[BE]a[U]ty: free-handed

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Avengers Nails!

Products used:

Thumb: Wet & Wild "Saved By The Blue", China Glaze "Salsa", Wet & Wild white

Index: China Glaze "Salsa", mixed OPI "Up Front & Personal" with China Glaze "Happy Go Lucky" for the Ironman yellow

Middle: China Glaze "Entourage" and bm12 plate for the chain stamp

Ring: OPI "I'm Not Really a Waitress", for Thor's hammer I used Color Club's 39 Silver and China Glaze "Mahogany Magic"

Pinky: China Glaze's "Stone Cold" which is a matte dark gray with silver microglitters, and stamped the spider with bm13. There is also a spiderweb stamped from the same bm13 plate but it is very subtle and hard to see because it was in a sheer gray color.

Painted the designs using a very thin art paintbrush. It got kinda clumpy because I didn't add thinner to the mixes and it was hard to paint the small details without the thinner.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Free-Handed Louis Vuitton Nails

Free handed Louis Vuitton nail design inspired by my sister's t-shirt. This took me forever!

I used a hot pink and a black nail polish and added some nail polish thinner to make it easier to paint with, and painted the designs on using a small art paintbrush.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Hunger Games nails v.2!!

So....I have done a previous Hunger Games nail design before. But this time I decided to do the book cover design.

I didn't have any of exact colors so I just mixed some colors to make the gray, as well as the color I used for the mockingjay. I used China Glaze's "Happy Go Lucky" (yellow), and "Camisole" (bronze) and mixed it with white to create the mockingjay gold color. For the gray, I used China Glaze's "Concrete Catwalk" and mixed it with white to make it a lighter gray color for the circles.

China Glaze is also releasing their Hunger Games nail polish line. They have so many awesome colors! I have purchased 3 from the collection but am still waiting to get the rest. They have come out early at Hot Topic and Sally Beauty, however they sell out fairly quickly! I was able to get "Electrify", "Mahogany Magic" and "Dress Me Up". Once I buy the other colors that I want, I will put some swatches up. I'm just waiting for them to come to the store where I get my polish from because they sell it cheaper. At Hot Topic they are $7, and at Sally's they are $5.99. The movie comes out March 23rd! CAN'T WAIT!!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Ikat Nails!

I came across this online from Lucky Magazine online and thought it would be a great thing to try out. Lucky mag had ikat patterned nail wraps (decals), but I wanted to see how it would look if I hand-painted the design. Here's the outcome!

Oh btw, China Glaze "For Audrey" is like my favorite color in the world hehe. It's so versatile! I've used it for many of my nail designs. It's just an all-around color. Love it!

I also tried to take a picture of it in different lighting because it changed the look quite a bit. The pic on the top left was taken with flash. The rest are under incandescent light. The pictures on the right however have an added filter from an iphone app that made the bottom right pic lighter, and the top right pic more contrasted.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Saturday, December 31, 2011

New Years Eve Cityscape Nails

I used a few different colors for the sky. After doing a gradient technique for the background, I drew the buildings in using a dotting tool. I then added windows. I used Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” from her OPI collection to add some “stars”