 2011 que les vernis EXTRA longue durée se commercialisent : Les vernis à gel UV.

Alors les filles j'espère que cet article vous a plu, j'attends avec impatience vos photos et vos tags, et je vous fais de gros bisous ! Ayant récupéré un accès définitif à internet, je vous dis : à la semaine prochaine !

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Cindy's Kingdom

Francais

Difficulty : ★★

Hi girls ! I've got great news before we get started : I finally have an internet access ! So from now on, weekly articles will be truely WEEKLY !

So let's get going ; For this manucure you will need : two nail polishes, two nail stripers, a dotting tool AND a striping tape. You will be able to check the references down below in a few days time when I'm done upgrading my nail polish collection.

First and foremost, like always, start by applying your base. Once it is dry, apply your first nail polish on each of your nails except for your ring finger. Apply your second colour on top of your ring finger. Once your first layers are dry, apply a second base on each of your nails.

Once your second layers are dry, take two little bits of your striping tape. On top of your thumb, stick your striping tape in order to make a kind of a cross shake. On your index, apply your matte top coat. Then, grab one of your nail stripers and make a few stripes on top of your middle finger. Once you've done that, take your dotting tool and with your first nail polish, put dots on the side of your ring finger. Then take your other nail striper and draw a simple line in the middle of your ring finger. For your last finger, just draw dots on the edges of your nail with your second nail polish.

Once you've done each of these steps, apply a basic top coat on each of your fingers EXCEPT your index which already has a matte top coat !

TADAAA ! Then we're done ! ;)

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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Switzerland

Francais

Difficulty : ★★★

Hey guys !

Due to my non existent internet access in my new appartment, I haven't been able to post anything for the last 2 weeks...

BUT good news are that I'll be getting my internet access in two weeks time. So keep in touch with me with facebook, twitter or even google plus ; I'll be posting the next weekly article ASAP !

So today's "weekly" manucure is called Switzerland !

For this manucure you'll only need one nail polish, a nail striper of your choice and a small sized dotting tool !

Before we get started, first apply your base. Once it is reaaaally dry, apply the first layer of your nail polish.

Wait until your first layer is dry and then apply a second layer.

Then, grab your nail striper and draw thick lines on both edges of your nail. Keep your nail striper in hand to draw lines pointing towards the end of your nail ; thoses lines are meant to meet up and look like an unfinished triangle shape.

Once your 'triangles' are dry, grab your dotting tool and use it with your nail polish to make dots on the center of your nail, on top of the nail striper lines you've been doing lastly.

Once the entire manucure is done, use your favourite top coat to make it stay.

WE'RE DONE !

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Beau Rivage

Francais

Difficulty : ★

This weekly nail art design is a simple coloured french manucure that is really easy to do !

I've been using one nail polish and a bronze nail striper

And believe me, the mysterious name of this manucure DOES have a story... !

Like always, start by applying your base.

Once your base is dry, apply a first layer of your nail polish, wait untill it is dry, and then apply a second layer.

Then, once your layers are dry, take your nail striper (i chose a bronze one) and go from left to right on the bottom of each nail. To get a precise line, try going slowly but just once.

And then all you have left to do is put a top coat on each nail !

TADA !

References :

Wonderous Star by OPI
A nail striper of your choice
A basic top coat from OPI

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Loads of Dots #2

Français
Difficulty : ★

This week's nail art design looks a lot alike the design I've uploaded two weeks ago, but the colors are really different, so if you didn't like the other one, you might like this one and vice versa.

In this design, I've been using 5 different nail polishes. -go check the references below-

Like always, start by applying your base on each nail.

Once your base is dry, apply your light blue nail polish -or the color you chose- on each nail twice

Once your second layer is dry, take a medium sized dotting tool and start drawing a column of dots in the middle of your nail in silver

Then take your little sized dotting tool and do two columns of dots in dark blue around the silver dots on your thumb and your little finger

Keep the same dotting tool but this time do the same for your ring finger and your index in a light purple. Do the exact same thing for your middle finger in light pink

Once all your nails are reaaaaaaaaaaally dry, apply your top coat on top of them all !

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