January Nail Art Challenge ~ part two

I'm a little late in showing you the last half of the January Nail Art Challenge. The last half I felt like it was rushed and I didn't do such a good job. Well you can judge for yourself.

Polka dots nails! Someone mentioned that these nails look a little like licorice allsorts. 

After a couple of days the bright color of the dots faded slightly.

 

I couldn't think what to do for Burgundy so I put my matte top coat over a shiny burgundy polish and I added the silver diamantes so that I was covering two manis. 

Not a favourite of mine, I don't really like the burgundy polish.

I also put two mani together - Vintage & Shiney. I wasn't sure what shiney meant, I guessed super shiney color which is the red. I wanted to do a different sort of vintage than the normal pale color polish and roses so I thought this would be cool. Unfortunately my flowers didn't turn out so well.

Have you participated in this challenge or are participating now? Leave a link to your post in the comments and I'll check it out

Vintage Pink Sparkle Range

In an earlier post I showed you some trim that I purchased at the Melbourne Quilt & Crafts Fair. 

Well I wanted to show you what I created from those beautiful trims. 

And so my Vintage Pink sparkle Range was born.

You can view these products on my Facebook page Love Sami

Any comments or Feedback would be appreciated.

{Animoto.com was the website I used to create my slideshow}

Weapons of choice

I love painting my nails and doing Nail art.

"Nail Art: Beautification of the nails with patterns, paintings or other decorative motifs"

It can be very rewarding when you get it right. I have been doing Nail art for 

over a year now and this was the first ever design I did.

*Cupcakes wth spots & stripes*

I was extremely proud of myself and as you can see this is my right hand so I painted this with my left hand which is even harder as I'm right handed. I have done many different designs since then and here are a few of my favourites.

 

Top Left: *Rainbow Dash My Little Pony* 

Top Right: *Somewhere over the Rainbow* Bottom Left: *Vintage Flowers with spots & stripes* 

Bottom Right: *Purple Owl & hearts*

  Now I'd like to show you my weapons of choice for painting my nails.....

Left: Sally Hansen Insta Dri ~ Anti-chip Top Coat 

Right: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard as Nails as a Base Coat

I always put a base coat on my nails before painting them because it stops the nail from yellowing and also strengthen the nails. After I have finished with my design and the nail polish is pretty much dry I put my Top Coat on which drys the nail polish in 30 seconds and also acts as an Anti-chip.  

For detailing I use 2-Way Nail Art pen/brush click here and I also use 2-Way Nail Art Dotting Tool pens click here Click the links to see the items through eBay.

I plan to have a few more picture tutorials of my nail designs in the future so look out for them. I hope this post has given you ideas or inspiration to go out and do some art on your nails too.

Bye for now ~ Sami X

What should I paint on my nails next?