Continuing with the 7 Days of St. Patrick's Day Nail art challenge I found on Facebook, I decided to do a swatch of one of my favorite greens.
AEngland Dragon is such a beautiful color. It is a grass green with olive green flashes and holographic particles! This is one of the first international polishes that I owned and what really got me started looking at international brands and indie nail polish polish. What was that first polish that got you checking out international brands?
Continuing with the 7 Days of St. Patrick's Day Nail art challenge I found on Facebook, I decided to do a little throwback to one of the first times I did a crackle manicure.
This photo is from September 2, 2012!! This is right when Funky Fingers came out with a plethora of metal crackle colors, including this awesome sparkly one. I have Funky Fingers Mint Montauk on all nails and Funky Fingers Teal Scales on top. Don't you just love the combination?! Crackle may not be the "in" thing anymore, but I still like seeing manicures with it. It's a fun, easy way to create nail art without much effort when you just need to "polish and go." What's your quickie nail art look?
I then stamped with el Corazon red stamping polish one of the crosses on the Messy Mansion plate MM54.
Messy Mansion MM54 Stamping Plate
Last, I stamped with various Hit the Bottle golds the full nail pattern. I think it turned out really cool and is like a gradient of golds with the stamping being a different one on each nail. How many different gold stamping polishes do you have?
Closeup to see how good the stamping turned out, look at those details!
For day 3, I decided to try an optical illusion look. I've not tried this before on nails, but thought it might look interesting.
I started off with Kleancolor Pearl Jungle as a base.
Kleancolor Pearl Jungle
Then, I put the zig zag French guides at an angle on the nails and paint over them with Glitter Gal Soft Green. It is a polish meant to change the appearance of the color underneath, the soft shades are very sheer. But this allowed me to be able to see the pattern for tracing afterwards.
Next, I used a black Sharpie pen and drew lines across the nails but distorted the lines over the area where you can see the zig zag pattern. I did this over all the nails. Have you tried optical illusions on your nails? What do you think?
I'm doing this St. Patick's Day Nail Challenge for 7 days that I saw on Facebook.
For day 2, I decided to go with some double-stamping. I used Apipila P38 and Apipila 04B for this look. The base color is Kleancolor Jazz Olive and I stamped the black with Il Etait Un Vernis Paint it Black and the white with Il Etait Un Vernis White Canvas using my original Creative Shop Stamper. All can be found on Beautometry.com.
I think this turned out nice, I'll have to try double-stamping again in the future Have you tried it yet?
For St. Patrick's Day, I decided to join a challenge to produce 7 days of St Patrick's Day nails. I thought this would be fun and festive!
I decided to start with a base of Kleancolor Bikini Green, which is a great neon green color. It took about 3 coats to make it opaque enough but looks great.
I've always wanted to try a galaxy manicure. They are just so beautiful! I figured it might be hard or too complicated, so that is what took me so long. But, they are actually really easy and a lot of fun. I also did a video tutorial of this manicure so everyone can see how easy they are to do.
I used a lot of different polishes for this manicure. I started off with Il Etait Un Vernis Paint it Black as a base for all my nails and then added Il Etait Un Vernis Light Box. I made the different stars, planets, etc with those glow in the dark pumpkin polishes you find at Rite Aid around Halloween time. (you can see them in the background of the photo). I used Sugar BubblesSB14 for the stamping of the shield and Mr Spock from Star Trek. I made stamping decals of each and colored them in and then put them on my nails. You can see all the details and step by step in the video below.
What do you think? Have you ever tried a galaxy manicure?
