Flowering Bride

Good Morning and Happy Saturday!! I hope your weekend is off to a good start!  I'm continuing my bridal theme today and today's mani I'm going to show you a design in different mediums. Straight nail polish, using Gelish UV Soak off Gel Polish, and finally in acrylic. Let's get right to the nail art, shall we?

These are dried flowers that I purchased from Born Pretty, one of my favorite online sources for nail art materials. Although, I understand that I may soon have a more local to me source and I'm all for supporting budding businesses in my state.  I normally like to do this with a rhinestone center but I'm currently out of the correct size and I thought I'd see how it looked using micro-beads as a center. I'm pleased with the outcome. We can't have the fingernail bling outshining the bling on the finger at a wedding now, can we?

Here is the exact same design using Gelish. Because the tips I had prepped were clear, I went ahead and added a base layer of pink to make the nails opaque. I used structure gel to "embed" the microbead centers and keep them firmly secure to the nail.

Here, we again have the flowers with micro-bead centers but now they are completely embedded in acrylic. I layered a glitter gelish polish and the gelish topcoat over the acrylic to give the design the same glittery look as the other mediums. Although, I could have also done this by mixing super fine glitter in with my acrylic powder. Finding loose, super fine, holo glitter is a bit of a challenge.

I hope you enjoyed today's Bridal Looks and it gave you something to consider, not just for your wedding but for those other special occasions. Some art can be done in other mediums, especially with fun things like nail foils, etc. Thank for reading and I'll see you tomorrow!!

14 Day of Love - Day 6

Happy Monday! As I promised yesterday, I took a little extra time and added some fun glitter to today's mani. It's supposed to be a pink glitter and it's definitely pink in the jar, but when you put it on the nail, it's comes out a more coral color. I still like it very much and I used it often in some of my acrylic designs. I hope you enjoy!

This is in shade

This is in direct sunlight

I hope you enjoyed today's nail art. I absolutely have to do some more with nail glitter  next week. 

I am already contemplating what I'll be posting after Valentine's Day but before St. Patricks. I have been wanting to highlight some of my fun acrylic materials and a few designs to go with them.  As I have mentioned before, I cannot put acrylic on my nails because I have sensitivities when applied to my own nails. I hadn't given up on the concept and I think I have figured out how I can do it without torturing myself.  Who remembers "Press On Nails?" Did you know you can still buy the press on gum used for those kits? We'll see how long it takes me to create the acrylic nails to "press" on before I decide if it'll just be a weekly feature for awhile or an every day topic.



Birthday Mani Quest

I finally have sorted out all my pictures and edited *everything* that was on my camera. It's all neatly organized and tucked away on an external USB drive. Yay!  Time to start working on those posts for the 31 Day Challenge! woohooo!!

Last night I had to remove the acrylic overlay from my nails. It was driving me crazy. My nails get sooo itchy. I don't have that problem working with acrylic in general but gosh does it drive me insane if I try and wear it! It's truly the itch you cannot scratch! I'm not too sad about not being able to wear it for my birthday since I really only slapped it on there and I was quite sloppy about it. I was really only looking to get feedback on the color and glitter combo. Any constructive criticisms u have about the mixture, plz feel free to share.

That picture was taken in full sun.

This was taken indoors with a flash. I am not set up to take pictures indoors so it is not as good as the outdoor one but you at least get the idea.  I don't think I like the idea of it being full coverage the way it is in the photos, but i definately think it would be awesome in a variation of french tips or something similar.

I  still need to find something to do for my mani tomorrow.  Since I broke BOTH of my ring finger nails down to the nail beds, I have to trim the rest super short to keep them from looking silly.  Whatever I come up with must be for short nails. I'm half tempted to just paint them with China Glaze's Ruby Pumps and not do any nail art at all and just do my toes to match.  I love that polish sooo very much! Of course, I have a few other polishes that I'm currently in love with that I haven't worn on my own hands at all and it might be fun to try one of those out. Whatever mani I do will be doing double duty as my NYE mani as well. I wonder if I can pull off striping my toes with black, white, and gold glitter?

Nawww, I think I'll do the stripes on just the big toe....let the rest of my toes be sparkly.

In other news. I'm back to sharing a computer with my Fiance, Tom. At least I have access to all of my pictures and the internet and right now, I'm grateful for that much. We have some ideas to try and get me back up and running, but who knows how that is going to turn out. At least I'm not going two steps forward and six steps backwards.