Spring Challenge 4: Bugs! (Yucky!)

Hello peoples,

UGH! i'm like an hour late. But anyway here it is. It is not what I wanted it to be. :-( It was extremely messy and it was my first time working with this glue and glitter, first attempt=FAIL! The color scheme I chose was blue and purple.

Tools:

• Simple Pleasures: purple
• Color Club: Trippie Hippie
• Recollections glitter: Peacock
• MASH fan brush
• Best Glue Ever
• Bundle Monster: Gems

For the base colour I used the Simple Pleasures purple polish. It is a very nice and smooth polish but the brush that it comes with is the worst thing ever, so if you do buy this set or brand, I would advise to buy a brush to use with it or borrow one from an old bottle, just avoid using the brush it came with, however I did work with it, took some patience but it worked.

I used the Color Club's Trippie Hippie to sponge on to create a gradient (attempted to make a gradient). Then I used the Best Glue Ever to try and draw on my creepy crawlies, and then sprinkle the glitter on and lightly use the fan brush to brush away the excess. I do think I went a little too heavy on the glue because I ended up brushing the glue and glitter and scrambling it up. (Pictures of the creepy crawlies are below saying what they were supposed to be.)

I added some gems by Bundle Monster.

This is the finished product with the flash.

I attempted to make a spider and smushed all the glue, when I mashed it up I had to use a little of the Trippie Hippie to outline it.

This was an ant..a very pretty ant...hehe. this one came out a little better, but not how I wanted it,, you get the idea.

I want to try this again eventually but with my mistakes in mind I will do better.

Don't forget to check out the others particpating in the challenge as well:

• Purple Glitters
• Taya 
• I love pretty colours
• Creative Nail Design by Sue
• Hooked on polish
• Pinky to Thumb
• Posh Nail Art
• Welcome To Brianna's World!
• World of Happy Nails
• Mateji ustvarjata
• Nail buff
• Moonchild
• Anna
• Colorful bottle's blog
• Glazed Talons
• Rainbow Nails
• Nailpocalypse
• Lady-flover123
• Nail Crazy
• Mimi's vanity box

See you later,

Kelly-Ann.

Spring Challenge 3: Fruits and Dots

Hi everyone,

I am so sorry I'm late with this, I was in the process of moving from one apartment to the other, and I had some school assignments due so those had to be priority. To make up for my lateness I had done 3 things for you: This challenge, a look at a colour I had previously purchased, and also a video haul. Of course they will be separate posts and they won't all be chucked up in this one post. 

Anyway, without further a due here is Challenge 3: Fruits and Dots. The colours I had chosen was yellow and green. I honestly did not like the way they turned out, so I ended up rubbing them off afterward. I was also rushing so please excuse if I didn't clean up my nails.

Tools:

• MASH dotting tool
• Bundle Monster plate BM04
• EBay plate m30
• Kleancolor: Popping Green
• Kleancolor: Black
• Milani: Yellow Whiz
• Rimmel: French Lingerie

And it Begins...

I first did a single coat of Rimmel's French Lingerie

Then added so dots using the Yellow Whiz at the top and The Popping Green at the bottom.

Then I added another layer of the French Lingerie just to lightly show the dots through.

Then I added more dots on top of that layer being careful not to really cover the underlying dots.

Then lastly, I added my fruit stamps in the Black. I honestly did not like the way it turned out, and you could probably see I tried it with the white stamp at first but that didn't work out too well.

Don't forget to check out the others particpating in the challenge as well:

• Purple Glitters
• Taya 
• I love pretty colours
• Creative Nail Design by Sue
• Hooked on polish
• Pinky to Thumb
• Posh Nail Art
• Welcome To Brianna's World!
• World of Happy Nails
• Mateji ustvarjata
• Nail buff
• Moonchild
• Anna
• Colorful bottle's blog
• Glazed Talons
• Rainbow Nails
• Nailpocalypse
• Lady-flover123
• Nail Crazy
• Mimi's vanity box

Thanks for stopping by,

Kelly-Ann.

Spring Challenge 1: Love & Life

Hi everyone...I was supposed to post this yesterday but my day got sooooo busy I couldn't even post it, and the funny thing is that I did my nails from Thursday night. But with further delay here it is My first in Spring Challenge by Purpler Glitters.

The first theme is Love and Life, the colour combination I chose was Pink and Orange.

Tools:

• Bundle Monster Plate: BM 03 
• MASH Plate: m 63
• JLB 04
• Confetti: Conga Line
• Nina Ultra Pro: Fuchsia Rage
• Shades of the Season: Glitter Pink
• Konad Stamp and Scraper

Base Colour:

This base colour was a beautiful light colour, however it was the first time using this brand (JLB) which was not very smooth but I made it work, don't think I'd buy this brand again.

I saw this pattern and decided to use it from my MASH plate set m63. I used the Shades of the Season Glitter pink and i thought it came out sooooo lovely.

I then added these cute little hearts from my Bundle Monster plate BM 03 using Confetti's Conga Line which is a lovely shimmery orange. This came out very cute.

Ok this is where I went wrong, u added the additional heart with wings using the same Bundle Monster plate which I do think was a bad decision using the same Confetti Conga Line. I then use the Nina Ultra Pro: Fuchsia Rage to fill in the heart(another bad decision.) 

Here is the finished product with the flash.

All in all I love the fingers but not the thumb, I think I took it a little too far.

Anyway, that's it for now...see u for the next Spring Challenge on the list.

Here are a few others that are participating in the challenge:

• Purple Glitters
• Taya 
• I love pretty colours
• Creative Nail Design by Sue
• Hooked on polish
• Pinky to Thumb
• Posh Nail Art
• Welcome To Brianna's World!
• World of Happy Nails
• Mateji ustvarjata
• Nail buff
• Moonchild
• Anna
• Colorful bottle's blog
• Glazed Talons
• Rainbow Nails
• Nailpocalypse
• Lady-flover123
• Nail Crazy
• Mimi's vanity box

Luck of the Irish

Howdy yall!

 I know I'm late with posting this but I honestly haven't had the time. But now it's here and that's all that matters...right? :-D

Okay, so I did an Irish theme for St. Patrick's Day, and I thought it came out pretty good.

Tools:

• Sally Hansen: Hard as Nails Hardener Clear
• Shades of the Season: Clear
• Shades of the Season: Green Glitter
• Kleancolor Nail to Toe: Popping Green
• NYC: High Line Green
• Rimmel French Manicure Pro: French Lingerie 
• Bundle Monster Plate: BM03

I liked the way this looked on its own but I figured I'd continue with the original idea and do a little more. add some glitter and pizzazz! Hehe (NYC High Line Green for tips)

So I added the design from Bundle Monster Plate design (BM03) (Kleancolor Popping green for design). Wait for everything to dry well and applied the Green Glitter to all green areas.

I Hope you enjoyed this design as much as I did.

See you next time,

Kelly-Ann.

Mercury Vines

Howdy yall!

I am very excited about my nails tonight, I love the colours and the design. I hope you all are as excited as I am. And can you imagine I almost did not do anything on my nails for the rest of the week. It took me a while to decide what to do. But... here it is 

Ok this week I am going to try and change my layout and not do the numbered step by step thing. Also I made the decision to throw out my Sally Hansen: Hard as Nails Clear because I have grown to dislike it, and I have decided to use my Shades of The Season Clear.

Tools:

• Konad nail stamp
• Sally Hansen: Hard As Nails Hardener
• Shades of The Season: Clear
• Sinful Colors: Mercury Rising
• Shades of The Season: Glitter Green
• Kleancolor: Nail to Toe Copycat Hater
• Bundle Monster: Plate BM03

Steps:

After applying the beautiful Mercury Rising colour I had added the glitter green tips (a sudden decision). It was an awesome decision in my opinion, it complimented it so well.

When the tips dried I used my Bundle Monster plate and add the stamp with the Copycat Hater, Which also was a wonderful contrast from the base colour and the glitter.

Add clear top coat and as usual clean up as necessary. In my case clean as much as I can without messing up everything. (Which is still not so great). I really hope you enjoyed this design.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to follow my blog.

See you next time,

Kelly-Ann.

French Love in Red

This design I did because I was feeling loving. hehe. I'm always loving. for this design I did not use any base color but you can if you choose.

Tools Used:

• Bundle Monster Gold nail beads
• Stamping plate from EBay m01
• Konad Stamper and Scraper
• Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Clear (Top Coat)
• Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Hardener (Base Coat)
• Shades of the Season Metallic Red

Steps:

1. Apply Base coat
2. Use metallic red and make a french like line across the top of your nail. (Use tape to line if you don't have a steady hand)
3. Apply top coat to all nails except the thumbs
4. Let dry for 30 mins
5. Apply metallic red to the design on the plate, scrape and pick up with stamper
6. Apply design to nail quickly in the middle of nail.
7. Let design dry for 15 mins
8. Apply top coat to thumbs.
9. Immediately after, use a toothpick to apply the gold beads.
10. When dried, apply a generous layer of top coat to seal the beads in.

Sorry but I still have not mastered cleaning up my fingers. And red is so hard to clean, as you can tell by the paper towel behind my hand I had already cleaned up a lot.

I hope you enjoyed this.

Vector on silver

This is just a random design I did but lasted all of 2 days after bouncing my hand against everything.


Tools Used:

• Bundle Monster pink star and blue star confetti
• Shany stamping plate SH03 (swirl vector pattern)
• Konad scraper and stamp
• Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Clear (Top Coat)
• Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Hardener (Base coat)
• Kleancolor: Silver
• Kleancolor: Black

Steps:

1. Apply Base coat
2. Apply 1-2 coats of Silver
3. Let dry for 30 mins
4. Use black on stamping plate, scrape and pick up design with stamp
5. Apply design to nail where wanted quickly (in my case I used a part of the design on the side)
6. Let dry for 15 mins
7. Apply top coat 
8. Place stars where you desire on the wet top coat
9. When dry, apply another layer of top coat to seal confetti in.

Sorry the picture isn't too clear, I had already taken the nail polish off by the time I realized it was blurry.

Hope you enjoyed this.

Stamping Christmas Toes

This was a design I did for Christmas. It wasn't perfect because I did not have my fine nail brush set to detail the design but looks real nice when looking down.

Tools Used:

• Small Acrylic brush (If you have a fine nail art brush that would be better)
• Konad scrapper and stamper
• Bundle Monster stamping plate BM14 (Mistletoe design)
• Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Clear (Top Coat)
• Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Hardener (Base coat)
• Wet n' Wild Shine: Caribbean Frost
• Shades of the Season: Glitter Green
• Nina Ultra Pro: Molten Opal
• Bundle Monster Tiny Red gems
• Toothpick

Steps:

1. Apply Base coat
2. Apply the light color (Molten Opal in my case)
3. Used the Caribbean Frost to make a line at the top of each nail
4. Use the Green Glitter over the Caribbean Frost to give the shimmery look.
5. Let all nail polish dry for about 30mins (I wait this long because if I wait short a time then I end up smudging my nails when stamping.)
6. Apply the Caribbean Frost on the mistletoe design 
7. then scrape and Pick up the design with the stamp
8. Quickly line up the stamp with the nail and stamp nail.
9. Let design dry for 10 mins.
10. Use the fine brush to lightly go over the Caribbean green design leaves with the Green Glitter
11. Let dry and apply top coat
12. Put a drop of top coat on a post it or solid surface.
13. Use the toothpick lightly dip in the drop of top coat and use it to pick up the gems and apply to the nail before the top coat is dry (preferably immediately after applying the top coat).
14. Let the dry and apply a nice thick coat of top coat over the gems and nail to seal them in.

The finished product should look something like this, but hopefully yours look a lot more detailed than mine came out due to the brush I was using.

Hope You enjoyed this.