Showing posts with label Tape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tape. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Nail Polish Canada week 3: Christmas decoration

I still think it's too early for this but here goes. I was going to try that taped Christmas tree because damn, if that's not the epitome of Xmas, then I don't know what is. Unfortunately, it was a disaster, and I went about it freehand like I always do when I realize that tape's not gonna work this time either...

Vote for last week's Presents manicure right HERE pretty please (until Dec 5) <3 (the link to this week's is at the end of this post)

Anyway, first things first, I still don't have striping tape so here's my setup (starting with Billie silver):

Added Nyx Las Vegas (which you'll remember I hate, but I can't find any better colour - SUGGESTIONS PLEASE <3?)

Aaaaand this is where I give up on taping. Forever? Probably not. I never learn.

I freehanded the rest.

There was an in between step here, but it was too shitty a picture. I dabbed on KleanColor Fireworks and then took KleanColor Silver Star and dug out a single star for each finger and bullied it into place.

Thumb:

And flash...

The flash makes it look a lot yellower than it actually is...



To be fair, unflash makes it really blue...




This is my entry for the third and final week of Nail Polish Canada's Holiday Nail Art Contest. Voting happens HERE and I would love if you gave your input, hopefully for me, but I'll still love you if not <3 You can vote right up until December 12th. I'll remind you =D

So as you may have noticed, these pictures kind of suck, and I'm really sorry. The culprit is my normally amazing overbright reading lamp (which I have not once used for reading). The bulb must have given out when I was at school today. I need to go buy a 20W rocket-shaped bulb before I can get decent pictures again ==

On the plus side, there may be some guest posts on their way <3 Nail polish bloggers are the best kind of people. If anyone else wants to volunteer, contact me to trade some traffic =)

Sunday, November 18, 2012

FiA#13 Fall Flair!

OH MY GOSH! Do you know what I realized? This prompt is Fall Flair which means I CAN DO ARGYLE even though I don't own a sweater with that on it! EXCITEMENT.

Here we go!

Because I knew I wanted to use Julep Otte, I tried to find a pattern/colour combination that would look good with it. And I did!

Thanks Google!
Then I googled for a tutorial and it turns out to be from one of my favourite blogs: Kelsie's Nail Files! Time to practice my taping!

So, like I said, started with Julep Otte. After that, I taped and used Golden Rose 187, which is a dark grey. I still have to get to swatching that one..




It's obvious I fail a taping.
 For the rest of the hand, I used my dotting tool heavily laden with polish and poked the triangles on.


It kinda looks better.
 One more technique. I picked up my paintbrush and painted crosses then filled them in.


It all looks just as bad =P It's fine from far away, but clearly I'm not QUITE up to some of my favourite blogger's standards with this stuff... Especially tape. Gah, tape. I put a layer of topcoat on, which really smoothed everything out, and put on some crap tv to wait for it to dry before the last step.

Ulta Snow White, as usual.
I tried doing connect the dots on the thumb here, and then gave up and pulled the paintbrush.

Welp... I can't do straight thin lines. Buuut that's what you're getting today. Sorry for the lack of clean up. I think those white lines are a great argument for why I need to get on buying striping tape... I also fully intended to get a picture after clean up but forgot as soon as I did it. Sorry!

It's over! Whaaat? Guess what though? Dec 1st (hopefully) we're starting winter! =D See y'all there!
Hannah from Polished Prisms
Stephanie from A Little Polish
Suer from Creative Nail Design By Sue
Katee from A Girl And Her Polish
Ashley from One Nail to Another
Karine Assemien from Karine's Vernis Club
Kayono Lan (aka Johanna) from Neues vom Kellerkind
Charlotte-Louise from Charlotte's Nails
Alyson Epstein from Beads. Nails. Food.
Maribeth from Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite
Becky from Glam Fiend
Angie from Our Painted World
Alethia from Never-Ending Nail Art
Sarah from Dakila's
Amanda from Mandy's Polish
Lisa from Lisa's Nail Obsession
Kelly from Nails for the Sake of Sanity
Stephanie from All Things Beautiful
Martina from From Head to Foot