Green - Essie #752 Turquoise & Caicos
Branches - Orly Instant Artist Black Liner
White - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear #300 White On
Pink - Sally Hansen Insta-Dry #210 Presto Pink
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I was very tempted to do another gradient today, but I figured I'd give you all something a little different. I landed on cherry blossoms. I realized I had the perfect green and figured, why not! Polishes Used:
Green - Essie #752 Turquoise & Caicos Branches - Orly Instant Artist Black Liner White - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear #300 White On Pink - Sally Hansen Insta-Dry #210 Presto Pink
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My friend Kim loves the Starry Night painting, and pretty much anything else by Van Gogh. So today, she gave me creative freedom over her nails, and I decided to put a tribute to her favorite painting on her nails. I figured it was fitting. It was a bit tricky o get the tiny brush stroke effect, but I found that using a toothpick and acrylics to create the swirls worked the best. Side Note: Please excuse the lack of clean-up around the nails. Tools Used:
Toothpick Small detail brush Polishes Used: Black - Orly #40484 Liquid Vinyl Blue - China Glaze #1167 Want My Bawdy White acrylic Light blue acrylic Yellow acrylic Orange acrylic I bought China Glaze "Dorothy Who?" today and could not resist using it immediately. So I came up with this spectacular black to blue glitter gradient. I used 4 different blues to get this dazzling effect and I applied it with the simple sponging gradient technique. Seriously, this picture really does not do this manicure justice. The blues are so bright and perfectly blended with amazing sparkle! If you can, I urge you to pick up these polishes and do this mani yourself. You will not be disappointed! Tools Used:
Make-up sponge Polishes Used (in order of application bottom to top): #1 Black - Orly #40484 Liquid Vinyl #2 Blue - China Glaze #1167 Want My Bawdy #3 Blue Sparkle - China Glaze #857 Dorothy Who? #4 Bright Blue Sparkle - Sinful Colors #1165 After Party These are the happy little clouds I did on Caitlin's nails. Very simple to do, and such cute results. Just paint the nail sky blue, paint puffy lil clouds with some white acrylic and seal it off with some Seche. Voila! Tools Used:
Small paint brush Polishes Used: Blue - Orly #20732 Snowcone Clouds - White acrylic The best word to describe this mani is 'frustrating'. I haven't been this irritated with a design since the Mario Mushrooms I did with the same green polish. My downfall was definitely rushing through it so I could get to bed at a reasonable hour. All in all it took about 3 hours to complete, and really, it should have been more. Instead of letting the black & silver polishes fully dry when I had the tape on, I almost immediately took the tape off and that peeled the points of the star busts off with it. I had to go back and touch a lot of it up, and even still, it didn't turn out so great. I really wanted this design to come out looking pristine because it's just so cute! But lesson learned - don't rush a cute mani. Click here for the Star Burst Tutorial. Side note: Never use Sally Hansen Complete Manicure polishes when you are doing a light color on top of it. The silver looked fine before I put the top coat on, but after the top coat, the silver turned into a greenish-yellow (the same thing happened when I used this polish for the Mario Mushrooms). It must be the top coat that they include in the polish that discolors anything you put on top of it. Polishes Used:
Blue - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear #130 Blue Me Away Green - Sally Hansen Complete Manicure #430 Grass Slipper Black - Orly #40484 Liquid Vinyl Silver - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear #220 Celeb City Okay, so it's actually been a while since I've done my nails. Shocking, I know. Even more shocking is that I did such a simple design for my first REAL blog entry! Well, I decided to do a gradient because I wanted to see how these colors blended together, I didn't have much time, and it was easy. Gradients are actually really easy to do, you just have to learn that less is more. I'll show how to do a gradient in the tutorial section soon. Fun Fact: This manicure is 4 days old in the picture and both are actually just my pinky finger because all my other nails were already pretty chipped. Polishes Used:
1st coat (purple/black) - Sally Hansen Diamond Strength #470 Black Tie 2nd Coat (teal shimmer) - Essie #744 Trophy Wife 3rd coat (teal glitter) - Orly #40081 Halley's Comet These colors actually blended together much nicer than I thought they would because the dark base actually has just a hint of green shimmer. |
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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. Archives
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