Christmas Trees

Happy Wednesday Everyone!!  I finally found some time to try some Holiday Nail Art.. Christmas Trees!  The only nail art I'm semi-good at is water marbling, so these trees are a little wonky..

I started with a base of LVX Luxe.  After that completely dried I used nail stripers in blue, gold and red for the trees. (They're kinda wide because I kept going over them to make them even).  After the trees dried, I applied a thick coat of topcoat and used tweezers to place the top stars. :)  Happy Holidays Everyone!!

Halloween Mani

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!  I'm not the greatest at nail art, but thought I should try some for Halloween...  It's not very complex, but I think it's cute..

Frankenstein and Pumpkins:

I spent days trying to figure out what green to use for Frankenstein's skin and I finally settled on OPI Green-wich Village. lol.  I think it's quite fitting.  The orange I used for the pumpkins was Duri Tangerine Peel and the yellow was Bettina Sunrise.  The white base is OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.  

**Did you attempt some nail art for Halloween?  What did you create??**

31DC2012 Day 14, Flowers

Yay for Friday!!  And... yay for flowers.  I love them, I'm just not to great at floral nail art.. ugh.  Sunflowers are my favorite flower.  I have tons still blooming behind our garage.  I tried sunflowers once before with a dotting tool and they weren't the greatest and neither are these, but I do see improvement!! :)

Sunflowers:

I think I need a thinner brush and some acrylic paint.  For this mani I started with a base of China Glaze Kinetic Candy.  I used Sally Hansen Bittersweet for the centers, mixed some of that with Bettina Sunrise for some of the petals, then just Sunrise for the rest.  Yep, I'll keep on practicing :)

See ya tomorrow for a "delicate" mani.. Ugh, I may try to stamp and that probably won't be pretty either..

Black and White Circles

Happy Memorial Day Weekend Everyone!!  I have a quick mani to share with you today.  The weekly theme in one of my polish groups on facebook was "black and white" and this is what I came up with..

Black and White Circles:

This mani was quite simple and turned out cooler than I expected.  I used Wet n Wild Black Creme and Wet n Wild French White Creme... I started by painting my index and ring fingers black and my middle and pinkie fingers white.  After the base colors completely dried, I poured a bit of each polish on wax paper, dipped a drinking straw in the polishes and dabbed the straw on to my nails (white over black, black over white).  It turned out really retro, cute and fun!! :)

**I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.  Don't forget to enter Jodi and Destany's Super Awesome Fantastic Giveaway!!**

Copycat Mani..the one with Destany's watermelon nails

I have a fun post to share with you today.  I'm in a few polish groups on facebook and in one, we did a "copycat" theme.  I chose to try to re-create this cute watermelon mani from Destany at Confessions of a Sarcastic Mom.

Destany's Watermelon Nails:

Aren't they yummy??  I fell in love with them when she posted them and as soon as I found out we were doing a "copycat" theme, I knew I would give this mani an attempt..

Jodi's Watermelon Nails:

I wish I had OPI's Guy Meets Gal-veston to use as my "watermelon" color like Destany did.  Instead, I used two coats of Essie Watermelon (original, right?? lol).  For the "seeds", I used one coat of WnW Tangled in my Web, and for the "rind", I used one coat of Zoya Holly, then Zoya Meg for the squiggles. :)

Happy Wednesday Everyone!!!

Sunflowers with a dotting tool....

Hey All.. Just a quick Sunday post...Sarah At Chalkboard Nails is hosting a Nail Art Contest and I decided to enter.  Just be as creative as you can with a dotting tool and enter!!  I really haven't attempted too much nail art, but I gave it my best.. (don't laugh)..  

Here are my sunflowers made with dotting tools:

I kinda liked them until I added the seeds.. ugh.  Practice makes perfect.. I need a little practice ;)

Valentine Lady Bugs..

Happy Tuesday Everyone!!  Today I have some nail art to share with you.  Please keep in mind that I'm pretty sure this is my first attempt at nail art.  I saw this cute mani here at A Day In The Life Of Dollface.  Dolly did such a great job! (She makes awesome polish too...at her Etsy store called Dollish Polish.)  While searching youtube tutorials, I came across this awesome tutorial by Dolly for the exact mani I loved on her blog...so it was meant to be for me to attempt these cute Valentine's Lady Bugs:

Aww.. they're kinda cute, right?  I'm pretty impressed with myself.  Not too bad for my first real nail art attempt :)

Items used for this mani (L to R): Spoiled Hit The Brakes, black nail striper, NOPI  All Kendall-ed Up, OPI Alpine Snow, Bettina Onix, black nail art pen, and dotting tools

Make sure to take a look at Dolly's Tutorial.  I followed all her steps except I couldn't make the hearts very well with the nail art pen, so used the dotting tools.

Maybe I'll attempt another Valentine's Nail Art Mani.. this one was fun!! :)