I'm Back!

Hey guys,

I am back finally with a new mani, so sorry for the long absence.  I have been sick for the past few weeks and am currently looking for a new job so life has been a bit hectic lately.  I have just a simple springy look today.  I used Orly Pure Porcelain as a base then applied Orly Melodious Utopia over that.  I made the little flowers with Sally Hansen Xtreme Twisted Pink and Orly High On Hope.

 

 

 

 

Neon Sponging

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I am sorry for not posting this past week, I have been under the weather for the past couple of weeks and I am just now starting to feel better. This mani is one that I did about a week ago and am just getting around to posting.  Also there may not be a post for a day because I broke my index fingernail pretty badly and I want to wait a little bit before taking pics.  For this mani I just used my cosmetic sponge to place color onto my nails randomly, very similar to the technique for galaxy nails except for I made sure to get the colors opaque.

Base: Revlon Top Speed Cloud
Sponging Colors: Orly Skinny Dip, Orly Glowstick, and Color Club Electro Candy
Glitter: Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter

Pudding Lane

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I completely forgot that I had yet to wear the other Nails Inc. Sprinkles polish that I bought a month or so ago.  This one is Pudding Lane, it has a bright blue base with gold, dark blue and purple glitter running through it.  I decided to use a base for this one because I really don't like how these polishes apply without a base, very patchy and take several coats to get opaque.  For the base I used Essie In the Cab-ana, which is pretty spot on for the base color of Pudding Lane.  I only had to apply one coat of each color to get it nice and opaque too!

 

 

 

 

Tribal Striping Tape

Hey guys,

I played around with my striping tape this weekend and I think I am finally getting the hang of this striping tape!  I love the design I came up with on my middle finger, I think it looks so cool.  

I used OPI My Vampire Is Buff, Essie First Timer and Orly Shine

 

 

 

Bunting Birthday Nails

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So it's my Birthday today and I wanted to do something fun and cute for my nails.  I have seen a few pics of bunting nails floating around Pinterest and I thought this might be a cute idea for Birthday nails.  I will say this was not the easiest nail art for me to do. The design really is not very forgiving so you have to be really steady with this one.  I like how it turned out but I wish my lines had been more crisp.  I used a base of China Glaze Bahamian Escape and acrylic paint for the bunting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Impressionist Flowers

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I have a really neat mani to show you all today.  I have really been enjoying experimenting with different types of nail art lately, especially things that I would not have thought to try before.  For this look I was inspired by Impressionist paintings, I love Impressionism it probably one of my favorite art movements.  If you are wondering what Impressionism is I suggest you Google it, Monet is probably the most well known Impressionist.  However my favorite would be Edgar Degas, I love his art, I actually did a research paper on him when I was in high school for one of my art classes. 

To achieve the look for this mani I used nail polish thinned out with acetone.  I started with a base of OPI Skull and Glossbones I then used Essie First Timer, Essie In the Cab-ana and China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise thinned with acetone to paint flowerery shapes onto my nails.  I then used Essie Mojito Madness thinned wiht acetone and dotted it around the flower shapes to get a leaf effect.  I am in love with this mani, I wish it would photograph a bit better.  It show too much detail in the photos because of darn macro, but in real life this has lovely blurred look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Return of the Thunder Mani

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So I have not done a Thunder themed mani in almost a year!  If you have seen any of my older posts I did quite a few nails inspired by the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team.  I am an Okie and I love my Thunder.  Anyways I figured it was time to do another one.  This mani was so hard to get color accurate, the orange and blue kinda freaked my camera out.  I did my best to edit the photos to as close to what they look like in real life.   Hope you enjoy!

I used Essie In the Cab-ana and acrylic paint

 

The blue is somewhat close to real life in this pic, it is more saturated though and leans I tiny bit more teal than straight blue

 

 

 

Ugh I dunno the lighting is not well in this one but I feel like you can see the design better