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♥

I'm BAAAAACK!

Hey ya, lacquered puppies (puppies...?). I'm sooo glad to be back!! To be honest I was going through a phase, I was in finals, then on vacation and then I went through depression cause my nails were just not good enough for me and to make it worse my ring finger nail broke in a horrible way:( He's better now, and I'm back for good!:)

I decided to start the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge that Chalkboard Nails posted yesterday, but since it starts on monday I'll be posting old of my nail art pictures everyday (yes, everyday, I promise) while I get ready to bring it on these next 31 days!

Well, here's an oldie I did on April, I think and the funny thing is that nobody believed me I free handed the flowers! Everyone thought they were stickers and I was like, yeah, thank you, lol. Anyways I was real happy while wearing this mani and I got the original idea from the lovely Robin Moses except my base color was a bit more brown-ish or nude-ish than hers, here is her tutorial.

I used Color Club High Society as my base color and then using a dotting tool for the center of the flower. The white is Orly White Tips.

My nails are baby nails there! :3

There's no way I can explain how I did this without making it look all confunsing so I leave you Robin's video here (her art is 1000x more amazing and beautiful!).

Hope you liked this post and I promise I'll be back sooner rather than later;)

Love, Pam♥