First flower mani post. eeks!

Here it is!  My very first post of a flower mani. I find them so intimidating because they never turn out as planned. I’m in awe with other bloggers flower art. Especially the queen of flowers Maria at Maria's Nail Art.   I find it hard enough doing them with the dotter let alone free hand.

 For this look I used two coats of Essie’s ‘YOGAGA’.  I wouldn’t usually pick up a colour like this but often find that I want one when I’m actually doing my nails.  For the flowers I used Revlon’s ‘Dreamer’ and a polish from Urban Outfitters’(sorry the name  peeled off).

Any suggestions for some good free hand flower tutorials?  I often see people using acrylic paint for nail art.  I’m considering trying it out but not 100% sure yet.  Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed uses them and her designs always look amazing. Does anyone else use paint?

Nfu Oh Intergalatic nails

I can't help but sing Beastie Boys 'Intergalactic' and do the robot around the house every time I wear this polish. It's so futuristic looking.
I wanted to try and convey how I feel about it with a bit of nail art.  This was the result.  I'm thinking laser beam type art.
For the base I used three coats of Nfu Oh 61.  This look was quite easy. I used stripping tape here, there, everywhere!  I just wanted to do the accent nail as this is a polish you don't want to cover up. Once the tape was on I covered the entire nail in an Urban Outfitters black.  I didn't wait to long before removing the tape.  It was a very gentle process as the tape was overlapping one another and I had to figure out which one comes off first.
I'm loving the end result.  I tried to get the right angle in the sunlight otherwise it just looks like a dull mess. 

I've been considering getting the blue holographic from Nfu Oh.  I find that if you don't have sunlight the colour is so dull and old looking. Hopefully the blue will give it a little more life 

Dotticure!

I really love this manicure.  The pictures don’t do it justice.  It was rainy and clouded over yesterday so these were the best pictures I could get. (I really need to make that light box)

 I was so excited to play with my new dotters I got in from Nail Polish Canada.  Now I have ten different sizes of dotters!!! It was like Christmas morning! 

I started off with two coats of Orly’s ‘Decades of Dysfunction’.  I’m really liking this polish as a blank canvas when doing nail art.  It’s very subtle and work appropriate.  For the dots I worked my way down from largest to smallest making sure not pass the middle of my finger nails both at tip and cuticle.  As I applied I tried to keep it in a half moon shape. 

What do you guys think? I know I’m pretty proud of myself :o)

Nail Polish used for dots.

Revlon provence

Nicole 'Fanatical Fuchsia'

Essie 'Bahama Mama'

Urban Outfitter's 'Bandeau'

Grape Jelly Sandwich manicure

I couldn't help it......I love jelly! 

Yesterday during my lunch hour I happened to run into some nail polish. No surprise there right?!  Considering I got it at Urban Outfitters and that's the only reason I go there I guess its not quite a coincidence.  I saw this beautiful purple that made me think of grape jelly right away.  The consistency looked perfect for a sandwich.  It turned out it wasn't but I made do.  The pictures don't do the colour justice.  Its beau-ti-ful!

I applied two coats for the base followed by one coat of the sparkle.  For the top I had to use a very thin coat.  It's not very jelly at all so I applied one coat of Essie's 'Good to Go' top coat.

Both of course are Urban outfitters nail polish. (2 for $8) The sparkle polish is called 'Dust' and the bright purple is 'Bandeau'

Black with Pink and Sparkle Polka Dots

So I had a little more fun with polka dots.  This is basically the only real free hand nail art I can do.  I’m slowly learning but I think even if I could do more my fav would still be polka dots. We have a long running history ;o)

I used Rimmel Lasting Finish Pro in ‘Satin Black’.  I only needed two coats in this.  This is the best black polish I’ve ever used(so far). I’m having troubles using it with stamping though.




(Casey & Finnegan in the background)

Next I added larger dots in Essie’s ‘ Bachelorette Bash’

Lastly I made smaller dots in  a sparkle polish I picked up at Urban Outfitters.   Not sure if it has name :oP

(outdoors)

I took a picture indoors as well as it showed off the sparkle a little more.  The pictures don't really do it justice though