April 21, 2013

Criss-Cross GrapeSauce

For this manicure, I didn't have anything in mind.  All I knew I wanted to do was use tape to do a criss-cross on my thumbs.  First, I painted all my nails green.  Then, on all the nails except for the thumb, I painted a purple moon that took up the top 2/3 of the nail. After that dried, I used the same green to paint a smaller moon that took up the top 1/3 of the nail.  I know I could have just painted a purple stripe in the middle, but as I said before, I had nothing in mind, and if I did that the stripes might not be as curved.  On the thumb, I aligned the tape in criss-cross position and painted the purple.  It did not turn out the way I thought it would because I didn't cut the tape skinny enough, but the green and purple are a pretty striking combo.







April 14, 2013

Geometricly Coral

Coral is a great color for spring and is in this season.  I matched the color with a sparkly gold polish.  I started with the coral polish on all the nails as a base color.  The perfect coral color for me would only have the smallest amount of orange mixed in with the pink, and this color matched my taste well.  Then, I painted some French Tips for all the nails except for the thumb, and on that one, I used some tape and painted a gold triangle.  And finally, a top coat for the final touches. 

I did paint a top coat on all my nails, but for some reason, this picture captured most of my nails matte. 

The nails look a lot more shiny.

Don't coral and gold match up perfectly?



April 7, 2013

Marbled Nail Sticker

This was my first time water marbling!  By the way, water marbling is just swirling a bunch of different colors in water to make what is in the picture below.  If you still don't understand what I'm talking about, search it up on Youtube before you read this.  
I could never get the right water temperature, so the polish would keep on drying out before I could draw a design into it.  After a few tries, I got this design in the water, but I didn't feel like placing my nails into it yet, so I turned it into a nail sticker to save it for later.  Another nail sticker I made-it wasn't as pretty-cracked.
Usually when people make a design in the water, they only use it for one nail, but this sticker could fit about 3-4 nails.  Plus, this way isn't as messy as water marbling, so it is way better.

I used the colors: light green, light purple, and hot pink.  The design wasn't anything in particular.