30 Day Nail Challenge - Day 29 - Inspired by the Supernatural - Dia De Los Muertos

Dia de los muertos! I have been waiting to do this all month... Still not happy with how it came out. I should have been layering top coat the whole time to smooth out all these details!!! Now in the middle of the nail where the skulls are, there is basically a pile of polish... Not a good look.

I painted each nail a different color, pink, yellow, orange, blue, and green. Added contrasting flowers to the corners of the nails for some spice. Then painted my white skull shapes on. I decorated the skulls with dots and flower shapes and when I couldn't fit any more deco on, I outlined with black and added my eyes. Wish  I had recieved my package today I could have added something cool into the eye holes... :(

30 Day Nail Challenge - Day 9 - Rainbow

So I did a pastel rainbow gradient over my whole nail. Covered up any sponge seams using Wet N Wild Hallucinate glitter topcoat. You can't really see the colors that well, I tried to take an inside picture and an outside picture but it was dark and gloomy out since it is raining today !!
I used these colors, all mixed with white to make them pastels:

I sponged them onto a white base diagonally, and then added one coat of Hallucinate with another coat of Beauty Secrets Hardening Top Coat.

Rainbow Nails

I know I posted this on my Tumblr already but I had to update my blogger. This design I did on a nail tip that I had glued to a pencil about 10 months ago, but I had forgotten about it until just recently I found a bunch of experimental designs in a cigar box on my bookshelf. I actually did this in the middle of my Disney series, but didn't post it til just now. The day after I did these, my girlfriend Meghan came over and I did this exact design on her real nails (since they are so long) for her Whiskey Wednesday at her place. I love this design and think it would have been great for PRIDE; however, since I am really lacking gay friends lately ('cept you Ryan), I have no reason to go to PRIDE anymore. It's lost its pizzazz and the margaritas are too expensive now. Also, I've never found Tranny Alley; I have seen it on the website map, but never found it in all my years...

Neon leopard rainbow nails!!!!

So... this is Audrey, i got my nails done today and they look awesome , i didnt even know what i wanted tell she picked it out. hers are done with

metallic colors and she wanted to do a " Lisa Frank" look ,bright and so they stand out. well she acomplished it!!!! and i love them !!! i usually dont paint them but........
i cant wait to see whats next !!!

first she did the patches of background color and then the spots over with the nailritz nail pens ... then went to sallys and got the Seche Vite top coat. witch we finshed them off with two coats tell smooth.

i hope u do them cause there a must !!!!

Makeup Sponging? Sponge-ing?

I finally got my hands on some makeup sponges to experiment with fading nail polish techniques! Since I just have makeup brushes, I never went out and bought a whole bag of sponges because I didn't know how it would turn out. Now that I do, I think that makeup sponges is a total must have for any nail polish fanatic. In the top picture, I sponged on a very light coat of nail polish starting from the very tip of my nail and working my way down toward the nail base. Only work in one direction! If you don't, you won't get a nice fading effect like shown here. Then once you have a light coat, apply more nail polish to the sponge and work from the tip down again to ensure full opacity. Since you don't get a completely smooth look from sponging they way you do painting the nail, I applied a full coat of shimmery top coat (glitter top coat would also work well). It helped to smooth out the look of any imperfections. In the second photo I started with pink and working my way up the tip, I started to add a darker purple and then the darked sponged right on to the very tip. I think if you have many shades of one color it looks more dramatic than the first photo, where I sponged on only one shade of each color. Hope you guys like this!

Mosaic/Stained Glass

This design I called a stained glass style because I outlined these little random shapes with a silver, colored them in, and then re-outlined with black. I didn't take a picture of it, but from the underside of the nail, you can see the design very clearly, so the clear tip is like a window. It's a really easy design, and is great for both hands, because it doesn't have to be perfect, so left handed is real simple.

Kirsty's Flower Power Hippie Nails

Crazy Ass Nails OMG

I just got a little carried away with my nails and I'm not even going to explain how I did these. My nails apparently DID NOT enjoy this design; THREE of my acrylic nails broke or fell off RIGHT AFTER I did this. Do not attempt this design: very bad luck!

ADORABLE Rainbow Polkadotted Tips :)

Rainbows are not usually my kind of thing, but surprisingly I kept this set on longer than 1 day! I had it on for a full 2 days, and that's something. They are just SO cute! I painted on pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue French tips, and used my dotting tool to carefully make large white dots on top (and of course a good think layer of my go-to glitter top coat.) The following colors were used in this design:

NYC "Pink Promenade Creme"

MilaniNEON "Awesome Orange"

Sally Hansen Instant Dry "Lightening"

Wet N Wild "Green with Envy"

Sally Hansen Complete Manicure "Blue Calypso"

This is a simple, but very cute design that really doesn't require much talent, just a steady hand.