Jewelry Nails

Good morning, Dear Reader!

The other morning as I had coffee I opened the embarrassingly large WSC order I'd placed, and yet again the fake pink pearl and gemstone Rhinestone Glam decals were calling my name too loudly to resist.

This time, I wanted my nails to look like jewelry, and spent a while thinking of a silver that would look like white gold when I finally thought of Nubar Platinum.  It really is the color of platinum, so it was perfect for what I wanted.  I used two coats of Platinum with top coat, then let it dry for a bit and added my decals.  The placement's not perfect, I'm still working on that, but here's the manicure.

Nubar Platinum Nail Polish and Pink Pearl Konad Rhinestone Glam Decals

Later, I got an equally embarrassingly large order from VNS that I mentioned already, which contained some Art Club kits.

The art club kits are cool as heck - they have stripers, various beads and things, decals, they're great.  I had to dig into the Pretty Shiny Things kit because who loves pretty shiny things more than I do?  That kit's metallics, with copper, silver, and light gold glitter stripers, so I started with a yellow gold base of Nubar 24K.  I figured for playing with an art kit, I'd be better off using 24K than Chanel Gold Fiction...

Then I just went nuts with the kit.  I had fun, and my hands are essentially a sampler of the items in the kit.

Nubar 24K Nail Polish and Art Club Pretty Shiny Things Nail Art Kit

Far from elegant, well into the realm of fun.

Those are my jewelry nails from yesterday, and if nothing else, I had fun making them.  That's all for now, Dear Reader.  Until next time, love and nail polish to you!  

Technicolor Doll & Electro Candy

Good morning, Dear Reader!

This morning's post isn't really about someone eating candy. Actually, I had a dilemma and chose this title over "Volt of Light Below the Belt," which made me laugh more, but I didn't have the nerve... It's about a Konadicure, of course!

I started with Color Club Volt of Light from the Electro Candy Collection, only this time I took a good tip from Michelle at A Stroke of Color, who's The Queen of Neons. She told me to put white under it to make it more vivid and require less coats, so I tried it and she was right. The white I used was Essie Below the Belt. This is two coats of each.

I then added some of Art Club's Technicolor Doll colors to it with Konad, using Electric Universe with plate M59 and Techicolor Doll with M62.

My camera didn't quite catch the neon-ness of it - I'm blindingly, retina-searingly neon! I like it.

That's all for now, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Art Club Techni Color Doll

Good morning, Dear Reader!

I'd planned more Zoyas for you today, then Art Club's Techni Color Doll nail art kit showed up, and I was a goner. Check it out!





It's bright nail art polishes, decals, and sprinkles! This in conjunction with new Konad plates meant today was a day for nail art. I started with a base of Color Club Electro Candy (which I'm thinking I should get a backup of!), then stamped it using Konad plate M73, a floral pattern with Art Club Paisley Paradise (purple) and a heart tip pattern with Art Club Electric Universe (blue). I finished it off with a rhinestone heart decal on my ring finger. OTT? Yes...

It's way over the top, and makes me very happy! The potential this kit holds is simply unbounded. Just wait until I get a handle on how to use the sprinkles!

To Konad with the Art Club Nail Art Polish, I used the long thin brush to place a line of nail polish on one side of the pattern, then used the plastic scraper to spread it over the pattern as I scraped it. Then I just picked up the pattern with the stamper as usual. It worked like a charm. I topped it with a coat of Diamont, then applied the decal and did one more coat of Diamont to seal the decal. Voila!

That's the tale of the Art Club Techni Color Doll kit and my over the top Konadicure. Until tomorrow, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!