Pastel Neon Leopard

I LOVE THESE NAILS!

I'm not sure if you'd classify these as neon or pastel (seems like an oxymoron), but they are colourful all the same.

Eeep! So, I won't go into the names of the colours I used because I can't remember and there are so many, but they were all from either MigiNailArt or Nail Jazz.

I started with a base coat or 4 ;) then on some nails I applied a purple and sky blue on two halves of my nail. Once the polish became tacky, I took a top coat that I didn't mind getting contaminated with colour and I applied it on top to smudge the two colours together. I did the same thing on my other nails, but with sky blue, creamy yellow, baby pink, and pastel green.

Once that completely dried, I took a black and painted 'c's, 'u's, and 'o's on my nail. I tried to make them look like leopard prints but those 3 shapes are basically what you draw. Look at a picture of a leopard to get more of an idea. On the blue/purple nails, I added hot pink to the centre of some of the spots.

I let the spots completely dry so they didn't smudge, and then applied a coat of Sally hansen "Diamonds" to give it a little glitter. Finally I covered the design with a top coat and cleaned my cuticles.

The Northern Lights Of Essie Fire!

Does that blog title make absolutely no sense? Yeah, I thought so. I've been painting my nails more than I've been blogging, so I have a few back-logged designs, and these three aren't all of them.

The first one is The Northern Lights.

To be honest, I'm not a huge fan, but I should show you guys my fail nails, too. The second picture is "Sapphire" (I think) by Quo/Orly which is my base colour. The other blue/purples that I added are all crackles. They didn't really crack much. Oh well. Also, it doesn't look like the Northern lights. I can see the real-deal from my bedroom window on clear nights and they don't look like that. Oh well. The design is still... interesting?

This next design is just showing off my new Essie top coat, "Shine of the Times" with a purple base.

it's a multi-dimensional glitter coat. In different lights and different angles, it changes colour, from red to blue to green to gold. You can see a video of these nails below. Excuse the background music, my mother or brother was practicing piano at the time.

Now for the third design, it's FIRE!

 I've heard this works as a Hunger Games design, but I'm not a fan so I wouldn't know. I only saw the movie once, not knowing what I was about to see. Meh, I thought it was okay. Anyway... yes, my thumb looks different. It's the same polish, "Garnet" by Quo/Orly, but it doesn't have black as a base. Goes to show that putting a coloured base on first really changes how the polish turns out!

I have several more backed-up designs that I hope to show you one day. I have a not-very-good crackle one, a special effects design, and a Deathly Hallows one. Stay tuned and I'll post them at some point in the future.

Easter then some guilt

I haven't blogged for so long! I'm so sorry! Guilt! Well, now I have brand new internet, I might be able to create more video tutorials because I can now use youtube at home ^.^

You wanted to know what the Easter nails looked like? Well it's a repeat from last year, but because I paint all of my designs free-hand, it's not identical. I also didn't paint the bunny, and instead promoted him to his own design.

If you want to know how to paint this design yourself, check out last years blog post: Spring-A-Ling (link opens in new window). Hopefully I've improved it. For my other designs, I only painted them on sample nails and quite complicated so I won't include a tutorial, but if you really want to know how I did it, comment that you want a tutorial on one of these as a comment and I'll include it in a future blog post for you.

Like I said, I gave the bunny his own nail design, and I'm pretty sure I've improved him. I miss the floppy ear, though. I would recommend a different background colour for the Easter chick, because you can barely see that he's raising his tiny wings. The Easter egg is completely customizable, and the pastel cross one is glittery.