31DC2013 Day 14: Flowers!

Heeeeeello, there! I'm ssssooo sorry about the two-weeks absence but I was busy getting a job then finally got one but felt something was wrong so I took off and after that I found out all was a scam! I'm so glad I got out of there.

Today I brought you my flower design which was a total FAIL!

I ran out of top coat so I decided to give Nina Super Dry Topcoat a try and oh my goodness, maybe it was that I hadn't tried it before, or that I wasn't used to it but it smudged all my design!! Completely! I was very upset, but thankfully my neighbor volunteered for a new flower design.

                            *Update: I'm still struggling with Nina Super Dry Topcoat but I've managed to get the most out of its HUGE brush without smudging my designs.

First I'm going to show you my (smudged) flower design.

I went for fall colors on a baby blue/grey base and I realy liked the color combo. I used Color Club Silver Lake as my base color, China Glaze Cast A Spell, Color Club Cold Metal and the last one I don't remember if it was Color Club Rev'd Up or Orly Close Your Eyes. With the help of my small nail art brush I did the "drop and drag" technique to make the petals. My pistol accent was possible thanks to Finger Paints Gourd Or Bad?

I didn't even clean up my cuticles because it was painful to see that mess. :'(

Now the "fixed" design. I made a completely different vintage rose and I really liked them. It took me some time but I loved the result (and my neighor too haha).

I used Color Club Silver Lake as my base color again, then I painted a couple dots with the help of my large dotting tool mixing China Glaze With Love with two drops of China Glaze White On White. After it dried I used my small brush to paint small "C's" around and inside our flower with With Love alone (no white added) to add some shade. Lastly, I painted the small leaves with the help of my brush and China Glaze Running In Circles.

Well, I hope you liked this double-post. I'm sorry for the delay, but I'm so ready to give my everything in these second half! I'm already on day 17 so I'll be posting really soon;)

Love, Pam♥

31DC2013 Day 10: Metallic Nails!

FINALLY! I have my metallic nails for you!! I actually ended up doing three different designs and I just wasn't too fond with the first two. I chose some holo polishes to show out the "metallic" look but didn't think like it shouted METALLIC out loud, so I went with foil and oh my goodness I have such a love/hate relationship with foil! The plastic edges always stick up and then I end up pulling it off and it doesn't last me more than 12 hours! But I wasn't just gonna give up with the foil, so I decided to simply apply the foil so part of it would transfer to the nail and it'd look like a vintage gold manicure, I guess... I also bought this gorgeous Color Club polish and had to use it!! It was pretty metallic, though;)

For this nail art I used one of my all time faves, Orly Close Your Eyes, as my base color and Color Club The Uptown for my ring and thumb.

I simply painted my nails with one coat of Close Your Eyes, let it dry and then applied my second coat and while it was still wet I dabbed my sheet of gold foil over my nails so part of the foil would pass to the nails.

This reminds me a bit of the gold leaf top coats (real gold) that came out about a year ago, and I really liked the idea of having that kind of look without expending $30 on a top coat!

I hope you liked this post and now I really have some more for you later this week! :)

Love, Pam♥