Stamping practice

So...my special plate order arrived...and I wanted to try it out.

Check out KD4 on Revlon 092 Blue Lagoon

As you can tell...the Blue Lagoon is a hot mess...and the birds...well they got black spots everywhere...but the image designs are cute.

A little dotting for Leap year

So here it goes...my attempt at doing nail art using only dotting tools and regular nail polish.  We were allowed to put on nail polish with the aid of a brush...but needed to do something original with a dotting tool.

So...since tomorrow is Leap Year and a shout out for my big brother Mike's birthday....

I did a special little design:

Just so you can see the frog better

Now, just a little art history lesson.  Creating images from dots was started a long time ago...they call it pointilism.  Famous artists who have done pointilism include masters such as Vincent Van Gogh and his self portrait.

Well, I am no Van Gogh...but I like my little frog and my LEAP letters.  Have a good leap day everybody!

Check out my contest entry at Chalkboard Nails: http://www.chalkboardnails.com/2012/02/im-hosting-nail-art-contest.html

White french tip with Black flowers stamped -Fail

I was so not happy with my stamping attempt last night that I almost didn't post a report for today.  But...I might as well show you the EPIC fail.

I did beautiful french tips with Finger Paints Natural talent, Rimmels French white tip pro liner.

Then I attempted to use BM12 with Konad special polish to do these flowers.  As you can see...the stamp pickup with atrocious...then I had smudging from my top coat application.  To beat all...my dominant hand was the hand that ended up looking the best and is the one I've pictured here.

So...new goal...practice stamping!!!  Practice...practice practice!

I just don't get it...the french manicure by itself was gorgeous...I'm going to try something similar tonight but probably with just different colors and a different stamp image and see how we do...just need to practice and test out my technique.

Thanks for checking out my page!!!

A girl on fire! Yellow and orange sponging with a little goldilocks then red striping

Well...after doing some pink sponging on Kelly's nails...I wanted to try it for myself.  I went with Luvables original yellow and orange colors, but I didn't do the flowers.

I started with OPI bubble bath of course...then sponged on OPI's The "It" color which is a gorgeous yellow.  Then I sponged on my newest cheap buy $4.99 clearance at Ulta, OPI's In My Back Pocket.  Then I did the final sponging with the deepest orange, OPI's Brights Power.  I let that dry a little bit...then put OPI's Goldilock's Rocks over the whole nail for some good yellow sparkle.  Then I took my Red striper...and did two lines.  For the thumbs I added 3 red rhinestones between the red lines.

Here are the polishes, Goldilocks is out of order in the picture...it was actually used 2nd to last.  The striper in the front of course was used as very last:

 

It's my Hunger Games girl on fire impression...let me know what you all think.  I need to get to work on my dotting design for Chalkboard nail's contest...and playing with my new stamping plates. 

I did have a major catastrophe this weekend, at least for a nail blogger.  I broke my left hand pointer finger nail.  I broke it in the corner pretty good and had to file it more even...so as you can see in this picture it is pretty short in comparison.  But...I wanted to show you the left hand because it is my DOMINANT hand...and I think I actually did pretty good on it...considering I had to do the polishing, sponging and striping with my Non-dominant hand.

May the games be ever in your favor!

Pink sponging and glitter with white flowers

Well friends, tonight I had a friend join me for our nail blog.  My friend Kelly joined me and we decided to try a design we got off a Youtube nail tutorial by Luvable nails.  

 The first coat was an OPI bubble bath.  Then we sponged on OPI Pink Friday, then the dark pink is Revlon Sweet Tart.  The glitter coat is Forever 21's Love & Beauty clear sparkle.   The white flower was done using the dotting tool with OPI Alpine snow.  Then Kelly decided on the green flower centers.  Of course we used OPI natural nail base coat and Beauty Secrets fast dry top coat.  We think it turned out great, hope you all like it.

Special thanks to Kelly for letting me play with her nails.