Nail Art Nail-Off: Two Takes on One Nail Art Technique!
Our theme for today: St. Patrick's Day! Let's break out the green polish!
Hi! It's Arden here. For my St. Patrick's Day nails, I went with a simple gradient, plus a crosshatch pattern on my accent nail. (Lisl: it's just so amazing).
This wasn't my first attempt at gradient nails, but it was definitely the most successful! This time, I followed the instructions from the Nailasaurus' gradient tutorial and they worked like a dream! I definitely recommend swirling the two colors together before putting them on the sponge-- that might be the secret to making it work!
Colors used:
Essie Absolutely Shore
Sinful Colors Rise and Shine
Essie Good as Gold
For the gradient nails, I painted a base color of Absolutely Shore (3 coats), used a fast drying top coat, and then sponged on both Absolutely Shore and Rise and Shine. I ended up loving the gradient wayyy more than I thought I would--- will definitely be doing it again! Maybe for an under the sea theme?
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So for MY St. Patrick's day manicure, I was inspired by Lucky Charms (the cereal). You know, hearts stars, and horseshoes, clovers and blue moons, pots of gold and rainbows, and me red balloons. Like this:
I started out with a "cereal-colored" nude background that I borrowed from Arden, then made a bunch of tape-stencils for the marshmallows. I either cut the shapes out with scissors, like in this tutorial (I used regular scotch tape), or I pressed the tape on a cardboard box and cut them out with a box cutter (this was not particularly effective for the curvier shapes). And this is what I got. On the left hand...
These marshmallows are not in the right order |
The heart came out the best, and also the star. I don't know what is up with the star-marshmallow in the cereal, it is barely star-ish. The horseshoe looks like the bottom half of footie-pajamas. We'll call it abstract.
I used an Color Club - Art Club striper for the green dots and the clover. So that's hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers...
and blue moons! (Arden: My favorite is definitely the blue moon. It looks JUST LIKE the marshmallow!) On the right hand. At this point I was getting clumsy and impatient. Plus I used the box-cutter stencil method for all of these except my ring finger and the pink in the rainbow, which I free-handed. The cutter does not like curves! It does not like them!
The pot of gold is not in the right place. I tried to rectify that...
And for the colors:
Cereal (background): Essie - Playa de Platinum (Arden is sleeping now, and her nail polish is squirreled away in her room)
Heart, and the pink part of the rainbow: Zoya - Kara
Star: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - White Out, Essie - Fear Of Desire
Horseshoe: Zoya - Mira
Clover: Revlon - Minted, Color Club Art Club Striper - Green
Blue Moon, and the pink part of the rainbow: Zoya - Wednesday
Pot of Gold, and the yellow part of the rainbow: Sally Hansen Insta Dri - Lightening Color Club Art Club Striper - Yellow
Red Balloon: Essie - Geranium
Hello! I've loved all your tutorials so far, and I'm totally going to go buy the nude polish Jennifer Lawrence wore at the Oscars.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering, at some point in the future, can you do a tutorial on newspaper print nails?
http://youtu.be/2kcdt4_5Ncc
Yes! Arden thought you were a plant, because I literally 1 hour ago said to her "We should do newspaper nails."
ReplyDeleteWoah, for real? Well, it's obviously a good idea.
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