Ciate Denim Manicure Tutorial & Review

Happy Tuesday everyone!!

I hope ya'll had a wonderful holiday weekend and a great 4th of July :)

Today I am going to show you quite possibly one of the coolest manicures I have ever done!  The Ciate Denim Manicure.  (PS-the gold and blue theme will continue over to the next crafting post!!)

It is amazing and super easy!!  Get It Here!

As you can see, yet another wonderful idea from Ciate that comes with everything that you need to rock a denim mani!!

The kit comes with a beautiful blue polish that kind of drys to a matte like denim texture, gold and bronze studs, gold and white stitching templates and the nail glue.

First you are going to want to paint your nails with two coats of the polish.

Then you are going to use your imagination and decide how you want each nail to look :)  That is the fun part.

You will take the paper with the stitching on it and cut the appropriate size you want for the corresponding nail.

You then take the piece and dip it in water for 10 seconds.

When you take the paper out of the water, you will slide off the transparent top (exactly like a stick on tattoo, I am sure we have all played with those!).  Lay it on your finger, and tap it to adhere it to the nail.

I mean, how cool is that!!

Since I used the white first, I then went over some of the fingers with the gold stitching.

Next pick the studs that you want to put on.  I found it was super easy when I used tweezers to pick them up and to put them on.

There are so many options, it is really hard to choose.

Dot some of the nail glue right on the stud.  The directions say to put the glue right on your nail, but I found it very hard to get them to stick that way.

Put the stud on the glue on your nail.  Press down for 10-15 seconds.  Then cover the whole nail with a top coat.  I used a fast dry top coat.

Finish decorating all of your nails and then add a second top coat to ensure everything will stick on really good!! :)

TA DA!!!

How incredible does that look?

Overall, this was the best manicure kit I have used from Ciate yet.  It was super simple and really came to be quite stunning.  I really don't think that any of the studs are going to come off any time soon.  The nail polish is just so pretty too!

Have you used the denim manicure kit?

What is your opinion of it?

Have any tricks?

Let me know in the comments below!

Have a great day!!

Ciate Feather Manicure Tutorial

So a few weeks ago, I won a prize pack from Ciate.  It was incredible!  All I did was enter on their Facebook page and then they emailed me that I won.

Here is what I got:

Two velvet manicures, chalkboard manicure, denim manicure, caviar manicure, neon manicure, foil manicure and a feather manicure! OH MY NAILS!!

So exciting :)  So let's look at the feather manicure and do a tutorial :)

Some of these I will need some help doing my left hand, but this one was easy!

I love how all of the kits not only come with the tools but with coordinating polishes too!

This kit has the feathers, speed top coat, purple polish and scissors.  There are enough feathers to do several manicures.  And the feathers are SO pretty and fancy too :)

First, you want to start with clean nails.  On the nails you want to do the feathers, paint two coats of the purple polish and let dry for five minutes.

Then take a feather and lay it on the nail so that some of the color peeps through by the cuticle.  You don't want to cover the entire nail with the feather.  Then lightly pat the feather on the nail to ensure it is sticking to the nail.

Cut the excess feather off, but leave a bit hanging off your nail as you are going to file the rest off.  So you want to make sure that there is enough to file without ruining the part attached to your nail.

Paint with the speed top coat, going with the grain of the feather.

Wait two minutes until it is fully dry and file that excess off.

The speed top coat makes the feather hard so it is easy to file off.

Then do the same on your other hand and paint your nails whatever color you want.  I thought the purple it came with was so pretty that I used that on all my fingers :)

I used two different feathers on each hand as I liked how they looked but you can of course use the same feathers.

It is so funky and pretty at the same time. How many times did I say pretty? Jeesh....

I see these kits at Marshall's sometimes on sale or you can Get It Here.

Believe it or not, I had never used Ciate before it came in my Glossybox and I love the polish now.

It lasts forever and I can get away with one coat only if I wanted to.

What Ciate kits have you used?

Do you have any tricks to application?

Let me know in the comments below!

Have a great day!!