Pinterest Inspiration Week, Day 7, Girly Bows.

Hey guys! Here today with the very last day of Pinterest inspiration week! And just like yesterday it's my favorite colors, pink! Today's pin is here, and just like yesterday there is no blog that goes along with it. This time my nails are a bit different, just the stamp was the inspiration.

Just like yesterday as well I used a China Glaze from the Summer Neon collection. I used two coats of Pink Plumeria on all except my middle finger which was one coat of Kleancolor Metallic Pink. I used Bundle Monster plate BM-317 for the stamp which was the Kleancolor on all but my middle finger and the China Glaze on the middle.

I did go over the bows with a small thin nail art brush because I was having a little bit of an issue with the full image transferring, as well as to make the line for the rest of the bow on the nail. After all of that was done I added a little pink bling in the form of a nail art rhinestone in the middle of each bow.

This is only the second time I've ever done bows and this is so girly it's killing me! I love it!! I can't wait to see what the girls at the gym say :D

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Pinterest Inspiration Week, Day 6, Pink Leopard.

Hey guys! Here today with day 6 of Pinterest inspiration week :) Today's post is defiantly me! Pink pink pink! I love pink, it's my favorite color, so of course when I saw today's pin I had to do it! The pin is here there is no blog post with it. **warning** I did have a causality on my pinky finger, it's just horrible!! The horror!! I lost all of the overhang so it is a severe nub right now :*(

For those of you that follow me on Twitter  will have seen that I was able to get my hands on 7 of the 12 China Glaze Summer Neons all half off at Sally's a few days ago, and yesterday I was able to snag one more! So of course I had to use one of them for today's post :)

I started with two coats of China Glaze Flirty Tankini, and wow I don't know why I didn't jump on these colors when they first came out! I am seriously in love with this pink. It's hard to see in pictures but it's got a super subtle shimmer in it, it's just so pretty! I used Kleancolor Metallic Pink to stamp with, and the stamp itself is just a generic plate from the little as seen on tv stamping set.

For those of you that don't know, the Kleancolor metallics work amazing for stamping! I plan to order the rest soon :)

For some reason my camera, lightbox and light were not working with my pinks! So I turned the flash on so that you're able to see the colors, in person it was easy to see :)

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Pinterest Inspiration Week, Day 3, Neon Spun Sugar

Hey guys! Back with day 3! Today's inspiration came from this pin, and the original post is here. I had been wanting to try doing the spun sugar look for a few weeks now but just hadn't found the inspiration to do it, until I saw today's inspiration!

These two colors together are just fabulous! Neon yellow and bright blue! Now being as this was my first attempt at this technique it's not perfect, but I don't think it's horrible either haha! It was super messy, and for some reason the polish globbed (is that a word?) up on my nails quite a bit, but I still had a lot of fun doing them!

I did a base of white to start, followed by two coats of Sinful Colors Neon Melon on all but my ring finger, which is two coats of Sinful Colors Why Not. Then I went about the mess making! There is a good video here if you don't know how it works :)

After all was said and done I finished up with a coat of a matte finish, which is hard to tell because of the light reflecting off of my nails but you get the idea ;)

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Neon Summer Starfish!

Hey guys! Here today with some more neon nail art :) This design comes from Sarah over at Chalkboard Nails, she has the tutorial for it here.

This was much easier than it looked, or it least it was in my case :P But it was too adorable not to recreate it! I did decide to use the same color scheme as Sarah because let's face it, she's one of the masters at this kind of thing, so I couldn't go wrong, right?

So I started with a base of Kleancolor Funky Yellow, I did have to use 3 coats to get it so it wouldn't be streaky which is a bit of a pain, but the super bright highlighter neon yellow is worth it! For the starfish themselves I used Essie Tour De Finance, and the blue spot on the starfish are Funky Fingers 220 Volts.

Just like my last mani, the color isn't 100% accurate even though I tried as best I could. Anyone have advice on photographing neon polishes? The pink and blue are color accurate, but the yellow isn't.

What do you guys think? Have you tried any of Sarah's designs?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Neon Circus Nails!

Hey guys! Okay so have you all seen the preview for the Madagascar 3 movie? "Polka dot polka dot afro..." heh, anyway that's what today's nails remind me of! Hence the "circus nails" thing ;)

So this time the old man didn't actually choose what I was doing, he just picked the base pink. Not that I gave him much of an option, I just let him pick one of two of the pinks from the Color Club Poptastic collection ;)

My base color is 2 coats of Poptastic, I then used a nail dotting tool to dot all along the outside of my nail, like a framed mani. I used Almost Famous (yellow), Wham! Pow! (orange), Twiggie (green), Chelsea Girl (blue), and Pucci-Licious (purple).

I wasn't going for a circus look, I just wanted to use some really pretty neon colors, but that's what it looks like to me. I love it! Too bad my camera didn't, this was very hard to photograph, I guess because they are neon colors, I'm not really sure. All of the colors are just a bit more bright in person than they are in the pictures.

I btw cannot take credit for this idea, I saw it in one of my polish groups on FB, but as of now cannot remember who it was to credit them. If you know, post a comment! **Paula Mussi was the originial person who I saw do this :) **

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

China Glaze Flying Dragon

Hey guys! Here today with a not super well known China Glaze called flying dragon. This beauty is in the normal China Glaze displays at both Ulta and Sally's.

It's a neon purple with little blue flecks in it. I wouldn't call them glitter because they aren't shiny but they are obvious. I used two coats of this polish, and without top coat it's a bit matted like a lot of neon polishes tend to be, so I took some pictures with and without top coat hoping that even with the flash you would be able to tell the difference.

The first 4 pictures are with no top coat, the 5th the pointer and ring finger have a top coat and middle and pinky do not, and in the 6th picture all have a top coat.