Nail Art Style: sinful colors

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Hey everyone! Today I've got a little post about some nails I did recently. Normally when I do floral designs I stick to pinks and roses and girly bits-and-bobs, but I thought I'd try something different. I hadn't mattified in a while either, so I decided to combine some abstract daisies and dots with a real clean, matte manicure.

The equipment:

Jacava 'Mont Blanc'*

Sinful Colors 'Black on Black'

Sinful Colors 'Pistache'

Barry M Limited Edition 'Bright Yellow'

Essie 'Matte About You'

Dotting tool

Fine nail art paint brush

I started out with a base coat of 'Black on Black' (I eventually wiped it away from my ring and index fingers when I decided to do alternating bases!) Sinful Colors are fast becoming one of my favourite brands - although the polishes are quite thin and require a few coats for opacity, they have a really lovely, glossy finish, and they're only £1.99 a pop! Bloody bargain.

Once I'd switched around my bases (the pure white is Jacava 'Mont Blanc' and it is the best white nail polish EVER... I'm so gutted it's nearly run out because I don't fancy parting with £15 for a new bottle) I started adding details. I used a dotting tool, and evenly spaced yellow dots for the centre of the daisies. Once I'd added white petals using my paint brush, I added green dots in the empty areas using Sinful Colors 'Pistache'. I was going to add gems to the alternating nails but decided this manicure didn't require any sparkles - instead, I added more dots, and then topped everything with Essie 'Matte About You.'

What do you think? It's not like me to do such a simple design, but I kind of like it, especially at the moment while my nails are so short!

Hello all! As some of you might recall, I did these anchor nails a while back.

Somehow they got really popular and I've seen many nails done by other people inspired by mine.

It's honestly the coolest thing ever seeing work inspired by me.

A few weeks ago I saw this picture and it inspired me.

Here's the nails I came up with.

I love florals more than anything else. If you haven't noticed.

I used Pure Ice's Home Run for this manicure. I use this polish all the time, it's perfect!

Overall, I really love these nails. Apparently everyone else did too, because it's my most liked picture on Instagram. Thanks guys!

I did a pictorial on these, but that will be in a different post.

Thanks for reading!

Celine

Today is supposed to be my X nail art for the ABC Challenge, but I'm stumped on what to do for this letter. I'll think of something by next challenge ... hopefully. For now, check out the rainbow gradient I wore last weekend.

nails nailart nail art polish mani manicure Spellbound Lacquer fun cute sweet rainbow gradient eyeshadow applicator sponge sponged sponging red orange yellow green blue purple colorful Rimmel English Rose Sinful Colors Hazard Sally Hansen Lightening Green with Envy Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint On a Trip

I hate the claw, but it's pretty much the only position in nails that need to include the thumb. Some of you may remember the sideways rainbow gradient from my NOH8 nails. I wanted to try something different this time so I did them as a normal gradient. I found the lightest rainbow colors from my collection to use for this.

Here are my nails before clean-up. So messy!!! I usually tape around my nails before doing something this messy, but I forget. Isn't that the way things usually go? You only forget something that would speed things up when you're in a hurry!

I took this picture in the car. It was snowing so hard and then a little bit of sunlight peeked through, and I couldn't resist snapping a few pics. It's not up to my usual standard, but there's something I really like about this picture.

Rimmel English Rose Sinful Colors Hazard Sally Hansen Lightening Green with Envy Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint On a Trip

I couldn't resist getting a picture of my cotton ball after I removed the gradient. I'm reminded of a clown's wig, lol.

Colors Used: Rimmel English Rose, Sinful Colors Hazard, Sally Hansen Lightening, Sally Hansen Green with Envy, Wet n Wild I Need A Refresh-Mint, Wet n Wild On a Trip

I can't resist a pretty glitter. I really can't! Who can? Sometimes I'm disappointed and other times I'm stunned. Can you guess which I am this time?

nails nailart nail art polish mani manicure Spellbound Lacquer color swatch Pinky Glitter pink holographic rainbow shimmer pink light hot

Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter is stunning in the bottle, but there really aren't many polishes that live up to what you see in the bottle once on your nails. They almost always leave you slightly disappointed. But not this one! I am amazed at how well it photographs as well.

Pinky Glitter looks like a very bright hot pink in the bottle. However, it goes on a very pretty light pink if it's not layered. I used two slightly thick coats — only thick because the polish had gone slightly gloppy. I've had this in my 'to swatch' pile for a few months so I did expect it; Sinful Colors doesn't seem to hold up long — but what can you expect from a polish on the lowest end of the price scale? Two thick coats got me full coverage and the lovely color you see above.

Pinky Glitter is filled with small holographic glitter and a fine, sandy holographic shimmer. These holographic glitters are those perfect holo glitters that flash rainbow with the slightest movement. Perfect! It has such a beautifully soft and sandy texture that I left it without any top coat.

Color: A bright hot pink in the bottle but over naked nails it is a fairly light, yet very pretty, pink. It is filled with small and fine, sandy holographic glitter.
Finish: Glitter suspended in a pink base that dries to a really nice textured finish.
Application: It actually went on pretty well for being thick. There was none of the patchiness that some glitters have where the glitter clings to the brush more than your nail. Overall, the application was pretty much perfect.
Coats to Opaque: 2
My Rating: 4.9 — The only negative I have is the thickness. Sinful Colors does turns thick quickly, and it was something I expected. You can't expect much more for the price. Other than that the color is perfect, the glitter is so gorgeous, and it works great on its own and as a layering glitter.

Hey everyone! Sorry about the non-nail art related posts yesterday. There was a bit of an emergency Sunday that left me with no time to edit and type up posts. So, I went with what I did have. I do really hope to see a few of you joining me in the Blogs to Love Friday linkup. That said, today's post really is nail art!!

nails nailart nail art polish mani manicure Spellbound holiday Valentine's Day Sugar Spun Gradient Sally Hansen Pink Blink Fuchsia Power Wet n Wild I Red A Good Book Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl L.A. Colors white red Energy Source

I have a few ideas for Valentine's Day nails and this was one of the first I thought of — spun sugar Valentine's Day nails done as a gradient.

Spun sugar nails are really easy. They are a bit messy but the wispy strings make it easy to clean up. I started with a base of two coats L.A. Colors white. This is Energy Source now that L.A. Colors started naming their polishes. The next step is probably the hardest and it's not hard at all! It just takes a bit of patience. I started at the tips of my nails and worked up using Sally Hansen Pink Blink first. Put a drop or two of your first color on a piece of paper, using a pin or a dotting tool mix the polish until it's thick. You can speed this along by blowing on it as you stir. You can start as soon as it's thick enough to start forming strings when you lift the pin out of the polish. I didn't wait long enough with my red polish and got some drips instead of strings, so make sure it's thick enough not to drip.

Once strings start to form you'll need to get your nail very close to the thick polish. Lay your finger on it's side angled towards the polish if you're having trouble getting the strings on your nail. Use your pin or dotting tool to quickly but smoothly pull strings across your nails, doing one nail at a time.

Continue doing the tips of each nail with Pink Blink. You may need to thicken more polish if you didn't start with enough or if it thickened too quickly. I used Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl next. I placed some of my strings over some of the Pink Blink strings to create a seamless fade of color. After Beautiful Girl, I used Sally Hansen Fuchsia Power and then finished with Wet n Wild I Red A Good Book.

Let the polish dry. It shouldn't take long! Then do a quick cleanup. I pinched off some of the wispy strings that were flying around my nails and then used some nail polish remover and a Nail Tee (a fancy pointed Q-tip) to clean up the rest.

Add top coat if you like and admire your new mani. Take into consideration when deciding whether to use top coat or not that, while it will make your mani last longer, it will smooth all those strings you just worked so hard on. It will likely take more than one coat as this is a very thick mani. It may also cause some bubbling if you're not careful applying your top coat.

That said, I did use top coat, two coats ... and I did get one large bubble that popped while the top coat dried and left behind a spot bare of top coat. It's really not noticeable though, even in my close-up pictures. I did kind of miss the stringed look though.

I was really inspired this weekend; I've really missed doing nail art! This is actually a design I sketched up and then realized that it worked perfectly for S in the ABC Challenge.

S is for ... Spring Scene.

nails nailart nail art polish mani manicure Spellbound ABC Challenge S is for Spring Scene flowers roses texture green leaf leafy white picket fence pink yellow LA Colors Wet n Wild Candy-licious Sinful Colors Exotic Green Revlon Garden eyeshadow applicator sponge sponged sponging

You should be expecting this by now, but I used my eyeshadow applicators and Revlon Garden and Sinful Colors Exotic Green to create a leafy texture as a base. The white picket fence came next, hand drawn with a nail art brush, and the flowers were started with a dotting tool and finished with a nail art brush.

With recent temperatures reaching into the single digits, I'm really longing for some flowers!

Be on the lookout tonight for another ABC Challenge mani as I finally get caught up. :)

The rush to Christmas is insane! I spent the day baking cookies and there's a full day of shopping to look forward to tomorrow ... and probably Monday too. Yes, I am a world class procrastinator. I've put this all off until the last minute ... again, because this is exactly what I did last year. I don't even have any decorations up yet. So, this is the reason for the cut back in posts if you were wondering, lol.

nails nailart nail art polish mani manicure Spellbound Christmas border borders dots dotted dotting red green holiday Sinful Colors Exotic Green Wet n Wild I Red a Good Book simple easy

I had all these wonderful ideas I was going to do, and then I just never seemed to have the time to do them. So, I came up with a few very simple nail designs to share. This is one of them. Dotted border nails. It's something new to me. I've done true border nails before but never dotted borders.

I decided to keep it very Christmas-y with alternating red and green. This is carried over onto my other hand, starting with green on my thumb so it's all very different and interesting. This could totally be worn alone if you don't have much time for dots. Two coats of Sinful Colors Exotic Green and two of Wet n Wild I Red A Good Book, a layer of quick drying top coat and you're out the door looking perfectly festive.

For the dotted border I used my smallest dotting tool. I created the dots and then went over them again to make them brighter when I realized they weren't showing up well. I wish I had started with white dots first before using red and green. This would have made them much more noticeable, but you live and learn.

Overall though, a very simple and Christmas-y mani. Enjoy. :)

We're up to M in the ABC Challenge. Getting ever closer to Z. :( I will be very sad to see the end of this challenge and may just start over on my own. There are so many amazing designs to do for each letter, and I don't think I'll be happy until I try them all. As for today's letter ...

M is for ... Mistletoe. I call this 'Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe'.

nails nailart nail art polish mani manicure Spellbound Sinful Colors Snow Me White Wet n Wild I Red a Good Book China Glaze Holly-Day L.A. Colors Black White green ABC Challenge M is for Mistletoe Kiss Me Under lips romance love Christmas Holiday glitter Pearl Harbor

This isn't my all time favorite design. I like the idea, but I wish I had thought the design out before jumping in. This is what happens when I don't sketch up my designs first.

I do like the base polish. I went for a snowy effect using Sinful Colors Snow Me White and Pearl Harbor. Two coats of white with the iridescent glitter of Pearl Harbor creates a light dusting of snow over your nails. Perfect for winter. :)

Today I have another glitter swatch. And I thought, why not start the holiday posts early? This is Faceted from the Sinful Colors Holiday Shimmers Collection.

nails nailart nail art polish mani manicure Spellbound Sinful Colors Color Swatch Faceted glitter bar shimmer Holiday Shimmers collection purple iridescent Wet n Wild On a Trip

I used two very thin coats of Faceted over Wet n Wild On a Trip. I'm not usually a big fan of bar glitter but I love this. It's just the right amount of bar to shimmer.

Add some character to this mani by doing the first coat of glitter normally and the second with a few side to side swipes. This will turn the bar glitter so it's not all going in the same direction.

I didn't manage to get any really great pictures of this polish on my nails so here's a picture of the bottle. This glitter is definitely in my Top 5 ... maybe even in my Top 3.

Hello again! I'm back. I feel much better for taking a few days off. Sadly, the cold weather is wreaking havoc with my nails. I've had more than a few breaks. Thankfully, only one of them is on my picture taking hand, and I'm happy to say it wasn't a bad break.

Today's post is another in the ABC Challenge. I'm really late posting but after I missed H is for Halloween on Wednesday ... well, I decided to hold off a few more days and do H is for ... Happy Birthday.

nails nailart nail art polish mani manicure Spellbound H is for Happy Birthday ABC Challenge balloons cutepolish candles cupcake pink Sinful Colors Snow Me White Beautiful Girl girly

Saturday, the 3rd, was my 27th birthday and these are my birthday nails. I used two coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White as my base color. On my index and pinkie I did birthday balloons via CutePolish. The middle got candles and the ring has a sparkly frosting loaded cupcake. I did it all in pink (Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl) because I'm ultra girly that way. I love pink. ♥

I'll post tomorrow with some pictures of my birthday haul. :)

The next in the Nail-Aween Challenge was a choice between ghost or goblin. I chose to do ghost, but I wanted to do something a bit different than simple ghosts on my nails.

nails nailart nail art polish mani manicure Spellbound character Casper Ghosts Stinky Stretch Fatso friendly

With this in mind I did Casper and the Ghostly Trio: Stretch, Fatso and Stinky. What I couldn't manage to get in the picture is the glitter. I used a glow in the dark glitter on the Ghostly Trio, not for the glow, but for the slightly green tinge and the small bits of glitter to give them a ghostly sparkle. I used Sinful Colors Pearl Harbor for Casper.

The other Sinful Colors I used is Snow Me White. I just picked this up in my last shopping trip since my China Glaze White on White has run out. I never seem to be able to get to Sally Beauty to pick up more, so I had to settle. However, settling really isn't a bad thing. I like the texture of China Glaze better but Sinful Colors is a really awesome one coat white. I used two coats just to be extra sure it was perfect since I was just doing lines, but one coat would have worked perfectly. If you are looking for a one coat white, Snow Me White is definitely it.

I don't know if you know this but October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I think this is something we should all recognize. Breast Cancer Awareness isn't just for survivors or the family of those diagnosed. It's not even just for all women everywhere. While breast cancer among men is rare, it does happen!

In 2012, it is estimated that among U.S. women there will be 226,870 new cases of invasive breast cancer (including new cases of primary breast cancer among survivors). An estimated 2,190 new cases of breast cancer will occur in men. It is also estimated that 39,510 women and 410 men will die of breast cancer this year alone in the United States. In 2010, it was estimated that 1.6 million new cases of breast cancer occurred in women worldwide. This is very real and very life threatening, and it's something that should be important to all of us.

nails nailart nail art mani manicure Spellbound breast cancer awareness Susan G Komen for the cure support pink ribbon french tips glitter campaign October

In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month I wanted to do a very simple nail art. I wanted this nail art to be something anyone, of any skill level, could do to show their support. I used a very thin coat of Wet n Wild Sugar Coat as my base. Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl was used on the tips of all but my ring finger and topped with a coat of Wet n Wild Sparkled. My ring finger became a standard french tip with the help of LA Colors white and I used Beautiful Girl to create a pink ribbon. This is a very simple design that you won't need any special tools for. If you don't feel comfortable creating your own french tips there are specially created guides (found in the polish/nail tools section of most stores) you can buy or you can use binder re-inforcers (usually found in office supplies). The pink ribbon can be done with a nail art brush, a dotting tool, or even a toothpick.

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Breast cancer facts from Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Today's featured polish is from a recent haul. There was a sale, and I couldn't resist!

nails nailart nail art mani manicure Spellbound No Hard Feelings Sally Hansen Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl pink purple V Vee tape taped taping

This is Sally Hansen's No Hard Feelings and there are certainly no hard feelings about this polish!! I am in absolute love.

The color looks more true in this picture. It's definitely more of a floral lavender or a wisteria maybe.

To create this look I used tape to create a V on either side of each nail and filled it in with Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl. In my opinion, these colors look so amazing together!

What do you think?

I thought I should get all the neon out of my system before I have to pull out the Fall colors. So here goes ...

nails nailart nail art mani manicure Spellbound Sinful Colors China Glaze White Pink neon hot bright stripes tape black taped ragged drip run tips

I am ashamed to say I have absolutely no idea what the name of this pink is. It is my sister's nail polish that accidentally got mixed in with mine. I couldn't resist using it before I gave it back to her. For some reason, she took the name sticker off the bottom. Seriously? Who does that??? Though looking at swatches it may or may not be either Sinful Colors Fusion Neon or 24/7.

The name of this color aside it is a beautifully bright pink. What better use for a pink this bright than doing stripes with China Glaze White on White?

How about taking it one step further? This was done with the help of some weird cut scissors. I put a piece of tape on some wax paper and cut it down the middle with ragged cut scissors. Cutting the tape down the middle let me have enough tape for two nails. I angled the tape just slightly on my nails and painted over with black. I think this created a really awesome pattern. It almost looks like the black is running down my nails in some spots. I can already see a few more uses for these scissors.

How do you feel about using weird cut scissors as part of a tape mani?

'ello girlies. I hope you guys have a great weekend. I'm going to keep today's post fairly simple. It's a color swatch. It's been a while since I did a simple color swatch.

nails nailart nail art mani manicure polish nailpolish Spellbound Hazard coral pink peach Sinful Colors Born Pretty Store metal studs gold

This is Hazard from Sinful Colors. I was browsing the nail polish section of Walmart when I caught sight of this color out of the corner of my eye. It isn't my usual choice of color but I was absurdly drawn to it for some reason. I just had to have it!

I'm really glad I decided to buy Hazard. It is a lovely shade of warm coral pink that turns this equally as gorgeous cool shade of salmon in some lights. I don't know how Sinful Colors managed to capture such warm and cool shades together in one bottle, but they did an amazing job!

No matter if it turns coral or salmon, it is so beautiful! However, you know me! I can't just wear a plain polish, no matter how pretty. I had to do something.

I took some of my 2mm round gold studs that I purchased from the Born Pretty Store and used them to create tips over Hazard. The Born Pretty Store has come out with some really awesome studs (and other products too). They have round studs in various colors, square in silver and gold that can be turned to create diamond shaped studs, as well comma, rectangle, actual diamond, and star studs! My next order will definitely include some square studs and maybe some of those stars! Did I mention they also just came out with velvet powder? Yep, I'll have that too! :)

What do you think of Hazard?

The 3rd post in 'A Week of Glitter' isn't exactly a glitter. It's a shimmer, but I figure that still qualifies for this week since it adds a sparkle to any outfit.

This is Sinful Colors Cinderella. I looked everywhere for this when it first came out and only just now found it in a 'brand new' display. I hate living in a small town for this reason.

Cinderella lived up to my, admittedly small, expectations. I can't say it really impressed me ... but then I wasn't expecting it to. While I adore this shade of baby blue, it's not one of the colors I can wear well.

I also found the beautiful pink shimmer you could see so clearly in the bottle got a bit lost on the nail unless you looked very closely. However, I used 4 coats to get Cinderella opaque so that might have something to do with the lost shimmer. I know other bloggers raved about the shimmer and their pictures showed it much more than my own.

'ello lovelies! I'm kind of embarrassed to post today. These are nowhere near my best nails. They just look so messy to me. Also, I decided not to use a smiley with this mani. The broken nail on my left hand isn't so noticeable in the two pics I got of that hand.

I tried something new and then used another stamp over top. I loaded a large brush with four colors and attempted to do a one-stroke nail. Things didn't work out as I hoped.

Since I was only allowing myself one stroke I used a white base in hopes the colors would really pop.

Sadly, the one stroke is much harder than it looks. The polish got everywhere except my nails! It flooded my cuticles and smeared all over my fingers but would not stay on my nail. One stroke turned into many as I attempted damage control.

It was all so messy that I looked for a stamp to cover some of the mess. I decided to use this stamp, Born Pretty m64. Even after all that I still wasn't satisfied and was really glad to take this mani off.

Here's an attempt to explain the title of this mani. The finished nail makes me think only of bird as it looks out through the bars of its cage at the setting sun wishing more than anything to fly free. I tried to think of a title that would make more sense but that's all that I could think of.

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