Metallic Animal Print

So, I didn't know what I wanted to do with my nails so I just rummaged through my polishes and found these two dollar store metallics by Kozmic Colours and throught they would look great together.  Then I wasn't sure which to use as an accent nail.... so I asked my cat to choose.  I like her choice haha.  I went a day with them just painted plain and the next night added the detailing.  Here are the end results.

Mom's Pick

So, on facebook there was a post for having your loved one pick the colours of your next nail design.  Well I had my mom over and she picked my colours for me.  She knows I love purple so it played the theme in my nail art last week.  (yes, I'm delayed at posting the pictures)  The light purple is an old dollar store polish by Misslyn number 815, the dark purple is Revlon Plum Glitz and the pink is another dollar store purchase Sweet Serenity.  I did my nails one morning when awoken by construction outside my house so there wasn't a design in mind, I just played around with colours and patterns and ended up with this.  Not my best work but I'd only gotten 4 hours sleep so what can be expected?

Pink Flowers with Silver

I found this lovely flower pattern done by Tarteofraises and I wanted to give it a try.  I put the colours (8808 Shocker by Rimmel and NL N16 Pink Friday by OPI) on thick and quickly and then tried to pull them down towards the corner of my nail but it didn't work so well.  I tried with a toothpick and then my paint brush but neither really got the look I wanted.  I went with it anyways and added the silver using Quo by Orly 59703 Platinum Glitter which is a striping brush. I know that when Chris really likes it I've done a good job.

Black and Gold Chevron Tip

I got this idea from a picture advertising Cult Cosmetics.  It looked simple enough. I started with a Wet n Wild black and did the first half of the chevron from mid nail diagonally across until the tip.  For the other side I didn't go quite as far up the nail for that side.  Once dried I then went over the short chevron side with Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear 485 Golden-I from the middle of the nail where the other side started that way it has a symmetrical look but with gold on the one side. As I attach the images I realize the original has the gold alternating sides... whatever...  haha

Yellow Flowers

If you leave clover around long enough it flowers with cute little 5 petal flowers.  I dried a few and put them on my nails.  I haven't perfected how to not have them fall apart between drying and applying but I got a few that turned out okay.  I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear: Sun Kissed 150 as my base for the yellow nails and Sally Hansen Hard as Nails 300 White On  for the flower nails.  I then applied the dried flowers that dried in one piece and added a bit of needed bling to my middle nail with a stone from a gem wheel.