#31DC2013 Day 9 - Rainbow Nails x2!

I'm very excited about this post, I've got two designs to show off, one on myself and one that I did for a  friend of mine a little bit ago.

First, my own nails, using Color Club neons.

You might notice the lack of red in this rainbow, I honestly just don't like most of my red nail polish, and none of them fit with the bright bright theme I was aiming for, so I used pink instead. I like the bright, pastel-y rainbow you end up with without red.

Nevertheless, I guess a hunt for a nice bright red is in order, so if anyone has any suggestions please let me know!

Next here is the design I did for my friend. It was a ton of fun to do, and I'm glad to get to show it to you all.

We also played around with different hand poses for the photos, especially since she had both hands free. What do you think?

I like having two different designs for today, both made use of dots in anticipation for the dotticure coming up and, of course, both had plenty of rainbow colours.

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!

Rainbow Branches

I loved this design, I was inspired by Robin Moses for this, her Love Birds design. It's so gorgeous I had to try it myself, although I didn't actually want any love birds in mine.

I did slightly different rainbows on each hand. One slightly warmer and one cooler. It took a lot of attempts to get the lines as thin as possible, so I was glad I layered a thick layer of top coat over the colour so that I could have a couple chances to carefully touch it up without ruining the rest of it.

It took a lot to do this design, rather than naming it all off here is a picture, just leave a comment if anyone has a question about what I used.

Also, was it ever messy to do! Take a look, I got paint everywhere. I think it was worth it though.

What do you think? Also, be sure to check out Robin Moses' designs if you haven't seen them, she has some great ideas and amazing designs. Love em.
Here are links to her youtube and her blog.

Neon, whoa!

Neons! So here I am testing out my spiffy new neons. It's so bright and wonderful and I'm really happy with it. I sponged this on and didn't use vaseline or anything around my nails so it was a big pain to get all the excess off. I used a white base to ensure the colours got to be as bright as they could so I don't know how well this covers, next time I use it I'll try it without.

If I did this again I would use purple and blue on the outsides because the blend between purple and blue isn't as smooth as I'd like and those two colours are the darkest.
I'd do this blend next time:
purple/pink, pink/orange, orange/yellow, yellow/green, green/blue

For anyone taking a peek backwards, you'll notice I've added a couple more pictures.

I was glancing through my photos and found some really lovely ones. I thought to myself, why did I only post one image for this design? There wasn't a good reason so more pictures for all I say!

For reference, here are the colours again, from Color Club.
Pink: Electro Candy
Purple: Ultra Violet
Blue: Pure Energy
Green: What a Shock!
Yellow: Volt of Light
Orange: Tangerine Scream
Top Coat: Vivid Top Coat