#31DC2013 Day 11 - Polka Dots

I love dotticiures, they are fun, easy and very versatile.

This was inspired by the absolutely glorious black and white manicure done by MyNailPolishOnline. She did a great job and I wanted recreate it for today.

I'm completely happy with this, the red and white work very well together in my opinion. Tell me what you think though, what's your opinion on this dotticure?

Color Club Red Velvet Swatch

 So polish swatches aren't that common for me, but this one is really pretty spectacular. Take a look.

This is Color Club Red Velvet, a black polish with red glitter. It's oh so gorgeous, I can't get over how much I love it. I wore this polish for a long long time for me, I had it on for four days straight just alone and I'm still thinking of how to use it next.

 It looks different depending on the light, it was mistaken for a straight black a couple times and I enjoyed showing off the red sparkle to it when that happened.

 Here is a good picture of it looking mostly black. It took three coats to be totally opaque but it went on so smoothly and the red glitter was perfectly even. Pretty quick dry time too.

 Sorry for the shadows in this photo, it was hard to get good pictures of the red being really noticeable, I'm sacrificing photo elegance to get the red to you as best I can.

Sigh, aw, look at it, so nice.

Pink and Black Splatter

Oh wow, being back at school is incredibly busy. But don't worry, I've been taking pictures of my nails while not posting all week and now I have a fair sized backup of nail designs to show you. That means that the next time things get busy I have some wiggle room, which is really neat.

Anyways, here is a really fun one.

This is done with cling wrap, bunched into a ball and dabbed into the polish and onto my nail, rather than pushed onto the nail to remove polish as I've seen in some tutorials. There is a lot you can do with cling wrap so it's great to experiment with.

I used four nail polishes in this design. The base colour was GOSH Rose, and then I did a layer using cling wrap of each of the following: Color Club Electro Candy, ACO Tuxedo and GOSH Silver.

The silver over top of it all blends the whole look together a lot more, before that it was very stark which is another look and was quite nice on it's own.

All in all this was easy and quick to do and I like how it turned out. What do you think of this design?

Orange Dotted Design

Here is another design for you fine folks. It's entirely different from what I set out to do, I was aiming for delicate swirling leaves and then I glanced over at my crazy orange acrylic paint and was like "eh, why not?" and ended up with this.

I used Color Club Tangerine Scream, Misa Heaven White and Wet 'n Wild Black Creme for the polish portion, the dots. I used Golden Pyrrole Orange #2276-1 Series 8 for the base.

I had originally just done my left hand and I wasn't sure if I would keep it or just put it on the back burner until Halloween rolled around, but then my boyfriend and I went grocery shopping, with me and my only one hand of polish, and our cashier said she loved my nails! So then I had to keep it. I figured I'd use it as an opportunity to experiment with the same design and different colours (Color Club What A Shock! and Electro Candy, and this is what I ended up with.

What do you think? In October I think all orange will be fine, but colour combinations are pretty fun to experiment with too.

Rhinestone Flowers

So here I am continuing my fun with my new polish purchases. I'm revisiting the neon and Worth the Risque combo ala flower this time, mostly to give myself an excuse to try rhinestones.

I had fun with this design, although it is a little childish. I don't mind that, I was sick when I did it so it was nice to have some cute neon flowers and jewels to cheer myself up.

This design had a surprising amount of staying power. I had it on for 6 days before a rhinestone came off, although I was sick at home for about 5 days of that. The images above and below are just before I took it off, the orange rhinestone on my pointer finger is the one that came off that morning, you can see the crack in the polish where I bent my nail earlier that day. Replacing the rhinestone was easy as pie, but the crack meant it just couldn't stay, plus I was getting a bit bored with it by then.

 

All in all, fun, cute, kiddy. I think I might of went a bit overboard with the flowers and the rhinestones and the rainbow of colours though. What do you think?

Neon Taping

Hello Internet!
Summer semester exams are right now, and I'm not out of the muck yet but I'm taking a minute to post a design for you and to give myself a bit of a breather.
So, neons are fun but I wanted to try something that wasn't quite so flashy and I wanted to take another swing at taping. Here are the results!

I redid my pointer finger because my boyfriend said that it looked a little funny coming out from the nail bed and he preferred the ones with the colour coming in from the sides, I think I agree.

I really liked the look of this. The Electro Candy neons from Color Club and Worth the Risque are both splendid in their own ways and using them together was great and really complimentary. Also, taping worked very well! YES!
I tried out neon gel powders after I'd had this for a while to get a glow in the dark effect on the colours. I tried very hard to get a photo of it glowing for you but, alas, I didn't succeed. It did glow though and it was neat. Here are my nails with the powder, you can tell it is there and I definitely prefer the look without the powder but I'll keep playing with it and see.

And rhinestones! I put them on just a bit before I took the whole thing off but still, rhinestones!

To finish off this post here is another shot of my nails along with my snake, Abraxas.

Hope you liked!

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

First Online Haul

Here is my first ever internet nail polish haul! I was so excited I opened it at the bus stop back from the post office! Yay! Peanuts! I got this from Nail Polish Canada and they were really very quick. I ordered this on the 18th and it got here yesterday, the 23rd, which included a weekend.

Here is the neon set I bought from Color Club. It was the Electro Candy set. The colours are really nice and it comes with a colour enhancing top coat which is neat.
Left to right here are the names: Electro Candy, Ultra Violet, Pure Energy, What a Shock!, Volt of Light, Tangerine Scream, Vivid Top Coat

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