I'm feeling Tigerish..How About You?

Happy Monday everyone!! This morning's nail art manicure is one I'm genuinely excited about!!  I was inspired by an comment on my personal facebook page about yesterday's blog post. I am so happy with how this came out that I got a little more creative with my pictures than I usually do!!

I'm holding a hand carved gazelle Tommy's parents got in Africa. I thought it fitting  for the theme.

There I'm holding a carved Lion. I cropped the head out of the picture since it's not actually a Tiger and to maintain some halfway decent proportions to the photo.

This one was relatively simple to do. I have the perfect golden/orange nail polish by Milani, Metallic Mango. Using a make-up sponge, I sponged on Milani's Golden Goddess  at a diagonal. Finally, using another make-up sponge, added white to the corner of each nail.  Using one of my newly purchased stamping plates I stamped on the stripes in black. A nice top coat of Seche Vite and *POOF* I have Tiger Nails!

I hope you enjoyed and if you gave this a try - post the link to it in the comments!! (Links to anything other than Tiger Nails will be deleted so be good!)

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.