Dots N Roses - 26 April 2015

Oh dear my cuticles look awful, I think I stopped the oil :(  The manicure would of course look much better with good cuticles, but any hoot, some minty pink vintage rose nail art.

Orange Rose Skittlette

3 July 2014

Shortened and re-shaped nails.
3 July, my youngest turned 11 today. So these nails were to celebrate his birthday and mine in two days time.
I really liked how these turned out.  Could have possibly done another coat on the thumb and pointer but hey-ho. :)

A close up of my hand-drawn roses.

 Another arty pose :)

Products used, including OPI Nail Envy as base and Seche Vite top coat not shown here.

GOT Polish Challenge Part 2 - Week 2 - CORAL - Floral Gradient Skittlette

Week 2 of the GOT2 (Golden Oldie Thursday) Polish challenge over at Crumpet's Nail Tarts.  This week the theme is Coral.

I am a day late as my daughter and I have been doing our own version of the 3 day hydration treatment with our own homemade cuticle oil.  A post on this to follow this weekend, hopefully.

So now onto my coral manicure.  I have had the coral polish I used here for just over a year.  I bought it then to use in a challenge but it arrived too late and it has been in my un-tried drawer ever since.

This manicure was inspired by carlysisoka# on IG, who was inspired by Sammy (Nailasaurus).
I couldn't decide on photo's so posted the best ones.

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
Sally Hansen - Sheer Me Now
ELF - Fire Coral
China Glaze - Dreamsicle
Acrylic Paint - Green
Seche Vite

Pink Vintage Roses, Stripes and Bling!

I am on a catch up with my manicures.  This was worn wayyyy back in April (looking at the date it was three weeks ago today, wow I am late in posting this).  Anyway, vintage flower manicures are all the rage at the moment and I love this technique.  It is so easy.  I was trawling my way through the world wide web and I came across so many but this particular one just called to me and I just had to do it.  Only on the original there was more "bling" on the ring accent nail and the roses were on the middle and index finger, I changed it a little. I would like the thank the original person for their inspiration but for the life of me I can't find the person responsible. I have looked through pages of my pins, my history and just plain google searches for almost a week now, so, if you recognise my description or know who you are please let me know.

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
Seche Vite top coat
China Glaze - Dance Baby - base on all nails
Sally Hansen - Sheer Me Now (stripes)
Etude House - Pink Glitter
China Glaze - Its Poppin' - for the rose accent
Nails Inc - Seven Dials - leaves
Striping Tape
Dotting tool