Super Girly Hello Kitty Nails!

Hey guys! Here today with something a little special. Rebecca over at Rebecca Likes Nails is doing a nail art contest for her favorite nail art things, which are gradients, animal prints, dots, Hello Kitty and bows. Knowing her a bit I also know she is obsessed with cupcakes just like myself, so I wanted to add that in as well!

I started with one coat of OPI DS reserve, sponged on OPI DS signature in the middle, and on the tips I sponged on OPI DS reflection. This on it's own was beautiful! But I wanted to go all out for this one! I started my nail art with the little Hello Kitty face on my middle finger, it's my first time trying to draw/do nail art of her at all so I think I did a pretty good job! Then I did a Hello Kitty bow on my thumb with OPI flower to flower (it's also the pink in the cupcake and the Hello Kitty) and then a cupcake on my pinky finger. I finished off with a leopard stamp on my pointer finger, and zebra stamping on my ring finger. My right hand I just alternated the two stamps.

Oh there are also little pink rhinestones in the middle of both bows :)

It's beautiful outside again today, so I took pictures in my front yard :)

So what do you think? I'm kind of in love with it!

Until next time! Happy painting!

Watercolor Nails for St. Patrick's Day!

Hey guys! Here today with a new technique that I've seen around recently, called watercolor! What is it you ask? It's actually pretty easy, paint your nails a base color and add a top coat, use whatever colors you want for the watercolor and put small drops of paint on your nails and right away use a brush and drop some 100% acetone on them, the color will spread out. I smeared mine around a little bit too, but that's the jist of it :)

So just like a lot of my other St. Patrick's Day manis, I started with a base of white, two coats. Using China Glaze polishes, paper chasing, entourage and papaya punch I did the watercolor. It looked really good before I added the orange, but I was eh about it after, I tried adding a bit more green and it looked okay. I'll try it some other time with spring colors :D One of the girls in PLOP Sarah, from Chalkboard Nails said it looks like camo lol! She has done a few of these too, so check out her blog!

Anyway on with the pics! Oh and yea the boo-boo on my pointer finger? Yea idk how I did it, but I tripped and hit it with a nail on my right hand...yea it hurt :P

So what do you think? Have you tried this before, and if so what colors worked well?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Green Water Marble for St. Patty's Day!

Hey guys! Here today with another marble! I think this is maybe the third I have done in the past month? I've been experimenting more with it, and since I've done it a few times now it's gotten easier and easier :) Practice makes perfect right?

I used three green China Glaze polishes for this marble, we have entourage, paper chasing and starboard. I just randomly placed them in the water each time then swirled with the manicure stick. It's relatively easy if you are patient and have the right polishes. China Glaze have seemed to be the best for me, what have been the best for you?

I did start with one coat of white before dipping my nails into the water, and I'm pretty pleased with how the three greens mixed together. I did the three greens for St. Patrick's Day :)

What do you think? Which finger is your favorite? Mine is the pinky I think :)

Until next time! Happy painting!

Purple Holographic Gradient

Hey guys! After yesterday with the holographic polish I wanted to do holo again today! Stuck with the same collection, the China Glaze OMG collection. Since it's been sunny out most of the time why not take advantage right?

I used two coats of IDK which is a light purple, and then did a gradient of LOL on the tips, it's very subtle, but I love it. These two are beautiful together! And I think purple is a great color for spring as well. :)

First is no flash, you can see the gradient much more there, then flash pics to show the holographic effect :)

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!