Red Shirt inspired nails

Not the red shirt from Star Trek, my nails survived being painted.  I just bought this shirt and really liked the colour and pattern.  I thought it would make a nice nail art design.  I used my favourite polish Bungle Jungle by Essie which really looks nice with the black.  After doing the stripes (with a cat whisker) and the dots with a dotting tool) I decided I'd do tiger stripes on my dominant hand.  Very happy with the way they turned out.  Such a nice contrast with the colours.  I have a few bottles of the bungle jungle polish.

Avengers Assemble Nails

So we saw the movie when it came out and it was really funny, extra character development and all around entertaining so I decided it was worth giving a try at Avenger nails.  The only one that really daunted me was Captain America's shield, but even that went really well.  After my initial design I went back and touched up the Avenger's symbol as it was missing the little arrow on the cross bar.  I liked it much better after fixing it up.

Tissue Paper inspired nails

I love how pretty the tissue boxes have become recently.  I took inspiration for my nails from one box in particular.  I started with OPI Alpine Snow and then used a cosmetic sponge to apply both Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow 360 and Sun Kissed 150.  These two combined formed the base of my design.  After it dried I used my acrylic paint to make my design in red over top of the polish leaving the original colour on my nail where I want the picture to pop out.  I started with my pinkie and tried to duplicate the designs on the tissue box but soon realized I really had the ability to paint whatever I wanted and by the thumb I had a beautiful sunset design going.  I did a yin yang on my dominant hand and then wussed out and used my stampers for the rest of the designs, but they still turned out great.