Floral Splash

I've been sick for the past three days, here's the bare minimal on the details.  

I only used one coat of Sinful Colors' Cool Gray - I really smooth light gray that works with spring and summer colors. I then used acrylics to paint flowers on my nails. I applied a top coat before using my stripper to apply Sally Hansen's Mellow Yellow onto the sides of all of my nails in a slight curve. I coats varied, some only took two, others with dark blue underneath needed three. NYC's Matte Me Crazy to finish it.

Tamara

Dripping Paint

I've been getting tired of the generic font "Gabriola" that I've been using as my label, so I made myself download some neat fonts today. I picked out two Gothic ones that reminded me of the Queen of Hearts and Alice and Wonderland, and I finally feel satisfied! Do you think it works?

Nail time! I used two coats of wet n wild's Black Crème. I then used a coat of NYC's Matte

Me Crazy to make the nails look like mini chalkboards. I used a stencil that looks like dripping paint on the tips of each nail in Sinful Colors polishes.

Thumb: Cross My Heart

Pointer: Why Not

Middle: Clementine 

Ring: Amethyst

Pinky: Firefly 

I didn't use a top coat this time because the matte on the black would have been ruined

Tamara

Purple Scales

I used two coats of wet n wild's Buffy the Violet Slayer which is a classic purple that I never tire of. I decided to use a stencil for the first time that came with my Sally Hansen dotting tool along with two brushes - the stencil I used is shown below. I used wet n wild's Metallica for the stencil color on top of Buffy the Violet Slayer.

I used a make up sponge to dab on Metallica. Occasionally I didn't dab off enough polish, so I had too much polish on my sponge. It ended up seeping underneath the stencil, making the diamonds blurry. I had to do touch ups when I was done: filling in a few sliver diamonds to make them darker, repainting the purple in between the diamonds.

On my ring finger, I did a sliver to purple gradient with the same make up sponge. Clear coat!

Tamara

Flowers

I used two coats of NYC's Nolita's Lavender which is a darker lavender that typicallycomes to my mind's eye, but it's a great shade of purple - along with any shade of purple!

On tumblr, I saw someone do a "flower crown" design that I thought was super cute with different flowers framing out the nail. I was blanking in the design department, so I thought I'd give it a quick shot! I can't find the original post which is driving me nuts because it was a hundred times better than my take on my thumb!

Update: I found the original!! 

I used acrylics to paint light yellow, pink, and blue flowers; top coat to seal.

Tamara

Earth Day

Happy Earth Day everyone!! 

Today's mani has three coats of Sally Hansen's Breezy Blue. It's a pearly, baby blue that is so precious with subtle shine in it. I have to remember to apply a base coat so I don't have to apply so many coats of Breezy Blue. 

I used yellow paint with a touch of brown to make it golden to paint on portions of the sun onto each nail. On my thumb, I used a bright green paint for grass and two flower stems. I then dabbed on dots of Sinful Colors' Pink as the flowers.

Tamara