For Inspiration: Tiny heart

For Inspiration: Burgundy ikkat

For Inspiration: Microscheme

Fall/Winter 2012-2013 color trend is all about saturation and shades. Rich and deep colors go along with dusted and muted. BLACK. The most universal and flattering color. It goes with everything, for every occassion and every season. However, if in spring and summer you were leaning towards the colors in a rainbow, fall is time to embrace the black in your wardrobe. Mixing black with the right colors you can make it less coarse for summer-winter transition. Go from saturated colors to neon that are still trendy. Don’t afraid of the contrasts: emerald, mellow yellow, futchia. For a softer look pair black with dusty rose, smoky grey or saturated burgundy. Play on hues, use deep purple, deep cobalt, deep dark red. Another tip on how to look stylish in black is to focus on texture: mix flat with knits, leather, fur, or match matte with satin and metallic.

How-to: Gold Leaf

It seemed many of you were fans of the “Robin’s Egg” & “Gold Leaf” color combos, so we thought we’d do one more nail art combining turquoise with gold. In this tutorial we’ll teach you how to make your nails look like turquoise stones, but instead of using black as the accent color (which would make it quite literal) we’re using gold for a slightly softer and more glamorous look. Here are the 6 simple steps:

1. Start by painting your base with a nice shade of turquoise. We used this one.
2. Next, take a small plastic sandwich bag or plastic wrapper and crinkle it up. Hold most of it of it in your palm and make a “flower-y” shape with the rest as you see in the photo above. You’ll use this like a stamp.
3. Paint some of your gold polish (we love this one) on the plastic. Doesn’t matter how you paint it on or where.
4. Note: Dab the plastic bag/wrap on a piece of paper once or twice before you start to remove the excess polish. Now dab it on your finger. Then do the next finger. You’ll need to re-apply gold polish to the plastic bag every couple fingers.
5. After you finish dabbing the gold on each finger, clean up the edges with nail polish remover and a paint brush.
6. Add our favorite quick drying clear coat and you’re all set!

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Prints keep a significant position in Fall/Winter 2012-2013 season. The safest option is to combine printed items with monotone ones. Plaid is classic, but it’s super trendy if updated with modern colors. If classic is too boring for you, choose bold, vivid and startling patterns. 

For Inspiration: Burgundy gold

How-to: City Skyline

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For Inspiration: Polka Dots Lava Lamp

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How-to: Pink Zebra

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Enjoy.

Color blocking. Color blocking, while not a new trend, smoothly translates into fall/winter fashion. The biggest plus of color blocking is that it can flatter the figures, regardless of shape! 

How-To: Arizona Green Tea

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1.Paint nails

2.Start outline of main branches

3.Add the extra branches

4.Blot on some pink dots on the branches

5.Put small light pink dots on the dark pink dots

Fuchsia, Magenta, Neon Pink. The combination of these color and black is at the peak of popularity. Captivating, stimulating, a gorgeous shade will pop you out of the crowd. Magenta is easier to wear than neon pink or ultra-bright fuchsia, but still has plenty of pop. Don’t want black, go with gray, tan, yellows, lime green and browns. But consider this as well: the mint has a calming effect on brisk fuchsia.

For inspiration: Gentle Waves

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Harmony Gelish with acrylic paint inspired by Tartofraises

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5hnvng1rY&feature=g-all-u

http://www.nail-art.fr/article-nail-art-candy-land-107288499.html

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Midnight Blue or Cobalt is one of the bright vivid colors of the upcoming autumn and winter. It is always safe no matter where you go: office, party or shopping. Mix it with golden yellow, tan, light brown, gray or silver. Brown with gold accents also looks really sharp next to deep blue. And if you’re going for a bolder look, a yellow, tomato orange or red is your choice.