Showing posts with label nail polish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nail polish. Show all posts

Friday, September 9, 2011

Latest Nail Design!

This took an insane amount of time! Only because I had no clue what I was doing! Im going to show you the exact way I did this however I will say, I realized towards the end had I done this process BACKWARDS it would of went way quicker...However since I did take pics all the way through im posting them lol.



 I started off using a nude color by wet in wild as a base
                            
  

Then I put a black dot in the center of my nail using a long thin striping polish



Now for your stripes
 



its ok if they look a little jacked up and thin that will be fixed


 
                                                                                                                                                                  
Filled white in the little triangle




made the black line thicker
 


Added a blue stripe





Added a pink stripe



Finally the last stripe which filled in the rest of the nail green

At this point I realized had I started with the green and worked my way up it would of taken way less time AND I needed to go back over each color from the botton up anyways to make them more prominant so my suggestion is start from the bottom up in the first place and it will take way less time than it took me :p Its going to look messy at this point but its ok because we start cleaning them up now with an art brush and pure acetone. Be careful to not mess up all your hard work!





Small squared art brush

Dont use this if you have fake nails, and dont use it regularly its too strong I only use it to clean up nail art
once they were all cleaned up I added a yellow stripe at the top after the back leaving a smaller white portion than before. I was seriously just figuring it all out as I went lol it was only supposed to be one stripe at first then next thing I know my whole nail is stripes! It works though :)
Few shots of the finished product and the actual products used all mine the grey bottle of polish idk why I lined that up I didnt use any grey.



Products used minus the grey color Idk why I put that there.. The brush laying next to the art brush came with a striping polish I bought years ago, threw away the polish kept the brush and I clean it with the pure acetone. Thats another reason this took so long, one brush tons of colors! Had to reclean it after every color booo to that.

Hope you like!


Thursday, September 1, 2011

My Latest Nail Design..simple and cute :)





I was trying to think of what colors I wanted to do and brown and green seemed perfect. It makes me think of nature. The white dot keeps it light and brightens it up a bit. All I did was paint my nails the brown shade by sinful called Nirvana two coats. I then painted my fourth fingers the green color by sinful Innocent. The white dot is the same polish I posted in my other nail tuts only I didnt use the brush provided, I used a dotting tool. You could easily use a tooth pick. Topped it off with my top coat and dont forget your base coat prior to your prior polish!

Friday, August 26, 2011

Color Blocking Take 2!

So since I loved the color block design from the other day, I decided to try it out another way with different colors. Im in love with this one as well! This one was even easier, and just as cute. Choose three colors total, I chose a dark blue, a light green, and white as my stripe. Half of your nail needs two coats of one of your main colors, the other side needs two coats of your second color, wait for those to dry then do a med size line down the center with your stripe color and wait for it to dry before applying your top coat. Always make sure you use a base coat before you start polishing your nails :)


Thursday, August 25, 2011

Color blocking your nails! Super cute and easy!

It's actually pretty easy all you need is two or three colors then either a decorating nail brush with long bristles or you can pick up striping polishes from sallys in white. I painted half my nail the dark blue color, the lower half of the other side yellow and above that grey waited till they dried then did the white stripes. You can clean up any mistakes along the way w any polish remover and a small art brush.