Gradients on my mind

A Groovy Good Morning to everyone!! I know I talked about posting my "Hunger Games Mani" today but I did the Mani and after looking at the pictures, I'm just unhappy with how it came out. I'll be taking another shot at it really soon, so don't think I forgot about it. I mean, how can I? I have all those amazing polishes just calling my name.

I do however have a design for you today that includes one of the Hunger Games polishes, Stone Cold. I've been almost obsessed with doing gradients lately and I'm just letting that impulse run rampant since it's something I do well. Now, on to the pictures!

I originally stamped the flower on, but even with such a dark color, it came out very faint looking and the bottom 2/3 of the flower was barely visible. So, I just took a fine tipped brush and the actual polish color and darkened it. It doesn't show well in the photos, but I made a center dot from a gold holo polish by Color Club's Art Club. I really liked this color combo and I thought about this specific gradient when I was in Sally's buying the polish. I realized the silver foil I was looking to get for stamping would look awesome with it - that put it at the top of my "to-do-NOW" list.  It vaguely reminds me of the book cover for Hunger Games, at least as far as the color scheme goes. One more pictures because I really love the colors.

I love that colors are bold but not LOUD. I personally love to wear loud colors on my fingers but not everyone does, so I try to come up with designs that fall into that. What do you think? Is it bold but quietly so?

14 Days of Love - Day 10!

Today's post is both late and is going to be short.

I did a Guest Post on glazedtalons's blog and I highly recommend that you cruise around and read.  Two of the three nail arts I did are valentine's day themed and I posted one of them yesterday as your sneak peek.

More Nail Art pix posted here tomorrow!!

14 Days of Nail Art - Day 8

Well Wednesday is finally here! If you don't hear from me today...don't worry! I was not eaten alive by a spaghetti monster at the fundraiser last night. I am more than likely hiding away in my work space and working on a guest post I'm doing involving Gelish color mani's that have nail art using traditional polishes. I'll be sure to put a link here when that guest post is posted.

Now, onto today's mani!



With No Flash

With a Flash

As you can see from the first picture, this base color does have a gold shimmer to it. It also really is that much of a bubble gum pink - the shimmer keeps the intensity of hue from being too loud. I got a suggestion to do a design to highlight the holiday but still be suitable for a conservative workplace environment and I decided to run with it. What do you think? See any lawyers, investment bankers and the like sporting this look next week?