Roses & Butterfly Mani

I'm sad that I missed two of the biggest holidays for nail designs: Halloween and Thanksgiving, but I've been soooooo busy the last several weeks. Here's a nail design that turned out way better than I thought, and I want to do something similar again soon!

I used these polishes:

Here are pictures of the plates I stamped with:

(The rectangular plates are an unnamed brand I got on eBay, just search for "oblong nail plates", I got the 12 pack, there's also and 18 pack)

Sponge on the first layer of gradient.

Sponge on a darker color to continue the gradient.

And stamping time :) I did some leafy flowers all in green to just look like a bunch of leaves, then a rose with part pink and green polish, then the purple butterfly on my thumbs only.

Green Ruffian Manicure

I have another ruffian for you guys today, these are so easy to do and a little more nail art-y than just a plain color, I love ruffians! Anyways, this one is with a medium and dark green (that looks black most of the time, but it is green).

This is the base color, first coat. This is Flat Iron Green by NYC

The second color is Sew Psyched by Essie.

Sorry about the lighting in  these; it was late at night so I had my lamp on for extra light, but it ended up being too much! lol Below is 3 or 4 coats (I forget haha) of Flat Iron Green.

And then the ruffian.

I so should've added a matte top coat to this, but I didn't. Maybe I'll have to recreate this manicure just to see what it looks like mattified!

2 New YouTube Videos Up!

I haven't done posts on this blog for my 2 recent video tutorials I posted on YouTube, so that's what this post will be about.

The first is a green manicure with vertical cut between two colors. You can watch this Green Split manicure video on my YouTube channel, artistrynails.

The second video is a sponging tutorial with a stamp over top. You can watch this White and Green Sponge Gradient with Dots video on my YouTube channel as well.

I hope you guys enjoy!

Neon Abstract

I got so many compliments on this manicure, and when I told those who asked that it was acrylic paint, they were stunned. And I've got to say I'm pretty proud of this design, myself.

My supplies:

I don't have step-by-step photos for this, but here's what it looks like before the black stripes and white dots were put on:

More pictures...

Summer Fall French

This is by far one of my favorite manicures I've ever done, and I'm already planning on doing it again with a different set of colors, maybe purple/blue and brown/pink or something...

Here's the supplies pics:

So first you paint a diagonal french tip with the medium shade of the colors you chose. You can angle the diagonal the same way on all your nails, or do your other hand the opposite direction like I did.

Add the lightest shade of the colors you're using to a diagonal opposite the first one.

And then put your darkest or contrasting color in the same direction as the medium shade (the first one you did).

Then, I added gold glitter to my thumb and ring fingers of my orange/red hand in an x shape where the two lighter colors meet, and silver on my green/yellow hand.

I hope you guys liked this post, try it out in your favorite colors :)

Black & White Crackle

This is one of my favorite looks right now, layering a pattern underneath a crackle coat. And of course I did it different on both hands...

These are the polishes I used for each hand:

The first step is obvious; paint your design or pattern.

And add crackle! (and top coat) and you're done.

Rainbow Crackle

I'm getting married tomorrow!!! But here's a quick post anyways.

I did this to fool around with all the crackles I have (I don't remember why I left my left pinky bare lol)

These are a bunch of photos of this manicure. I did a lighter or darker shade of the same color underneath the crackle on every finger, with 2 different Essie topcoats over them.