Holiday Ornament Nails

Hey lovelies!

Happy first day of the week! Yay! Lol

Today I have some holiday ornament nails for you. I was browsing Pinterest for ideas and ran into this cute wallpaper. I decided to recreate it on my nails. Below is the final look. I actually did these a couple days ago. Right before my middle nail broke again :(

Christmas ornaments

I did a blue to purple gradient base and drew some tree branches, oranaments and snowflakes over it. 

Middle nail macro

Image credit Pinterest

This is the inspo wallpaper I found on Pinterest. It looked so pretty! I ended up doing the gradient the opposite way.

Blue gradient

Here is the base before drawing in the snowflakes, branches and ornaments. I totally forgot to take a photo before adding the dots! 

I used two shades of blue and a light purple for the gradient and topped it with one coat of fairy dust. The gradient got completely covered by all the nail art! :( But I loved the result!

What do you guys think of this look? Hope you guys like it!

Thank you so much for reading! Happy polishing! :)

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Sweetest Bestie Twin Nails

Hey friends! 

Today I have some cute twin nails to show you! My friend @25_sweetpea from Instagram asked me to collaborate with her and of course I agreed! I love her manis and she's so sweet, just like her name says! 

We decided on doing owl nails. I've never done owls before so I was extremely nervous. We both kinda were!

Take a look to see how we did.

We decided on doing a gradient base. The top picture in the collage was our inspo. And we agreed on only doing one owl since we weren't sure if we could fit more than one on one nail. She did such a great job! I love it!

Below is my gradient with top coat before adding anything over it.

Gradient with one coat of Seche Vite

I have become a big fan of doing gradients this way. I do my gradient like usual and then I go over it doing some lines with a striper brush. I love the effect it gives it. I used Sinful Shine At Sea, Sinful Colors Hazard, and Loreal Walk on the Beach. 

This is the glossy version of my solo. I didn't like the glare. This was the only photo that the glare didn't completely cover that poor little owl. 

Polish pictured Sinful Shine At Sea

So I decided to matte it. I love it matte! I'm a big big fan of matte nails! I drew everything with nail polish and my favorite brushes that you can find here and here. I don't have brown acrylic paint and I was too lazy to mix colors. The owl was done only using dotting tools. I did one coat of Seche Vite and then I added one coat of Salon Perfect Matte Fx top coat to finish the look. 

25_sweetpeas solo:

www.25sweetpeas.blogspot.com

And here is Sweetpeas solo. Everything turned out perfect! I love the owl It's so cute. Her nails are everything my nails wanted to be! 

If you aren't following Sweetpeas yet you definitely should! I'll leave all her links below.

25sweetpeas Blog

25_sweetpeas Instagram

25 Sweetpeas Facebook

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you guys enjoyed these twin nails!

Keep on polishing! ;)

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Bestie Twin Nails Halloween Edition

Hello there! 

Today I have some fun gradient nails to show you! I asked my lovely friend Jenny from @thedotcouture if she wanted to do some twin nails with me and lucky me she said yes! 

Here is our collage. I freaking love how they both turned out and how they look together in the collage.

Don't you?

Twin nails with @thedotcouture

Below is the inspiration t-shirt I found at Walmart in early September. As soon as I saw it I thought of Jenny. She loves Halloween so I took a photo of it along with another cute shirt and saved them so I could send them to her. I forgot to do that. So now it's October and it's time for Halloween nail art. I wanted to recreate this scene on my nails so I decided to invite Jenny to do them with me! 

Kids t-shirt found at Walmart

Jenny's solo photo. I love how hers turned out! I'm a big fan of her manis. She can make a simple mani look beautiful! If you aren't following her yet you should!

@thedotcouture

And here is my solo. I did a gradient using all Sinful Colors polishes; Let's Talk, Endless Blue and At Sea. I added a top coat and when dry I drew some tree silhouettes with black acrylic paint. I had some trouble with the skeletons. I'm not good with small details so it was tough. I waited for the paint to be fully dry and added top coat again and then one final coat of matte top coat. The next hard part was photographing it. I couldn't get the purple to show.

After taking a million pics I went with this one taken in the shade. It showed the details a bit more and all the colors in the gradient. I was very sad to take it off.

I really enjoyed doing these with Jenny. I hope we can do this again soon sometime. We hope you all love them as much as we do!

Check out Jenny @thedotcouture on Instagram and follow her blog at thedotcouture.wordpress.com

Thank you for stopping by! See you next time :)

Safari gradient nails

Hey beauties!

Today's nail art is safari nails I did for twinsietuesdaynailart, a weekly promt on IG hosted by @99probsbutmynailsaint1 There's a new prompt every week and I've tried doing most of them. 

Let's begin by showing you the inspiration photo I found. 

Isn't it lovely? I wanted to attempt doing something like this on my nails. It was a lot harder than I thought!

Here's what I used for this design:

Pictured: 

Sinful Colors Snow Me White

OPI Do You Have This Color In Stock-Holm?

Nicole by OPI My Sol Shines Brighter

Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up

China Glaze Fairy Dust

Seche Vite Top Coat

NYC matte me crazy

Kolinsky clean up brush 

Small brush 

Not pictured:

Latex free make up wedge

Bliss kiss simply peel latex barrier

Here is the gradient before adding the animal silhouettes.

I applied one coat of Sinful Colors Snow Me White as my base. Then I applied the liquid latex around my cuticules for easy clean up. I grabbed my make up wedge and applied my three colors beggining with OPI at the top, then NOPI and then Wet n Wild. I rolled the sponge on my nail and added more polish to the sponge. Repeated this on all my nails. I did about three or four passes on all my nails (all 10 nails!). After my gradient was done with a clean side of the sponge I dabbed on some Fairy Dust at the top. I topped it all off Seche Vite top coat.

For the silhouettes I used black acrylic paint. I used a brush that came in a set I bought from Walmart, but I trimmed some of the bristles off to make it thinner. 

I drew some animal shapes and filled them in. I think I probably tried three times with each nail! It's a miracle I didn't just give up and threw everything away! Lol 

After all my "animal" shapes were done I top coated it all! (What animal is on my middle finger? Lol) 

Here's the final result.

I hated the glare so I made them matte. I liked it much better!

What do you guys think? Do they look like animals? 

Check out the hashtag #twinsietuesdaynailart on IG to see all of the art work that's been done by a ton of talented ladies! And follow Melanie if you aren't following her yet! 

http://instagram.com/99probsbutmynailsaint1

Hope you guys liked this design. Thank you for reading and don't forget to follow me! See you next time! :)

St Patrick's Day nails

Hello!

I finally have my lightbox and my lighting got ten times better with the new bulbs I got! Yay! Now just gotta figure out where I'm going to be setting my hand for the photos! 

So today I have for you some St. Patrick's Day nails. A stamped gradient over a gradient. Awesome! 

Look at how different this photo looks from the rest!

Here is what I used for this design.

Zoya anchor base coat

Zoya Tomoko pixie dust

OPI Amazon Amazoff 

China Glaze Shore enuff

MPolish Apricot Delight, Sweetclover and Bells of Ireland

Seche vite fast drying top coat

Pueen plate SE03A

Stamper and scraper 

Clean up brush

Latex free make up wedge

Wish I would've taken photos as I went a long but I totally forgot!

Here's a collage I did to try to decide which pose to use. I went with the usual with the help of my nail friends :)

And an outside shot.

So what do you guys think about the design? The pose? The lighting? Hope you guys like how everything is turning out. Thank you for stoping by :)