Hot Rod nails!

Day 24

Today I felt fiery, so I decided to do flame nails... plus I bought OPI for Sephora's What's a Tire Jack? Matte, so I had to try it out! The flames on black matte reminds me of classic hot rods, love it.

My left hand:



My right hand:



I used OPI Banana Bandana as a base, then used the water marbling technique with Zoya Pippa, China Glaze Salsa, and Urban Vibe nail polish in Orange, which I got for 50¢ at Wet Seal. After the water marbling dried, I painted on the red flame outlines with China Glaze Salsa, and the filled in background of the flames with OPI for Sephora What's a Tire Jack? Matte, which is a VERY nice true black matte.

It chipped a little because I've been using my nails this morning to pull protective layers off of plexiglass getting ready for the International Gaming Convention here in Las Vegas... (G2E)

Vroom vroom!

Back Off PETA, they're faux!

Day 23

Today's nails didn't turn out quite like I'd hoped, the texture was VERY noticeable right after I did them, but now it is really subtle. I tried to do a snakeskin effect by placing tulle over the nail and pressing it in when the polish wasn't completely dry, but it didn't quite turn out very well. Nevertheless... here you are.



I used Zoya Pasha as a base, which is gorgeous, I love the frostiness of it, it looks so luxe when it's on. I layered a wide stripe of Zoya Charlize with a thinner stripe of OPI You Don't Know Jacques Suede on top. I waited a bit for it to dry, then I pressed the tulle into it and pulled it off carefully.


Also, the elusive inside-out OREO....

Matte Velvet to the Extreme....

Day 22

Today's nails are really subtle, they sort of employ a technique used in Print design called Spot Varnish. I used a gloss color over a matte in the same color so that the design was very subtle and you have to look to see it! :) Sorry about the cuticles, the dry air and nail polish remover are killing them, and I load up on cuticle cream! Also- the middle finger has a lumpy spot- I broke my nail, patched it, but didn't realize I hadn't filed it down until after I started painting.. oh well. :)



I used Zoya Posh Matte Velvet as a base, and Zoya Dakota with Konad Plate m63 for the designs.

It sort of brings the 'Matte Velvet' to a whole new level- it looks like rippled pieces of velvet!

The reason today's design is so simple:

I had to make this cake for my friend Travis' birthday today!