Did this on my friend Natalie’s nails. We really liked it.
Items Used:
Revlon – Coastal Surf
Orly – Terracotta
Color Club – Almost Famous
makeup sponge (for gradient)
Oumaxi acrylic paint – white and black
detail brush
Thumb & Pinkies done in clouds.
Palm Trees in sunset
I had to do the piggies again because I really wanted to try out some new polishes I got. So this post is going to feature three of the 7 new shades I got at CVS. I was going to try stamping but I decided to go ahead and free hand the leopard print. Voila!
Items Used:
Maybelline Color Show – Urban Utopia
Revlon – Coastal Surf
Revlon – Delicious (new shade from Revlon – is the coral/red color)
Oumaxi Black Acrylic Paint
Small detail brush
Leopard Print Piggies
Finally – some stripes inspiration – took long enough.
Items Used:
Revlon – Dreamer
Finger Paints – It’s Pouring Pink
Oumaxi Acrylic paint – black
Small detail brush
Stripes
Stripes
Ha ha!!! Had to do it… yes indeed.
Items Used:
Orly – White Tips
China Glaze – Agro Gold
Maybelline – Bold Gold (for the bling)
Oumaxi Acrylic – black, brown, white, red
Detail brush
Pity da Fool!
I decided that I would try doing this manicure differently and out of the three that I did, I liked this one the best. I think next time instead of watering the acrylic paint down to achieve the watercolor look, I will just whip out my watercolors and see how it goes.
I haven’t forgotten the next part of my nail challenge, just am not really inspired to do stripes right now. No worries, the inspiration will strike soon enough. COME ON SUMMER!!!
Items Used:
Oumaxi Acrylic – pink, green, blue, black
Detail brush
Orly – French Tips
Watercolor Gradient
Dots – well, more like my rendition of dots. Next time I do this, I am going to do all my fingers like the index fingers, but didn’t quite know how it would look and didn’t want to commit to all fingers just in case.
Items Used:
Q-tips
Oumaxi Acrylic – purple, green, orange, black
Detail brush
Fine dotting tool
Orly – White Tips
Revlon – Calla Lily
Happy Easter!
Framed Dots
Framed Dots
I don’t normally stray from posts that don’t have nail art in them, but when I did my Texas Nails some people had requested an alternative way to do gradients. For those of us that are dyed-in-the-wool laquerheads, we know that the traditional method is to use polish, makeup sponges, and the clean up can be extensive. My cuticles and skin don’t do too well with this method and if you make a mistake, you have to completely remove it and start over (well, at least I do).
So as requested, here is the alternative method to doing a gradient, and a video none-the-less! Just to clarify, I did mine a bit different from the video. I started with a nail polish base (the lightest color of the gradient I was doing) and then used water-based acrylic with a small paint brush (a detail brush, but not the one for tiny detail, it was about 1/4 inch long, and the bristles came to a point). I started with the darkest color of the gradient at the free edge of the nail, or the base of the nail, and moved the brush back and forth until the paint thinned enough, then took the mid-range color and repeated the process.
I wanted to say sorry for my prolonged silence, but got sick and was knee-deep in school work. I am now on break and have some nail art coming this week. Yay!!!!
In this tutorial, you would use a fan brush and acrylic paint and the clean up is simple. Voila. Thank you tartofraises for doing a video!
