Leopard Number Two!!!

Ok so I decided to try something new with the blog and so I added pictures of what my nails looked like as i went a long. I hope it's not TOO much. So, here is my second attempt at leopard print and I think I am getting the hang of this... So here is the look


And from another view...

Video tutorial for this look!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTYQOIJKLmw


After my first attempt at leopard print (see "Fall and Leopard Print") I fell absolutely IN LOVE with it and decided to dedicate more nail space to it and came up with that.

Here are my products used


***DISCLAIMER***
I purchased all of these products with my own money and did not use them for the company I just honestly love these products and chose to use them with my own free will. My opinions are simply mine and not biased by the companies. And I am not sponsored by an of these companies.

Base coat- Salon Sciences Fiberglass Networks
NUDE- Sally Hansen Nail Growth Miracle in Innocent Nude
BLUE- Kiss Nail Art Paint in Soft Blue
PINK- Kiss Nail Art Paint in Beach Pink
SILVER Glitter- Sinful Colors Nail Art in Fashionista
LIGHT GREEN- China Glaze in Re-Fresh Mint
GOLD Glitter- Sinful Colors Nail Art in Flower Girl
BRIGHT GREEN Kiss Nail Art Paint in Beach Green
BROWN- Revlon in Hot For Chocolate
BLACK- Revlon in Black Lingerie
top coat- Salon Sciences Instant Artificials

Paint brush for the dots
A paper to use as a pallet

1. I applied my favorite base coat twice to clean nails.



After one coat...

After the second coat.

2. I applied one coat of the nude color because two of the Fiberglass Networks base coat is kind of opaque in its self. So, in my personal opinion one coat is enough.




3. I took the blue and pink polish and the piece of scrap paper and dropped big spots of polish on the paper so that I could use it as sort of a make shift artists pallet and took the paint brush and made small pink and blue dots all over my nails for the main big spots.

Here is what it looked like


4. Then I took the silver glitter and made a line separating the are with the spots from the area with just the nude shade of polish

Here is what it looked like


5. I took the light green and made dots with the scrap paper and paint brush in a "v" shape Which I outlined with the gold glitter. I did this on my ring fingers only.




6. With the lime green I decided to make zebra stripes in the space on my ring finger that was open. I had to go over it about three times to get it opaque enough.


7. Then I took my scrap paper and dropped some black for all of my nails EXCEPT my ring finger and used the pain brush to make little "c" like shapes around my nail as well as Random little tiny black dots. Then I took the brown polish to do the same thing with the brown polish because i figured that brown would look better against the green.


8. With my usual top coat and after all my nails had completely dried of course, I put two coats of my Instant Artificials top coat to seal and protect my design and my nails.


As always make sure to hit your free edges with at least one coat of each polish you use to help thicken your nails, protect them and to seal and protect your nail art!

Fall and Leopard Print

I am a huge animal print lover as well as a definite earth tone color lover. I recently went on a trip to Six Flags over GA and saw a girl who had gold and leopard print nails and was so inspired by them and I have been dying to try out my own version. But, I also have been wanting to try out a design incorporating leopard print for some time now and finally got around to doing it. This nail art design was my first time ever attempting to recreate leopard print and i think it turned out pretty good. In fact, I am definitely not looking forward to this design growing out because then it will be all gone :(

So, here is how the design came out (please excuse how dry my hands look. I had JUST finished my nails when i took the pic and they were drying and so i didn't get a chance to get some lotion and acetone can be SO drying on the skin!)






Ok, so here are the products that I used:
***DISCLAIMER***
I have purchased all of these products with my own money and I am in no way shape or form sponsored by these companies and they did not ask me to speak about these. ALSO, this is more of an announcement, but the colors that i chose and the ay i do the designs are simply more of suggestions. These are just the colors that i chose to use you can of course use any colors you like or any part of the design that you like.



***PRODUCTS USED***
Base coat- Salon Sciences Fiberglass Network
NUDE- Sally Hansen Nail Growth Miracle in Innocent Nude
BRONZE- China Glaze in In Awe of Amber
GOLD GLITTER- Sinful Colors Nail Art in Flower Girl
PINK- Kiss Nail Art Paint in Beach Pink
BLACK- Revlon in Black Lingerie
Top coat- Salon Sciences Instant Artificials
Paint Brush

As ALWAYS, the first thing you want to do is put on your base coat. If you have long nails or your trying to strengthen your shorter nails to be longer then I can not stress how important base coats are. I know that I said in a previous post that I don't put too much into base coats, but as my nails grew longer and I decided to try and keep them long for as long as I possibly can, I had a major change of heart. So, first step for me was to apply my Salon Sciences Fiberglass Network base coat. I applied two coats of this and let completely dry.


My next step was to apply one coat of my nude nail polish. The fiberglass base dries opaque so I only felt the need to apply one coat of this base color.


After the nude base color dried, I did a side swipe on half of the nail with the bronze color. When that is completely dry, I added a stripe of the gold glitter. Of all the glitter nail art polishes I have ever tried, Flower Girl by Sinful Colors has been the best one by far. Its opaque and just one stroke gives you perfect coverage.


The next step for me was to add a few pink dots to the side of the nail that was still just with the nude color. I only added 2-4 pink dots to each nail so that there would be room for the rest of the leopard spots. The pink dots were for the inside of the leopards spots. After the pink dots had a little drying time, I used the black to make little almost like "c" shapes around the pink. I also added a few just tiny little black dots randomly around the pink wherever I thought it was needed. For this, I used my paintbrush that I cut specially for my nail art thanks to Robin Moses who is one of my biggest inspirations (there is a link to her blog on the side, you should check out her blog she does AMAZING work!).


As my final touch, and as I end all of my nail art looks, I add my favorite top coat, my Salon Sciences Instant Artificials.



Don't forget to hit all of your free edges with your polishes to not only seal your polish but to protect your nail art and to help make it last and to help make your nails a little thicker so that they are that much stronger.