Monthly Archives: November 2014

So, it kind of looks like a unicorn threw up on my nails, but I love it:

To create this, I sponged a rainbow on, then stamped a rainbow over that.  Here is what I used:

From left to right: Lucky Lacquer’s Spring Charm, Dhalia, Teal We Meet Again, and Mint Daisy; OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls; Essie Protein Base; Pueen SE03B; HK Girl; Mundo de Unas Reddish, Purple, Geranium, and Turquoise.  Quite a few polishes in this one!!

I started, as usual, with a base of Essie, then added one coat of My Boyfriend Scales Walls:

Kind of looks a mess, but that’s okay.  I am going to sponge right over it!

I used a wet make-up sponge to dab on the four Lucky Lacquer polishes.  This took two passes on each nail:

Looks sort of like a watercolor to me.  It was even more subtle after the first pass.  I will definitely break these bad boys out for a delicate spring mani like this next year!

Once this was dry, I started in on the stamping.  I dabbed a tiny amount of the four MdU colors on the plate, then scraped.  I used my Messy Mansion marshmallow stamper and stamped each nail.

This is how it turned out:

I don’t know why, but rainbows amuse me so much.  You just CANNOT be sad with a rainbow on your nails!

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I Love Nail Polish just had a wonderful sale that I couldn’t help but take advantage of.  One of the goodies I picked up was, of course, MEGA.  With a name like that, I had to get it, right??  I figured the awesome holo-ness of it would be perfect for some rainbow nails in anticipation of my kiddos’ 1st and 4th birthday party tomorrow!  Here is what I came up with:

Rainbows ON rainbows!!  If I love anything, it is rainbows!

Especially when they come with unicorns!!

Here is what I used tonight:

From left to right: Mundo de Unas Tulip, Reddish, Aqua, Green, Violet, Blue, qGirl 016, Essie Protien Base, HK Girl, ILNP MEGA.

I started with Protein Base and two coats of MEGA:

So holo-y!  No top coat here.  Once it was dry, I used the MdU polishes to stamp the rainbow flower pattern.  To do that, I placed a very small dab of each color I wanted to use on the plate, then scraped.  With MdU, a little goes a long way.  After scraping, I used my Messy Mansion marshmallow stamper to pick up the image and place it on my nail.  Easy peasy!

I topped it all off with HK Girl.

Easy rainbow nails for tomorrow’s party!

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I decided to pull out piCture pOlish’s Solar Flare for a little nail art, and here is what I ended up with today:

I am really happy with how these turned out.  Although, to be honest, I had no idea where I was going when I started.  Here is what I ended up using:

From left to right: piCture pOlish solar flare, Zoya Cynthia, Rica Whiteout, Moyou London Pro XL 10, Essie Protein Base Coat, China Glaze quick dry, and HK Girl.

After the Protein base, I put down one coat of Cynthia:

Once that was dry, I added two coats of Solar Flare:

I love everything about this.  It is so freaking pretty.  I wasn’t going to do any art on it because I loved it so much, but couldn’t help myself.  I stamped using Whiteout, but did not like how stark the contrast was.  I forgot to take a picture, but I was much happier once once I layered a thin coat of Solar Flare over the stamping:

Truth?  I was only going to stamp one nail.  Buuuuttttt, I smudged two others a tiny bit, but it was too obvious to me, so I ended up stamping over them to hide the imperfection instead of repainting the nails.  That’s okay though, I still like how they turned out!

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