Dry Marble

It has been over a month since I've posted any nails designs because I've been constantly busy with my summer course. Believe it or not, I've only painted my nails twice in the past month.. It's been a rough stretch of time.  

I wanted to try dry marbling after seeing sprinklenails' 4th of July design. It is absolutely gorgeous! Although I've seen dry marbling done often, I have never attempted it, instead going right to water marbling. After this design, I think my go-to will be the dry option from now on!

I put down one coat of Sally Hansen's Hard to Get to begin with because I chose Sinful Colors' Pink - a classic neon - as one of my three colors along with Sinful Colors' Sugar Rush and Heavy Metal. 

To begin with, I cut out a square of wax paper. I then painted a stripe of each color onto the wax paper right next to each other like sprinkleanails' tutorial. I folded the wax paper several times until I liked the marble effect that the mixed polish created. Like water marbling, you have to choose which area of the marble that you want on your nail before you apply the wax paper to your nail. I gently rolled my finger over the wax paper so the polish would transfer onto my nail bed.

Repeat with each nail, reapplying new polish when it runs out. 

The clean up took some extra time because Heavy Metal is packed with glitter, but no complaints! I adore how it subtly blended into the pink and blue, yet it still was distinct in certain spots. I LOVE how it turned out!

Chipped right hand that was finally treated to a design!

Tamara

Heart Beat

It's been ages since I've painted my nails, let alone designed them!! I won't have a lot leisure time to do my nails for the next month or so. I'm taking some summer courses that are throwing buckets of work at me, yay..! 

But, here's one coat of Sally Hansen's Hard to Get with two coats of Wet n Wild's Nerd Alert: Screech. Nerd Alert: Screech needs to have white underneath it, otherwise the nail bed shows through no matter how many coats you apply. I found this really neat heart design online, so I decided to paint it on my nails. I used black acrylic to paint a heart with a heart beat inside of it wearing headphones on my thumb and ring finger. The other fingers got musical notes painted onto them.

Tamara

Triangles

I used three coats of Revlon's Pink Ice; I could have gotten away with two, but the polish got a bit nicked and faded. I went in with a stripper brush and Sinful Colors' Heavy Metal to paint on triangles. The pointer finger warped after I hit it against something. tears. I think it's cute besides that!

Tamara

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