Teal French Manicure

We're into a very busy time of the year, and I think I'll need to work my way through the rest of my challenge a bit more slowly, but I figure that isn't a reason to not post at all, and if I'm not posting because I'm embarrassed for not having a challenge post, well, that's just silly. So here is a nice simple, elegant coloured french manicure. Let me know what you think!

I love to do a simple french manicure every few weeks, it's my break from crazy colours and patterns since I tend to enjoy really out there choices most of the time. It's nice to have something elegant and unobtrusive every now and then. Do you agree? Let me know!

#33DC Day 2 - Most Used Colour

Teal and pink, how I love you. These two specific colours should be familiar to you if you follow my blog. They are GOSH Miss Minty and Sally Hansen Coral Reef. It is very sad but I'm running pretty low on both of these. I'll have to go buy more so I can continue to use them all the time.

#31DC2013 Day 10 - Gradient Nails

 Gradient nails are one of my favourite nail designs to create. They are incredibly fun and the colour combinations are endless, plus the ways to blend the colours are plentiful as well.

 I went with a light to dark blend of teals here because I've been eying my teals for a while, ever since I got my very own China Glaze For Audrey.

  I like to start with a bit of the colour that will be around my cuticle and a bit of the colour on the tips as a base when I do gradients, since those are the areas I tend to want to touch up after sponging the colours onto my nail. Do you have any tips that you use for gradient manicures?

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!

Glittery Randomness

So.. November sure is a busy month. I'd been grinding away at my homework and grad school applications and whatnot and then suddenly a few weeks had just flown by. I've still been taking pictures of my nails though so never fear. I'm actually still pretty busy but I missed my blog so much that I'm taking some time away from the last mad dash to the end of term to post this.

I'm not sure what this is, but I do like it. It's a little reminiscent of seaweed or something, I'm not sure. But there are plenty of sparkles and I got to use OPI Don't Touch My Tutu outside of a jelly sandwich so I'm happy.

I also used Dollish Polish Spank You Very Much for the glitter gradient. I also used a touch of Claire's Ice Ice Baby for some bigger glitter pieces and my Kiss Soft Blue striper for the lines.

More pictures! And another compliment for Spank You Very Much, it goes on like a dream for such a glitter packed polish. Love it.

 I had fun with this and didn't go into it with a plan. It may be a little odd but I'm happy.

 What do you think of this design? Too weird? Let me know!

Teal Gradient With Dot Accents

Yay! I'm so happy to show this to you! This is my first post for Teal Tuesdays and I had a lot of fun doing it, it was sort of a surprise favourite. I had initially just done the gradient to play with a couple new teals I had, and once it was on I wanted to do something a little more fancy with it.

I was staring into my nail supply stuff and thought, okay well dots are always nice, and they are, but what I like is that the lightest colour and the darkest colour look so much lighter or darker respectively when contrasted like they are. It ties things together nicely too if I do say so myself.

Anyways, picture spam! Here you go.

Woo! If I were to do this again I'd wait a couple seconds more before top coating, I smudged a couple dots and it bothered me, but what can you do? Hope you liked it!

Here are the other participants:

Silver Circles on Mint and Pink

Take a look at this design internet!

I love these two colours together, they are Essie Fiji and GOSH Mint. I started this mani without any plan, I just knew I wanted these two colours complementing each other.

Once it was done I chose GOSH Silver to accent it and used my dotting tool to make some differently sized dots. Then I just filled them in with smaller dots of the original colour. With a good top coat over it everything was smoothed out and it didn't look like concentric dots anymore but actual silver circles. Yay!

What do you think? I like this as a nice simple way to jazz up plain old polish.

Tape Troubles and a Dot Design

This began with wanting to test out some beautiful new polish I got for my birthday. The two colours are both from Gosh, the mint is called 597 Miss Minty and the other is 540 Ocean. I'd first attempted to do something fun with taping but it went oh so horribly. I guess I hadn't waited long enough, despite leaving it for another hour every time it still pulled up all the polish below and let me just say now, never again shall I try to tape without sleeping or going about my day first to be sure it really is dry. Look at all the tape I cut into tiny little strips! Grawr!

Individually cut cause I'm crazy

So after metaphorically ripping out my hair for a few hours I gave it up as a bad job and turned to Pixel's Polish for a tutorial I had read while watching polish dry. Thank you for saving my sanity and for this absolutely adorable design idea.

It was quite simple to do and got a lot of compliments. I chose to only dot out one of the sides with stylized drips in mind and I'm pretty happy with how that turned out. I also really like these colours together, although maybe the thickness of Miss Minty is to blame for my taping troubles I forgive it since it's quite pretty, and the shimmer on Ocean is beautiful, this picture doesn't do it justice.