Nail Art A-Go-Go, Day 8: Still Life

Hello polish lovers!

I told you I would be back!  So lets get started...I began with 2 coats of China Glaze Lemon Fizz, a soft butter-cream yellow(I have a few by different brands that look to be similar colours if anyone would like a comparison).

Once this was dry I got out my trusting dotting tools and a detail brush and got started.

The vase is Color Club Pucci-licious, the stripe is Color Club Silver Lake, the leaves are Orly Mint Mojito(light green) and OPI Jade is the New Black(dark green) and the roses are Barielle Shades Euphoric(lighter raspberry) and OPI Visions of Love.

I was kind of going for a Van Gogh look for the vase of flowers but its hard to make nail polish look like brushstroke-y oil paint.  I really love how the full roses look, better than the buds in the vase.  The last time I did roses I used a small dotting tool and dabbed in C's while this time I put a dot of the dark colour in the center of the wet polish and used my thinnest dotting tool to swirl the two colours around.

The roses are my favourite freehand that I have done recently, and I cannot wait to show you my mani for Camoflage...but that is later in the week.

I will be back tomorrow with my Inner Geek nails...I will give you a hint...EXTERMINATE!!!

Until then, polish happy!

33DC Day 10: Flowers

Hello polish lovers!

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!