Spring Flowers

I decided it was time to do something a little more springy. So, no gray nails! I've seen ideas where people use white as a base coat and I've always wanted to try it. This is a creamier white so I think that helps. I don't think I would do a really white base coat.

I really like how it turned out. For the flowers I just kinda did some random dots with red and added a light pink over the top to tone it down a little then added some white lines and swirls. There is also a few gray dots (and I said there was no gray, oops!) I had a light blue for some dots, but they didn't show up very well so I layered a darker turquoise color over it. And of course, there are a few leaves scattered around. I could have done a little more detailing on the blue flowers, but it was getting late. I'm sooooooooo happy that I found some Seche Vite top coat. My nails are dry so fast! I used to use clear polish for a top coat and that would take FOREVER to dry and since I do my nails at night I would have to stay up even later to make sure they were dry enough so I could go to bed!

The cleanup is better this time too! And I'm so happy my nails are short again!

KH

Gray and Black

I bought a new gray recently and I really wanted to try it out. The other grays I have are more like silver so I was excited to find this color! It is more of a soft gray, I think this is only one coat, so it is pretty light.

This was my inspiration for this art. In the picture I think a stamp was used. I've never tried stamping, but I think I'll stick with freehand. It makes it more of a challenge.

I did a black flower design and added some silver glitter polish, like the bottom picture, but less glitter.You can't see it very well. But I still like it! My nails are also really long! Well, long for me, they will be shorter for the next post :) I also need to work on better lighting.

KH

One Stroke Flowers

This is my first attempt at one stroke flowers. It isn't perfect, but I think I did ok. It's a lot harder than I thought! Plus, I think I needed a smaller brush, or maybe just a different one.

I really like the black/white/gray color combo. The dots along the french tip really helped too. Overall, I like the outcome (minus the bad cleanup. Oops!) I will be doing more practice on this though. The videos I looked up for help looked so pretty! I'll get there!

KH

Flower tips

You'll notice that I do A LOT of flower nail art. I just really like how they look. This is kind of like a flower french tip, but with bigger flowers. I decided to do the leaves in black just to give it a different look.

Since this, again, is an older picture I didn't have a better one. If you look closely you can see that I did the base in a really light shimmery pink. The flower base is white with another light pink in the center of the petals. This is one of my favorites so far!

KH

Very Late Valentines Nails

Sometimes when I'm trying to find inspiration for nail art, I just look on Pinterest and try to combine different ideas. But every once in a while, I come across some that I just have to try to replicate. This is one of those. I found it on the Robin Moses Nail Art site and just loved it!

They aren't exactly the same and the colors aren't even remotely the same (partly because I just don't like that bright of a red on me) but I just liked the idea!

Here is another one that was just a cute simple Valentines idea.

My white was running out and getting thick, so it was really hard to get nice lines for the hearts. I'll post better pictures of my roses later. I've been trying to practice the swirl rose technique and I think I'm getting better at it!

KH

Pink and Gold

I thought about posting some more of my older work, but since I took all the pictures with my old phone, they look really blurry... Which is sad because some of them I really liked, so I'll have to redo them later. For now, I'll have to post more recent stuff.

This is the first nail art I did when I finally received a set of nail art brushes! Best day ever! I didn't clean up very well, but I think the overall outcome turned out really well.

I tried more realistic roses and started with a light pink and had to mix the pink with a drop of red for the outline of the petals. You cant really tell what the gold is but it's kinda like leaves/filigree. ( I don't have names of colors right now because I don't remember them...) But that's all for today! Sorry for the terrible lighting!


KH

1st Post! Some old art

Hey there! My name is Kerah and this is my first ever post! I mostly wanted to create a blog so I had a place to keep all of my nail art pictures. I have tons saved on my phone and I just needed to do something different, so I took the blog plunge!

This first design is one from Christmas. It was my first really detailed art. I don't have a fancy camera and some of my pictures don't have exactly the right lighting, but I'm just starting out and I take pictures on my phone so....

    

So, as I said, not the best picture and, as I'm sure you can tell, it's not the best art either. I did most of this with a toothpick as I did not have brushes yet. I can only hope to get better from here!

KH