Nautical Nail Art

Hello everyone,

Earlier in the week, I was super excited because this week are going to put my brothers new sailboat "Riders on the storm" in the water for the first time!  This inspired some nautical themed nail polish.

A sailboat and anchor! I love accent nails! 

The base color for this polish is Revlon "Fashionista" It is a wonderful blue-green shade.  Not quick dry.  Revlon formulas always apply smoothly and this polish was full coverage in 2 coats. The brush for revlon polishes is easy to work with and medium thickness.  

To paint the sailboat, I started with the red bottom. I used my acrylic paints.  After painting the bottom, I made a straight line using the brown from the base of the boat to the top. 

After that, I just painted little triangles on either side of the pole with white for the sails. 

When you are done, you can go back and touch it up with any of the colors you want. I thought I painted the sail on the left a little too big, so I went in with my nail art brush and put a little more nail polish over that area. I also accidentally got some white paint on my index finger nail, and I used the regular polish to cover that up as well. 

Blueberry Jam nail

Today I went to my parents house to make jam with my mom. We made blueberry and raspberry flavors. It looks delicious and I can't wait to eat it tomorrow for breakfast.  My manicure was inspired by our blueberry jam. Enjoy! 

                                                   

Blueberries on the vine!

For this manicure I used NYC Quick Dry in Uptown as the base color on both thumbs.
The next part is the secret to doing this manicure. Instead of nail polish for the design, I actually used acrylic paint. Thats right, regular acrylic paint like you can buy in the craft store. It is safe and non-toxic. If you mess up, just wash your hands with soap and water and it comes right off! Cool right? It is actually much more opaque than regular nail polish so you only have to do one coat. It is also a lot more firm, so it will not run while you use it .

My cheepo acrylic paints that I bought at the craft store for $4

I started off by making the dark blue dots for the blueberries. I used the end of the paintbrush without bristles, and just dipped it in the darker blue paint then pushed it against the nail with different pressures to make circles of different sizes. I used the paintbrush end because my dotting tool didn't make the circles as big as I wanted them. Next, I made a smaller light blue dot inside each darker blue one. 

After that, I painted the vines. I used the darker brown paint and put some accents in with the lighter paint. Then, I used green to paint some leaves.

I used the blueberry thumb as an accent nail, and painted the other nails with Sur La Pointe Des Pedis Tip Toe polish in Navy. I got this in Old Navy last year. I think it is from the Sara Jessica Parker line. It looks black in the pictures but it is actually a really beautiful navy color. It also has great application with full coverage color in just one coat. 

I also painted my moms nails for her!

The color is Revlon Teak Rose. As usual, I used Revlon Quick Dry top and base coat.

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.