Dissatisfaction

Good Morning! I know my blog post is late but I was just too tired last night to write it and severely lacking in the inspiration. I had done my latest Gelish in this lovely green. It's an amazing sparkly green and I love the color. You might have noticed  that my last few posts have not featured my hands, a large part of that is because many of the nail arts I wanted to do just don't go with this color and one of the designs I apparently am unable to do on my own nails.

All that being said, I still tried to do a nail art with this color and I'm just not satisfied with it. All is not lost though!! I finally got my order from born pretty store.

As you can see from the picture, that's a whole lot of stamping plates but it also is dried flowers (clear round containers) and resin rhinestones (in the little baggie). With much encouragement from my significant other, I ran to my studio to check them out.

Again, the color became an issue but I think I did ok moving past it. 

Going forward, I'll have to keep in mind that this color really is only for wearing by itself.  In the meantime, I'm taking it off a week early and I think I'll go with a clear for now and start wearing some of my bolder nail arts on both hands! 

Wild Saturday Night Mani!

Good Morning everyone!! As you all know, my latest obsession is tutorials on YouTube, and I decided to give these animal print ones a try. I've already done several versions of the cheetah print - so this time I actually did it in the "natural" colors.

From left to right: a full Cheetah Print, a zebra print "french", a "cow" print french, a giraffe print french and finally a tiger print french. A few more pictures because I just love these.

I had made previous attempts at these nails but I just couldn't seem to the get the hang of doing it on my own hand. I guess some nail arts I'll never be able to do on myself. For these I used polish except for the giraffe and the actual print. I didn't have a polish color that even came close to the ones I needed to do the giraffe, so I used acrylic to do the french part too.

Thanks for checking out my blog post today! I hope you enjoyed.  I also spent last night working on my own nails for Tommy's Grandfather's 91st birthday! I have no idea if I'll post them right away or not. It really depends on how I feel when I get home tonight, and do I feel like working on this or not. 

Pink Cheetahs Running Wild

Today's mani is a little funky. I wanted to practice working on doing a cheetah print free hand. I've poured over tutorials and such and today's post showcases my best efforts on that front.

Although not nearly as perfect as it can be if I keep practicing this one - I've made definite improvements over my previous efforts as you can see when you compare it to the Animal Print I did during the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge. The technique is completely different and in my opinion much better than the one I was using before.  I also think the improvement in the brushes I was using also made a huge difference. I feel like this time I was using the right tools for the job.

I want to put together a simple set of nail arts that I can do quick and easy as part of a "free demo" to market myself and my skills. For sure something to think about.

Enjoy the rest of your day and woohoo! It's Saturday! Yay!