Sation Glints & Glam: Swatch

Another swatch for you all on this lovely, albeit freezing Friday.

Today's is "Glints & Glam" by Miss ProNail's Sation:

January/17/2013

This shade features holographic silver glitter in a large hexagon shape and micro glitter suspended in a blush pink jelly base. This was done with 3 coats, I found that to get good even glitter coverage you had to shake the bottle quite a bit. Other than that, this colour is beautiful if you want some subtle glam to your nails for daily wear. It held up pretty well to my work shift this morning, zero wear against the tips. The formula for this one is nice, goes on smooth and dries pretty quickly, even though I did use a few thickish coats.

Have a Happy Friday!

Black Heart Tights

Sheer Black Heart Tights, I saw a design similar to this on Tumblr a while back and wanted to try it for myself as a warm up to Halloween designs. You will get the first Halloween design next Monday, I promise.

Sept/30/2012

The sheer black polish is a frankenpolish I made by thinning out an old black nail polish. The black tips and hearts are done in "Black Creme" by Wet n' Wild.

I don't like how this one turned out, I'm rusty with my french tips, they look too sloppy for my liking, oh well that should teach me not to rush them in the future.

Have a Happy Monday!

Bouquet of Roses

Another simple one for today. Don't worry I have some awesome Halloween designs coming up soon.

Sept/16/2012

The base colour is 3 coats of OPI's "Don't Touch My Tutu" with some simple gold roses painted on top. Really simple, really fresh and also pretty easy to do, it's just a bunch of curved lines.

Have a Happy Monday!

Flashback Friday: You Callin Me a Lyre

April/26/2012

3 thickish coats of O.P.I's "You Callin' Me a Lyre" from their NYC Ballet Collection. On top of that is one coat of Revlon's "Sparkling". OPI's "YCML" is a nice sheer pastel pink, it would be good for french manicures and days when I'm too lazy to wear anything fun, but still want polish on them.

Flashback Friday: Chevron French

Sept/03/2011 to Sept/05/2011

Simple white roses on a black chevron french. Base colour is "Sheer Pastel Nude" by Kleancolor with "Liquid Vinyl" by Orly for the tips.

Robert Best Inspired

I've got a sort of special one for you all today. I recently saw some of Robert Best's amazing Barbie

fashion drawings. And became smitten with his amazing style and his ability to render such beautiful images using watercolour. So naturally, I had to do something nail related.

These nails were inspired by this photo:

Artwork (C) Robert Best

This was one of my more favourite images by him, and it went on to inspire the birth of this nail design:

Upsidedown thumb.

I wanted it to look soft and watercolour-y like his works, but I feel like I missed it by a long shot. I'm also displeased with the shakey lines, but seeing as this is the FIRST portrait I've done on my nails, I shall still wear it proudly. The base colour is "Don't Touch My Tutu" from O.P.I.'s NYC Ballet Collection, with one coat of "Pirouette My Whistle" from the same collection.

As always, the actual design was done using acrylic craft paint. Hopefully the next portrait I do will turn out better. But I hope you still enjoyed!

KleanColor Sheer Red

Just a blah kind of day, have a swatch for you.

This is "Sheer Red" by Kleancolor. This brand does not make their polishes Formaldehyde, Toluene or DBP free, you have now been informed. Anyway my nails each have 2 coats of Sheer Red. Overall, I like it, it's nice to have on when I don't know what to do.