Feeling like spring

I recently made a whole lot of purchases for my nails and I can't wait to use them!!  I'm most excited about the square studs (but I need to figure out how to glue them on properly, I bought nail glue but so far all I've done is coat all my fingers in glue ... not fun).  I also bought a lot of paint brushes and I finally sat down and tried to do something with it.  If you know me, you know that I have ZERO artistic ability, I keep trying and trying and failing and failing ... but hey, it's fun anyway :-)  So here's one I tried to do free hand.

Base:  OPI - No Room for the blues

Flowers:  OPI - mod about you (used a fan brush to brush it on the corners of my nails)

                OPI - Black Onyx (used a brush to outline flowers and do the centres)

                Konad - white stamping polish (added some white lines for depth)

Polka Dot Chevrons

So I recently made a trip to 'The Nail Depot' in Pickering.  Wow!  love that place!!  Their prices on OPI and Seche Vite are AMAZING!  If you live in that area go check it out.  You can see their pricing online but their website is a little clunky to navigate so I suggest going in.  They also have a lot of other stuff, I bought myself a dotting tool (finally) and a couple of nail brushes which I am dying to use.  So here's what I decided to do with the dotting tool ....

Base:  OPI - Mod about you

Dots:  OPI - Onyx

Oh ... this is not a paid advertisement for the nail depot ... I just actually love that place :-)

Bed of Roses

I keep seeing these roses around but I always figured that it was way too advanced for me.  I don't really have any artistic talent ... never have.  So believe me when I say that if I can do this, so can you.  All you need is one of those dotting tools.  Don't have one?  You can you the head of a pin if you have one of those lying around (not the tip, it's too small, but the round head part).  And you need a few colours of polish.  Here's what I used

Base -OPI Black Onyx
For the flowers - Sally Hansen Insta-Dry in Lively Lilac and OPI Alpine Snow
Leaves - China Glaze Tree Hugger
Accent Finger - Hard Candy Pixie Pink

If you live in Canada, Hard Candy is now selling a HUGE line of sparkle polishes.  They're awesome, and about $4 a pop at Walmart.  I bought a bunch of them and I still want more ... clearly I have a problem :-)

Here's what I used .. my polishes, my dotting tool and a piece of paper.

Step 1: Apply two dots of one of your flower polishes (okay, I guess this is step 2, the first step is really to put on about 2 coats of the colour you want as your background and make sure it's really dry before you put on the roses)

Step 2: Apply two dots of your other flower polish in between those two dots

Step 3: Use your dotting tool to swirl the colours around in a circle motion (only swirl in one direction) - sorry I had to switch nails for the picture, that insta-dry really does dry fast, it was almost dry in the time it took me to take a picture of it!!)

Step 4: Use the dotting tool and your green nail polish to swipe on little leaves

Step 5: Wait for them to dry and then apply your favourite top coat (I used Seche Vite)

You can glam it up even more with super sparkles like OPI's Rainbow Connection

Or you can make it light and pretty by putting it over a jelly colour like OPI's You Callin' me a Lyre

Enjoy!  And Happy Polishing!