Marble nails

I've been wanting to try this for awhile. Apparently you can drop some polish in water, like with a water marble, and you can spray either hair spray or hand sanitizer spray and it separates the polish. I couldn't get it to work at all, so I ended up just using the saran wrap blotting method. It seemed to work best for me.

On the ring finger I tried the spray method with the dark gray polish and it sort of worked... I was wanting more of the lines like marble has, but I could only really get it to work once. Maybe I need different spray?? I'll have to try again another time. Oh and terrible clean up on this one.. oops!

KH

Elephants!!

I saw a picture the other day, browsing on Pinterest, of a baby elephant. It was a drawing so it wasn't a real picture but I thought it was just so cute. So i decided to try to do elephants on my nails! I was so excited to get home and start working on them! It was a little harder than I had thought, but I kept it pretty simple and I just love it! I can't stop looking at the cute little guys!
Anyways on to the nails!

It's kinda hard to tell, but the little ring finger guy is an elephant sitting down. It was hard to get little detail lines in there. The thumb one is supposed to be an elephant sitting down and facing front. It's much harder to draw the design on a nail than it is on a bigger piece of paper!

Aren't they just so cute! I just love them. I wish the thumb would have turned out a little better,but I still like it. Doing theses left handed for my other hand was not as easy. I'm usually really good at painting left handed, but these ones were a little harder to get down. They are still cute, but I didn't take a picture of that hand.

 I used Wet 'N Wild - Sugar coat as my base. Sally Hanson XtremeWear- White Out was the french tip. The dots are Wet ' Wild - Rain check, for the blue, a mix of elf - Cherry Bomb and the same white mixed for the pink, and the silver is Sinful Colors - Out of the World. The elephants were done in with the SC polish then outlined with elf - Misty Haze. I added some Sugar Coat to the ears for a little bit of pink. I think it's one of my most favorite designs! I seriously can't stop looking at the little ring finger guy :)

KH

One Stroke - Pink

I wanted to try one stroke flowers/roses again because I really like the look of it and practice makes perfect! This is definitely not perfect and it doesn't really look like one stroke, but I like how the colors blended and I loved the pink rose with gray leaves look.

I started with a creamy white basecoat (two coats) then attempted one stroke roses with red and white. They turned out looking a little more like peonies! I used two colors of gray for the leaves and added a little bit of silver sparkle to the leaves and a little to the roses. Like I said I really like the look of the pink and gray. Its just something a little different look, rather than going with regular green leaves. 

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