Gradient chevrons and Butterflies

Base color is China Glaze What A Pansy

Gradient is stamped with Mundo de Unas #21 and #24 with Bundle monster BM201

Butterflies are Klean Color Black with Bundle monster BM718

Seche Vite as top coat

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

-Samantha

 

 

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Beach Escape Nails

For those of us still stuck in the colder weather what else is there to do other then dream of the beach. Warm sandy beaches, breeze coming in off the ocean, a nice pineapple drink in your hand. Excuse me while I take a minute to come back to reality. I wanted to recreate a look I did last year that was a gradient and palm trees. Sometimes it's nice to see how far along you've come with your skills. I can great improvement in both my blending of the gradient and my stamping. I added more to these as well.

I started out with one coat of Color Club Look, Don't Tusk before applying a gradient of Fresh Paint Honeydew and Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau. Once my gradient was dry I went in with Klean Color black and stamped on the palm trees. I used two different plates, Mo-You London Tropical 12 on my thumb and Born Pretty Store BP-23 for the rest of my nails. I used the black to paint on the land at my nail edge. I felt like it still needed a bit of something so I used China Glaze Peachy Keen to paint some birds. Unfortunately I applied Seche Vite a bit too soon and smeared my ring finger. 

Macro of middle finger

Original design from July 2014

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

-Samantha

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Rainbow Roses

Ever spend so much time on a nail design that your eyes start to cross? This was it for me. I really wanted to have this neon rose look. I am head over heels in love with how they turned out. So much better than I had imagined in my head. So I'd say that were worth the headache.

To save myself some time I stamped all of the roses first. They are from plate BP30 from Born Pretty Store. I stamped them with Klean Color Black. While the black was drying I went in and painted two coats of Honeydew by Fresh Paint. You can Fresh Paint at Five Below. I was really surprised at how well this polish applied. It was patchy the first coat but evened out on the second just time.

All of the colors I used for the roses are from Color Club. The pink is Peace, Love, & Polish. The orange is Foxy Mama. The yellow is Not-So-Mellow Yellow. What a Shock is the name of the green. The only non shimmer polish is the blue which is Chelsea Girl. Last but not least is the purple called Ultra Violet. Because of them being neon I went over the top of the colors I filled in with Essie Blanc which is just a white. It really helps them stand out when applied over the green.

I wanted the roses to fully dry before I applied them because I was worried the colors would smear with top coat so I just set them off to the side while I went in and stamped with Mundo de Unas #55 Orchid and Mo-You London plate Tourist 21. It is a bit hard to see but the stamp says Ooh lala. It is from their Paris themed plate. Because I had let the roses dry to get them to stick to my nail I just went in with a thin coat of Glisten & Glow Hk Girl Top coat. It gives the stamp something to adhere to.

 I used two coats of Seche Vite to help seal in the design. I used two coats because I felt like the roses were raised a bit high. I don't want them to hang on anything.

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

-Samantha

 

 

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The Little Mermaid Themed Nails

Next up in my Disney Princess series is Ariel. The Little Mermaid is one of the first Disney movies I can remember watching and I still love it to this day. I pulled inspiration from her outfits and tail. I wanted the first three nails to almost be like going from the top of her hair to the bottom of her fins.

On my pointer finger I started out with two coats of Essie Double Breasted Jacket, I stamped with Color Club(Cc) Macaroon Swoon and plate BM 503. I felt like it still needed something else so I added dots of Essie Good as Gold. It made me think of her hair with starfish and jewels.

My middle finger is of coarse her sea shell bra. After I let two coats of Opi Samoan Sand I stamped plate BM 505 with Mundo de Unas #21 Purple. You can't do Ariel nails without having her sea shells.

For my ring finger I mixed both Mundo de Unas #5 Turquoise and #24 Aqua together on plate BM 502 over top of Orly Smoked Out to get the appearance of multicolored mermaid scales. I do wish I had maybe added a glitter over top of Smoked Out. My pinky is very simple. I wanted to do something to represent the white toga style dress she wears when she first gets legs. I used Opi Alpine Snow with Essie Good as Gold and plate BM 509.

I didn't get a great picture of my thumb but it represents Ursula. I started out with one coat of Orly Close Your Eyes and added a coat of their Fowl Play. I have been dying to use the tentacle image on BM 506 and figured what better time then when doing Ariel nails. I stamped the image using FingerPaints Rock Hard Lilac. Once all of my nails were dry I used Seche Vite to seal my design in.

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

-Samantha

 

 

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