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St Patty's Day 2014

4/6/2014

I just bought my first neon polishes and what better way to start using them. Trust me, they are much brighter in person!

Tools Used:
Scotch tape

Polishes Used:
Green - China Glaze #1009 In The Lime Light
White - China Glaze #023 White on White
Orange - China Glaze #874 Sun Worshiper
Gold - OPI # HL D07 Goldeneye

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Blue & Black Bubbles

4/6/2014

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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

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Yellow-Green Gradient

4/6/2014

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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

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Tron Nails

2/9/2014

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There are two different ways to get the Tron look on your nails:
1) You can free-hand, which is what I did or 2) you could use striping tape, which I didn't have on-hand.

I decided that I was going to use my nail art pens for these since they are easier to control for straight lines, but I encountered a problem - the blue pen didn't show up on top of the black. To remedy this, I simply drew the lines first with my white nail pen, waited for it to dry, then colored them in with the bright blue. Boom, Tron nails.

These pictures are pre-clean up.
Also, I'm going to include pictures of both of my hands. Try to guess which is my dominant hand ;)

Polishes Used:
Black - Sally Hansen X-treme Wear #370 Black Out
White - Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen
Bright Blue - Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen

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Green Swoops

2/9/2014

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Polishes Used (in order of application):
Glitter - Sally Hansen #120 Diamonds
Light Green - China Glaze #867 Re-Fresh Mint
Bright Green - Sally Hansen X-treme Wear #110 Green With Envy
Dark Green - China Glaze #651 Tree Hugger

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White Matte Flowers

2/9/2014

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Polishes Used:
White - Sinful Colors #101 Snow Me White
Gray - China Glaze #652 Recycle
Silver - Sally Hansen X-treme Wear #220 Celeb City
Pink - Maybelline Express Finish #250 Berry Boucle
Matte Top Coat - Sephora

Tools Used:
Stamp - Mash-37
Dotting Tool

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3 Color Magnetic Gradient

8/28/2013

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So I know I've done something incredibly similar before, but I wanted to do another magnetic gradient and these colors just flow so nicely together. But this time, to step it up a notch, I added purple between the silver and pink. Enjoy!

Tools Used:
Make-Up Sponge

Polishes Used:
Silver - Sally Hansen Magnetic #903 Silver Elements
Purple - Sally Hansen Magnetic #902 Polar Purple
Pink - Sally Hansen Magentic #905 Red-y Response

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Apocalypse Lightening Storm

8/28/2013

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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

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Psychedelic Swirls

8/21/2013

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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

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Black to Blue Gradient: Take 2

8/21/2013

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You might remember that I've done these before, but I got very shitty cell phone pictures. So here they are in natural light with a decent camera!
I did these for a wedding I went to. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you haven't gone out and bought these polishes and tried this yet, YOU MUST! I promise you won't 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

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St Patty's Day 2014

Blue & Black Bubbles

Yellow-Green Gradient

Tron Nails

Green Swoops

White Matte Flowers

3 Color Magnetic Gradient

Apocalypse Lightening Storm

Psychedelic Swirls

Black to Blue Gradient: Take 2

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