Neon Dry Brush Nail Art

Hi there!
I hope you're all well!

I've had a great day doing my nails. I have been having a few struggles with nail art lately, which has been stressing me out and doing no favours for my motivation/inspiration.
BUT, today I was FINALLY able to get past my frustrations and continue without getting disheartened. I must say it felt really good! Hopefully this feeling sticks around because I've missed doing my nails regularly!  

This week I have drawn inspiration from a few lovely little pieces of "art" hanging on my wall. I say "art" with quotation marks because technically they are birthday cards, all with a similar design theme, that I thought looked really cool (see below for pictures).
So, I cut them in half and hung them in the perfectly sized space above my wardrobe. I love waking up and just staring at these cute little animals with all the neon colours surrounding them, and it didn't take long for me to realize that this would be a fabulous look on my nails! Unfortunately I am pretty useless at any kind of REAL art, so I omitted the animals and just went with the colours. As usual, keep reading for the nail polish and tools used in this design. 

Neon Dry Brush Nail Art

I used these polishes:
Blanc by Essie
Lady In Black by OPI
Tahiti by ULTA3
Big Primer Base Coat by Sally Hansen
Kwik Dry Top Coat by Sally Hansen

Tools I used:
Liquid Latex by LuLaa

Neon Dry Brush Nail Art with Blanc by Essie

I started with Big Primer Base Coat. Once dry, I applied two coats of Blanc; the white base tends to amplify and really bring out the brightness of these neon polishes. Before continuing, I applied liquid latex around each nail. Once visibly dry, I grabbed Lady In Black and wiped a fair bit of excess polish off the brush using the neck of the bottle. I didn't remove too much as I wanted it to still be opaque and dense. I then wiped the polish onto the nail in various locations and directions, making sure not to be too heavy handed with it, as I wanted to keep a relatively even amount of each colour. Once I was satisfied with Lady In Black, I moved onto Tahiti and repeated the process - again, trying not to over power the other colours. I then removed the liquid latex and finished with a coat of Kwik Dry Top Coat to seal it all in. 

Neon Dry Brush with Tahiti

I love this design, and I'm just a little bit obsessed with this awesome bright orange!
It's actually a perfect match to the design I pulled my inspiration from, which makes it even better.
I originally intended to incorporate a few different neon colours into this design - one on each nail or maybe just two different colours - but when I went to grab some colours, I found my collection TERRIBLY lacking in neon polishes and I was quite disappointed... So I DEFINITELY need to improve my neon collection!

All in all though, I think this design would work well with any colour; neon or other wise. Black and white goes with everything, of course! (I should know, half our house is black and white - haha)

As always, I'd love to know your thoughts!
Let me know what colours YOU would use to create this awesome design.

Thanks for stopping by!  

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art

Hey everyone. 

It's starting to look a lot like spring around here. We've had two sunny days in a row! Which seems to be some sort of magic at the moment. So, to celebrate this, here's my first attempt at a stone marble design using neon colours. 

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art Design

For this design, I used these items:
Hidden Treasure - BYS
Citrus - ulta3
Atomic Oj - ulta3
Fruit Tingle - ulta3
Tahiti - ulta3
Large Stamper
Camo Coat - Celestial

Neon Stone Marble with Hidden Treasure - BYS 

I started with Hidden Treasure for the base coat, three coats to get a decent opacity. After allowing them to dry, I grabbed a plastic sandwich bag. Taking each polish, Citrus, Tahiti, Atomic Oj and Fruit Tingle, I dropped each colour on top of the next to create a bulls eye. I made two of these close to each other. Then I picked up the bag and started rotating to swirl the polish around and create a stone-like pattern. Once I was happy and before the polish dried, I used a stamper to pick up the pattern and transfer it to my ring finger. Then I finished off with a quick dry top coat.
 

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art with Citrus - ulta3

That's all for this one. This one was really fun. I tried this out so many times beforehand to figure out the best way to get the look I wanted. I was going to turn this into a decal and put it on after drying but they take a long time to dry and I'm a little impatient. Haha. Eventually I would like to try doing it that way because using a stamper de-saturated it, which kind of sucked, but I wasn't too mad about it.

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art Close Up

I'm pretty happy with the end result, especially since I wasn't sure it would work.
What are your thoughts?
Have you tried this?
If so, I'd love to see it!
Leave me a comment below and I'll check it out. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Hawaiian Neon Splatter Nail Art

Hey everyone!

It's a lovely overcast day here, so let's brighten it up a little!

I recently bought a few of these awesome fluoro/neon colours from ultra3. This is a brand of nail polish I grew up on. It was cheap and readily available at most chemists. I totally forgot about it and honestly thought it didn't exist anymore, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that it's still around, and still cheap! Happy days!

These colours are so bright and fun. Of course, I had to do a summer theme for these, so I went with this Hawaiian style design. 

Hawaiian Neon Splatter with Fruit Tingle - ultra3

I used the following:

Blanc - Essie
Fruit Tingle - ultra3
Tahiti - ultra3
Citrus - ultra3
Black Stamping polish - Born Pretty
春の歌 17 (According to google translate it's Spring Song) - Stamping plate
A Straw

Hawaiian Neon Splatter with Tahiti - ultra3

To create this look I started with two coats of Blanc and allowed to dry. I applied Camo Coat around each nail and part way up my fingers, as this technique gets extremely messy. Once the Camo Coat was dry, I took a clean straw and dipped it into the bottle of Tahiti. After allowing some of the polish to drip out, I then blew into the straw, causing the polish to splatter over the nail. I made sure to cover my desk with paper towels to catch any excess. I did this for all three colours, making sure to cut the straw after each use to prevent the colours from mixing. Once I was satisfied with all nails, I took a clean up brush dipped in acetone and cleaned up the edges, as a lot of polish tends to pool in these areas. After removing the Camo Coat and allowing the polish to dry, I used Black stamping polish and plate 17 to add the palm trees and flowers, then finished with a quick dry top coat. 

Hawaiian Neon Splatter with Citrus - ultra3

I really enjoyed this one. The straw technique is super fun, totally messy, and always looks awesome! I have done this before with black polish, you can check it out here.
I really like the way that these colours look together with this technique.

The only downside to this technique is that it CAN cause small air bubbles to form in the polish, so that's something to be aware of.

Hawaiian Neon Splatter

What do you think? Have you tried this technique? Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for stopping by!

Neon Studded Nail Art

Hello all!

I hope everyone is staying cool through this massive heatwave currently bombarding the country.

I'm doing yet another summer inspired look this week. I recently bought a whole bunch of nail gem wheels off eBay for $1 each. I've wanted to get my hands on these ones for a while and so once they came in I had to use them! What goes better with neon than white?

Neon Studded Nail Art

Here's the final product! Super basic, but still huge impact. I have to admit, I love simple nail art for many reasons, mainly because they're quick and easy. I also love the more intricate ones.

So I have done two coats of blanc by Essie. I applied a top coat to one nail at a time & used tweezers to adhere the studs starting with the one closest to the cuticle. I then used a top coat over the entire nail, including the studs. Each finger uses different coloured studs for a bit of variety.

I really loved this mani because the white made my skin look more tan, the studs are super awesome and I love all the different colours.  

Neon Studded Nail Art with Blanc - Essie

Neon Studded Nail Art with stud wheel

So this wheel came with both round and square studs in blue, purple, pink, green, yellow and orange. I decided to use the square studs because I thought that they would work better with this particular design.

Which colour studs do you like the best? Would you do different colours or all the same?

Thanks for stopping by!