Just a few simple steps to add natural shine to your nails

Who don't want to add extra shine to their nails? After working / doing housework for a whole day, you would find your nails lose its shine. Even if you apply nail polish, it cannot last very long. So,what are we gonna do?

If you are working in office, and feel embarassed to wear colour nail polish, there's a simple solution for you to give natural, attractive shine to your nails. Here are what you need to prepare beforehand:

• Nail Files
  
• Base UV Gel


• Clear UV Gel


• UV Lamp


• UV Gel Cleanser

Now, let us borrow a hand to do a demonstration:





1. Trim and file your nail









2. Apply a thin layer of base Gel and heat under UV Lamp for 1 minute








3. This time we apply clear UV Gel









4. Heat under UV Lamp again for 1 minute










5. Can you see the shine on your nail after applying a layer of UV Gel? but not finished yet! Please keep reading







6. As you can see from the picture, you can still make a fingerprint on the nail. That means the gel is not completely dried after heating. To finish the nail, you need to use UV Gel Cleanser to remove the top layer.

7. Finally! Wow~ Can you see the difference of the nails before and after apply UV Gel? You can do it yourself as well!




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Fräulein3°8's Travel-Around (1st Shot: Japan)

Time really flies. Fräulein3°8 is already 1 year old, and it is time for us to expand the market to other countries as well. We have sent a team of 4 beauty specialists to different countries which lead the fashion and beauty trends in Asian/European regions.


Our First Stop: Tokyo, Japan
Renowned as the pioneer in the beauty/fashion industry, Tokyo in Japan is definitely not a place to miss. The first impression that it gave us is that the japanese are very polite and friendly. However, things there are pretty expensive that made us want to let them know how great yet reasonably priced our products are :P. All and all, our whole trip was enjoyable and we learned a lot.


Shibuya

Shibuya is the place where most young girls love going shopping. Girls there all do make up and hair like a barbie doll, i.e. blond hair with a headband with a ribbon bow, very long eyelashes and pinky face. They all look very lovely.











In spite of their similar make up and hair styles, they know well how to dress in their own way. The strongest part that we perceive the way they do the nails to match their dresses. If they are on a facebook page, we'll definitely give then "like" 10 times!


Girls in Shibuya are very friendly. They are very happy when we asked them to let us take a picture of them. Well, who don't want to share their beauty, which they spend so much effort on?









Harajuku

Located just next to Shibuya, yet the girls there look quite different. The culture in Harajuku has 2 extremes, because there are girls who like 'cosplay'(costume play) at weekends. These girls wear heavy make up and do nails with exaggerating 3Ds. Their look may not be well accepted by the majority, yet we really appreciate how professional they do it all DIY!



















'Cosplay' girls can be found everywhere in
Harajuku during weekends. It's a good opportunity to discover another culture of Japan.







Ikebukuro















Clustered with many shopping malls like PARCO, SUNSHINE CITY, TOKYO HANDS, etc. It is so convenient for anyone to shop any kinds of products there. You can buy nail art books at bookstore, make up products at drugstore and nail art products at living store. Some of them are even opened 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We can imagine that our products will be there in the near future. :P


Girls in Ikebujuro seem to like painting on nails rather than many 3Ds. One possible reason is that most of them are white collar, so they cannot have exaggerating nails.









Actually, it's way too many things to look and discover in Japan. What we observed is that japanese girls have their own attitude towards beauty that really fit the motto of Fräulein3°8. We hope this attitude will spread to other places as well. By the ways, our next stop is Hong Kong. How'll that be? Stay tuned! See you!

Iceland Volcano ash causes fresh air travel chaos

A volcanic eruption started under Eyjafjallajokull glacier in the southern part of Iceland on 14th April. Most airlines have announced the closure of airspace in north Europe (see the green crosses in the map below) since yesterday morning, which is where the ashes have been blown, because the ashes are affecting the transportation of mail by air.














This is impacting most of our international orders to which travels by air at night and international mail entering, via or exiting Germany/United Kingdom airports. Our shipping partners have implemented plans to despatch mail to most European destinations by road. As a result of this, members should be aware of potential delays in the delivery of mail.

Members can check the Royal Mail/DHL website for further updates: http://www.royalmail.com/serviceupdate
http://www.dhl.de/


At this stage, we are sorry to admit that there is not much to do except suggesting you using registered mail to allow yourself to keep tracing the location of the orders. :( However, we will keep open communication with our members and keep everyone posted, when more information becomes available.

If you are concerned about your orders' status, please feel free to cntact us by email: info@fraulein38.com

or leave your message in our discussion board:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fraulein38/177904546582?v=app_2373072738

It's time to show off!

If you think yourself a professional or skillful make up/ nail art designer, you should definitely join our Make Up And Nail Art Design Competition. You will be rewarded a cash coupon to purchase our products! Details will be announced next week! Stay tuned!

How to rescue your broken eyeshadows

Most of our members would prefer eyeshadow palette to cream eyeshadows , because it has more colours and hence more convenient and economic. However, eyeshadows in palette are always in powder form. That makes the eyeshadows more fragile and easily broken. If you do not take good care of it, it may be crumbled by a crush or dropping. It would be a waste if you just throw the eyeshadow into the rubbish bin when it's crumbled.

In fact, if you are not dropping it from a building or throwing it like a ball, your eyeshadow is still rescueable. Here we made a video to show how to fix it.

Let's take a close up to the eyeshadow when it's crumbled and after it's fixed:

As you can see, Alcohol is the key. Since alcohol will evaporate, it will not affect the quality of the eyeshadow and hence your skin. The colour will still be the same. Isn't that easy?

Fräulein3°8 New Product Announced!

Introduction to Nail Art Brush (Part 2)

Few weeks ago, we introduced the use of nail art brushes in different shapes for painting. These brushes are mainly used for 2D nail art, i.e. they can be used with both UV Gel and acrylic paint to make flat painting. If you want to do more fascinating nails with 3-D nail art, 3D nail art brushes we are going to introduce this week is definitely a MUST HAVE tool for 3D sculpture!

(left: 3D on the nail ; right: 3D in the nail )
There are 2 main ways to do 3Ds, i.e. directly on the nail or on an aluminium foil. If directly made on the nail, the 3D is always thin in size and buried under a layer of crystal clear UV gel or acrylic. Bigger 3Ds are always stuck on the nail surface instead. They should be done on an aluminium foil first in order not to ruin the nail.

Unlike brushes for flat painting, all nail art brushes for 3D sculpture have the same shape, i.e. a round body with sharp end. The fattest part of the brush tip will absorb and save the most liquid when soaked in acrylic liquid, while the sharp end of the brush tip minimizes the acrylic liquid, so that it can create a small ball when dipping into the acrylic powder. You may then use the brushes in different sizes to make different details of the 3Ds.

Now let us show how to make an acrylic candy with a few simple steps:

1. Soak the brush with acrylic liquid, then dip into light pink acrylic powder to make a small ball.









2. Put the “ball” onto a piece of aluminium foil. Repeat the same step with white acrylic powder to cover and enlarge the light pink ball in step 1.







3. Use another brush to mix acrylic liquid with rosy pink acrylic. Put the mixture at both sides of the light pink ball. Use a smaller brush to sculpture the mixture into triangle shape and the smallest brush to create details on top.





4. Finish this cute 3D candy by making a few more small dots on the surface with rosy pink acrylic paint As you can see, it’s easy to design your own fabulous nail art 3Ds.






There are far more 3D designs with colourful acrylic powder! If you want to learn more about the use of acrylic, you may refer to our nail art book to get more inspiration!

Recommended products for making 3Ds:

6 Acrylic False Nail Art UV Gel Wooden Sable Brush Set











12 Color Nail Art Acrylic dust Powder kit 4 nail Tips