First Attempt at Waterfall Nail Art - Fire Wall.

Hey everyone!

I hope everyone is well!

I tried something new for this week's design. It's something I've wanted to do for a while but just kind of forgot about until now. Usually I just look at my colours, pick out a bunch and wait to see what hits me. 

This time I decided I was going to do this design and just picked colours that worked. 

So, here is my first waterfall nail design, which turned out more like a fire wall. 

Fire Wall 

For this one I used the following colours & tools:

Sally Hansen - Sun Kissed
Sally Hansen - Hot Tamale
Sally Hansen - Cherry Red
Sally Hansen - Mellow Yellow
Thin & Long striping tool.
Sally Hansen - Kwik Dry Top Coat.

Fire Wall with Sun Kissed - Sally Hansen

To do this design I started with two coats of Mellow Yellow on two fingers, and two coats of Sun Kissed on my remaining nails. After drying, I took a sandwich bag and placed a blob each of Cherry Red, Hot Tamale, Sun Kissed & Mellow Yellow. Using my striping brush, I did one colour at a time across each nail, varying between lengths and location. I continued this with all four colours. Once complete & dry, I added the Kwik Dry Top Coat.

Fire Wall

This design was nice and easy. I'm not overly keen on my colour choices, but I still think it looks cool. Next time I might try doing a purple or a blue theme, as I have so many of these colours. I would have liked to have added a glitter or a metallic, but I didn't have one to match this theme. I also think a matte effect would have looked pretty cool on this one. 

What are your thoughts? Have you done something like this?

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Rainbow Zebra Print

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Hope everyone is feeling good!

I recently felt the need to create a rainbow gradient design, so I went ahead and did one! 
This is what I ended up with. I really love the way the gradient turned out, although you can barely see the green.

Rainbow Zebra Print

What I used:
Essie - Blanc
Chi Chi- Barbie Boy
Chi chi - Good Vibrations
Chi Chi - Boys Boys Boys
Chi Chi - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
Born Pretty - White Stamping polish

Born Pretty - Black stamping polish

Born Pretty - Stamping plate 16

Celestial - Camo Coat

Rainbow Gradient

I started with a base coat of Blanc. Whilst drying I used Camo Coat around the nails for easy clean up. I then applied stripes of Barbie Boy, Good Vibrations, Boys Boys Boys & Wake Me Up Before You Go Go to a cosmetic sponge and dabbed them onto the nail. Once I got to the opacity I wanted, I applied a quick dry top coat. After allowing it to dry I used Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Boys Boys Boys, Good Vibrations & Barbie Boy on stamping plate 16, then scraped and stamped onto my index nail. After cleaning the plate, I used Black stamping polish 
& did the same for all five nails. I did it once more with White stamping polish on my ring finger nail and finished with a quick dry top coat.

Rainbow Zebra Print with White stamping polish. 

This seems super intricate, but that is why we have stamping plates! These things are so easy and useful! I've not done double stamping before, and I found I did not like the white over black. If I re-did this design, I'd go with the white underneath the black... But, some things are just trial and error. Besides, it didn't turn out all bad!

What are your thoughts?
Let me know!

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Smoosh Marble Chevron

Hey everyone!

I hope ya'll have been well. 

I decided to try a little more free hand this time around. I'm not the best so I did get some help from my good friend, striping tape. 

This one is a little more complicated than usual, which is good because sometimes we all need a challenge. I tried two different techniques for this one due to a minor mishap, and decided on this one. If I did it again, I'd find another way because this one worked out a little better than the original technique. 

So here we have the Smoosh Marble Chevron design.

Smoosh Marble Chevron with Garden Variety - Essie

What I used:
Sea-ing Stars - Sally Hansen
Garden Variety - Essie
Blossom Dandy - Essie
Blanc - Essie
Lady in Black - OPI
Camo Coat - Celestial
Kwik Dry top coat - Sally Hansen
Striping tape
Striping brush

Smoosh Marble Chevron with Blossom Dandy - Essie

For this design I started with two coats of Blanc. While drying, I applied Camo Coat around the nails to protect from the next step. I dropped blobs of Sea-ing Stars, Garden Variety & Blossom Dandy onto a large stamper, then stamped them onto the nail, making sure to spread all the colours around. I then removed the Camo Coat, allowed the polish to dry and then added a quick dry top coat. For the two white nails, I placed two pieces of striping tape into a chevron shape and painted the top half with Blanc. I used Lady in Black and a thin striping brush to paint black chevron lines & a black line across the free edge. Finally, I finished with a quick dry top coat.  

Smoosh Marble Chevron with Sea-ing Stars - Sally Hansen

There you have it. I know this is not my best work, but I still love the way it looks. I am a little bit in love with smoosh marble nails, they always look amazing! And of course they're so easy!

Whats your opinion on smoosh marbles? Have you done them? Let me know.

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Distressed Sunset

Hello all! 

I hope everyone is doing well! This week has once again flown by! Before I know it, it'll be Christmas again. 


Today I have mixed two of my favorite techniques - dry brush & gradient - together to get this awesome design I call Distressed Sunset. It's edgy and cute at the same time. I love wearing this design.

Distressed Sunset Glossy Top Coat

The photo above is with a glossy top coat, but I ended up using a matte top coat to finish and I love the way it looks, I think it plays well with the pastel tones used and it kind of subdues the black so it's not as harsh. 

Distressed Sunset with glossy top coat & Barbie Boy - Chi Chi

So for this mani I used to the following
Barbie Boy - Chi Chi
Apricot Cockatoo - Essence
Lady In Black - OPI
Big Kwik Dry Top Coat - Sally Hansen
G'Day Matte Top Coat - piCture pOlish
Camo Coat - Celestial.

Distressed Sunset with Matte Top Coat

This was fairly simple. I applied two coats of Apricot Cockatoo & allowed to dry, then applied Kwik Dry top coat. I used Camo coat around my nails for easier clean up from the gradient. Once both were dry, I applied Apricot Cockatoo & Barbie Boy to a cosmetic sponge and dabbed it on all of my nails until a good opacity was reached. I removed the Camo coat once I was happy & cleaned up my cuticle areas with acetone and a clean up brush. Once the gradient was dry I applied Kwik Dry top coat to smooth it out. After drying, I took Lady In Black and wiped off as much excess polish as possible from the brush and applied it sporadically on all but one nail. Finished with G'Day Matte top coat, and voila! Here we have it. 

Distressed Sunset with Matte Top coat & Barbie Boy - Chi Chi

 As you have probably gathered by now, dry brush is my absolute favorite technique, and quite often my go-to. I've done a few others you can see here & here. Be sure to keep an eye out, as you will definitely see more of this. I've not done it like this before as I always thought it looked best over white, but I am slowly and surely expanding my horizons! 

Distressed Sunset with Matte Top Coat & Apricot Cockatoo - Essence

What are your two favorite techniques? Have you crossed them over before? Let me know and leave me links, I'd love to check them out!

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