Camouflage

The first week of my second year of college has been completed, woohoo! Sixteen more weeks to go.

I picked out this camouflage mani out of a nail design book that my best friend Megan gifted me last Christmas. The book is called, Nails, Nails, Nails! by Madeline Poole. It contains twenty-five nail designs along with step-by-step guides and pictures to go with. I used two coats of Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails Stonewall - a creamy, warm beige color - to start it off.

I went in with different shades of army green acrylic paint. The booked said to make "tree trunk" shapes and paint on the other colors blobbing off of the initial color. 

Cloudy day, sorry for the poor quality.

My version compared to the nail book.

All of the right hand pictures have a coat of matte and were taken under a bright light indoors; left side just has a clear coat and was taken outside. 

 I love how matte looks on this camouflage design, it completes the look!

Tamz

Steps

I've been so busy this past week, so I was only able to do a simple design again. I wanted to do a Le Petit Prince mani with this sweet, baby blue shade of polish, but the left corners of all of my nails chipped off. This design came to be to cover up the chips with black paint. 

First the polish - three coats of Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear Breezy Blue (not pictured). It's a pearly blue that's very sheer; it took three to cover my nail bed with the tips still showing a bit. I went in with black acrylic to paint in a slim triangle and then added little triangles coming off that ended up looking like steps. Finished it with a line parallel to it and a top coat.

Tamz

Chains

A quick post before I leave for my road trip to Kentucky for a week; I will not be posting any nail art until I get back unfortunately. 

I went for something simple, but classy starting with two coats of Sinful Colors' Snow Me White. I used a tiny brush to paint on gold chains using Sally Hansen Hard as Nails' Golden across each nail. I topped it off with a coat of matte, but it's hard to tell since the sun is shining on my nails. The matte looks super cute in person!

Tamz

Emerald Square

Hello, hello! Today's mani was a quick creation that I put together on Friday night.

I used one coat of Sally Hansen Hard as Nails' Limestone as a solid base underneath one coat of NYC's Luxury Lime Creme. I'm not sure if NYC still sells this polish because it was one of the very first polishes that I acquired. It's a sheer polish that would've taken several coats to become opaque, but Limestone helped a lot. 

I went in with green acrylic paint with the intent of painting a maze against the polish; thanks to my sister for the choice of polish and idea. I ended up with this design instead because I didn't have a maze image in my head. I love the result though!

 Tamz

Rose Frame

Two designs in one week, I'm on a roll! I'll be coming up with a third design, hopefully. 

This mani was inspired by Robin Moses' "Rose Corset" (her YouTube video link). She created such an adorable design that I immediately fell in love with. 

On the middle and ring fingers, I used two coats of Sinful Colors' Anchors Away - probably one of my favorite orange polishes that I own. It's so light and summery! The rest of the nails got two coats of Sinful Colors' Why Not. 

With the base colors dry, I went in with acrylic paint to create light pink roses with darker pink "petals", and light purple roses with dark purple "petals". 

The little leaves were placed randomly on the roses. I used one coat of NYC's Matte Me Crazy before adding the opposite color sides. I free-handed the sides with a striper brush like Robin does, but I took so much more time and care since I'm not as confident as she is!

 I didn't add the corset because I loved the matte rose look, and I didn't want to totally copy the original. No top coat on this one, gang. 

Left hand with "bracket" leaves

Right hand with full leaves

I'm obsessed. 

Tamz

Tye Dye

Hey all; I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their summer vacation!

I did this design over a course of several days, although I could have easily done it in one. I've been procrastinating with painting my beloved nails sadly.

On all of the nails I started off with two coats of Sinful Colors' Snow Me White as a solid base coat since I chose a variety of bright / neon polishes. For my middle and ring fingers, I painted on Wet n Wild Wild Shine's Nerd Alert: Screech (a fun bright neon green) and Fashionista Lisa  (another fun neon purplish pink) in alternating stripes with a little bursh. I used Nerd Alert: Screech and Sally Hansen Hard as Nails' Mellow Yellow in stripes on my thumb, pinky, and index fingers.

(Experimented with colors on my index finger, but later changed it to match my thumb and pinky)

 I let those fully dry overnight before painting on two layers of Wet n Wild megalast's Tropicalia over the purple and green striped nails while my thumb, pinky, and index fingers got two coats of Wet n Wild Wild Shine's Chick Magnet Zach.

Once those coats dried, I went in with Q-Tips dipped in nail polish remover to rub off random spots of the pink and blue polish to reveal the striped polishes below. The results can be seen below.

  

I cannot get enough of this mani! The tye dye effect is all consuming; if I sneak a peek at them, I can't tear my eyes away from them! I will say, I like the yellow, green, and teal nails more then the pink covered nails. They are oh so groovy.

(Sun shot)

Peace out,

Tamz