Thursday, 9 October 2014

Robin Moses black cats

I began with an ombre using Rimmel 615 Night Before, China Glaze blue in a tiny bottle and I've no idea the name and Sally Hansen Sun Kissed.  These colours took a while to transfer onto my nail but I got them looking pretty opaque at the end.  Then I used my black acrylic paints and added the cats.  For the eyes and moon I first painted them white and then added the yellow to really make them pop.  It's neat when the lights are mostly out you can see the eyes glowing a bit.
I was a bit entertaining as for the whiskers and black part of the eye I wanted an actual cat whisker to do the painting with.  So, there I am crawling all over my living room floor trying to find a cat whisker that had fallen off.  I did finally find it and am very happy with the results it created on the nails.  Tutorial found here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jMLvZs4FxA



Bubbles by Chalkboard Nails

I thought this was a very neat idea and thought I'd give it a try.  I wanted to do them in blue but the blue I would have liked to use was rather glumpy so I opted for Pink Friday NL N16 by OPI and used a red acrylic polish for the bubbles.  I tried to find the tutorial I found but didn't see it on the youtube channel.  Basically I painted my nails pink then placed a drop of very watered down acrylic red paint on my nail and after it had a few seconds to dry a little I used a clean, dry paint brush to soak up the excess polish in the middle which left the ring of red behind.  It's a very cool effect and easy to do if you want to give it a try.  Next time will be with blue and I'll add a few fish to the design.





Newspaper Flowers

I started with a grey polish base and then used rubbing alcohol to transfer the Chinese characters fom a newspaper onto my nails.  Then I tried to follow the Robin Moses tutorial found here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIZh5h60FY  I am still heavy handed but the black around the flowers is rather thick but at least they look like flowers.



Chinese newsprint Cherry Blossoms

So attempting another Robin Moses Cherry Blossoms design and this one turned out really good.  I started with a grey and then used a Chinese newspaper and added the kanji using rubbing alcohol to transfer the ink onto my nails.  This really doesn't appear very well on the finished design though. Then I added the black branches and used a mixture of red and white acrylic paint and created the cherry blossom flowers.  I layered about 3 different colours of red and when I added the last light colour over the design and looked at my finished product I was pretty darn impressed with myself.  Here is the finished design, although they did look better in real life.
I forgot to add the link of the youtube video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFn7CONSErA