Quite Polished

Here’s my right hand, which I did first so I could practice before doing the hand that I photograph. I thought it turned out well so I figured I’d include it. :) Also I have no idea why Electric Pineapple decided to mix with the blue and come out green on only my ring finger.

Colors: China Glaze High Hopes, China Glaze Electric Pineapple, Sally Hansen Blue Me Away!

I successfully water marbled! Generally when I go to water marble it goes something like “I’m going to water marble and it’s gonna work and it will turn out beautiful like all of the pictures I see and my colors will all look nice and everything will be amazing!” and then two minutes later it’s “Aw screw it water marbling sucks I hate it why did I think this would be a good idea I’m done.” 

This time I was determined though! Unfortunately my original color combo didn’t work out even though it was perfect, but after playing around with it for a bit I came up with these three and after that it was super easy (because I just did the same design over and over!). 

Colors: China Glaze High Hopes, China Glaze Electric Pineapple, Sally Hansen Blue Me Away!

Flowers and Polka Dots!

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but florals absolutely terrify me. There are many things that I just can’t draw well no matter how hard I try, flowers are one of them. I just.. can’t. So as much as I love how they look, I’ve never attempted them until now. The design is based off of a shirt that I have:

I recently bought Zoya Breezi and have been waiting to try it out so I figured this was the perfect opportunity. All I have to say is that I really really really love this color. I love blue nail polish, especially cremes. Despite this, I am severely lacking in the blue nail polish department so Breezi is a much welcome addition. Great formula and application, as is with the other Zoyas that I own. :)

Other colors are China Glaze Electric Pineapple, Sally Hansen Blue Me Away!, Love and Beauty Navy, Essie Navigate Her, and Wet n Wild French White Creme

With all the gradients going around I figured I’d add my own to the mix. They were inspired by this fun drip dye t shirt tutorial. First I did a sponge gradient using China Glaze Go Go Pink and OPI Big Hair…Big Nails over Wet n Wild French White Creme. Then I stippled over that with China Glaze High Hopes. Unfortunately the gradient underneath doesn’t come out too much in the picture, but I still really like they way turned out!

Oh hey finally putting up the pictures of my My Little Pony Nails. I’m only 4 days late, but you know.

Here is the blog post about the contest, I’m the fourth one down. You can vote on facebook and/or fill out a form thingy.

Looking back I really wish I had just picked a pony and done everything based on that, I think it would have looked a lot better than the cutie marks considering I can’t draw balloons or stars. Or diamonds. But while I don’t think they were the best I could do I do think they turned out cute and I might try and do some other MLP related nails in the future. :)

Also, here is the link to the first episode. You know you wanna watch it.

I love zig-zags! And I love black and white! And I love bright colors! So many things that I love in one and I love these and I might be biased because these took me forever but I don’t care. I love the way my index and middle fingers turned out especially, and I’d say my ring finger looks the best out of the colored nails. One thing that makes me sad about macro pictures is that they bring every flaw to attention, but these do look really cool from normal viewing distance. 

Fishtail nails! For this I sorta used Precious Polish’s tutorial.

Remember that post I did a while ago about making a nail art brush out an old liquid eyeliner brush? So I took that brush and cut off a lot of the bristles to make it really thin, and that’s what I used to do these. It’s nice because this brush is good at making lines but also good at detail work.

Colors: Julep Hayden, blue and black acrylic paint

Also! A picture of me awkwardly modeling my new ring.  Ever wonder why my pointer finger sticks out instead of lining up with my middle finger? Yeah, it curves funny. And my pinky is really short apparently, that’s why it tends to look weird in pictures too.

I don’t want to put this up but.. whoops!

Guh, so adventures with striping tape. A buttload easier than regular tape but still possible to horribly mess up (as you can tell). I swear the macro photo makes it look a million times worse, because at normal viewing distance these looked really cool. Also tipwear… I don’t even know. This is less than 24 hours.

Essie Navigate Her, Orly Ancient Jace, Ulta Mint Condition, Sally Hansen Black Heart.

I’m not sure about everyone else but uh.. Fire is freaking hard to draw. However, I wanted to do my own version of the Girl on Fire nails, so I present to you fire nails for the artistically challenged!

I started with two coats of Sally Hansen Black Heart, then topped it with a coat of Essie Matte About You (which I’m quickly running out of :( ). Once that was dry I took scotch tape and cut tiny triangles out of it to make jagged zigzags/spikes. I put the tape on the back of my hand first so it’s not sticky, then I put it on my nail, painted over it with a coat of China Glaze Riveting, then I peeled the tape off before letting it dry. 

Also, how amazing are black matte nails? And Riveting is friggin’ gorgeous. I’ll do a legit review of it sometime in the future.