Escape The Ordinary

Here's a super quick and simple water spotted nail design I did.

The base on this is Sure Thing from Revlon, and I then water spotted my nails using Liquid Leather from China Glaze.

I love how simple water spotting is, and the way it creates such a beautiful effect!

See ya tomorrow! 

Fantasia

I always thought the movie Fantasia was incredibly underrated, so one of my early designs of the year was inspired by Mickey as the wizard.

The base colour was Starry Starry Night from Essie. Then I painted on Mickey using acrylic paint.

If Fantasia isn't a Disney movie you've seen, or don't remember, I definitely recommend it!

Until next time, 

 

I Lava You

Throwing it back to Valentine's Day, I painted some punny Valentine's nails.

The base for these was Sure Thing from Revlon. I then painted on all of the details using acrylic paint.

Some close ups.

So several of these were inspired by Society 6 artists work, which if you haven't checked Society 6 out yet, do it. There's tons of cool art (which comes on everything from t-shirts to rugs) over there. Super cool.

This ends today's post.

See ya soon!

Push + Pull

Friday was actually filled with two shows, one of which was July Talk. You can see my last July Talk design here.
The band recently released their new single, Push + Pull, which inspired the July Talk nail.

The base for this was Sure Thing from Revlon. I then sponged on some black, and white acrylic, followed by using the spotted water marble technique with Sure Thing. I added in some extra veining on the marble, then painted the +, and July Talk using white and black acrylic.

I 100% recommend seeing July Talk if you get the chance. They're one of those bands that is waaaay better live, just because they have such amazing stage presence and energy. They never cease to impress me.

On that note, it's time to end this post. See you tomorrow!

The Holy Ghost Tour

Sunday night, I went to see Modern Baseball for my second time.

They recently released a new album, Holy Ghost, and this was The Holy Ghost Tour. My nails were based on the posters for the tour.

The base coat was Liquid Leather from China Glaze. I then used black, white, and blue acrylic paint to paint the ghost and hand, and white paint for The Holy Ghost Tour. 

It was an awesome show, and I can't wait to see them again!

Until tomorrow, 

Wasted Love

Last night I went to my 3rd concert in 3 days, so the nails from those shows will all be up in the next few days, starting with today.
So even though my first concert was on Friday, I'm going to start with the Saturday show.

I went and saw City And Colour. It was a phenomenal concert, especially since I've loved Alexisonfire for ages, so getting to see Dallas Green (clean vocals for AOF) was pretty darn cool.

I painted the bird from his album cover Sometimes, starting with a base of Sure Thing by Revlon. I then sponged on light brown paint, and painted on the details with acrylic.

Might add a closer shot of this a little later, but for now, here's just the one pic!

Talk to you guys tomorrow!

Intergalactic, Planetary

I seriously loved having this nail design on. It was so vibrant and cool looking, plus, as an astronomy lover, rocking galaxies that I added constellations to was pretty fun.

To create these, I coloured blue, purple, and magenta Sharpies on my nails, then took a brush dipped in rubbing alcohol compound to blend them. I will make a tutorial on this. After a quick top coat, I added the stars and constellations using white acrylic.

My thumb is the constellation Orion, my pointer finger is Libra, my middle finger, Lepus, my ring finger, The Big Dipper (Ursa Major), and my pinkie, Cancer.

Better view of Orion.

So for me, in the game of astronomy vs. astrology, I definitely take the astronomy side. What about you guys? Let me know!

Gettin' The Led Out

Band nails art kind of my thing, if you hadn't noticed yet. One of my favourite bands ever (thanks to being raised on rock 'n' roll by my awesome parents) is Led Zeppelin. Fun fact: Led Zeppelin started out as the The New Yardbirds, but when the group was told they would "go down like a lead balloon", the name was changed to Led Zeppelin.
One day, I randomly decided to paint the album cover for Led Zeppelin I on my thumb, and that's how this nail art was born.

The base is Liquid Leather, and then I painted the details using white acrylic.

And because I'm a dork (with a love for Freaks and Geeks): 

Cause John Bonham was the man.

Later babes!