Showing posts with label grey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grey. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

Spring is in the air... and on my nails!

It's spring! and there's nothing you can do about it! i'm shouting it from the rooftops! and by rooftops i mean my nails. cause let's face it, i don't shout anything.

Here's a little background on this mani. Whenever I don't have leopard print on my nails, I want leopard print on my nails. and whenever I do have leopard print on my nails, I like it that way, and I'm happy all day long. DEAL WITH IT.

So this is my RIGHT hand, meaning, yes, I have acquired the skills to paint leopard print with my non dominate hand. pure talent right there. (jk, painting weird squiggly lines is my left hands specialty)


fun fun fun fun. I painted my left hand with more muted/dusty colors. and I like it better. maybe.
I added a matte topcoat to all of these of course! with such dainty little colors, they looked weird glossy... they were just asking to be mattified. ("oh pleeease, Joy! make us matte! we promise we'll look good, you don't need to smother us in Out The Door to hide our flaws!") or something like that...

Okay, that was my quick little nail update. back to packing, moving, and general polish scheming.  (i'm working on making my very first franken polish. but it's adding up to be quiet the investment...)

Friday, July 22, 2011

Yellow + Grey crackle!

yellow and grey is one of my favorite color combos (um, yeah they were my wedding colors) so i figured it was about time i did some sort of yellow and grey mani. Turns out yellow and grey is a very commonly seen color combo... it's on all the ROADS! haha, that's what i think this turned out looking like. crackle sorta looks like tire tracks to me anyway.What do you think?


I tried some different brush directions on my right hand, horizontal and diagonal. My favorite is the diagonal, (on index and thumb) i wish i would have done my whole left hand that way. Have you ever done different brush directions with crackle polishes? whats your favorite????? :D :D :D
P.S. the yellow is essence 51 mellow yellow.



without top coat. (just for funsies)



left hand in the sun



right hand in the shade



close up right hand in the shade



Close up left hand, in the shade