I’m a lover of strange color combinations, and I got some inspiration from a color palette on design seeds that was blue and green. I’m happy with how this came out, but it is a lot more subdued looking that I had originally imagined.
Obviously, I have been in the mood for flowers! I’ve been painting and stamping them like they are going out of style. I realized that I hadn’t done a gradient in a while, so I set out to do one this time. Aside from the cleanup, this was super fast nail art – I really need to invest in some liquid latex, it would save me a ton of time.
Don’t you just love it when you have a look in your mind and it comes out better than you even expected? That’s exactly how I feel about this gradient!
I love dots, in case it wasn’t blatantly obvious. I use them on my nails all the time and a good old dotticure is one of my go-to manis. So, the first of my Easter-inspired nails is dots, dots and more dots.
In my recent polish swap, I was sent Essie – Shine of the Times, a gorgeous flakie polish. I had been looking for a way to use it in a new way and ended up trying something I wouldn’t normally do: I added it as a topper over an already brilliant polish, Color Club – Eternal Beauty.
Is it Spring yet? Close enough as far as I am concerned. I am really sick of gloomy days and needed a mani to help counteract the drearies. Somehow they ended up looking like Summer nails, like I need to go to the beach or the pool!
This mani was originally meant to be one of my swatch shots for Mpolish – Snowberry, but then my nail broke and I had to do a big chop and wanted all of the nail shots in my review post to be consistent. Since that review will be going up later today, I wanted to go ahead and get this mani posted as a bit of a preview!
So, I didn’t give up on the idea of submitting a gradient to Nail It!, so I dusted the failure from previous mani off and set out to try, try, again.
In December, I found out that Nail It! magazine was looking for gradient submissions for an issue coming out in 2015. I happen to love gradients! How could I pass up this opportunity!?
Some days I get an idea in my head for my nails and the image just sticks with me until I do it – even when it is obviously not working out how I envisioned. Cue this mani.
