ah, the moment when you paint your nails and they haven’t gotten screwed up yet.
Try a fast dry top coat. Posche and Seche Vite are pretty amazing. You can put them over polish that’s even still a little tacky and you’ll be good to go in just a few minutes.
colors used: (lots are mixed!)
color club-french tip
color club-twiggie
american apparel-mannequin
sally hansen-sun kissed
color club-twiggie
american apparel-hunter
sinful colors-paradise
color club-in bloom
icing-grey skies
owl nails
Please excuse that I haven’t cleaned up the edges and that I abuse the skin around my nails. Maybe using my big girl (meaning not my webcam or iPod) camera will help me quit that habit, since it’s embarassing to flaunt my janky fingers in detail.
I’m calling these mixed metal manicures, because I used a mixture of silver, gold, and rose colored glitter polishes.
I tried the idea out first by just layering the polishes over a pretty, shimmery nude color by Rimmel. Unfortunately the glitter polishes are all in a thick (as often seems to be the case with glitters), clear base. Adding a little polish thinner to the bottles helped, but I still had to wait a bit longer between coats of the glitters because of how thick the bases are.
Then I tried again over another color by Rimmel - this one is a lovely greige/mushroom/plum/fall-y-wonderfulness hybrid AND has the great wide brush that I love. I had noticed in the past that when I’ve tried sponging with glitters that the sponge tends to absorb a lot of the base and deposits a LOT more glitter, so I opted to try sponging them for this go round. I really like how this version turned out - they’re super glittery and I didn’t have to wait anywhere near as long between coats (though I think the time for application ended up being about the same as when I was doing coats with the brush and had to wait on drying)
I think these would be awesome for holiday themes - especially something like New Year’s - or fun if you just like super sparkle, like I do.
All the glitters are by Sally Girl (the little $0.99 polishes).
It’s officially Fall, and since today was the first day of October I thought I would do something Fall inspired! I suck at detailed nail art, so the trees are nothing fancy. If you want to know colors, send me an ask; it may not look like it, but there are a ton of colors in those damn trees. Lol
Love these “Lucite Lace” nails! (via Joy Cioci Nails, New York Fashion Week S/S 2012)
I’m still not sure how I feel about this clear nail thing. I do like the white lace though.
PrettyNailSwag’s 2nd Nail Art Giveaway
It’s been 1 year since I joined Tumblr and I can’t even front…..I fucking love each and every one of my followers, no word of a lie, if I could visit each one of ya’ll and swag out your nails, I WOULD!!Since I can’t do that, here’s my 2nd Nail Art Giveaway to honour my 1 Year Tumblr Anniversary:
There Will Be a Total of 4 Winners:
1 Grand Prize Winner
3 Runner Ups
To Win, You Must:
- Follow Me —-> http://prettynailswag.tumblr.com
- REBLOG THIS POST ONLY ONCE****SERIOUSLY ONLY REBLOG ONCE!!!****
- Like This Post
Do the above 3 things by August 31, 2011, 9:00pm EST
***FINE PRINT - MUST READ***
- IF YOU REBLOG THIS POST MORE THAN ONCE, YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED (REASON BEING, SO ALL MY FOLLOWERS WILL HAVE AN EQUAL, FAIR CHANCE OF WINNING)
- Giveaway closes on Wednesday August 31st, 2011 at 9:00pm EST
- I will be using Random.org to randomly select all the winners. (Only 1 different winner per prize) Winners will be notified via their ask box - so make sure you have yours turned on!
- If I don’t receive a reply from the winner within 2 days, I’ll choose another winner
- Once the winners are finalized, I will announce & promo them on my blog
- This giveaway is open internationally!
- Click the pic to see the full size HD photo
Good luck to everyone!
xoxo,
mel
p.s. I know the prizes aren’t the biggest but don’t worry, I’ll still be doing ‘pop-up’ giveaways every now and then and possibly a giveaway of my first full nail set
