31 Day. Day 3, Yellow. Review, BP-X04

Today is #31dc2016 Yellow! I used BP-X04 that I was just sent for review to create this fruit salad!! The plate is pretty awesome with some candy and fruit images. It's worth a look and linked here. I used Rimmel Sunny Days for the base and OPI Shop 'Til Sunset as well acrylic paints to create my advance stamp fruits and dots. 

As I said, this plate is from  Born Pretty Store linked here. If you check it out, use this 10% off discount code UNGX31 they are offering my readers!

Cheers all,

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Pink Failure! Summer Nail Art.

So in my head this was an amazing graphical kind of 80's blast! Once I finished it, I hated it! Summer nail art failness!

For the look I used:
-BM-314 stamped with China Glaze Liquid Leather
-Rimmel Sunny Days
-Color Club unnamed hot pink
-Cult Nails Wax That

Hope you all hate these along with me! Ha!

Cheers all,

Lisa Frank Leopard, Inspired by Banicured

This one qualifies for #clairesttelle8feb Techniques You Love. If I'm honest, it's been ages since I did Leopard Print and I have no idea why I ever got away from it. It's always been one of my favourite designs, so I looked at today's prompt as a great excuse. I used two coats of Rimmel Sunny Days for my yellow base. I picked it up recently when I realized I have only a 1/2 bottle of yellow cream in my stash and that's it! Anyway, once the base was dry I used my Born Pretty Pallet Ring filled with acrylic paints to fill in the design.

This look is based loosely on a recent Banicured look that was inspired by the art of Lisa Frank. Once this was complete on both hands it was a riot of colour. 

Thanks all, and make sure to check out Born Pretty Store and their huge selection nail art supplies if you love that cute pallet ring. If you do, use this 10% off discount code UNGX31 they are still offering my readers!

Cheers all,

OMD3 Day 9, Pattern with Ruby White Tips

Do you guys remember this one from Ruby White Tips Summer launch? This is Buttered Yum! I had the great idea to stamp this cool pattern on with Essie Penny Talk and I then outlined each nail with a detail brush. In person drop dead gorgeous...on camera...what design? The light tones combined with all the shimmers made this impossible to photograph. This angle was literally the only one that kinda worked and I still had to boost the contrast for you.

So here you go, one cool pattern for OMD3 Pattern day, but only one photo! Oh and for anyone drooling over this, I checked this am and this polish is still available over at the Ruby White Tips Etsy shop.

Pretty cool though right?

Cheers all,

Indie Polish, 38

Here is 38 from Indie Polish linked here. This fun and fabulous glitter topper is a mix of multi-shape and size yellow, white and hot pink glitters. It's simply ridiculously cute on.

I'm really glad I did swatches on both a light and dark background for this one. It really transformed the polish.

Cheers all,

Digital Dozen Nature Week, My Fave Mani Ever!

OK GUYS this is it...my fave ever mani I created! I've wanted to do a design based on this giant painting in my sitting room forever, and this Nature Week was the perfect opportunity. My base is NYC Lexington Yellow and the rest is warm tones of acrylic and hand mixed ones to get the right colours.

I'm kind of speachless as to what to write. the watercolour look and shading and shadows and trees and...and...and. I just really like how it all came together. I'm done patting myself on the back, I hope you guys like it too!

Cheers all,

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Crumpets 52 Week, Red and Yellow Houndstooth

Today's Crumpets prompt is Red, Yellow or Orange and Houndstooth...so why not go full steam ahead with obnoxious! I used Lexington Yellow from NYC and China Glaze Go Crazy Red for the dots and stamping!

I'm going to describe this as KABLAM! only a little in your face!

Cheers all,

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Indie Polish, Don't Forget the Suncreen

This is Don't Forget Sunscreen and is now available linked here. This is a serious yellow polish. It's creamy and buttery and waxy in finish compared to the others. The colour is super summery like sunshine or ripe corn. I just love this and can't wait to do some art on it. I'm not a huge yellow person, but I fell in love. This is two coats over a subtle yellow base. But opacity could be achieved in three.

I really liked this one and its finish was pretty unique, but still easy to work with.

Cheers all,

Candy Corn Nail Art, Bundle Monster Plates

If you follow my Instagram, you will remember I was working on something with this Candy Corn Gradient. In case your wondering, this is another acrylic gradient over a white base. I just top coat and then wash the rest off my hands...sooo much easier! Once it was dry, I got to work on dome creepy Bundle Monster stamping.

Bundle Monster has some fantastic holiday image plates and I used a couple of these to create this look and the look I wore on my other hand as well. I mixed and matched. The zombie hands are my fave, and look great over almost anything halloweenie...not a word...I know!

My Seche smeared it a little bit, but it wasn't super visible in person...kind of adds to the look in this case too.

Cheers all,

Banana To a Party from Above The Curve, Yellow for September Challenges

These, I love! I'm really warming up to yellows and greens lately. It's not historically my thing, I mean I only own two yellows in my stash but I keep reaching for this Above The Curve don't I? Anyway, this is one coat over NYC Lexington Yellow as base. Then I used yellow gold and black acrylic to create these fading into fall flowers. In Ontario anyway, the leaves started to pop out some yellows and red this week. Sigh! This look is my Yellow prompt for the September Challenges at #31dc2 and #31dc2014. I was inspired by nailartbymae on Instagram...which now that I want to link her my browser can't find her...grrrrrr. I will update here with a link if I can find her. Her looks a stunner and was done in orange.

Hope you like my entry for Yellow in the September Challenges.

Cheers all,

Red, Blue and Yellow Inspired Floral Nail Art

This post is for my Crumpets Nail Tarts Tri-Polish Tuesdays. The idea being there are three colours chosen for the whole month, and you make mani combos on Tuesdays using only those colours. (I'm just wondering at this moment if my use of acrylics would count...too late now!) the art of this one was inspired by @Lynieczka on Instagram linked here. Her colours were very different as you can image.

I used one coat of Above The Curve Banana To A Party over one coat of NYC Lexington Yellow for my art base, and acrylics for my design. 

I know that this isn't a design or combo I would have come up with on my own, so this is what makes those Facebook groups and challenges fun.

Cheers all,

Above The Curve, Banana To A Party

This is another pre-challenge post. But look how pretty, totally time to post. This is another Above The Curve Polish, Banana To A Party. Now, I have a love/hate usually with yellows becase the streak or stain etc etc. But this one is lovely. There was slight VNL after two coats, but three would do it. The formula was smooth and buttery and look at that shimmer.

Everyone needs a good yellow for art and this one is a beauty. I've really loved all the Above The Curve Polishes, they have all been stunners with great formulas and I do recommend them. Above The Curve Nail Polish is available over on BigCartel if you are interested in checking them out.

Cheers all,

June Theme Week Challenge

There is a big nail art challenge coming in July called Oh Mon Dieu Part Deux (OMD2) and it starts July 1. I'm still on the fence as its another everyday challenge, but for now I'm diving into the weekly challenge that starts this week and goes through June. All the info if you want to take part is linked here on Eeeeknailpolish.

So here is my week one design. I've done a lot of animal print lately, so I stepped it up a bit and did this one over a gradient, and made the leopard print more subtle this round.

I also made you guys a tutorial as I went along in case you are interested in recreating this one.
Step 1: Apply base colour, I chose NYC Lexington Yellow. This is two coats.
Step 2: With a makeup wedge dab your gradient with one swipe of each coulor on the wedge per nail. I allowed each pass to dry and did two or three passes per finger to achieve this look. My purple was Rimmel I Lilac You
Step 3: Using acrylic white paint and a dotting tool add some small splodges.
Step 4: Using acrylic grey and the dotting tool add grey spodges around the white and fill in any blank areas with little bits of the grey.
Step 5: Clean up with qtip, cleanup brush and acetone. Topcoat twice.
Voila!

Below are some housekeeping shots I'd like to share...aka shots that didnt make it anywhere else, but were too good to trash! The first is stamping over Concerning Hobbits from the new Ruby White Tips Hobbit collection linked here.

This last was just Color Club Cloud Nine that I wore recently and the sun hit it just right. Had to grab a snap! Please check out the other Leopard Print works of art linked below.

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Cheers all,

The Simsons! Green Goddess Nail Decals

Here we go! Another creation using my fave nail decals from Green Goddess Creations, and the link to these awesome sauce decals is here. Lelia is wonderful, and has been so great to work with I'm happy to refer you guys to her shop. She does custom decals as well, so you could even order something for a special occasion.

Here is the base I prepped. This is a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales walls. I then dotted on the black dots and made my flowing lines around them with watered down acrylics. I used a Q-Tip to soak up extra to give the watercolour effect. Once dry I redid my black dots to keep them crisp. I didn't see this anywhere, so I don't know what to call it...but it's pretty! Watercolour Overflow perhaps? I definately want to play around with this!

Once dry, I used some Seche and moved on to the decals. Since my background was a little darker for these, I painted the image white on the back and allowed that to dry before I applied them. 

I'm going to say Homer looks pretty happy with his new home on my fingers!

This last close up shows the decal fingers. I had a bit of trouble with rippling on Marge because I attempted to shift her too much. The beauty with decals though is that in person you really can't see edges.

Cheers all,