Geode Nail Art

Hello everyone!

I hope you're doing well today. I had a good weekend, despite the crappy weather we had yesterday.
My sister came to visit, so that brightened things up a bit.


Once again, I got my inspiration from a collection of nail polishes I bought last week. They were a series of glitters and shimmers from Ulta3 that I could not resist. I put them on my newly installed nail polish shelf (that my amazing partner built for me), in the designated "unused" section. This is where I put new polishes that I have yet to use.
These polishes were staring me in the face every time I was on my computer, inspiring me with their glittery and shimmery goodness, so I decided to try out a geode design. I've been wanting to do one of these for a while, but the other methods I've seen look pretty time consuming and honestly, I don't really have the patience for it. Ha ha. 

Below, I've listed all the polishes and tools I used to create this glittering nail art. 

Geode nail art in direct sunlight

Here's the polishes I used:

New Years Eve by Ulta3 (Blue glitter)
Spark It Up by Ulta3 (Gold glitter)
Twinkle Toes by Ulta3 (Silver glitter)
Infamous by Ulta3 (Blue/Green fine glitter)
Enchanted by Ulta3 (Purple and green duo chrome)
Big Peel Off Base Coat by Sally Hansen
Kwik Dry Top Coat by Sally Hansen

Here's the tools I used as well:

Short striping brush
Dotting tool
Sandwich bag

Geode nail art in indirect light

I started with a coat of Big Peel Off Base Coat, in order to assist with removing this mass of glitter.
Can you imagine trying to get this off with acetone? No thank you!
Once that was dry, I applied two coats of Enchanted as my base colour. While I waited for that to dry, I collected my glitter polishes, a sandwich bag and my brushes. Using Infamous, I painted a small amount somewhere in the middle of the nail, varying the shape and size of coverage on each nail to get a more natural stone shape. I did look up geodes online to get a rough idea.
I placed a large blob of New Years Eve onto the bag, then used a short striping brush to pick up as much glitter as possible and started painting it on around the previously applied Infamous. As it turned out, this brush didn't work out very well, so I switched to a small dotting tool instead. This enabled me to pick up more pieces of glitter and less polish.
I was then able to place the large glitters wherever I wanted to. 
Moving on to Twinkle Toes, I repeated this process, using the dotting tool to place glitters around New Years Eve. This created another layer to the geode.
For the final layer I used the short striping brush to paint a smaller amount of Spark It Up around the silver glitter. I decided not to apply as much gold glitter; as I still wanted the base colour to come through, I only applied small amounts randomly around the silver glitter.
After allowing plenty of time to dry, I finished off with a Kwik Dry Top Coat. 

Geode nail art with Infamous in indirect light

I lovvvvvved this design!
It's so shiny, I couldn't help but wriggle my fingers every time my nails caught the light.
So magical!
Each of these colours are so beautiful in their own way. 

On the downside, it ended up being so thick!
Due to the amount of clear polish going on with the glitter, it created a mini polish mountain (polish hill maybe? ha ha).
Luckily I put the peel off base coat on, otherwise this would have been a nightmare!

Geode nail art with Enchanted in direct sunlight

I was so happy that I managed to get all but one of these new polishes into this design. The other one is a bright red glitter, so it wasn't going to fit into this design very nicely.
That's okay though, I'm pretty sure I will be able to do something awesome with that one another time.
Keep your eyes out for that one! 

What do you think? 
Have you done a geode style nail art?
Leave me a comment below.

Thanks for stopping by!

Ohh Shiny! Sequins & Metallic Nail Art

Hello lovely people.

I know we are currently within the holiday seasons, but as I detest all things Christmas, I won't be doing any kind of festive nail art this year (Here is one from last Christmas). Instead, I am opting for my usual style, what ever the heck I feel like, gosh! (little Napoleon Dynamite reference there). I will be focusing mainly on summer themes. This one how ever, is something I've wanted to do for a while. I have purchased a multitude of these nail sequins and they're just sitting in my nail art box, waiting for the day I'm brave enough to try them out. That time has finally come!  

Ohh Shiny! Nail Art

I used these polishes:

Ready To Take Off by UNT Cosmetics (peel off base coat)
A Mermaid's Tale by Face Of Australia, from the Calypso Bay collection
Kwik Dry Top Coat by Sally Hansen

The only products I used were the sequins which happen to have the longest product name ever! They're from Born Pretty store and the 'colour code' is 11.

Ohh Shiny! Nail Art with A Mermaids Tale

For this nail art, I applied a thin coat of Ready To Take Off. I did this so it'd be a hell of a lot easier to remove the sequins. I'm really not sure how these would go with acetone, but I can imagine it would not be fun. Once that was completely dry, I applied two coats of A Mermaids Tale. I then removed a small amount of the sequins from the jar and spread them out on my desk - this makes it a little easier to pick them up. I have a bottle of Kwik Dry Top Coat that's gotten a little gluggy with age, so I used this as a glue. I placed a small dot of polish onto my ring finger, placed a sequin on the polish and pressed it onto the nail using my finger. I continued this using various sizes to fill the nail as much as possible. I then placed a small dot of polish on my index and middle finger, then placed a large sequin on each of them. I finished with my non-gluggy Kwik Dry Top Coat. 

Ohh Shiny! Nail Art with Born Pretty Sequins

This didn't turn out exactly as I had planned it in my head and I know exactly why. Some of these sequins are thicker than I had originally thought. Being that I was applying a flat, non-malleable item onto a rounded surface, there were bound to be some issues. If you look closely at some of the larger ones you'll see they are slightly raised when placed outside the center of my nail. I think if I were to do this again I'd use a lot more of the smaller ones and stick to the center of the nail for the larger ones. 

I do love these colours together, though. The metallic polish being so close to the greeny-blue sequins was pretty exciting. I haven't really used this polish much, due to the streaky nature of it. But for this, I think it totally works. 

What do you think?
Do you like sequins in nail art?
Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for stopping by!