VOMOV: July 2012

Golden Dust on Stainglass

Jennifer Meyer, Vionnet, Chloé, Belle Noel by Kim Kardashian

Special day? Do you need to look rich and stylish? Soften classic black with beige or pink, add gold to shine.

Item breakdown, prices and tutorial after jump »

Desaturated Berry Ombre Nails

Ombre nails are cool and subtle and they are easy to do on your own. This version of ombre nails is when the color fades from one nail to the next.

For a "real" nail-to-nail-ombre mani you need to use at least 2 colors of nail polish intermixing them together to create a gradient transition from one nail to another. These colors can be monochromatic or complementary.

For this mani I used 5 different nail polishes that create a nice complementary pallete.

Pink Cherry Gradient Nails

Choose 3 nail polish colors that reflect the palette of a cherry. In my case I had pale yellow, light golden orange and golden wine.
Trim the sponge, you are going to be using to make a gradient, to the size of the length of your nails. This is going to help you to have better control of the placement for a smoother gradient.
Apply base coat to protect your natural nails.
Apply base color, which is a pale yellow here, and allow to dry a bit.
Brush you choice of polish onto a sponge in the order you want them to appear on your nails.
Gently press a sponge onto your nails with your base color covering a bed of your nail (lunula). You may find that you need to do this a couple of times to achieve a good coverage. Alternate the positioning of the sponge every pressing, by bringing it a little closer to a bed of a nail and next time closer to a tip, to create a smooth transition of the colors.
Allow polish to dry and finish with a top coat.

Watermelon Casual

Watermelon is great on a hot summer day.

Abercrombie fitch / Maison Scotch cotton shorts, $62
Loafer shoes / Vila Clothes zip bag, $110
Cuff jewelry / A Cuckoo Moment Stingray, $199
Flat sunglasses / Henry Holland, $89
Belt / Saddler Saddler Ann Belt, $39

Blood and Steel

Red Nails with Metallic Highlight

Apply base coat to protect your nails.
Put 2 coats of a red color polish on the most of your nails and a metallic color polish on the ones you want to emphasize.
Cover you nails with a top coat polish.

Hi-Lo Nail Design: Hollow Base with Blue Tips

Hollow Base with Blue Tips

Use tape to mask the area that you want to keep hollow.
Cover left area with the base coat polish to protect your natural nails.
Put 2 coat of the polish of your choice.
Right after you are done with the last coat of the last nail, take off the tape in the order it was put on.
Give polish few minutes to dry, to eliminate any smudges.
(optional) Apply embellishments of your choice.
Cover the whole nails with (a) clear base coat and after fast dry top coat or (b) 2 layers of the top coat nail polish.

Green to Blue Gradient Nail Art

Take three colors: green, light blue and blue, use your favorit Gradient Nail Art technique to achieve this look.

Clear to Golden Burgundy Nail Art

Using the Gradient nails technique, start off the clear base polish, gradually adding the color to the tips of the nails. Nail polishes with a metallic shine work the best.

High-Low Skirts

Fourth of July Celebration Nail Art

The stripes on the "flag" fingers are made with Nail Art Pen, which makes this design very easy to achieve.

Apply the base coat to protect your nails.
Apply red nail polish on your ring and pinky and nave blue nail on the rest.
Using the Nail Art stripper, draw vertical lines in white.
Let your design dry, and apply a top coat to protect it and give your nails more shine.

Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

This song became a new meme already, and it’s hard to listen to it without enjoying it sarcastically. Wait, do you mean people reasonably like this song? Ha ha ha. That’s funny…

I think what made it such a phenomenon is rather tongue-tied the sentence structure in the chorus. How many of you have this song on your hated list? Yet its catchiness is infectious. Ha!