Nautical Nails

Hello ladies!

I've wanted to do nautical nails for a long time, and when I had some free time on Sunday I sat down to do them!

I started with a base of Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud on my pinky, middle, and pointer fingers, and a base of China Glaze First Mate (how appropriate!) on my thumb and ring fingers. I put a coat of China Glaze Skyscraper on the ring fingers for a little BLING! I love Skyscraper and I think it works perfectly with this color scheme!

I freehanded the anchors with a small paintbrush and white acrylic paint and made the stripes with tinyyyy pieces of scotch tape (more on that below). Painted over the tape with First Mate and made little gold buttons with China Glaze Midnight Kiss!

The major difficulty I had with these was getting the nautical stripes to be the same width. It took me a while to cut the strips of tape and they all were varying widths. And I had some leaking under the tape, but I think I managed to paint over it pretty well! They could be a little crisper but I do still like it.

That's all for today, hope you guys have a great day!

Day 28: Inspired by a flag

For Day 28, I decided to do the country flag of the Netherlands!

This mani was very simple -- two coats of Sally Hansen All Fired Up as the base. AFU is a perfect red creme -- opaque in just two coats. I didn't even mind the super wide chunky brush with this one!

The stripes are made from a white striper and the blue polish is Sinful Midnight Blue. The stripes could've been much neater, but let's face it -- I don't have the patience for taping right now. Mom's getting ready for a big move so it's been chaotic around here!

See you tomorrow for supernatural day! :)

Day 12: Stripes (Fruit Stripe Gum!)

Where are my 90's kids any kid that remembers this? This one's for you!

Fruit Stripe Gum! Do you guys remember it? The flavor in it lasted all of about three minutes, but it was still so exciting. What can beat fruit colored gum that comes with TATTOOS?! I think nothing. I loved this stuff as a kid and thought it would be fun to do my stripe mani to look like the sticks of gum.

The base colors I used are (from L to R): China Glaze Entourage, China Glaze Lemon Fizz, China Glaze Solar Power, and Revlon Sheer Rose. I used acrylic paint for the stripes (polish was too hard to use).

It's funny -- the stripes didn't turn out very neat but I almost think that makes it look more realistic! They just look so yummy :)

Ahh...the good old days. I still listen to my 90's music and I'm not ashamed :)

My first stripe mani ever!

 Ever since the 30 day challenge began, I've been wanting to do a stripe mani. I've seen so many cute ones and thought it would be pretty simple to execute. Today, I finally took that plunge into the land of the stripe mani!

I started with a base of Zoya Veruschuka (which is AWESOME OMG). Then I placed a large stripe of Zoya Jem down all the nails in varying places on each. The other stripe colors I used are just Kiss nail art stripers in white and silver.

I am very happy with this look! It was really easy and did not take me long to do at ALL. Next time, hopefully I can get the lines at my cuticles a little bit straighter. I was in no mood for precision when I did this.

Do you girls like stripe manis? What do you think of my easy peasy stripes?

Have a wonderful day! :)