Floral Skull

Here's a quick little design I painted of a skull the other day.

I started with a base of Black Taxi from Nails Inc., then used white acrylic to paint the skull. Using red, white and black acrylic, I added in the roses, then finally, shade the skull and hair using brown acrylic. 

Hope you guys enjoy!

Vote Zod

Well, it's starting to look like January has become all about music nail art, with this being my second band inspired design. This design is inspired by the Billy Talent Hits album that came out last year.

As I'm sure you all know by now, I'm a huge Billy Talent fan. You can see my past Billy Talent inspired manicures here, here and here. I fell in love with all the artwork for this album, so it was time for another BT tribute. I started with a base of Black Taxi from Nails Inc. on all of my nails. Then, I sponged on Suzy Loves Cowboys from OPI, Surfing Paradise from Island Girl Hawaii and Sure Thing from Revlon on my ring finger. After that, I painted on the bird's skull and skeleton keys featured on the cover of Hits using black and white acrylic. On my pointer finger, I painted a tie using Revlon Red, which if the name didn't give it away, is from Revlon.  Finally, I added a "Vote Zod" button on the tie with red, blue and white acrylic, which was based off of art for the song Kingdom of Zod.

Hope you guys enjoy!

Frida

Today's Halloween themed nail design is inspired by the artwork of Kat Tatz. I stumbled across the gem that inspired this while scrolling through The Daily Nail's instagram. As someone who is a huge fan of sugar skulls, and art, it was awesome to see someone combine Frida Kahlo's famous self-portraits with intricate sugar skull makeup. I just had to replicate this on my nails.

I started with a base of French Quarter for Your Thoughts from OPI, then lightly dry brushed some white acrylic over my nail. The rest of the design was completely done in acrylic craft paint. I have no idea how many hours I spent on this, but it was worth it. I love how this turned out and how it gives a subtle Halloween vibe.

What do you guys think? Anything you want to see before Halloween??

Hope you guys enjoy!

*You can also see these nails on my instagram, as well as The Daily Nail's.

Sugar Skulls

As you hopefully all know by now, I love sugar skulls. And since I was lacking inspiration, I decided to paint a quick sugar skull manicure.

The base is White Matter from Formula X, then I used various acrylics, and the tip of a pen to make the skulls.

Hope you guys enjoy!

So Punk Rock

After a minor internet hiccup (and by minor hiccup I mean NO INTERNET!!!) I am back and blogging. :D So anyways, I watched School Of Rock the other day, and then I listened to some punk rock music... and I felt pretty punk rock. :p And here is the punk rock nail design.

My pinkie and ring finger are a base of Black Satin from Rimmel, and the skull is white acrylic. My ring finger and thumb are a base of Spirit by Revlon, then I used a Sally Hansen nail art pen to write on them. My middle finger is a base of Die Another Day by OPI, then dry brushed black acrylic over it. I topped it all of with Sally Hansen's Big Matte Top Coat and BAM! punk rock nails.