Nail Art: Marble Dots

Hi Everyone,

something random today hehe.. I don't know what this is really so I called it marble dots!

Now I've always wanted to try marbling but I hate the clean up because usually when I am doing my nails, it's about 3 am in the morning :P.

I saw on ASK Cosmetic's Facebook page a blogger's photo of a ombre dotticure which used 2 shades of a colour (ie. navy and sky blue).
I picked up China Glaze - Aquadelic and American Apparel - Malibu Green. Ignoring the discolouration of AA they have a bigger difference in shade but my camera couldn't pick it up!

I thought that was neat so I wanted to attempt it!

Materials needed:

• Base colour
• Two colours you want to 'swirl' together any combination can be done!!!
• Dotter tool
• Scrap paper or art palette (anything to hold your polish droplets)

First I painted my base colour which is Essie - Blanc. Pretty much my go to white at the moment. Just look how amazing it looks in the picture underneath!

I did my usual droplets on paper but accidentally it was too close and they stuck together. Then the idea popped up... let's swirl it!!

So after swirling a bit, I redipped my dotter tool and made dots on the nails.. and viola.. marble nails!

I need to practice a bit more so the dots don't turn out like huge globs but how do you like them? :)

What other colours would you mix together?



Mir

Sally Hansen Sugar Coat Nail Art (Roses)

After my nail art attempts in the other post - link here, I watched a video shown on Catrice's website on how to do a floral design. Then I thought why not use Sugar Coats to do '3D-ish' flowers??!

It was pretty fun but as a tip, after every "C" shape, redip your brush into the polish to pick up the 'sugar' particles or it won't be gritty enough!

Materials needed:

• Base polish colour - I did 3 colours to show how the design would work on different colours
• Sally Hansen Sugar Coat's Cherry Drop
• Sally Hansen Sugar Coat's Cotton Candies
• Sally Hansen Sugar Coat's Sweetie
• Sally Hansen Sugar Coat's Sour Apple
• Little dish with acetone / nail polish remover
• Cotton Pad
• Scrap Paper
• Thin Paint Brush

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L'Oreal Paris: My First Pictorial!

Hey guys! Woohoo it's finally a long weekend here in Canada. Too bad mother nature didn't get the memo, looks like most of the weekend will be rainy. I decided I wanted to do a cheerful and bright manicure to cure me of the gloomy rain. I ended up creating a pictorial for you guys which I hope you'll enjoy. For those of you who do pictorials on a regular basis, hats off to you. This was my first one and I was obsessing over getting the polish to look perfect. Let me know what you think and if Mir and I should post more of these pictorials.

Recently Mir and I received some products from L'Oreal Paris Canada to try out and I decided to do a scalloped nail with a couple colours we received. The first time I tried the scalloped look I was so surprised at how ridiculously easy it was. Nail art has never been my strong point, I love looking at nail art, I like to try nail art but it usually ends up looking like a hot mess. Anyways, I thought I'd try the scalloped look again and create a simple tutorial to share with you all.

All the polishes I used in this mani were from L'Oreal Paris:

Now You Sea Me - A muted robin's egg blue creme polish. Beautiful colour, but difficult to work with. I found the polish to be very sheer and I needed 3 coats to achieve opacity. The polish did dry quite quickly so that makes up for the layers I needed to eliminate patchiness.

Royalty Reinvented -  A serene lilac purple creme polish from their Spring 2013 Trendsetter Collection. Lovely colour, lovely application. I only needed one layer of this product to achieve opacity on top of the base colour. Excellent dry time as well.

Members Only - Another colour from the Spring 2013 Trendsetter Collection, this polish is a lovely vibrant almost neon like fuchsia pink polish. When used alone it could pass as a one coater but because I had on multiple colours it ended up a little sheer and in some pictures you can see Royal Reinvented showing through.



Click to see written steps and more pictures!