Shooting Star Nails

Two coats of Opi black onyx, 

sponging of Color Club in de-nile, Orly dayglow, Opi kiss me I'm Brazilian, and Orly mirrorball,

white acrylic paint for the shooting star,

top coat of Essie gel setter.

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Summertime Gradient

I have been really loving the colors from the China Glaze City Flourish Collection. I have used all of them in several manis lately. Today I really wanted to try another gradient. I just knew that Grass is Lime Greener and At Vase Value would be magical together. I was not disappointed. I did lay down a base color of white. I can not remember which one I used but it most likely was Opi's Alpine Snow.

I went in with my makeup sponge and amazingly enough I only had to go over twice to get the opacity that I wanted. After looking at my nails I decided that they needed something else so I broke out the stamping plates.

I didn't want anything that would really take the focus away from the colors. I went with a very simple palm tree in black as accent nails.

Colors used: China Glaze At Vase Value and Grass is Lime Greener
Stamping plate: Winstonia plate in W106 with Konad Black Stamping Polish
Top coat: Glisten and Glow HK Girl Topcoat

I just love how bright this is. I actually got asked by a woman while I was out shopping if these were stickers. I was so proud to say that I did them myself.

Sponging and Stamping

I have been looking at my Winstonia plate #W111 and trying to decide how I wanted to paint the background for it. I finally decided to do a pastel type watercolor mani. I didn't feel like breaking out the plastic wrap so I just used cut up sponges to layer the colors. I put down a base color of Opi's Alpine snow because I really wanted the colors to pop. I used all China Glaze polishes. They are Lotus begin, What a pansy, At vase value, and Bahamian escape. I just would sponge on one color at a time and then at the end I went back in with the base color of Bahamian escape to even it out. I stamped with Konad's white special polish. As per usual I used my favorite Glisten and Glow HK Girl topcoat.

My base of sponging

Indoor light

Indoor light

Sunlight

Sunlight

Sunlight

Poptastic Collection 2014

My order of the new Color Club Poptastic Collection 2014 came in today and of coarse I couldn't wait to play with them. There are 6 new colors to this bright collection. They all have an iridescent shimmer to them. Without a white base underneath they are a bit on the sheer side, but can be built up. First up is Not-So-Mellow-Yellow which is this fluorescent yellow that has a hint of green in it. Next is Foxy Mama, a highlighter orange color. There are two pinks in this collection. First one is Peace, Love, and Polish which is more of a bubble gum pink color. Kapow! is more of a strawberry pink shade. Right on is more of a bright violet shade. Lastly Bell Bottom Babe is a denim shade and also my favorite right now.

Soft Nautical Nails

So for day 28 of the Nail art May challenge the theme is nautical. I actually decided to be a little early doing these as today is memorial day as well. I didn't want to do the traditional colors seeing as I hate red nail polish. It's such a pain to remove. So I used Color Club's Look, Don't Tusk as my base color and the blue is their In De-Nile while the pink is Je'Aime. Whole thing is finished off with Glisten & Glow Hk Girl topcoat.