Hot Summer Ombre

Another quick post, I've still been super busy the the posts have been slim to none. Anyways, Summer is just around the corner & I'm on a neon fling, I've been panting my nails a different neon color every few days & today I saw some nail stickers in a hot pink & orange fade & I went crazy over them. They applied very easy & they make me smile when I look at my hot summer nails!

Spring Color Swatches

I'm trying to make a comeback here, life has been very busy with many changes & getting around to blogging has fallen on the back burner. I haven't even been painting my nails much, it's been odd & a little sad, but when you have big projects on the line such as remodeling a home to sell, moving into a rental, taking real estate agent classes & tying things up to quit your current job, nail painting doesn't seem quite as important.

Anyhow, with spring already here & so many gorgeous spring colors dancing around in my head, I had to take time to paint.

Inspiration

I guess with the home remodel I have paint swatches on my brain & I wanted my nails to look like I was trying to pick the right color to go with, so I swiped some random "test swatches".

Feeling simplistic today...

Starting the year out with a very simple polka dotted Mani. This new year is full of new plans & projects, so I will be quite busy & probably a little scarce in the first quarter. You will see an occasional post, but probably not as frequent. That being said, one of the new plans this year is to have a baby, yay! So in my web searches I find myself drawn to all things baby & found this really cute little dress that made me smile & I thought how pretty those colors looked together...voila, polka dot nail inspiration! the only difference is I reversed the colors.

Inspiration

Pink Ribbon design for 2013

It's pink ribbon month again, gotta show some love for the "ladies", here's my support nail art design:

Brush stroke feather technique

Once again I have found inspiration from this site Pshiiit, the site is in french but the universal language of art in undeniable, the 'force' is truly strong with this one! Using a flat brush you can mimic the look of the very popular feather nail art you see all over the place, & the best part...no birds are harmed in the creation of this art.

I used Zoya Neely as my base, China Glaze QT to make the pink feather brush strokes & white paint for the dots.

indoor light

edited with a film in picassa

Mother's day simple dotted mani

For Mothers day I didn't have much time, what with all the cooking & cleaning in preparation for spending a lovely day with my mother-in-law, so I just did a very simple mani. I wanted something pink, because pink always reminds me of mothers, it's soft & makes me smile. I used OPI On her Majesty's secret service as my base & then placed some random dotted gradients in pink.

Pale Pink Daisy

Click flower for link to source

My inspiration, for this delicate spring design, is this pale pink daisy I found. I used one coat of Wet N Wild Sugar Coat & one coat of e.l.f. Fairy Dust. As usual, acrylic paints were used to do the detail. It's raining out today, but there's something about a pretty spring floral that brightens up the day!

And Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast

rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"

I couldn't pick my favorite picture, so I've added all of them, Enjoy!

Holographic x3

I spent about 3 hours Sunday sketching one of my tattoo concepts; I'm hoping to eventually have enough money to do a 1/2 sleeve & have been devising my design for a few years trying to get it just right. It's a big decision & it's gotta be right. Anyhow, by the time I was done with that I guess all my creative juices had been used up because I tried several nail art designs for my weekly change up ( I usually change my design every Sunday) but was unhappy with all of them. Finally I just figured I'd wear a solid color that made me happy until inspiration struck me again. So I put on one of my holo polishes, China Glaze QT, & as I was putting it on I was inspired to combine a couple of my other holo's to make a simple accent nail. Here are a few pictures of the resulting holographic heaven :-) The other 2 polishes are Nubar Reclaim & Butter London Fishwife.

Think Pink, a Wednesday in October

On Wednesdays we where pink & in October we honor those fighting breast cancer. Just a short post, with a little pink & a little prayer:

May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another.~Buddha

LDTTWC Day 2: It's Vintage Darling!

It's the second day of the Time Warp Challenge, created by Lindsey, & on this day we draw our inspiration from a popular look from the past. I chose the corset. Not only is it a popular look from the past, it's also still  extremely popular today. I had been dying to try a corset design for a while now, so this is my first attempt ever. Since there are so many different styles & color choices, it was really hard deciding on just one, but I drew my inspiration from robinmoses who always turns out such beautiful designs & is a true inspiration to me.

Sookie Stackhouse aka: True Blood

Season 5 has just finished & I have been an avid fan since day 1;). While my dear hubby lost interest in season 2, I have been hungrily watching every single episode & loving every minute!

Recently my dear friend Tara, you can see her nails featured here  lol, loaned me her Sookie Stackhouse novels that I just found out the True Blood series was based on. I was very excited to hear this & am happily reading the first of these books & will soon be on the second.

Feeling in the mood to do something "vampirish" I pulled some colors together & went for a bloody ombre look. It turned out kinda cool looking like I had bloody fingertips. The first picture has no editing besides putting a border on it. With the other two I added a couple of cool Picasa apps over them for effect. 

Natural Light

                            

Cinemascope app.

with Cross process app.

Snow Leopard

Haven't done an animal print in a while...so here's one using Zoya Dove as my base & then adding pink acrylic paint leopard prints. Not much explanation needed on this one, leopard print is pretty straight forward & makes for a fun & easy design.