Friday, March 22, 2013

Easter Chic Nails


Yellow - NYC Lexington Yellow
Black - Sinful Colors Black on Black
Orange - Essie Geranium
Blue - Wet n Wild MegaLast Salon Nail Color I Need a Refresh-Mint 218A
Light Pink - Milani PinkHottie 507
Purple - Wet n Wild MegaLast Salon Nail Color Bite the Bullet
Light Green - Pure Ice 616 Wild Thing
Matte top coat - Revlon Matt Top Coat

Pinterest copy on the baby chick nail.Yellow base with dot tool eyes, beak, and feet. Used nail stamp plates to make egg-esque designs on other nails. Finished off with a matte topcoat to give the egg/soft chick feel. Be very patient with the Matte Top Coat. It makes everything very gummy and takes a lot longer to dry.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Off-set French Tip Nails





Orange - Essie Geranium
Nude - Loreal Walk on the Beach

Pinterest copy. Base coat nude. Used tape to mark off the off-set french tip.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Green French Tip Sparkle Nails





The irridecent glitter flakes ate nice in this and the gel is thick enough to be able to fish enough out of the bottle but the nail maintains a lump clumpy feel and I would rather it didn't have the light green tint.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Mint with Gold Specks Nails


Mint - Maybelline ColorShow Green with Envy
Gold Glitter - Milani 531 Gold
Stripes - Gold Nail Tape



 This was my first nod to St Patrick's Day but yet still trying to keep it classy.

Layer of Mint with gold glitter over each except ring finger with the gold tape stripes with clear coat to keep it all together.

It was all very fast and easy but looked super slick. Loved it. Only issue is the tape starts to fray at the edges if there are any missed spots with the top coat.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Heart Stencil Nails - Gold Edition


Red - OPI Skyfall
Gold - OPI Golden Eye (Really close dupe of this is Sinful Colors All About You)

Used the heart sticker outlines as stencils again. Loved the gold heart and not as much of a smearing issue.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Heart Stencil Nails



White - Sinful Colors Snow Me White
Red - Mystery Red

I used the outline part of a pack of heart stickers as a stencil to make large heart shapes.



They worked really well actually. Only issue was the top coat I had (revlon Double Twist) would smear so it was a pain to try and keep the red out of the white. Solution to that is Seche Vita top coat. It it fabulous at not smearing. I know this now.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Polka Heart Nails







White - Sinful Colors Snow Me White
Light Pink - Milani PinkHottie 507
Purple - Old Wet n Wild Megalast Through the Grapevine
Red - Old Revlon Vixin

used a dotting tool to make the hearts. Each top of the heart was a dot that I pulled to the point. Most difficult part was trying to keep the order of colors straight and the angle the same on each nail. Loved the end effect though. Was a big hit at the office too.

I only did a single slightly larger heart off center on the thumb because I was worried so many hearts across my thumb nail would be distracting when I was typing at work. I really liked the variety it gave and was happy I did it even though I don't think it would have ended up being distracting.