After all these years, do you really know how to do your nails?

Most of us do our nails, some of us might have been doing them for years, but do you really know the right way to brush on those beautiful colors? Today MelodySusie will show you step-by-step, how to do a great manicure.

Step 1. Polishing the nail surface.

Use the rough side of the nail file and start on one side of the nail. Then to the front. Then to the other side.

Then repeat the same process using the smooth side of the file. This will smooth out the nail surface further for good nail polish application.

Step 2. Clean up the surface. 

Brush off the residue from filing. Brush off the residue from filing. Wipe the nail using 75% alcohol to deep clean the sides.

Wipe the nail using 75% alcohol to deep clean the sides.

Step 3. Brush on base coat.

Start on one edge of the nail, and brush the base coat on the upper side. Base coat is for better application of the color gel.

Then fill in the center. If it gets on the skin, use cotton swab to wipe off. Cure under nail lamp until it is completely dried.

Step 4. Brush on color gel polish. 

Also start on one edge of the nail, and brush on the upper side. Fill in the center by brushing from the back to the front, evenly. Brush evenly on the middle part of the nail. Fill in the center by brushing from the back to the front, evenly. Brush evenly on the middle part of the nail.

Then brush from the back to front on the 2 sides of the nail. If it gets on the skin,  use cotton swab to wipe off.

Cure under nail lamps until it’s completely dried. Then repeat Step 4 and apply a second color layer for a better shine.

Step 5. Apply top coat. 

Brush on a layer of top coat using the same method described above. Top coat will help the color to shine better and also protect the gel for a long lasting stay. Cure under nail lamp until it is completely dried.

Wipe off the residue with alcohol.

A few good tips:

-          Soak your fingers in warm soapy water for better cleaning of your nails

-          Apply lotion after your clean your hands

-          Use 1-Step gel to skip the top coat and base coat step

-          Use automatic nail drill to do a professional nail polishing

Try Automatic Nail Drill with 6 drill bits for $16.99.

Hope the steps above help you to improve your manicure skills a bit, although practice makes perfect as always.

Good luck, gals! 

MelodySusie Behind The Scenes Photoshoot – 2017 Spring/Summer New Gel Collection!

Last year, MelodySusie was honored to have 3 amazing models, Viki, Nastya, and Christina, shoot for our Party Queen Collection (Click here to see pics of the awesome photo shoot). This year, we have 3 more gorgeous models, Chris, Alina, and Kristin coming to shoot for our 2017 Spring/Summer 1-Step Gel Collections, including:

-      Timeless Muse – Carefully chosen from thousands of popular shades, six gorgeous nude colors are chosen: Pink Rouge, Light Peach, Warm Taupe, Bordeaux, Beige, and Caramel Brown.

-      Monet's Palette – Inspired by theimpressionist works of Claude Monet, the collection contains 6 colors found in nature: Poppy, Pinecone, Iris, Nymph, Greenery, and Matin.

-      Infinite Nude – For any skin tone, there is a nude color for it. To discover the infinite possibilities for every woman, we chose for the collection: Lavender, Peachblow, Pearl, Mocha, Marsala, and Slate.

-      Kaleidoscope – Change is the essence of fashion. These are our most unique colors yet, as they changes color with your body temperature and the environment.  

And don't forget our best seller:

-      Sweet Reverie

Ok, let's get back to the photoshoot.

This is Chris, getting ready for the Sweet Reverie gel shoot.

Getting the nails ready!

Featuring:  Marsala, MelodySusie Infinite Nude Collection

 Featuring: MelodySusie Sweet Reverie Collection

This is Chris, modeling for Sweet Reverie. She is professional and super active!

This is Alina, feeling like summer is already here on the beach set. 

Here is Katrina, with greenery nails from MelodySusie Monet's Palette Collection. She looks like a painting with that perfect makeup. 

You can also view a full version of what's behind the scenes here:

If you liked the photoshoot and can’t wait to try our colors, visit our Amazon store. We are here for you!

For any questions about our newly released gel collections, leave us a comment or email us: marketing@melodysusie.com

Mother's Day Gift Guide: More Than Just Saying I Love You

When was the last time your mom did her nails? Has she stopped caring about her nails and self-care just to have more time to take care of the family?

For great tips about home manicures, you can check out our previous blog post.

6 Simple Steps For a Professional Home Manicure

After seeing the difference before and after doing her nails, we are sure your mom will be smiling about it for weeks.

By doing her nails, you are not only giving her a pretty manicure, but are also enhancing the connection between you and your mother. Research has shown that physical touch has been proven to non-verbally communicate positive emotions like joy, love, gratitude, and sympathy. And for long-term wellbeing, it has been proven that touch is as important as food and security.

MelodySusie is offering a Mother’s Day Only Price on our Sweet Reverie Gel. Only $13.99 for our 6 Summer Macaron colors.

  

Enter code SOGEL6MS and save $16 now (limited time only)! Find out more about Sweet Reverie Gel.

Other than a fun and pretty manicure, you can also express your appreciation to your mom by making her life easier. Here are a few gift suggestions.

2017 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

Large Capacity Acrylic Makeup Organizer

Cleaning and organizing is the last thing your mom should be doing on Mother's Day. Help her tidy up her cosmetics and giving her the dream battle station.

Enter code MSPC25AB and save $12.5 now (limited time only)! 

Japanese Silk Long Curly Hair Wigs

Play around with some fun new wigs and relive the old days of dress-up! Your mom will love her new luscious locks.

Enter code 6Y2CEGAX and save $14 now (limited time only)! There are more hair styles available to choose.

MelodySusie cares about you and the one you love. For the gifts you choose, we will deliver your gift right to your mom's doorstep, free of charge, almost anywhere across the globe. We hope our products and service make life a little bit easier and more beautiful for your mom.

In the end, we wish all the moms a “Happy Mother’s Day!”

6 Best Pastel Colors for Easter Holidays

The Easter Holiday is here, meaning that Spring is officially here! Thinking about a good Easter Holiday color? How about trying MelodySusie Sweet Reverie 1-Step Gel, containing 6 amazing macaron colors. It is on sale for only $18.95, a limited offer only for the Easter Holiday!

We have also prepared a fun egg-cracking game for you to find out which color is your Easter color!

The 6 colors are carefully chosen from thousands based on the research of Pantone Institute and the colors are perfect for the spring time. Each color also represents a unique personality. Here are the colors and their corresponding personalities! Find yours among the lovely colors.

Violet Dream – Compassion, Free Spirit, Individualism

Golden Wheat – Positivity, Brightness, Spontaneity

Honey Peach – Loving, Kindness, Generosity

Spring Green: Hope, Nature, Intelligence

Rose Hermosa – Joy, Sweetness, Freshness

Sky Blue – Creativity, Peach, Sincerity 

Wondering what nail designs can you do with these lovely and sweet colors? MelodySusie will show you a nail DIY tutorial that is easy to do at home! In the tutorial, we will show you how to draw a bunny, and a combination of flowery shapes on nails. We use the Sweet Reverie 1-Step gels, which does not require top or base coat, and can be efficiently cured in 30 seconds using our MelodySusie LED nail lamps.

 Click Here For Full Video

To find out more pretty Easter Nail designs, you can also read:

Easter Nail Art Color Choices

What are you waiting for? Join our Crack An Egg and Get A Surprise game and find out your Easter Color, and get a special discount for our Sweet Reverie 1-Step Gel.

Click Here To Enter.

Lucky Nail Designs for St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day is on March 17, and many think of it as the luckiest day of the year. Once a traditional Irish holiday, it’s now widely celebrated by people around the world. But before you go out for green Guinness and Riverdancing, check out some tutorials and inspiration for St. Paddy's-themed nail art.  

Make sure you stick around until the end of this post for an opportunity to put all of that Irish luck to good use towards winning some awesome prizes!

Luck of the Irish
When it comes to the legendary four-leaf clover, you have two choices.

1: Dirty your nails by spending hours digging around for the elusive sprout.

2: Paint one on your pristine nails, look amazing while sipping an appletini in an Irish pub.

The choice seems clear to us :D

Source: Instagram @majikbeenz

Irish Pride
For those of you with deeper ethnic or national ties to St. Patrick’s Day, try this Irish-flag design. It's certainly a lot easier than trying to paint the fifty stars and thirteen stripes of an American flag on your nails!

Source: zazzle.com

Subtly St. Paddy's

You can still go green-themed without your design being overtly tied to St. Patrick’s Day. Check out this simple yet elegant polka-dot look in three shades of green.

 Source: topdreamer.com

Tutorial— “Pot of Gold” by MelodySusie
We made a simple yet beautiful design tutorial especially for all of our readers. We call it “pot of gold”. It's solid green on four fingers with a single gold nail featuring an eye-catching clover.

Watch on Youtube

Tutorial—St. Patrick's Day Nail Art by MissJJan
Here’s a great set of tutorials that features FIVE different St. Patrick's Day designs.

Watch on Youtube

For perfect St. Patrick's Day nail art, you'll need a couple of things:

-          Green nail gel polish (preferably a few different shades)

-          A professional-quality nail drying lamp

Just your luck, MelodySusie has prepared them both for you, and we're offering the chance to win them for free.

First, we've got the color Greenery from our newest gel polish set, Monet's Palette (Deal Price $23.99). Pantone's Color of the Year for 2017, it's one you're going to want in your collection all year long.

Next we've got Amazon's Choice and Bestselling nail lamps. Try our 24W LED nail lamp, portable yet powerful, it cures most major gel polish brands for long-lasting nail color. Now only $39.99 for limited time!

Now it's time to put that luck to good use! At MelodySusie, we are dedicated to designing the best possible nail lamps for both nail art pros as well as home users. Our products have earned a reputation for high quality, affordability, and ease-of-use. After years of hard work and continuous improvement based on our users’ feedback, we are honored to have reached a new sales milestone of 10,000,000 nail lamps!

To celebrate and to give our thanks to all of our customers, we are hosting a 20-day nail lamp and gel giveaway. We will be giving out our bestselling nail lamps, gels, big discounts and cash prizes!

Simply sign in or register at MelodySusie.com to spin the prize wheel and see just how lucky you are. Every spin is a win! Valid between Mar 15 – Apr 3, 2017.

 ENTER HERE TO SPIN

Thank you for reading, and a very happy St. Patrick's day to you all. Leave us a comment, we would love to hear from you! 

Bad makeup application? It’s probably your lights!

Has your makeup ever looked perfect in your bathroom mirror, then completely different somewhere else? You might think it was your skill or tools that weren’t good enough. But even after watching hundreds of makeup tutorials and buying more and more expensive makeups and tools, your makeup still hasn’t gotten any better.

Maybe what you really need is ….

So what is the right lighting? Let’s first talk a little about the science of photology.

Take home messages：

- Kelvin (K) is a unit of measure for absolute temperature

- Color temperatures over 5000K are cool colors (bluish white)

- Lower color temperatures, 2700–3000K, are called warm colors (yellowish white through red)

A given object appears very different under different lighting colors.

Source from: www.hitlights.com

Your makeup is one such object! That includes eye shadow, foundation, blush, and lip stick color—all of them will appear very different under different light temperatures. That’s why your makeup can look one way in your bathroom but appear completely different when you go somewhere else.

So, what can you do?

MelodySusie’s new  Narcissus 2-in-1 LED Mirror Lamp is a makeup mirror framed by an LED ring so you have a “shadowless” light source from every angle. Through extensive testing, we carefully chosen a light color temperature of 6500K, comparable to midday sunlight and often considered the best lighting environment for applying makeup accurately. Conventional incandescent and halogen lights in your bathroom are far “warmer” and thus distort how we see colors.

Amazon Store: Narcissus 2-in-1 LED Mirror Lamp 

Our mirror lamp ensures that you have the most natural daylight-like light source for makeup application. We also designed the light with an internal reflection process before output, which keeps it safe and comfortable for your eyes, even first thing in the morning.

The Narcissus can be easily converted into a table lamp with two modes: reading and night-light, operated with subtle touch-control buttons.

Amazon Store: Narcissus 2-in-1 LED Mirror Lamp 

The head can be swiveled a full 180 degrees to whatever position you need.

Amazon Store: Narcissus 2-in-1 LED Mirror Lamp 

As a bonus, the round base acts as an organizing tray for cosmetics and accessories.

You can power the Narcissus with the included USB able or 4xAAA batteries (sold separately).

The MelodySusie Narcissus was named an Editor's Pick by Mothermag and has received great reviews by Amazon users. For more information, please read MelodySusie Unveils High-Tech “Natural Light” Makeup Mirror.

You can now enter the code WC225TWP on Amazon to get 25% off (valid until March 31, 2017). Gaze into the Narcissus and fall in love with yourself all over again.

Have a question or have thought about our makeup mirror to share? Leave us a comment below or visit us www.melodysusie.com