First Attempt at One Stroke Nail Art

This is my first attempt at doing the one stroke paint technique.  A bit messy and uneven, and I don't think the colours were quite what I wanted.  But you live and learn, next time I will be...... a little bit better?

I used:
Nails Inc - Fashion Fawn for the base
Acrylic paints for the flowers
Seche Vite top coat

Yellow Zebra/Tiger?

I would say zebra, that was my first thought, but you could say tiger?

Anyway I really liked this manicure, so fresh and spring like.  For a bit of bling I added some flowers with rhinestones on some nails. I like it.

For this manicure I used:

LA Girls - Sunny - Yellow

Acrylic black paint for the stripes.

Seche Vitte Top Coat.

Polka Dots, Stripes and Roses!

This manicure was inspired from youtube here.  IRL it looked much better than these photo's would have you believe!

For this manicure I used:

Illamasqua - DWS - Grey base colour

and for the dots and stripes same colour lightened with a bit of white.  

Roses with random pinks.

Black Rainbow

6 March 2012
This manicure I did on the 6th of March.  I think the title is quite appropriate.  This looked easy to do but by the time I had done my right hand I was bored and was contemplating whether to just take it all off and paint one colour or carry on......
I carried on and about an hour, yes an hour or so later the manicure was done.  I was quite pleased with the effect.  
Next evening I went to my Zumba class and my nails were the talk of the class.  Everyone wanted to know where I got them done, and the ladies were all surprised when I told them that I did them, all by myself.  But next time I think I will just do an accent nail!

For this manicure I used:
China Glaze Flyin' High - Blue
LA Girl Disco Freak - Pink
Color Club Almost Famous - Yellow
Color Club Pucci-licious - Purple
Color Club Twiggie - Green
LA Girl Metal Obsidian - Black
Sticky Back Plastic strips
P.S.
I would also like to add that I got this idea from this amazing blog.  So thank you Camille.  I think in retrospect if I were to do this again I would choose colours like Camille that fade into each other rather than randomly placed like I did here.

Peachy Keen and Dotty

Sorry I have been awol for a while.  Just been busy with work and stuff.  But I must share what I have been doing with my nails the past few weeks.

2 March 2012 
This manicure I did way back in March (the the 2nd or so).  Although the colours work well I was not impressed with my wonky dots!!  Nonetheless it was ok.

Item used:
Peach Keen by China Glaze
Ogre-The Top Blue by OPI
Three different sizes of dotting tool for the dots
Top coat of SV and voila.