Easter Skittles

I've been wanting to do pastel skittles for awhile. I just didn't have the right pink until April's Julep box. The Maven's must have read my mind!

I've been trying all sorts of different types of nail art. I think for Easter Sunday I'm going to stamp. But for the week leading up to it water decals and such.

Here's my rendition of Easter. AKA "It looks like Easter exploded on your nails."


I found these water decals on Ebay. They are really cute and easy to use.

The colors. L-R: China Glaze Refresh-min, Color Club Take me to your Chateau, Ulta Cream of the Crop, Essie Lilacism, China Glaze Sun Worshiper, Julep Penelope.

Hand painted baby chicks!

 Left Hand

Right hand (OMG non-dominant!) I had some small multicolored pearls (Ebay again) that I thought would make awesome eggs.

St. Patrick's Manis

I'm having a heck of a time with my nails lately. They keep breaking even though I'm quite good on keeping them moisturized. I'm going to try the olive oil trick that Jilltastic mentioned on my facebook.

Anyway here's another attempt at me doing nail art. I've been rushing all week so I have smudges galore, and it's best not to mention the state of my cuticles.

But I did wind up getting a light tent off of E-bay on the cheap. Here's hoping it improves my pictures!

This is the first St. Patrick's mani I did. I used a bunch of Sinful colors, plus China Glaze Cha Cha. It was a gradient, but right after I'd finished it (before photos) I had a finger nail issue. So you get to see the ruins, much to my sadness. I used decals to hide my terri-bad attempt at hand-painting a four-leaf clover. That's what the blob behind the leprechaun is.

 Left hand.

On a whole I like Sinful polish, but it chips terribly easy even with Seche Vite top coat on.



Here is the mani I wore yesterday on St. Patrick's day. This is my first attempt at using my light tent and tweaking my camera settings since I don't have any tungsten portable lights.

I used the clover image from the Hello Kitty plate I got for free from the Born Pretty store. I wasn't sure what to do color wise so I wound up stamping the clover on my base color in white, and then using a dotting tool to lightly color in the middle areas on the leaf. And just like that I had the colors of the Irish flag on my nails.

China Glaze Four Leaf Clover, Sinful Cloud 9, Konad White. (Not Shown: China Glaze Re-fresh mint)

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Where I try to do a half-moon mani

I've been wanting to do a half-moon mani for awhile. I finally picked up some of those round reinforcement things awhile back and today I decided to go ahead and do it.

So this is my first attempt and my first quasi tutorial. Be gentle!

 

For a half-moon mani you need something like these circular reinforcements. This works like a scotch-tape mani and if you want it to be in a rounded shape these work awesome. I think I paid like $2 for a sheet of 560,

 Next you want to pick the color you want to put over ysour base. I chose OPI's Road House Blues to go with my base of OPI's I have a Herring Problem/CND Sapphire Sparkle from my earlier post.

 You peel off one of the stickers and put it on your nail where you want the base color to show through. You can make it very short or very long. I chose a medium length.

 Then you take your 2nd color and paint your nail from the edge of the stickie down.

 Pull the stickie off (I used tweezers) and you have this!

 Repeat the stick-and-paint step until all your nails are finished. Do some clean up and this will be your finished product!

Of course this being me I couldn't leave well-enough alone. So I added a very thin French tip using China Glaze Sea Spray.

Slap on a layer of top coat (I use Seche Vite) and you're done!