Busy Bees

Good Morning and a Groovy Tuesday to you! I saw this awesome nail art yesterday on Nails Magazine's Nail Art Gallery and I knew right away I had to do it!!

So, in honor of the spring flowers, I bring you bees! You just can't have flowers without bees.

I am just in love with this nail art. It was much easier to do than I thought it would be. So either I'm getting much better at free-hand nail art, or it's easier than it looks. Maybe it's a combination of both! 

One more picture just because I think it's the cutest thing ever.

I used Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear, "Mellow Yellow" for this. It's honestly the best yellow for all the nail art I've done over the years. I did the rest using Acrylic Paint which has quickly become a staple for me. 

10 Little Bunnies in a Row

Happy Saturday everyone! I hope your Holiday Weekend is off to a wonderful start! Tonight is the big night when many parents and children will be gathering around the table to color eggs to hide tomorrow! I know that's what we're doing tonight. This will be the first year that my youngest child will get to color eggs. Because of the huge age difference between her and her next oldest sister, it has been a few years since I've done this. I'm very excited and looking forward to this family activity!

In honor of the Big Hunt to begin tomorrow, I have Easter Bunnies for you!! I don't have very many pastel colors in my collection and where I was lacking, I mixed up some acrylic paint to fill in the voids!

I easily could have taken 10 pictures of these cuties, but I think I will stop at just posting these two. The other two I have are pretty much identical to these two.

I hope you enjoyed my little bunnies today and tomorrow's nail art will try to include everything that makes Easter special to those that celebrate it.

Pop Goes the Chickie

Good Morning and Happy Friday Eve! I've just about exhausted my ideas for Easter Patterned nail art and now I'm moving onto other things within that Easter Theme. Today's nail of the day is Easter Eggs with a hatching chick as an accent nail. I'm going to just get right to the pictures today and let them speak for themselves!

I have no name for the purple, it was part of a "Sally's girl" neon collection but I felt this one should have a bright color rather than a pastel color. The yellow for the chick is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear, , and the rest of the chick I did in acrylic paint as well as the designs for the "eggs"

That's all for today's nail art. I spent quite a bit of time getting this chick right. I am not telling how many times I had to re-do that nail. I was determined to get it right, even going so far as to looking up tutorials about doing chick nails. I am glad I stuck it out,  I'm more than happy with how it finally came out. Always seems to be worth the effort to do and re-do as many times as I need until I'm finally happy with it.

Will you be coloring eggs this year? 

Fly Butterflies Fly

Happy Saturday to you! This morning's nail art is inspired by a few different things. The first one is the gazillion of butterflies we have everywhere happily flitting around a bunch of flowering weeds we have here and there. It adds to the ambiance, love to sit in my yard and just read a book in the sunshine! Add that to the many butterfly tutorial on YouTube and pinterest - there's no way I can NOT do at least one.

I think I went a little too over the top with the dots, but I can always do less dots going forward. 

That's going to be it for today - I hope your weekend is off to a great start!!

Trying new things

Happy Friday everyone!! I hope your weekend is off to a great start! I know mine certainly is. I'm very excited to show you today's nail art! I really had trouble sleeping the other night because I was just that excited about how these came out.

I had been meaning to try my hand incorporating acrylic paint in my nail art and I finally got the paint to give it a shot.  I'm still very much in the spring vibe so I started with flowers!

I'm so very happy with how this ultimately turned out. In my mind, I still need to work on forming the flower petals and leaves, but even with the not quite perfection, I'm totally digging this! I'm also loving it that my camera managed to catch a bit of the holo for the accent bits. It's a very strong non-linear holo and that the picture came out very much how it did in person brings me much joy.

This one is in honor of the opening of "Hunger Games" tonight. I did a gradient using my hunger games polish and white and orange acrylic paints to do the flower. The flower is supposed to represent the flowers that Katniss covers her fellow tribute and ally in during the story. I love this one as well and used a gold holo to accent the orange. The holo is not as strong in person as it is for the one above - but I didn't want to obscure anything by usin such a strong holo. 

I hope you enjoyed today's trials and any feedback you have about these designs would be awesome!! Suggestions are always great too ;)