Circus Nails

Here are some nails on the more cartoony side. I briefly mentioned this before, but I'm in the Purdue Color Guard and each year for Halloween we have a themed practice. This past year's theme was circus and these were the nails that matched. The thumb is a tent, the index finger is a clown, the middle finger is an elephant, the ring finger is a lion, and the pinkie is an acrobat in a bright green jumpsuit. Most of these were done with nail art brushes though the hair on the clown was done with a dotting tool. The colors are pretty self explanatory. There's red, black, purple, a light brown and dark brown, green, and light blue. I'll confess this now: I am very much NOT ambidextrous so 9.9 times out of 10 my left hand will look better than my right (since I'm righ-handed). Anyway, I hope you like these! 

Jigglypuff Nails

So for Halloween, my girlfriend decided to go as a Pokemon trainer and I went as a Jigglypuff. Of course I couldn't go out without some awesome nails to match my costume! The top picture is my costume and the bottom is of my nails. Unfortunately, while making my ears, I accidentally caught my middle finger with the permanent marker. That's why there's a random line extending from the frowny mouth. Sorry I don't have a picture of my other hand (it was the same). I forgot to take one! This look was also pretty easy. I used several coats of a very sheer pink as the base color. Then I used a nail art brush with black for the mouths. I used dotting tools with white and blue for the eyes. For the pokeball, I used white and red for the base. I used a nail art brush for the black line and a dotting tool for the white ball in the middle. I hope you all like them, Pokemon fans and not!

My Julep Collection (So Far)

As I said in the last post, I absolutely love Julep! Here's a picture of all the polishes I've acquired from Julep since I started in November. They're my favorite polishes in my collection!

Halloween Nails

So I discovered this AMAZING website called Julep a couple months back and I have been obsessed ever since! For only $20 per month, you get at least 2 nail polish colors worth $14 each along with other presents. It's the most amazing thing ever! Anyway, these nails are courtesy of presents from Julep. My girlfriend got me the mystery Halloween box, and inside there were these cool nail decals. You just cut them out, put them in water, and then removed the back and placed them on your nail. They were super cool, but they rubbed off really easily. You can mostly tell where the stickers are on my fingers, but if you want to know specifically, just ask. Some of them I combined, like the hat and legs were originally separate as were the spider and the web.  I think my favorite is the pinkie in the lower picture!

Tiger Stripe Nails

These are some fun nails I painted to start off the semester! Though I was originally going for zebra stripes, I think they look more like tiger stripes (still a cool stripe). This look was super simple. I started off with a white base. Then I used nail art brushes I got from Amazon to paint on the different colored stripes. The brushes I have aren't really my favorite because they tend to get really stiff after I clean them. I'm going to play around with some different cleaning methods and brushes. Once I have one nailed down, I'll post a link on here. 

My Kitteh!

So I thought every now and then I would throw in a couple pictures of one of my other loves: MY KITTEH!! This is Tiny Tiger. He's now 6 months old, but in this picture (the day we adopted him) he is only 4 months old. He is super cute and cuddly and playful and everything that is wonderful. Anyway, enjoy the mini nail intermission!

Minion Nails

These are some of my favorite nails EVER! I absolutely love the movie Despicable Me so I thought, what better things to have on your nails than minions? I got a ton of feedback from these and I hope you all like them too. The one frustration I have with these is the smudge on my index finger. I guess I bumped into something while they were still tacky. Oh well! What can you do? Anyway, for these I used a yellow base, a royal blue for their jump suits, and black, silver, red and white for the other details. To get the eyes, and mouths, I used dotting tools I got from amazon.