Merry Christmas Two - Gold Trees

Inside Light

I am feeling VERY Christmassy st the moment. This is Shellac Tinsel Toast and Ruby Ritz with some nail stickers in Christmas designs. Nice and simple but so sparklie!

Sunlight

Inside Light

Close up of  Decals

My lovely uniform :)

Challenge 10 - Gradient Nails

Today's challenge is Gradient Nails. As I have done quite a few gradients lately I decided to do this in foils. This absolutely amazing foil is called Seascape and its from the Shardee Nail Shimmer store on Ebay.
To start I painted the usual Gelish base coat then did Orly Gel FX in Liquid Vinyl because there is no way I would have been able to match the colors of this foil so the black is more to even out the nail and keep it strong than for a base color. Foils as normal and then the wee Chevron sticker (bought on Etsy) and Gelish Top Coat. I fully keep getting distracted by my own fingers as they catch the light. Very pretty :)

The Chevron/Zig Zag sticker.

Inside with flash

Inside with Flash

Inside lights.

In Sunlight

Merry Christmas One - Red and Green

ITS ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!! Only 25 days to go!!!! Todays nails are Gelish Amazon Flirt and Red Roses with a Glitter Rockstar finish. One thing to make sure you do is press down your tips with your finger before you do your top coat to make sure you dont have any rough bits to catch. I also ended up doing two coats of the top coat to make sure it was nice and smooth.

New Shellac Colors!!

Well I have been waiting and waiting and I finally got the new Shellac colors!!!

I decided to do a watery shimmery color as I was due to fly home and then to BALI with my Ma. I used the Midnight Swim and then one of my Shardee Nail Shimmer foils on my accent nail.

Full Sunlight

Love the new colors. They are much more along with my taste as I go towards the darker colors. I wish shellac would make more of the glitter colors too.

Indoor Light

The nail shimmers lasted really really well on the Shellac base. It evens out the nail bed and gives them a smoother surface to adhere to but my nails really didn't like Scuba Diving. Being submerged in water for extended periods just made all of my nails peel right off. Not a huge issue as I'm lucky to be able to go diving 3 times a year :)

At the Tulumben Dive Site at approx 15m depth. Just starting to peel off :)

Challenge No 8 - Metallic Nails

I was so excited for today's challenge! Ever since I realised that nail foils aren't impossibly hard to use I have become slightly obsessed. You don't even want to know how many colors and patterns I have now.

Anyway I decided to go with this shattered holo in the purple/pink and blue/teal colors. I undercoated with Shellac Tutti Fruiti on Pink nails and then Orly Its Up To Blue on the accent nails. You don't have to do this but I find that after the second day and they start wearing then its not as noticeable if you have the color underneath. 

Sooo SHINY!!

All the things I used are bought on eBay.

Normal inside light.

Full Sun.

Hope you like today's nails as much as I do. 

I purchased all my foils from: http://stores.ebay.com.au/Shardee-Designs/_i.html?rt=nc&_sid=818496285&_sticky=1&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14&_sop=10&_sc=1

Strawberry Fields

The amazing and lovely Miss N agreed to let me play with her nails again this week. Always love doing other peoples nails :) Well cause she is so sweet I had to give her a sweet polish!

This is Shellac Gotcha Pink and Gelish Carnival Hangover. The green is just a mixed up color that I painted on and then the seeds are small diamante. All covered with Gelish Top Coat.

Lovely!

Challenge No 7 - Black and White Nails

Challenge Number 7 is to do Black and White nails. I watched a tutorial on the Fingernail Fixer about a semi Rockstar nail that she filled in with the CND Additives and I thought I could do that and try and make it work with today's challenge. Well Its OK, not one of my favorite nails but I don't hate it. It was really really hard to blend the white and black and still keep them clean of each other  Normally not an issue but the black just stuck to EVERYTHING. I had to clean my top coat brush after every wipe and it was just messy. I used Shellac Creme Puff for the white and Orly Gel FX in Liquid Vinyl for the black. Black glitter, white glitter, black eyeshadow and white eyeshadow to blend in as well.

All of the things I used.

After trying to brush in and blend the eyeshadow

After dabbing in the glitter

Finished