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

Spring Toes

Hi everyone,

I'm so sorry that I haven't done anything lately, I'm trying to keep my finger nails clean until the 14th for the Spring Challenge by Purple Glitters. I'm so excited about it. But anyway, while leaving my nails clean it was time for my toes to get a little attention. 

I did the same patern I had on my fingers last time but with more spring colours. I really love this pattern.

Tools:

• Milani: Yellow Whiz 
• Kleancolor: Neon Aqua (The blue colour)
• Shades of the Season: Powder Pink
• Revlon: Sassy (green dots)
• Confetti: Centerstage (the base colour purple)

Here's a close-up of the pattern.

I really love this purple, it is so smooth and shimmers in the light.

Look out for the upcoming challenges!!

And also I'm gaining more followers and I am sooo excited about that. Once I reach 50 or100 followers I hope to hold my first giveaway.

See you soon!

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.

Silver Has Fun

Howdy yall!

Today I did something simple pattern with a number of colours with the base colour  being the same silver I have on my fingers (I really do love that silver).

Tools:

• Kleancolor: Cobalt
• Kleancolor: Neon Aqua
• Kleancolor: Metallic Pink
• Kleancolor: Silver
• Sally Hansen: Hard as Nails Hardener
• Shades of the Season: Clear
• EBay Fauxnad Plates: m63 & m12
• Konad Stamp

As you can see the pattern is pretty, but also my clean-up method is really no method at all besides when I shower it washes off. I give up the whole clean-up thing. HA!

I used the Cobalt and Neon Aqua for the first pattern and the Metallic Pink for the second. I like using the Kleancolor brand to stamp, but the Cobalt colour is very translucent and doesn't show up as bright as I'd like it to. Still like the design though, hope you do too.

Love you lots,

Kelly-Ann.

Every Black Flower has a Silver Lining

Hi everyone!

Today I tried something a little different. I've never used stamping on every finger before because I find it difficult, but it didn't turn out too bad. I am going to attempt again one day soon. But for now here is my first attempt at stamping every finger.

Tools:

• Kleancolor: Black
• Kleancolor: Silver
• Sally Hansen: Hard as Nails Hardener
• Shades of The Season: Clear
• Mash double sided stamper
• EBay Fauxnad Plate: m57

Honestly I love this colour, I think it is so beautiful by itself.

Well as you can see i didn't exactly put the pattern on properly, but it came out pretty well. What I did was use the ends of the patterns and placed them in the corners. On some of my fingers I did not line it up well.

All in all it was pretty nice and hasn't started chipping yet. 

Until next time...

Princess Pink Nails

When I first did this I was soooooo proud of them. I just thought they were extremely pretty, after 1 day I began to get tired of them and rubbed them off. But they were still nice. I ended up going almost a week without doing my nails.

Tools:

• Sally Hansen: Tough Chick
• Shades of the Season: Silver Glitter
• Shades of the Season: Clear
• Sally Hansen: Hard As Nails Hardener

This is such a beautiful colour. Lovely pink. Only required 1-2 coats.

This picture was taken with a flash.

This one was taken in natural light, which looks a lot better than with the flash.

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.

Light Pattern

This was an experiment that I have seen many people done, where they take 2 similar colours and use one as the base colour and one as the pattern colour. It did not turn out the way I wanted it to, so I will be attempting it again very soon. I will post this one anyway. The difference between the base and pattern is very hard to see but can be seen nonetheless.

Tools:

• 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 light brown
• Shades of the Season: Clear glittler
• Kleancolor: Metallic Yellow
• Shany Nail plate: SH20

Steps:

1. First I applied the Base coat
2. Then applied 2 layers of the base colour

       3.    Let base dry for about 15 mins

       4.    Apply the pattern with the other colour using the scraper and stamp.

      5.     Let the pattern dry for 5 mins then apply the clear glitter and let dry

(You can see the pattern better in the picture above after I had added the glitter)

      6.     Apply top coat to seal everything in.

I hope you enjoyed this design today.

Comments and special requests appreciated.

Much Love,

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.

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.