Pocahontas

Focusing on another Disney Princess... Here is Pocahontas. Mainly her necklace and Flit the hummingbird.

Suggested by You're Late For Tea, and 2 anonymous followers.

I started by painting all of my nails with a nude franken I made.

Tutorial of how I painted the necklace.
These steps were all acrylic paint.

Then Flit:
Again, all acrylic paint.

Well? What do you think?

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Sleeping Beauty - Aurora Inspired

Here is another Disney Princess inspired design. I got several requests after the Princess Jasmine Inspired french tips I did. And don't forget the Snow White Inspired look just the other day.

Suggested by You're Late For Tea, and 2 anonymous followers.

I started by painting most all of the nails with Sally Hansen Presto Pink, the accent nail is China Glaze Innocence.

Then I used white acrylic paint the freehand some french tips with swirls of different sizes.

(I used white first because the yellow paint is sheer. You can use polish if you like)
Then I applied the yellow acrylic paint along the tips. I tried to vary the shades so that it looked more like her blonde hair.

I stamped the bundle monster crown image, but it wouldn't stamp well... So I kind of freehanded over it. (used gold nail polish)

What do you think? I don't like it as much as the others. Princess Jasmine is still my favorite of these looks.

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Snow White Inspired

I got several requests for more designs like the Princess Jasmine Inspired french tips I did.

Suggested by You're Late For Tea, and 2 anonymous followers.

This is a simple look loosely inspired by Snow White. I did an entire Snow White and the 7 Dwarves here.

French tips inspired by the colors of her sleeves, and the accent nail inspired by her hair and red headband.

Accent nail:

Start with 1 coat of Wet N Wild Black Creme

I have a red stamping polish, but it wouldn't show up over the black. So I stamped my bow image from Konad m56 using white polish.

Then pretended it was a pattern and painted the white areas with red acrylic paint and a tiny paintbrush.

Finally added a red rhinestone.

For the other nails, start with a pink french base. 

2 coats of China Glaze Innocence.

French tips using Essie Coat Azure. (Freehand them, or use guides. Whatever suits your fancy)

Add 3 red rhinestones along the french tip.

What do you think?

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Peculiar Polish Series - Avatar Tutorial

It's another Dark Thursday and time for an episode of Peculiar Polish! Nev from Nevorpurify's Nail Art  is helping me out by designing looks that might be on the darker side of the cartoon/comic spectrum. If you have a dark suggestion for her, just fill out the embedded form at the bottom of the page!

Here's Nev!

My favorite thing about the Peculiar Polish series is that I'm learning about so many new cartoons that I didn't know much about! Gabby requested Avatar: The Last Airbender nails and a tutorial to go along with it. Avatar was an Asian inspired Nickelodeon series that follows Aang (a bender, who is one who can manipulate the elements) and his friends. On my nails I painted Aang on my middle finger, Katara (a waterbender) on my index finger, Sokka (Katara's brother) on my ring finger, and Momo (the adorable lemur that assists Aang). This is my first ever picture tutorial so I hope it turned okay! It turns out that picture tutorials are hard work! I think everyone needs to applaud Leslie for doing them so often!

First I painted solid base colors. Momo is solid white. Aang is slightly darker than Momo. And Katara is the most tan. I painted the thumb black to add the logo.

Here I added in the hair lines. Aang has a blue arrow tattoo on his forehead. Use Leslie's technique of first making the hair outlines in black, and we'll fill them in with color later.

Add color to the hair, leaving a thin black line for an outline. Also add in lines for eyes and eyebrows. It is okay if they're sloppy, because you'll be adding white to the inside in the next step. Momo needs a cute mouth and nose too.

Fill the eyes in with white. This will leave a thin black line for the outsides of the eyes. Also shade Katara and Sokka's eyebrows.

Add colored dots to the middle of the eyes.

In this step I first put a black dot in the middle of the eye, then off center I added a white dot to give the eyes dimension.

Finally add the logo to the thumb and you're done!

 

I hope you like these nails and I'll see you all next week for a really awesome set of computer game inspired nails!

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Swap with Polish Me Pink!

I recently swapped with Francini of Polish Me Pink! for some Brazilian beauties. She helped me get my hands on lots of flakies, some glitter, and tons of multichromes!

It's going to be a massive post, so get ready!

It all started when I asked someone to swap for these 4. I wanted these flakies from Speciallita. They look like dupes for Nfu-Oh flakies that I still have yet to get.

Left to Right:

Jazz, Can Can, Twist, Samba

 In the same order. 

Jazz is swatched over black and white on the index nail, all the others are by themselves.

Jazz- 1 coat.

Just look at those green flakes! It showed up best over black, the white side looked very opal-y but it was difficult to capture in pictures.

 Can Can- 3 coats.

This one looks like Nfu-Oh 50 to me. Light purple base with teal/blue flakes.

Since it took 3 coats, I'll likely just layer it over a medium tone purple when I use it as a full manicure.

Twist- 2 coats.

This one looks like Nfu-Oh 52 to me. Medium blue base with teal/green flakes.

 Same thing here, for future use I will probably layer it over a royal blue to save my precious polish...
The flakes look to be concentrated where the flash hit, but they are perfect & evenly dispersed! Don't let the camera fool you.

Samba - 2 coats

OMG green. Green on green flakes. I love green. This is gorgeous. End of story.

It looks like Nfu-Oh 56, in my opinion. Again, I'll layer it for future use.

Francini called this one Brazil's version of Unicorn Puke. Instead of a purple base, it's a clear base.
Big Universo - Espectral
I'm so happy this is a full 15mL! I know I will be using it a lot!

It has flakes of all different colors. Here is 2 coats over black.

Same combo, different angle.

2 coats layered over OPI Dating a Royal, Zoya Mira, Wet n Wild Black, Sinful Colors Snow Me White.

Same combo, different angle.

She found the last polish of the Hits no Olimpo collection that I wanted.
Dionisio. The dark purple holo.

Dionisio- 2 thin beautiful coats.

She also got me Hits #612 Glitter Forte.
This is a dupe for OPI Absolutely Alice!

It was quite thick and this was 2 gloopy coats. I didn't have any spare room in the bottle to add thinner, so now that I've swatched it maybe I can. :) I might even transfer it to larger polish bottle. I don't know yet...

This she included as a surprise.
Impala SPFW na mira 3d.
It is an awesome holographic glitter polish.

So intensely packed! Left is 2 coats over black, right is 3 coats by itself to show that the base is slightly tinted. It flashes through the whole rainbow, but it has a strong purple flash in the center. I hope you can see that in the pictures. It's beautiful!

She also included a Brazilian quick dry top coat. Extra Brilho.

I haven't given it a full test run yet, but what's up with this brush?! It's horrid! It's round and fluffy, yet limp and scraggly! Ugh! So frustrating. I dumped it into an empty bottle of Seche Vite so that I could use it with a normal brush!

I saw this polish on Francini's blog and asked if she could find it for me. It's a gorgeous multichrome.
Check out her pictures because she did a much better job at capturing the color shifts. HERE.
Ludurana Reluz
Seeing as how I don't exactly know how to read Portugese... It took me a day of wearing this as a full mani and saying "what's that smell?" before I realized it must be scented! Perfumado, yeah it's scented. Lol
It reminds me of a strong cotton/fresh linen type smell mixed with a light generic perfume smell. It's quite potent at first but not unpleasant, and it faded a good bit after the first day.

 It shifts blue, teal, purple, magenta, to rust orange.

My swatch is 3 thin coats. It's a thin formula that is slow-drying. And it was quite pesky in that it moved around after I finished each nail. Weird, right? I painted very neatly, and yet when I moved on and looked back, the polish had moved and flooded my cuticle! It was really crazy. But I will totally put up with strangeness for beauty. :)

In our discussion prior to the swap she told me about this new collection out by Speciallita Hits.
All multichromes! Drool. I wanted them all! And she came through. :)

Again, Francini was able to capture the color transitions better, so check out her post here.

Left to Right:
Daring,
Chameleon,
Artsy,
Unconventional.
These were all on the thin side. Each took 3 coats.

 

Then the other half of the collection.
Left to Right:
Cutie Pie - 3 coats
Trendy- 2 coats
Cool- 2 coats
Dreamer- 3 coats

And the last little goodies she included.
A perfectly compact container of cuticle balm. It's more of a wax than a cream, and it doesn't have a strong scent which is nice. :)
Then a matchbook style packet of 12 mini emery boards. So feminine and cute!

Thanks a million to you, Francini. You should get your package any day now, and I hope you love it as much as I do mine!

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