Smoogey Fun Craziness

 These nails started out with an idea: Let's try doing some yellow nails, even though I haven't yet convinced myself that yellow is a fun color. So after putting down a yellow base, I was stumped for the next step. Then, suddenly colors exploded all over my nails and this was the result! (In reality, a sponge was possibly used.) Messy white doodles notwithstanding, I really liked these nails. The picture picks up lots of green, but really the blue was more predominant.

Colors Used:

Spoiled Designated Driver (base)

Revlon First Class 

Wet n Wild I Red a Good Book

Sally Hansen Cyber (down the middle for a blending effect)

KISS nail art white

Blue Flowers

 I do rather enjoy how these came out. I was just in the mood for cheerful nails! Tried to get the angles right to show it, but the base polish is a really fun gold-pink-orange shimmer. The dots are meant to be flowers, though from a distance it looked almost like leopard print. Either way, twas fun!

Colors Used:

ColorMates Spring Fling (Base)

KISS nail art white

Revlon First Class

Wet n Wild French White Creme

Snowy Cardinal

 I am very, very ready for spring. When I did these nails, the snow was mostly melted, but it still didn't feel right to do lots of flowers and butterflies all the time. So, snowy nails! Just a quick snowy forest with cardinals, nothing too spectacular. I sponged on the snow, then used a small brush to paint on the trees and the cardinals.

Colors Used:

Revlon Blue Slate (Base)

Sinful Colors Secret Admirer (trees)

Spoiled Correction Tape (Snow)

Wet n Wild Hallucinate (Sparkles on snow)

Wet n Wild I Red a Good Book (Cardinal)

Pure Ice Hot Tamale (Highlights on Cardinal)

Cats!

 Nails featuring my kitties chasing after butterflies! Orange kitty Sam and his fluffeh tail, and blue-and-white Jules. My first attempt at really getting painterly with regular polish rather than cheating with easier-to-use acrylic for the kitties. 

Colors Used:

Sonia Kashuk Taunting Teal (base color)

Spoiled Correction Tape

Revlon Blue Slate (Jules)

Spoiled Designated Driver (Sam)

Pure Ice Iced Copper  (Shading on Sam)

Wet n Wild Black Lace Creme (Butterflies)

Sinful Colors Love Nails (butterflies)

Gratuitous Cat Picture!

Toys

So the assignment here was to first color a sheet of drawing paper in some way (I chose blue watercolor, but it could have been tea or orange juice or whatever) and then draw a still life with some sort of meaning. My attempt here was to show the 'toys' of today on a pedestal, with the toys of childhood kind of forgotten and jumbled underneath. I dunno, it makes sense to me!
Charcoal, conte, and watercolor on drawing paper.

Musical Manicure

Sheet music! No, the song isn't really a song. I couldn't think of a good one to use, so I just put notes in at random. Layered up a few polishes for the parchment look. Started with NYC Vanilla Dream, then decided to go a little warmer so I layered on Pure Ice Best Friend. On top of that I sponged some dark brown (China Glaze Goin' My Way) and light brown (Confetti Debutante). The ring finger was done in Revlon Ritzy, a black polish with silver large and small hex glitter. The musical staff and notes were done in black with a striper brush and a dotting tool, and on the ring finger I used a gold nail art polish. Woo!

 Colors Used:

NYC Vanilla Dream

Pure Ice Best Friend

China Glaze Goin' My Way

Confetti Debutante

NYC Black Lace Creme

Diamond Cosmetics 14k

Owly Fun Times!

I was challenged by a good friend to create forest nails with an owl. It sounded like too much fun to pass up!

I ended up using a lot of various shimmery polishes, so the entire end effect looked like foil stickers. Painted the trees using a dotting tool, a small brush, and my metal toothpick. Brought out the striping brush for the grass. I'm rather happy that the owl even came out on my dominant hand. I was worried that I was over-committing myself on the details! 

Colors Used:

(Trees and grass)

Spoiled The Parking Meteor Expired

Wet n Wild SaGreena the Teenage Witch

Wet n Wild Sage in the City

China Glaze Gaga for Green

(Owl and tree trunks)

 China Glaze Goin' My Way

Confetti Debutante

Spoiled Correction Tape