Dots

I saw a tutorial here and wanted to try out my dot tools.

I did a base coat of Revlon "Charismatic" then dots in Sally Hansen Hard as Nails "Limestone", followed by dots of Sinful Colors "Gorgeous" and Sinful Colors "Let's Talk".  Top coat of Seche Vite.

Trying Taped Paint

Last night, I found my scrapbook scissors that have 8 different designs.  I used a base coat of Sally Hansen Quick Dry in "Speedy Sunburst".  I taped off the bottom and painted the tips in Hard as Nails "Posh Plum"

Seche Vite

OMG, got this yesterday, and I am IN LOVE!  1 coat on still wet nails, and within 2 minutes they are dry and rock hard.

Glitter Tips

I used Sinful Colors "Blue By You" and Sinful Colors "All About You".  Base coat of "Blue By You", then sponged "All About You" on tips.

Playing Around With Pink

Basecoat of China Glaze "Rainbow" then stamped using Cheeky Plate CH11 and LA Colors  Bright Pink.

Friday Challenge: Make Glue Bottle

I saw an article on Pinterest about how if you use glue under glitter nail polish, it will peal off easier than soaking it off.  I wanted to use a nail polish bottle like they use in the article, so I needed to clean out one of my old used nail polishes.

I used the following tutorial on YouTube.  It was VERY easy and took maybe 3 minutes to get the clean bottle and fill it with Elmer's glue.

I put on two layers of glue as a base coat, letting each layer dry completely between coats.

This is what it looked like after those two coats.

To try the glue out, I added three coats of Sinful "I Miss You".  This also gave me a good chance to see what it looks like.

One Coat

 Two coats

 Three Coats

Done with with top coat.  :)














I'll report back in a few days when I take off the glitter.

EDITED:
This is the process to take off the glue/glitter...

Taking off the glitter.  I just used an orange stick to push under the polish and it popped right off.














After all popped off.  It was super easy.  I will definitely use this method in the future.

What I have done so far...

I am still learning a lot of the concepts of nail art.  I have done a lot of plain nail colors with the accent nail.  I also rock glitter a lot as well (although that gets annoying because glitter is so hard to get off when you want to change out the polish).  Recently I started trying out the ombre color technique.  I also got my first stamper last week so that has been fun as well.

Below are two of the ombre patterns I have done in the past week.

Green Ombre...

Basecoat of Sinful "Snow Me White".  Ombre done with Sinful "Last Chance", Sinful "HD Nails" and Sinful "Happy Ending" (Although you can't really see the "Happy Ending").  

This is also before I cleaned them up all the way, so they are a little sloppy around the cuticles.

Fire Ombre...

Basecoat of NYC "Taxi Yellow".  Ombre done with Sinful "Courtney Orange" and Sinful "Cloud 9".  Then using Cheeky Plate CH16, and Sinful "Black on Black" I added the top squiggles.

Again, this is also before I cleaned them up all the way, so they are a little sloppy around the cuticles.

More to come as the mood strikes!