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Bloody Stitches - Halloween 2014

11/6/2014

This started out as something completely different in my mind, but this is what it blossomed into. There is a black sparkly background (not that you can really tell), then I splattered over it (using the drinking straw method) the orange, then red, and I finished it off with some white stitches.

Polishes Used:
Black - OPI #DS037 DS Mystery
Orange - Sally Hansen X-treme Wear # 150 Sun Kissed
Red - Salley Hansen Insta-Dri #170 Red-io Active
White - White Acrylic paint

Tools Used:
Liner brush
Drinking straw

Star Trek inspired - "Warp Speed"

7/15/2014

I did these to compliment my Away Team nails. I could use a bit of practice with perspective, but I think for a first try they came out pretty nicely.

I started with white nail pen, but it proved too shaky, so I switched to the tried and true, simply, easy flowing, acrylic paint.

Polishes Used:

Black - Orly #40484 Liquid Vinyl

White acrylic paint

Seinfeld Inspired Nails

4/6/2014

These are inspired from one of my favorite scenes in Seinfeld where Jerry is dreaming that he put Uncle Leo in prison (I'll try to attach the video below). In the scene, Uncle Leo is doing pull-ups and he has JERRY and HELLO as knuckle tattoos.

The scene is at 0:27

Water Lilys

4/6/2014

I decided to do two accent nails based off my tattoo. I accomplished this look with a variety of blue acrylic paints and mixing up my own pinks, and a variety of liner brushes. I'm sure you could do this with nail polish if you have the right colors.

Tools Used:
Small & medium liner brushes

Polishes Used:
Base Blue - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear #420 Pacific Blue
Red acrylic paint
White acrylic paint
Variety of blue acrylic paints

Blue & Black Bubbles

4/6/2014

Tools Used:
Scotch tape
Dotting tool

Polishes Used:
Blue - China Glaze #634 Frostbite
Blue Sparkle - Sinful Colors #1165 After Party
Black - Orly #40484 Liquid Vinyl
White acrylic paint

Yellow-Green Gradient

4/6/2014

Tools Used:
Make-up sponge
Dotting tool

Polishes Used:
Sally Hansen Insta-Dry #250 Lightening
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear #110 Green With Envy
White acrylic paint

Apocalypse Lightening Storm

8/28/2013

These were inspired by a scene in Simon Pegg & Nick Frost's new movie The World's End. I think the title says it all for these nails.

Tools Used:
Make-up Sponge
Liner Brush

Polishes Used:
Red - Fright Night Claw Polis #87-0050 Voodoo
Orange - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear #150 Sun Kissed
Yellow - Sally Hansen Insta-Dri #250 Lightening
White acrylic paint

Psychedelic Swirls

8/21/2013

I was stumped for ideas yet again but I had time to kill last night. After digging through Facebook, I got a little inspiration from a poster for a friend's band (pictures are at the bottom of this post)
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I did these entirely with acrylic paints (except for a plain base coat). I had to go over the white and yellow twice and that caused the edges to be a little jagged and everything is pretty bumpy overall.

Here they are after one coat of Seche Vite:

And here they are after I decided I wasn't digging the bumpy look and added glitter to help smooth everything out and hide some of the jaggedness. They look better in person, trust me. The lighting in my bathroom is shite

Tools Used:
Liner brush

Polishes Used:
Orly Nail Defense Base Coat

Acrylics Used:
Blue
Orange
White
Yellow
Green

Here are the 2 posters I loosely pulled my inspiration from

Amsterdam Nails

3/31/2013

I couldn't decide what to do with my nails on this lazy Sunday afternoon when my eyes drifted over to the salt & pepper shakers I brought back from Amsterdam and BOOM! Inspiration! It's quite fitting too since I've been missing Amsterdam as of late. ...Now I just hope that the people at work don't think they are "XXX" porn nails.

Tools Used:
Liner Brush

Polishes Used:
Red - Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure #570 Right Said Red
Black - Orly #40484 Liquid Vinyl
White acrylic paint

Game of Thrones Fail Nails

3/31/2013

I had big plans for these Game of Thrones nails. I speckled them like rocks and I was going to paint a giant dire wolf running across them. As I finished the head on my ring finger, I realized I had angled it such that there was no room for the body and the head didn't look like a head anyway. So I painted over it with black and silver glitter and I think they turned out pretty rockin'!

See how I got the splatter effect below!

So to get the splatter effect, I first painted my nails white. Then I watered down some black acrylic paint. Not too watery, but enough that it wasn't clumpy. Then I wrapped my thumb in aluminum foil in a way that gave me a ridge along the bottom of my thumb. This way, I was able to flick the bristles of the toothbrush without ruining the paint on my thumb.

Tools Used:
Aluminum foil
Toothbrush

Polished Used:
White - Sinful Colors #101 Snow Me White
Glitter - Nicole Modern Family #NIF10 Luke of the Draw
Black acrylic paint

About Bailey

I'm 29 years old and I just moved to New York City with my boyfriend and little monster dog. I've been doing nail art off and on since I was a kid...that's about 17 years! But I really got back to it about 3 years ago.
As you can probably tell, my inspiration comes from my love of TV shows, movies, games, and other miscellaneous pop culture.

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