Firecracker

Happy Fourth of July! 

A little late, I know, but I realized I forgot to post this one over the summer. My nana needed her toes painted so she could wear sandals. She liked the idea of a crackle polish so I got to try it out again. 

It's a bright red base with a coat of white crackle polish (which broke and split up beautifully, best one yet!), topped with a coat of red and blue glitter.  

 

Dotted Christmas Tree

This is my second holiday design this year. 

The design I had on my nails (click here Holiday Glitter for a picture) finally started to chip today. So I decided to come up with another design to last until Christmas. After the Christmas craziness, I'm going to paint a snowflake design. 

 

So I didn't have a design in mind when I started painting. I started with a dotted Christmas tree topped with a gold glitter dot and added silver glitter flakes and a glitter topcoat. 

 

 Then I painted my other nails red with wispy swipes of gold and silver glitter.

Holiday Glitter

Merry Christmas! I love this time of year. 

Music, baking, red, Jesus, 

green, angels, eggnog, Jesus, 

giving, trees, snow, Jesus, 

hot chocolate, gifts, lights, Jesus, 

songs, family, friends, . . .and Jesus! 

This is my first holiday design this year. Hopefully there will be more holiday designs to come. For this design, I started with a white base topped with a coat of a pearl white polish. Then I used almost two coats (I didn't want two full coats and too much glitter) of China Glaze Party Hearty which debuted in 2010. 

 

Be on the lookout for more designs!

Harry Potter

In honor of the final Harry Potter movie, I came up with this simple design.

 (And yes, I know I'm way late.)

I myself have not seen the movie yet. I'm actually a little behind...I haven't read any of the books (even though I own #3 somehow) and have only see the first five movies. I hope to watch the sixth one and part one of the seventh soon so that I can see the final movie while it's still in theaters and before I go back to school.

Again, this design is very simple. 

The center nail is the "HP" logo on a golden background. 

The Gryffindor nail is red and gold in a checker pattern. 

The Ravenclaw nail is a blue nail with a thick diagonal gold line.

The Hufflepuff nail is divided vertically, painted half black and half yellow. 

The Slytherin nail is divided into four diamonds, two green and two silver.

Lovely Little Ladybugs

A ladybug design is always cute for summer. 

There are so many variations and different designs you can do. 

Just get creative! 

This is definitely one of my favorite variations!  

 Little ladybugs peeping from the grass. 

Ahoy Matey!

“As we sail thru life, don't avoid rough waters, 

sail on because calm waters won't make a skillful sailor."

Sailor. Bluejacket. Boater. Cadet. 

Deck hand. Mariner. Mate. 

Old Salt. Sea Dog. Shipmate. Swabbie.

 Nautical themed nails seem to be popular right now,

so I thought I would give a shot at my own design.

Rustic and worn boat wheel. 

Blue triangle and stripes with gold line.

Lifesaver. 

Blue french, red stripes, and white stars.

Anchor.

Fireworks

Happy 4th of July!!!!

I saved the best for last. 

This is the final design of my four-part Fourth of July nail design series. Of all four designs, I think this one is the most festive without overdoing it. It's simple but it looks great! I think of the four designs I've done for the Fourth of July, this one is my favorite! It is pretty simple as well. All nails are painted red. The smaller toes have white and blue fireworks coming from different corners. The big toe has two sets of fireworks opposite of one another with three pearl white stars in the center.

 

"Star Spangled Banner"

Happy (almost) 4th of July! 

This is the third design in my four-part Fourth of July nail series.

 This design divided the nail into three sections: white, red, and blue. 

The white section has three pearl white stars 

(which are a little hard to see unless the light catches them just right) 

and dots line the red and blue sections.

 The smaller toes are painted red with white, blue, and glitter fireworks coming from one corner. 

In this picture the stars are more visible.

No copyright infringement intended.

"You're a Grand Old Flag"

Happy 4th of July! 

This is the second design in my four-part Fourth of July nail series!

This is a simple design that screams patriotism. All toes are painted red. The big toes have white stripes and a diagonal blue triangle in one corner with pearl white stars. I left the smaller toes just plain red. This design would also look great on nails with the flag design on the ring finger. 

And a close-up.

No copyright infringement intended. 

"Stars and Stripes Forever"

Happy (almost) 4th of July!!

This is the first design in my four - part July 4th nail series.

This design is almost painfully simple. 

All toes are painted white. 

Each nail is lined on both sides by alternating red and blue stripes. 

The big toe has three stars in the center.

Each little toe has a single small star in the center.

The stars are hard to see unless the light hits just right. 

When they reflect light, the stars look green, pink, and orange. 

No copyright infringement intended.

Patriotic Swirl

My design for the 4th of July. This is another attempt at water marbling that also turned out really well.

I used: Finger Paints base coat, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White On, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Cherry Red, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Blue It, bowl of room temperature water, Beauty Secrets top coat