Another Glitter Gradient... Barney style...

Winnie wanted me to do her nails, too, now that I'm back in Taiwan! So I went with a glitter gradient, with darker colors... emerald green and magenta-purplish glitter. Came out beautifully!... Until I realized the colors looked so Barney =__=.

The instagram version @vivienne0310

In white light.

In yellow light.

There's actually a little trick to this... I couldn't just dab magenta glitter on, because it was too light. If I only used glitter polish, I would need huge globs of it! And I wanted the tip to be a pretty solid purple, because from far away, what does emerald green and magenta look like blended together? Nasty grayish? I'm not sure. But I used a solid magenta polish at the tip, kind of like a donut french tip (press here). It can be messy, but don't make it a straight line. That would be too obvious. So after the solid magenta tip dries, dab on the glitter and it will look fantabulous!

Show me what you did in the comments below! I want to see what kind of colors you can come up with ;D always welcome to suggestion and inspiration!!

The colors I used:
GR503 in the Wide Nails collection- The Face Shop
The sticker with the name of the magenta is gone! But it's from Sephora by OPI. Comment if you'd like a picture of it!
Summer Purple (繽紛夏日紫)- IEI Nail Color

Light Glitter Gradient

I don't think I've ever used such few colors for a nail design... and it took a while to get used to this, but I absolutely love it now! All it took were 2 glitter polishes and a sponge. Plus my OPI Nail Envy base coat and Seche Vite top coat of course :).

Anyhow, I definitely recommend this! It somehow matches almost every outfit, since the magenta glitter is a slightly colder color, giving it a more wintery feel to it, while the orange eases the gradient into my natural nail color, and it's a warm color, too. This is a great way to paint a pretty and easy everyday mani, and plus it's always good to practice doing gradients. AND another thing, if you use glitter, there is almost no chance of messing up, because while solid color is hard to fix if its too light or too clumpy or the color blend is in the wrong place, glitter can even be wiped off and refilled for your (OCD) perfectionist self!

The instagram version @vivienne0310

In normal white light.

In yellow light.

The colors I used:

OR201- The Face Shop
Summer Purple (繽紛夏日紫)- IEI Nail Colour

Both colors were bought in Taiwan, for pree cheap ;)

TOTORO NAILS

My sister thought of the idea, so I copied her, but she doesn't have a blog, so can't credit her (yet). I used a greenish gray instead of just gray, and I really liked that the green-ness made the color a bit lighter and looked better with my skin tone :)

The hardest part would have to be the eyes, I think, because when I have to do a lot of precise dots, my hand starts shaking! Plus the eyes can't be too close or too far! Anyhow, hope you like this design and try it out ^~^.

Pond Themed Nails: Frogs and Flies and Snails and Dragonflies!

Apple's nails!! Usually, only warm colors like pink, orange, nude, etc look good with her skin tone, but we found that this blue looked adorable on her! We started off the idea with just a frog, then a fly as food, then snails, and the dragonfly just came out randomly. Anyhow, this design was super fun!

Pinky: Dragonfly! I used a dark blue and small sized dotter to make the body, then a slightly thicker striping brush and used four strokes for the wings.

Ring: Just some moss :) Simplicity.

Middle: Froggy head made with China Glaze's For Audrey. Next time I want to use one of those pop out eyes that you can stick on for the frog's eye! The kind that when you shake, the black dot moves around yaknow?

Index: tongue wrapping around the fly...

 Index and Middle: Snails love :) I remember this was made with Rosy Red for the shell and a dark purple by Revlon for the lines, and then a peach by Revlon that smells like peaches
Ring: more moss
Pinky: Dragonfly

Apple with her nails that coincidentally match her cardigan!! Wish I had her type of skin tone so that I looked as good in that blue :) 

BTW CREDITS FOR THAT BLUE TO SERENA MY WIFEY she got it for me when she visited the states :)

Winnie the Pooh Artsy Nails!

This design was SO FUN TO DRAW. Monica, Kelly, and I planned it together, and when we searched up pics, we saw hat some people drew heads, some drew bodies. how cute would it be if we could do both? ;) So here they are, Winnie, Tigger, Eeyore, and Piglet! but sorry guys, no arms legs tails.

The most challenging one would probably be Tigger, because his design is a bit more complicated, and the proportions matter more in his design. Piglet was easy, and Winnie was okay, but be careful! Don't make the triangle nose too big like I did TT.TT

I couldn't fit in Eeyore's tail, but I really wanted to draw a bow for him, so we made it like a little bowtie.

Honeybees on the thumb! complete with dotted paths and flowers for pollen :)

And here's Kelly! With her bright shiny manicure that hopefully dried quickly!

Monica's Nails

 

Daisies on nude! Never gets old, pretty much as timeless as French Manis. These are Monica's nails! and I love her nail polish! The base coat is hers, and it's peel-able. We were joking around and she said that if she can somehow peel a whole entire piece off, she'll send me a pic! It would be pretty cool if it worked.. and knowing me, I'd go out immediately to buy some peel-able polish to try it out myself. 

Okay back to the mani. As you can see, not all the daisies are white! There are yellow ones, peach ones, glitter ones, and red ones, because making them all white for every nail would be a little overdrawn, so by splitting up the colors, it looks more delicate and intricate I guess?

And here's Monica! I worked with her for a large part of my internship, and she always made these super neat diagrams that made understanding so much easier. As a scribbler who always writes extra extra notes on the side of everything, I aspire to one day be as neat as her!

Zi Hui's Nails

Aw I love this :). Zi Hui and Apple chose the colors together I think, so the next day, I just painted on the daisies! Her nail shape is so adorbs and the white flowers are so innocent and cute on top!

Here's Zi Hui! Told you the nails fits her look :)