Monday, 30 June 2014

Canada Day Nails

All ready for Canada Day with my maple leaf sticker making the design so much easier.  I used Sally Hansen Diamond Strength 360 Diamonds and Rubies for the outer fingers and Sally Hansen Hard as Nails 300 White On  for the middle fingers to create the flag colours and then added the sticker and put my top coat over it all.  I'll probably end up picking the sticker off tomorrow since it's got a point that didn't sit well but it looks nice for the picture!!


Saturday, 28 June 2014

Canadian Colours

Since I have gay pride on my one hand I needed some Canadian colours on my other.  I went with a water marble technique, still trying to work on that too.... Fewer mishaps this time.  The thumb turned out the worse and as you can see I just omitted it from the pictures.  haha  Colour used were Sally Hansen Diamond Strength 360 Diamonds and Rubies and Sally Hansen Hard as Nails 300 White On.




Toronto Gay Pride

Toronto is hosting World Pride this weekend and I'm showing my pride colours.  I love working with a rainbow and have done similar designs before.  I tried to ombre this one a bit but it didn't quite work out.  It's still nice looking and gets my support shown.  As you can see I do not stick with just one brand of polish.  Below are Sally Hansen Hard as Nails 300 White On, Sally Hansen DIamond Strength 360 Diamonds and Rubies, Sally Hansen Hard as Nails 150 Sun Kissed, Avon sunshine, Revlon Top Speed 330 Emerald, Kozmic colours dollar store no name blue and Revlon Top Speed Dress Code.





Essie Bungle Jungle

I bought this polish because it's a pretty red and was on sale at this discount store I occasionally visit.  I went again and it was even more discounted so I bought 2 more bottles then needed something to spruce up the colour and added this pretty gold from Billie cosmetics to make a french tip.  Simple but I like it.



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Sunday, 8 June 2014

Robin Moses Cherry Blossoms

I decided to do a design I have done before but it was so well received by friends and just so gorgeous and easy to do I wanted to give it another whirl.  I need to stop mixing my paints too much.  My pink blossoms should be a mixture of pinks and lighter pinks but they're all the same colour because I over mix.  I remember doing this with a white chocolate and dark chocolate bark I made once.  "Less is More" just doesn't seem to compute well with me. As always practice practice practice.
I also bought 4 new polishes on the weekend.  2 for $4 was a deal I couldn't pass up.  This is the White On 300 by Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear.  Only two (thick) coats and I got good coverage.
Here is my end result as well as the video for trying it on your own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zm5Cr-flNQ