Robyn Loves Nails

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Iced Lacquer's 12 Days of Christmas - Ornaments

So, these aren't really ornaments...it's more of a suggestion of ornaments lol. I really wasn't feeling lights and am not all that great with freehand stuff (trying to do more and more but you know, small canvas is hard mmmkay). So this is what I came up with. I hope you like it.

Base color is 1 coat of Julep Sharon - a rich, deep cranberry red shimmer that just screams holiday to me. The glitter polish is O Canada!, also by Julep. And my 'ornaments' were done in Essie Beyond Cozy and China Glaze Running in Circles.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

12 Days of Christmas, Day 6 - Snowman

Hello everyone! It's another challenge day and I had fun doing this one. :D

I have to say I am enjoying having longer nails. It's still working in miniature but it seems a little easier with a little more length to work with.

So, for today's nails I started with 2 coats of an unnamed Julep shimmery metallic peacock blue that came in a Mystery box. It drives me nuts that there's not a name on any of the bottles and I don't see one that is a match on the Julep site. Grrr. Anyway, it's a pretty blue and applied relatively well. I didn't really have any issues with streaking or brush strokes showing which is amazing because I usually fail at even basic application with these types of polishes. Over that I did a light coat of Sinful Colors Opal Glitter, I was hoping this would be kind of snow-like. Then I did some freehand snow drifts and the head of my snowman using OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (this was recently on clearance at Ulta and I picked up 4 bottles, I love it that much!). I used a medium striping brush to draw on the hat and filled it in with Fingerpaints Black Expressionism. Then I used rhinestones for the face detail and some pearl studs on my other nails as falling snow.

What do you think? I'm pretty happy with them - it's a nice change from my last couple of posts. :D

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Monday, December 10, 2012

12 Days of Christmas, Day 5

Ever have one of those days where nothing you do comes out right and you change your polish 8 times and you curse your hands for not doing what your brain sees? For today's challenge I had a definite idea of what I wanted to do but polish gods conspired against me - I couldn't even get stamping right today. :P

I ended up doing 2 coats of Fingerpaints Merry Mistletoe followed by a reverse glitter gradient using Julep Colbie. In my frustration I slapped on some Cina holly decals that don't even really look like holly but by the end of the night I had ceased caring lol.

Am I happy with it? No, it's already gone and replaced by some lovely Cult Nails polish which I will show later. :)

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

12 Days of Christmas, Day 4 - Candy Canes

Hello everyone! I am back after a very, very hectic week and am sooo glad that all seems to be getting back to normal so I can focus on the more fun things in life...like my nails. :)

Today's nails are inspired by the ever yummy candy canes. I have to admit, though, I prefer the cherry canes to the minty ones but really it's all good.

For today's nails I used a base of 2 coats of China Glaze Glistening Snow - this is so pretty with it's holographic glitters. One day I will learn to take a blurry photo so I can show that off. I then did freehand stripes using China Glaze Ruby Pumps for the red and a green glitter from Stripe Rite. I usually don't do stripes freehand but I just got a huge set of nail art brushes in the mail and wanted to put them to good use. On my stubby nail (which is growing!) I did stripes in rhinestones. I picked up a cool tool at Sally Beauty the other day that makes placing rhinestones so, so easy.

I love these nails and they really shine and sparkle in a blinding way in the right light. I just wish I would have been able to get my camera to pick it up.

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