Nail Art A-Go-Go, Day 6: Neon

Hello polish lovers!

Today I have my mani for the challenge prompt Neon.  I love neon! Especially for summer, my toes, and usually fingers are dowsed in neon from June till September.  I am always looking for another good neon to add to my collection.

I am showcasing 2 of my newer neon's today.  I started with a base of Orly Glowstick, your quintessential highlighter yellow.

This has been colour corrected because my camera took one look, said AHHH!!! and ran in the other direction, like a little baby, from the neon awesomeness.  This very close to real life though.  I love the Orly neon colours, I have Melt Your Popsicle as well, awesome traffic cone orange! This is 2 coats over a base of 1 coat of OPI Alpine Snow.

Once this was dry I got out my dotting tool and used Alpine Snow, again as a base, dotting randomly across my nails.  When this dried I went over the dots with Models Own Bubblegum.  I have found with neon, if you don't use white base the colour below will leech and change the colour you are placing over your base.

 This is still looking slightly orange, again my camera's fault, cannot handle the neon.

That is all for today, but I will be back tomorrow with the Day 7 prompt of Primary.

Until then, polish happy!

Still Obsessed with MoYou London Plates

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So I have still not decided on a set schedule for this blog, which is why I have not posted in a while(that's a lie, I have been feeling really lazy lately and although I have been doing my nails and taking photo's, I just haven't wanted to edit).  Starting tomorrow, though, I have decided to do the Nail Art A Go-Go Challenge for February.  It is a 28 day challenge so I will have a new mani everyday for the month of February.  I have completed the first week of prompts and will continue to try to work ahead.  I love the idea of this challenge because it is a lot of Art related prompts, and as a former Art major, I find this irresistible.

Anyway, on to today's mani.

For my base I started with Models Own Bubblegum(still obsessed with a neon that stamps beautifully).

Bubblegum is completely opaque in 2 coats and does not require a white base.  It is much more neon in person, don't know why it is so toned down in my photos except for the inability of my camera to accurately capture most neons.

Over this I decided to stamp with another of the MoYou London Pro plates, 15. which is Pop Art-y, with Warhol and Lichtenstein, which I love.

I, again, used Color Club's Abyss for stamping.  Putting the green polish over the pink, caused the colour to look more blue, but I am okay with that.  I decided on the Warhol Mickey Mouse image for my accent finger.

Something else that I have been working on is going through all my polishes to see which ones are good for stamping, over both white and black.  I have completed the polishes in my Melmer and will begin on my rack polishes soon.  Once I am finished I will list on my blog all of the polishes that stamp over light and dark polishes.

I will be back tomorrow with the first prompt for the Nail Art A-Go-Go Challenge, achromatic nails.

Until then, polish happy!

33DC Day 28: Lines

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I guess winter is now upon us...at least where I live:(  We have about 15-20 cm now and it is snowing again.  It really means that I cannot wait until January when I will be going on a Caribbean cruise with various members of my family.  Less than five weeks now until we leave!  I am really looking forward to checking out the different polish in the States, although my mother says there really isn't much where we are going in the Caribbean, but we will be in Ft. Lauderdale for a day, and our hotel is right next to Saw Grass Mills, so I will have my first CCO experience.  But enough on that, on to today's theme in the 33DC, Lines.

I started with a base of OPI's Alpine Snow as a prep for China Glaze's Sun Worshiper.

I love this colour!  This is probably the last neon I will have on my nails until spring or summer, unless I can't take it anymore in the middle of winter and break them back out again.  Unfortunately, the colour is the best thing about this polish, it is thin, runny, and unless incredibly careful, is prone to flooding the cuticles.  This is 2 coats over white, 1 coat was still streaky.  Over this I put SV, as usual, to aide in drying before I stamped.

So I decided to make this a skittle mani, not in colour, but in the line stamps that I decided to use.  I wanted to show a variety of lines, thick, thin, straight, curved, grouped, crossed and adjacent, which I think I did.  All of my nails are stamped with Konad black and my pinkie nail is BM316, index BM423, ring GA42 and middle BM315.  Topped with SV.

That is all for today, but I will be back on Wednesday for the last double up day, as it is the last Falling For Nail Art Challenge and Day 29 for the 33DC.

Until then, polish happy!

33DC Day 19: Following Someone's Tutorial

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I finally gave in after a moderately bad break on my middle finger nail and cut all my nails down to about half of their original length:(  So there will only be a few more posts at my old length before the new shorter nails will make an appearance.

So for today's challenge I decided to follow The Nailasaurus's Nimbus Nails tutorial, found here.  For this mani I decided that rather than to use a white base, I would take the opportunity to use a new polish that I had not chance to try, OPI's Pink Friday.

Pink Friday is a light bubblegum pink with a slight blue undertone, which works better for me than more orange tone pinks which make my skin tone look sallow.

I followed The Nailasaurus's tutorial and began with my darkest colour, OPI's Vant to Bite My Neck?, a dark eggplant.  Then OPI's A Grape Fit!, a medium purple.  Followed by China Glaze's Purple Panic, Color Club's Warhol, and finished with China Glaze's Innocence.  I found that my nimbus spots were a little too intense so I put a coat of Innocence over the entire nail.  I think I need more practice but I like the idea of these nails.

I think I need to work on overlapping the halos more, I think next time I will use greens and blues.  That is all for today but I will be back on Wednesday for my double up day.

Until then, polish happy!

33DC Day 10: Flowers

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So today I have the flower theme for the 33DC for you.  Let me start off by saying I absolutely loved this mani and wore it for a number of days and I was actually sad when I took it off.  I will definitely have to doe this again.

I started with my base coat of Picture Polish's Honey Dew, 3 coats, it is such a bright, fresh colour.  This is my first Picture Polish, and I am in love.  I wish I could have gotten a picture in the sun rather than the lamp so you could see exactly what I mean. It is a lot brighter in person.  I then began my flowers, for this I decided to try roses for the first time.

For the roses I used a variety of dotting tools and started with Color Club's Flamingo with the petals accented with Color Club's Warhol, which is my favourite neon pink.  The leaves are done in China Glaze's In the Limelight, which is a nice shimmer-y neon green.

In sunlight

I took this picture the next day, in the sunlight and it gives a much truer representation of the colours.  After I wore this for a few days I used my matte top coat and I loved it that way as well.  Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures of this matte.

I will be back tomorrow with the Hallow e'en Challenge of Monsters.

Until then, polish happy!

33DC Day 7: Artwork Featuring Your Oldest Untried

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Today I have another of the 33DC themes for you and it is featuring oldest untried polish.  I don't really have many old untried polish because U just recently started adding to my polish collection and all of my older polish was definitely used.  The ones that I chose to use aren't that old, I believe I got these around my birthday in April.  Some of them I don't know why I have never used and others, after using on this mani, I don't know when I will use again.

Sorry, my camera goes insane when it tries to capture Pool Party

Since I had 3 untrieds to use I decided to try my hand at a fishtail braid.  I have done one before on my nieces nails but never on my own(totally different process).  The untrieds are all China Glaze and are Pool Party(pinky), I'm with the Lifeguard(middle) and Flip Flop Fantasy(pointer).  Of the 3 colours Pool Party had the worst formula, I did all 3 colours over white and Pool Party still needed 3 coats to not be streaky, I'm with the Lifeguard needed 2 and Flip Flop Fantasy only one.

I'm with the Lifeguard had the most trouble covering the other colours in the braid, while Flip Flop Fantacy had the least.  Everything was covered with SV.  I love the bright neon pink of Pool Party but with a formula this bad it makes me glad that I have Color Club's Warhol, which is even brighter and a way better formula.

That's it for today, I will be back tomorrow with the first mani of the Hallow e'en Challenge that I am doing.  The theme for that tomorrow is Black Cats/Bats.  Guess which one I chose?

Until then, polish happy!