Here’s a quick shot of some nails I did for my great friend, Becky.
She wanted purple and silver so I used Sinful Colors’ Amethyst as the base and stamped with Jocarste’s silver. It turned out really cute.
Ps. Jocarste silver is hard to clean off as I’m sure you can tell by her glittery fingers. 🙂
Have a great day!
Before I tell you about this mani I want to say how sad I am that my topcoat killed this manicure! Mercilessly! Just look at those bubbles. No wait, don’t look at the bubbles. Just admire it from afar. It really is super adorable minus the bubbles.
The colors I used were
Jocarste – 56 white
Jocarste – 26 silver
Jocarste – 36 pink
China Glaze – For Audrey
Sinful Colors – Black on black
Dotting tool and a striping brush
Everything was free handed and I got tons of compliments with this look. I love it when my skittles turn out this cute.
This is an extremely easy design to do and it is very pretty and eye catching. It’s a little on the flashy side but I think, for the right occasion, it is a great look. When I first did leopard print I used a brush for the detail work but I’ve since learned that the smallest dotting tool I have works the best. Try it out. It’s easy peasy!
I think inverting the colors for an accent finger was a nice touch. What do you think?
To achieve this look I used:
Chic – Black Velvet
Jocarste – 26 (silver)
Dotting tool
Day 13 is “sponging” in the Pre-Spring Challenge and while my victim may not completely agree with me, in my mind this was my first epic fail art. My sister-in-law offered to let me try out my idea on her nails. She has absolutely gorgeous nails and I was excited to try out this tutorial. Unfortunately I didn’t have quite the right shades of pink and my makeup sponge was not cooperating which confused me because I have done several gradients with these same sponges. I had a tough time getting the gradient to work right and when I went to add gold tips with my metallic acrylic paint… well, lets just say it was bad, folks. 🙁 Perhaps if I had a gold polish it would have worked better. The good thing about it all was that, since I used acrylic paint, I was able to use a cotton ball and alcohol to remove the gold.
Perhaps we can call it a sponged ruffian mani? *Looks hopeful but doubtful*
Anyway, my sweet SIL has a weird side that loves to watch creepy movies and stuff like that so she said she really liked it anyway because it reminds her of bloody zombie nails. Definitely not what I was going for but I’m glad she is happy. I just don’t love because I had my heart set on the gorgeous mani in the tutorial.
What about you? Do you love it or hate it? Any specific type of sponge you recommend for sponging?
For this mani I used:
Oh My Golly – Bikini
Jocarste – #36 Light pink
Sponge
Day 10 of the Pre-Spring Challenge has “Ice cream” as it’s theme. I am still lovin my rainbow nails from yesterday so I asked my youngest sister to let me do hers again. I wanted to do each nail a bit differently and do several kinds of ice cream. I did the thumbs like cones and the rest of the nails are each different.
Starting from left pinky we have chocolate marble, cherry on whipped cream, mint chocolate chip, chocolate with sprinkles, cookies and cream, strawberry with chocolate fudge, Neapolitan and vanilla with sprinkles. 🙂
I used the following to achieve this look:
Bobbie – Touch of Beige
Sally Hansen hard as nails – Fireball Red
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear – Mint Sorbet
Oh My Golly – Demure
Oh my Golly – First Date
Caronia – On the Go
Caronia – First Crush
Jocarste – White 56
Sinful Colors – Nirvana
Klik – Mango Shake
Dark brown acrylic paint
Striper, large and small dotting tool, small paint brush
What do you think?
