My nail art stuff - part 1, rhinestones part 2

At Saturday I started to show my nail art stuff and I'm continuing now, with part two of rhinestones. Much of the fact in the previous post and this post, and upcoming posts might be things that's obvious for some but hopefully someone at least will learn and enjoy it. :)

Regular rhinestones, also called crystal rhinestones

Above we have rhinestone wheels. These are sometime called crystal rhinestones and they are transparent but comes in a variety of colors, looking like glass or a real rhinestone. The bottom of them have silver surface to make them looking shinier. I've seen that they come in two qualities. It's possible to buy Swarovski nail art rhinestones and I think they're in glass(maybe even cubic zirconia?). All the ones I've got is made out of plastic and I think they are good looking enough. All of these rhinestones is faceted. Sometime top coat can "remove" the effect of the facets so sometime I don't paint top coat on them if I really want to keep the faceted look.

Pearl rhinestones

Above I have some pearl rhinestones (which I like a lot).  They comes in all possible sizes and colors. The wheel to the left is the classical white color. These rhinestones are opaque and the colored pearl surface is only a thin layer on top no matter color. Because of this they can show some wear and tear after some days wear. To prevent this I always paint one or two coats of top coat on top to protect the surface.

Black opaque rhinestones

Above is my favorite, namely black opaque rhinestones. The plastic is black all way through so there's no risk of wear and tear even though I usually have top coat on anyway.

There's a lot of different shapes of rhinestones.

Above here we see a wheel of crystal rhinestones with a lot of different shapes. It's literally possible to get any shape of any rhinestone, both crystal, pearl and the black ones. Above there's rectangles, stars, flowers, hearts, squares, moons, tear drops, triangles, oval and the regular round ones.

Above is two of my favorite manicures with opaque black rhinestones and another one with pearl rhinestones.

Green sloping funky french with 4MM black opaque rhinestones

Black funky french with large pearl rhinestones

If you got any questions, please ask! :)

My nail art stuff - part 1, rhinestones part 1

Hi!
I hope you're all doing fine! I'm feeling a bit down, my school assignment is going crap and bad luck is happening too often at the moment. I'm all stressed out over my upcoming diploma thesis and it was a long time ago I felt motivation. That's why I've been having less time for reading blogs, cocommenting on blogs, maintaining my own blog and even doing nail art(!). Luckily I have bought a lot of beautiful indies which doesn't need further decoration. (They will of cause be shown here at my blog.) Even though the blog takes time I think it's important that I let my self have some "free time"=blog/nail related time. And I really value every person who read and comment on my blog, that makes me very happy between all stress. :)

Now for some funnier stuff (maybe?) and I wanted to show you my nail art stuff. I have a lot of nail art stuff and I've noticed that many people doesn't like too many photos in one post so I figured that I divide them between posts. This time I'll show rhinestones. (haha, humongous amount of photos anyway...sry)

Above and below is most of my rhinestone wheels and rhinestone jars. In the photo there's also metal beads and flat glitter but I'll show them in another post.

To be able to make nail art it's not that important to have many sizes of rhinestones but I think it's fun and very versatile. I also use them and they're very cheap so I don't mind having many. Below are the sizes I've got.

In most of the rhinestone sizes I've got at least 12 colors but mostly more. The reason for is that they're often sold in 12, 16, 24packs.

1MM rhinestones

I have my index finger as a reference and also a ruler for you to get the picture.

2MM rhinestones

Between 1MM to 2MM I attach with top coat coat because they're very small and the topcoat covers them enough.

3MM rhinestones

From 3MM and larger rhinestones I attach with nail glue, otherwise they would pop of too easy.

4MM rhinestones

Up to 4MM I have no problem having them on my nails, the are easy to glue and the curves on my nails doesn't matter.

5MM pearl rhinestones

Up to 5MM the rhinestones are getting large and they are harder to place. I usually have them in the middle of my finger from the tip to the cuticles (where the nail is less curved.)

7MM rhinestones

The 7MM are harder to use, they fit my thumbs and can be applied on other nails with some tricks. I also use them on my toes as accent when it's summer.

Pink leopard spots and large rhinestones

To make the rhinestone manicure last as long as possible it is good to ad additional top coat (shown as gray) after the glue has dried. The images below is exaggerated, but I do this with the 3MM rhinestones too to be sure that they wont get stuck to anything which they will if the edge is open.

And if it isn't obvious, this is a stylized image of nails looking right in front of them at the top.

To see the funky french in the reference images above, click the image:

Humble Bee funky french