Paint Drip Manicure

Hey everyone!

My my nail art design today was inspired by an awesome video tutorial from Juliatmll on youtube!
Click below to watch.  Above is my finished manicure.  Below are some other helpful hints on how to create this on your own.

1.  If you read my post yesterday,  I am sure that you saw the ugly white polish after one coat. It looked pretty streaky, but much better after two. Even though there were still a few streaks, I didn't paint a third white coat, because I knew I was going to paint the drips on top and I didn't want to make the polish too thick.  After I applied the colored polish, the few white streaks were not noticeable.

2. I used a nail dotting tool for the bottom of the drops.  You can see what mine looks in the picture below.  It has a nail art brush on one end, and the dotting tool on the other.  If you don't want to buy one, you can just use a pin head or bobby pin.  I got my dotting tool at Sally's Beauty Supply. It was only a few dollars.

3. To draw the lines, I actually used a thin paintbrush which I got from the craft store. It is meant for acrylics. It is long and thin, and i found that this kind of brush was easier to make straight lines with than the shorter brush on the end of my dotting tool. 

For this manicure, I used Orly French Tip in Softest White, Cover Girl Boundless Color in Candy Apple, Kiss Nail art paint in Beach Yellow, NYC In a Minute Quick Dry in East Village, and NYC In a Minute Quick Dry in High Line Green.  As usual, I used Revlon quick dry base and top coat. 

On another note, the first finger I painted was the red thumbs.  I think it looks like dripping blood. Maybe I will use part of this for a halloween manicure. Do you think it would creep out my patients?  

My first post... Fruit Stripe Gum Nail Art

Hello everyone!

Thanks for visiting.  This is my first post ever, on my brand new nail polish blog. I have loved nail polish since I was a child, but over the past few years my nail polish obsession has grown to a new level.  This is my way to share my love of polish with all of you! 

Do you remember Fruit stripe gum? If you grew up in the 90's, I bet you do. You know, it came in a  package with a zebra on the front and temporary tattoos on each of the wrappers?  We all know the only reason we loved it so much was because of those tattoos. It certainly wasn't because of the flavor, because that only lasted for about 20 seconds.  My manicure today was inspired by Zebra Stripe Gum.

For this manicure, I started by using Revlon Quick Dry Base coat, which I have been using as a base coat for all my manicures lately.  My base color was Ulta OH!  I then used two of my Kiss Nail Art Stripers in Neon Orange and Beach Yellow to draw stripes on the nails. I also used a nail art paintbrush from Sallys Beauty Supply to turn Revlon Top Speed Guava and 10 #407 into stripes as well. I finished off with the Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat. 

Is case anyone is wondering what Kiss Nail art Stripers are, these are them. They come in a thin bottle with a very narrow brush, perfect for nail art. I bought them before I discovered that you could just buy the nail art brush at the beauty supply store and clean it off with polish remover and use it with any polish.