Floral Nail Art

Hey guys,

So I am super happy today, I just got a new job!  There may not be as many posts coming up since I am starting my new job tomorrow, but I will try and post at least three times a week.  Anyways, today I have some another floral nail art design, I used the same technique as my Hawaiian Style Flowers post.  I love this nail art because it is so easy and requires very little skill to do and it looks really pretty.  Hope you all enjoy.

Colors used:  Orly Pure Porcelain, neon coral, pink and red frankens, Color Club Twiggie, and Orly Lucky Duck

Fourth of July!

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I have a fun easy Fourth of July mani for everyone today.  I love doing Fourth mani's but I will kinda make myself sick of them after a while haha.  Anyways I wanted to do something simple but glittery and I came up with this combo.  I hope you enjoy!


Colors used: Sinful Colors Endless Blue, OPI Pirouette My Whistle, Zoya Maura and LA Girl Glitter Addict Animate

Nautical Themed Nails!

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I have some super cute nautical nails today, I can't believe I haven't done really done these before!  This look would work well for Fourth of July as well but I think they are cute as a summertime mani period.  For my index and pinky finger I used a small dotting tool to create my polka dots, for the middle and ring I started with a white base and then used my striping tape to get the blue lines, then added a couple of little red hearts to the striped nails.  Hope you all enjoy!


Colors used: China Glaze Make Some Noise, China Glaze White on White and China Glaze Bahamian Escape

Frankening Fun

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I have been on a serious neon kick for the past week or so and I was getting tired of the neon colors  I have so I decided to franken some.  I started off with a purple neon from Sally's Girl and I added two of these little bottles to a half full bottle of Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud (a very slightly tinted lavender white), and I thought why not do a whole bunch of pastel like neons!  I bought a couple of bottles of white polish and used neon colors I already owned, with a basic recipe of half a bottle of white and a half a bottle of neon.  I am completely in love with these, some of them remind me of the new China Glaze Sunsational colors and others of the Lime Crime pastel polish but brighter.  Anyways onto the pics, which were a total pain to try and get color accurate but I tried my best.

 

All the pretties together!

 

 

 

The purple on its own, this one is my absolute favorite, it is less pink toned in real life though

 

 

 

 

A gradient I did with all of the colors, definitely super hard to capture what these look like in real life though

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black, White, and Neon All Over

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I am in LOVE with this mani.  Nice and bright and summery, I needed something to cheer me up since Oklahoma has been having the worst weather ever lately. I used a bunch of neon colors for this and I did 2 coats of a white base before I applied the neons so that they would really pop.  I think the bright colors look really nice with the black and white glitter too.  I hope you enjoy!


Colors used: Orly Au Champagne (as base), neons from index to pinky Orly Terracotta, China Flip Flop Fantasy frankend with white to make it lighter, Orly Glowstick, and Orly Skinny Dip, Lush Lacquer Salt N Peppa over all of my nails

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abstract Flowers

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I have a fun and super easy nail art look today.  I was loosely inspired by some Revlon nail strips I saw the other day at the store.  I started with an off white base color, for the flowers I took the different colors one at a time and mixed acetone with them and painted roundish splotches on my nails.  I plan on doing a tutorial on this one soon, but it really is so easy and mistake-proof!

Colors used:
Base, OPI My Vampire is Buff
Flowers, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pacific Blue and Bubblegum Pink, Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby, Wet N Wild On a Trip
Leaves, Essie Mojito Madness

 

 

 

Raibow Water Marble

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Sorry for the lack of posts recently I have really been into doing much to my nails, but I think I am getting out of this funk now so I should have more manis soon!  This was my third time trying water marble nail art.  I really hate the process and I am not very good at it at all.  I like how this one turned out and it is a mani I have been wanting to do for almost two years.  Also I didn't tape off my fingers or us any Vaseline so sorry if there is some stray polish on my fingers in the pics I thought I got all of it but I noticed some when cropping my pics.

I used a base of Essie Topless and Barefoot, the for the water marble I used Wet N Wild Everybody Loves Redmond, China Glaze Papaya Punch, China Glaze Lemon Fizz, Essie Mojito Madness and Sinful Colors Why Not. I then topped it off with a coat of inm Northern Lights Holographic Topcoat.

 

 

 

 

Across the Universe

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I saw this Across the Universe tutorial by Totally Cool Nails on Youtube and I pretty much went and instantly re-created it.  Across the Universe is one of my favorite movies and I love what she came up with for this inspired mani.  In hindsight I wish I had done my dots way smaller or actually skipped that step but I still think they turned out pretty cool.

I used Color Club Naughty-Cal Navy, Orly Royal Navy, Orly Dayglow, inm Northern Lights Holographic Topcoat, and red and green acrylic paint.

 

 

 

 

Scattered and Tattered

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I grabbed a few of the Bitz and Pieces collection by China Glaze and I am just now getting around to trying them out.  This one has rusty red colored glitter with black matte glitter.  I really like how these look, very different from what "mainstream" nail polish companies have been doing with glitter.  I will say it is hard to get the big black hexes out of the bottle but that really doesn't bother me too much. 

I used China Glaze Gothic Lolita and China Glaze Scattered and Tattered

You make my heartbeat to the beat of the drum...

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I have another Valentine day nail look today.  I saw this on The Nailasaurus and knew I had to try this out.  Mine aren't exactly the same as hers but I tried!  I originally tried to do the heart like she did it but mine turned out awful so I decided to try something different.  I am not sure how much I like how the middle finger turned out I wish I had just done the heartbeat line things and not gone for the little heart.  I used Orly Pure Porcelain and red acrylic paint with a toothpick to draw the design on my nails.

 

 

 

 

Valentine Skittles

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I decided to add a little nail art to the Design Seed Skittles I posted.  I used white acrylic paint with a toothpick to make the hearts and the little dots.  It's really simple but I thought it turned out pretty cute.

Design Seed Skittles

Hey guys,

I was on MakeupAlley the other day and someone had posted about this website Design Seeds which basically has a bunch of color combos for design inspiration.  It is great for getting ideas for mani's, either if you want to do a fun skittle mani or if you want to think of different color combos for nail art.  I can't find the pic that I was inspired by now though.  I used (from pinky to thumb) Sally Hansen Grey Area, China Glaze Make Some Noise, Color Club Get a Clue, Orly Pure Porcelain and Color Club Sheer Disguise.

 

 

 

Christmas Eve!

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This is my mani for Christmas Eve today.  I am going to try to use this Party Hearty dupe as much as I can haha.  I will probably post my Christmas nails tomorrow and it will more than likely include it as well.

I used Sally Hansen Smooth and Perfect Fog and Salon Perfect Glam Glitter

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Candy Gradient

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I love this combo!  It looks like candy on my nails and I think the pink looks so pretty with the festive glitter.  FYI the brush on this Salon Perfect glitter is awful, I need to empty it into a different bottle.

I used China Glaze Dance Baby and Salon Perfect Glam Glitter

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holiday Polka Dots

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Here is yet another holiday look from me.  Sorry I love my themed mani's and I thought this one would be cute but really simple too.  I love the color combo and I really like throwing a pretty minty/aqua color in to a holiday themed mani. 

I used Finger Paints Tiffany Imposter and Orly Torrid

 

 

 

 

Green Christmas Gradient

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I have a green gradient to show today.  I like this although I wish I had added a third color to help this blend a little better.  I started off with Revlon Top Speed Jaded and Essie Mojito Madness.  I sponged on the gradient after applying one coat of Jaded to my nails.  Then I applied a coat of inm Northern Lights Holographic top coat over to help blend and smooth things out.  I also found a dupe for China Glaze Party Hearty!  It is by Salon Perfect Glam Glitter, it is from what I can tell almost and exact dupe of Party Hearty.  I added a coat of it on top of my gradient and I love the way it looks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Sweater Nails Take Two

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I tried out the Christmas Sweater Nails again, this time taking more time.  I like how these turned out, although I like the base of the first ones I did better than this one.  Honestly these are really hard to do and I redid a couple of the nails a few times.  The one thing that is really nice about using acrylic paint is that you can wash the paint off your nails and try again if you mess up.  It isn't nearly as frustrating if you have to redo since you don't have to completely remove polish with remover and start all over again.

I used China Glaze Running In Circles and white and red acrylic paint

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Sweater Nails

I found this video by ArcadiaNailArt on YouTube.  I thought it was so cute I just had to try and recreate it.  This was my first time trying out acrylic paint for nail art as well so I will apologize if these are not the best.  My thoughts on acrylic so far, it is was easier to work with than nail polish.  I will have to practice more to get the hang of it but so far I think I will definitely be using it more for nail art.

I used Finger Paints Tiffany Imposter and white and red acrylic paint sealed with topcoat.

Candy Cane Cupcakes

I wanted to try a cupcake mani and ever since I got China Glaze Make Some Noise it has been begging for me to try a cupcake mani w/ it.  I didn't intentionally make them look like candy canes but that is what it ended up looking like to me.

I used China Glaze Make Some Noise, LA Colors Art Deco Red Glitter and an Amuse white nail art pen.  Oh and the little heart is from a nail art set I got at Dollar Tree.

 

 

 

 

Christmas Glitter Gradient

Can I go ahead and start doing Christmas nail art now?  I having been itching to do some holiday themed nails and I think since Thanksgiving has passed it is appropriate.  My base is China Glaze Make Some Noise and the glitter is a franken.  I used an Wet N Wild mini from a few holidays ago it is a red glitter with large hexagon and small round glitter pieces, then I used the silver hexagon glitter from Sally's Girl and Sinful Colors Call You Later which is a green and gold glitter mixture.  I was going for a China Glaze Party Hearty esque franken (man I regret never getting this one!), it is not an exact dupe but it will do!